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9:35 AM ET, March 31, 2024

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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 …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Scripting News
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
The “martyrdom” of Donald J. Trump  —  “It's all slapstick comedy: Posing as a Christ-like figure is so outlandish and absurd”  —  Donald Trump has repeatedly shown that he can reasonably be described as evil.  Yet, white “Christian” evangelicals are among his most loyal, stalwart, and enthusiastic supporters.
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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: Raw Story and PoliticusUSA
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.
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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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.
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.
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 …
New York Post:
Dem clients of daughter of NY judge in Trump hush money trial raised $93M off the case  —  Two major Democratic clients of the daughter of the judge overseeing Donald Trump's hush-money trial have raised at least $93 million in campaign donations — and used the case in their solicitation emails …
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 …
Discussion: Inside Climate News
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.
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
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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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Rekindles Relationships With Key 2016 Donors
Discussion: Sun Sentinel
Kathleen Culliton / Raw Story:
Publisher's slip-up reveals James Comer is hawking book about Biden impeachment inquiry
Discussion: Axios
George Monbiot / The Guardian:
From the playground to politics, it's the bullies who rule. But it doesn't have to be this way
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Will the media learn the right lesson from the Ronna McDaniel debacle?
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.
 

 
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Amazon joins the Motion Picture Association, after a long courtship; the lobbying group's other members are Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and WBD

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon's new competition TV show, debuting October 30, will have entrepreneurs pitch judges, including Amazon execs; finalists' product will be sold on Amazon

Sean Hollister / The Verge:
YouTube says it has “widely rolled out Pause ads to all advertisers” after a “strong advertiser and strong viewer response”; YouTube piloted Pause ads in 2023

 
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