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11:30 AM ET, April 22, 2022

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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Is Kevin McCarthy toast?  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  For years now, through controversy after controversy, House Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY has bent over backward to stay in former President DONALD TRUMP's good graces, all to serve one major purpose: He wants to be speaker someday.
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Rachel Maddow / MSNBC:
Audio contradicts McCarthy's denial that he said he would recommend that Trump resign  —  Rachel Maddow shares audio of House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy saying that he would call Donald Trump and recommend that he resign in the wake of the January 6th attacks and with a second impeachment looming …
Nick Papantonis / WFTV:
End of Reedy Creek: Disney won't pay more taxes, but you will  —  ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — One of the biggest myths circulating on the internet is that the end of Reedy Creek will finally force Disney to pay its fair share of taxes, boosting the economies of Florida and the counties its resorts are located in.
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Robert Frank / CNBC:
Florida taxpayers could face a $1 billion Disney debt bomb if its special district status is revoked  — The Florida legislature on Thursday cleared a bill that would dissolve Disney's special improvement district, effective June 2023.  — If the special district is eliminated …
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Jan. 6 revelations will ‘blow the roof off the House,’ Rep. Jamie Raskin says  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., suggested that the House Jan. 6 committee's upcoming hearings will be dramatic and include explosive revelations that the panel has been piecing together behind the scenes for months.
Discussion: Raw Story and Truthout
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Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:   Iowa GOP open to non-Trump prospects as 2024 gets underway
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Mark Meadows was simultaneously registered to vote in three states  —  “I don't want my vote or anyone else's to be disenfranchised. ...  Do you realize how inaccurate the voter rolls are, with people just moving around? ...  Anytime you move, you'll change your driver's license …
Washington Post:
Trump says he threatened not to defend NATO against Russia  —  Former president Donald Trump on Thursday offered his most explicit statement to date that he threatened not to defend NATO allies from attacks by Russia.  —  Appearing at an event held by the Heritage Foundation in Florida …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: DHS chief concerned about lifting Title 42  —  Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has privately told members of Congress he's concerned with the Biden administration's handling of its plans to lift Title 42 on May 23, sources familiar with the conversations tell Axios.
Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Harris selects new chief of staff as top aide departs White House
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Matt Seyler / ABC News:
The battle for Donbas: Why the weapons the US is rushing to Ukraine are so critical  —  Russia hopes to surround and destroy Ukrainian forces in Donbas, officials say.  —  As Russia's military gears up for what it hopes will be a decisive victory over Ukraine in the eastern part of the country …
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Jamie McIntyre / Washington Examiner:
Five battalions worth of American howitzers heading to eastern front of Ukraine
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
‘We Build the Wall’ leaders who worked with Bannon plead guilty to fraud  —  “We Build the Wall” campaign crowd-funders Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato pleaded guilty Thursday for their roles in pocketing donations solicited to help build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.
Discussion: Justice News, Raw Story and IJR
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New York Times:
A Look Inside the Textbooks That Florida Rejected  —  The state rejected dozens of math textbooks.  The New York Times reviewed 21 of them to figure out why.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  After the Florida Department of Education rejected dozens of math textbooks last week, the big question was, Why?
Alex Abad-Santos / Vox:
How Disney found itself in the middle of a culture war  —  Ron DeSantis's political theater isn't about changing the company — it's about clout.  —  Disney doesn't like conflict.  —  Conflict means taking sides.  Conflict means making enemies.  Conflict means personally defining what's right and what's wrong.
Virginia Hume / The Dispatch:
Our Failed COVID Response  —  If, God forbid, we face another pandemic, we cannot use our COVID strategy as the baseline.  —  A February headline in the Washington Post read, “Mask Mandates didn't make much difference anyway.”  A month later, the New York Times gave us this: “Do Covid restrictions work?
Discussion: Nick Space
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Democrats, You Can't Ignore the Culture Wars Any Longer  —  Almost 60 years ago, the historian Richard Hofstadter described what he saw as the true goal of McCarthyism.  “The real function of the Great Inquisition of the 1950's was not anything so simply rational as to turn up spies or prevent espionage …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and HotAir
Washington Examiner:
How much has Earth Day cost us?  —  Rachel Carson died before the first Earth Day in 1970, but her book Silent Spring is widely acknowledged to have inspired the modern environmental movement that pushed for its creation.  Carson did not actually call for an end to all use of the pesticide DDT …
William Saletan / The Bulwark:
Sham Elections and Shameless Lies  —  The crowd that casts doubt on American votes but loves Russian referenda.  —  Every day, we learn more about politicians who conspired to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election.  Meanwhile, in Ukraine, Russia is planning phony referenda to fabricate a mandate for its occupation.
Discussion: Jacobin and Raw Story
Foreign Affairs:
Ukraine Can Win … Over the past weeks, Moscow's war on Ukraine has taken a turn.  After failing to seize Kyiv, Russian forces pulled back to Belarus and Russia, leaving behind a trail of civilian casualties, and regrouped in Ukraine's east with the aim of making additional gains in the Donbas.
BBC:
Mariupol: Satellite images suggest mass graves dug near besieged city  —  A US satellite firm says it has identified a mass burial site containing about 200 graves near Mariupol, a city Russian forces have been trying to wrest control of for weeks.  —  Maxar said its images showed an expansion of graves that began at the end of March.
Discussion: Bloomberg and Washington Post
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Politico:
‘You only win if you fight’: Will Gallego unseat Sinema?  —  This week Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza is in Arizona to dig into a few big plotlines ahead of this year's elections.  Trump narrowly lost the state in 2020, Senator Mark Kelly — the Democratic incumbent — is one of the most vulnerable senators …
Discussion: Insider
Jerusalem Demsas / The Atlantic:
Don't Let the Community Have a Say  —  Angry neighborhood associations have the power to halt the construction of vital infrastructure.  It doesn't have to be this way.  —  Development projects in the United States are subject to a process I like to call “whoever yells the loudest and longest wins.”
Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson's Confessions …:
Dear Taylor Lorenz, Brian Stelter, and the Rest of the Press— why not show the videos?  —  Are you ashamed of them?  —  Taylor Lorenz is a reporter for the Washington Post who wrote a scathing piece about the lady who runs the LibsofTikTok account.  She claims the account has wrongly …
 
 
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