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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
Theodore Schleifer / Puck:   DeSantis-Sacks '24  —  David Sacks, the PayPal Mafia scion, has ascended from mere rabble-rouser …
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 …
Discussion: KRON4
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 …
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 …
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New York Times:
McCarthy, Bracing for Defections, Eyes a Fraught Path to a Debt Limit Deal
Discussion: Just The News
Jonathan Nicholson / HuffPost:
House Republicans Pretty Much Admit They Are Taking Debt Limit ‘Hostage’
Discussion: New Republic
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Washington Post:
South Carolina Senate passes 6-week abortion ban, sends bill to governor
Discussion: Rolling Stone and Joe.My.God.
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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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Harlan Crow Rebuffs Senate Democrats' Questions About Gifts To Clarence Thomas
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.
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Olafimihan Oshin / The Hill:
Amanda Gorman says her inaugural poem has been banned by Miami-Dade school
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
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.
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: Associated Press and al.com
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Boebert on birth control: 'It's cheaper to have a kid'  —  Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) said during a hearing on drug pricing that she once declined to pay for birth control medicine when she saw how high the price was at the pharmacy.  —  Boebert recalled thinking at the time that “it's cheaper to have a kid.”
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David Moye / HuffPost:
Lauren Boebert Bizarrely Claims Having A Kid Is Cheaper Than Birth Control
Discussion: Jezebel
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
New York Times:
Lessons From a Renters' Utopia  —  By Francesca MariPhotographs by Luca Locatelli  —  When Eva Schachinger married at 22, she applied for public housing.  Luckily, she lived in Vienna, which has some of the best public housing in the world.  It was 1968.
Discussion: Breitbart
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
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 …
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 …
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: Insider, Politico, CNN and Bloomberg
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 …
NBC News:
Driver who crashed near White House told officials he was prepared to kill Biden and ‘seize power’  —  Sai Varshith Kandula, of suburban St. Louis, allegedly told authorities he admires Nazis and had planned the attack for six months.  —  The 19-year-old Missouri man accused of deliberately driving …
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 …
Michael Stratford / Politico:
Why Republicans want to repeal Biden's student debt relief now  —  The resolution would repeal Biden's plan to cancel up to $10,000 or $20,000 of student loan forgiveness per borrower.  —  The House on Wednesday will take up legislation to repeal President Joe Biden's sweeping student debt relief program …
Discussion: The Hill, The Daily Caller and Insider
 
 
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Mark Alesia / Raw Story:
Angry, violent and abusive: Unsealed court docs allege Stewart Rhodes created ‘constant fear’ at home
David Weigel / Semafor:
Rise of the ‘One percenters’: Why so many Republicans think they can crash the Trump/DeSantis party
Discussion: Raw Story and Florida Politics
Rasmussen Reports:
Media Still ‘Enemy of the People,’ Most Voters Say
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
 Earlier Items: 
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Debt limit: The nihilism is the point
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
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Michael Levenson / New York Times:
Heat Wave and Blackout Would Send Half of Phoenix to E.R., Study Says
Discussion: Raw Story
Clara Duhon / The Hill:
Disney's reputation jumps among Democrats, drops among Republicans: poll
Discussion: Axios and The Daily Caller
Peter Kafka / Vox:
Do Americans really want “unbiased” news?
Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
Objection to sexual, LGBTQ content propels spike in book challenges
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Guess who just bid $100K for McCarthy's used chapstick
Ruth Graham / New York Times:
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