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12:55 PM ET, May 19, 2022

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Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
US intel shows Russians fear Mariupol abuse will backfire  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has gathered intelligence that shows some Russian officials have become concerned that Russian forces in the ravaged port city of Mariupol are carrying out grievous abuses, a U.S official familiar with the findings said Wednesday.
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Timothy Snyder / New York Times:
Russia's War on Ukraine Shows That It Is Fascist  —  Dr. Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and the author of many books on fascism, totalitarianism and European history.  —  Fascism was never defeated as an idea.  —  As a cult of irrationality and violence …
New York Times:
U.S. Eyeing Russian Energy Sanctions Over Ukraine War, Officials Say  —  BERLIN — The Biden administration is developing plans to further choke Russia's oil revenues with the long-term goal of destroying the country's central role in the global energy economy, current and former U.S. officials say …
Associated Press:
Captive medic's bodycam shows firsthand horror of Mariupol  —  KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — A celebrated Ukrainian medic recorded her time in Mariupol on a data card no bigger than a thumbnail, smuggled out to the world in a tampon.  Now she is in Russian hands, at a time when Mariupol itself is on the verge of falling.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Is the Democratic Party Giving Up Already? … The Democratic Party has a lot of problems right now.  Many of these problems lie outside its control: A global wave of inflation and continuing waves of coronavirus infection have prevented the recovery Joe Biden imagined when he took office last year …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:   Dems stand back and watch Chuck and Joe show
The Hill:
Speculation over whether Biden will run again heats up
Discussion: HotAir
Tina Nguyen / Puck:
Trump Forgot How to Spell MAGA  —  Has the movement Trump created now moved beyond him?  —  The last time Donald Trump gave a speech that truly roused his supporters was on January 6th, 2021.  As he stood behind a wall of bulletproof glass in front of tens of thousands of roaring MAGA fans …
Discussion: Washington Post and Power Line
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Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:
These 14 states had significant miscounts in the 2020 census  —  Loading...  For the 2020 census, all states were not counted equally well for population numbers used to allocate political representation and federal funding over the next decade, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released Thursday.
Discussion: National Review
The Economist:
The coming food catastrophe  —  War is tipping a fragile world towards mass hunger.  Fixing that is everyone's business  —  By invading ukraine, Vladimir Putin will destroy the lives of people far from the battlefield—and on a scale even he may regret.  The war is battering …
Kyle Clark / KUSA-TV:
GOP candidate for Colorado governor says eliminate one-person, one-vote system  —  Under Greg Lopez's proposal, the 2018 gubernatorial race would have been a runaway win for Republicans, who lost the actual race by double-digits.  —  DENVER — Coloradans have elected just one Republican governor in the last 50 years.
Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors and Raw Story
Louis Jacobson / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Battle for State Legislatures  —  Dear Readers: Crystal Ball Senior Columnist Louis Jacobson is analyzing several categories of state-level races for us this cycle.  After taking a first look at attorney general and secretary of state races, he is now assessing the battles for state legislatures this year.
Discussion: The Bulwark, CBS News and Bloomberg
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Suzy Weiss / Common Sense:
He Was a World-Renowned Cancer Researcher.  Now's He's Collecting Unemployment.  —  Behind the fall of David Sabatini, ‘one of the greatest scientists’ of his generation.  —  In 2018, David Sabatini was a world-renowned molecular biologist.  He was a tenured professor at MIT.
Discussion: Points And Figures
Emily Flitter / New York Times:
At Wells Fargo, a Quest to Increase Diversity Leads to Fake Job Interviews  —  Black and female candidates are sometimes interviewed after the recipient of a job is identified, current and former employees say.  —  Joe Bruno, a former executive in the wealth management division of Wells Fargo …
Discussion: New York Post
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Senate poised to pass $40 billion in Ukraine aid, sending bill to Biden  —  The Senate prepared to vote Thursday to deliver more than $40 billion in new military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, a move which would send the measure to President Biden after a week-long delay sparked by a lone senator's objection.
Discussion: The Hill and WISH-TV
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Poll: Two-thirds say don't overturn Roe; the court leak is firing up Democratic voters  —  About two-thirds of Americans say they do not support overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in the United States, according to the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.
David Roth / Defector:
The Secret History Of Richard Nixon, Mets Sicko  —  When he came off the mound on Sept. 30, 1988 after finishing off his eighth complete game and 20th win of the season, David Cone high-fived his teammates and walked into the home dugout unaware of what awaited him.
Benjamin Wermund / San Antonio Express-News:
Rep. Henry Cuellar's allies smear Democratic contender Jessica Cisneros with ‘homewrecker’ billboard  —  WASHINGTON — With early voting underway in a fiercely contested South Texas primary runoff, supporters of U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar have launched a campaign to smear the longtime Laredo …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Pramila Jayapal endorses Jessica Cisneros in Texas runoff
Discussion: The Hill and Common Dreams
AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal:
More Subprime Borrowers Are Missing Loan Payments  —  Borrowers with limited or troubled credit histories are defaulting on credit cards, car loans and personal loans  —  Consumers with low credit scores are falling behind on payments for car loans, personal loans and credit cards …
Discussion: News Items
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Pete Williams to retire from NBC News after epic Washington career  —  A former Pentagon spokesman, Williams made the unusual move 29 years ago to return to hard-news reporting.  Many historic scoops followed.  —  A jolt went through Washington when the news broke just before noon on Jan. 26 …
Associated Press:
Wall Street Appears Headed For Another Rocky Day  —  Rising interest rates, high inflation, the war in Ukraine and a slowdown in China's economy have caused investors to reconsider the prices they're willing to pay for a wide range of stocks.  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street headed …
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Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Why Tesla was kicked out of the S&P 500's ESG index
Chantal Da Silva / NBC News:
Illinois becomes first Midwest state to ban ‘ghost guns’  —  Illinois has become the first state in the Midwest to pass legislation banning untraceable “ghost guns” amid a surge of gun violence in the United States.  —  On Wednesday, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed House Bill 4383, banning the so-called ghost guns across the state.
Discussion: Insider, HuffPost and NBC Chicago
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
GOP-Led Legislation Would Force Breakup of Google's Ad Business  —  The bill, which has some Democratic support, takes aim at conflicts of interest in the advertising technology industry  —  A bipartisan group of senators led by Utah Republican Mike Lee introduced legislation Thursday …
John Haltiwanger / Insider:
Fiona Hill says Putin got ‘frustrated many times’ with Trump because the Russian leader ‘had to keep explaining things’ to him  — Putin often became frustrated with Trump over his lack of knowledge on big issues, Fiona Hill said.  — “He had to keep explaining things, and Putin doesn't like to do that,” Hill said.
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Orban tells right-wing CPAC allies to recruit ‘troops’ to ‘reconquer’ American institutions  —  On Thursday, according to U.S. News & World Report, far-right Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told the Conservative Political Action Conference in Budapest that liberals are threatening Western civilization …
Discussion: Reuters, WITF and Washington Times
Nicole Hemmer / New York Times:
What Oprah Winfrey Knows About American History That Tucker Carlson Doesn't  —  Ms. Hemmer is an associate research scholar at Columbia and the author of the forthcoming “Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.”
Discussion: Mediaite
 
 
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CNN:
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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
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Jada Yuan / Washington Post:
Jill Biden's six-day tour of Latin America is high-stakes diplomacy
Discussion: DFRLab and Responsible Statecraft
Chun Han Wong / Wall Street Journal:
China Insists Party Elites Shed Overseas Assets, Eyeing Western Sanctions on Russia
Washington Post:
Trump uses Pa. primary to continue effort to undermine electoral system
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Michael Williams / Dallas Morning News:
George W. Bush compares Zelenskyy to Churchill, mistakenly calls Iraq invasion unjustified
Melissa Chan / NBC News:
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Michaeleen Doucleff / NPR:
Rare monkeypox outbreak in U.K., Europe and U.S.: What is it and should we worry?