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8:45 AM ET, April 4, 2021

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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations  —  Online donors were guided into weekly recurring contributions.  Demands for refunds spiked.  Complaints to banks and credit card companies soared.  But the money helped keep Donald Trump's struggling campaign afloat.
Michael Ruiz / Fox News:
MLB requires photo ID to pick up tickets from Will Call, but boycotts Georgia for voter ID law  —  South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace called the league out on Twitte  —  Beating Up on Georgia  —  Major League Baseball responded to calls to boycott the state of Georgia over a controversial …
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Georgia political fallout of MLB's decision to move the All-Star Game  —  An AJC analysis  —  Major League Baseball's decision to pull the All-Star game from metro Atlanta in protest of the state's new election law could have profound political implications in Georgia.  Let's unpack some of them here:
James Wagner / New York Times:
Baseball Joins Other Sports in Flexing Its Activist Muscles
Discussion: NPR
BBC:
Jordan's Prince Hamzah bin Hussein ‘under house arrest’  —  The former crown prince of Jordan says he has been placed under house arrest as part of a crackdown on critics.  —  In a video passed to the BBC by his lawyer, Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, the half-brother of King Abdullah …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / Associated Press:
Covid-19 Live Updates: Johnson & Johnson Put in Charge of Plant That Ruined Millions of Vaccine Doses  —  The Baltimore contract plant ruined millions of doses of another vaccine.  The U.S. is averaging over 3 million vaccine doses a day for the first time.  —  RIGHT NOW For 36 minutes on Saturday, Broadway was open.
Discussion: The Week, CNN and New York Times
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
U.S. Taps Johnson & Johnson to Run Troubled Vaccine Plant
Discussion: Political Wire
Agence France-Presse:
China launches musical in bid to counter Uyghur abuse allegations  —  Beijing is attempting to draw attention away from reports it is holding at least one million in Xinjiang internment camps  —  A new state-produced musical set in Xinjiang inspired by the Hollywood blockbuster “La La Land” …
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
America's Losing Faith, and That Makes the Next Trump All But Inevitable  —  GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY … Yes, Americans are losing faith in almost all institutions these days, but the decline in church attendance has reverberations that will last a long time.
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Salena Zito / New York Post:
Why Christian voters want more politicians like Donald Trump
Discussion: Fox News and New York Times
Washington Post:
Police crackdowns on illicit massage businesses pose harms to the women they aim to help  —  Undercover officers sometimes engage in sexual contact with spa workers during stings, records show, which trafficking experts say dehumanizes the women and has spurred calls to set limits on police
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Mike Huckabee Posts Anti-Asian Tweet Amid Spike in Racist Attacks  —  'AIN'T AMERICA GREAT?'  —  Mike Huckabee joked on Saturday that he would now “identify” as Chinese, mocking both LGBTQ people and Asian-Americans simultaneously.  The Fox News contributor wrote, “I've decided to ‘identify’ as Chinese.
Discussion: HuffPost
Joe Concha / The Hill:
WokeWorld comes for ‘oppressor’ Obama: Activists rip school being named after ‘deporter in chief’  —  They came for Washington.  Then Jefferson.  Then Lincoln.  Then (checks notes) Dianne Feinstein.  —  So, it's no surprise that the woke mob would eventually come for the nation's …
Washington Post:
How Joe Biden tamed the left — at least for now  —  Joe Biden launched the early months of his presidency with a one-two combination that's gone a long way toward taming the party's restive left wing: Listen a lot, and back many of the policies that activists have long wanted.
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
New York Times:
Virus Variants Threaten to Draw Out the Pandemic, Scientists Say  —  Declining infection rates over all masked a rise in more contagious forms of the coronavirus.  Vaccines will stop the spread, if Americans postpone celebration just a bit longer.  —  For weeks, the mood in much of the United States has been buoyant.
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
CDC director walks tightrope on pandemic messaging  —  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky finds herself in a delicate position as she seeks to balance the optimism of increasing vaccinations with the reality that the U.S. is still very much in the grip of a deadly pandemic.
Elizabeth Kolbert / New Yorker:
Biden's Jobs Plan Is Also a Climate Plan.  Will It Make a Difference?  —  The Administration has an ambitious vision for combatting global warming, but it's only a start.  —  The first known reference to Japan's cherry blossoms comes from the country's oldest surviving text, the Kojiki, completed in 712.
Christina Maxouris / CNN:
These are the two key things that can help curb another Covid-19 surge, Fauci says  —  (CNN)Health experts warn the US may be on the cusp of another Covid-19 surge if Americans aren't careful — just as the country races to vaccinate more people.  —  There are two key things the US …
Jason Farago / New York Times:
What a Tiny Masterpiece Reveals About Power and Beauty  —  Images: Chitarman, “Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait,” recto: 1627-28 and verso: circa 1530-50/Metropolitan Museum of Art; “Uttaradhyayanasutra,” circa 1460/Victoria and Albert Museum; Bhairavi Ragini …
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
Gromer Jeffers Jr / Dallas Morning News:
Two Korean Americans in Congress pull endorsements of Sery Kim over her comments on Chinese immigrants  —  Kim, a GOP candidate to replace Ron Wright in in Texas' 6th Congressional District, says she'll continue to speak the truth about the Chinese government.
Discussion: CNN and Washington Post
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The shameless revisionism of the Capitol attack cannot be allowed to take root  —  Come Tuesday, it will be three months since supporters of Donald Trump staged a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol.  —  Not much time at all, really.  But the former president and his enablers have been hard …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Slate
Arsalan Shahla / Bloomberg:
Iran Rules Out Any Talks With U.S. in Vienna Unless Sanctions Go  —  Iran said it will hold no direct or indirect talks with the U.S. when the two countries and other world powers gather in Vienna on Tuesday for planned talks on the possible resurrection of the 2015 nuclear deal.
Discussion: NPR and Reuters
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Inside a stealth ‘persuasion machine’ promising Republican victories in 2022  —  A Facebook page shows a child scampering down a school corridor, alerting Ohio families to a scholarship program.  —  Chatter fills the same page with news ranging from a state anti-corruption bill to the vibrant local real estate market.
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Reality catches up with propaganda channel  —  Eleven Fox programs whine about press conference treatment as Dominion lawsuit drops  —  Ask not for whom the world's tiniest violin plays — it plays for Fox News.  Three months ago the network's hosts enjoyed unprecedented political power …
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
'The Narrative Is, “You Can't Get Ahead"'  —  Ndona Muboyayi wants to improve the education that public-school children, including her son and daughter, receive in Evanston, Illinois, where her mother's family history goes back five generations.  —  As a candidate for the school board in District 65 …
 
 
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Questions The Media Should Ask President Biden About His Call For Economic Sanctions On Georgia
Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
‘The fuse has been lit’: union leaders hope Amazon effort will boost support across US
The Guardian:
Myanmar security forces open fire on anti-coup protesters
Discussion: CNN
Jennifer Levitz / Wall Street Journal:
Looking for a Party? Head to Your Vaccine Site
Raya Jalabi / Reuters:
Kerry: U.S. ‘hopeful’ it can work with China to tackle climate change
Discussion: The Hill and New York Post
BuzzFeed News:
Derek Chauvin's Lawyer Said “Angry” Bystanders Were A Threat To Cops. Here's What The Videos Actually Show.
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
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Joann Muller / Axios:
Supersonic travel is about to make a comeback
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MSNBC:
Rep. Anna Eskamani on voicemail from Matt Gaetz, Joel Greenberg: ‘Another day as a woman in politics’
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
One Republican's Lonely Fight Against a Flood of Disinformation