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1:45 PM ET, June 22, 2023

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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
John Durham Flames Out  —  Let's catch up before we get to the main event today:  — Fight Club update: “Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Boebert a ‘Little Bitch’ on the House Floor.” … - Meanwhile... “Chaos ERUPTS in House After Adam Schiff Is Censured: ‘Shame!  Shame!  Shame!’
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Kadia Goba / Semafor:
Marjorie Taylor Greene explains why she called Lauren Boebert a ‘little b***’  —  The News  —  Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. isn't backing down after calling Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo. a “little bitch” to her face on the House floor Wednesday during a fight over their dueling efforts to impeach President Joe Biden.
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
GOP's Boebert wanted to impeach Biden, but House Speaker McCarthy had other plans  —  A surprise effort by hard-right House Republicans to impeach President Joe Biden has been sidelined for now, but the ability of GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert to force the issue to a House vote demonstrates …
Owen Tucker-Smith / Los Angeles Times:
House Republicans censured Adam Schiff. He couldn't be happier
Brie Stimson / Fox News:
Adam Schiff censured: 6 Republican lawmakers break with party to vote ‘present’
The Daily Beast:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Boebert a ‘Little Bitch’ on the House Floor
New York Times:
Senator Rick Scott Has Been Weighing a Presidential Run  —  If he runs, Mr. Scott would become the fourth Republican presidential candidate from Florida, joining Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Mayor Frances Suarez of Miami.  —  Senator Rick Scott of Florida is considering a late entry …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Cara Korte / CBS News:
Republican Will Hurd announces he's running for president  —  Former Texas Congressman Will Hurd announced he's running for president on “CBS Mornings” Thursday.  —  “This morning, I filed to be the Republican nominee for president of the United States,” Hurd told “CBS Mornings.”
ABC News:
George Santos' father and aunt guaranteed his $500K bond, court documents show  —  The congressman pleaded guilty in May to a 13-count fraud indictment.  —  Rep. George Santos' father and aunt guaranteed his $500,000 bond, according to a court document unsealed Thursday over the congressman's objection.
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New York Times:
George Santos Was Bailed Out by His Father and Aunt, Court Records Show  —  Mr. Santos, a first-term G.O.P. congressman, had tried to keep the names of his bail sureties sealed, but two judges rejected his efforts.  —  Of the many questions that surround Representative George Santos …
Erica Orden / Politico:
George Santos' father and aunt backed his bail bond, court papers show
Discussion: Washington Times
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
George Santos' mystery supporters who put up his $500,000 bail set to be unmasked
Discussion: The Daily Beast and The Hill
The Indianapolis Star:
Moms for Liberty's Hamilton County chapter apologizes for quoting Hitler in newsletter  —  The Hamilton County chapter of Moms for Liberty, a national organization recently listed as an “extremist group” by a civil rights watchdog, apologized Thursday morning after it launched a newsletter called …
Discussion: Twitchy and Raw Story
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump documents investigation examined New Jersey club from outset  —  Exclusive: Prosecutors developed evidence early on of classified documents at Trump's Bedminster golf club  —  Federal prosecutors investigating Donald Trump's retention of national security material were examining evidence within weeks …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA, Raw Story and NBC News
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Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Trump Divide that Should Have Republicans Terrified  —  The indictments are making him stronger in the Republican nomination fight while he's taking on more baggage for a general election.  —  The conventional wisdom is that Donald Trump's interview with Bret Baier of Fox News on Monday night …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
June 2023 National Poll: Third Party Candidacy Could Derail President Biden's Reelection Bid
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Christie Lashes Trump, to the Slice of the G.O.P. Open to It
Discussion: Fox News and Morning Shots
Joan Walsh / The Nation:
Just Another RFK Jr. Lie.  I Know, Because It's About Me.  —  I edited Kennedy's error-ridden piece on a vaccine-autism link, which Salon later retracted.  We caved to the truth, not Big Pharma.  —  I've been doing my best to ignore the farcical presidential candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr …
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:   Sam Alito's trip to Rome funded by group that has filed briefs before SCOTUS: CNN
Daniel Wu / Washington Post:
Meteorologist resigns, citing PTSD from threats over climate change coverage  —  When Iowa meteorologist Chris Gloninger got an email notification last June, it read: “Getting sick and tired of your liberal conspiracy on the weather.”  —  “What's your address,” another asked Gloninger a few days later.
Discussion: CBS News and The Messenger
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Jay Stahl / Des Moines Register:   KCCI chief meteorologist Chris Gloninger departing station citing PTSD, past death threat
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match … Here we go.  —  After Elon Musk recently tweeted that he would be “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg, the Meta CEO shot back by posting a screenshot of Musk's tweet with the caption “send me location.”
Kevin Mahnken / The 74:
NAEP Scores ‘Flashing Red’ After a Lost Generation of Learning for 13-Year-Olds  —  'Nation's Report Card' shows math skills reset to the level of the 1990s, while struggling readers are scoring lower than they did in 1971  —  Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox.
Wall Street Journal:
Russian Court Rejects Appeal to Release Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich  —  Wall Street Journal reporter had been ordered to remain in a Moscow prison until at least Aug. 30  —  A Russian court upheld the extended detention of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter deemed …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Cop City in Atlanta is the future of America  —  ATLANTA — This hardly feels like the most-talked about piece of real estate in a development-crazed Sunbelt megalopolis.  What could be so controversial about a squad of dull-yellow Caterpillar earth movers pushing mounds of Georgia's red-clay soil …
Discussion: WXIA-TV, Mother Jones and The Root
Washington Post:
Dictators' dark secret: They're learning from each other  —  In the spring of 2012, Vladimir Putin was feeling the pressure.  —  For months, anti-Putin protests had surged through the streets of Moscow and other cities following fraudulent parliamentary elections the previous December.
Discussion: HotAir
Leo Shane III / Defense News:
White House mum on jailed Defense News correspondent  —  Senior White House officials said press freedom would be among the topics discussed this week by President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in private meetings, but would not commit to specifically intervening in the case of …
Evan Bush / NBC News:
Three of Mount Rainier's glaciers have melted away  —  Glaciers across the world are on a path of prolonged decline, a trend driven by the human use of fossil fuels and the accumulation of heat-trapping gasses in the atmosphere.  —  A warming climate has melted three glaciers on Mount Rainier …
Discussion: CBS News
The Guardian:
These 1,572 US politicians have helped ban abortion since Roe fell.  They're mostly men  —  These are the faces of lawmakers and governors whose votes helped pass bans on abortion  —  Ava Sasani, graphics by Andrew Witherspoon  —  It's been one year since the US supreme court ended the constitutional right to abortion.
Discussion: Politico
Jacques Berlinerblau / Salon:
Who was the mystery MAGA rabbi who prayed with Trump?  We found him — but big questions remain  —  Donald Trump's Miami photo op with a Jesus-loving “rabbi” set the Jewish community abuzz.  Mystery solved — sort of  —  On the afternoon of June 13, Donald J. Trump sauntered into Versailles …
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Alito's Reply in a Rival Publication Surprises ProPublica  —  The Wall Street Journal made the unusual decision to let Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. pre-empt ProPublica's article about him in its opinion pages.  —  The Wall Street Journal faced criticism on Wednesday after its highly unusual decision …
Mark Leibovich / The Atlantic:
Why Not Whitmer?  —  The Michigan governor isn't running for president.  But she is happy to be interrogated over whether she might change her mind.  —  Why doesn't Gretchen Whitmer just run for president?  Or at least humor the suggestion?  —  Whitmer, the governor of Michigan …
Anushka Patil / New York Times:
Submersible Pilot's Spouse Is Descended From a Famous Titanic Couple  —  Wendy Rush is a great-great-granddaughter of the retailing magnate Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida, two of the wealthiest people to die aboard the ocean liner.  —  Wendy Rush, the wife of Stockton Rush …
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Court: Professor who went to strip club with students not ‘anti-male bias’ victim  —  George Mason psychology professor Todd Kashdan has been fighting the public Virginia university where he works.  —  For the past four years, George Mason psychology professor Todd Kashdan has been fighting …
 
 
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Marc Caputo / The Messenger:
Florida Abortion Rights Plan Polls at 70 Percent But Passage Is Far From Assured
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Obama warns democratic institutions are ‘creaky’ but Trump's indictment is proof rule of law still exists in US
Discussion: The Hill
Madeline Peltz / Media Matters for America:
Tucker Carlson's racist former head writer resurfaces as Charlie Kirk's radio producer
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JONATHAN TURLEY:
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Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
The U.S. Population Is Older Than It Has Ever Been
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Money, it's a drag
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Gregory Korte / Bloomberg:
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Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Washington Post:
September date set for Texas attorney general impeachment trial
 

 
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