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3:00 PM ET, June 5, 2023

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New York Times:
Twitter's U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue  —  In internal forecasts, the company projected that ad sales would keep declining, handing a tough challenge to its new chief executive.  —  Ryan Mac reports on Twitter, and Tiffany Hsu reports on misinformation.
Chris Sununu / Washington Post:
I'm not running for president in 2024.  Beating Trump is more important.  —  Chris Sununu, a Republican, is governor of New Hampshire.  —  I will not be seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2024.  —  Our party is on a collision course toward electoral irrelevance without significant corrective action.
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Politico:
Suddenly, things are actually going the Senate GOP campaign arm's way  —  A high-profile recruit and some decisions by people not to run has the NRSC feeling good.  —  Senate Republicans blew it last year in the midterms.  Six months later, things are finally going their way.
Discussion: RedState and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Trump lawyers ask Justice Dept. not to charge Trump in classified docs case  —  Attorneys for Donald Trump came to the Justice Department on Monday morning to make their case that the government should not charge the former president in connection with his possession of classified documents …
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CBS News:
Trump attorneys met at Justice Department for just under two hours  —  Attorneys representing former President Donald Trump — John Rowley, James Trusty and Lindsey Halligan — were at the Justice Department at around 10 a.m. Monday, weeks after Trump's lawyers had requested a meeting with top federal law enforcement officials.
Politico:
Trump lawyers visit Justice Department  —  The visit comes as special counsel Jack Smith nears a decision about whether to charge Trump in the classified-documents probe.  —  Lawyers defending Donald Trump in an investigation related to his handling of highly sensitive national security documents …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Lawyers Seek to Persuade Justice Department Not to Indict Former President
Discussion: CBS News and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump-funded studies disputing election fraud are focus in two probes
Discussion: Raw Story
The Economist:
Ukraine's counter-offensive appears to have begun  —  Its armour strikes in the south-east; but there is more to come  —  For months a guessing game has played out in military circles worldwide: where and when would Ukraine conduct its counter-offensive?  Most expected it to come through …
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New York Times:
Ukraine Intensifies Attacks on Russian Frontline Positions  —  U.S. officials said there were signs that Ukraine may have begun its expected counteroffensive, but Kyiv remained silent about its strategy.  —  Here's what we're covering:  —  Fighting is raging at several points on the front line, Russian and U.S. officials say.
CNN:
Exclusive: Ukraine has cultivated sabotage agents inside Russia and is giving them drones to stage attacks, sources say  —  Ukraine has cultivated a network of agents and sympathizers inside Russia working to carry out acts of sabotage against Russian targets and has begun providing …
Samuel Charap / Foreign Affairs:
An Unwinnable War  —  Washington Needs an Endgame in Ukraine  —  Russia's invasion of Ukraine …
Discussion: Human Events
Max Tani / Semafor:
CNN lost trust over COVID coverage, internal report found  —  The Scoop  —  The Atlantic's Friday profile of the embattled CEO profile Chris Licht drew cringes at Hudson Yards — but also anger over Licht's criticism of the network's award-winning pandemic coverage.
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Brian Stelter / New York Magazine:
Can Chris Licht Survive at CNN?
New York Times:
S.E.C. Accuses Binance of Mishandling Funds and Lying to Regulators  —  The S.E.C. said the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange mixed “billions of dollars” in customer funds and secretly sent them to a separate company controlled by Binance's founder, Changpeng Zhao.
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Cornel West announces 2024 run for president as People's Party candidate  —  Progressive activist Cornel West announced Monday his 2024 campaign for president with the People's Party.  —  “I have decided to run for truth and justice, which takes the form of running for President …
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Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost:
Cornel West Announces Run For President As Third-Party Candidate
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tests the conspiratorial appetite of Democrats  —  One of the most famous living descendants of the most famous American political dynasty shows early strength against Biden in polls  —  INDIANAPOLIS — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a candidate for president supported …
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Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Ex-Twitter leader Jack Dorsey endorses RFK Jr. for president
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Hundreds of Gannett Journalists Walk Out  —  The union representing the company's newsroom employees has urged a vote of no-confidence against the C.E.O. at a shareholder meeting on Monday.  —  Hundreds of journalists for the country's largest newspaper chain walked off the job on Monday …
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
‘Trump too small’ trademark clash to be decided by Supreme Court  —  The dispute is over whether lawyer Steve Elster can register “Trump too small” as a trademark for use on T-shirts.  —  WASHINGTON — A crude joke that Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., used to mock what he said was then-2016 …
Wall Street Journal:
Targeting Toyota for Its Electric-Vehicle Heresy  —  Public pensions and proxy advisers try to punish the company using corporate governance as a pretext.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  It wasn't long ago that Toyota's hybrid vehicles were all the rage with the climate-change left.
Discussion: RedState
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
DeSantis and the Nebulous ‘Charisma Threshold’  —  On the menu today: I'm not interested in discussing whether you think Ron DeSantis is charismatic or not.  What I want to discuss is how seemingly overnight, so many people decided that the single most important measuring stick of DeSantis …
Discussion: Salon
Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
In Defense of Humanity  —  We need a cultural and philosophical movement to meet the rise of artificial superintelligence.  —  On july 13, 1833, during a visit to the Cabinet of Natural History at the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson had an epiphany.
Discussion: spiked
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The GOP's Authoritarian Acceleration  —  Internal resistance to its anti-democratic turn has all but vanished.  —  In May 2017, Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey, crashing through the first of many important democratic norms.  While FBI directors technically can be fired …
Tamara Berens / Mosaic Magazine:
From Coy to Goy  —  How America's far right found its anti-Semitic voice and figured out its true identity. … I arrived in New York four years ago with a familiar Jewish story: I was running from anti-Semitism.  I came of age in a cosmopolitan London in which it was the norm …
Discussion: CNN
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
Nazi Symbols on Ukraine's Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History  —  Troops' use of patches bearing Nazi emblems risks fueling Russian propaganda and spreading imagery that the West has spent a half-century trying to eliminate.  —  KYIV, Ukraine — Since Russia began its invasion …
john pavlovitz:
Woke Will Win  —  The leveraging of irrational fear is nothing new.  —  Throughout history it has been the go-to tactic of the worst of politics and religion.  —  When you lack substantive ideas, you need an encroaching enemy to move and motivate people.
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Sex Offenders Who Voted in GOP Florida County Not Prosecuted: Report  —  HMM...  A Republican state attorney in Florida chose not to pursue cases against six convicted sex offenders who voted in a majority GOP county in the 2020 election, according to a report, despite the cases being similar …
Katie Baker / The Daily Beast:
Casey DeSantis Is the Walmart Melania  —  She'd better hope that pleather is pudding-proof. … The First Lady of Florida showed up on the campaign trail in Iowa this weekend wearing a ghastly black leather jacket—American flag on front, an alligator and the silhouette of her state on the back …
 
 
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Colleagues want a 95-year-old judge to retire. She's suing them instead.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ahmad Austin / Mediaite:
Ukrainian Tennis Player Praises Her Russian Opponent for Saying She Doesn't Support the War: 'She's a Brave One'
Discussion: Slate, Reuters and The Hill
Terry Jones / Issues & Insights:
After Durham Report, Voters Seek Deep FBI Reforms: I&I/TIPP Poll
Discussion: The Federalist
Felix Salmon / Axios:
America's economic holding pattern
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Insider
Jeff Asher / The Atlantic:
The Murder Rate Is Suddenly Falling
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Former Vice President Pence filing paperwork launching 2024 presidential bid in challenge to Trump
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Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
The Real Reason Republicans Want to Give Tax Breaks for Embryos
Discussion: Jezebel
Steven F. Hayward / New York Post:
This Pride Month, it's the Revolt of the ‘Normies’ as Americans reject extremism
Discussion: Power Line
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Democratic Senate hopeful claims primary residence in Arizona — and D.C.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Andrew Ackerman / Wall Street Journal:
Big Banks Could Face 20% Boost to Capital Requirements
Discussion: Reuters
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
These 25 rainbow flag-waiving corporations donated $13.5 million to anti-gay politicians since 2022
New York Times:
What Happened When a Brooklyn Neighborhood Policed Itself for Five Days
Discussion: NewsNation and Outside the Beltway
 

 
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has met with Hollywood talent representatives to propose a new performance-based compensation regime, as Amazon and Netflix work on similar plans

Neal Mohan / The Hollywood Reporter:
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan argues that creators should be eligible for Emmys, as the awards “should reflect what viewers are actually watching on their TV screens”

Max Tani / Semafor:
Hunterbrook Media's publisher failed to disclose its ownership stake in a rival to a company that was recently the subject of a critical Hunterbrook article
 
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