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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: Matt Gaetz eyes early retirement to take job at Newsmax  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has privately told confidants he's seriously considering not seeking re-election and possibly leaving Congress early for a job at Newsmax, three sources with direct knowledge of the talks tell Axios.
New York Times:
Biden's Judicial Nominees Have Diverse Backgrounds  —  The president's first choices for district and appeals court openings reflected his campaign promise to choose judges from outside of traditional backgrounds.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden began a drive to reshape the federal courts …
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The White House:
President Biden Announces Intent to Nominate 11 Judicial Candidates … WASHINGTON - President Biden today announced his intent to nominate 10 individuals to serve as Federal Circuit and District Court judges, and one individual to serve as a Superior Court Judge for the District of Columbia.
Washington Post:
Biden's first slate of judicial nominees aims to quickly boost diversity in federal courts
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Florida COVID numbers face new scrutiny  —  published earlier this month in the American Journal of Public Health argues that Florida is undercounting the number of people who died from COVID-19 by thousands of cases, casting new doubt on claims that Gov. Ron DeSantis navigated the coronavirus pandemic successfully.
Discussion: Raw Story
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CNN:   I work at a Texas coffee shop. This is what it's been like trying to enforce our mask policy
Zachary Petrizzo / Salon:
Former Parler CEO says Dan Bongino owns no shares, got hustled by Rebekah Mercer  —  Fox News contributor Dan Bongino claims to be a Parler investor — but former CEO John Matze says he was duped  —  Pro-Trump pundit, conservative media tycoon and self-proclaimed Parler investor Dan Bongino …
Stephen L. Miller / The Spectator:
Nobody believes China  —  Except the World Health Organization and the US media  —  The World Health Organization now says the virus ‘most likely came from animals.’ But everybody knows that the WHO is heavily influenced by China, and China is not a reliable source.
Discussion: Townhall, Instapundit, Raw Story and The Sun
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Bloomberg:   WHO Chief Faults Covid Report for Dismissing Lab Leak Theory
Rich Lowry / National Review:
The Voter-Suppression Lie  —  It's not ‘Jim Crow’ to require ID, to expand weekend voting, or to provide food and drink for the general public near polling places.  —  President Joe Biden is so committed to bipartisan cooperation and fact-based governance that he's launched an ignorant …
Discussion: NBC News, Politico and The Daily Signal
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Why you should boycott Coke, Delta over Ga. law
Discussion: The Atlantic and CBS News
Keecee DeVenny / NAACP Legal Defense …:
Civil Rights Groups Sue Georgia Over New Sweeping Voter Suppression Law
Discussion: Washington Examiner, Insider and Forbes
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Satisfaction With U.S. Vaccine Rollout Surges to 68%  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — With well over 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered, the public's satisfaction with the rollout has surged 24 percentage points to 68% in the last month.  —  Satisfaction with the COVID-19 vaccine process …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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KFF:
KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor: March 2021
Discussion: The 19th, National Review and The Week
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The GOP is facing a sickness deeper than the coronavirus  —  It is the sign of a sickness deeper than covid-19 that the defiance of public health guidance has become a political selling point in the Republican Party.  —  Consider the case of South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem.
The Daily Beast:
Dominion Builds Legal Behemoth to Drain Trumpland of Billions  —  Dominion Voting Systems is adding a new team of lawyers as they prepare for their current lawsuits—and another potential round.  —  With billions of dollars in lawsuits now in the balance, Dominion Voting Systems …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
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Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Attack on Asian Woman in Midtown Prompts Another Hate Crime Investigation  —  The New York Police Department said it was searching for a man who kicked a 65-year-old woman, stomped on her and made anti-Asian statements.  Building staff members who witnessed the attack and did not intervene have been suspended.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Biden falsely claims the new Georgia law ‘ends voting hours early’  —  “What I'm worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is.  It's sick.  It's sick ... deciding that you're going to end voting at five o'clock when working people are just getting off work.”
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why the Republican War on Democracy Is Moving to the States
Politico:
Many Capitol rioters unlikely to serve jail time  —  Americans outraged by the storming of Capitol Hill are in for a jarring reality check: Many of those who invaded the halls of Congress on Jan. 6 are likely to get little or no jail time.  —  While public and media attention in recent weeks …
Discussion: Raw Story
Freddie deBoer:
If You Want to Make It As a Writer, For God's Sakes, Be Weird  —  you're in a market, so sell something other people aren't … Writing is not a hard profession.  Writing is actually an impossibly easy profession.  I could sleep until noon every day if my cat didn't wake me up at 5:30 AM.
S.E. Cupp / New York Daily News:
To cover or not to cover Trump?  Unfortunately, the choice is easy  —  “Please stop covering the crazy stuff out Trump's mouth [sic].  The nightmare is over.  Please #CNN, #NBC, #CBS, #ABC.”  —  That's just one of probably thousands of similar tweets in recent months imploring the media …
Discussion: Fox News and Boston Herald
Jon Skolnik / Salon:
Behind the dark-money web that put Barrett (and Kavanaugh and Gorsuch) on the Supreme Court  —  When future Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to a federal appeals court in 2017, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., at the time ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee …
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump's heir?  Pence reemerges, lays groundwork for 2024 run  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — When former President Donald Trump was asked to list those he considers the future leaders of the Republican Party, he quickly rattled off a list of names, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz.
Insider:
A Trump appointee who drank vodka and had sex on the General Services Administration building's roof is back with a new political committee, documents show  — P. Brennan Hart III was at the center of a Trump administration sex scandal.  — The former official admitted to having oral sex …
Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. struggling to engage with Iran over nuclear deal  —  The Biden administration's efforts to re-engage with Iran over its nuclear program are coming up against three major obstacles: a lack of direct channels of communication, divisions within the leadership in Tehran …
Amy Sherman / The latest factchecks PolitiFact.com …:
The facts about Georgia's ban on food, water giveaways to voters  —  Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a sweeping elections bill into law.  It includes some controversial provisions about absentee and in-person voting.  —  One provision of the new law includes a ban on giving away water or food …
Discussion: Twitchy and Newsbusters
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Surprise!  States That Make It Harder to Vote Had Lower Turnout in 2020  —  State-level turnout data shows why Republicans are so interested in making it harder to vote in the next election.  —  As Republicans make a sweeping voter suppression push nationwide, they insist it won't have any real impact …
Washington Post:
New U.S. coronavirus cases rise by 12 percent; nation braces for fourth pandemic wave  —  The Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free.  For more free coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, sign up for our Coronavirus Updates newsletter where all stories are free to read.
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Fox News Promotes Kayleigh McEnany to Host of Outnumbered, After Initially Balking in Wake of Capitol Attack  —  Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who was hired as a Fox News contributor a few weeks ago, has already been promoted to a full-time hosting gig.
Discussion: Politico and TVNewser
Melissa Cooke / Politico:
Ruby Cramer joins POLITICO as senior staff writer  —  Announcement from Managing Editor, Washington and Politics, Blake Hounshell, Editor of POLITICO Carrie Budoff Brown and Editor-in-Chief Matt Kaminski:  —  It's not the first time POLITICO has tried to hire her, but it's the first time we actually …
Philip Klein / National Review:
Biden's Call for Reinstating Mask Mandates Undercut by Evidence from Texas and Michigan  —  President Biden, speaking on a day in which his CDC director voiced her sense of “impending doom” over the uptick in COVID-19 cases in the United States, said, “I'm reiterating my call for every governor …
New York Times:
With an Eye on 2024, a Rarely Bashful Pompeo Grows More Combative  —  Criticized for partisan activity even when he was the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo is taking aim at the Biden administration and talking like a candidate.  —  WASHINGTON — As secretary of state during the Trump administration …
Morgan Watkins / Courier-Journal:
Kentucky lawmakers override veto of McConnell-backed Senate vacancy plan  —  The Republican-run Kentucky legislature on Monday easily overrode Gov. Andy Beshear's veto of a notable bill that restricts his ability to fill any vacancies that arise if one of the state's U.S. senators dies or leaves office early.
Politico:
Freedom Caucus frets over how far to push its rebellion  —  A group of House ultra-conservatives who rose to power by making life hell for GOP leaders is now facing cracks in its once-united front — which some worry could foreshadow an even wider rift if Republicans win back the majority next year.
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
All Trump's Codependents  —  Some of the former president's biggest critics are finding it hard to quit him.  —  “My predecessor.  Oh God, I miss him.”  —  So spoke Joe Biden Thursday in his first press conference as president.  In February Mr. Biden had said he was …
Peter J. Hotez / Scientific American:
The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands  —  Rejection of mainstream science and medicine has become a key feature of the political right in the U.S. and increasingly around the world  —  Antiscience has emerged as a dominant and highly lethal force …
Brianna Jackson / Bloomberg Government:
FINANCE BRIEFING: Banks Briefing Regulators After Hwang's Blowup  —  Wall Street banks grappling with the implosion of Bill Hwang's investment firm spent yesterday briefing U.S. regulators as Washington starts to dig into one of the biggest fund blowups in years.
 
 
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Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Kristi Noem issues executive orders after transgender sports ban legislation fails
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Top Republicans form new group to fight Biden tax hikes
Discussion: Bloomberg and IJR
Joseph V. Sakran / MedpageToday:
Op-Ed: Saving Gun Violence Victims Begins Before the OR
Cecilia Muñoz / The Atlantic:
Realism About the Border Is in Short Supply
Discussion: Politico and Common Dreams
Bloomberg:
NRA Board Member Demands LaPierre Probe in Bankruptcy Case
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YouTube Refuses to Remove Anti-Asian Song, Drawing Staff Ire
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What Americans really think about billionaires during the pandemic
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
The Right Says Sorry In Advance for Going Fascist
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Washington Post reverses prohibition on reporter from writing about sexual assault
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