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2:55 AM ET, June 2, 2021

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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Melanie Stansbury, a Democrat, Cruises in New Mexico House Race  —  Ms. Stansbury won a landslide victory in a special election to fill the seat vacated by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.  The result is likely to hearten national Democrats worried about the 2022 midterms.
Discussion: Axios
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Max Gowins / Decision Desk HQ:
Election Results: New Mexico 1st Congressional District Special Election  —  We have election results for the race for the open seat in New Mexico's 1st Congressional District.  The seat is open after Deb Haaland was appointed Secretary of the Interior by President Biden.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:   A More Cautious Approach To Special Elections
Max Boot / Washington Post:
The Republican plot to steal the 2024 election  —  Republicans have spent nearly seven months making bogus charges of fraud in the 2020 election under the banner of “stop the steal.”  Now they have segued into a “start the steal” offensive to ensure that they will win the 2022 and 2024 elections …
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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.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A frantic warning from 100 leading experts: Our democracy is in grave danger
Jasmine Wright / CNN:
Kamala Harris will lead Biden administration's efforts on voting rights, President says
Bloomberg:
Meat Plant Closures Are Spreading After a Cyberattack on JBS  — Some U.S. shifts canceled for Tuesday, Facebook posts show  — Sunday attack forced JBS to shut down some IT systems  —  A cyberattack on JBS SA, the world's largest meat producer, has forced the shutdown …
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Bianca Mastroianni / news.com.au:   JBS meatworks cyber attack shuts down Australia, US and Canada facilities
Joe Palazzolo / Wall Street Journal:
National Enquirer Parent, Ex-CEO Fined for Breaking Election Law in 2016 Campaign  —  FEC cites hush payment to ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal, who said she had an affair with Donald Trump  —  The publisher of the National Enquirer agreed to pay $187,500 as part of a settlement …
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
A tabloid publisher will pay a $187,500 F.E.C. penalty for its Trump hush-money payment.  —  The tabloid publishing company that paid $150,000 to a former Playboy model in 2016 to suppress her account of an alleged affair with Donald J. Trump, then a presidential candidate …
Washington Post:
Trump's company puts D.C. hotel lease up for sale, again  —  The former president's company previously considered selling the lease to its luxury Washington hotel before covid struck  —  Former president Donald Trump's company has again hired a broker to sell the lease to its D.C. hotel …
Discussion: Insider, IJR and POLITICUSUSA
Jake Lahut / Insider:
Trump is telling people he thinks he'll be ‘reinstated’ as president in August, according to a report  — Former President Donald Trump is reportedly floating another idea about unlawfully taking power.  — Trump is said to have echoed a far-right conspiracy theory that he'll be “reinstated.”
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Jacob Shamsian / Insider:
Dominion says MyPillow should be held liable for ‘MyPillow Guy’ Mike Lindell's election conspiracy theories
Discussion: Raw Story
Edmund Lee / New York Times:
‘SpongeBob’ and ‘Transformers’ Cost U.S. Taxpayers $4 Billion, Study Says  —  A new report details ViacomCBS's use of a labyrinthine tax shelter to sell rights to its shows and films overseas.  —  Dismissed by critics and devoured by fans, “Transformers: Age of Extinction” …
Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
Tulsa isn't the only race massacre you were never taught in school.  Here are others.  —  With President Biden commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre Tuesday, many Americans are learning for the first time about the nation's long history of racist massacres, particularly during …
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Jerusalem Post:
Arizona wants to use Zyklon B to execute inmates on death row  —  Hydrogen cyanide gas, named by the Third Reich as Zyklon B, was used by the Nazis to kill over a million people in the Holocaust.  The state of Arizona now wants to use it in executions.  —  The state of Arizona is preparing …
Discussion: Mediaite
Rafael Carranza / Arizona Republic:
Sinema on why she skipped vote on Jan. 6 commission: ‘I had a personal family matter’  —  TUCSON — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema broke her silence and explained Tuesday why she missed a procedural vote last week to establish a bipartisan commission to look into the U.S. Capitol riot.
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
The Conservative Media Double-Standard  —  The same people who advocated for HCQ and complain about election fraud are outraged over the lab-leak miss.  —  9 hr ago  —  1. Humanitarian Disaster  —  I want to be very clear about this: America is doing great against COVID right now.
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Flynn's Coup Talk Is a Warning About the MAGA Violence Ahead  —  IT'S HAPPENING HERE … The collapse of American democracy that Sinclair Lewis wrote about nearly a century ago as a fictional cautionary tale is what retired general Mike Flynn is calling for now.
Discussion: Mediaite and Vox
Julie K. Brown / Miami Herald:
Hedge fund guru tied to Jeffrey Epstein scandal hit with lawsuit over alleged hush money  —  A New York woman has filed a defamation lawsuit against Leon Black, alleging that the hedge fund titan sexually assaulted, harassed and intimidated her, then paid her hundreds of thousands of dollars …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and New York Post
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
Louie Gohmert Says He Isn't a QAnon Supporter, Just a Moron  —  VERY FINE PERSON … This is maybe not the compelling defense that the congressman seems to think that it is.  —  Some people spent Memorial Day at parades or BBQing with friends, but not Loonie Louie Gomhert …
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
Just How Rigged is the “Rigged Game”?  —  “The Division of Light and Power,” the new book by Dennis Kucinich, is an epic chronicle of American corruption  —  Dennis Kucinich has always been ahead of his time.  It's both his distinction and his curse.  As a presidential candidate in the 2000s …
Alon Pinkas / Haaretz:
Police release tear gas into a crowd of pro-Trump protesters during clashes at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, in January.Credit: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters  —  Much has been written, dissected, said and analyzed about the similarities between former U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ben Samuels / Haaretz:
Sen. Graham Says Israel Plans to Ask for $1b in U.S. Aid Following Gaza Fighting  —  In a visit to southern Israel, the Republican lawmaker tells Fox & Friends aid money would be used ‘to replenish the Iron Dome batteries that were used to defend Israel’ ■ Defense Minister Gantz expected in Washington
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Hunter Walker / The Uprising:
PHOTO: Trump Met Man Who Helped Organize ‘Patriot Caravans’ On January 6  —  Good morning!  It's time to get up!  —  HOUSEKEEPING: Before we get started, a little programming note — The Uprising is normally going to be free for all readers on Monday and Thursday while the other two issues each week …
Discussion: Breitbart
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
TSMC Says Construction of Arizona Chip Plant Is ‘Well Underway’  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said it's moving forward with plans to build a $12 billion chip plant in Phoenix, a step toward addressing U.S. concerns over reliability and security in the tech supply chain.
Trisha Thadani / San Francisco Chronicle:
Mayor Breed wants to add more than $1 billion to fighting homelessness in San Francisco over next two years  —  Mayor London Breed is proposing more than $1 billion in new funding to address homelessness over the next two years — a staggering amount that she hopes will finally make a dent in San Francisco's most vexing problem.
Washington Post:
Biden administration to cancel oil and gas leases in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge  —  The Interior Department will suspend several oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Tuesday, according to three individuals briefed on the decision, overturning one of Donald Trump's …
Ron Hurtibise / Sun-Sentinel:
80% of cruise enthusiasts would prefer to sail with vaccine requirement  —  Eighty percent of likely cruisers want to resume sailing on ships that require vaccinations, according to a survey conducted over the Memorial Day weekend by the consumer-focused travel website CruiseCritic.com.
Discussion: HotAir
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Google Diversity Head Said Jews Have ‘Insatiable Appetite for War’  —  In a 2007 blog Kamau Bobb had harsh words for Jews and the Jewish state  —  Google's head of diversity strategy said in a 2007 blog post that Jews have an “insatiable appetite for war” and an “insensitivity to the suffering [of] others.”
Jewish Insider:
Ben Rhodes joins Jewish Insider's ‘Limited Liability Podcast’  —  Rhodes talks with Rich and Jarrod about his new book, the Iran deal and his own definition of Zionism  —  On this week's episode of Jewish Insider's “Limited Liability Podcast,” co-hosts Richard Goldberg and Jarrod Bernstein …
 
 
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Sharon Otterman / New York Times:
Will the Excelsior Pass, New York's Vaccine Passport, Catch On?
Discussion: The Wrap and The Hill
Rich Lowry / National Review:
We Were Never Afraid to Say the Virus Could Have Come from the Wuhan Lab
Leana Wen / Washington Post:
We need to investigate the lab-leak theory — without inflaming anti-Asian hate
Barbara Starr / CNN:
Pentagon reviewing policy that could open door to Pride flags being displayed at bases
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Hill
Richard Hanania / Richard Hanania's Newsletter:
Woke Institutions is Just Civil Rights Law
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds move to drop charges for Capitol riot defendant
 Earlier Items: 
Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
Christian Billionaires Are Funding a Push to Kill the Equality Act
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Secret Service Spending $34,000 on Fancy Porta Potties in Bedminster This Summer
Discussion: Insider
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Iran Rearming Hamas with ‘Thousands of New Rockets’
Discussion: farsnews.ir
NBC New York:
Zero New COVID Deaths in NYC, All-Time Low Positivity Rate as More Vaccine Prizes Debut
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
Global Shortages During Coronavirus Reveal Failings of Just in Time Manufacturing
 

 
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Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider:
Columbia University's student radio station WKCR deftly covered live news late on April 30 as police entered the campus, amplified via Instagram Live and Twitch

Matt Pearce:
A California state senator unveils a bill to impose a data-mining fee on Big Tech companies to fund $500M a year in local journalism jobs through tax credits

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Audible tests a lower-priced AU$8.99/month tier, Audible Standard, in Australia, without credits that roll over, as Spotify expands its audiobook offerings
 
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