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5:45 PM ET, May 19, 2023

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Todd / Mid Hudson News:
Homeless men recruited for veteran hotel scam  —  POUGHKEEPSIE - Seven homeless men have come forward to say they were part of a group of men recruited at a Poughkeepsie homeless shelter to act as veterans that had been displaced from a Newburgh hotel in order for a non-profit organization to perpetrate a fraud on the public.
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Albany Times Union:
Story of homeless veterans displaced by migrants was false  —  A claim that veterans were ousted from Hudson Valley lodging as a result of NYC's migrant surge was a tall tale  —  Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate  —  NEWBURGH — Over the past week, a sensational story …
New York Post:
Longtime advocate lied about vets getting kicked out of NY hotels for migrants: pol  —  An upstate New York lawmaker is calling for an investigation into a well-known veterans advocate — accusing her of lying when she claimed ex-military were getting booted from hotels to make way for the flood of migrants up north.
Phillip Pantuso / Albany Times Union:
Homeless men say they were recruited to pose as displaced vets  —  The men say they were coached by Sharon Toney-Finch to spin a tale of eviction from the Crossroads Hotel  —  POUGHKEEPSIE — Two men currently staying at a homeless shelter in Poughkeepsie said they were among a group …
Discussion: Alternet.org
Joseph Spector / Politico:
Prosecutors looking into false reports of veterans displaced by migrants
Discussion: Mid Hudson News and Daily Kos
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Biden's 14th Amendment message to progressives: It ain't gonna happen  —  The president's advisers fear such a move would trigger a legal battle, undermine global faith in U.S. creditworthiness and damage the economy.  —  Progressive lawmakers renewed their call for President Joe Biden …
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Debt Limit Talks Hit Snag as G.O.P. Declares a ‘Pause’  —  Republicans left negotiations on Friday, saying the White House was refusing to move its way on spending cuts.  —  Reporting from Washington  —  Negotiations between top White House and Republican congressional officials over a deal …
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Republicans walk out of debt ceiling talks, say White House isn't being ‘reasonable’  — High-stakes talks on the debt ceiling came to a halt Friday.  — It is unclear if the negotiations will resume this weekend.  — Financial markets dipped in response to the news.  —  WATCH NOW
Politico:
GOP hits ‘pause’ on debt talks as clock ticks
Emine Yücel / Talking Points Memo:
Growing List Of Dems Urge Biden To Cite 14th Amendment To Sidestep McCarthy's Debt-Ceiling Hostage Crisis
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
FBI misused surveillance tool on Jan. 6 suspects, BLM arrestees and others  —  Crime victims, political donors, and potential sources were targeted in digital searches that the FBI says have now been scaled back  —  The FBI has misused a powerful digital surveillance tool more than 278,000 times …
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
D.C. police lieutenant indicted with tipping off Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio about arrest  —  After Jan. 6, Lt. Shane Lamond said he supported the group and didn't “want to see your group's name or reputation dragged through the mud,” an indictment alleged.  —  WASHINGTON — A Metropolitan …
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US Department of Justice:
MPD Lieutenant Charged with Obstruction of Justice and False Statements
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
DC Police Intel Chief Was Supplicant To Proud Boys Leader, Prosecutors Say
Discussion: NBC News and Digby's Hullabaloo
Washington Post:
The short life of Baby Milo  —  Nobody expected Baby Milo to live for long.  —  He arrived in the world with no kidneys, underdeveloped lungs and a life expectancy of between 20 minutes and a couple of hours.  —  He lived for 99 minutes.  —  Milo Evan Dorbert drew his first and last breath on the evening of March 3.
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Kruse / Politico:
The Casey DeSantis Problem: ‘His Greatest Asset and His Greatest Liability’  —  Ron DeSantis' wife is going to play a very prominent role in his presidential campaign.  Some of his supporters wonder if that's an entirely good thing.  —  Casey DeSantis plays an uncommonly pivotal role …
Guy Trebay / New York Times:
Do Dress Sneakers Belong in the Oval Office?  —  People felt strongly after spotting the hybrid shoe at a meeting with the president.  —  Think of it as a rare instance of cross-aisle consensus or else a sartorial trend gone badly wrong.  But it did not go unnoticed when …
David Weigel / Semafor:
Megan Hunt doesn't want to be your Democratic hero.  She just wants to protect her trans son.  —  The Subject  —  “I don't like you.”  Nebraska state Sen. Megan Hunt said that to Republicans in March, as she filibustered legislation that would ban gender-affirming treatment for minors like her son, Ash Homan.
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Rudy Giuliani's Election Fraud Lawyer Can't Stand Him Anymore  —  Bruce Castor, a former Trump impeachment lawyer and Pennsylvania attorney general, said Giuliani has ghosted him.  —  A prominent Philadelphia attorney and onetime Trump impeachment lawyer says he can't stand to represent Rudy Giuliani …
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:   Rudy Giuliani's raw reaction to sexual assault suit by employee he ‘dated’ was quietly edited, and the truth may be even stranger
Sascha Pare / LiveScience:
Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same.  But why?  —  Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a “critical moment of agony” and that the behavior is spreading among the population through social learning.
Discussion: BGR
New York Times:
Trump Ally Could Face Perjury Charge if He Doesn't Cooperate With D.A.  —  After bringing charges against former President Donald J. Trump, the Manhattan district attorney's office is once again investigating Allen H. Weisselberg, 75.  —  One of Donald J. Trump's longtime lieutenants …
Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
Ted Cruz Launches Senate Probe Into Bud Light's Ad With Dylan Mulvaney  —  The Texas Republican demanded the beer industry investigate on its own — or have Anheuser-Busch apologize for the alleged Mulvaney infraction.  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) this week opened a Senate investigation …
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Shannon Thaler / New York Post:
Anheuser-Busch loses LGBTQ+ rating for missing ‘key moment’ to stand up for Dylan Mulvaney
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
White House reporters stuck with $25,000 charges after Biden trip canceled  —  Some correspondents think it could prompt media bosses to pull back from covering the president on future overseas tours  —  Every traveler dreads a sudden flight cancellation.  But few travelers have been stuck …
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Senate Candidate ‘Patriot Whistleblower’ Admits to Fabricating Sex Trafficking Story  —  Ryan Dark White, who ran for Congress as “Jon McGreevey,” took pictures of a child he said was being trafficked.  It was a campaign stunt, he now admits.  —  A failed Republican congressional candidate allied …
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
U.S. and allies plan to provide Ukrainian pilots with F-16 fighter jets, official says  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly called on the U.S. to provide F-16 jets, but U.S. President Joe Biden had so far refused the requests.  —  HIROSHIMA, Japan …
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Two GOP senators smear a witness to defend Clarence Thomas  —  Mark L. Wolf has spent his career fighting against corruption and for the rule of law — as a public corruption prosecutor, as a federal judge, as a crusader against international kleptocracy.  For that, at a hearing on judicial ethics …
New York Times:
Georgia Prosecutor Signals August Timetable for Charges in Trump Inquiry  —  The Fulton County district attorney said most of her staff would work remotely at times, and asked judges not to schedule trials, in the first half of August.  —  The Georgia prosecutor leading an investigation …
Liam Stack / New York Times:
A University Fired 2 Employees for Including Their Pronouns in Emails  —  The firings set off a debate at Houghton University, a small Christian institution in western New York, which said its decision was not based only on the pronoun listings.  —  When Raegan Zelaya and Shua Wilmot decided …
Michael Schaffer / Politico:
Hurricane Trump Is Coming — And Washington Hasn't Bothered to Prepare  —  After 2020, reformers vowed to erect guardrails against a rogue chief executive.  They ran into a wall of complacency, partisanship and distraction.  —  Two months before the 2020 elections, Jack Goldsmith …
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Russia bans Obama, Maddow, Colbert over sanctions  —  Russia has banned hundreds of U.S. citizens, including former President Obama, political commentator Rachel Maddow and late-night host Stephen Colbert, from entering its territory in response to the U.S. sanctions over the Ukraine war.
Mark Pazniokas / CT Mirror:
Sandra Slack Glover withdraws as CT Supreme Court nominee  —  Sandra Slack Glover withdrew Friday as Gov. Ned Lamont's nominee for the state Supreme Court, unable to overcome legislative questions about her commitment to upholding Connecticut's strong reproductive rights laws.
Discussion: Newsday
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Jim Jordan is inadvertently discrediting his own case against the FBI  —  Jim Jordan keeps taking aim at the FBI.  He keeps missing.  The more the Republican fails, the more he inadvertently makes the bureau look better, not worse.  —  It was roughly nine months ago when Rep. Jim Jordan began …
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
He voted in Florida for the first time in 2020.  Then came the criminal charges  —  John Boyd Rivers says he was misled by an election official who urged him to vote for the first time in 2020.  Now he's been found guilty of voter fraud  —  The fight for democracy is supported by
 
 
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Rolling Stone:
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
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