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Dennis Aftergut / Slate:
The Clearest Evidence Yet of Donald Trump's Criminal Intent on Jan. 6  —  On Tuesday, Bob Woodward and Robert Costa reported in the Washington Post that the House select committee investigating Jan. 6 has the White House presidential phone log, and it shows a seven-hour gap in the record of his communications that fateful day.
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Politico:
Feds prepare ‘disclosure’ on figure at heart of pro-Trump Jan. 6 conspiracy theory  —  The Justice Department is compiling information to share with defendants about Ray Epps, an Arizona man who has been the focus of Jan. 6 conspiracy theories pushed by former President Donald Trump, his allies in Congress and right-wing media figures.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Three big takeaways from Trump's missing Jan. 6 phone logs
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
What if Putin Didn't Miscalculate?  —  The conventional wisdom is that Vladimir Putin catastrophically miscalculated.  —  He thought Russian-speaking Ukrainians would welcome his troops.  They didn't.  He thought he'd swiftly depose Volodymyr Zelensky's government.  He hasn't.  He thought he'd divide NATO.
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Wendell Steavenson / The Economist:
“I see their faces”: a saboteur hunter in Kyiv remembers his victims  —  Sasha worries that killing Russians is corroding his soul  —  On the first day of the war, Sasha woke up to the sound of bombing at 4am.  It was roughly “the same time that Hitler began his invasion” of the Soviet Union in 1941, he told me.
Cora Engelbrecht / New York Times:
Accounts of Russian Rapes Are Growing, Ukraine Officials Say  —  The crime first came to light last week, when Ukraine's prosecutor general, Iryna Venediktova, said in a Facebook post that a Russian soldier had killed an unarmed civilian and then repeatedly raped his wife.
Discussion: The Times and CNN
New York Times:   Once the Children Got Hungry, ‘the Fire Was Gone From Their Eyes’
Jacqueline Thomsen / Reuters:   Russian oligarch Deripaska loses U.S. court battle to lift sanctions
Bloomberg:
U.S. Households Face $5,200 Inflation Tax This Year  —  Paying More  —  Inflation means the average U.S. household has to spend an extra $5,200 this year  —  Notes: This chart shows our estimate of the inflation cost for each income quintile assuming differential inflation rates facing each income group …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
What Is Ginni Thomas?  —  “Activist” is a euphemism for “silly woman with a powerful spouse.”  —  1. An Open Secret  —  Here is a secret no one in Washington is willing to say out loud: Ginni Thomas is an idiot.  The only reason she was texting the president's chief of staff instead …
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John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
Is Ginni Thomas a paranoid conspiracy theorist with prior knowledge of the J6 ‘coup in search of a legal theory’?
Discussion: RedState, NBC News and Fox News
Callie Patteson / New York Post:
AOC: Clarence Thomas should resign or face impeachment over wife's texts
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Cawthorn's orgies-and-drugs comment stirs trouble within Freedom Caucus  —  Kevin McCarthy isn't the only senior Republican who wants to have a talk with Rep. Madison Cawthorn about his claim that some of his colleagues invited him to orgies and used cocaine.
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Washington Post:
Cawthorn's ‘orgies’ line shows how right-wing politics can boomerang  —  It takes a lot to get Republican members of Congress angry at one of their own.  But Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) managed to do it, not just by being a uniquely repugnant figure, but also by claiming to reveal …
Jordan Boyd / The Federalist:
Senators Release Receipts Showing Direct Payments From Foreign Oligarchs To Hunter Biden  —  Shortly after The New York Times quietly admitted that Hunter Biden's laptop is legitimate even though it was smeared as “disinformation” to protect then-candidate Joe Biden during the 2020 election …
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John Solomon / Just The News:
Exclusive: Trump calls on Putin to release info on Hunter Biden's dealings with oligarchs
Antoinette Siu / Yahoo Entertainment:
Trump's Truth Social App Plummets in Traffic, Sees 93% Drop in Signups Since Launch Week (Exclusive)  —  Former president Donald Trump's Truth Social app is seeing a 93% drop in signups and similarly steep decline in traffic after a rocky rollout last month fraught with technical issues …
Kurt Erickson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
St. Louis beer heiress joins race for U.S. Senate  —  JEFFERSON CITY — St. Louis beer heiress Trudy Busch Valentine joined the heated race for Missouri's U.S. Senate seat Monday.  —  The move triggered former state Sen. Scott Sifton, who had represented south St. Louis County …
Kurt Bardella / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed: CBS News giving Mick Mulvaney a paid contributor gig is an act of journalistic malpractice  —  From mid-December 2018 through early March 2020, Mick Mulvaney, a former member of Congress from South Carolina, served as President Trump's acting chief of staff.
Roxane Gay / New York Times:
Will Smith Was Wrong, but Being Thin-Skinned Is Not  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Dr. Gay, a contributing Opinion writer, is the editor of “The Selected Works of Audre Lorde” and the author of the memoir “Hunger,” among others.  Her book “How to Be Heard” is forthcoming.
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
‘Significant’ evidence suggests Trump Organization misstated asset values for more than a decade, NY AG says  — The New York Attorney General's probe of the Trump Organization “uncovered significant evidence” suggesting that the company's financial statements for more than a decade relied …
Discussion: UPI and Raw Story
David Kihara / Politico:
DeSantis says Disney ‘crossed the line’ in calling for 'Don't Say Gay' repeal  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday lashed out at the Walt Disney Co. and “California corporate executives” after the company said Florida's “Parental Rights in Education bill” — dubbed “Don't Say Gay” by opponents — should be repealed.
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Patrice Taddonio / FRONTLINE:
Who Fueled Donald Trump's Stolen Election Myth?  —  In partnership with:  —  In the days and weeks after the November 2020 U.S. presidential election, correspondent A.C. Thompson, who has been reporting on far-right extremism for FRONTLINE and ProPublica for years, was in Washington, D.C., covering clashes in the streets.
Discussion: Democracy Now, ProPublica and Raw Story
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
David Perdue says he misunderstood ‘lock him up’ chants about Brian Kemp  —  Republican David Perdue said he “misunderstood” the Donald Trump supporters who chanted about imprisoning Gov. Brian Kemp when he smiled and flashed them a thumbs-up sign at the former president's rally.The former U.S. senator …
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Poll: Trump leads Biden, Harris in 2024 match-ups  —  Former President Trump is leading President Biden in a hypothetical 2024 match-up, according to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey released exclusively to The Hill on Monday.  —  If the 2024 presidential election were held right now …
Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
An ex-college football player admitted to rape.  He was given probation.  —  Derek Nygaard wanted to go into his ex-girlfriend's Butte, Mont., home in the fall of 2020, and because he was drunk and struggling to walk, she let him in, a prosecutor said in court documents.
Discussion: Raw Story
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Manchin shoots down Biden's new billionaire tax plan  —  Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Tuesday shot down President Biden's new plan to raise $360 billion in revenue by imposing a 20 percent minimum tax on billionaires, a proposal the president formally unveiled Monday in his budget request to Congress.
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Two former U.S. officials help ethics probe of Trump ally Clark, source says  —  The top two U.S. Justice Department officials in the waning days of Donald Trump's presidency are cooperating with a Washington legal body's ethics probe of their former colleague Jeffrey Bossert Clark …
 
 
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Melissa Brown / USA Today:
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