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5:30 PM ET, May 13, 2022

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Michael Kruse / Politico:
'He's Not OK': The Entirely Predictable Unraveling of Madison Cawthorn  —  HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. — In August of 2015, 16 months after the accident that nearly killed him and left him unable to walk, Madison Cawthorn exchanged text messages with the friend who had fallen asleep at the wheel and careened into a concrete wall.
Discussion: Raw Story and Twitchy
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CNN:
GOP looks to marginalize Cawthorn if he wins Tuesday primary  —  (CNN)Republicans are publicly and privately rooting for Rep. Madison Cawthorn to lose his North Carolina primary race on Tuesday.  But they're also preparing for an alternate scenario: how to deal with the embattled freshman …
Adam Satariano / New York Times:
Musk Says His Twitter Takeover Is ‘On Hold,’ Then Says He's ‘Still Committed’  —  Mr. Musk said he wanted to confirm Twitter's findings that spam and fake accounts make up less than 5 percent of its users.  —  Elon Musk escalated the drama surrounding his $44 billion bid to purchase Twitter on Friday …
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Washington Post:
Elon Musk tweeted that Twitter deal is temporarily on hold  —  The Tesla CEO, who has been seeking Twitter investors as his EV company sheds $400 billion in value, later says that he's ‘still committed’ to the acquisition  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk tweeted early Friday that his $44 billion bid …
Meredith Lee / Politico:
‘Unconscionable’: Pelosi vows action on infant formula shortages  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday that Democrats on Capitol Hill would take several steps to address an infant formula shortage as political pressure grows from parents struggling to find the critical nutrition for their children.
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Margaret Atwood / The Atlantic:
I Invented Gilead.  The Supreme Court Is Making It Real.  —  In the early years of the 1980s, I was fooling around with a novel that explored a future in which the United States had become disunited.  Part of it had turned into a theocratic dictatorship based on 17th-century New England Puritan religious tenets and jurisprudence.
Discussion: Raw Story and Substack
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
We wanted to endorse in Republican primaries this year.  We can't.  —  With Pennsylvania voters headed to the polls Tuesday to choose the Republican and Democratic candidates for governor and U.S. Senate, it's as if the primaries are occurring on two different planets.On the Republican side …
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
White House prepares to ration vaccines as Covid funding impasse looms  —  A painful and foreboding reality is setting in for the White House as it enters a potentially dangerous stretch of the Covid fight: It may soon need to run its sprawling pandemic response on a shoestring budget.
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Alyssa Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Gov. Abbott, taking formula from migrant babies would be illegal — and vicious  —  In the debate over how to address the widespread shortage of infant formula in the United States, some Republicans have advanced a novel — and ugly — idea: Take food from migrant babies in federal detention and give it to American children.
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Brian Fung / CNN:
Texas has declared open season on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube with censorship law  —  (CNN)Texas residents can now sue Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for allegedly censoring their content after a federal appeals court sided Wednesday with the state's law restricting how social media sites can moderate their platforms.
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Washington Post:
The Technology 202: The future of social media could be decided by the Supreme Court
Discussion: Protocol
Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk Trolls Twitter  —  Programming note: Money Stuff was supposed to be off today, but then my boss, Elon Musk, called me in to work anyway.  —  Oh Elon  —  No, absolutely not:  —  None of this!  Come on.  — “Temporarily on hold” is not a thing.
U.S. Department of Defense:
Readout of Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III's Call With Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoygu  —  Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby provided the following readout:  —  On May 13, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke with Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoygu for the first time since February 18.
Discussion: VICE, NPR, Snow on the Horizon and Axios
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Austin speaks with Russian counterpart for first time since start of war in Ukraine
Washington Post:
More Republicans are working to undermine Trump endorsements  —  Some GOP leaders have been actively campaigning — or quietly maneuvering — against Trump's picks in a way that could threaten his sway over the party  —  Before a roomful of Republican donors Monday, House Minority Leader …
Discussion: New York Times and Political Wire
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Pence to headline Georgia rally for Kemp in new break with Trump
Politico:
Zinke's wife declaring primary residence in California as he runs in Montana  —  Ryan Zinke, the former Trump Interior secretary now running for Congress again in Montana, has long faced questions about whether he lives in the state or in California.  —  Now, new tax records uncovered …
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Scoop: New Trump venture  —  Donald Trump has found a new way to milk his ex-presidency — and test another — hitting the lucrative motivational speaking circuit with more fervor than any other active U.S. politician in history. … - It's privately run — and, according to organizers, it's driving huge audience interest.
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Washington Post:
Biden sees a new threat: ‘ultra MAGA’ Republicans  —  The president has taken to using the term to warn of Republican extremism.  Some Trump followers have embraced it.  —  Last Wednesday, during a speech on the economy, President Biden coined a new phrase — “ultra MAGA.”
Discussion: Political Wire
Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
How Not To Change Your Mind  —  The curious case of Bill Kristol's ideological transformation  —  If you live long enough, and haven't been lobotomized, you'll change a lot of your views and opinions.  Life does that.  The world changes; you change; and for most people …
Jason Groves / mailplus.co.uk:
Boris: Working from home doesn't work  —  EXCLUSIVE: In my experience you make a coffee, go to the fridge, hack off a piece of cheese and walk very slowly back to your computer, PM tells Mail  —  WORKING from home doesn't work, Boris Johnson said today - as he called for a return to the workplace to ‘drive up productivity’.
Char Adams / NBC News:
Bodycam video shows deputies searching Black women's lacrosse team's personal items  —  Bodycam video contradicts sheriff's statement on lacrosse team search  —  Newly released body camera footage of Georgia sheriff's deputies stopping a majority-Black lacrosse team's bus shows …
Discussion: Reason, delawareonline and Raw Story
Libs of TikTok:
Kindergartners sent home with masturbation assignment  —  Yes.  You read that right.  —  Libs of TikTok  —  Four-year-olds at an Alert Bay, British Columbia school were reportedly given this homework assignment on touching their private body parts.  The worksheet asks students …
Discussion: Townhall
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Pro-Democracy Argument Against Roe Falters When It Meets Reality  —  A significant part of the case against Roe v. Wade is that the Supreme Court was wrong to intervene in 1973 to recognize a constitutional right to abortion while the democratic process was still playing out.
president.columbia.edu:
Jelani Cobb Appointed Dean of Columbia Journalism School  —  Dear fellow members of the Columbia community:  —  It is with great pleasure that I write to announce my appointment of Jelani Cobb as the next Dean of Columbia Journalism School, as of August 1, 2022.
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
‘He absolutely betrayed me’: Steve Schmidt tells all about John McCain  —  This week on Playbook Deep Dive, we sat down over Zoom with Steve Schmidt, the architect of the late Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential run, to hear what amounts to an untold chapter of that exhaustively chronicled campaign.
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Examiner
Amy Walter / Cook Political Report:
Electability Argument Falling Flat in 2022  —  For the last six years, the one thing that has kept the Democratic Party unified and motivated is Donald Trump.  Fear and loathing got Democrats to turn out in the 2018 midterms, and kept those voters engaged in 2020.
Associated Press:
Detention of WNBA's Griner in Moscow extended for 1 month  —  MOSCOW (AP) — The lawyer for WNBA star Brittney Griner said Friday her pre-trial detention in Russia has been extended by one month.  —  Alexander Boykov told The Associated Press he believed the relatively short extension …
Associated Press:
Biden raised $7.8M since March ahead of bigger money push  —  POTOMAC, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden 's motorcade sped through the evening rush hour-choked streets of Washington earlier this week bound for Maryland Rep. David Trone's spacious estate close to the Potomac River.
Discussion: Political Wire
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Robert C. McFarlane, Top Reagan Aide in Iran-Contra Affair, Dies at 84  —  As national security adviser, he pleaded guilty in an illegal scheme to aid Nicaraguan rebels in the 1980s.  Guilt-ridden, he attempted suicide.  —  Robert C. McFarlane, a former decorated Marine officer who rose …
 
 
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Rebecca Ratcliffe / The Guardian:
‘Lost’ Picasso spotted in Imelda Marcos's home after son's election win
UMass Amherst:
Over Two-thirds of Republicans Think President Biden Should be Impeached if the GOP Retakes the House, According to New National UMass Amherst Poll
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
The Crypto Crash Is Just the Start
Barnini Chakraborty / Washington Examiner:
Caught on voicemail: Marjorie Taylor Greene admonishes voter to ‘check yourself’
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Russian media present ‘alternate universe’ coverage of war in Ukraine: Diplomat
Discussion: The Hill and National Review
Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
Biden's battling one energy price nightmare. Here comes another.
Discussion: HotAir, Utility Dive and CBS News
University of Chicago Press:
The Paradox of Democracy  —  Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion
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Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Sanctions Shed Light on Putin's Private Life
Assistant Secretary / HHS.gov:
Fact Sheet: Helping Families Find Formula During the Infant Formula Shortage
Lillian Rizzo / Wall Street Journal:
Inside the Collapse of CNN+, the News Channel's ‘Apollo Mission’
heinrich.senate.gov:
N.M. Congressional Democrats Call On President Biden To Expedite Solar Tariff Investigation Impacting Jobs, Investments In New Mexico
Salon:
“Traditional” Catholics and white nationalist “groypers” forge a new far-right youth movement
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Georgia county under scrutiny after claim of post-election breach
Discussion: Daily Kos and Political Wire