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12:40 PM ET, April 12, 2019

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Washington Post:
White House proposed releasing immigrant detainees in sanctuary cities, targeting political foes  —  White House officials have tried to pressure U.S. immigration authorities to release detainees onto the streets of “sanctuary cities” to retaliate against President Trump's political adversaries …
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump bulldozes across the presidency's red lines
Discussion: Raw Story
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Inside Ivanka's Dreamworld  —  You could tell by his eyes, the way they popped and gleamed and fixed on someone behind me.  Only one person gets that kind of look from Donald Trump.  “Oh!” the president said.  “Ivanka!”  —  Ivanka Trump lifted her hands, astonished.
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
W. Samuel Patten sentenced to probation after steering Ukrainian money to Trump inaugural  —  An American political consultant whose guilty plea marked the first confirmation that illegal foreign money was used to help fund Donald Trump's inaugural committee was sentenced to probation Friday …
Discussion: Axios, Bloomberg, The Week and The Guardian
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:   Patten escapes jail time in Mueller-related foreign lobbying case
Nicholas Fondacaro / NB Blog:
Nets Give One Minute to Obama Counsel Indictment, Gave Manafort's 60 Percent of Airtime
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Pence says he considered Buttigieg ‘a friend’ who now is making ‘attacks on my Christian faith’  —  The week-long back and forth between Vice President Pence and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg over their past working relationship in Indiana and their differing views of religion in politics continued into Friday.
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Caroline Kelly / CNN:
Pence says Buttigieg bringing ‘attacks on my Christian faith’  —  Pence: Trump is expressing frustration of Americans  —  Washington (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence hopes South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg will offer more than attacks on his religious faith or the character …
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: This is Elizabeth Warren's Catch-22
Associated Press:
Buttigieg goes from cordial to critical of Pence on campaign
Discussion: Axios
ellentube.com:
Mayor Pete Buttigieg Responds to the Vice President's Criticism
Discussion: The Guardian and The Week
David Cay Johnston / The Daily Beast:
Here's the Law That Requires Mnuchin to Turn Over Trump's Taxes, or Lose His Office and Go to Prison  —  The law is clear, and it leaves no wiggle room.  The consequences for breaking it include removal from public office and up to five years in prison.  —  Donald Trump and his top White …
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Dave McKinney / WBEZ:
Illinois Senate Tells Trump, Show Your Tax Returns Or Be Barred From The 2020 Ballot
Discussion: twitchy.com
Brian Faler / Politico:
To get Trump's tax returns, Democrats must show they have a good reason
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Joe Walsh / The Bulwark:
What We Already Know About the Mueller Report Should Scare Us  —  And Congress has a duty to push forward from here.  —  The Russia probe is too big and too important to be judged by a highlight reel.  Yes, there are some clear takeaways from Attorney General William Barr's summary of the report's conclusions.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Post-Mueller Report, Trump Approval Back at 45% High
Discussion: Washington Post
Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
Rod Rosenstein Defends Justice Department Handling of Mueller Report
Tal Kopan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Trump's new attorney general launches fresh changes to immigration courts  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr is making his first major moves on immigration policy since his confirmation, setting up big changes for the courts that decide whether immigrants will stay in the U.S. or be deported.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Alex Thompson / Politico:
‘Liz Was a Diehard Conservative’  —  “Fight.”  It's the signature word of Senator Elizabeth Warren's short but consequential political career.  —  It's in the title of both of the books she has published as a senator: A Fighting Chance and This Fight Is Our Fight.
Discussion: Jezebel and Boston Globe
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Moira Donegan / The Guardian:
Elizabeth Warren is the intellectual powerhouse of the Democratic party
Discussion: Vox
Michael Weiss / The Atlantic:
Julian Assange Got What He Deserved  —  In the end, the man who reportedly smeared feces on the walls of his lodgings, mistreated his kitten, and variously blamed the ills of the world on feminists and bespectacled Jewish writers was pulled from the Ecuadorian embassy looking every inch …
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Lulu Ramadan / Palm Beach Post:
Undisclosed cash flowed at Trump inaugural ball with ties to China, embattled Saipan casino  —  Thousands of dollars in donations flowed to an undisclosed source at a Trump inaugural ball with links to China and dubious donors, but no financial records.  —  In the decked-out ballroom …
Discussion: Raw Story
Kriston Capps / CityLab:
The Hidden Horror of Hudson Yards Is How It Was Financed  —  Since its official unveiling last month, critics have been teeing off on Hudson Yards, the $25 billion office-and-apartment megaproject on Manhattan's West Side.  The Guardian's Oliver Wainwright calls it “bargain-basement building …
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
FDNY firefighter who survived 9/11 says Republican criticizing Ilhan Omar told him he was ‘too busy’ to talk victim benefits  —  A retired FDNY firefighter who survived 9/11 said Thursday he was recently snubbed by Dan Crenshaw, the Texas congressman who's drawing heat for accusing a Democratic lawmaker of downplaying the terror attack.
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New York Post:   Ilhan Omar's pathetic bid to play victim after she downplayed 9/11
NBC News:
Trump advisers discussed whether military could build and run migrant detention camps  —  Top Trump advisers met at the White House Tuesday to talk about increasing military involvement at the border, including building tent cities for migrants.  —  WASHINGTON — When some of President …
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Inside the Russian effort to target Sanders supporters — and help elect Trump  —  After Bernie Sanders lost his primary campaign for president against Hillary Clinton in 2016, a Twitter account called Red Louisiana News reached out to his supporters to help sway the general election.
Eric Felten / RealClearInvestigations:
FBI Man's Testimony Points to Wrongdoing Well Beyond Spying  —  Attorney General William Barr shocked official Washington Wednesday by saying what previously couldn't be said: That the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016 involved “spying.”
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans are anti-voting and anti-democratic  —  By definition, you get a more robust democracy and leaders more reflective of the population as a whole when more people vote.  Democracy has little meaning if it doesn't rest on the broadest possible franchise.
Discussion: Feeds and NPR
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“They Just Had an Unbelievable String of Assholes Running the Place”: The L.A. Times, Once a Print-Media Tragedy, Is Rising from the Near-Dead  —  Having survived a foul-mouthed owner, frat boys, and new-media loopiness, L.A.'s paper of record is now journalism happy-news …
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Barr Brings Accountability  —  Trump's foes call it ‘stunning and scary.’ Here's what they have to be scared about.
Discussion: Instapundit and Power Line
Daily Wire:
WATCH: Daily Wire's Knowles Sprayed With Bleach-Like Substance By SJW Protester During Speech At University of Missouri-KC  —  Speaking at the University of Missouri-Kansas City on Thursday night, The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles was attacked by a masked protester who used a super soaker …
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
He Has Driven for Uber Since 2012.  He Makes About $40,000 a Year.  —  COTATI, Calif. — Uber's public stock offering next month will make a bunch of people remarkably rich.  Peter Ashlock is not one of them, although he has toiled for the ride-hailing company almost since the beginning.
Luke O'Neil / The Guardian:
‘Fox News brain’: meet the families torn apart by toxic cable news  —  Fox News built a wall between Luke O'Neil and his mother, and he's just one of many families split by its viral ideology  —  I love my mother.  She is one of the kindest and sweetest people you will ever meet and I would be nothing without her.
Discussion: Splinter and Raw Story
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
For Democrats, Twitter Is Not Real Life.  But It Could Be.  —  Democrats on Twitter are weirder than they appear.  The small slice of blue America that's visible on social media is much more ideological, progressive, white, college-educated — and, above all, interested in politics — than the Democratic coalition writ large.
New York Post:
DA knew Jeffrey Epstein was a dangerous pedophile when arguing for leniency  —  The Manhattan DA's office had graphic and detailed evidence of pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's depravity when a prosecutor inexplicably argued for leniency during his 2011 sex offender registry hearing, The Post has learned.
Discussion: Law & Crime and Raw Story
Bradford Betz / Fox News:
NY Dems block bill expanding college tuition for Gold Star families after approving $27M in tuition aid for illegal immigrants: report  —  New York Assembly Democrats on Tuesday blocked a bill that proposed expanding college tuition aid for children of deceased and disabled military veterans after …
 
 
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Ben Markus / Colorado Public Radio:
Denver's Big 3 Lobbyists Have Deep Relationships With City Government And Mayor Michael Hancock
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
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New York Times:
A Charred Gas Can, a Receipt and an Arrest in Fires of 3 Black Churches
Discussion: Fox News
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
'We've done a lot more than you would think': How the health-insurance industry is working …
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
A column suggested waiters could ‘tamper’ with Trump officials' food.  Amid backlash, the Boston Globe pulled it.
Discussion: The Week
Yoav Gonen / The City:
Public Funding of Private-School Security Grows by Millions
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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
A mentally ill man was pushed to the brink of suicide in jail. …
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Telegraph forced to correct false Brexit claim by Boris Johnson
Nicky Woolf / The Atlantic:
The Implosion of Jeremy Corbyn
Chris McGonigal / HuffPost:
Viral Photo Of Crying Girl At The Border Wins 2019 World Press Photo Awards
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
You Say Democracy, I Say Republic