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TMZ.com:
Donald Trump Rails on Biden During Wedding Speech at Mar-a-Lago  —  DONALD TRUMP MAR-A-LAGO WEDDING SPEECH ... Enough About The Couple, Let's Talk About Me … It's been over 4 months since the November election, and Donald Trump is still acting like a sore loser — that, or a belligerent wedding guest.
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Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Trump Crashes Mar-a-Lago Wedding to Whine About Election Loss  —  UM...WERE YOU INVITED?  —  Former President Donald Trump wandered into a wedding reception being held at Mar-a-Lago but instead of toasting the happy couple proceeded to run through a laundry list of his own personal grievances …
Jason Del Rey / Vox:
Amazon started a Twitter war because Jeff Bezos was pissed  —  Snarky tweets targeting Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren came after the CEO told execs they weren't pushing back hard enough on critics.  —  SHARE All sharing options  —  Amazon has long been at odds …
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Inside America's Most Interesting Magazine, and Media's Oddest Workplace  —  The publication of the “Harper's letter” attracted huge attention.  Most people had stopped reading the magazine, which is stranger and better than you might expect.  —  Last August, when the pandemic seemed endless …
Matthew Campbell / The Sunday Times:
French philosopher Michel Foucault ‘abused boys in Tunisia’  —  The philosopher Michel Foucault, a beacon of today's “woke” ideology, has become the latest prominent French figure to face a retrospective reckoning for sexually abusing children.  —  A fellow intellectual, Guy Sorman …
USA Today:
Insurrection fundraiser: Capitol riot extremists, Trump supporters raise money for lawyer bills online  —  Brenna Smith Jessica Guynn Will CarlessUSA TODAY  —  Defendants accused in the Capitol riot Jan. 6 crowdfund their legal fees online, using popular payment processors and an expanding network …
Washington Post:
Family groups crossing border in soaring numbers point to next phase of crisis  —  The Biden administration's attention along the Mexico border has been consumed for the past several weeks by the record numbers of migrant teenagers and children crossing into the United States without their parents …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Scoop: Kids' border surge expected to last 7+ months
Discussion: RedState, Nick Adams, Political Wire and CNN
Arelis R. Hernández / Washington Post:
Immigrants are crossing the U.S. Mexico border in large numbers
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
The Unlikely Team of Prosecutors Hunting Trump in Georgia … The public integrity unit at the Fulton County District Attorney's office once had a miserable reputation.  Now, a new crew there is investigating the biggest target of them all.  —  A sheriff's deputy who went to law school but remained a cop for another two decades.
Discussion: Political Wire
Raven Saunt / Daily Mail:
University of Oxford considers scrapping sheet music for being ‘too colonial’ after staff raise concerns about music curriculums' ‘complicity in white supremacy’ after Black Lives Matter movement  — Professors set to reform music courses to move away from the classic repertoire
Washington Post:
The Biden do-over: Democrats get a chance to try again on Obama defeats  —  Barack Obama, facing pressure from both parties, worked to keep his stimulus package under $1 trillion.  Joe Biden launched his presidency by spending about $2 trillion and hopes to bump it up to $5 trillion.
Discussion: USA Today and NPR
Robert McCartney / Washington Post:
Even the GOP's three best arguments against D.C. statehood don't stand up to scrutiny  —  Opponents of D.C. statehood have at most three arguments that deserve any respect.  They involve the Founders' intent, retrocession to Maryland and the 23rd Amendment.  —  But none stands up to scrutiny, as I'll discuss below.
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Cases in Florida, a national Covid bellwether, are rising — especially among younger people.  —  Scientists view Florida — the state furthest along in lifting restrictions, reopening society and welcoming tourists — as a bellwether for the nation.  —  If recent trends there are any indication …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Transgender Girls in Sports: G.O.P. Pushes New Front in Culture War  —  Lawmakers in a growing number of Republican-led states are advancing and passing bills to bar transgender athletes in girls' sports, a culture clash that seems to have come out of nowhere.
Discussion: New Yorker
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Lindsey Graham Says He Could Shoot Gangs With His AR-15, Twitter Critics Go Ballistic  —  “If there's a natural disaster in South Carolina where the cops can't protect my neighborhood, my house will be the last one that the gang will come to,” he said.  —  In the event of a natural disaster …
John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
The Week in Fascism  —  On Claremont and Tucker  —  I was recently teased by a friend that my Substack was “all about Nazis,” which I don't think is entirely fair, but I have to admit is some truth to it.  I'm sorry, but they keep coming up!  —  I would like very much to move past the …
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Biden to unveil major new spending plans as Democrats eye bigger role for government  —  The president is set to unveil key components of infrastructure reform, and the early contours of his 2022 budget  —  President Biden this week is set to begin sketching out his plan to commit trillions …
New York Times:
Do You Think You Can Tell How a Neighborhood Voted Just by Looking Around?  —  _ … Most readers who have played so far are pretty good at this game, at least in certain kinds of places.  The precincts that voted overwhelmingly for Donald J. Trump or just as heavily for Joe Biden …
Rachael Bade / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Dissension inside The Washington Post  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  It was supposed to be an upbeat town hall to rally the newsroom, as Washington Post leaders highlighted their moves to defend reporter SEUNG MIN KIM from internet trolls.  But sources tell us the March 16 Zoom meeting …
Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
What happened in Wuhan?  Why questions still linger on the origin of the coronavirus  —  A lack of transparency from Chinese officials and looming geopolitical consequences have damaged the credibility of a WHO-led inquiry into how the virus that causes COVID-19 originated.  Lesley Stahl reports.
Discussion: Victory Girls Blog, KRDO and Fox News
E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Joe Biden is a paradigm shifter  —  The great Civil War historian James McPherson once explained why the most articulate voices of an era — the politicians, the journalists, partisans of various kinds — often dominate how a period is understood.  “It is the squeaky wheel,” he wrote, “that squeaks.”
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
The scare-Crow tactics of Democrats
Bloomberg:
First Step Toward Reopening Canal as Ship Refloated: Suez Update  —  The Ever Given container ship stuck in the Suez Canal has been at least partly refloated, but maneuvers will continue this morning around high tide.  —  It's the first step to clearing the blockage in one of the world's most important trade arteries.
Discussion: The Daily Beast, gCaptain and Mediaite
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
Panetta's assessment of Biden's first days  —  Joe Biden is off to an auspicious start with passage of his $1.9 trillion COVID Relief bill, has made excellent appointments, and generally has struck the right tone.  Now is when trouble is likely.  —  That's not just the view of a hack pundit.
Matt Binder / Mashable:
Parler explains ‘free speech’ to angry users after sharing Capitol riot posts with the FBI  —  Parler tried to throw Facebook under the bus.  Now the right wing social network's users are angry.  —  Just as Congress was finishing up grilling the CEOs of Facebook, Google …
Discussion: HillReporter.com and Raw Story
Washington Post:
‘Vaccine passports’ are on the way, but developing them won't be easy  —  White House-led effort tries to corral more than a dozen initiatives  —  The Biden administration and private companies are working to develop a standard way of handling credentials — often referred to as …
 
 
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Allyson Waller / New York Times:
Mother of 6 Fatally Shot in Road Rage Episode, Police Say
Discussion: New York Post
Brianne Pfannenstiel / USA Today:
‘The Iowa caucuses are on’: Republicans say early political trips reinforce plans for 2024 caucus
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Georgia Voting Law Punished Secretary Of State For Defying Trump: Election Official
Maria Arias / Axios:
White House aide says U.S. will address border surge with diplomacy
Discussion: Fox News
Hannah Beech / New York Times:
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Wall Street Journal:
For Atlanta Shooting Victims, American Life Was Often a Lonely Struggle
 Earlier Items: 
Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
‘Double Down’: Swing-District Democrats Embrace Biden Agenda
Discussion: Washington Monthly
CBS News:
Transcript: Anthony Fauci on “Face the Nation,” March 28, 2021
Discussion: Breitbart and Mother Jones
Tony Czuczka / Bloomberg:
Nord Stream 2 Won't Change Close U.S.-German Ties, Blinken Says
Discussion: Washington Times
Megan Rapinoe / Washington Post:
Bills to ban transgender kids from sports try to solve a problem that doesn't exist
American Greatness:
Christopher Lasch vs. the Elites of Our Time
Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court sits on potentially blockbuster abortion case