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4:20 PM ET, June 3, 2024

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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 …
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 …
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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.
Discussion: Breitbart
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 …
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Associated Press:
Biden prepares a tough executive order that would shut down asylum after 2,500 migrants arrive a day
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump's Most Audacious Lie Yet  —  The former president is claiming he never said “Lock her up.”  —  When someone lies as prodigiously as Donald Trump—The Washington Post stopped counting at more than 30,000, around the time he left office—handing out superlatives is challenging.
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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.
Discussion: USA Today
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 …
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Politico:
Playbook: The Trump verdict lands on the Hill
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
The campaign dichotomy in one newsletter :slightly_smiling_face:
Discussion: Washington Examiner
David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘Suspend!’  Marjorie Taylor Greene smacked down by GOP chair at hearing with Dr. Fauci  —  Democrats called for the words of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to be taken down after she refused to call former National Institutes of Health Director Anthony Fauci “doctor.”
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Jamie Raskin blasts GOP at hearing: ‘Some of them blindly worship convicted felons’
Discussion: Breitbart and PoliticusUSA
Jon Michael Raasch / Daily Mail:
Donald Trump campaign has raised over $200 MILLION in just THREE days since guilty felony verdict, son Eric Trump claims  — Eric Trump says $70 million has flown into campaign coffers from small donors  — The Trump heir also noted how gangster Al Capone has less felonies than his dad
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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.
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents  —  Google has accidentally collected childrens' voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users' deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents …
David Smith / The Guardian:
The reich stuff - what does Trump really have in common with Hitler?  —  Comparisons between the ex-president and the 20th-century Nazi leader are controversial but a new book says they resemble each other as political performance artists  —  When Donald Trump shared a video that dreamed of a …
Discussion: Raw Story
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's many dog whistles about unrest and violence  —  The former president's post-conviction comment about a “breaking point” follows a long line of suggestive comments.  The thrust is unmistakable.  —  Before the 2016 election, Marco Rubio warned about it.  Ted Cruz warned about it.
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Aileen Cannon hands Trump weeks to argue against latest gag order demand  —  Judge Aileen Cannon, the jurist presiding over special counsel Jack Smith's criminal case against Trump for storing highly classified national defense information, is giving the former president two weeks to rebut Smith's request to impose a gag order.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Robert Reich / The Guardian:
Why is a group of billionaires working to re-elect Trump?  —  Oligarchs like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel aren't just hostile to progressivism.  They're hostile to American democracy itself  —  Elon Musk and the entrepreneur and investor David Sacks reportedly held a secret dinner party …
Associated Press:
Jury selection is beginning in gun case against President Joe Biden's son  —  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jury selection is to begin Monday in the federal gun case against President Joe Biden's son after a deal with prosecutors fell apart that would have avoided the spectacle of a trial so close to the 2024 election.
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Caitlin Emma / Politico:
Congress is already bracing for a 2025 fiscal pileup  —  It could make the past six months of shutdown heartburn look tame.  —  Congress is headed for a perilous spending pileup in early 2025 — with crisis points on the debt ceiling, federal spending, tax cuts and budget caps all hitting in rapid succession.
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
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 …
Qasim Rashid / Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid:
103 Years After the Tulsa Race Massacre  —  The First Time Terrorists Bombed Americans Wasn't on 9/11 or Pearl Harbor  —  Did you know that the first time terrorists used planes to attack Americans wasn't on 9/11 or at Pearl Harbor?  It was during the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 …
Discussion: Washington Post
Emily Atkinson / BBC:
Nigel Farage to stand in election and become leader of Reform UK  —  Summary  — Nigel Farage says he will stand for election in Clacton - days after ruling himself out  — At a campaign event in central London, Farage also confirms he will become leader of Reform UK
 
 
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Anderson Cooper / CBS News:
Regretful Wisconsin fake elector says he was tricked into signing phony document claiming Trump won in 2020
Ipsos:
Trump guilty verdict makes minimal impact on public opinion
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Two years later, obvious misinformation is finally taken down
Robert Jimison / New York Times:
Jackson Lee, Veteran Democrat in Congress, Says She Has Pancreatic Cancer
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Democrats must defend Trump's guilty verdict against MAGA jury denial
John Parkinson / ABC News:
Anthony Fauci faces grilling by Republicans over COVID-19 response, origins
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
Trump's $1bn pitch to oil bosses ‘the definition of corruption’, top Democrat says
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court sends dispute over Arkansas' GOP-drawn congressional map back to lower court
Washington Post:
Russia co-opts far-right politicians in Europe with cash, officials say
Discussion: The Kyiv Independent
Reuters:
Claudia Sheinbaum claims sweeping mandate to become Mexico's first female president
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
What Europe Fears … In early april, a crowd of diplomats and dignitaries gathered …
Discussion: nationalinterest.org and NBC News
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
All the arguments against Trump's convictions, debunked
 

 
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