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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 …
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Balloon Juice and Scripting News
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.
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Politico:
Trump's weaknesses with GOP voters go beyond the suburbs — Primary results from more than 1,000 counties show clear warning signs for Trump with Republican voters in exurbs and small towns. — The battle for Trump-skeptical Republican voters isn't just about the suburbs.
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Digby's Hullabaloo, Associated Press, Raw Story, USA Today, PoliticusUSA and NBC News
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Why there's no big wave of immigrants voting illegally
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online — US telco giant takes action after 2019 data spill — Phone giant AT&T has reset millions of customer account passcodes after a huge cache of data containing AT&T customer records was dumped online earlier this month, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
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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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The Hill, New York Magazine, New York Post, Raw Story, New York Daily News, Balloon Juice, PoliticusUSA and The Daily Beast
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Phillip M. Bailey / USA Today:
Donald Trump faces backlash after sharing video featuring a hogtied Joe Biden
Donald Trump faces backlash after sharing video featuring a hogtied Joe Biden
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The Hill, MeidasTouch, The Guardian, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Floridian, Mediaite, Los Angeles Times and Raw Story
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Trump shares video with image depicting Biden tied up in the back of a pickup truck
Trump shares video with image depicting Biden tied up in the back of a pickup truck
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CNN, Politico, Axios, TMZ.com, The Moderate Voice, UPI and Business Insider
Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Trump Shares Video Featuring Image of a Hog-Tied Biden
Trump Shares Video Featuring Image of a Hog-Tied Biden
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Rolling Stone, Digby's Hullabaloo, MSNBC and Raw Story
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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Mediaite, Rolling Stone, HuffPost, USA Today and NewsNation
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.
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The Mahablog, MinnPost, Raw Story, Media Matters for America, Fox Business and Fox News
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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Associated Press:
Crews carefully start removing first piece of twisted steel from collapsed Baltimore bridge — A floating crane arrived at the wreckage of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in the Patapsco River, as teams of engineers are working on the daunting task of hauling away the twisted steel and shattered concrete.
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Washington Examiner, New York Post, Associated Press, Reuters, CNBC and The Hill
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 …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Donald Trump, Blasphemous Bible Thumper
Donald Trump, Blasphemous Bible Thumper
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The Nation, Althouse, Raw Story and Ultimate Newswire
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.
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Axios
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 …
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.
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Twitchy and Associated Press
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.
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Washington Examiner, New York Post, The Hill, Newsweek, Washington Times, Gothamist, Fox News, HotAir, Louder With Crowder, Twitchy, One America News Network and PIX11
Tom Perkins / The Guardian:
US appeals court kills ban on plastic containers contaminated with PFAS — Conservative fifth circuit overturns EPA's ban prohibiting Inhance from using manufacturing process creating toxic compound — A federal appeals court in the US has killed a ban on plastic containers contaminated …
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Inside Climate News
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 …