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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: American Prospect and The Dispatch
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Clean Debt Deal Preferred by 2:1  —  Few say dire predictions from default are exaggerated  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Half of Americans say the debt ceiling issue should be dealt with cleanly, while just 1 in 4 want to tie it to federal spending negotiations, according to the Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.
Discussion: Bloomberg, NBC News, PoliticusUSA and CNN
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Debt Limit Update: The GOP Admits to Extortion  —  The media continues to normalize dangerously abnormal GOP behavior.  —  Kevin McCarthy is not known for much.  Sure, he became Speaker, but he got there by being morally pliable and shameless enough to debase himself into a job no one else wanted.
Washington Post:
Democrats angry at debt limit messaging  —  Good morning, Early Birds.  Please send intriguing news tips and your favorite TikToks in the style of Wes Anderson to earlytips@washpost.com.  Thanks for waking up with us.  —  Reading this online?  Sign up for The Early 202 to get scoops …
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
McCarthy's office has not met with Chamber during debt ceiling fight  —  The Chamber says it doesn't want to waste the Speaker's time.  But the two sides have not yet reconciled from their Trump era disputes.  —  The main business lobby in politics has not made contact with the House speaker's office …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Quartz
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Sen. Mitt Romney draws a Republican primary challenger in Utah
Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:
Ron DeSantis Has a Problem.  It's Florida.  —  There's a reason the state has never sent a politician to the White House.  —  Ron DeSantis is set to join the 2024 campaign amid high Republican hopes that he's precisely the kind of conservative who can knock off President Joe Biden.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy / CNN:
CNN Poll: Trump leads 2024 GOP primary field, but many voters are open to supporting other candidates  —  Donald Trump has consolidated the support of slightly above half of his party at this early stage of the race for the Republican nomination, a newly released CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds …
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:   Tiny-D Energy  —  Ron DeSantis and the history of presidential primary comebacks.  —  ∙ Paid
Rolling Stone:
Trump's Secret Weapon to ‘Ratf-ck’ DeSantis
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and NBC News
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
G.O.P. Split in Texas Breaks Wide Open With Drunkenness Accusation  —  Attorney General Ken Paxton's accusation against the House speaker came as the House investigated Mr. Paxton's request for $3.3 million to settle a suit accusing him of corruption.  —  Reporting from Houston
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The Texas Tribune:
Investigators detail years of alleged misconduct by Texas AG Ken Paxton in stunning House committee hearing  —  Many allegations against Paxton were already known, but the airing of them revealed the scope of the investigation by the committee, which has the power to recommend censure or impeachment.
Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times:
As staff shield Feinstein from the press, a picture really is worth a thousand words  —  Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter.  It's Wednesday, May 24.  I'm Kent Nishimura, a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times based out of Washington.  I cover politics and national news.
Discussion: Insider and New York Post
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 …
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CNN:
Out of the spotlight, Mark Meadows wields quiet political power amid Trump legal woes  —  In January, as Kevin McCarthy fought to win the House speakership through 15 rounds of grinding votes and late-night sessions at the Capitol, a few blocks away a group of right-wing holdouts huddled …
Discussion: Political Wire
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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Niha Masih / Washington Post:
Target removes some Pride Month products after facing threats
Associated Press:
Target's Pride collection features ‘tuck-friendly’ swimsuits for adults, not kids
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 …
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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 …
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Al Jazeera:
Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges
Discussion: Raw Story and Quartz
Ned Oliver / Axios:
Scoop: Myrna Morrissey files for divorce  —  Myrna Morrissey initiated divorce proceedings against Sen. Joe Morrissey last week. … - Joe Morrissey denied the allegations in the filing. … - He was 55, and she was 17 when they met.  — Former Gov. Ralph Northam pardoned him last year before leaving office.
Discussion: Blue Virginia and Political Wire
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Bill to Force Texas Public Schools to Display Ten Commandments Fails  —  A Republican effort to bring religion into classrooms faltered, though lawmakers were poised to allow chaplains to act as school counselors.  —  Reporting from Houston  —  A push to inject religion …
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Republicans' Wacky Ten Commandments School Bill Fails
Discussion: Raw Story and CNN
Jason Koebler / VICE:
Emails Show SpaceX Bungled Elon Musk's Private Jet Privacy  —  FOIA docs reveal that SpaceX enrolled Elon Musk's jet in a federal program to prevent tracking, failed to implement it properly, then asked for help during the @ElonJet meltdown.  —  Jason Koebler
Discussion: Associated Press
National Review:
The Dodgers Promote Anti-Catholicism  —  When businesses celebrate various identity groups among their customers and employees, it can easily descend into cloying and opportunistic pandering.  But it is mostly harmless, in the way that drinking green beer on St. Patrick's Day or wearing plastic sombreros on Cinco de Mayo is harmless.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why aren't we talking more about Trump's business with the Saudis?  —  The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has spent most of the past five months hard at work trying to link “the Biden family” (read: relatives of President Biden but not Biden himself) to millions of dollars proffered …
Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
Alex Murdaugh indicted on federal fraud charges  —  A grand jury returned a 22-count indictment against the disgraced lawyer.  —  A grand jury has indicted convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced South Carolina attorney, on federal fraud charges, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Trump's worst judge will hear a $1.8 billion attack on Planned Parenthood  —  Remember that guy who tried to ban mifepristone?  He's back.  —  Remember Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk?  Last month, Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee to a federal court in Texas, tried to remove mifepristone …
Discussion: Alternet.org
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Man arrested at Virginia preschool said he was ‘making his way to the CIA,’ police say  —  A Florida man found trespassing Tuesday at a Virginia preschool told officers he was “making his way to the CIA,” and firearms were found in a search of his vehicle, police say.
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Beware Elon Musk's warped libertarianism  —  The billionaire entrepreneur's AI initiative is disturbing in light of his selective approach to political and civic freedoms  —  Future generations might say that the big event of 2023 was when Elon Musk thought of TruthGPT — the “maximum truth-seeking AI” he plans to launch.
Discussion: Forbes
New York Times:
Driver's Licenses, Addresses, Photos: Inside How TikTok Shares User Data  —  Employees of the Chinese-owned video app have regularly posted user information on a messaging and collaboration tool called Lark, according to internal documents.  —  In August 2021, TikTok received a complaint …
Jordan Fischer / wusa9.com:
Former Army Ranger turned ‘against his own country’ on Jan. 6, DOJ says  —  Robert Morss, of Pennsylvania, was convicted of three felony counts for his role in the assault on police in the Lower West Terrace Tunnel.  —  WASHINGTON — A federal judge will decide Wednesday whether …
Washington Post:
While you weren't looking, Minnesota Dems won big  —  Welcome to The Daily 202!  Tell your friends to sign up here.  On this day in 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse inaugurated America's first telegraph line, sending the message “What hath God wrought” from Washington to Baltimore.  —  The big idea
Discussion: Minnesota Reformer
 
 
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