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Reuters:
Half of Republicans believe false accounts of deadly U.S. Capitol riot: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have pushed false and misleading accounts to downplay the event …
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Shock Poll: Half of Republicans Believe False Accounts of January 6th Capitol Riots
Discussion: HotAir
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Google wins big in Supreme Court clash with Oracle  —  The dispute was called the “copyright case of the century.”  —  Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.  —  Shwan Thew/EPA via Shutterstock  —  In the multi-billion Supreme Court clash between two titans of tech, Google emerged as the victor on Monday.
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Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court dismisses case challenging Trump Twitter blocks  —  The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a case challenging former President Donald Trump for blocking people on Twitter.  —  The court sent the case back to an appeals court and ordered it be dismissed as moot.
USA Today:
Supreme Court dismisses as moot case questioning Donald Trump's blocking of critics on Twitter
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Supreme Court erases ruling against Trump over his Twitter account
Discussion: CBS News and Outside the Beltway
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Corporations gave over $50M to voting restriction backers  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — When executives from Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines spoke out against Georgia's new voting law as unduly restrictive last week, it seemed to signal a new activism springing from corporate America.
Discussion: The Root and Daily Kos
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republicanleader.senate.gov:
McConnell: Corporations Shouldn't Fall for Absurd Disinformation on Voting Laws  —  'There is no consistent or factual standard being applied here.  It's just a fake narrative gaining speed by its own momentum... Businesses must not use economic blackmail to spread disinformation and push bad ideas …
David Gelles / New York Times:
Inside Corporate America's Frantic Response to the Georgia Voting Law  —  Companies like Delta are caught between Democrats focused on social justice and populist Republicans.  They face major political consequences no matter what they do.  —  On March 11, Delta Air Lines dedicated a building …
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
McConnell Criticizes ‘Outrage-Industrial Complex’ on Voting Laws
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
Sharyn Alfonsi / CBS News:
How the wealthy cut the line during Florida's frenzied vaccine rollout  —  Sharyn Alfonsi reports on corruption allegations clouding Florida's efforts to vaccinate its residents.  —  This past week, President Biden said 90% of U.S. adults will be eligible for the COVID vaccine by April 19 …
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Seth Abramson / Proof:   BREAKING NEWS: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Awarded Vaccine Sites to Publix Just As Publix Heiress Julie Jenkins Fancelli Was Funding the January 6 Trump Speech That Launched An Insurrection
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Cheney snags victories ahead of her next battle with Trumpworld  —  Rep. Liz Cheney took on the Trump wing of her party and survived its attempt to politically kneecap her.  But it's only the beginning of what looks like a yearslong fight for her place in the GOP.
Discussion: Breitbart
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The New York Times Company:
Frank Bruni Stepping Down as Columnist; Named Endowed Chair at Duke University  —  Frank is joining Duke University as an endowed chair in journalism in June.  He will no longer be a columnist but will continue to write his newsletter and will remain a contributing Opinion writer.
Discussion: The Hill
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Why Is Major League Baseball Expected to Boycott Georgia, While Other Businesses Aren't?  —  This Thursday, the PGA Tour and Masters Tournament will begin in Augusta, Ga., despite the National Black Justice Coalition calling upon the PGA Tour and Masters Tournament to pull the upcoming event …
Discussion: Politico, The Federalist and HotAir
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U.S. Senator for Florida, Marco Rubio:
Rubio Asks MLB Commissioner if He'll Give Up Augusta Golf Membership
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Facebook pledged to suspend political donations, then quietly funneled $50,000 to GOP group pushing voter suppression laws  —  On January 11, Facebook announced that “following last week's awful violence” it was suspending donations from its political committee “for at least the current quarter, while we review our policies.”
Washington Examiner:
Joe Biden's border crisis  —  Democrats and the liberal media are policing the words we should use to describe the absolute catastrophe we're witnessing each day at the southern border.  They don't like “crisis” or “surge.”  —  So, let us propose this description: Joe Biden's fault.
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NBC News:
Human smugglers use Facebook to connect with migrants and spread false hope of reaching U.S.
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
‘The 45th’: Why Trump is abandoning his iconic brand for a number  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump spent a lifetime putting his name on steaks to skyscrapers to stimulus checks, but now, the former president appears to be replacing the gold-plated surname with a number: 45.
Discussion: Raw Story
Nick Paton Walsh / CNN:
Satellite images show huge Russian military buildup in the Arctic  —  (CNN)Russia is amassing unprecedented military might in the Arctic and testing its newest weapons in a region freshly ice-free due to the climate emergency, in a bid to secure its northern coast and open up a key shipping route from Asia to Europe.
New York Times:
How White Evangelicals' Vaccine Refusal Could Prolong the Pandemic  —  Millions of white evangelical adults in the U.S. do not intend to get vaccinated against Covid-19.  Tenets of faith and mistrust of science play a role; so does politics.  —  Stephanie Nana, an evangelical Christian in Edmond …
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Progressives target Jim Cooper for primary challenge  —  Justice Democrats, the left-wing group that recruited Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for Congress, has its eyes set on ousting another Democratic incumbent.  —  The organization will announce Monday that it is backing Democrat Odessa Kelly …
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Alexander Sammon / American Prospect:
The First Progressive Primary Challenge of 2022
Discussion: BuzzFeed News
Jewish Currents:
How Not to Fight Antisemitism  —  Responsa is an editorial column written by members of the Jewish Currents staff and reflects a collective discussion.  This responsa appears in our Spring 2021 issue.  Subscribe now to receive a copy in your mailbox.  —  IN MAY OF 2020, the Jewish social …
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Exclusive: Soros group pledges $20 million to pass Biden plan  —  The Open Society Foundations are pledging $20 million to jumpstart as much as $100 million for a campaign to rally progressives around President Biden's infrastructure and social welfare proposals.
Discussion: Fox News, Newsbusters and Breitbart
Washington Post:
Time back home with voters only emboldens Republicans to oppose Biden's agenda  —  A lifelong railroad aficionado, 74-year-old retiree Tony Benz has volunteered for nearly two decades helping passengers at the Amtrak station in the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood, Mo.
 
 
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Newsweek:
McDonald's, Other CEOs Tell Investors $15 Minimum Wage Won't Hurt Business
Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Terry McAuliffe's Record On Race Gets A Second Look In Virginia Governor's Race
Tyler Buchanan / Ohio Capital Journal:
Ohio politicians condemned for pandemic comparisons to Nazi Germany
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Biden and the waning of the ‘neoliberal’ era
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He Spent 24 Years Behind Bars Because Queens Prosecutors Broke The Rules. Was This Their Only Wrongful Conviction?
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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Study: Republican control of state government is bad for democracy
Discussion: Raw Story
Marc Kovac / The Columbus Dispatch:
Danny O'Connor to run for U.S. House, removing another name from candidates for Portman's seat
Discussion: The Hill
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
An Extraordinary Winning Streak for Religion at the Supreme Court
Meredith Conroy / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Being ‘Anti-Media’ Is Now Part Of The GOP Identity
Politico:
Inside the White House plan to sell its massive infrastructure proposal
Discussion: The Week and Slate
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Exclusive: Janet Yellen to call for global minimum tax rate
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The Lawyer Behind the Throne at Fox
 

 
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