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2:50 PM ET, April 5, 2021

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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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USA Today:
Supreme Court dismisses as moot case questioning Donald Trump's blocking of critics on Twitter
Discussion: Bloomberg and Al Jazeera
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Supreme Court erases ruling against Trump over his Twitter account
Discussion: CBS News, Outside the Beltway and UPI
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 …
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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: Common Dreams, The Root and Daily Kos
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: 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
National Review:
60 Minutes' Dishonest DeSantis Hit Job  —  CBS tried to manufacture a Ron DeSantis scandal where none exists.  It failed miserably.  —  There is no more accurate way of describing last night's 60 Minutes segment on Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida than as a political hit job.
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Sharyn Alfonsi / CBS News:
How the wealthy cut the line during Florida's frenzied vaccine rollout
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
Rep. Matt Gaetz / Washington Examiner:
The swamp is out to drown me with false charges, but I'm not giving up  —  Washington scandal cycles are predictable, and sex is especially potent in politics.  Let me first remind everyone that I am a representative in Congress, not a monk, and certainly not a criminal.
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Gaetz defends himself: I'm ‘not a monk’
New York Times:
White Evangelical Resistance Is Obstacle in Vaccination Effort  —  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 …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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.”
Bloomberg:
Manchin Balks at Biden's Corporate Tax Increase, Favors 25% Rate  — Key lawmaker threatens to complicate infrastructure plans  — ‘As the bill exists today, it needs to be changed,’ he says  —  President Joe Biden's $2.25 trillion economic plan ran into trouble Monday with a key Senate Democrat …
Discussion: The Hill, IJR and Townhall
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Yellen calls for a global minimum corporate tax rate.
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
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.
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.
Washington Post:
A QAnon revelation suggests the truth of Q's identity was right there all along  —  The extremist movement's leader had purported to be a top-secret government operative.  But a possible slip-up in a new documentary about QAnon suggests that Q was actually Ron Watkins, the longtime administrator of the 8kun message board.
Discussion: Raw Story and Althouse
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: Washington Post and Breitbart
Ryan Mills / National Review:
Small-Time Landlords Struggle to Keep the Lights on as ‘Devastating’ Eviction Moratorium Continues  —  Stephanie Graves had a decision to make: buy new signage so she could open the pool at one of her apartment complexes, or pay the electric bill.  She couldn't afford both.  —  Ultimately, it wasn't a hard decision.
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, Breitbart and Newsbusters
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg / The Appeal:
D.A.s Are Asking Biden to End the Death Penalty.  But Some Are Still Wielding It Themselves  —  Prosecutors who have championed criminal justice reforms are still seeking death sentences, opposing appeals, and, in some cases, have even petitioned for execution dates.
Graham Piro / Washington Free Beacon:
Biden's Infrastructure Plan a Boon for Unions  —  President Joe Biden's multitrillion-dollar infrastructure proposal includes a major union handout that would overhaul labor law in the United States.  —  The White House released a fact sheet Wednesday detailing Biden's proposed $2 trillion …
 
 
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Ryan Mills / National Review:
Dem Abuses Prompted Georgia Voting Law's Food-and-Drink Rule
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America's Next Insurgency
Newsweek:
McDonald's, Other CEOs Tell Investors $15 Minimum Wage Won't Hurt Business
Jewish Currents:
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Ohio politicians condemned for pandemic comparisons to Nazi Germany
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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
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Study: Republican control of state government is bad for democracy
Discussion: Raw Story
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
An Extraordinary Winning Streak for Religion at the Supreme Court
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Why Being ‘Anti-Media’ Is Now Part Of The GOP Identity