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1:35 PM ET, April 12, 2021

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New York Times:
Minnesota Officer Shoots Driver, and Protesters Clash With Police  —  A young Black man died after an officer shot him during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, near where Derek Chauvin is on trial in the death of George Floyd  —  BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — A 20-year-old Black man died …
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Star Tribune:
Brooklyn Center police fatally shoot man, 20, inflaming tensions during the Derek Chauvin trial  —  Man, 20, killed after being pulled over for traffic violation in Brooklyn Center  —  A Brooklyn Center police officer fatally shot a man during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon …
Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
Will Smith's production pulls out of Georgia, citing the state's voting law.  —  Will Smith and the director Antoine Fuqua said on Monday that they were pulling their upcoming film production “Emancipation” out of Georgia because of the state's new voting law, which has been denounced …
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Major Biden to get training after two biting incidents  —  First dog Major Biden bites second person in White House  —  (CNN)President Joe Biden's German shepherd, Major, will receive training after two biting incidents involving workers at the White House, according to first lady Jill Biden's spokesman.
Discussion: Insider
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Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Biden White House puts its police oversight commission on ice
Discussion: Breitbart, The Hill and CNN
Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Officer Who Pepper-Sprayed a Black Army Medic Is Fired  —  Joe Gutierrez, who is accused of using excessive force during a traffic stop in Windsor, Va., has been dismissed, the town said.  —  A police officer in Virginia who confronted a uniformed Black Army medic at gunpoint and doused …
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NBC4 Washington:
Officer Accused of Force in Stop of Black Army Officer Fired
Discussion: Insider and MyNorthwest.com
Matthew S. Schwartz / NPR:
Officer Who Handcuffed And Pepper-Sprayed Black Army Lieutenant Is Fired
CNN:
Embattled Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is denied a meeting with Trump  —  (CNN)Rep. Matt Gaetz, who's facing a federal investigation into sex trafficking allegations, was recently denied a meeting with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate as the ex-President and his allies continue to distance themselves from the Florida congressman.
Washington Post:
The rise of domestic extremism in America  —  Data shows a surge in homegrown attacks not seen in a quarter-century  —  Domestic terror incidents by year  —  Domestic terrorism incidents have soared to new highs in the United States, driven chiefly by white-supremacist …
Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:
Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens  —  A Guardian investigation exposes the breadth of state-backed manipulation of the platform  —  Facebook has repeatedly allowed world leaders and politicians to use its platform to deceive the public …
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Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:   How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower's account
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Cindy McCain set to land Biden ambassadorship  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  President JOE BIDEN is preparing to name Republican CINDY MCCAIN to a coveted ambassador post in Western Europe in what would be his administration's first Republican appointee to a Senate-confirmed position.
Mike Allen / Yahoo News:
“You're not a one-person show”: Pelosi unloads on “The Squad” in new biography  —  Susan Page, USA Today's Washington bureau chief, conducted 10 interviews with Speaker Pelosi for a biography, “  —  Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power,” that's out April 20.
Discussion: The Hill and IJR
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Mitch McConnell tends his legacy 8,000 miles away
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Biden nominates a critic of Trump's immigration policies to lead Customs and Border Protection.  —  President Biden will nominate Chris Magnus, the police chief of Tucson, Ariz., and a critic of the Trump administration's anti-immigration policies, to lead Customs and Border Protection …
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James Arkin / Politico:
Former N.C. governor expected to launch Senate bid this week  —  Pat McCrory, the former Republican governor of North Carolina, is planning to launch his campaign for the state's open Senate seat this week, according to people familiar with his plans.  —  The former governor …
Washington Post:
How the corporate backlash to Georgia's new voting law is shaping other fights around the country over access to the polls  —  Behind closed doors, aides to Georgia's top Republicans and its leading business interests spent the final days of March hashing out new voting legislation in an effort …
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Biden faces pressure from Pelosi, Sanders over whether to double down on Obamacare or expand Medicare  —  House Democratic leadership and Sen. Bernie Sanders split as Biden administration sculpts next package  —  The White House is facing diverging pressure from two powerful allies …
Discussion: NBC News
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Hawley hauls in $3M after attempt to block election results  —  Sen. Josh Hawley raised more than $3 million during the first three months of the year, underscoring how the Missouri Republican converted his high-profile opposition to the certification of the 2020 election into big fundraising support.
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Why We're Freaking Out About Substack  —  A company that makes it easy to charge for newsletters has captivated an anxious industry because it embodies larger forces and contradictions.  —  Danny Lavery had just agreed to a two-year, $430,000 contract with the newsletter platform Substack …
Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
ADL demands Fox News fire Tucker Carlson over anti-Semitic trope: ‘This has deadly significance’  —  Last week on Fox News, Tucker Carlson argued that immigration to the United States would “dilute the political power” of Americans in a segment that also referenced “white replacement theory” …
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Tom Porter / Insider:
Tucker Carlson is repeatedly using his platform to downplay white supremacy and violence, critics say
Adam Jentleson / The Atlantic:
How to Stop the Minority-Rule Doom Loop  —  President Joe Biden came into office facing four “converging crises”: COVID-19, climate change, racial justice, and the economy.  But after a few weeks of fast action on a pandemic relief plan, a fifth crisis will determine the fate of the rest …
Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:
State Dept. Out to Tackle Diversity Failings With New Appointment  —  Career diplomat Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley will be tasked with reversing the department's record of big promises and little results.  —  U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has tapped a former senior career diplomat …
Will Wilkinson / Model Citizen:
Codifying the Big Lie  —  The GOP's doubly dishonest “election integrity” playbook  —  I've been trying to keep my cool, but the right's defense of new Republican-authored laws regulating elections, such as the one recently established in Georgia, is so dishonest it's hard to stay on an even keel.
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
How Hunter Biden's Memoir Played in the White House  —  Hunter Biden was careering above Highway 10 in the Sonoran desert.  Eastbound behind the wheel of a rented Lincoln Town Car, exhausted and speeding 80 mph, he'd closed his eyes just long enough to zag off the road and into the air, twirling to land in the opposite lanes.
Discussion: National Review and Breitbart
Matthew Chance / CNN:
Ukraine's President heads to the trenches as Russia masses its troops  —  On the front lines in eastern Ukraine (CNN)Ankle-deep in thick black sludge, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky moves stealthily with his troops in single file through the warren of trenches and tunnels that form …
Discussion: unz.com
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
‘White Lives Matter’ rallies flop as hardly anyone shows up  —  In semi-private, encrypted chats, neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists planned rallies in dozens of cities on Sunday to promote their racist movements and spread their ideologies to larger audiences.
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Major, one of Biden's German shepherds, will be sent away for training after biting incidents.  —  Major, one of President Biden's German shepherds, will be moved from the White House complex to receive training after he was involved in a series of biting episodes, the East Wing said on Monday.
Discussion: USA Today and NBC News
Lizzy Burden / Bloomberg:
Nobel Economist Warns Against Wealth Tax to Pay for Pandemic  — Angus Deaton says temporary measures risk becoming permanent  — Education increasingly important in determining life outcome  —  A wealth tax is a bad way to pay off pandemic debts and probably would become permanent if introduced …
Discussion: Insider
 
 
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Graham Vyse / Washington Post:
D.C.'s rising libertarian star, with her ‘healthy skepticism of state power,’ secures an influential podcast
Suzanne Rowan Kelleher / Forbes:
Hawaii's Vaccine Passport Is Slated To Roll Out By Summer
Discussion: The Hill and Breitbart
Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Data about the Capitol rioters serves another blow to the White, working-class Trump-supporter narrative
Discussion: Raw Story
Madison Dapcevich / Snopes.com:
Did Ted Nugent Ask Why There Were No Lockdowns for ‘COVID 1 Thru 18’?
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Washington Post:
Asian American super PAC launches operation to improve understanding of fastest-growing electorate
CNN:
Driver arrested in hit-and-run death of Sandra Feuerstein, New York federal judge
Discussion: The Hill
 Earlier Items: 
Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court's Bridgegate Ruling Casts Shadow on Federal Fraud Cases
Discussion: Political Wire
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
BLM Goes Hollywood
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
Jim Acosta Mocks Trump's ‘Grievance Groundhog Day’: ‘He Gets Up Every Day, Gripes About the Election, and Wakes Up the Next Day Still a Loser’
Discussion: IJR and HuffPost
Chris Bragg / Albany Times Union:
Cuomo's government staff did work on 'super PAC's' poll
Discussion: HotAir and Law & Crime
Jonathan Alter / New York Times:
Can Biden Be Our F.D.R.?  —  President Biden wants to change the trajectory of the country.
Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Biden Republicans? Some in GOP open to president's agenda
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Why big-spending Biden can shrug off GOP warnings of inflation
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:
I Thought My Job Was To Report On Technology In India. Instead, I Got A Front-Row Seat To The Decline Of My Democracy.