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10:35 AM ET, March 7, 2023

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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Tucker Carlson, with new video provided by Speaker McCarthy, falsely depicts Jan. 6 riot as a peaceful gathering  —  Some Republicans are looking to the tapes for vindication.  Others say it's a mistake for the party to look backward to Jan. 6, particularly after election deniers lost many 2022 races.
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Tucker Carlson, with help from Kevin McCarthy, tries to sanitize the very real violence of the January 6 attack  —  New York CNN —  The face of Fox News is doing everything in his power to sanitize the horrific violence the nation saw unfold in real-time at the U.S. Capitol in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
Lawrence Richard / Fox News:
Elon Musk torches House Jan. 6 committee for ‘misleading the public,’ withholding evidence: ‘deeply wrong’ … Elon Musk took to Twitter early Tuesday morning to criticize several lawmakers that sat on the House Committee Investigating the Capitol Riots on January 6th, accusing them of “misleading the public.”
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Jan. 6 footage shows Capitol cops escorting QAnon Shaman to Senate floor
Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
Secret Surveillance Video Dismantles January 6 Narrative
Joseph R. Biden Jr / New York Times:
Joe Biden: My Plan to Extend Medicare for Another Generation  —  Millions of Americans work their whole life, paying into Medicare with every working day — starting with their first job, even as teenagers.  Medicare is more than a government program.  It's the rock-solid guarantee …
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Politico:
Playbook: Dems fret about a No Labels spoiler ticket  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  DOUG CALL IT A COMEBACK — In a rare sit-down interview with a mainstream news outlet, former Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee DOUG MASTRIANO tells Holly Otterbein …
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Mastriano, unchastened, says he is weighing a Senate run  —  HARRISBURG, Pa. — Doug Mastriano lost the Pennsylvania governor's race last year by double digits, an almost unheard-of shellacking in a battleground state where winners and losers are often separated by a single percentage point.
Discussion: Raw Story
Tyler O'Neil / The Daily Signal:
SPLC Lawyer Arrested in Atlanta Molotov Cocktail Riot, Faces Terrorism Charges  —  Authorities arrested Sunday a staff attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-leaning civil rights group notorious for branding mainstream conservative and Christians nonprofits “hate groups,” …
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Prem Thakker / New Republic:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Will Introduce Resolution Labeling Antifa a “Terrorist Organization”
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Legal Observer Hit with Terrorism Charges After Mass ‘Cop City’ Arrests
Discussion: Rolling Stone
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Never Trumpers rally in D.C., trying to find hope and a plan amid despair  —  Donald Trump used his primetime stage at the CPAC conference this Saturday to taunt the Bush Republicans, globalists and neocons.  —  A dozen miles away, at a lower-profile gathering in downtown D.C. the remnants …
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Platformer:
How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday  —  The high cost of cutting expenses  —  Twitter's website is breaking in novel new ways — and while the company managed to recover from its latest outage within a couple hours, the story behind how it broke suggests there are likely to be similar problems in the near future.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Kari Lake among 4 women Trump's considering for VP pick  —  Former President Trump is strongly considering picking a female running mate — and sees Kari Lake as a model for his vice-presidential pick, according to people who discussed the topic with him.
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Five Women Sue Texas Over the State's Abortion Ban  —  The women, backed by an abortion-rights group, say they were denied abortions under state law despite risks to themselves and their fetuses that made the procedure a medical necessity.  —  Five women who say they were denied abortions despite grave risks …
Discussion: NPR
Punchbowl News:
3/7/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM  —  The Senate is headed towards a vote on the GOP's D.C. crime bill Wednesday.  But it's hard to overstate how much frustration there is behind the scenes from top House Democrats over the debacle.  —  Democratic members feel they were blindsided …
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Tesnim Zekeria / Popular Information:
A crime against democracy  —  Nearly 700,000 Americans are residents of the District of Columbia.
Discussion: Raw Story
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Six former Phillies died from the same brain cancer.  We tested the Vet's turf and found dangerous chemicals.  —  FIELD OF DREAD  —  Six former Phillies died from the same brain cancer.  We tested the Vet's turf and found dangerous chemicals.  — By Barbara Laker and David Gambacorta Published Mar 6, 2023
Darrell Ehrlick / Daily Montanan:
Rosendale poses for photo op with white nationalists, denies meeting, condemns hate groups  —  A photo of Congressman Matt Rosendale posing alongside Greyson Arnold, standing next (left) to Rosendale, and Ryan Sanchez to Arnold's left.  It is not known who the other two are (Photo via Pure Politics on Telegram).
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
New York Republicans go to all-out war against Santos  —  New York's House Republicans are racing away from the walking political grenade known as George Santos.  —  Six of Santos' New York colleagues, particularly the four who flipped tight battleground districts last fall, are working …
Discussion: Raw Story
Reuters:
Pentagon chief pledges continued U.S. troop presence in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq March 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, making an unannounced trip to Iraq on Tuesday nearly 20 years after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, said Washington was committed to keeping its military presence in the country
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New York Times:
U.S. Is Said to Consider Reinstating Detention of Migrant Families  —  President Biden has turned to increasingly restrictive measures as his administration prepares for the end of Title 42, which has allowed border authorities to swiftly expel migrants.  —  WASHINGTON — The Biden administration …
Derrick Bryson Taylor / New York Times:
Ben Savage, ‘Boy Meets World’ Actor, Is Running for Congress  —  The former star of the 1990s-era ABC sitcom is running as a Democrat for a seat in the Los Angeles area that is being vacated by Representative Adam B. Schiff.  —  Ben Savage, the former child actor who was the star of the ABC sitcom …
Christina Buttons / Reality's Last Stand:
Why I'm Leaving The Daily Wire  —  There is a critical distinction between speaking truth and being tactless, between sticking to the facts and sticking it to the libs.  —  Writes Breaking the Spell of Social Justice  · Subscribe  —  After much consideration …
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Vivek Ramaswamy says he received an offer to buy his way into the CPAC straw poll  —  Shortly after Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur and anti-woke crusader, announced he was seeking the Republican nomination for president, a political consultant with ties to the Conservative Political …
Andrew Kerr / Washington Free Beacon:
Meet the Anti-Semitic Spiritual Guru on Cori Bush's Payroll  —  He claims he can summon tornadoes at will, cause earthquakes with his hate, and conduct blood rituals to bring ruin upon his enemies.  An intergalactic master of psychic self-defense born 109 trillion years ago, his days …
CNN:
4 Americans kidnapped in Mexico identified as South Carolina mother and friends traveling for a medical procedure  —  The four Americans who authorities say were kidnapped in Mexico on Friday were a tight-knit group of friends traveling from South Carolina so one of them - a mother of six …
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
How the higher education outrage sausage is made  —  I was exposed by Campus Reform and lived to tell the tale  —  I'd like to tell you a story.  At one level, its a story about how a certain type of media content is made.  This content is intended to show how out-of-touch and radical students and faculty are.
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Republicans demand oversight of prosecutors amid Trump probe  —  The Georgia House approved a measure to create a new state board that could punish or oust district attorneys, the latest step in an ongoing campaign by Republicans to exert oversight over prosecutors they see as skirting their duties.
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
China says U.S. relations have left ‘rational path,’ warns of conflict unless they ‘hit the brake’  —  WATCH NOW  —  China's new foreign minister says relations with U.S. have ‘entirely deviated’  —  BEIJING - China's new foreign minister, Qin Gang, said relations with the U.S. have left a …
Patrik Jonsson / Christian Science Monitor:
Disband homeless camps?  Some cities rethink them instead.  —  Residents in Athens, Georgia, faced a decision common to many cities across the United States: What should it do with a large encampment of people under a railroad trestle who had no permanent homes?
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Jim Jordan scrambles amid claims “weaponization” probe is a dud  —  Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) — facing criticism that his probe of alleged mistreatment of conservatives by “weaponized” U.S. agencies has moved too slowly and found little — is threatening to subpoena 16 more witnesses from the FBI.
Reuters:
Turkey's opposition leader looks to emerge from Erdogan's shadow  —  Stuck in Tayyip Erdogan's shadow throughout his career, Turkish opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu believes his time may have come after suffering repeated election defeats and scorn from the man who has dominated politics for two decades.
 
 
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Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
Porter describes ‘constructive exchange’ between Democratic delegation and Netanyahu
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
There isn't a ‘blue collar’ or ‘working class’ vote
Discussion: The Hill
Noam Levey / NPR:
Medical debt affects millions, and advocates push IRS, consumer agency for relief
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
In Oklahoma, a Freshman Republican Makes the Case for Deep Spending Cuts
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Debt Default Would Cripple U.S. Economy, New Analysis Warns
Discussion: USA Today and The Hill
María Luisa Paúl / Washington Post:
Michelle Obama says she cried for 30 minutes after Trump's inauguration
Simone Foxman / Bloomberg:
Qatar's Ruler Makes Top Diplomat New PM in Wider Shakeup
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Washington Post:
The Kevin McCarthy aide tasked with defusing the GOP's debt limit bomb
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Kevin B. Blackistone / Washington Post:
Baseball can no longer ignore Ron DeSantis's culture wars
Discussion: Breitbart
David Dayen / American Prospect:
The Lie Behind Amazon's HQ2 Sweepstakes Becomes Clear
Reuters:
California to not do business with Walgreens over abortion pills issue, Governor says