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Edith Olmsted / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Former Defense Secretary Tells Bill Maher He Is ‘Definitely Not’ Voting for Ex Boss  —  ‘DEFINITELY NOT’  —  “There's no way I'll vote for Trump, but every day that Trump does something crazy, the door to voting for Biden opens a little bit more, and that's where I'm at,” Esper said.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Could Biden's problems with Black voters help Trump win?
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
Stef W. Kight / Axios:   Why there's no big wave of immigrants voting illegally
Chris Quinn / Plain Dealer:
Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren't two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor  —  A more-than-occasional arrival in the email these days is a question expressed two ways, one with dripping condescension and the other with courtesy:  —  Why don't our opinion platforms …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
We Need to Talk About This  —  Today's widely discussed Trump post on Truth Social isn't just another instance of bad behavior.  It's not just a shrug of the shoulders and a resigned sigh of, “What are you going to do?”  Far too often, people resignedly accept Trump's behavior because they believe there's no alternative.
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
MAGA's Ugly, Hateful Response to Bridge Horror Is About to Get Worse  —  One of the ugliest features of MAGA politics is the eagerness to seize on large scale accidents, disasters, and pandemics to spread conspiracy theories, invent new culture-war obsessions, and pit one region of the country against another.
Peter Cordi / Washington Examiner:
Biden proclaims Easter Sunday as Transgender Day of Visibility, sparking outrage online  —  President Joe Biden sparked outrage online when he proclaimed March 31 as Transgender Day of Visibility on Friday.  This year, Easter Sunday falls on that day.  —  A number of prominent political figures …
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Joseph R. Biden Jr / The White House:
A Proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility, 2024
Jim Wallis / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Bible Just Might Earn Him Eternal Damnation  —  NOT-SO-GOOD BOOK  —  Trump's Holy-Week grift not only makes him a heretic and an idolator but endangers his immortal soul. … I have vivid memories of then-President Donald Trump standing in front of St. John's Episcopal Church …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Kathleen Culliton / Raw Story:
Publisher's slip-up reveals James Comer is hawking book about Biden impeachment inquiry  —  A publisher's slip-up revealed that House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY) is hawking a book about his effort to impeach President Joe Biden, according to a new report.
Discussion: Axios
Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
Who wouldn't like prices to start falling?  Careful what you wish for, economists say  —  Many Americans are in a sour mood about the economy for one main reason: Prices feel too high.  Maybe they're not rising as fast as they had been, but average prices are still painfully above where they were three years ago.
Discussion: Twitchy and Associated Press
Robert Reich:
Record corporate profits from your thinning wallets  —  The latest economic data shows two big things:  —  (1) Corporate profits reached a record high in the fourth quarter of last year.  —  (2) Inflation is still with us.  The government reported Friday that the Fed's preferred inflation …
Jason Beeferman / Politico:
‘No one told me to leave’: Hochul defends decision to attend slain NYPD officer's wake  —  Hochul defended her decision to attend the wake for NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller after a confrontation with a mourner and increased scrutiny around her policies on crime.
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Rekindles Relationships With Key 2016 Donors  —  The former president met with the Mercers and others as he sought to keep pace financially with President Biden.  —  Donald J. Trump, facing a cash crunch that puts him at a severe disadvantage to President Biden, dined on Thursday night …
George Monbiot / The Guardian:
From the playground to politics, it's the bullies who rule.  But it doesn't have to be this way  —  At every stage of our lives we are forced into destructive competition.  It's not natural, and it holds the best people back  —  A large and impressive study of children's progress …
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Bolton claims Trump 'doesn't have the brains' to be a dictator  —  Former National Security Advisor John Bolton said in an interview that his former boss, former President Trump “doesn't have the brains” to be a dictator, as questions arise about what a second Trump term would look like.
Melissa Nann Burke / The Detroit News:
Michigan Republican congressman suggests nuking Gaza, ending humanitarian aid  —  Michigan U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg suggested that nuclear weapons should be dropped on Gaza, which his office said was a metaphor to “support Israel's swift elimination of Hamas.”  —  “It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
 
 
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