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Washington Post:
Gunman who killed 4 at Tulsa hospital was patient of doctor who is among the dead  —  The gunman who killed four people at a Tulsa hospital on Wednesday blamed a doctor at the facility for ongoing pain after back surgery and vowed to kill him and anyone who got in his way, police said Thursday.
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The Daily Beast:
Tulsa Mass Shooter Complained to His Surgeon Hours Before Killing Him  —  Michael Louis, 45, killed four people and himself after complaining repeatedly about back pain following surgery, police said.  —  A 45-year-old man killed four people and himself at a medical office in Tulsa, Oklahoma …
NBC News:
Tulsa gunman bought AR-15-style rifle hours before using it to kill his former doctor, 3 others  —  Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin said the shooter “blamed” the doctor for his pain.  The doctor, Preston Phillips, was killed in the attack.  —  Tulsa police: Gunman was disgruntled hospital patient who targeted former doctor
Discussion: KNSD-TV, Fox News, ABC7 and KTVX-TV
Tulsa World:
Victims of Tulsa mass shooting identified in breaking news update from Saint Francis  —  Two health care providers, a medical officer staffer and a patient receiving medical services were killed in a mass shooting Wednesday on the campus of Saint Francis Health System in Tulsa.
CNN:
Assault-style weapon in deadly Tulsa medical facility shooting was bought that day, sources say  —  An assault-style weapon found at the scene of Wednesday's deadly shooting in an Oklahoma medical building had been bought that day, according to three federal sources briefed on the investigation.
Jesus Jiménez / New York Times:
Four People, Including Gunman, Are Killed in Attack at Tulsa Medical Building, Police Say
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Beneath Biden's struggle to break through is a deeper dysfunction among White House aides  —  (CNN)Being familiar never makes the feeling less dreadful: White House aides emailing each other during one of President Joe Biden's stops on the road, tracking who's covering what he's saying …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Associated Press:
Biden to speak on mass shootings, urge Congress to act
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
‘Pro-Choice’ Identification Rises to Near Record High in U.S.  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Gallup poll conducted mostly after the draft of a Supreme Court decision addressing abortion rights was leaked finds a marked shift in public attitudes over the past year.
Discussion: CNBC, Townhall, The Hill and Opinion Today
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Catherine Lucey / Wall Street Journal:
Upholding Roe v. Wade Is Supported by Most Americans, WSJ Poll Finds
Joan Walsh / The Nation:   Talk Me Down Here: Can This Country Be Saved?
Associated Press:
Texas senator: School police chief didn't know of 911 calls  —  UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The commander at the scene of a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, was not informed of panicked 911 calls coming from students trapped inside the building as the massacre unfolded, a Texas state senator said Thursday.
Discussion: National Review
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Retire These Gun Myths  —  The aftermath of a horrific mass shooting is not the time one would usually turn to a humor site, and yet, the Onion had an insightful take on Uvalde.  The headline: “'No Way to Prevent This' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Occurs.”
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Emmanuel Felton / Washington Post:
California calls for ‘comprehensive reparations’ for Black Americans
Discussion: Breitbart and NPR
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Pa. GOP gubernatorial nominee shares documents with Jan. 6 panel, agrees to interview  —  The Jan. 6 select committee received materials this week from Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano — and with them, perhaps, a new dilemma.  —  Mastriano's previously unreported cooperation …
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Just Security:
Primer on the Hearings of the January 6th Select Committee
Discussion: CNN, Axios, Vanity Fair and The Blueprint
CNN:
CNN Exclusive: Republicans who texted Meadows with urgent pleas on January 6 say Trump could have stopped the violence  —  Washington (CNN)Within minutes of the US Capitol breach on January 6, 2021, messages began pouring into the cell phone of White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Discussion: Raw Story
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CNN:   READ: The Meadows text messages from January 6
NBC News:
Fetterman's health, return to campaign trail a mystery as some Democrats grow ‘very nervous’ about Pa. Senate race  —  WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman does not have a timetable for returning to the campaign trail, sparking some worries in the party nearly three weeks …
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
William M. Arkin / Newsweek:
Exclusive: Putin Treated for Cancer in April, U.S. Intelligence Report Says  —  Vladimir Putin's health is a subject of intense conversation inside the Biden administration after the intelligence community produced its fourth comprehensive assessment at the end of May. The classified U.S. report …
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Florida Supreme Court Turns Down Challenge to Voting Map DeSantis Drew  —  The court's refusal means that the November elections will most likely be based on legislative maps a lower court said illegally diluted the power of Black voters.  —  The Florida Supreme Court refused on Thursday …
Discussion: Political Wire
Ro Khanna / New York Times:
There Is Way More Biden Can Do to Lower Prices  —  Lupe Lopez, a grocery store owner in my district in California, recently showed me how devastating inflation has been for her and her customers.  Milk cost $4.95 a gallon, an increase of 38 percent since 2019, and tortilla packets were $3.07, up by 24 percent.
New York Times:
How the Proud Boys Gripped the Miami-Dade Republican Party  —  It was once Jeb Bush's base of power.  But an influx of far-right activists and the radicalization of other members brought turmoil.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  MIAMI — At the iconic Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The New MAGA Establishment  —  Trumpism will outlast Trump.  Possibly for a very long time.  —  A couple of weeks ago, looking at the Republican primaries so far this year, Tim Miller discerned the rise of “the new MAGA establishment”: … Since Miller wrote those words …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Dani Blum / New York Times:
Coffee Drinking Linked to Lower Mortality Risk, New Study Finds  —  The research found that those who drank moderate amounts of coffee, even with a little sugar, were up to 30 percent less likely to die during the study period than those who didn't drink coffee.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Hill
Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
Google's plan to talk about caste bias led to ‘division and rancor’  —  The rising Hindu nationalist movement that has spread from India through the diaspora has arrived inside Google, according to employees.  —  In April, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, the founder and executive director of Equality Labs …
Ohpi / blog.ohpredictive.com:
Biden Remains Underwater as Midterms Approach  —  Kelly at 50% Favorability Among Arizona Voters  —  Toplines and Crosstabs can be found here  —  PHOENIX (June 2nd, 2022)- As Arizona barrels towards another competitive election season, a new OH Predictive Insights survey reinforces …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Opinion Doug Mastriano's unhinged ‘Nazi’ claim signals deeper danger ahead  —  As a marker of the Republican Party's ongoing radicalization, Doug Mastriano's run for governor of Pennsylvania will prove revealing indeed.  —  It isn't just that Mastriano has openly advertised his zeal to subvert future elections.
Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
House jumpstarts action on guns  —  EMERGENCY HEARING— The House Judiciary Committee is pressing pause on the Memorial Day recess to take up a slate of gun safety proposals in response to the mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo.  —  But more mass shootings have taken place even since the markup was announced earlier this week.
Discussion: CNN and The Daily Caller
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Opinion The GOP's immigration paranoia is harming national security  —  After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Congress unanimously passed the Soviet Scientists Immigration Act of 1992, which eased the path for highly skilled scientists and engineers from some former Soviet bloc countries to come to the United States.
Eric Rosenbaum / CNBC:
The Amazon, Starbucks, Apple union push is capturing what a majority of all American workers now say they want  — Worker rights are not a partisan issue, with almost half of Republicans voicing support for unions.  — Actual union membership remains low and election wins scarce …
Discussion: The Intercept
Elliot Ackerman / The Atlantic:
Our Narrative of Mass Shootings Is Killing Us  —  Civilization's oldest stories are war stories.  From the Epic of Gilgamesh to The Iliad and The Aeneid, our attractions to war and to storytelling have often been entwined.  We tell ourselves stories to impose order on chaotic events in our lives …
 
 
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Rich Lowry / Politico:
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Nate Hochman / New York Times:
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ABC News:
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 Earlier Items: 
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
House January 6 committee obtains email outlining early plan to try to overturn Trump's 2020 loss
Discussion: CBS News
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Blue cities in red states say they won't help enforce abortion bans
Discussion: HotAir and Washington Free Beacon
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Insurrection Is Building Professionalized Institutions
Detroit Free Press:
James Craig loses bid to appear on primary ballot after Michigan court denies appeal
Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Israel, Saudi Arabia agree: Security arrangements in Straits of Tiran for flyover rights