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4:55 PM ET, May 17, 2022

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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 …
Odette Yousef / NPR:
The ‘great replacement’ conspiracy theory isn't fringe anymore, it's mainstream
Discussion: New York Times, Common Dreams and IJR
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, chaos agent.  —  Mr. Musk, the world's richest man, continued creating confusion around …
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 …
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Nicholas Grossman / The Bulwark:   “Free Speech” Ought to Mean More than Mocking Trans People
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: CNN, Raw Story and Political Wire
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.
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Powell says the Fed will not hesitate to keep raising rates until inflation comes down  — Fed Chair Jerome Powell said he will back interest rate increases until prices start falling back toward a healthy level.  — “If that involves moving past broadly understood levels of neutral …
Discussion: Forbes and Wall Street Journal
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Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
Retail sales rise 0.9% in April as consumers show resilience
Discussion: Al Jazeera and WTOP News
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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Aaron Morrison / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Black Lives Matter has $42 million in assets
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
‘A trial about privilege’: Durham and Sussmann lawyers clash in opening to trial  —  The trial against Democratic cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann kicked into high gear Tuesday morning, as prosecutors for special counsel John Durham accused him of “privilege.”
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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
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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Luis Martinez / ABC News:
Pentagon now reports about 400 UFO encounters: 'We want to know what's out there'
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
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
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
Walter Shapiro / Roll Call:
Biden's ‘MAGA Republicans’ is a meh-ga slogan  —  Democrats are ensnared in the campaign consultant trap  —  It is a Washington ritual so old that it probably dates back to the era when senators lived in boarding houses and any stray citizen could wander into the White House.
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.
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.
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?
Daniel Bergner / New York Times:
Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics.  She Decided to Live With Her Voices.  —  A new movement wants to shift mainstream thinking away from medication and toward greater acceptance.  —  Caroline Mazel-Carlton began hearing voices when she was in day care.  Mornings, by the time she was in middle school …
Discussion: Freddie deBoer, Power Line and Althouse
Brian Broome / Washington Post:
Opinion Black people want the hate to stop.  But it is only getting worse.  —  I keep telling my Black friends that it's just going to get worse.  —  I keep telling them that some White men, fed a steady diet of nonsense and statistics about the state of Whiteness in the United States …
Discussion: Twitchy and Buffalo News
Myah Ward / Politico:
Pennsylvania Senate candidate Fetterman will have heart procedure after stroke  —  Lt. Gov. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania will have a procedure on Tuesday to implant a pacemaker after suffering from a stroke last week, according to a statement from his campaign.
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 …
Eugene Daniels / Politico:
Kamala Harris wants to get out of D.C. more.  But she literally can't.  —  On Sunday afternoon, Vice President Kamala Harris led an American delegation to the United Arab Emirates to express condolences after the death of the federation's president.  By Monday morning, she was on her way home.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and IJR
 
 
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Tim Scott / Washington Post:
Opinion Tim Scott: Abortion is not the way to help single Black mothers
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Jessica Brown / WXIA-TV:
Early voting for Georgia's 2022 primary election continues with record turnout
Discussion: National Review
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
The Buffalo Blame Game
Discussion: HotAir and Based Politics
Reuters:
Russian parliament to consider ban on exchanging Ukrainian Azov prisoners
Discussion: The Hill and nationalinterest.org
Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
Blinken speaks with Brittney Griner's wife as WNBA star's imprisonment in Russia continues
Discussion: HuffPost and The Hill
Miami Herald:
Biden will ease sanctions on Venezuela for Maduro commitment to dialogue with Guaidó
 Earlier Items: 
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
GOP Rep. Pushes Bizarre Bill to ‘Expunge’ Trump's Jan. 6 Impeachment
Discussion: Political Wire
Politico:
Hill Dems back-burner Ginni Thomas even as Supreme Court grabs national attention
Discussion: Raw Story
David Badash / Raw Story:
Republicans block bill to stop price gouging at the pump as gas hits new record high
Discussion: Washington Times
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.
Washington Post:
Facebook quietly bankrolled small, grassroots groups to fight its battles in Washington
Washington Post:
Inside the Jan. 6 committee, key questions remain as hearings loom
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
FBI Records Reveal Matt Gaetz Was in Chaos Mode as Scandal Broke
Discussion: Raw Story