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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
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
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
NBC scoop: Hunter's laptop shows he made million$ off China, Ukraine while The Big Guy was VP  —  Gee, if only Hunter Biden's laptop had come to the attention of national media before now!  NBC News reports today that the hard drive has lots of interesting information on it after all.
Discussion: Washington Post
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
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 …
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Racist ‘Great Replacement’ Theory Got a Boost From the GOP's Election Lies  —  Some Republicans who say Democrats want an immigrant “invasion” to control America also claim immigrants vote illegally to swing elections.  —  Leading members of the Grand Old Party are weaving a grand unified conspiracy theory.
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Nicole Hemmer / New York Times:
What Oprah Winfrey Knows About American History That Tucker Carlson Doesn't
Discussion: Mediaite
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
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.
Gabby Orr / CNN:
Trump may hold off on more endorsements for coming primaries, advisers say  —  Republican candidates in upcoming primaries may have a tougher time scoring a coveted endorsement from Donald Trump, according to the former President's allies, who say he is feeling more risk-averse amid the deadlocked Senate GOP contest in Pennsylvania.
Discussion: The Daily Wire
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Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
Opinion Elon Musk still has to answer to others  —  Since striking a deal to buy Twitter, Elon Musk has tweeted a poop emoji at its chief executive; incited Twitter attacks, some racist, against an Indian American senior official at the company; and behaved as though a man of his heroic vision should be allowed to brush aside the law.
Discussion: CNBC, Mercury News, Althouse and Fortune
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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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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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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
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
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
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.
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 …
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 …
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
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.
 
 
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MaryAnn Martinez / New York Post:
El Paso planning to declare emergency over immigration surge
Discussion: KVIA-TV, Townhall and Fox News
Daniel M. Rothschild / Discourse:
The YIMBYest City in America
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Chantal Da Silva / NBC News:
Illinois becomes first Midwest state to ban ‘ghost guns’
Discussion: Insider, HuffPost and NBC Chicago
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
How Ted Cruz Became a ‘Blatantly Cynical’ Election Law Troll
Discussion: Raw Story and The Atlantic
GasBuddy:
More Americans to Hit the Road This Summer Even as Gas Prices Hit New Records
CNN:
White House working towards first presidential meeting with Saudi Arabia, which Biden had vowed to make a ‘pariah’
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Wall Street Appears Headed For Another Rocky Day
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Why Tucker Carlson and the Isolationist Right Are Wrong
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Words aren't magic  —  The most important part of “messaging” is picking defensible policies
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
 

 
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Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Chinese officials have told Tesla that Beijing has tentatively approved the company's plan to launch its Full Self-Driving software in the country

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: the new iPad Pro may launch with an M4 chip, kicking off Apple's AI strategy that will be expanded at WWDC; the new Pencil will have haptic feedback

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