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Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk Does Not Care About Spam Bots  —  Programming note: Money Stuff will be off tomorrow, back on Thursday.  Unless.  You know.  —  Oh Elon  —  Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, and an active Twitter user.  When he tweets, he gets a lot of spammy replies, many of which seem to be written by automated bots.
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New York Times:
Elon Musk says Twitter deal ‘cannot move forward’ without more information.  —  Mr. Musk called on Twitter to provide more data about the number of spam and fake accounts on the social media site.  —  Elon Musk raised further doubts about the future of his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter on Tuesday …
Lee Brown / New York Post:
Twitter engineer recorded saying ‘Commie as f-k’ staff ‘censors the right’  —  A senior Twitter engineer has been secretly recorded admitting that the social media giant is “censoring the right” — and that he and his co-workers are “Commie as f-k.”  —  “Twitter does not believe in free speech …
Nicholas Grossman / The Bulwark:   “Free Speech” Ought to Mean More than Mocking Trans People
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Most Extremist Violence in the U.S. Comes From the Political Right  —  The Buffalo killings are part of a pattern: Most extremist violence in the U.S. comes from the political right.  —  Over the past decade, the Anti-Defamation League has counted about 450 U.S. murders committed by political extremists.
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Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Fox News suddenly goes quiet on ‘great replacement’ theory after Buffalo shooting  —  Suspect was allegedly motivated by the theory, but network has barely mentioned gunman's reasoning, even after Tucker Carlson pushed the concept in more than 400 of his shows
Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Republican Senate candidates promote ‘replacement’ theory  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A half-dozen mainstream Republican Senate candidates are drawing on the “great replacement” conspiracy theory once confined to the far-right fringes of U.S. politics to court voters this campaign season …
Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Fox News' Tucker Carlson under fresh scrutiny after Buffalo mass shooting
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Racist Attack Spotlights Stefanik's Echo of Replacement Theory
Associated Press:
FBI investigating Dallas' Koreatown shooting as hate crime  —  DALLAS (AP) — Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a shooting that wounded three women in a hair salon in the city's Koreatown and federal officials have launched a hate crime investigation, authorities said Tuesday.
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NBC News:   Even ‘safe spaces’ are no sanctuary from mass shooters
Nika Shakhnazarova / New York Post:
Tax filings reveal how BLM co-founder spent charity funds  —  Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors used charity funds to pay her brother and child's father eye-watering sums of cash for various services, according to tax documents filed with the IRS.
Discussion: Ian Haworth and TheGrio
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Front Page Magazine:
How Black Lives Matter Criminals Were Enabled by the I.R.S. and the Democrat Party
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Fox News
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Senior Trump official at State met with election denial activists Jan. 6  —  The confirmation of the meeting provides new evidence of the success that the president's allies had in gaining access to top administration officials  —  On Jan. 6, 2021, around the time that thousands …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
HuffPost:
Fake Wisconsin Trump Electors, Already Under DOJ Investigation, Now Face Civil Suit, Too  —  The lawsuit accuses 10 Trump supporters of engaging in fraud and conspiracy for filling out paperwork claiming to be “duly elected.”  —  By S.V. Date  —  The fake Donald Trump electors …
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Adam Staten / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Jr. Throws Cold Water on Finland Joining NATO  —  Donald Trump Jr., a prominent and vocal member of the MAGA crowd, has some concerns when it comes to Finland possibly joining NATO.  —  On Monday morning, Trump Jr. shared his thoughts on the possibility that the European country …
Discussion: CNN and RedState
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Dinesh D'Souza's 2000 Mules Is a Hilarious Mockumentary  —  A tour de force exploring the limits of how many suckers there are willing to pay for fantasy.  —  Dinesh D'Souza's 2000 Mules is Plandemic for election truthers.  For the non-insane, it's a hilarious mockumentary.
Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Living With The Far-Right Insurgency In Idaho  —  A radical GOP faction, in open alliance with extremists, is seizing power and targeting its opponents with cruelty.  Some wonder: Is it time to leave?  —  IDAHO — White nationalist Vincent James Foxx had a new video for his nearly 70,000 subscribers …
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
You may want to watch the House UFO hearing today  —  We previewed this last week, but now the day has arrived.  Shortly after this article goes live, the House “3C” subcommittee on intelligence will open up the first congressional hearing on the subject of UFOs in more than half a century.
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Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
House Panel Opens Public Hearing on Unexplained Aerial Sightings
Bill Glauber / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alex Lasry files for extension on statement of economic interests until after Aug. 9 primary  —  This week, multimillionaire Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alex Lasry asked for a 90-day extension on filing his statement of economic interests.  —  What does it mean?
Yael Halon / Fox News:
Virginia mom suing biracial son's school over CRT curriculum says it ‘totally changed his perspective’ on race  —  Lawyer said Henley Middle School appears to be standing by divisive curriculum amid lawsuit  —  Virginia mother suing son's school over CRT curriculum
US Food and Drug Administration:
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Expands Eligibility for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Dose to Children 5 through 11 Years  —  For Immediate Release:  —  Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration amended the emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine …
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / NBC News:
FDA authorizes Pfizer Covid booster for children 5 to 11 years old
David Badash / Raw Story:
Republicans block bill to stop price gouging at the pump as gas hits new record high  —  Take a walk through U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers' tweets and you'll find complaint after complaint about the price of gas.  Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers, Republican of Washington …
Discussion: Washington Times
Jeffrey Schweers / Orlando Sentinel:
DeSantis doles out millions but fails to mention it mostly comes from Uncle Sam  —  TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis has been on a spending spree for months, taking credit for millions of dollars in federal stimulus money he's handing out to mostly rural Republican counties while at the same …
Wall Street Journal:
China Eastern Black Box Points to Intentional Nosedive  —  Flight data suggests someone in cockpit pushed Boeing 737-800 into near-vertical descent, according to a preliminary U.S. assessment  —  Search-and-rescue workers in March sorted through aircraft debris at the China Eastern crash site in southern China.
National Review:
The Buffalo Massacre  —  After an atrocity such as Saturday's mass murder at a Buffalo supermarket, in which ten people were killed and three others wounded, it takes time to gather all the information, as investigators mobilize to gather evidence, interview witnesses, and figure out what motivated the killer.
Washington Post:
Inside the Jan. 6 committee, key questions remain as hearings loom  —  The committee is reckoning with how closely to focus on former president Donald Trump  —  When the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol gathered for a private retreat last month …
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
GOP Rep. Pushes Bizarre Bill to ‘Expunge’ Trump's Jan. 6 Impeachment  —  Rep. Markwayne Mullin, who is a Senate hopeful in Oklahoma, wants to overturn the House's vote to impeach Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 riot. … Congressional Republicans have found yet another way to demonstrate …
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Buffalo Shooting Live Updates: ‘White Supremacy Is a Poison,’ Biden Says in Emotional Address  —  Biden calls on Americans to ‘take on the haters’ as he condemns racial rhetoric after the Buffalo massacre.  —  BUFFALO — President Biden on Tuesday called on Americans to “take on the haters” …
 
 
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Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
Blinken speaks with Brittney Griner's wife as WNBA star's imprisonment in Russia continues
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Miami Herald:
Biden will ease sanctions on Venezuela for Maduro commitment to dialogue with Guaidó
Politico:
Hill Dems back-burner Ginni Thomas even as Supreme Court grabs national attention
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Ban on protests in front of homes signed by Gov. DeSantis
James Fallows / New York Times:
America's Wars Are Fought by Relatively Few People. That's a Problem for Phil Klay.
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Washington Post:
Facebook quietly bankrolled small, grassroots groups to fight its battles in Washington
Tim Wallace / Telegraph:
Bank of England warns of ‘apocalyptic’ global food shortage
Discussion: Bloomberg and Insider
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
FBI Records Reveal Matt Gaetz Was in Chaos Mode as Scandal Broke
Discussion: Raw Story
KQED:
Plot to Blow Up Democratic Headquarters Exposed California Extremists Hiding in Plain Sight
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