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3:20 PM ET, March 25, 2024

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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Why Chuck Todd's Scorcher Against NBC Matters  —  The revolving door between political operatives and the mainstream media has been spinning for decades.  —  As if responding to an alarm setting on a cosmic, biological clock, the press and its minders set to ringing and clanging bloody murder …
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Politico:
Playbook: Inside NBC's McDaniel meltdown  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  SUDDENLY HE'S EVERYWHERE — “Big Republican Donor Jeff Yass Owned Shares in Trump Media Merger Partner,” by NYT's Matthew Goldstein: “JEFF YASS …
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
NBC's McDaniel mess threatens to explode  —  Network insiders are watching to see if more hosts and contributors speak out about the ex-RNC chair's hiring.  —  The uproar inside NBC over Ronna McDaniel's hiring spilled into Monday morning as more of the network's top personalities denounced …
Mark Jacob / Stop the Presses:
NBC stands for Now Boosting the Coup  —  Network gives aid to democracy's enemies by hiring Ronna McDaniel  —  No major television news operation is doing enough to confront right-wing extremism.  At a crisis point for our democracy, they are failing us.  —  But some are really failing us.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Ronna McDaniel quickly demonstrates that her view isn't worth the cost
Max Tani / Semafor:
Led by NBC, U.S. corporate media is learning to live with Trump
New York Times:
Trump Can Post Smaller Bond in Civil Fraud Case, Court Rules  —  The former president must post a bond of $175 million within 10 days as he appeals the $454 million judgment against him.  —  With Donald J. Trump on the clock to secure a nearly half-billion-dollar bond in his civil fraud case …
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NBC News:
N.Y. appeals court reduces Trump's bond in his civil fraud case to $175 million, a victory for the former president  —  The court also gave Trump an additional 10 days to post the bond, which his lawyers have said they've had trouble securing.  —  A state appeals court ruled that Donald Trump …
Amanda Yen / The Daily Beast:
Wife of Judge on Mifepristone Case Was Paid by Anti-Abortion Group  —  FRIENDS OF THE COURT  —  The fate of the abortion pill mifepristone is now before the Supreme Court, after a fifth-circuit appeals panel of three judges ruled against its distribution last summer.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Anti-abortion rights reach the Supreme Court  —  On Tuesday, and again in a month, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court — less than two years after overturning Roe v. Wade — will be considering, in turn, whether anti-abortion groups can block federal drug safety decisions …
Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Abortion pill challenge gives Supreme Court chance to move toward national abortion ban
Washington Post:
What's at stake in the Supreme Court abortion pill case
Melissa Segura / The Guardian:   The next Clarence Thomas? Abortion pill case spotlights rightwing judge and his wife's shadowy connections
UN News:
UPDATING LIVE: Security Council passes resolution demanding ‘an immediate ceasefire’ during Ramadan  —  The UN Security Council on Monday passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan, the immediate and unconditional release of hostages and “the urgent need to expand the flow” of aid into Gaza.
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Edith M. Lederer / Associated Press:
Netanyahu cancels trip to Washington to protest United Nations call for cease-fire in Gaza
The Hill:
Judge sets Trump's hush money trial for April 15, rejecting further delay  —  NEW YORK — A New York judge scheduled former President Trump's hush money trial to begin April 15, enabling his first criminal trial to still take place this spring after a last-minute delay.
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Washington Post:
Live updates Hearing on new evidence in Trump N.Y. hush money case  —  New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan began a hearing this morning about a late release of more than 100,000 pages of potential evidence in former president Donald Trump's trial over 2016 hush money payments.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The secret to changing Trump's mind  —  On August 6, 2020, then-President Donald Trump issued an executive order “addressing the threat posed by TikTok,” the popular social network run by ByteDance, a Chinese company.  According to Trump's executive order, TikTok “automatically captures vast swaths …
Discussion: The Hill
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Newly released transcripts reveal a MAGA betrayal: Donald Trump never cared about Ashli Babbitt  —  Trump now hypes her as a January 6 martyr, but when he was told of Babbitt's death, there was “no, like, reaction”  —  Nine people died as a result of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection that Republicans pretend was a “normal tourist visit.”
David Cay Johnston / New Republic:
Today Is the Day That 50 Years of Grifting Finally Comes to an End  —  Have you ever seen a millionaire begging for $5?  Me neither.  Yet I just watched Donald Trump in an internet video pleading for $5, or $10, or “even $25” from his supporters.  That's a pitch aimed at the people Trump says he loves …
Enough Already:
This Show Can't Go On ...  I reckon the end of my newspaper career as I'd known it ended on an ice-cold January day in 1995.  —  Back then, I was the sports editor of the Lewiston Sun-Journal in Central Maine.  It was the best job I ever had, even if there was absolutely no money in it.
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
Forensic psychiatrist on physical signs of Trump's mental decline: “Changes in movement and gait”  —  “His walk appears wide-based,” Dr. Elizabeth Zoffman notes of Trump.  “He has developed a swing of his right leg.”  —  Donald Trump's obvious public challenges with speech, language, and thinking are continuing to get worse.
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Grothaus / Fast Company:
Measles outbreak 2024: CDC map and tracker shows cases have already surpassed all of 2023  —  It's not even the end of March yet, but measles cases in the United States have already surpassed the total number of measles cases in the country during all of 2023, according to new data released …
Discussion: RTÉ, Orlando Sentinel and ABC7
 
 
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NBC News:
In battleground Miami-Dade County, Democrats battle each other
Myah Ward / Politico:
Biden was planning executive action on the border. Now he's gone silent.
Discussion: HotAir, The Daily Caller, Reuters and Axios
Sharon Udasin / The Hill:
Honey bee colonies at heightened risk of collapse in the Pacific Northwest: Study
Discussion: Nature and WSU Insider
David Dayen / American Prospect:
The Machine Crumbles  —  Andy Kim has not only pulled off a major upset.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Trump turns to his ‘old cast’ to raise millions for 2024 and the PAC paying his legal bills
Discussion: The Bulwark and The Hill
 Earlier Items: 
HotAir:
Rep. Tim Burchett Shreds ‘Uniparty’ Plan to ‘Wreck Every Dadgum Thing’
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
France raises security risk to highest level months before Olympics
Discussion: Breitbart, Politico, Reuters and Bloomberg
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Will DEI End America—or America end DEI?
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Jim Jordan Gets Flustered As Simple Question Turns Awkward On ‘60 Minutes’
Discussion: The Guardian, New Republic and Mediaite
Brittany Gibson / Politico:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. flirts with the Libertarian nomination
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Democrats are counting on abortion rights to win this battleground state
Discussion: Washington Examiner and USA Today
 

 
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The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney expects to spend $24B on content in 2025, up from $23.4B in 2024, due to sports programming expenses rising after NFL rate increases and NBA contracts

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
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