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9:35 PM ET, March 12, 2022

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Sam Metz / Associated Press:
Justice Thomas slams cancel culture, ‘packing’ Supreme Court  —  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said he's concerned efforts to politicize the court or add additional justices may erode the institution's credibility, speaking Friday in Utah at an event hosted …
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
supreme court could be ‘compromised’ by politics
Sarah Hepola / The Atlantic:
The Things I'm Afraid to Write About  —  One evening, I sat on the brown-leather couch of a younger man who admired me for my writing, and maybe other things, if the salty text messages were true.  He came from a different generation, but I was pleased to discover that he shared …
Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Missiles target US consulate in north Iraq, no casualties  —  BAGHDAD (AP) — As many as 12 missiles were fired Sunday toward the U.S. consulate in Iraq's northern city of Irbil, Iraqi security officials said.  A U.S. defense official said missiles had been launched at the city from neighboring Iran.
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Democratic campaign chair Sean Patrick Maloney faces toughest job in politics … PHILADELPHIA — Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) has spent years preparing to helm the Democratic political operation.  —  Maloney led an investigation into the disappointing 2016 campaign.
Discussion: Townhall and The Hill
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
House Democrats Push Biden to Build a Better Midterm Message
Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal:
Using a New Cyber Tool, Westerners Have Been Texting Russians About the War in Ukraine  —  Website developed by hackers is new initiative in West's battle to counter Russia's propaganda campaign  —  People around the world are using a new website to circumvent the Kremlin's propaganda machine …
Washington Post:
Police investigated ‘unlawful entry’ onto property of White House national security aide … Law enforcement officials have been investigating an incident in which someone accessed the property of a top White House official working on U.S. sanctions against Russia, according to a police report and people familiar with the matter.
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Intelligence points to heightened risk of Russian chemical attack in Ukraine, officials say  —  MUKACHEVO, Ukraine — The United States and its allies have intelligence that Russia may be preparing to use chemical weapons against Ukraine, U.S. and European officials said Friday …
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The Times:
Kremlin arrests FSB chiefs in fallout from Ukraine chaos … A Russian spy chief is said to have been placed under house arrest in a sign that President Putin is seeking to blame the security services for the stalled invasion of Ukraine.  —  Sergey Beseda, head of the FSB's foreign intelligence branch …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
American Voters Now View Ukraine as Favorably as France, Germany and Japan  —  American voters' perceived friends and adversaries  —  As recently as a year ago, many Americans did not know what to make of Ukraine — if they knew anything about it at all.  One-third of voters couldn't say whether …
Daniella Greenbaum / Washington Post:
A Jewish girl was saved by a Ukrainian family during World War II.  Now her grandchildren are returning the favor.  —  Cousins and Ukrainian refugees Lesia Orshoko and Alona Chugai are among the millions who are running for their lives as Russian forces invade their country.
Francis Fukuyama / American Purpose:
Preparing for Defeat  —  I'm writing this from Skopje, North Macedonia, where I've been for the last week teaching one of our Leadership Academy for Development courses.  Following the Ukraine war is no different here in terms of available information, except that I'm in an adjacent time zone …
The Guardian:
Saudi Arabia executes 81 men in 24 hours  —  Officials say those executed were convicted of charges including terrorism and holding ‘deviant beliefs’  —  Saudi Arabia has executed 81 men over the past 24 hours, including seven Yemenis and one Syrian national, on charges including terrorism and holding …
BBC:
War in Ukraine: How Russia is recruiting mercenaries  —  Social media channels and private messaging groups are being used in Russia to recruit a new brigade of mercenaries to fight in Ukraine alongside the army, the BBC has learned.  —  The BBC has spoken to a serving mercenary …
New York Times:
After 2 Years of Pandemic Life, Turn Toward Normalcy Is a Shake-Up  —  As the Omicron variant recedes, cities and states with the longest mask and vaccine mandates are rapidly lifting them.  The abrupt shift has unsettled the most vigilant Americans.  —  It was two years ago …
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
US pays $2M a month to protect Pompeo, aide from Iran threat  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says it's paying more than $2 million per month to provide 24-hour security to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a former top aide, both of whom face “serious and credible” threats from Iran.
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Examiner
Amy Larson / NewsNation:
Did masks really help slow COVID-19 spread in schools?  Study says ...  SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) — Some skeptical parents and anti-mask advocacy groups questioned the necessity of forcing students and teachers to wear masks for the majority of the 2021-22 school year.
Discussion: Pure Science
Washington Post:
Putin's pre-war moves against U.S. tech giants laid groundwork for crackdown on free expression … Russian agents came to the home of Google's top executive in Moscow to deliver a frightening ultimatum last September: take down an app that had drawn the ire of Russian President Vladimir Putin within 24 hours or be taken to prison.
Eugene Daniels / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump descends on S.C. — and splits its Republican Party  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  PALMETTO STATE INTRIGUE — As President DONALD TRUMP heads to his latest political event this evening — a rally in Florence, S.C. — POLITICO's lead GOP politics reporter, Alex Isenstadt …
Discussion: Raw Story, The State and New York Times
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
That Russian Business You're Boycotting Isn't Actually Russian  —  The consumer activism that makes a vodka C.E.O. say: 'Do you know we're Latvian?'  —  They poured the liquid out — blueberry-flavored, orange-flavored and the original, face-puckering unflavored version …
Reuters:
Ukraine at ‘turning point’, Zelenskiy says as Russians regroup near Kyiv … Ukraine was at a turning point in the war with Russian forces appearing to be regroup for a possible assault on Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, as the United States imposed new sanctions on senior Kremlin officials and Russian oligarchs.
Discussion: The Guardian and Telegraph
 
 
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Washington Post:
Biden to attend first in-person fundraiser as he ramps up political activity
Discussion: CNN, Townhall and UPI
E. Jean Carroll / Ask E. Jean:
HALLELUJAH!  —  The women of America just won a major decision in Federal Court!
Discussion: Washington Post
Jon Schuppe / NBC News:
Florida fails to pass condo safety measures following Surfside collapse
Discussion: The Hill
Mac William Bishop / Rolling Stone:
U.S. Veterans Start a ‘Resistance Academy’ in Ukraine. Will It Backfire?
Discussion: RedState and The Dispatch
Casey Mattox / New York Post:
Americans feel less free, don't trust leaders post-COVID pandemic: poll
Bloomberg:
Wells Fargo Rejected Half Its Black Applicants in Mortgage Refinancing Boom
Mark Nevitt / Just Security:
Supplying Arms to Ukraine is Not an Act of War
Discussion: CNBC
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
Amid war and brutality, Ukrainians are transformed and united
Dan Zak / Washington Post:
Yacht justice: A new front in the war drags Russia's oligarchs into the spotlight
Kate Dennett / Daily Mail:
Oleg Deripaska hints at legal action over UK's brutal sanctions on Russian oligarchs as he claims there is ‘not a single fact’ to support them
Frankie M. / Florida Politics:
Esther Byrd, QAnon-adjacent defender of Jan. 6 insurrection, appointed to Florida Board of Education
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
A Trump vs. Kemp proxy war deepens in Georgia after new endorsement
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Reggie Ugwu / New York Times:
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