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Tori Otten / New Republic:
Giuliani Says Key Biden Informant Is Dead — There's a new wrinkle in the Republicans' totally legitimate investigation into Joe Biden: One of their informants is apparently dead, according to Rudy Giuliani. — Republicans have spent all week accusing the president of accepting a massive bribe …
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Jon Levine / New York Post:
Mike Pence promises to fire FBI Director Chris Wray, blasts ‘puppet master’ Soros in Post interview — Donald Trump “was” his friend, President Biden is a “disaster” and Democratic mega-donor George Soros is a “puppet master,” former Vice President Mike Pence said during an exclusive interview with The Post.
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The Messenger and National Review
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's rage at Biden has cornered his GOP rivals. That's dangerous.
Trump's rage at Biden has cornered his GOP rivals. That's dangerous.
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NPR, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and CNN
Joseph Bernstein / New York Times:
The Dad Canon (Circa Now) — The Dad Canon — (Circa Now) — Our highly specific, clearly subjective taxonomy of what today's dads can't stop wearing, reading, and talking about. — In the spring of 2020, a few months after we became parents, my wife asked what I wanted for Father's Day.
David Enrich / New York Times:
3 Charged With New Hampshire Public Radio Attacks — The homes of New Hampshire Public Media journalists were vandalized after they aired a sexual harassment investigation involving a prominent businessman in the state. — Federal prosecutors in Boston unveiled criminal charges on Friday …
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Michigan teen arrested for plotting mass shooting at synagogue — A Michigan teenager has been arrested over an alleged plot to carry out a mass shooting at a synagogue, according to a criminal complaint filed against the teen. — The complaint charges 19-year-old Seann Pietila with transmitting …
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Trump repeatedly celebrated the inclusion of transgender women in his beauty pageant — Years before he said he was running for president to “defeat the cult of gender ideology,” Donald Trump welcomed and praised the inclusion of transgender women in the Miss Universe pageant.
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Washington Examiner, Althouse, Raw Story, Insider, Bulwark+ and Political Wire
Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Exclusive: Twitter to focus on video, commerce in business revamp — Twitter plans to focus on video, creator and commerce partnerships to revitalize the social media company's business beyond digital advertising, according to an investor presentation by owner Elon Musk and new Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino …
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Oath Keepers attorney is found incompetent to stand trial in Jan. 6 case — A volunteer for Lawyers for Trump, Kellye SoRelle became Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes's girlfriend and a key post-2020 election contact with ‘Stop the Steal’ groups — A federal judge on Friday found Kellye SoRelle …
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Robin Buller / The Guardian:
US rightwing group planned $6m for anti-trans messaging in 2022 midterms — Independent Women's Voice turned resources to fighting trans rights in 10 key swing states, documents reveal — In the months leading up to the 2022 US midterm elections, hundreds of thousands of Facebook users …
Vivian Chow / KTLA:
Thousands protest Dodgers' Pride night event honoring LGBTQ+ ‘nun’ group — Thousands of religious protestors held a “prayerful procession” outside Dodger Stadium Friday night in response to the Dodgers honoring an LGBTQ “nun” group at its Pride Night event.
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Now she's out of a job. Her struggle is just beginning. — Deep Reads features The Washington Post's best immersive reporting and narrative writing. — BUFFALO — Lexi Rizzo was cleaning dishes in the back of her Starbucks store on March 31 when she noticed that her manager was printing a document, her hands shaking.
The Intercept:
Pentagon's Secret Service Trawls Social Media for Mean Tweets About Generals — An unredacted document shows the Protective Services Battalion uses sophisticated surveillance tools that can pinpoint anyone's location. — When the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley enters …
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Raw Story
Catherine Ho / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. drug overdose deaths could set a record this year. What's causing the spike? — The number of people who died from accidental drug overdoses in San Francisco rose in May to 74, marking one of the deadliest months of the local fentanyl crisis since the city began releasing monthly overdose death data in 2020.
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead at 92 — Deeply disturbed by the accounting of American deceit in Vietnam, he approached The New York Times. The disclosures that followed rocked the nation. — Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst who after experiencing …
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Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, dies at 92
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, dies at 92
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New York Times:
The Business of Being Chris Christie — Mr. Christie left the governor's office in New Jersey and set out to, as he put it, “make money.” He successfully traded on his political profile — and on his ties to the man he now wants to defeat. — Nick Corasaniti, who reported from New Jersey …
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Bloomberg and WEB OF EVIL
Gideon Rubin / Raw Story:
Jack Smith seeks order to protect info on ‘uncharged individuals’ in classified docs case — Special counsel Jack Smith has filed a motion seeking a protective order to govern discovery in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump.
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New York Times, Rolling Stone, Washington Examiner, CNN, The Messenger and Insider
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Fewer in U.S. Say Same-Sex Relations Morally Acceptable — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' views about the morality of a number of behaviors and practices are largely stable compared with a year ago. However, significantly fewer say same-sex relations are morally acceptable, and more say the death penalty is.
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Outside the Beltway, New Republic, The Daily Caller and Political Wire
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Jim Jordan Notes 'We Don't Know For Sure If These Tapes Exist' When Asked About Impeaching Biden Over Probe — Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan pointed out “we don't know” if the tapes Republicans claim implicate President Joe Biden “exist” when he was asked about impeaching the president.
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Zachary Stieber / theepochtimes.com:
Girl Sues Hospital for Removing Her Breasts at Age 13 — A hospital and doctors in California are facing a new lawsuit for removing the breasts of a 13-year-old girl after she claimed she was a boy. — The defendants carried out “ideological and profit-driven medical abuse” …
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HotAir, Associated Press and TIMCAST
Jared Gans / The Hill:
More than 50 letters sent to Kansas state officials contained ‘suspicious’ white powder — More than 50 letters containing a “suspicious” white powder were sent to Kansas state lawmakers on Friday, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) said. — The agency said in a post on its Facebook page …
Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Federal judge halts Indiana from enforcing ban on care for trans minors — The order enjoins the state from enforcing new puberty blocker or hormone bans, as well as a ban on “aiding and abetting” others in providing gender-affirming medical care for trans children.
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New York Times and Indiana Capital Chronicle
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
DOJ seeks protective order to prevent Trump from releasing classified materials amid ongoing investigation — The Justice Department on Friday filed a motion seeking to block former President Trump from releasing any classified materials that will be shared with his legal team during …
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Axios:
First look: Inside Biden's economic pitch to unions — President Biden will use a Philadelphia address to union supporters on Saturday to make the economic case for his re-election, according to people familiar with his plans. … - His challenge is to take credit for a hot labor market …
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Will Saletan / Bulwark+:
From Justifying Trump to Justifying Autocracy — IN DONALD TRUMP'S FOUR YEARS as president, the Republican party became increasingly authoritarian through a simple formula: Each time Trump crossed a line—firing people who investigated him, usurping the power to appropriate money …
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Digby's Hullabaloo and Los Angeles Times
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
What Trump doesn't (but should) understand about the ‘Socks’ case — Donald Trump thinks he's been “exonerated” in the classified docs scandal thanks to “the Clinton Socks case.” That isn't even close to being true. — Late yesterday afternoon, Donald Trump published an item …
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Raw Story and Political Wire
Mike Lee US Senator for Utah:
Leveling the Playing Field: Senators Swing for Fair Competition in Baseball — WASHINGTON - Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced a groundbreaking bill to repeal a century-old judicially-created exemption that grants Major League Baseball …
ProPublica:
How a Grad Student Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S. — Sitting at her bedroom desk, nursing a cup of coffee on a quiet Tuesday morning, Lauren Davila scoured digitized old newspapers for slave auction ads. A graduate history student at the College of Charleston …