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Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
Auto Scrap Billionaire Who Paid To Send National Guard To Southern Border Sounds Off On Why He Did It  —  The auto scrap billionaire who is funding South Dakota's deployment of national guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border told TPM in an interview that he was making the contribution because …
Discussion: Insider, Fox News, Argus Leader and Townhall
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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
South Dakota governor sending National Guard to Mexico border on mission funded by GOP megadonor  —  South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) will deploy up to 50 National Guard troops to the southern U.S. border, her office said Tuesday, with a highly unusual caveat — the mission will be funded by a …
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Billionaire GOP megadonor funding South Dakota's troop deployment to border  —  The Oklahoma-born Johnson is estimated to be worth $2.2 billion, per Forbes.
Discussion: KSFY/KDLT and Talking Points Memo
Steve Beynon / Military.com:
Billionaire GOP Mega-Donor Funds National Guard Mission to US-Mexico Border
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Eric Adams Says He's the ‘Face of the New Democratic Party.’ Is He Right?  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  On the Democratic side of the New York mayoral contest, Eric Adams, the African-American former police captain …
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Katie Glueck / New York Times:
New York Mayor's Race in Chaos After Elections Board Counts 135,000 Test Ballots
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News doesn't believe Tucker Carlson  —  In January 2013, the New York Times disclosed that its computer systems had been infiltrated by Chinese hackers.  Before issuing its report, the Times worked with AT&T, hired a computer security firm and took other precautions.  That process took several months.
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Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
Most advertisers have dumped Tucker Carlson — why he's still on TV ?  —  If you've been enjoying ad-free PRESS RUN since its launch, or just recently became a reader, please consider subscribing for $6 a month to support fearless media commentary.  Thanks!  —  Stay healthy. Be kind.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
David Harsanyi / National Review:
Tucker Carlson Says the NSA Is Spying on Him. Sadly, It's Plausible
Discussion: Fox News, Townhall and HotAir
Fox News:
Tucker Carlson: NSA is spying on this show
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Nutso in New York  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  POLITICO New York's Joe Anuta and David Giambusso, in a story that posted at 11:31 p.m.: “Tallies released Tuesday afternoon indicated that KATHRYN GARCIA had come within 2.2 points of leading Democratic candidate ERIC ADAMS after ranked-choice tabulations were processed.
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:   ‘Right-Wing Death Squad’: Active-Duty Marine Plotted to Bomb DNC, Murder Black People, Feds Say
Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
Supreme Court allows eviction ban to remain in place  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled to keep the federal eviction moratorium to in place, in a 5-4 decision in which Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined with liberals.  —  The decision is a blow …
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court allows coronavirus eviction moratorium to remain in place
Discussion: New York Times and UPI
John Fritze / USA Today:
Supreme Court permits federal eviction moratorium to remain in place
Discussion: HotAir and Townhall
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Trump: Herschel Walker will run for Senate in Georgia  —  Former President Donald Trump said Georgia Bulldog football great Herschel Walker told him he was going to run for U.S. Senate, a decision that would make him the front-runner in the chaotic race against Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock.
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Brittany Gibson / Politico:
Trump says Herschel Walker will run for Georgia Senate seat in 2022
Max Eden / RealClearPolicy:
Stop Gaslighting Parents on Critical Race Theory  —  Proponents of Critical Race Theory are resorting to semantic gaslighting to defend a dogma that most Americans instinctively abhor.  —  Some pundits claim that CRT is exclusively a school of thought taught in legal academia.
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Robby Soave / Reason:
Critical Race Theory Can't Be Banned. It Can Be Exposed, Mocked, and Avoided.
Discussion: Washington Post
David Keltz / The American Spectator:
Biden Executive Order Promotes Critical Race Theory
Discussion: New York Post and HotAir
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Infrastructure and McConnell's Theory of Midterm Politics  —  Mitch McConnell is more afraid of a big, party line bill than a smaller, bipartisan one, Democrats should take heed  —  Mitch McConnell is the physical embodiment of everything people hate about politics — self-interested, cynical, corrupt, and dishonest.
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Cameron Jenkins / The Hill:
McConnell says Biden would be his ‘desert island’ Democratic president
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, NBC News and IJR
Politico:
Dems fret that GOP could tap pro-Trump chaos agents for Jan. 6 probe  —  The House is set to vote Wednesday to create a select committee on the Capitol attack, but Republicans might choose firebrand conservatives to undercut the effort.  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, seen …
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
No. 3 House Democrat Steps Into Ohio Race to Head Off a Sanders Acolyte  —  The decision by Representative James Clyburn to oppose an outspoken ally of Senator Bernie Sanders in a special election in Cleveland highlights the generational and ideological gulf in the Democratic Party.
Discussion: Fox News, The Daily Poster and The Hill
Washington Post:
Video, images and interviews deepen questions about role of pool deck in condo collapse  —  Your browser does not support the video element.  —  A Washington Post examination of video and images from the deadly collapse of a high-rise apartment building outside Miami …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Murkowski has the moxie to take on Trump.  Will she?  —  The Alaska Republican swatted her GOP challenger, boosted by the ex-president, as “somebody with a pulse.”  But she's also mum about reelection.  —  Sen. Lisa Murkowski: “The Republican Party that I am proud to call myself a member of ... still is out there.”
Howard Koplowitz / al.com:
Trump rally in Mobile's Battleship Park cancelled amid concerns of ‘partisan political event’: Report  —  Plans for former President Donald Trump to return July 4th weekend to the city many credited with lending legitimacy to his 2016 campaign after USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park commissioners reportedly …
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
January 6 Clearinghouse  —  Welcome to this all-source, public resource for analysts, researchers, investigators, journalists, educators, and the public at large.  —  If you think the January 6 Clearinghouse is missing something, please send recommendations for additional content by email to Jan6Clearinghouse@justsecurity.org.
CBS News:
Trump legal team expects charges against company in coming days  —  Washington — Ronald Fischetti, a lawyer representing former President Trump in his stand-off with New York prosecutors, expects the Manhattan District Attorney's Office to bring criminal charges against Mr. Trump's company …
Discussion: Vanity Fair, KRDO and Raw Story
 
 
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Ban Ki-moon / Financial Times:
US should back a new approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Justin Hendrix / Just Security:
Assessing Parler's Letter Documenting Warnings It Gave FBI of Jan. 6 Attack
Discussion: Lawfare
Mike Ives / New York Times:
Beyond Tulsa, Overlooked Race Massacres Draw New Focus
HHS News releases:
American Rescue Plan Lowers Health Insurance Costs for Americans Who May Have Lost Their Job
Discussion: ACA Signups
Jacob M. Schlesinger / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Weighs New Executive Order Restraining Big Business
Discussion: Political Wire
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Zac Houston / House Republican Leader:
McCarthy Unveils Republican Task Forces, Announces Leaders and Members
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Janna Karel / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Transgender woman captures Miss Nevada USA pageant
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
A New Darkness Falls on the Trump Movement
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
 

 
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Matthew Connatser / The Register:
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