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2:55 PM ET, June 6, 2022

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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Jan. 6 committee's secret adviser  —  The House's Jan. 6 committee has turned to a renowned former network news executive to hone a mountain of explosive material into a captivating multimedia presentation for a prime-time hearing Thursday.  — James Goldston — former president of ABC News …
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Ilya Shapiro / Wall Street Journal:
Why I Quit Georgetown  —  The university didn't fire me, but it abandoned free speech and created a hostile environment.  —  1x  —  After a four-month investigation into a tweet, the Georgetown University Law Center reinstated me last Thursday.  But after full consideration of the report …
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Dan McLaughlin / National Review:   BREAKING: Ilya Shapiro Resigns from Georgetown Law School
Lauren Hirsch / New York Times:
Elon Musk threatens to pull out of Twitter deal without more information about fake accounts.  —  In a filing, Mr. Musk's lawyers said that Twitter was “actively resisting” his requests for more information.  —  Elon Musk is threatening to pull out of his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter …
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: Musk threatens to dump deal in letter to Twitter, SEC  —  Time to play “Let's Make a Deal,” or time to escape a deal?  With Elon Musk, no one's ever quite sure, but the Twitter buyout has had a lot of whiplash even for the world's wealthiest mogul.
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Legal claims shed light on founder of faith group tied to Amy Coney Barrett  —  Examination of People of Praise comes as supreme court seems poised to reverse Roe v Wade  —  The founder of the People of Praise, a secretive charismatic Christian group that counts supreme court justice Amy Coney Barrett …
Discussion: Raw Story
John Fritze / USA Today:
Supreme Court declines appeal over law licenses from St. Louis couple who waved guns at protest  —  Mark and Patricia McCloskey drew national attention for walking onto their front yard with guns during a 2020 protest of the police killing of George Floyd.  —  WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court …
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John Kruzel / The Hill:
Justices won't hear appeal from couple who pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters
Discussion: Political Wire
Zachary Leeman / Mediaite:
AOC Blasts Fellow Democrats for Resisting Term Latinx: ‘Not About Your Reelection Prospects’  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blasted critics of the term Latinx, including fellow Democrats who resist using it and think it's “bad for the party.”  —  After a brief discussion of the term …
Ross Barkan / New York Magazine:
The Limits of San Francisco Liberalism  —  If Chesa Boudin is recalled, it will be because his city has never been its left-wing caricature.  —  In San Francisco, the signs are everywhere.  Near the famed Lombard Street, one is affixed to a lamppost.  Several of them, picturing menacing men …
Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Biden wants to get out more, seething that his standing is now worse than Trump's  —  President Joe Biden and his aides have grown increasingly frustrated by their inability to turn the tide against a cascade of challenges threatening to overwhelm the administration.  —  Soaring global inflation.
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Stamp honoring Nancy Reagan unveiled at White House
Washington Post:
China secretly building PLA naval facility in Cambodia, Western officials say  —  China is secretly building a naval facility in Cambodia for the exclusive use of its military, with both countries denying that is the case and taking extraordinary measures to conceal the operation, Western officials said.
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
GOP ads are pulled from the airwaves for being dishonest (again)  —  The National Republican Senatorial Committee has had two television ads pulled over the course of three weeks.  That's both unusual and embarrassing.  —  Every election cycle, American voters see plenty of attack ads.
Discussion: Raw Story
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
The Institutionalist  —  Dianne Feinstein fought for gun control, civil rights, and abortion access for half a century.  Where did it all go wrong?  —  On election night in San Francisco in 1969, a 36-year-old woman who had run a campaign for the Board of Supervisors that featured …
Dan Pfeiffer / Vanity Fair:
Why Do Democrats Suck at Messaging?  —  It's a question Dan Pfeiffer, the former Obama communications director and Pod Save America cohost, recalls getting many times.  In his new book, Battling the Big Lie, Pfeiffer diagnoses the party's messaging troubles—and calls for building a bigger megaphone.
Los Angeles Times:
Is it ‘election fatigue’?  Early voter turnout in California's primary is dismal so far  —  Judy Nguyen is frustrated that anyone with enough money or the right connections can run as a candidate in an election.  She's disappointed she hasn't seen immediate, tangible change under President Biden.
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Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
Anger and heartbreak on Bus No. 15  —  As American cities struggle to recover from the pandemic, Denver's problems spill over onto its buses  —  DENVER — Suna Karabay touched up her eye makeup in the rearview mirror and leaned against the steering wheel of the bus to say her morning prayers.
Jennifer Senior / The Atlantic:
American Rasputin  —  I sometimes look at the long ribbons of texts I've gotten from Steve Bannon and wonder whether they couldn't tell the whole story all on their own.  —  There are certainly enough of them.  He says he has five phones, two encrypted, and he's forever pecking away …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jessica Pishko / Bolts:
California Prosecutions for Pregnancy Loss Spark Outrage, and a Bill to Stop Future Investigations  —  The charges over two stillbirths are a window into a country where pregnancy outcomes are already policed.  —  The Superior Court of Kings County in Hanford, California.  (courts.ca.gov)
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Axon halts plans for Taser drone as 9 on ethics board resign  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Axon, the company best known for developing the Taser, said Monday it was halting plans to develop a Taser-equipped drone after a majority of its ethics board resigned over the controversial project.
Discussion: The Verge and Protocol
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Nearly half of Republicans think US has to live with mass shootings, poll finds  —  CBS and YouGov poll returned familiar results, including 62% support for a nationwide ban on semi-automatic rifles  —  Nearly half of Republican voters think the US just has to live with mass shootings …
Will Hurd / New York Times:
I Represented Uvalde in Congress.  We Must Act on Gun Violence.  —  Last month, a fourth-grade classroom in Uvalde, Texas, a small, quiet community that I represented in Congress, became a war zone.  Nineteen beautiful, innocent children and two dedicated, brave teachers are gone forever because of a vicious massacre.
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Exclusive: Biden to waive tariffs for 24 months on solar panels hit by probe  —  President Joe Biden will declare a 24-month tariff exemption on Monday for solar panels from four Southeast Asian nations after an investigation froze imports and stalled projects in the United States, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Rachel Scully / The Hill:
Just 28 percent in new poll approve of Biden's handling of inflation  —  Only about a quarter of American voters say they approve of President Biden's handling of inflation, compounding the president's low approval rating.  —  In a new ABC News/Ipsos poll published Sunday …
Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
The Long History of Glenn Greenwald's Kissing Up to the Kremlin  —  In his world, it seems America can do nothing right and Vladimir Putin can do nothing wrong.  —  In the months since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, maverick journalist Glenn Greenwald has emerged as one of the loudest anti-Ukraine voices …
Patrick Radden Keefe / New Yorker:
The Surreal Case of a C.I.A. Hacker's Revenge  —  A hot-headed coder is accused of exposing the agency's hacking arsenal.  Did he betray his country because he was pissed off at his colleagues? … Nestled west of Washington, D.C., amid the bland northern Virginia suburbs …
Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Michigan widens probe into voting system breaches by Trump allies  —  State police in Michigan have obtained warrants to seize voting equipment and election-related records in at least three towns and one county in the past six weeks, police records show, widening the largest known investigation …
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Free-speech group will spend millions to promote First Amendment cases  —  An advocacy group that has spent more than two decades fighting for free expression on college campuses is broadening its efforts to fight so-called cancel culture and other perceived threats to free speech across American society.
 
 
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Mastriano is a disaster for Pa. Republicans — but the party deserves it
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Two January 6th Defendants and the Consolidation of Right-Wing Extremism
Timi Iwayemi / American Prospect:
Sam Bankman-Fried's Multimillion-Dollar Game
Discussion: OpenSecrets.org
Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Republicans brace for next round of Trump primary chaos
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Washington Post:
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