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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Opinion How Elise Stefanik and the GOP sanitize ‘great replacement’ ugliness  —  Nothing gets Republicans like Rep. Elise Stefanik angrier than reciting their own words back to them at a politically inconvenient moment.  So it is that the New York lawmaker is lashing out at critics who have noted …
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New York Times:
A Fringe Conspiracy Theory, Fostered Online, Is Refashioned by the G.O.P.  —  Replacement theory, espoused by the suspect in the Buffalo massacre, has been embraced by some right-wing politicians and commentators.  —  Inside a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, a white man with a history …
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
State Senator Who Backs White Nationalism Suggests Buffalo Shooting Was False Flag  —  Arizona GOP Sen. Wendy Rogers promoted a deranged conspiracy theory after 10 people were killed in what authorities say was a racist hate crime.  —  A Republican state lawmaker with ties to white nationalists suggested …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Yes, Tucker Carlson Shares Blame for the Buffalo Supermarket Attack
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
Buffalo: This is where Donald Trump's race-war fantasies lead
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court just made it much easier to bribe a member of Congress  —  A case brought by Ted Cruz is a huge boon to rich candidates and moneyed lobbyists.  —  The Supreme Court's conservative majority has been at war with campaign finance laws for more than a dozen years …
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Bloomberg:
Musk Says Twitter Deal at Lower Price Is ‘Not Out of the Question’  —  Elon Musk stoked speculation that he could seek to renegotiate his takeover of Twitter Inc., saying a viable deal at a lower price wouldn't be “out of the question.”  —  Twitter shares briefly pared losses in afternoon trading.
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
‘Like Throwing Money Down a Hole’: Kara Swisher Breaks Down Elon Musk's Chaotic Bid to Take Over Twitter  —  Kara Swisher thinks — well, knows — that Elon Musk is having second thoughts about buying Twitter for $44 billion.  —  “He has to be.  This price is too high,” she told me on the latest episode of The Interview.
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
How Often Can You Be Infected With the Coronavirus?  —  The spread of the Omicron variant has given scientists an unsettling answer: repeatedly, sometimes within months.  —  A virus that shows no signs of disappearing, variants that are adept at dodging the body's defenses …
Discussion: HotAir
Briar Napier / Oil City News:
Sen. Cynthia Lummis apologizes after ‘two sexes’ comment evokes jeers, boos at UW commencement  —  A University of Wyoming commencement speaker has apologized after a controversial statement she made in reference to sex and gender Saturday evoked jeers by some in attendance.
Discussion: The Hill, TheBlaze, IJR and YouTube
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:   Cynthia Lummis Booed For ‘Two Sexes’ Claim During Commencement Speech
City & State New York:
Draft house maps released by special master  —  The map seems to spell bad news for New York Democrats, who could have more competitive general elections than ever.  —  The court appointed, neutral special master tasked with redrawing New York's Congressional and state Senate district maps released …
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Court's Redistricting Plan Erases Democratic House Gains in New York
Discussion: TheBlaze and New York Post
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Ben Bernanke Sees ‘Stagflation’ Ahead  —  The former chairman of the Federal Reserve has a new book out on Tuesday explaining the powers of the Fed and Congress to juice or slow our economy amid a supply-chain crunch and sky-high demand.  —  Standing in his kitchen one morning in Washington …
New York Times:
Biden Approves Plan to Redeploy Several Hundred Ground Forces Into Somalia  —  The president also signed off on targeting about a dozen Shabab leaders in the war-torn country, from which Donald J. Trump largely withdrew in his final weeks in office.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden has signed …
Quartz:
Miami's mayor backed MiamiCoin crypto—then its price dropped 95%  —  On Feb. 2, the city of Miami cashed out its cryptocurrency MiamiCoin for the first time, depositing $5.25 million into city coffers.  Miami mayor Francis Suarez hailed it as a “historic moment” and predicted the cryptocurrency …
Karl Ritter / Associated Press:
Sweden ends neutrality, joins Finland in seeking NATO berth  —  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden's prime minister announced Monday that Sweden will join Finland in seeking NATO membership in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a historic shift that comes after more than 200 years of military nonalignment in the Nordic country.
Haisten Willis / Washington Examiner:
White House says Buffalo shooting is ‘abhorrent to the very fabric’ of US  —  New White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre condemned the Buffalo, New York, shooting that left 10 people dead as a racially motivated hate crime during Monday's press briefing.
Discussion: Fox News
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Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
Biden hails former police officer who tried to stop Buffalo shooting
Discussion: The Hill and Townhall
Jackson Richman / Mediaite:
WHCA Threatens Reporter Who Interrupted Psaki Briefing With Possible Expulsion in Scathing Email  —  A reporter who interrupted Friday's White House press briefing has been threatened with suspension or expulsion from the White House Correspondents Association were he to do the same again.
Roxanne Roberts / Washington Post:
Ketanji Brown Jackson on being a ‘first’ and why she loves ‘Survivor’  —  The justice-designate spoke with The Post about her career, values and historic confirmation to the high court  —  On a recent morning, Ketanji Brown Jackson spent an hour doing one of her favorite things: talking about the law with young people.
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive: Kathy Barnette Refuses to Support GOP Nominee for Senate if It Is Not Her  —  GOP U.S. Senate candidate Kathy Barnette in an interview on Monday morning refused to support the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania if she does not win the nomination on Tuesday.
Discussion: HotAir and Wall Street Journal
Washington Post:
Opinion The Washington Post guide to writing an opinion article … Each month, The Washington Post publishes dozens of op-eds from guest authors.  These articles — written by subject-matter experts, politicians, journalists and other people with something interesting to say …
Discussion: Althouse
Joshua Yaffa / New Yorker:
A Ukrainian City Under a Violent New Regime  —  How the Russian occupation transformed life in Melitopol. … It was still dark on the morning of February 24th when Ivan Fedorov, the mayor of Melitopol, a midsize city in southern Ukraine, awoke to the sound of explosions.
Lauren Windsor / #ExposeAuxin:
Wall Street's Solar Squeeze  —  Wall Street firms appear to be using trade petitions as leverage for investment returns under the guise of American manufacturing  —  Key Takeaways:  — Current solar controversy initiated in February 2022 by Auxin Solar is part of ongoing solar tariff efforts initiated …
JONATHAN TURLEY:
The GW Commencement Controversy: A Response To Rep. Susan Wild  —  This weekend, I was unable to attend our law school graduation after traveling to Utah to speak to the Federal Bar Association.  I have only missed a couple of graduations in almost 30 years of teaching.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Twitchy
Axios:
Trump partially restricts himself from using Twitter  —  Former President Trump plans to partially restrict himself from using Twitter, according to a new federal securities filing from the blank check company taking his social network, Truth Social, public.
Insider:
Trump's campaign committee dodges penalty as federal watchdog deadlocks on complaint it laundered hundreds of millions of dollars  — The Federal Election Commission has “evenly divided” on a case involving Donald Trump's 2020 re-election committee.  — A complaint alleged …
Gizmodo:
We're Publishing the Facebook Papers.  Here's How Facebook Killed News Feed Fixes Over Fear of Conservative Backlash.  —  Facebook said it did not “build and withhold any News Feed changes based on potential impact on any one political party.”  Internal documents say otherwise.  —  Alerts
 
 
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National Review:
Madison Cawthorn Doesn't Belong in Congress
Discussion: Insider and Wall Street Journal
Charles R. Kesler / Claremont Review of Books:
The Supreme Court Leak
Discussion: Townhall
Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
Echoes of OH-11 in heated Pittsburgh House race
Discussion: Vox
Carla K. Johnson / Associated Press:
US deaths from COVID hit 1 million, less than 2 1/2 years in
Alexandra Ulmer / Reuters:
Exclusive: Former top Republican lawmaker in Colorado received leak of voting data
Discussion: Political Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
Alyssa Farah Griffin, the Ex-Trump Aide, Wants to Be America's Household Conservative
Discussion: The Hill
Associated Press:
Uyghur county in China has highest prison rate in the world
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Kurt Schrader Blasted Nancy Pelosi as “Truly a Terrible Person” While Killing Biden's Build Back Better
Frank Figliuzzi / MSNBC:
Why a grand jury looking into secret White House docs at Mar-a-Lago is so serious
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Democrats Have Little Time To Avert An Election-Eve Obamacare Premium Hike
Discussion: Families Usa
Grid News:
Larry Ellison has only tweeted once. Why is he pouring $1 billion into Elon Musk's Twitter bid?
Washington Post:
What everyone gets wrong about evangelicals and abortion