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2:45 PM ET, July 10, 2023

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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Old yeller: Biden's private fury  —  In public, President Biden likes to whisper to make a point.  In private, he's prone to yelling.  — Behind closed doors, Biden has such a quick-trigger temper that some aides try to avoid meeting alone with him.
New York Times:
The New York Times to Disband Its Sports Department  —  Coverage of games, players and leagues will now primarily come from The Athletic, the sports website that the company bought last year.  —  The New York Times said on Monday that it would disband its sports department and rely on coverage …
Reuters:
Putin held post-mutiny talks with Wagner leader Prigozhin and his fighters - Kremlin  —  President Vladimir Putin has held Kremlin talks with Wagner mercenary group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin and his commanders to discuss the armed mutiny Wagner attempted to mount against the army's top brass, Putin's spokesman said on Monday.
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Washington Post:
Ukraine live briefing: Putin met with Wagner chief after rebellion; Biden in U.K. ahead of NATO summit
Christine Emba / Washington Post:
Men are lost.  Here's a map out of the wilderness.  —  I started noticing it a few years ago.  Men, especially young men, were getting weird.  —  It might have been the “incels” who first caught my attention, spewing self-pitying venom online, sometimes venturing out to attack the women they believed had done them wrong.
Discussion: Althouse and gregfallis.com
Politico:
Playbook: A new way to make Biden officials pay  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE WEEK — Today: President JOE BIDEN meets with British PM RISHI SUNAK and KING CHARLES III in London.  The Senate returns from July Fourth recess. ...
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Washington Post:
Congress returns with lots to do but little time to do it
Eli Okun / Politico:
Playbook PM: 8 new swing-seat campaigns to know
Discussion: CNN and Political Wire
Punchbowl News:
7/10/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM
San Francisco Chronicle:
This is the hometown of San Francisco's drug dealers  —  SIRIA VALLEY, HONDURAS — Thirty-five hundred miles southeast of San Francisco, a dirt road in Honduras shared by pickup trucks and oxcarts cuts through mostly abandoned farmland.  On the outskirts of a small village …
Associated Press:
Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar stabbed multiple times at Florida federal prison: AP sources  —  Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually abusing female gymnasts, was stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another inmate at a federal prison in Florida.
Craig Silverman / ProPublica:
Right-Wing Websites Connected to Former Trump Lawyer Are Scamming Loyal Followers With Phony Celebrity Pitches  —  A mysterious network called AdStyle is placing ads with fake endorsements from celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Elon Musk on conservative sites based in the U.S. and abroad.
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Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Erdogan Makes Turkey's E.U. Bid a Condition of Supporting Sweden's NATO Membership  —  The Turkish president's surprising new demand was bound to frustrate other leaders in the military alliance one day before a high-profile summit.  —  ISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey …
Axios:
Scoop: GOP plan targets foreign dark money for 2024  —  House Republicans are working on new legislation to prevent foreign nationals from influencing America's political process, Axios has learned. … - Now House Republicans are trying to flip to script and draw attention to foreign donations …
emptywheel:
The Blind Squirrel's Nut: Chuck Grassley Unwittingly Debunks Bill Barr  —  Last month, Bill Barr got Federalist Faceplant Margot Cleveland to claim that Jamie Raskin was lying when he said that the lead from an informant claiming that Joe Biden had been bribed was assessed by Pittsburgh US Attorney Scott Brady and then shut down.
Discussion: HotAir and The Federalist
New York Times:
The Case That Could Be Fox's Next Dominion  —  Tucker Carlson, before he was sidelined by Fox, repeatedly endorsed a conspiracy theory about an Arizona man, who may sue for defamation.  Legal experts say it would be a viable case.  —  Of all the distortions and paranoia that Tucker Carlson promoted …
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement … Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each in a US District Court over dual claims of copyright infringement.
Megan Barth / Nevada Globe:
The Globe Interview: President Donald J Trump  —  Trump: 'All Democrats do is disinformation and hoaxes..they're destroying our country'  —  The Nevada Globe (TNG), had the opportunity for a one-on-one interview with former President Donald J. Trump during his first 2024 presidential campaign stop in Las Vegas.
Joe Scarborough / The Atlantic:
America Is Doing Just Fine  —  The United States deserves a robust defense.  —  As Americans celebrated the Fourth of July by watching baseball, fireworks, and Joey Chestnut hammering home his 16th win in the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, poor Uncle Sam labored through …
Discussion: Twitchy
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Steve Bannon ordered to pay nearly $500,000 in legal fees to firm that represented him in subpoena fight  —  A New York judge has ordered Steve Bannon to pay his former attorneys nearly $500,000 in unpaid legal fees for work on various legal matters, including his fight against a subpoena …
Discussion: NBC News, The Hill, CNBC and The Messenger
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Democratic state senator launches challenge to Sen. Ted Cruz in Texas  —  Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez entered the state's US Senate race on Monday, becoming the second high-profile Democrat vying to take on Republican Sen. Ted Cruz next fall.  —  Gutierrez, a long-time state lawmaker …
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Former reporter suing CNN for unfair dismissal and racial discrimination  —  Saima Mohsin says she was disabled after reporting injury and told she did not have ‘the look’ for presenting  —  A former CNN reporter is suing the news channel for unfair dismissal and racial discrimination …
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
What Do Bidenomics and the President's Grandchild Have to Do with Each Other?  Everything.  —  Joe Biden recently unveiled the term “Bidenomics” to express and encompass the positive economic news—and there's a lot of it—that he hopes will lift him to reelection.
Discussion: IJR
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Vivek Ramaswamy is paying supporters to find him donors  —  The longshot GOP candidate is launching a program to pay participants a cut of any money they raise.  —  It now pays to be a supporter of Vivek Ramaswamy's presidential bid — at least for those who can convince their friends to click a link and donate.
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Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian:
‘A deranged ploy’: how Republicans are fueling the disinformation wars  —  Several actions by the far right in the last month could result in a flood of conspiracy theories before the 2024 election  —  federal judge in Louisiana ruled last week that a wide range of Biden administration officials …
Discussion: Raw Story
Tess Owen / VICE:
Liberal LA Has Become an Epicenter of Violent Culture Wars.  Here's How.  —  Last month, three separate protests outside LA-area schools against “grooming” turned violent as newly radicalized parents joined forces with a familiar group of culture war extremists.
 
 
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Janaki Chadha / Politico:
Central Park Five member's landslide City Council win represents power shift in Harlem
Josh Miller / The Florida Standard:
Democrat Strategist: “We Know Biden Would Beat Trump”
Joe Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Illinois City Pays Reparations to Black Residents in a ‘Test Run for the Whole Country’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
Biden's Unheralded War on Poverty
Discussion: Louisiana Illuminator
Moira Donegan / The Guardian:
She performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim. The right vilified her
 Earlier Items: 
Bonnie Kristian / The Daily Beast:
The Republican Party's Debate Rules Make It Impossible for Trump to Lose
Discussion: Townhall and Raw Story
New York Times:
For a President and a King, the View From the Top Is Curiously Similar
Washington Post:
House Republicans target the Pentagon's use of electric vehicles
Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Takes On Federal Forms That One User Calls ‘More Frightening Than Having Cancer’
Discussion: The Messenger
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
How today's Twitter has made conservative boycotts more successful
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Pride and prejudice  —  Last week, seven Republican state attorneys general sent a letter …
Politico:
House Republicans move to silence Wall Street in climate fight
Discussion: Reuters, CNBC and Political Wire
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Reach CEO Jim Mullen says there is “too much power in the hands of platforms and their algorithms” and calls for regulation to make platforms pay for content

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok rolls out its redesigned Subscription feature, which lets creators offer three tiers, to eligible creators in select regions, including the UK and the US

Katie Paul / Reuters:
Source: Meta plans to launch the voices of Judi Dench, Kristen Bell, John Cena, Awkwafina, and Keegan-Michael Key for its Meta AI chatbot at Connect this week

 
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