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10:25 AM ET, June 6, 2024

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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Republicans hide their war on contraception in plain sight  —  Democrats call out the Trump-levels of lying by forcing Republicans to once again vote against birth control rights  —  Republicans know that their war on legal, accessible birth control is unpopular.
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NBC News:
Senate Republicans block bill to protect Americans' access to contraception  —  Democrats expected the GOP to filibuster the legislation and brought it up to make a point to voters ahead of the 2024 election, viewing reproductive rights as a winning issue.  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans …
Axios:
Schumer's 2024 “show vote” strategy targets GOP … - The approach provided political cover for President Biden, who unveiled an executive order cracking down on illegal border crossings only after Schumer forced Republicans to reject a bipartisan border bill for a second time.
CNN:
Senate GOP blocks bill to guarantee access to contraception
AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Biden Campaign Names and Shames Republicans Who Voted to Block Contraception Bill
John Miller / CNN:
NYPD preparing to revoke Donald Trump's license to carry a gun after felony conviction in New York  —  The New York City Police Department is preparing to revoke former President Donald Trump's license to carry a gun, a senior police official told CNN.  —  Trump's New York concealed carry license …
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Axios:
Scoop: DNC billboard tags Trump as “convicted felon” … - “Trump already attacked Arizona's democracy once. … In fact, Trump and the GOP he now controls is broadcasting are broadcasting their plot for retribution.  — Trump is suggesting he might seek to imprison his political opponents if he wins in November.
Discussion: Daily Kos and CBS News
Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Suffers Huge Vote Against Him in New Mexico Primary
New York Times:
Clash Over Phone Hacking Article Preceded Exit of Washington Post Editor  —  Will Lewis, the chief executive of The Washington Post, objected to coverage of a legal development involving him in a phone hacking case.  —  Weeks before the embattled executive editor of The Washington Post abruptly resigned …
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Politico:
Playbook: Biden in Normandy, WaPo in deeper turmoil  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  BIDEN SEEKS HIS ‘GIPPER’ MOMENT — Commemorations of the 80th anniversary of D-Day are underway in France, where President JOE BIDEN will speak today …
Discussion: Althouse
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AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Ex-NASCAR Driver and Son Arrested for Allegedly Assaulting Cops on Jan. 6  —  NEED FOR SPEED  —  Jarret Scott went on an expletive-laden rant after officers shoved Tighe Scott away from them, calling them “vaginas” and shouting, “You knocked down my father!”
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Richard Eberwein / Heartland Signal:
Pennsylvania Republicans jeer, leave statehouse floor in protest of officers who defended Capitol on Jan. 6
Discussion: WHTM-TV
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Judge Reshuffles Hearings in Trump Documents Case  —  The new schedule set by Judge Aileen Cannon reflects the array of legal issues that she has yet to resolve amid efforts by the former president's legal team to delay the trial.  —  The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J …
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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
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Discussion: Newsmax, Fox News and CBS News
emptywheel:
Judge Noreika Risks Narrowing Hunter Biden's Right to Confront His Accuser Even Further  —  Gordon Cleveland, the man who sold Hunter Biden a gun without seeing an ID with an address on it on October 12, 2018, did not finish testifying at the Hunter Biden trial yesterday.
Brakkton Booker / Politico:
Byron Donalds expresses nostalgia for the Jim Crow era, when ‘the Black family was together’  —  The Trump surrogate's comments, made during a Black voter outreach event in Philadelphia, sparked outrage from Democrats.  —  PHILADELPHIA — Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) suggested that Black families …
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Trump's surrogates reached out to Black voters in Philly with cigars and cognac
John T. Seward / NOTUS:
'It's Really Shameful': House Republicans Accuse Rep. Troy Nehls of Stolen Valor Over Military Award Pin … House Republicans are accusing Rep. Troy Nehls of “stolen valor” for continuing to wear a lapel pin for infantrymen or Special Forces who fought in active combat.  —  “It matters.
Discussion: Raw Story
Mitch McConnell / New York Times:
D-Day's Lesson Impels Us to Deter Russia and China  —  On this day in 1944, the liberation of Western Europe began with immense sacrifice.  In a tribute delivered 40 years later from a Normandy cliff, President Ronald Reagan reminded us that “the boys of Pointe du Hoc” were “heroes who helped end a war.”
Fritz Farrow / ABC News:
Exclusive: Biden tells Muir US weapons will not be used to strike Moscow, Kremlin  —  Biden is in Normandy commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day.  —  ABC News' David Muir sat down exclusively with President Joe Biden in Normandy, France, on the 80th anniversary of D-Day on June 6, 2024.
António Guterres / The United Nations:
Secretary-General's special address on climate action “A Moment of Truth”  —  Today is World Environment Day.  —  It is also the day that the European Commission's Copernicus Climate Change Service officially reports May 2024 as the hottest May in recorded history.
Discussion: Breitbart, Associated Press and DNyuz
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Alito's account of the upside-down flag doesn't fully add up.  Here's why.  —  A look at the major discrepancies in Justice Samuel Alito's comments about controversial flags flown at his property and what he still has not fully answered.  —  Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
A win for the white grievance industry  —  Black women make up about 8% of the population in the United States.  But, according to a report by Project Diane, firms founded by Black women received 0.0006% of total funding from venture capitalists between 2009 and 2017.
Discussion: Black America Web and Breitbart
Sam Tobin / Reuters:
Trade union says UK's Rwanda deportation policy makes officials break law  —  Government officials would be acting unlawfully by implementing Britain's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda in breach of an order from Europe's human rights court, a civil servants' trade union told London's High Court on Thursday.
Discussion: Bloomberg
 
 
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New York Times:
A Republican Election Clerk vs. Trump Die-Hards in a World of Lies
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Election certification disputes in a handful of states spark concerns over presidential contest
Pratap Bhanu Mehta / The Indian Express:
Pratap Bhanu Mehta on 2024 Lok Sabha election results: Suffocating shadow has lifted, balance restored
Discussion: CNN, DNyuz and Reuters
Jonathan J. Cooper / Associated Press:
Trump to campaign in Arizona following hush money conviction
Discussion: CNN
 Earlier Items: 
Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
How Trump's guilty verdict could impact his travel
Melody Mercado / Block Club Chicago:
Not All Peaceful Protests Constitutionally Protected, Police Chief Says Ahead Of DNC
Brooke Leigh Howard / The Daily Beast:
Black Panthers Founder DOES NOT Support Trump, Grandson Says
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Post
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