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Paul Kiel / ProPublica:
How Harlan Crow Slashed his Tax Bill by Taking Clarence Thomas on Superyacht Cruises  —  Friends of the Court  —  SCOTUS Justices' Beneficial Relationships With Billionaire Donors  —  For months, Harlan Crow and members of Congress have been engaged in a fight over whether the billionaire needs …
New York Times:
Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025  —  The former president and his backers aim to strengthen the power of the White House and limit the independence of federal agencies.  —  Donald J. Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators rattled by radical conservative populism  —  Republican senators say they're worried that conservative populism, though always a part of the GOP, is beginning to take over the party, becoming more radical and threatening to cause them significant political problems heading into the 2024 election.
Discussion: WKRG-TV and The Federalist
Politico:
Playbook: All eyes on Joe Manchin: 2024 edition
Bloomberg:
DeSantis Group Attacks Trump Directly for the First Time in Iowa Ad  — Never Back Down's ad plays up Trump's beef with Iowa governor  — DeSantis is trying to reboot campaign amid disappointing polls  —  A super PAC supporting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is going on the offensive …
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Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
Ron DeSantis runs for president, take two
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
This Is the Time for Quixotic, Corrosive Campaigns?  Seriously?  —  You might think, in a two-party democracy where the man who is a dead-on bet to be the presidential nominee of one of those parties has all but pledged to wipe out said democracy and promised to use his second term to destroy …
Discussion: Raw Story and National Review
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Kerry Kennedy rebukes brother RFK Jr. after he linked Covid-19 and Jewish people  —  A report on Saturday quoted RFK Jr., a Democratic presidential contender, as saying Covid-19 was “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people” and that Jewish people are most immune.
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NBC News:
McCarthy rejects RFK Jr.'s comments about Covid and race but won't cancel his testimony  —  A group of House Democrats urged McCarthy and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to block Kennedy from testifying before the House.  —  McCarthy defends inviting RFK Jr. to testify: ‘Censoring someone’ isn't the answer
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
The One Big Thing Everyone Misses About 2024  —  No one alive has ever seen an election like this one.  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. Unprecedented  —  The 2024 election has no modern precedent and this unprecedented difference (1) Is not properly appreciated, and (2) Explains why the race has been so stable.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Retrospective Approval of JFK Rises to 90%; Trump at 46%  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — John F. Kennedy remains the most highly rated former president when Gallup asks Americans whether, in retrospect, they approve or disapprove of the job each did as president.  Ninety percent of U.S. adults …
Sean Lyngaas / CNN:
Common typo causes millions of emails intended for members of the US military to be sent to accounts in Mali  —  Millions of emails intended for Pentagon employees were inadvertently sent to email accounts in Mali over the last decade because of typos caused by the similarity …
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Financial Times:
Typo leaks millions of US military emails to Mali web operator
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
The Standoff Between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert Is Worse Than You Think  —  Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert used to be allies.  Now they're enemies.  And it's much worse than almost anyone knows. … It's no secret that the relationship between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert has never been worse.
Gloria Oladipo / The Guardian:
Author of spoof story shared by Greg Abbott calls him one of ‘dumbest people in the country’  —  Texas governor shared fake article by Christopher Blair about Garth Brooks being booed by ‘patriots’ in made-up city  —  The author of a satirical website said the Texas governor, Greg Abbott …
Hannah Fingerhut / Associated Press:
Abortion in Iowa is legal again, for now, after a judge blocks new restrictions  —  An Iowa judge on Monday temporarily blocked the state's new ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, just days after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the measure into law.
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Boebert's Democratic challenger raises three times more than her  —  Adam Frisch, the Democrat who came close to beating Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) in last year's midterms, raised three times more than the incumbent in second-quarter fundraising as he seeks a 2024 rematch.
Thomas Catenacci / Fox News:
Non-binary ex-Biden official Sam Brinton was on secret taxpayer-funded trip at time of luggage theft  —  'It's outrageous that tax dollars transported Brinton to and from the scene of a crime,' watchdog spokesperson tells Fox News Digital  —  EXCLUSIVE: Sam Brinton, the embattled non-binary …
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
House Democrats to unveil legislation to censure George Santos  —  A trio of House Democrats will unveil a resolution to censure Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) Monday, the latest push by Democrats to penalize the New York Republican who for months has battled questions about his background and finances.
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
House Democrats Prepare Push to Censure George Santos
Tom Fairless / Wall Street Journal:
Europeans Are Becoming Poorer.  'Yes, We're All Worse Off.'  —  An aging population that values its free time set the stage for economic stagnation.  Then came Covid-19 and Russia's war in Ukraine.  —  Europeans are facing a new economic reality, one they haven't experienced in decades.
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Billionaires aren't okay — for their mental health, time to drastically raise their taxes  —  From threatening cage matches to backing RFK Jr., billionaires prove too much money detaches a person from reality  —  The psyche of mainstream America is slowly starting to grasp what grumpy leftists …
Nicole Acevedo / NBC News:
NYPD makes history with first Latino commissioner  —  Edward Caban, who is of Puerto Rican descent, is the first Hispanic person to lead the New York Police Department, the largest in the nation.  —  Edward Caban, a Bronx native of Puerto Rican heritage with more than 30 years …
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
‘Just the right darn thing to do for people who raise their hand:’ Kirby defends Pentagon abortion policy  —  White House national security spokesman John Kirby on Monday passionately defended the Pentagon's policy of paid leave and travel reimbursement for abortions, calling it the right thing …
David Corn / Mother Jones:
No Labels Says It's Not a Political Party.  But It's Setting Up State Parties.  —  Democrats and Never-Trump GOPers are worried about the group's 2024 plans.  —  No Labels, the self-professed centrist group that is preparing to possibly run its own presidential candidate in 2024, says it is not a political party.
Kai Bird / New York Times:
Kai Bird on Christopher Nolan's ‘Oppenheimer’  —  Mr. Bird is the director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography and co-author with the late Martin J. Sherwin of “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.”  —  One day in the spring of 1954 …
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Tucker Carlson's show on Twitter makes ad deal with anti-ESG shopping app  — Tucker Carlson has agreed to a seven-figure ad deal with Public Square (PublicSq.), a conservative-friendly shopping app, for his Twitter show.  — The move indicates that Carlson is looking to use his new program …
Guy Faulconbridge / Reuters:
Crimea Bridge, key Russian supply line, damaged, two dead amid reports of blasts  — Russia halts grain deal, Erdogan says talks continue  — Two parents dead, girl injured in attack on bridge  — Russia blames Ukrainian security forces  — Ukrainian media says Ukraine organised attack
David Marchese / New York Times:
Joyce Carol Oates Figured Out the Secret to Immortality  —  “I have,” Joyce Carol Oates says, “so many ideas.”  That's putting it mildly.  It's hard to think of another writer with as fecund and protean an imagination as the 85-year-old, who is surely on any shortlist of America's greatest living writers.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
GOP donors fuel RFK Jr's presidential campaign  —  Mark Dickson, a Californian who amassed a fortune treating aluminum for the aerospace industry, has donated more than $450,000 to federal candidates since 2015.  The total includes $400,000 to Trump Victory, the joint fundraising committee …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Oddly Cautious Challengers to Trump  —  On the menu today: The first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 cycle is about five weeks away, and there's a strange, inverted dynamic at work in the GOP field.  Usually, the frontrunner runs a cautious campaign, while the underdogs …
 
 
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How Gretchen Whitmer Made Michigan a Democratic Stronghold
Andrew Atterbury / Politico:
Groups sue Florida over latest immigration law
Discussion: The Hill
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Democrats press Homeland Security about domestic extremism among employees
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The MAGA persecution complex is eating itself to death
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