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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Are the Anti-Trump GOP Forces Starting to Implode? — A mission-control breakdown for DeSantis and smooth launch for Scott bode ill for those hoping to thwart the former president. — NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Will this go down as the week that the grand plan to deny Donald Trump the nomination fell apart?
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Twitter engineering boss Foad Dabiri quits day after DeSantis launch glitches — An engineering chief at Twitter says he is leaving the company a day after the launch of Ron DeSantis' US presidential campaign on the platform was hit with technical glitches.
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
‘Trump has the charisma of a mortician’: Donald Jr confuses dad with DeSantis — In online show, former president's son also accidentally says father's energy ‘makes Jeb Bush look like an Olympian’ — Donald Trump Jr accidentally insulted his father on Thursday night …
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Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
DeSantis, Day One: Trump ‘turned the country over to Fauci’ — The News — MIAMI, FL - If day one of Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign showed the country anything, it's that COVID is here to stay. — At least in the Republican primaries. — On his first day in the ring …
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Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:
DeSantis Signs Bill Shielding Musk's SpaceX From ‘Spaceflight Entity Liability’ — The Florida governor's signature comes a day after his 2024 presidential campaign announcement on Twitter … The law exempts “spaceflight entity from liability for injury to or death of a crew resulting …
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Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
‘Not a Big Social Media Guy’: DeSantis Tells Newsmax He'd Rather Watch Cable News ‘Than Be on Some App’ After Disastrous Twitter Launch
‘Not a Big Social Media Guy’: DeSantis Tells Newsmax He'd Rather Watch Cable News ‘Than Be on Some App’ After Disastrous Twitter Launch
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Inside Twitter's failed Space launch
Inside Twitter's failed Space launch
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The DeSantis Doctrine — Column: Ron DeSantis and the battle for the New Right
The DeSantis Doctrine — Column: Ron DeSantis and the battle for the New Right
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Washington Post:
Conservatives revolt as negotiators try to finish debt ceiling deal — Although not yet made public, the emerging agreement between McCarthy and Biden is already coming under fire from the right — Conservative lawmakers have begun mounting a campaign against the emerging deal …
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
Reinventing the Sequester — The emerging deal would allow congressional Republicans …
Reinventing the Sequester — The emerging deal would allow congressional Republicans …
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Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
Deal with it: Negotiators may be zeroing in on a debt ceiling agreement
Deal with it: Negotiators may be zeroing in on a debt ceiling agreement
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Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Bowman on debt ceiling talks with GOP: ‘Why are we gonna negotiate with the economic terrorists’
Bowman on debt ceiling talks with GOP: ‘Why are we gonna negotiate with the economic terrorists’
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Jamilah Lemieux / Slate:
My Nephew's Bathroom Habits Are a Little Unsettling — Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. — Dear Care and Feeding, — Last week, I took a road trip with my sister “Lasey” and my nephew “Bill.” Bill is 8, and his father isn't in the picture.
Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Jessica Watkins: Oath Keepers member and Army veteran sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for January 6 — Jessica Watkins, an Army veteran and member of the far-right Oath Keepers, was sentenced Friday to 8.5 years in prison for participating in a plot to disrupt the certification …
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Dan Sullivan / Tampa Bay Times:
Tucker Carlson, Fox News hacks tied to FBI search of Tampa council member's home — The search at City Council member Lynn Hurtak and Tim Burke's home was part of a probe into computer hacks at Fox News. — TAMPA — An FBI search earlier this month at the home of media consultant Tim Burke and his wife …
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Ben Nagle / Daily Mail:
'They have unlimited money - they love it!': Donald Trump attempts to ramp up the excitement for LIV Golf as he turns up for first day of play at his own course in Washington DC... and says Saudis have been ‘fantastic’ for golf — Donald Trump's DC course is hosting the latest round of LIV Golf's 2023 season
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Heather Digby Parton / Salon:
Trump and the Saudis: Is Jack Smith finally looking at this clear-cut corruption? — Trump's links to the Saudi regime and its LIV Golf tour reek of obvious corruption. Maybe Jack Smith has noticed — There's a lot of Trump legal news these days, what with the E. Jean Carroll verdict …
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Wajahat Ali / The Daily Beast:
CNN Can Never Wash Away the Trump Disaster Stench — Try as it might to move on from the Trump town hall debacle by inviting Haley and Pence to do similar events, CNN can never undo the damage. … Some people decide to climb out after falling into a hole, and then there's CNN.
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Push to Make an Obscure Congressman Trump's VP Pick
Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
Boebert dismisses antisemitism push as effort to target conservatives — Aftter White House announces effort to combat hatred of Jews, GOP congresswoman says it's a way to ‘go after conservatives’ — President Biden on Thursday released the country's first national strategy for combating antisemitism …
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Meet the ex-food writer advising Tommy Tuberville on national security — As a former college football coach, Tuberville (R-Ala.) is an improbable power player in Washington. But the story of how his top military adviser got here is even stranger. — When Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Evidence grows that Trump hoarded documents — and showed them to people — We have reached one of those points in reporting on Donald Trump's post-presidency retention of documents when it's useful to take a step back. — On Thursday, The Washington Post teased out another aspect of this complicated situation.
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
What Does It Mean to be a “Supporter” of a Candidate? — No Triad on Monday—have a great Memorial Day weekend. And please read Will Selber's magnificent, heartrending piece in which he remembers some of his comrades. — Warning: Today's edition is fairly self-indulgent. I hope you'll forgive me.
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Michael Gartland / New York Daily News:
NYC Council's Italian-American caucus lodges ethics complaint against Councilman Chi Ossé, cites ethnic slights — The New York City Council's Italian-American caucus has filed a formal complaint with the lawmaking body's Standards and Ethics Committee over remarks made by Councilman Chi Ossé …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Members of a No Labels-allied caucus erupt at No Labels — The group is under fire for its unity presidential bid and for an attack on a Problem Solvers Caucus member. — A group of House Democrats with ties to No Labels is turning on the centrist group after it attacked one of their founding members.
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James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
The Man Who Kept the Secrets — Eighty years ago, a U.S. Navy captain chose to go down with the ship. — The son of a Medal of Honor recipient always suspected that something was wrong with the official story about his father's service in World War II. And the son was right to be suspicious.
CNBC:
Tech layoffs ravage the teams that fight online misinformation and hate speech — Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Twitter have all drastically reduced the size of their teams focused on internet trust and safety as well as ethics as the companies focus on cost cuts.
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Kellen Browning / New York Times:
Minnesota Governor Vetoes Gig Worker Pay Bill — Gov. Tim Walz said the legislation would have raised costs for ordering an Uber or Lyft too high, potentially pricing out Minnesota customers. — Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota on Thursday vetoed a bill that would have guaranteed a minimum wage …
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BBC:
Ukraine war: Russia destroys hospital in latest missile attack — At least two people have been killed and 23 injured in a missile strike on a medical clinic in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the regional governor says. — Of the 23 injured, 21 are in hospital and three are in a serious condition.
Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:
Unprecedented ruling about releasing evidence in Nashville school shooting could lead to ‘slippery slope’: Experts — “There's no roadmap on this,” one expert said. — A Tennessee judge's unprecedented ruling granting parents the legal right to object to the release of police evidence …
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Bob Zeidman / Politico:
How I Won $5 Million From the MyPillow Guy and Saved Democracy — A software forensics expert investigated Mike Lindell's claims that China hacked the 2020 election. He was stunned by what he found. — If you watch TV, especially conservative TV, you know Mike Lindell.
Washington Post:
Israeli agents conducted targeted killings in civilian area, killing a child — Videos from a March 16 raid in Jenin show increasingly deadly tactics by Israeli officers — The traffic was barely moving on March 16 in central Jenin, an unusually busy Thursday afternoon in the West Bank.
The Texas Tribune:
Attorney General Ken Paxton faces impeachment. Here's how that works in Texas. — The Texas Legislature has never removed an attorney general. If the House votes to impeach, the Senate will hold a trial. — Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has been at the center of several scandals, faces a possible impeachment.
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