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9:15 AM ET, May 24, 2023

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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.
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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 …
Public Notice:
How Twitter became a haven for climate misinformation  —  “The intention is to create a perception that denial is far more widespread than it actually is,” Michael Mann tells us.  —  ∙ Paid … On World Meteorological Day in March, the UN Climate Change Twitter account posted …
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Raw Story
Axios:
Musk moves in on Murdoch  —  Elon Musk has displaced Rupert Murdoch and Fox News as the king of conservative media in recent weeks. … But the right-wing ecosystem has turned on the network, leaving Twitter as the center of media gravity for the Republican Party just as the 2024 election heats up.
New York Times:
DeSantis Set to Announce 2024 Run on Twitter With Elon Musk
Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Trump Criminal Trial Scheduled for March 2024
New York Times:
McCarthy, Bracing for Defections, Eyes a Fraught Path to a Debt Limit Deal  —  With right-wing Republicans all but certain to oppose any bipartisan compromise, the speaker has a narrow path to push one through the closely divided House.  —  Speaker Kevin McCarthy is attempting …
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Washington Post:
GOP unites in brinkmanship over default, rejecting Biden compromises  —  Several House Republican lawmakers have begun casting doubt on the Treasury Department's deadline for averting a financial crisis  —  During a closed meeting Tuesday morning at a GOP hangout a block from the U.S. Capitol …
Discussion: Washington Examiner, CNN and CNBC
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” …
Politico:
White House believes up to 100 Dem votes may be needed on debt ceiling deal  —  The prospect of needing so many votes from within the party has begun to color Biden's negotiating strategy.  —  White House aides privately estimate they may need to deliver as many as 100 Democratic votes …
Discussion: The Dispatch and Associated Press
Washington Post:   Democrats angry at debt limit messaging
Jonathan Nicholson / HuffPost:
House Republicans Pretty Much Admit They Are Taking Debt Limit ‘Hostage’
Discussion: New Republic
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 …
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Media Runs Wild With BS Claim of ‘Tuck-Friendly’ Target Kidswear  —  The Associated Press debunked the false claim on Tuesday, but it didn't stop far-right pundits from calling for the Target CEO to be prosecuted for being a “pervert groomer.”  —  In its ceaseless culture war campaign …
Politico:
Playbook: The Ron DeSantis reset  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  NICE HEADLINE OF THE DAY — “Jimmy Carter, 3 months into hospice, is aware of tributes, enjoying ice cream,” by AP's Bill Barrow  —  SCOTUS WATCH — Chief Justice JOHN ROBERTS addressed …
Discussion: ABC News, Fox News and CBS News
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New York Times:
DeSantis Allies' $200 Million Plan for Beating Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:   Ron DeSantis Has a Problem. It's Florida.
Theodore Schleifer / Puck:
DeSantis-Sacks '24  —  David Sacks, the PayPal Mafia scion, has ascended from mere rabble-rouser …
Discussion: HotAir
David Weigel / Semafor:
Rise of the ‘One percenters’: Why so many Republicans think they can crash the Trump/DeSantis party
Discussion: Florida Politics and Raw Story
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 …
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.
Discussion: Rolling Stone
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Javon L. Harris / The State:
SC Senate votes to send 6-week abortion ban bill to governor. Court challenge coming
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 …
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Politico:
Trump legal team seeks meeting with Garland as documents probe nears conclusion
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.
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Harlan Crow thinks he is the law
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Roberts says Supreme Court will address ethics issues  —  Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said Tuesday night that he was “confident” that the Supreme Court will convince the public that the court “adheres to the highest standards of conduct.”  —  Accepting an award at the American Law Institute …
Discussion: The Guardian and Insider
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Olafimihan Oshin / The Hill:
Amanda Gorman says her inaugural poem has been banned by Miami-Dade school  —  American poet Amanda Gorman said on Tuesday that the poem she recited during President Biden's inauguration has been banned by a school in Miami-Dade County.  —  “I'm gutted.  Because of one's parent's complaint …
Miami Herald:
Exclusive: Developer paid Miami's mayor $170K to push his project, company records state  —  A developer quietly paid Miami Mayor Francis Suarez at least $170,000 over the past two years to help cut through red tape and secure critical permits for his stalled real estate project in Coconut Grove …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and PolitiFact
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 …
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 …
Washington Post:
The deepening radicalization of Donald J. Trump  —  Watch how the former president's positions and rhetoric have grown more confrontational and extreme as he seeks a second term  —  In the immediate aftermath of Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump stayed mostly silent …
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Texas AG Ken Paxton calls on House Speaker Dade Phelan to resign, accusing him of being drunk in the Capitol  —  The attorney general's comment came after a viral video showed Phelan slurring his words while leading the House.  Phelan defenders say he appeared fine before and after the clip.
Gershom Gorenberg / Washington Post:
Ending the forever war in Gaza means looking at how it really began  —  Time is measured in seconds, from when a news feed announces a “red alert” — incoming missiles from Gaza aimed at Tel Aviv — to the bleat of a message in the family WhatsApp group from one of my children, “I'm OK.”
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 …
Fox News:
IRS commissioner denies intervening to retaliate against whistleblowers connected to Hunter Biden complaint  —  Werfel said the whistleblower's reassignment came at the direction of the DOJ  —  Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Daniel Werfel denied intervening to retaliate against whistleblowers …
 
 
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CNN:
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Discussion: Breitbart
NBC News:
Driver who crashed near White House told officials he was prepared to kill Biden and ‘seize power’
Politico:
Second Biden judicial pick in one month withdraws from consideration
Associated Press:
Largest U.S. gay rights group issues Florida travel advisory
Amelia Nierenberg / New York Times:
The QR-Code Menu Is Being Shown the Door
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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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