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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’
DeSantis Signs Bill Shielding Musk's SpaceX From ‘Spaceflight Entity Liability’
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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 to enact savage cuts to federal spending without having to ever specify them. — Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy talks with reporters about debt limit negotiations, at the Capitol in Washington, May 25, 2023.
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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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Politico:
Where the debt talks stand six days before default deadline
Where the debt talks stand six days before default deadline
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Punchbowl News:
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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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NBC News:
Self-proclaimed ‘idiot’ Oath Keeper sentenced to more than 8 years in Jan. 6 case
Self-proclaimed ‘idiot’ Oath Keeper sentenced to more than 8 years in Jan. 6 case
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Dennis Aftergut / Bulwark+:
Four Messages in the Big Sentence for Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes
Four Messages in the Big Sentence for Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes
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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.
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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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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Ben Nagle / Daily Mail:
‘They have unlimited money - they love it!’: …
‘They have unlimited money - they love it!’: …
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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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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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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 …
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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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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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.
Jeffrey Collins / Associated Press:
Judge halts South Carolina's new stricter abortion law until state Supreme Court review — A judge on Friday put a temporary halt to South Carolina's new law banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy until the state Supreme Court can review the measure.
Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Brute force and the reactionary SCOTUS majority's assault on clean water — Justice Sam Alito's five-justice majority, including Chief Justice John Roberts, upended 45 years of agency and court interpretations of the Clean Water Act — and the law itself. — The environment is worse off …
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Washington Post:
How Supreme Court's EPA ruling will affect U.S. wetlands, clean water
How Supreme Court's EPA ruling will affect U.S. wetlands, clean water
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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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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.
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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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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Joe Daniels / Financial Times:
Drug wars threaten Ecuador's stability ahead of election — Violence has exploded in past two years, terrifying Andean nation's citizens and dominating politics — On a recent spring morning in the city of Esmeraldas on Ecuador's Pacific coast, the sound of gunfire filled the air.
Kim Bellware / Washington Post:
Doctor in 10-year-old rape victim's abortion could lose license — Indiana's medical licensing board will determine as soon as Thursday whether to take any disciplinary action against a doctor who made headlines last year for performing an abortion for a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim …
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