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11:20 PM ET, May 23, 2023

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NBC News:
Ron DeSantis will launch his presidential bid with Elon Musk  —  The Florida governor will announce he is running for president on Twitter Wednesday evening in a conversation with Musk.  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will announce he is running for president during a discussion with Twitter CEO Elon Musk …
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Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network  —  It can no longer be denied.  —  Twitter has long been described, even by its most ardent users, as a hellsite.  But under Elon Musk, Twitter has evolved into a platform that is indistinguishable from the wastelands of alternative social-media sites such as Truth Social and Parler.
New York Times:
DeSantis Set to Announce 2024 Run on Twitter With Elon Musk  —  The Florida governor is expected to appear on a live audio conversation with Mr. Musk, the social platform's owner.  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is planning to announce the start of his 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday …
Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Trump Criminal Trial Scheduled for March 2024
New York Post:
Unhinged NYC college professor who cursed out anti-abortion students holds machete to Post reporter's neck  —  The unhinged Manhattan college professor who went viral for cursing out anti-abortion students shockingly held a machete to a Post reporter's neck Tuesday — and made wild threats that she was going to “chop” him up.
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New York Post:
NYC college professor who threatened Post reporter with machete is fired as her lawsuit against NYPD emerges  —  The manic Manhattan college professor who threatened a Post reporter with a machete has been fired, the school said Tuesday — as it emerged she is suing the NYPD for allegedly abusing …
Anne D'Innocenzio / Associated Press:
Target removes some LGBTQ merchandise from stores ahead of June Pride month after threats to workers  —  Target is removing certain items from its stores and making other changes to its LGBTQ merchandise nationwide ahead of Pride month, after an intense backlash from some customers including violent confrontations with its workers.
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Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal:
Target to Pull Some LGBT-Themed Merchandise After Customer Backlash  —  Retailer said some shoppers knocked down displays of Pride Month products and threatened store employees  —  Target said Tuesday it would remove some products related to Pride Month from stores after a backlash …
Brian Flood / Fox News:
Target holds ‘emergency’ meeting over LGBTQ merchandise in some stores to avoid ‘Bud Light situation’
Wall Street Journal:
Special Counsel Is Wrapping Up Trump Mar-a-Lago Probe  —  Some Trump associates anticipate an indictment—and raising funds off it  —  WASHINGTON—Special counsel Jack Smith has all but finished obtaining testimony and other evidence in his criminal investigation into whether former President …
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ABC News:
Fearing indictment is imminent in classified docs probe, Trump team requests meeting with DOJ  —  The former president's attorneys requested the meeting with AG Merrick Garland.  —  Former President Donald Trump's legal team has formally requested a meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland …
Discussion: New York Times and Political Wire
Shan Wu / The Daily Beast:
AG Merrick Garland Needs to Get Out of the Business of Defending Trump
Jennifer Agiesta / CNN:
CNN Poll: 60% say debt ceiling increase should come with spending cuts  —  Sixty percent of Americans say Congress should only raise the nation's debt ceiling if it cuts spending at the same time, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, as the government's June 1 “hard deadline” …
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Jonathan Nicholson / HuffPost:
House Republicans Pretty Much Admit They Are Taking Debt Limit ‘Hostage’
Discussion: New Republic
Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg:
Harlan Crow's Lawyers Say Congress Doesn't Have Authority to Investigate Supreme Court  —  Harlan Crow, the Texas billionaire and GOP megadonor with close ties to Clarence Thomas, refused to answer questions from a Senate committee about his years of gifts to the Supreme Court justice.
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Politico:
Second Biden judicial pick in one month withdraws from consideration  —  Jabari Wamble withdrew his nomination on Tuesday.  He follows Michael Delaney, who stepped out of contention for an appellate judgeship last week.  —  One of President Joe Biden's judicial nominees is pulling his name …
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Washington Post:
GOP extortion has backed Biden into a corner. He still has a way out.
Washington Post:
South Carolina Senate passes 6-week abortion ban, sends bill to governor  —  The South Carolina Senate on Tuesday voted to ban abortion at roughly six-weeks after ending a filibuster by the chamber's five female senators, who had become the bill's most outspoken opponents.
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Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Republicans Are Trying to Seize Control Over Voting in Texas' Largest Democratic County  —  The Texas legislature passed a series of bills on Monday that amounted to a sweeping power grab giving Republicans more control over how elections are run and administered in the state's …
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Florida school bans poem read at Biden inauguration after objection of just one parent  —  The poem that was read by poet Amanda Gorman at President Joe Biden's inauguration has been banned from elementary schools in Miami-Dade County, Florida after the objections of just one parent.
Kate McGee / The Texas Tribune:
UT-Austin tried to hire a game theorist for its new free-enterprise think tank.  He turned down the job because of fights over tenure.  —  Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants to eliminate tenure, but his attempts have impacted the institute he helped create.  —  It was going to take Keith Schnakenberg …
Washington Post:
We oversaw executions as governor.  We regret it.  —  An earlier version of this column incorrectly described the jury result for Toforest Johnson.  He was convicted by a unanimous jury.  A non-unanimous jury recommended death.  This version has been updated.
Discussion: al.com
Amelia Nierenberg / New York Times:
The QR-Code Menu Is Being Shown the Door  —  A dining innovation that once looked like the future has worn out its welcome with many restaurateurs, customers and servers who say it takes the joy out of dining.  —  Heavenly Buffaloes, a chain of restaurants with locations …
Charlotte Alter / TIME:
Hillary Clinton: Dianne Feinstein Shouldn't Retire  —  Secretary Hillary Clinton defended her friend and former colleague Senator Dianne Feinstein, whose advanced age and failing health have prompted calls for her to resign from the Senate, saying that Feinstein's resignation would not be …
Discussion: Raw Story, Washington Times and IJR
Associated Press:
Largest U.S. gay rights group issues Florida travel advisory  —  The Human Rights Campaign joined the NAACP and other civil rights groups in issuing travel or relocation warnings for the Sunshine State.  —  ORLANDO, Fla. — The largest LGBTQ rights organization in the U.S. joined …
Susan Rinkunas / Jezebel:
Nebraska Teen Pleads Guilty to Charges Related to Self-Managed Abortion  —  Celeste Burgess, 18, faces up to two years in prison for taking abortion pills and burying a stillborn fetus in 2022.  Her mother faces eight years.  —  A Nebraska teenager took a plea deal Monday in a case involving …
Discussion: Associated Press
Associated Press:
Jimmy Carter, 3 months into hospice, is aware of tributes, enjoying ice cream  —  Andrew Young, who served as Carter's U.N. Ambassador, said he was “very pleased we could laugh and joke about old times.”  —  NORCROSS, Ga. — Three months after entering end-of-life care at home …
Adam B. Vary / Variety:
Wanda Sykes on Her New Netflix Special, Dave Chappelle and Being a ‘Woke Comic’: 'They Say That Like It's an Insult'  —  Though Wanda Sykes began working on “I'm an Entertainer,” her latest Netflix stand-up special, in 2019, hardly any of the material she wrote prior to March 2020 made it into the show.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Court sets legal showdown on debt limit 14th Amendment argument  —  Justice Department lawyers declined to say whether Biden has the power to defy a debt cap.  —  A judge in Boston has ordered a hearing next week on one of the key arguments that President Joe Biden has the legal authority …
Peter Kafka / Vox:
Do Americans really want “unbiased” news?  —  CNN and the Messenger both say they're chasing the middle.  Uh-oh.  —  Item 1: Last week, the Messenger, a news operation run by the team that built and sold the Hill, launched to plenty of jeers from critics, while inside the company …
Michael Levenson / New York Times:
Heat Wave and Blackout Would Send Half of Phoenix to E.R., Study Says  —  New research warns that nearly 800,000 residents would need emergency medical care for heat stroke and other illnesses in an extended power failure.  Other cities are also at risk.  —  If a multiday blackout …
Discussion: Raw Story
Clara Duhon / The Hill:
Disney's reputation jumps among Democrats, drops among Republicans: poll  —  Sentiments toward the Walt Disney Company have become increasingly divided along partisan lines amid a public relations and legal battle with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).  —  The company dropped a dozen spots …
Discussion: Axios and The Daily Caller
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Guess who just bid $100K for McCarthy's used chapstick  —  The fundraiser, which Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) won with a $100,000 bid, is set to benefit Republicans' campaign arm.  —  House Republicans are bidding for steep spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Debt limit: The nihilism is the point  —  This is how things have been going in 2023: Even the news about orcas, those majestic sea creatures, is rough.  Live Science reports that an aggrieved orca attacked a large sailboat in the waters off Gibraltar, then taught others in the pod how he did it.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
7 news outlets reimagining political journalism in smart ways  —  Political journalism is in crisis.  Over the past few months, BuzzFeed News, FiveThirtyEight, Vice and a number of other outlets that specialize in political news have substantially cut staffing and coverage.
 
 
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New York Times:
Lessons From a Renters' Utopia
Discussion: Breitbart
David Weigel / Semafor:
Rise of the ‘One percenters’: Why so many Republicans think they can crash the Trump/DeSantis party
Discussion: Puck, Raw Story and Florida Politics
Rasmussen Reports:
Media Still ‘Enemy of the People,’ Most Voters Say
NBC News:
Driver who crashed near White House told officials he was prepared to kill Biden and ‘seize power’
Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Trans activists shut down controversial book launch, sparking free speech debate
Discussion: Breitbart
Associated Press:
Ford decides to keep AM radio on 2024 models, will restore AM on two electric vehicles from 2023
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David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
Malinowski won't seek rematch with Kean
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
CNN needs a new chief. Here's the ideal candidate.
Discussion: Mediaite
Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
Objection to sexual, LGBTQ content propels spike in book challenges
Discussion: Raw Story
Ruth Graham / New York Times:
Sex Abuse in Catholic Church: Over 1,900 Minors Abused in Illinois, State Says
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
The looming existential crisis for cable news
Discussion: National Review
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK
 
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