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10:15 AM ET, May 2, 2022

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New York Times:
Russian Tycoon Criticized Putin's War.  Retribution Was Swift.  —  Oleg Y. Tinkov was worth more than $9 billion in November, renowned as one of Russia's few self-made business tycoons after building his fortune outside the energy and minerals industries that were the playgrounds of Russian kleptocracy.
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BBC:
Israel outrage at Sergei Lavrov's claim that Hitler was part Jewish  —  Israel has reacted with fury after Russia's foreign minister claimed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood”.  —  Sergei Lavrov made the comments to try to justify Russia's portrayal of Ukraine as “Nazi” despite the fact that its president is Jewish.
Reuters:
Lavrov Compares Ukraine's Zelenskyy to Hitler, Who Also ‘Had Jewish Blood’  —  Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview on Italian television on Sunday that the fact Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish does not negate the Nazi elements in his country.
CNN:
Russians plunder $5M farm vehicles from Ukraine — to find they've been remotely disabled  —  (CNN)Russian troops in the occupied city of Melitopol have stolen all the equipment from a farm equipment dealership — and shipped it to Chechnya, according to a Ukrainian businessman in the area.
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
New York Times:
Russia's top officer visited the front line to change the offensive's course, U.S. and Ukraine officials say.
New York Times:
Long lines at Ukrainian gas stations reveal just the tip of a looming crisis.
Discussion: ABC News and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Big majority of Americans back sanctions on Russia, aid to Ukraine, poll finds
Discussion: The Hill and ABC News
Peter Pomerantsev / The Atlantic:
‘We Can Only Be Enemies’  —  When the Russian army first began shelling Lukashivka …
Discussion: The Dispatch
Scott Dworkin / Newsweek:
There's No Choice in the Midterms.  The Democrats Are the Only Side Defending Democracy  —  , EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE DEMOCRATIC COALITION  —  As we get closer and closer to November's midterm elections, doomsday predictions about a bloodbath for Democrats have come to dominate the news.
Discussion: Salon
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Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Bidenworld wants to make the midterms more about Trump and hopes Elon Musk helps  —  President Joe Biden and fellow Democrats have struggled to overcome historical headwinds and worrisome economic trends in the lead-up to the midterms.  —  So aides are scheming up something else …
Discussion: Associated Press and CNN
David Remnick / New Yorker:
A Role Model for the Midterms
Discussion: Political Currents
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Disney vs. DeSantis Is the Future of Politics  —  This is how a culture war death spirals.  —  The drama in Florida between Governor Ron DeSantis and the Walt Disney Company has taken so many unusual turns in so little time that providing a truly straightforward account of what's transpired is not easy.
Discussion: Based and Reformed
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Marc Caputo / NBC News:   DeSantis eyes big Florida win in November as a White House springboard
Wall Street Journal:   Disney's Clash With Florida Has CEOs on Alert
Washington Free Beacon:
The Nurse Ratched of Disinformation  —  LOL.  —  When we first heard Alejandro Mayorkas announce a Department of Homeland Security “Disinformation Governance Board,” we thought he was trolling.  Then he said Nina Jankowicz, best known as TikTok's “Mary Poppins of Disinformation,” would head it.
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Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:   The New Disinformationists  —  We have seven more months before the midterms.
David Siders / Politico:
Trumpworld braces for ‘a couple of ugly nights’ in May  —  The first big test of former President Donald Trump's clout comes Tuesday in Ohio's bitterly fought Senate primary, where J.D. Vance surged into the lead after winning Trump's endorsement.  —  A Vance victory would remind his party that Trump is still king.
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New York Times:
What Democrats Don't Understand About Rural America  —  Ms. Maxmin, 29, is the youngest female state senator in Maine's history.  Mr. Woodward ran her two campaigns.  They are the authors of the forthcoming book “Dirt Road Revival,” from which this essay is adapted.
Sharyn Alfonsi / CBS News:
Parodying conspiracy theories with the Birds Aren't Real movement  —  There have always been conspiracy theories: the moon landings were fake, Elvis is alive, Paul is dead.  But as disinformation has sprouted across the internet, more malicious conspiracy theories have entered our homes, workplaces and even the halls of Congress.
Discussion: Freddie deBoer
The Daily Beast:
Trump Organization Accused of Hiding Witness Who Knew if Trump Lied  —  There's a new witness in a civil case against the Trump Organization.  And this witness could help show that Trump was lying.  —  Of all Donald Trump's legal problems, the lawsuit over the way his company's security guards beat …
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike Allen / Axios:
First look: Jared Kushner to publish White House memoir in August  —  Jared Kushner will be out Aug. 8 with “Breaking History: A White House Memoir,” with the publisher promising never-before-reported tales from the 2016 campaign, the Russia investigation, impeachment and COVID.
Adam Wren / Politico:
The GOP senator who faulted Trump for Jan. 6 — and lived to tell about it  —  INDIANAPOLIS — It's been nearly six years since Todd Young pulled off one of the biggest Senate upsets of 2016.  —  Now, up for reelection in barn-red Indiana, the former chair of the Republican Senate campaign arm …
Kevin Landrigan / UnionLeader.com:
Stepdaughter: William Loeb sexually molested me as young child  —  Ending an almost 70-year public silence, William Loeb's stepdaughter said last week that the late iconic publisher of the Union Leader sexually molested her repeatedly when she was 7 years old.
Discussion: Media Nation
 
 
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