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5:40 PM ET, March 8, 2023

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Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Biden Is Set to Detail at Least $2 Trillion in Measures to Reduce Deficits  —  The president's proposals, included in the budget he will release on Thursday, are expected to heavily feature tax increases on corporations and high earners.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden on Thursday …
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New York Times:
House G.O.P. Prepares to Slash Federal Programs in Coming Budget Showdown  —  With Social Security and Medicare off the table, conservatives are focusing on a wide range of smaller programs as a clash with President Biden and Democrats looms.  —  WASHINGTON — Hard-right House Republicans …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Washington teeters on the brink of a Cold War over Social Security
Discussion: CNN and KFOR-TV
Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Biden budget aims to cut deficits nearly $3T over 10 years
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
White House goes after Tucker Carlson by name over Jan. 6 coverage  —  The White House joined in widespread condemnation of Fox News star Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, singling out the prime-time ratings king for his misleading portrayal of the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Politico:
McCarthy's GOP tries to move on from Tucker Carlson-Jan. 6 drama  —  Mere hours after Tucker Carlson's latest segment minimizing the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, House Republicans were eager to change the subject from the Fox News host's riot revisionism.  —  While Carlson continued to roil Washington …
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
The January 6 Whitewash Will Backfire
Rolling Stone:
Trump Privately Proposes Wave of High-Level Jan. 6 Pardons
Discussion: The Nation, Raw Story and The Bulwark
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Tucker's Firehose of Lies (and Hypocrisy)
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
How Tucker Carlson is wrong about Jan. 6
Jack Shafer / Politico:
The Tucker Carlson Schtick Melts Away  —  It has been self-evident for a long time to almost every astute observer of Tucker Carlson — his friends, his acquaintances in the journalism profession, even some viewers of his nightly Fox News Channel program — that he doesn't believe half of the things he says on his show.
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Brian Stelter / Vanity Fair:
“We're All Embarrassed”: Inside Fox News as Dominion Revelations Rattle the Network  —  Fox producers are getting libel law training and staffers are (cautiously) gossiping about filings exposing the likes of Rupert Murdoch, Tucker Carlson.  “We're very careful when we're miked up,” one on-air personality tells Vanity Fair.
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Fox News executives discussed a plan to denounce the ‘Trump myth’ a day before the Jan. 6 riot
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
5 Times Tucker Carlson Showed Contempt for Trump in Private: ‘I Hate Him Passionately’
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Revealing Fox News texts point to the right's long war on the truth
Clare Foran / CNN:
Zelensky invites House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to visit Ukraine  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is inviting House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to visit Ukraine to see the situation on the ground first hand - an invitation that comes as the Republican Party faces a divide over whether …
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CNN:
House GOP plots new January 6 probes despite internal backlash over McCarthy giving Carlson footage  —  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy often spent the last two years avoiding much discussion about the January 6, 2021, attack.  —  Now, he's effectively put the issue back in the spotlight …
Washington Post:
GOP operative comes forward as accuser in sexual misconduct claim against CPAC head  —  The man who has accused Matt Schlapp, the influential leader of the Conservative Political Action Conference, of sexual misconduct came forward publicly Wednesday after a judge said he must use his real name to proceed with a lawsuit.
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Teamsters president calls GOP senator a ‘greedy CEO’ in heated exchange  —  Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) and Teamsters general president Sean O'Brien got into a heated verbal exchange Wednesday in a Senate committee hearing focused on the right of workers to organize unions.
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Chelsey Cox / CNBC:   Oklahoma Republican tells Teamsters president ‘shut your mouth’ in terse exchange at Senate hearing
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Arkansas Gov. Sanders signs law loosening child labor protections  —  Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) signed into law this week legislation that rolls back significant portions of the state's child labor protections.  —  The law eliminates requirements for the state to verify the age …
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David Badash / Alternet.org:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs law gutting child labor protections for minors under 16 years old
Discussion: KNWA FOX24 and CBS News
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Pentagon Blocks Sharing Evidence of Possible Russian War Crimes With Hague Court  —  President Biden has not acted to resolve a dispute that pits the Defense Department against other agencies.  —  WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is blocking the Biden administration from sharing evidence …
Madison Pauly / Mother Jones:
Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country  —  On a Saturday afternoon in August 2019, South Dakota Republican state Rep. Fred Deutsch sent an email to 18 anti-trans activists, doctors, and lawyers with the text of a bill he planned to introduce …
Discussion: Elisa Rae Shupe
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Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
When Trump Passes the MAGA Hat, His Aides Clutch Their Wallets  —  Unlike other recent presidents, Donald Trump has rarely received campaign donations from his top advisers.  They offer a range of explanations.  —  WASHINGTON — To pay for three presidential campaigns …
Susan Page / USA Today:
A GOP war on ‘woke’?  Most Americans view the term as a positive, USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll finds  —  By 56%-39%, Americans say ‘woke’ means being aware of social injustice, not being overly politically correct.  —  Republican presidential hopefuls are vowing to wage a war on “woke,” …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Democracy Docket:
Court Rules Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorists Illegally Intimidated Voters in 2020  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, March 8, a federal judge ruled that a robocall operation led by two conspiracy theorists ahead of the 2020 election violated Section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) …
Discussion: Law & Crime and Bloomberg
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Louisville police use excessive force, invalid warrants and discriminatory stops, DOJ review finds  —  WASHINGTON — The Louisville Metro Police Department and the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro government engaged in a pattern of unconstitutional behavior by routinely using excessive force …
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Ron DeSantis's plan to strip First Amendment rights from the press, explained  —  DeSantis wants to destroy a fundament of American free speech law.  —  Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to eliminate the First Amendment safeguards that prevent lawsuits seeking to strong-arm the press into silence.
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Did the “QAnon Shaman” Get Shafted on Sentencing?  New Footage Raises Questions Over the Chansley Case  —  If there is one image from Jan. 6th that will remain indelible with the day, it is the “QAnon Shaman.”  Bare chested and wearing an animal headdress, horns and red-white-and-blue face paint …
Mark Leibovich / The Atlantic:
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Last Act  —  What happens when the Terminator turns 75  —  Arnold schwarzenegger nearly killed me.  —  I had joined him one morning as he rushed through his daily routine.  Schwarzenegger gets up by six.  He makes coffee, putters around, feeds Whiskey …
David Strom / HotAir:
Who knew Ken Burns is an idiot?  —  Having spent a lot of time around academics and media types I learned years ago that people can be smart, talented, and complete dunces at the same time.  —  Orwell captured that reality with his typical genius, explaining: “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Right-Wingers Have A New, Very Dependable Strategy To Game The Courts.  Can It Be Stopped?  —  Start your day with TPM.  —  You would think, based on the flurry of litigation unfolding there, that a lot of drama is going down in Amarillo, Texas.  —  Of the couple dozen lawsuits Texas …
Spencer Brown / Townhall:
Marine Sniper: I Was Denied Permission to Take Out Kabul Airport Suicide Bomber  —  After many long months without oversight or accountability for President Joe Biden's disastrous and deadly withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, the House of Representatives' Republican majority …
Tess Owen / VICE:
The Boogaloo Bois Are Plotting a Bloody Comeback: ‘We Will Go to War’  —  Dozens of arrests fueled speculation that the Hawaiian shirt-wearing, gun-loving anti-government group was done for.  But it seems they'd merely gone underground and appear to be angrier than ever.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jewish Currents:
ADL Staffers Dissented After CEO Compared Palestinian Rights Groups to Right-Wing Extremists, Leaked Audio Reveals … “Anti-Zionism is antisemitism,” he said, promising that the ADL would apply “more concentrated energy toward the threat of radical anti-Zionism” through lawsuits, research, and lobbying.
 
 
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Southern Poverty Law Center:
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Stephen Neukam / The Hill:
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Discussion: MLive.com and WOOD-TV
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Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
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