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4:30 PM ET, April 1, 2021

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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
The Pandemic's Wrongest Man  —  The pandemic has made fools of many forecasters.  Just about all of the predictions whiffed.  Anthony Fauci was wrong about masks.  California was wrong about the outdoors.  New York was wrong about the subways.  I was wrong about the necessary cost of pandemic relief.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The GOP war on voting takes an ugly new turn  —  Opinion by  —  An extraordinary event took place in Georgia on Wednesday night.  Republicans sought to cancel a tax break for Delta Air Lines, the state's biggest employer, as punishment for the heresy of criticizing the new voter suppression law Republicans passed last week.
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Robert Hart / Forbes:
Georgia House Passes Bill Stripping Delta Of A Multimillion Tax Break After It Slammed The State's New Voting Restrictions  —  Georgia Republicans voted to strip Delta Air Lines of a jet fuel tax break worth tens of millions of dollars Wednesday after the company u-turned to unequivocally condemn …
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
What a Pepsi can says about the GOP's rift with corporate Atlanta  —  The election law sparks a new divide between Republicans and Georgia business giants  —  Moments after gaveling the legislative session to an end early Thursday, House Speaker David Ralston stood before a bank of TV cameras …
The Daily Beast:
Republicans Have Been Waiting for a Matt Gaetz Scandal to Break  —  The Florida congressman's less-than-sterling reputation among his colleagues has many Republicans questioning the wisdom of jumping to his defense.  —  After Rep. Matt Gaetz accused a Florida lawyer of a $25 million extortion scheme …
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Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Matt Gaetz's claim that ‘travel records’ debunk the allegations against him
Thomas Moore / The Hill:
Fox has no interest in hiring Matt Gaetz
Politico:
Inside the ‘Lord of the Flies’ factionalism now plaguing Trumpland  —  Just one month after Donald Trump left the White House, a top donor to his campaign received a call on his personal cellphone from a Republican candidate seeking financial support.  —  The call was unsolicited …
Discussion: The Week and Raw Story
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
SCOOP: Inside Dems' plans to take down Lauren Boebert  —  Ally Mutnick, Melanie Zanona, Marianne LeVine and Nicholas Wu contributed.  —  CASH COW — We're about to find out how Donald Trump's campaign to overturn the presidential election — which culminated in an insurrection …
Geoff Duncan / USA Today:
Georgia's election reform law isn't voter suppression, but Republicans need to ease up  —  Republicans have a huge hole to climb out of because of the 2020 election.  Conservatism shouldn't be confused as divisive or mean-spirited.  —  Once again, Georgia found itself in the national spotlight …
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Houston Chronicle:
Analysis reveals nearly 200 died in Texas cold storm and blackouts, almost double the official count  —  The deaths of nearly 200 people are linked to February's cold snap and blackouts, a Houston Chronicle analysis reveals, making the natural disaster one of the worst in Texas this past century.
Discussion: Political Wire
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Republicans seek DOJ briefing on claims of ‘suspicious’ pre-Jan. 6 Capitol tours  —  Republicans on a key House committee are pressing the Justice Department and Capitol Police to brief them on a review of Democratic allegations that some GOP lawmakers provided “suspicious” …
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
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Kimberly Wehle / The Bulwark:   Two Capitol Cops Sue Trump for Jan. 6—What Are Their Chances?
David Frum / The Atlantic:
The Strange New Doctrine of the Republican Party  —  In 2002, the Weyerhaeuser paper mill in Valliant, Oklahoma, faced a drug problem.  Managers at the mill in the small town, just north of the Texas line, brought contraband-sniffing dogs into the parking lot to identify suspect cars.
Discussion: Bulwark+
Associated Press:
New GOP-led voting restrictions move forward in Texas  —  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans advanced a slate of proposed new voting restrictions Thursday that would reduce options to cast ballots, limit polling hours and hand more power to partisan poll watchers.
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Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Senate advances bill limiting how and when voters can cast ballots, receive mail-in voting applications
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Pfizer:
Pfizer and BioNTech Confirm High Efficacy and No Serious Safety Concerns Through Up to Six Months Following Second Dose in Updated Topline Analysis of Landmark COVID-19 Vaccine Study
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Top takeaways from our Ron Klain interview  —  Breaking (not an April Fool's joke) ... Major bummer for D.C. area baseball fans: The Nats' opener tonight against the Mets at Nationals Park has been postponed because of a positive Covid-19 test on the team.
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
How Nancy Reagan helped end the Cold War
Discussion: Amazon.com
Amelia Pollard / American Prospect:
The Right Curriculum?  How PragerU Infiltrates Schools.  —  The right-wing nonprofit, known for viral videos like ‘The Left Ruins Everything,’ launched a program specifically designed for teachers last fall.  But according to students, its content has been in public schools for years.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell rules out GOP support for Biden spending plan  —  Mitch McConnell on Thursday ruled out support from his Republicans for President Joe Biden's new infrastructure plan, all but ensuring that the proposal will have to pass with lockstep Democratic unity in the Senate.
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Megan Henney / Fox News:
Buttigieg defends Biden's $2.25T spending plan, despite just a fraction going to roads, bridges
Discussion: Fox Business and Washington Times
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Interior Department chief of staff being removed from post after indoor party fiasco  —  The White House is removing the Interior Department's chief of staff, Jennifer Van der Heide, who recently planned a 50-person indoor party at the agency that the White House ordered canceled …
Discourse Blog:
The New Republic Makes an Uneasy Peace With Staff Over D.C. Move  —  Staffers say they're still worried about the magazine's future.  —  Last week, staffers at The New Republic had their first meeting with incoming editor Michael Tomasky soon after they found out simultaneously via an email …
Slate:
I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Biden Administration  —  Slate is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay.  We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Biden administration whose identity is known to us and whose reputation as a good boy would be jeopardized by its disclosure.
Discussion: Vanity Fair, Mediaite and The Hill
Jesse Dougherty / Washington Post:
Mets-Nationals postponed in Washington as coronavirus issues disrupt Opening Day  —  The Opening Day matchup between the Washington Nationals and New York Mets on Thursday has been postponed because of coronavirus concerns, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.
Discussion: The Week, NPR and Washingtonian
Ian Duncan / Washington Post:
A woman called for a highway's removal in a Black neighborhood.  The White House singled it out in its infrastructure plan.  —  Since she moved back home to Tremé almost a decade ago, Amy Stelly has waged a campaign for the removal of a highway that cuts through her New Orleans neighborhood.
Discussion: Breitbart and Daily Kos
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Hypocritical, hilarious AOC says calling border crisis a ‘surge’ invokes white supremacy  —  “This is not a surge.  These are children, and they are not insurgents, and we are not being invaded.  Which, by the way, is a white supremacist philosophy.  The idea that if another is coming in the population …
Discussion: The Sun, TheBlaze and Common Dreams
Washington Post:
Some of America's wealthiest hospital systems ended up even richer, thanks to federal bailouts  —  As the crisis crushed smaller providers, some of the nation's richest health systems thrived, reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in surpluses after accepting huge grants for pandemic relief
Annie Correal / New York Times:
How N.Y.C.'s Population Expert Says the City Will Bounce Back  —  Joseph J. Salvo, who is retiring after nearly 30 years as New York City's chief demographer, is optimistic about New York City's recovery after the pandemic.  —  In nearly three decades as New York City's chief demographer …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Will U.S. learn from a $1.7 trillion goof that would have paid for Biden's infrastructure plan?  |  Will Bunch  —  A Ferrari is surely a wonderful sports car, but let's be honest: Most of us couldn't afford the day-to-day maintenance, let alone the sticker price, and these beautiful creatures …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The problem with cheering for the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News  —  When Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani became fixtures on right-wing media with their outlandish election conspiracy theories, their disinformation was more than just false.  —  It was harmful.
Discussion: Instapundit
Los Angeles Times:
4 killed, including child, in mass shooting at Orange office complex  —  Four people, including a child, were killed Wednesday evening and a fifth person was injured in a mass shooting at an Orange office complex.  —  It marks the third mass shooting in the United States in two weeks …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive: Apple's Tim Cook says voting “ought to be easier than ever”  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook, an Alabama native with a lifelong interest in civil rights, joins condemnations of Georgia's new voting law, in a statement provided first to Axios.  —  What he's saying: “The right to vote is fundamental in a democracy.
 
 
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Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll: US economic outlook rises after relief law
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Charles Fain Lehman / Washington Free Beacon:
How ‘Defund the Police’ Killed Police Reform
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Jonathan Shaw / Harvard Magazine:
The Fight for the Republic  —  IN 2021, THE UNITED STATES failed for the first time in its history …
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
One of QAnon's most widely quoted critics reveals his real name. Hint: It's not Travis View.
Liam Stack / New York Times:
The Push to Vaccinate 20,000 Holocaust Survivors in New York
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Texas officials circulated climate skeptic's talking points on power failures during storm
Jesse Drucker / New York Times:
An Accidental Disclosure Exposes a $1 Billion Tax Fight With Bristol Myers
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Kara Scannell / CNN:
Trump's own statements in old lawsuit could haunt him in a future criminal case
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story