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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A frantic warning from 100 leading experts: Our democracy is in grave danger — Democrats can't say they weren't warned. — With yet another GOP effort to restrict voting underway in Texas, President Biden is now calling on Congress to act in the face of the Republican “assault on democracy.”
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Politico, POLITICUSUSA, The Time of Monsters and Roll Call
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
After defeating restrictive voting bill, Texas Democrats send loud message: ‘We need Congress to do their part’ — Texas Democrats who defeated a Republican effort to pass a suite of new voting restrictions with a dramatic, late-night walkout from the state House chamber on Sunday have a message …
John Aldrich / New America:
Statement of Concern — The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards — We, the undersigned, are scholars of democracy who have watched the recent deterioration of U.S. elections and liberal democracy with growing alarm.
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Fox News, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post
NBC News:
Democrats and GOP face off in New Mexico special congressional election
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Albuquerque Journal, New York Times, Washington Post and CNN
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Joe Manchin: Deeply Disappointed in GOP and Prepared to Do Absolutely Nothing
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CNN, Daily Kos and Crooks and Liars
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Voting Rights Bill Falters in Congress as States Race Ahead
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Just The News, No More Mister Nice Blog and Jezebel
Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
The GOP Has Discovered Joe Biden's Political Superpower — Something strange has been happening to my in-box. It's still a wasteland, a ghastly stream of spam and requests from an endless array of politicians and political organizations. But the GOP fundraising emails — usually the loudest …
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Coups and Rumors of Coups — The threat is no joke. — Let's stipulate that any talk about coups is crazy. Our traditions and institutions — both in and out of the military — are simply too strong, and the very idea of a coup is so profoundly un-American that it is unthinkable.
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Talking Points Memo, The Time of Monsters and The Gateway Pundit
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Texas Republicans Want to Make Trump's Coup Nice and Legal Michael Flynn said a coup “should happen”; Republicans prefer to use the legislature. — This past weekend, former national security adviser Michael Flynn appeared at the “For God & and Country Patriot Roundup,” a right-wing conclave in Texas, where he endorsed a military coup.
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The Hill, Wall Street Journal and BizPac Review
David Johns / The Hill:
Critical race theory is under attack — One hundred years ago today, mobs of armed white supremacists violently attacked and killed Black residents and destroyed Black businesses in Tulsa, Okla., in the Greenwood District. — The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating …
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Just Security, Jewish Journal and Hackwhackers
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The White House:
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Build Black Wealth and Narrow the Racial Wealth Gap … One hundred years ago, the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as “Black Wall Street,” was ruthlessly attacked by a violent white supremacist mob.
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Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Ahead of Tulsa trip, Biden to unveil plans to reduce Black-White wealth gap
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Talking Points Memo, National Review and Hackwhackers
Politico:
Republicans fear Trump will lead to a ‘lost generation’ of talent — As Donald Trump ponders another presidential bid, top Republicans have grown fearful about what they're calling the party's “lost generation.” — In conversations with more than 20 lawmakers, ex-lawmakers, top advisers and aides …
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Wall Street Journal, Raw Story, PRESS RUN, Crooks and Liars, BizPac Review, New York Times and HotAir, more at Mediagazer »
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
The Democrat Model for the Future is the Worst City in America — The only things going up are murder rates, STDs and electric car chargers. — Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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Washington Post:
Anthony Fauci's pandemic emails: ‘All is well despite some crazy people in this world’ — Fauci's correspondence from March and April 2020, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, offers a peek into his world during the frantic early days of the coronavirus crisis
Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
Vatican law criminalizes abuse of adults by priests, laity — VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has changed church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority, and to say that laypeople who hold church office can be sanctioned for similar sex crimes.
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Raw Story, UPI and Political Wire
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Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Supreme Court will soon release a potentially pivotal decision for LGBT rights — The Supreme Court is expected to release a decision in the coming days that could provide the first glimpses of how its 6-3 conservative majority will shape the future of LGBT rights.
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Reason and Political Wire
Ned Parker / Reuters:
U.S. cities hire specialists to counter climate change as impacts worsen — Tucson hired a forester. Miami named a heat officer. And Los Angeles appointed a climate emergency mobilization director. — Across the United States, cities have launched new programs focused on dealing with extreme weather …
Politico:
Put Trump on the ballot in '22? No thanks, some Dems say — As Donald Trump cannonballs back into national headlines more scandal-ridden than ever, it turns out that Republicans aren't the only ones who don't want to fixate on the former president. Many House Democrats feel the same way.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story and The American Spectator
Kayla Epstein / Insider:
Low-paid Capitol Hill staffers are moonlighting for Starbucks and Door Dash. They're fed up with unlivable salaries that hinder diversity and kneecap careers. — Hill staffers have put up with low wages for years. Some start in the high $20,000s. — Powerful Congress members …
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Insider
Kamala Harris / Forbes:
Kamalanomics: Vice President Harris Outlines Her Vision Of Inclusive Entrepreneurship — The pandemic has prompted a surge in entrepreneurship, voluntary and involuntary. The United States' first female, Black and Asian-American vice president shares her ideas in an exclusive essay for Forbes …
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The Hill
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump's back. Here's what his re-entry means for 2024. … WASHINGTON — Defeated presidents usually go away — at least for a long while. Not Donald Trump. — Trump returns to the electoral battlefield Saturday as the marquee speaker at the North Carolina Republican Party's state convention.
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Raw Story
Li Zhou / Vox:
What Chuck Schumer can learn from Harry Reid — “I think the biggest lesson is never trust Republicans,” says one of Reid's former staffers. — By the time he decided to “go nuclear” on filibusters for most presidential appointees, Harry Reid had had it with Republicans.
DW.COM:
Belarus enacts new rules restricting citizens from leaving — Minsk's border agency has announced new rules that will make it nearly impossible to leave the country. As citizens attempt to flee Belarus, longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko appears to be closing all the exits.
Maggie Severns / Politico:
An Evangelical Battle of the Generations: To Embrace Trump or Not? — For years, there was an adage around Liberty University that if God split Jerry Falwell in half, you would have his sons Jerry and Jonathan. — Jerry Jr. inherited his father's desire to be a force in American politics …
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Raw Story
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Maureen Dowd Talks ‘Mare of Easttown’ With Kate Winslet — The star of ‘Mare of Easttown’ is back on the sides of buses. Without airbrushing. — Philly's a tough town. — If there's a quintessential story about the City of Brotherly Love, it's this one: In 2015 …
Washington Examiner:
The public school system had stopped teaching children long before the pandemic — If the academic year now ending has taught us anything, it's that the public school system would rather indoctrinate than educate its students. — The school system was created to teach students academically and morally …
Chuck Ross / Washington Free Beacon:
Time Magazine Takes Chinese Cash To Promote Controversial Drone Business — Iconic mag fails to properly disclose $700k from China — As part of a $700,000 advertising campaign, Time magazine published articles from a Chinese state-run media agency touting a controversial Chinese drone maker accused …
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TIME and RealityChek
CNN:
Vice President Harris' team tries to distance her from fraught situation at the border — Two White House officials familiar with the dynamic said Harris and her aides have emphasized internally that they want to focus on conditions in Central America that push migrants to the US southern border …
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