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12:15 PM ET, June 3, 2024

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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Mike Johnson says the quiet part on Fox  —  PN is a reader-supported publication made possible by paid subscribers.  Appreciate our independent journalism?  Then please sign up to support us.  —  📈 Subscribe to Public Notice 📈  —  It was a given, of course …
Discussion: HuffPost, Rolling Stone and Mediaite
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
‘2,000 Mules’ Retracted, Still Lodged in Grandma's Brain  —  Sen. Tim Scott wants you to know: 2024 is not an abortion-policy election.  —  “The Supreme Court has already ruled that this is a states' issue.  President Trump and Speaker Johnson have both said that this will remain a states' issue …
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Speaker Johnson's secret muse … - In our column on Johnson's historic road-to-Kyiv conversion, we told you how the speaker defied the loudest, most threatening GOP personalities, dug deep into government intelligence, and shifted his position on the most vital foreign policy legislation in years.
ProPublica:
Multiple Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaign  —  Nine witnesses in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages …
Discussion: New Republic
Politico:
Playbook: The Trump verdict lands on the Hill  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WAPO SHOCKER — SALLY BUZBEE is out as the Washington Post's executive editor after a three-year run, to be immediately replaced by former WSJ editor in chief MATT MURRAY and …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Washington Post:
Sally Buzbee steps down as Executive Editor of The Washington Post.  Matt Murray and Robert Winnett take editorial leadership roles in new newsroom structure.  —  The Washington Post also announced today its intention to launch a new division of the newsroom dedicated to better serving audiences …
Washington Post:
The campaign dichotomy in one newsletter :slightly_smiling_face:
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Texas professors sue to fail students who seek abortions  —  Men are using abortion bans to control and abuse women in their lives for “consensual sexual intercourse”  —  A pair of Texas professors figured out that their female students have sex and, boy, they do not like it.
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents  —  An internal Google database obtained by 404 Media shows Google recording childrens' voices, saving license plates from Street View, and many other self-reported incidents, large and small. … Google has accidentally collected childrens' voice data …
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Joe Biden's looming presence over Hunter's trial serves as a warning to their political enemies  —  The president flew into Wilmington, Del., on Sunday night, where his 54-year-old son's felony gun trial begins Monday, and will spend the whole day there with no official duties.
Discussion: USA Today and Washington Post
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Politico:
Hunter Biden's gun trial starts today. Here's what to know.
Anders Hagstrom / Fox News:
Jury selection kicks off in Hunter Biden's federal gun crime trial
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
8 years later, Trump haunted by rhetoric about candidates, crimes  —  By the reasoning Donald Trump pushed in 2016, his candidacy creates “an unprecedented constitutional crisis,” and he has “no right to be running.”  —  Eight years later, some find it easy to forget some of the more ridiculous elements …
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court sends dispute over Arkansas' GOP-drawn congressional map back to lower court  —  Last month, the Supreme Court ruled on South Carolina's congressional map, making it more difficult to bring racial gerrymandering claims.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday told …
David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
Menendez will file independent re-election bid  —  The New Jersey Globe has learned that Bob Menendez will enter the race for the United States Senate today, filing nominating petitions with over 2,000 signatures in Trenton to seek re-election to a fourth term as an independent.
Discussion: NBC News, Mediaite and The Guardian
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump falsely claims he didn't call to lock up Hillary Clinton  —  Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed in a new interview that he didn't make a “lock her up” call for the imprisonment of his Democratic opponent of the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton.
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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Trump falsely claims he never called for Hillary Clinton to be locked up
Dánica Coto / Associated Press:
Puerto Rico's two biggest parties hold primaries as governor seeks 2nd term and voters demand change  —  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The future of Puerto Rico's political status and its rebounding but fragile economy are at the center of fiery debates as the island's two biggest political …
Discussion: The Hill and New York Times
Washington Post:
Russia co-opts far-right politicians in Europe with cash, officials say  —  A Kremlin-backed media outlet — the Prague-based Voice of Europe — funneled hundreds of thousands of euros to far-right politicians, officials say.  —  PRAGUE — When an associate of one of Russian President …
Discussion: The Kyiv Independent
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Democrats must defend Trump's guilty verdict against MAGA jury denial  —  The danger of delegitimizing jury verdicts is real.  —  The jury foreperson in the Manhattan criminal trial convicting former president Donald Trump had barely finished reciting “guilty” as to each of 34 felony counts …
 
 
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Reuters:
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
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