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10:50 AM ET, June 7, 2022

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Washington Post:
Fake Trump electors in Ga. told to shroud plans in ‘secrecy,’ email shows  —  The message informed those involved in the plan that they were not allowed to disclose their intentions, even to State Capitol security  —  A staffer for Donald Trump's presidential campaign instructed Republicans planning …
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Brookings:
Trump on Trial: A Guide to the January 6 Hearings and the Question of Criminality  —  For media inquiries, contact:  —  Governance Studies Main Line 202.797.6090  —  President Joe Biden legitimately won a fair and secure 2020 presidential election—and Donald Trump lost.
New York Times:
Jan. 6 Hearings Give Democrats a Chance to Recast Midterm Message  —  With their majority at stake, Democrats plan to use the six high-profile hearings to refocus voters' attention on Republicans' role in the attack.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Fox News Gives Up On News; Won't Air ‘Grotesque’ Jan. 6 Hearings Live  —  The right-wing network will stick with its usual prime time lineup, including conspiracy theorist Tucker Carlson.  —  Fox News is throwing in the towel on news coverage.  —  The company announced …
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Ben & Jerry's galvanizes customers to lobby for tighter gun laws after Texas, New York mass shootings  — Ben & Jerry's jumping into the latest national debate on guns comes after business leaders have come forward to insist on changes to firearm laws since last month's mass shootings.
Discussion: CNN
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Mark Follman / Mother Jones:
The Most Shocking New Statistic on Mass Shootings  —  Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter.  Support our nonprofit reporting.  Subscribe to our print magazine.  —  With the recent spate of mass shootings, a wave of public opinion polling has reaffirmed Americans' well-known views on gun violence.
Discussion: HuffPost, TheBlaze, CNN and Ian Haworth
Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:   New York Officials Fear Supreme Court Ruling Will Mean More Gun Crime
CNN:
Key GOP senators signal that raising age to buy semiautomatic weapons is off the table
Discussion: ABC News and Political Wire
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The President Needs to Stop Complaining  —  On the menu today: President Biden whines to aides that “everything landed on his desk but locusts,” and “if it's not one thing, it's another.”  It's a shame no one informed Joe Biden that the job of the president is difficult, and he would be expected to address multiple problems at once.
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Erik Dahl / Just Security:
January 6th Intelligence Failure Timeline  —  Introduction to the Timeline  —  This timeline presents a detailed listing of intelligence reports and other warnings that were available prior to the attack on the Capitol of January 6, 2021.  Because this timeline is based solely on public …
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Washington Post:
Proud Boys leader Tarrio, 4 lieutenants charged with seditious conspiracy
Politico:
Proud Boys documentarian expected to testify at first Jan. 6 hearing
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and CBS News
New York Times:
Potent Weapons Reach Ukraine Faster Than the Know-How to Use Them  —  KHERSON REGION, Ukraine — Since Russia invaded, NATO nations have upgraded Ukraine's arsenal with increasingly sophisticated tools, with more promised, like the advanced multiple-launch rocket systems pledged by the United States and Britain.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: CNN evaluating partisan talent  —  CNN's new boss Chris Licht is evaluating whether personalities and programming that grew polarizing during the Trump era can adapt to the network's new priority to be less partisan. … - For on-air talent, that includes engaging in respectful interviews that don't feel like PR stunts.
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
Abortion Activists Firebomb Pro-Life Pregnancy Center, Third Bombing in Weeks  —  Radical abortion activists who firebombed the office of a pro-life groups in Wisconsin and Oregon and who have vandalized over a dozen churches and pregnancy centers have struck again.
Discussion: RedState, Townhall and NOQ Report
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
During Watergate, John Mitchell Left His Wife.  She Called Bob Woodward.  —  ‘Please nail him’: The untold story of how Martha Mitchell took revenge against her husband  —  There was no mistaking the voice on the other end of the phone line.  That twangy timbre.  Brash and sass.  Undiluted Arkansas Delta.
Emily Ngo / Spectrum News NY1:
Exclusive Spectrum News NY1/Siena College poll finds New Yorkers are pessimistic about city's future and its mayor  —  The view of life in New York City is bleak, according to a Siena College poll of city residents conducted exclusively for Spectrum News NY1.  —  What You Need To Know
Discussion: New York Post
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
‘Bless her heart.’ Kemp ad slams Abrams for ‘worst state in the country’ remark  —  Almost as soon as Stacey Abrams called Georgia the “worst state in the country to live,” the Democrat's campaign expected the remark to be the center of new GOP attacks.  Gov. Brian Kemp's first TV ad of the general election cycle does exactly that.
Discussion: Fox News
Mark Hemingway / RealClearInvestigations:
Team Zuckerberg Masks the Heavily Pro-Democrat Tilt of 2020 Election ‘Zuck Bucks,’ Study Finds  —  The $332 million that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan provided to a progressive group to help run the 2020 elections was distributed on a highly partisan basis …
Rachel Pannett / Washington Post:
The world's largest four-day workweek pilot just launched in the U.K.  —  Thousands of workers in Britain had another reason to celebrate after returning from a long weekend to mark Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee.  They're participating in the world's biggest trial of the four-day workweek …
Discussion: CBS News
David Horowitz / Front Page Magazine:
The Progressive Left's Latest Shining Star  —  Delivering the same woke snake oil in a new bottle.  —  The progressive Left movement has a new shining star.  Her name is Mallory McMorrow, a young Democrat Michigan State Senator, whose fiery speech earlier this spring on the floor …
Nicole Sganga / CBS News:
DHS terror threat bulletin warns online forums are encouraging copycat Uvalde attacks  —  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a terror threat bulletin Tuesday warning that online forums harboring domestic violent extremist content and conspiracy theories have encouraged copycat attacks …
Eduardo Medina / New York Times:
Mother Charged With Manslaughter After Her 2-Year-Old Fatally Shoots Father  —  It is unclear how the boy managed to get the Glock 19, but his mother acknowledged that “any child in the room could have figured out how to get the gun out of the bag,” the authorities said.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: CBS News
Washington Free Beacon:
How the Left Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Domestic Terrorism  —  Biden DOJ asks judge to go easy on Ivy League firebombers  —  On the cusp of nonstop, around-the-clock (primetime!) coverage of the Jan. 6 committee hearings, a couple of domestic terrorists are actually getting their day in court …
Lawrence Richard / Fox News:
US Supreme Court declines to hear McCloskeys' law license case  —  Mark McCloskey said he is ‘disappointed’ by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for June 6  —  The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case from Mark and Patricia McCloskey …
Tucker Carlson / Fox News:
Peter Navarro's arrest is a huge step toward the politics of the third world  —  Tucker Carlson argues the left is using the judicial system for political revenge  —  Tucker Carlson: Peter Navarro arrest shows left is using judicial system for political revenge  —  Peter Navarro is the picture of a law-abiding American citizen.
Discussion: RADAR
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
The Washington Post suspends reporter David Weigel over sexist retweet  —  New York (CNN Business)The Washington Post has suspended reporter David Weigel without pay for retweeting a sexist joke, a person familiar with the matter told CNN on Monday.  —  Weigel did not respond to a request for comment …
Travis Fain / WRAL-TV:
NC's lieutenant governor: ‘We are called to be led by men,’ not women  —  Christians are “called to be led by men,” North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson told a Charlotte area church congregation last month.  —  The comments were part of an extended critique of the social justice movement …
Punchbowl News:
6/7/22 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM. … SEVEN STATES — CALIFORNIA, IOWA, MISSISSIPPI, MONTANA, NEW JERSEY, NEW MEXICO AND SOUTH DAKOTA — HEAD TO THE POLLS TODAY.  HERE ARE THE KEY RACES WE WILL BE TRACKING TODAY. … THE GOP-LEADERSHIP ALLIED CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP FUND …
Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
'We're all afraid': Massive rent increases hit mobile homes  —  Park rents are doubling or tripling, as high demand, low inventory and a rise in corporate owners take a toll on one of the nation's biggest sources of affordable housing  —  For nearly 30 years, Virginia Rubio has lived …
Kim Phuc Phan Thi / New York Times:
It's Been 50 Years.  I Am Not ‘Napalm Girl’ Anymore.  —  I grew up in the small village of Trang Bang in South Vietnam.  My mother said I laughed a lot as a young girl.  We led a simple life with an abundance of food, since my family had a farm and my mom ran the best restaurant in town.
John Halpin / The Liberal Patriot:
The Center Lane is Wide Open  —  New polling shows that Americans are unique in viewing their political leaders as ideological extremists.  —  After the Democratic primaries in 2020, Joe Biden's comeback victory over more left-leaning opponents was hailed as a triumph for his traditional brand …
BBC:
South Africa: Wealthy Gupta brothers arrested in UAE  —  Two brothers from the wealthy Gupta family have been arrested in the United Arab Emirates, the South African and Emirati authorities have announced.  —  Atul and Rajesh Gupta are accused in South Africa of profiting from their close links …
Discussion: Bloomberg
 
 
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The Advocate:
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Discussion: The Root and CBS News
Washington Examiner:
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Discussion: HotAir and Fox News
The White House:
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Family of Bill Clinton advisor who admitted Jeffrey Epstein into White House seven times has blocked release of files detailing the death scene …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
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Ellen Barry / New York Times:
Outcry Over High School Clinic Exposes Deep Divisions on Mental Health
Discussion: Depresh Mode
Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The GOP's ‘Glenn Youngkin Model’ Stalls Out on the Pennsylvania Turnpike
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Texas Attorney General:
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