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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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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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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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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
DeSantis says he would push to repeal Trump criminal justice reform if elected
DeSantis says he would push to repeal Trump criminal justice reform if elected
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
‘Trump has the charisma of a mortician’: Donald Jr confuses dad with DeSantis
‘Trump has the charisma of a mortician’: Donald Jr confuses dad with DeSantis
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BBC:
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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Kevin McLaughlin / The Information:
Twitter Cut Key Software Before DeSantis Audio Glitch — On Wednesday night, Twitter experienced multiple outages during a high-profile live audio forum on the app in which Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launched his presidential campaign. While the specific reason for the flub couldn't be learned …
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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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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Hackwhackers and Raw Story
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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Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Effort to impeach Ken Paxton, led by fellow Republicans, sets off political earthquake in Texas — Republicans have chosen to remain largely silent during years of alleged misconduct and lawbreaking by the attorney general. Now they will have to take a public stand.
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The Texas Tribune:
Attorney General Ken Paxton faces impeachment. Here's how that works in Texas.
Attorney General Ken Paxton faces impeachment. Here's how that works in Texas.
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Scott Horsley / NPR:
Yellen sets new deadline for Congress to raise the debt ceiling: June 5 — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the government won't have enough money to pay all of its bills unless Congress acts to raise the debt ceiling by June 5. — That's a more precise deadline than Yellen had previously given …
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NBC News:
The U.S. now has until June 5 to act on the debt ceiling, Yellen says
The U.S. now has until June 5 to act on the debt ceiling, Yellen says
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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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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 …
Graham Kates / CBS News:
Prosecutors in Trump's criminal case say they have recording of Trump and a witness — Prosecutors in former President Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal case have released to his attorneys a recording of Trump and a witness, whose identity was not disclosed, according to a document the office made public Friday.
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Raw Story, Alternet.org and Political Wire
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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Raw Story and The Wrap, more at Mediagazer »
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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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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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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
DeSantis's shameless defense of the Amanda Gorman fiasco is revealing — At this point, it should be obvious that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's culture-war directives are designed to encourage parents to indulge in book purges for sport. Precisely because removals have become so easy …
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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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Joe.My.God. and Hackwhackers
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.
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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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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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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Jessica Levinson / MSNBC:
Kavanaugh just went against his fellow conservative justices — for good reason — The fact that Kavanaugh broke with his conservative colleagues on Thursday shows us how truly baseless the court's reasoning is. — When the Supreme Court's conservative majority so bungles its interpretation …