memeorandum: GOP rising star candidate and PA state Rep Ryan Mackenzie lied about age on Tinder profile by EIGHT YEARS (Morgan Phillips/Daily Mail)

11:50 PM ET, June 17, 2024

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Julie Zauzmer Weil / Washington Post:

Closing asset loophole could add billions to tax collections, IRS says — The Treasury Department said it will enact rules to prevent certain large businesses from depreciating the same asset repeatedly. — The Biden administration plans to stop businesses and wealthy individuals …

Discussion: Forbes and Bloomberg

Associated Press:

The IRS wants to end another major tax loophole for the wealthy and raise $50 billion in the process — The IRS plans to end a major tax loophole for wealthy taxpayers that could raise more than $50 billion in revenue over the next decade, the U.S. Treasury Department says.

Discussion: U.S. Department …, UPI, Fox Business, Raw Story, Washington Examiner, CBS News, Wall Street Journal and KFTC-TV

NBC News:

‘Shame on him for disrespecting the dead’: Nevada senator erupts after Sen. JD Vance's bump stock remarks — Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen is seeking re-election this year in Nevada, where a gunman killed 58 people in 2017 with firearms equipped with bump stocks.

Discussion: Raw Story

Stephen Neukam / Axios:

Scoop: Senate Dems line up behind Schumer's bump stock ban … - Republicans are likely to object to Schumer's unanimous consent request to pass the bill. — Even a single GOP objection would give Democrats the opportunity to paint Republicans as broadly against a ban that polls have shown …

Discussion: Raw Story, Fox News, New York Daily News and CBS News

New York Times:

The war cabinet is gone. Who's left in Netanyahu's inner circle? — Israeli Daytime Pause in Combat Appears to Take Hold in Gaza … The daily pause applies to part of southern Gaza, but not to some of the places most in need. — The Israeli military said on Monday …

Electronic Frontier Foundation:

The Surgeon General's Fear-Mongering, Unconstitutional Effort to Label Social Media — Surgeon General Vivek Murthy's extraordinarily misguided and speech-chilling call this week to label social media platforms as harmful to adolescents is shameful fear-mongering that lacks scientific evidence …

Vivek H. Murthy / New York Times:
Surgeon General: Why I'm Calling for a Warning Label on Social Media Platforms

Ellen Barry / New York Times:
Surgeon General Calls for Warning Labels on Social Media Platforms

Discussion: Politico, Steady, Washington Examiner, Breitbart and Reason

US Department of Justice:

Texas Man Sentenced to Nearly 3 Years in Federal Prison for Threatening Violence Against Los Angeles-Area Congresswoman — For Immediate Release — U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California — LOS ANGELES - A Texas man was sentenced today to 33 months in federal prison …

Discussion: Axios, Los Angeles Times, Breitbart, The Hill, Raw Story and Daily News

Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:

Trump maintains big lead over Biden and RFK Jr. despite felony conviction, Iowa Poll shows … Two weeks after he was convicted in a New York courtroom of multiple felony counts, former Republican president Donald Trump still holds a double-digit lead over Democratic incumbent Joe Biden in Iowa.

Discussion: RedState, Fox News, New York Post, The Hill, Iowa Capital Dispatch, Breitbart, New Jersey Online, Washington Free Beacon and The Guardian

NBC News:

Biden plans to announce new policy shielding undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens from deportation — The action would shield about 500,000 immigrants living in the U.S. from deportation. “This is the biggest thing since DACA,” said an immigration advocate.

Discussion: New York Times, WKBN-TV and PBS NewsHour

Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
Majority of Hispanics Now Favor Mass Deportation

Discussion: New York Post, The Daily Caller and One America News Network

Politico:

New Jersey AG charges Democratic power broker George Norcross in bombshell indictment — He has long been the subject of scrutiny by law enforcement and a political task force, but has never been charged. — New Jersey's attorney general on Monday charged one of the state's most powerful Democrats …

Discussion: New York Times, CNBC, The Mahablog, Gothamist, Associated Press, Raw Story, New Jersey Online, Washington Free Beacon, WHYY, New Jersey Globe, Washington Post and Daily Kos

Tracey Tully / New York Times:
Top Democratic Power Broker Is Charged With Racketeering

Discussion: New Jersey Online, HotAir, RADAR, New Jersey Globe, Raw Story, WHYY, The Daily Caller, The Daily Beast and Politico

Charles R. Davis / Salon:

“The peanut gallery”: Experts say Cannon opened door to “unheard of” GOP intervention in Trump case — GOP attorneys general back Trump after Cannon allowed “everyone under the sun to chime in,” lawyer says — There should be no consequences for Donald Trump lying about federal law enforcement officers …

Discussion: Law & Crime, Raw Story, Fox News and Above the Law

Doug Bock Clark / ProPublica:

North Carolina Supreme Court Secretly Squashed Discipline of Two GOP Judges Who Admitted to Violating Judicial Code — The decisions came despite the Judicial Standards Commission's recommendations to publicly reprimand the judges, and these are likely the only times in more than a decade …

Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:

J.D. Vance Wanted a Constitutional Crisis — An interesting new Politico/Ipsos poll, out today, sheds more light on the electorate's reaction to Donald Trump's recent felony conviction. Team Trump has been triaging the political damage with relentless messaging of a rigged trial …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Breitbart and No More Mister Nice Blog

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
New Polling Shows the Real Fallout From the Trump Conviction

Discussion: The Nation, Mock Paper Scissors, The Dispatch, PJ Media, Semafor, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, USA Today, Forbes, Washington Examiner, Raw Story and Washington Post

US Department of Justice:

Doctor charged for unauthorized access to personal information of pediatric patients at Texas Children's Hospital — For Immediate Release — U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas — HOUSTON - A Houston doctor has been indicted for obtaining protected individual health information …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Signal, The Daily Caller and Houston Public Media

NBC News:

Trump, Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans gang up on Freedom Caucus chair in primary — Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., is facing a hotly contested primary Tuesday against state Sen. John McGuire. — GOOCHLAND, Va. — For Rep. Bob Good, Tuesday's primary is about much more than the next member …

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Times, Virginia Mercury, NBC Bay Area, The American Conservative, OpenSecrets.org, Washington Examiner, Cardinal News, NewsNation and Politico

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

Trump's Tariff Is a Scheme to Shift the Tax Burden to the Non-Rich … Imagine you were a close observer of American politics who fell asleep, say, 25 years ago and woke up last week. You discover the Republican Party's leader is a wealthy heir who is broadly supported by CEOs and other rich people.

Discussion: USA Today

Matt Dixon / NBC News:

Mystery fundraising firm takes in millions from the Trump campaign — The campaign says it has fulfilled its legal reporting obligation, though the spending appears to mirror past attempts to mask who is actually receiving donor cash. — Former President Donald Trump's political operation …

Discussion: Raw Story

Ron Dicker / HuffPost:

White House Tears Into New York Post, Other Outlets For New Biden ‘Freeze’ Claim — Deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said the Post's ethics “could deal with a little unfreezing.” — LOADING — White House spokesperson Andrew Bates accused the New York Post, amid other right-wing media …

Discussion: Associated Press, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, IJR and The Wrap

Chris Nesi / New York Post:
Biden appears to freeze up, has to be led off stage by Obama at mega-bucks LA fundraiser

Discussion: NBC News, NewsNation, Hindustan Times, The Hill, Twitchy, CBS News, WKBN-TV, Louder With Crowder, HotAir, New Jersey Online, Daily Mail, RADAR, Mediaite, Power Line, The Sun, Breitbart, Daily News, Raw Story, Axios, Washington Post, USA Today, Washington Examiner and RedState

Morgan Phillips / Daily Mail:

GOP rising star candidate and PA state Rep Ryan Mackenzie lied about age on Tinder profile by EIGHT YEARS — Eight years into his state lawmaker career, Pennsylvania state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie misrepresented his age on a dating profile by nearly a decade, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Discussion: Raw Story

Yonah Jeremy Bob / Jerusalem Post:

Half of Hamas in Rafah beaten, IDF will gain full control in two weeks — The IDF also revealed that the houses and tunnels in Rafah had new kinds of defenses and boobytraps, with some houses having video surveillance in each room of the given house to facilitate ambushes.

Discussion: The Times of Israel, Breitbart and Washington Free Beacon

Karen Townsend / HotAir:

Seinfeld's Perfect Response to Heckler: It's a Comedy Show, You Moron. Get Out of Here. " — Legendary comic Jerry Seinfeld delivered a master class on how performers should handle useful idiots for Hamas. He did so during a performance in Australia. — When the Hamas supporting …

Discussion: Twitchy, The Western Journal, Fox News, RedState, Deadline, New York Post, Breitbart, The Times of Israel, Power Line, The Daily Caller and The Daily Beast

Kiera Butler / Mother Jones:

Christian Nationalists Are Opening Private Schools. Taxpayers Are Funding Them. — Trump's favorite Arizona megachurch has one. — Earlier this month, former President Donald Trump held his first campaign rally as a convicted felon at Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona …

Discussion: Raw Story, Diane Ravitch's blog and New York Times

Judd Legum / Popular Information:

Sinclair floods local news websites with hundreds of deceptive articles about Biden's mental fitness — This month, Sinclair Broadcast Group has flooded a vast network of local news websites with misleading articles suggesting that President Biden is mentally unfit for office.

Discussion: Raw Story, Deadline, New Republic, Talking Points Memo and Washington Post

The Hill:

Psaki agrees to sit for interview with House panel probing Afghanistan withdrawal — Former White House press secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki has agreed to be interviewed by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Chair Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said this week.