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12:00 PM ET, June 3, 2023

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NBC News:
Musk's response to an anti-trans video sparks 24 hours of chaos at Twitter  —  A conservative pressure movement built against Twitter's CEO, resulting in high-level departures from the company.  —  A week ago, Elon Musk's Twitter seemed to be taking shaky footsteps toward a new phase …
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Wall Street Journal:
Twitter Loses Second Safety Executive Within Days  —  A.J. Brown's departure comes after Ella Irwin, company's head of trust and safety, left Thursday  —  Twitter lost its head of brand safety and ad quality, people familiar with the matter said, the second departure of a top safety executive …
Prem Thakker / New Republic:
Elon Musk Calls to Imprison Therapists Helping Trans Kids
Discussion: TheBlaze
Prem Thakker / New Republic:
Elon Musk Personally Elevates Transphobic Video Originally Flagged as Hate Speech
New York Times:
Trump Lawyer's Notes Could Be a Key in the Classified Documents Inquiry  —  M. Evan Corcoran recorded recollections of his legal work last year for Donald Trump.  The recording is now in the hands of prosecutors, unnerving some aides to the former president.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Team Trump reportedly can't find doc referenced in audio recording
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Jon Levine / New York Post:
Donald Trump's campaign hit with blizzard of Twitter ‘community notes’  —  Donald Trump's 2024 election campaign's claims are already being hit with Twitter's new “community notes,” which fact-check or offer context to dubious posts.  —  In May alone, Team Trump and their surrogates …
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Nicholas Nehamas / New York Times:
5 Takeaways From Ron DeSantis's First Campaign Trip  —  He swung back at Donald Trump.  He vowed to vanquish the “woke mob” and turn the country into mega-Florida.  He had normal encounters with voters that didn't become memes.  —  After his unusual, buzzy and ill-fated presidential debut …
Michael Schaffer / Politico:   Autism Advocates Are Dreading a Campaign Season of Insinuations About Ron DeSantis
Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine's Zelensky: We Are Ready for Counteroffensive  —  Ukrainian president also discusses U.S. elections, NATO and China in wide-ranging interview  —  ODESA, Ukraine—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was now ready to launch a long-awaited counteroffensive but tempered …
Joe Drape / New York Times:
Churchill Downs to Cease Racing as It Investigates Deaths of Horses  —  The track, the home of the Kentucky Derby, is moving races to another location while officials look into why 12 thoroughbreds have died at Churchill Downs in recent weeks.  —  Horse racing will be suspended at Churchill Downs …
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CNN:
Churchill Downs to suspend all racing operations to further evaluate safety measures amid increase in horse deaths
Discussion: OutKick
Decca Muldowney / The Daily Beast:
Violence Erupts at Anti-Pride School Assembly Protest in North Hollywood  —  One man was beaten and left unresponsive on the ground as an anti-Pride protester yelled “he has to suffer.”  —  Heated clashes between protesters angry about a Pride assembly at a North Hollywood school …
New York Times:
More Than 260 Dead and 900 Injured in Train Crash in India  —  The rail disaster, in the eastern state of Odisha, was among the deadliest in a nation with a history of rail safety problems.  —  More than 260 people were killed and hundreds more injured when a passenger train derailed …
Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
California Democrat who opposed anti-tech bills is top contender for key role on antitrust subcommittee  — A California Democrat who has opposed efforts to reform competition laws to crack down on the tech industry is the leading contender to become the highest ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust.
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Hutchinson vows to meet ‘whatever is set’ as criteria for first GOP debate  —  Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a GOP presidential candidate, vowed on Friday to meet “whatever is set” as the criteria for making the stage for the Republican debates starting at the end of the summer.
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Marc Caputo / The Messenger:
GOP Issues Debate Rules, But Will Trump Bother to Show Up?
Associated Press:
Austria's Social Democrats choose Doskozil as new leader, looking to elections expected next year  —  Austria's center-left Social Democrats elected Hans Peter Doskozil as their new party leader Saturday, hoping to turn around the party's fortunes ahead of parliamentary elections expected in the small Alpine nation next year.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Sky Palma / Raw Story:
YouTube policy that banned election fraud lies reversed as 2024 approaches  —  YouTube has reversed a policy that previously banned false claims about the 2020 election, according to a statement on the site.  —  The video sharing platform now says that the policy, which was enacted in December 2020 …
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YouTube Official Blog:
An update on our approach to US election misinformation
Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Breaking: Federal judge rules Tennessee drag restrictions unconstitutional after trial  —  The anti-drag law lost on all fronts.  “[L]aws infringing on the Freedom of Speech must be narrow and well-defined.”  This law “is neither,” the Trump appointee ruled.
CNN:
Secret Service implements tougher penalties after probe finds agents were on phones and missed intruder at national security adviser's home  —  The US Secret Service implemented tougher disciplinary measures after preliminary findings from an internal investigation found agents missed an intruder …
Discussion: Insider
Daniel Trotta / Reuters:
Texas becomes largest state to ban transgender care for minors  —  Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday signed a bill that bans transgender healthcare including puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors, making Texas the largest of the 20 states to have outlawed gender-affirming care.
 
 
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Ted Koppel on Covering—and Befriending—Henry Kissinger
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