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7:10 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 …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and RedState
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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: CNN, The Guardian and New York Times
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
U.S. Taps Johnson & Johnson to Run Troubled Vaccine Plant  —  The extraordinary move came just days after officials learned the plant had ruined 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine.  —  WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Saturday put Johnson & Johnson in charge …
Discussion: Political Wire
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:
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
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: Washington Post
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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
Aaron Holmes / Insider:
533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online  — The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum.  — The data includes phone numbers, full names, location, email address, and biographical information.
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
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 …
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
We Have All Hit a Wall  —  Confronting late-stage pandemic burnout, with everything from edibles to Exodus.  —  Like many of us, the writer Susan Orlean is having a hard time concentrating these days.  “Good morning to everyone,” she tweeted recently, “but especially to the sentence I just rewrote for the tenth time.”
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 …
BuzzFeed News:
Derek Chauvin's Lawyer Said “Angry” Bystanders Were A Threat To Cops.  Here's What The Videos Actually Show.  —  Eric Nelson has characterized the people who witnessed George Floyd's death, including three teens and a 9-year-old girl, as a threat to officers.  But videos from the scene tell a different story.
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.
Jennifer Levitz / Wall Street Journal:
Looking for a Party?  Head to Your Vaccine Site  —  Cheerleaders, dancers and stand-up comedians are leading the celebrations as people get Covid-19 shots; ‘I was totally digging the pompoms!’  —  CHULA VISTA, Calif.—Serena and Francisco Cortez, a married couple, recently went …
MSNBC:
Rep. Anna Eskamani on voicemail from Matt Gaetz, Joel Greenberg: ‘Another day as a woman in politics’  —  Regarding a voicemail from Matt Gaetz and Joel Greenberg, Rep. Anna Eskamani says she ‘absolutely got the feeling that it was very much an attempt at an intimate conversation.’ Eskamani also says …
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MSNBC:   Why Matt Gaetz is a product of the modern Republican Party
 
 
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Myanmar security forces open fire on anti-coup protesters
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Raya Jalabi / Reuters:
Kerry: U.S. ‘hopeful’ it can work with China to tackle climate change
Discussion: The Hill and New York Post
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
How Do We Stop the Parade of Gun Deaths?
Joann Muller / Axios:
Supersonic travel is about to make a comeback
Steve Thompson / Washington Post:
Audit criticizes Maryland's $9 million purchase from South Korean company of coronavirus tests that had to be replaced
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The shameless revisionism of the Capitol attack cannot be allowed to take root
Discussion: Washington Examiner, Slate and UPI
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Jacob Jarvis / Newsweek:
Laura Ingraham Warns Corporations of ‘Wrath of GOP’ Over Georgia Voting Law
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
One Republican's Lonely Fight Against a Flood of Disinformation
The Intercept:
Pipeline Company Issues Broad Subpoena to News Site That Covered Protests Against It
Claire Stern / InStyle:
How CNN's Kaitlan Collins Took an “Apolitical Upbringing” All the Way to the White House
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Study declares AOC one of the least effective members of Congress
 

 
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
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Steven Waldman / @stevenwaldman:
The California Senate Appropriations Committee approves a bill imposing fees on Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon to pay for local news through employment tax credits

 
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