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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Trump's $91.6 million question  —  New York juries have found, by a preponderance of the evidence, that former President Donald Trump sexually assaulted writer E. Jean Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-90s and then repeatedly defamed her, falsely accusing Carroll of lying about the incident.
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Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
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Sean O'Driscoll / Newsweek:
Donald Trump May Be Closer To Bankruptcy Than It Seems  —  Donald Trump may be in a worse financial situation than most people think, a financial analyst has said.  —  Jon Gabrielsen, an Atlanta-based market economist, told Newsweek that Trump's liquidity problems may be more acute than they first appear …
Discussion: Raw Story
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
E. Jean Carroll lawyer suggests third Trump defamation lawsuit possible after new comments  — Donald Trump again denied rape and defamation claims against him by E. Jean Carroll.  — The presumptive Republican presidential nominee claimed on CNBC's “Squawk Box” that the numerous judgments …
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
John Kelly Shares His ‘Theory’ On Why Trump Likes Dictators So Much: New Book
Discussion: The Guardian
NBC News:
Trump floats ‘cutting’ retirement spending, drawing quick pushback from Biden  —  The Republican nominee-in-waiting said that “there's a lot you can do in terms of cutting” when pressed on CNBC about the solvency of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.  —  Presumptive Republican nominee …
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Chris Lehmann / The Nation:
The MAGA Aesthetic Is Beginning to Rot  —  The stable of imagery associated with the far-right insurgency no longer seems as fresh as it did when Trump first donned his red cap.  —  Pocket  —  For headline writers and Beltway pundits, the takeaway from last week's State of the Union address was clear …
J.D. Wolf / MeidasTouch:
Trump Posted Manipulated Video of Democrats Applauding Him At Biden's State of the Union Speech  —  Trump continues to post manipulated media  —  On Sunday, Trump posted a manipulated video showing himself replacing Joe Biden struggling at the State of the Union speech and Democrats cheering for him.
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
The GOP can't leave MAGA — “Americans must electorally mercy-kill the Republican Party”
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Biden returns to the key battleground state he snubbed in the presidential primaries
Will Weissert / Associated Press:   Youth activist groups jointly endorse Biden. They say his achievements matter more than his age
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Biden takes aim at Trump following his embrace of Hungary's Orbán
Discussion: Wonkette, Washington Post and Raw Story
New York Times:
House to Move Ahead With Bill Targeting TikTok as Trump Flips to Oppose It  —  Bipartisan legislation to force the Chinese owners of the platform to divest or face a ban was moving forward in Congress even after former President Donald J. Trump came out strongly against banning it.
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Dan Primack / Axios:
Shotgun divorce: How ByteDance could save TikTok from a U.S. ban
Discussion: Business Insider and Mediaite
NBC News:
House Republicans release report seeking to undermine Jan. 6 Committee and star witness  —  The report takes aim at key Jan. 6 witness Cassidy Hutchinson, citing unnamed Trump White House staffers who did not corroborate her testimony.  —  WASHINGTON — A House committee investigating …
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Testimony Fleshes Out Account of Trump's Demand to Go to Capitol on Jan. 6  —  But a newly released transcript of an interview of the Secret Service agent who drove Donald Trump's vehicle that day disputes that he tried to grab the steering wheel or lunged at another agent.
The Hill:
Trump seeks to derail New York hush money trial over immunity claims  —  Former President Trump is seeking to derail the start of his first criminal trial just two weeks out from when it is scheduled to begin, asserting a presidential immunity defense in the case for the first time.
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Tom Jones / Poynter:
How a tenacious reporter revealed Sen. Katie Britt's SOTU response to be ‘beyond misleading’  —  Britt tied an anecdote about a woman who survived sex trafficking to Biden's border policies.  But it happened during the George W. Bush admin.  —  Last Thursday was President Joe Biden's big State of the Union address.
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Biden effigy beaten at GOP event in Kansas; ex-official calls for resignations  —  Attendees at a Kansas county Republican Party event punched, kicked and took a baseball bat to an effigy of President Biden on Friday, sparking backlash from former party officials.
CNN:
Sex trafficking victim says Sen. Katie Britt telling her story during SOTU rebuttal is ‘not fair’  —  The woman whose story Alabama Sen. Katie Britt appeared to have shared in the Republican response to the State of the Union as an example of President Joe Biden's failed immigration policies told CNN …
Deborah Barfield Berry / USA Today:
HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge to resign, says affordable housing is ‘an American issue’  —  WASHINGTON ‒ Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge will step down from her top post in the Biden administration this month, she announced Monday, saying that after decades of public service, she's retiring and returning to Ohio.
 
 
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The Elites Want You to Shut Up  —  On this full episode of LARRY, we discuss the continued fallout …
Scott Bauer / ABC News:
Trump backers submit signatures to force recall election of Wisconsin GOP Assembly leader
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
Revealed: US conservative thinktank's links to extremist fraternal order
Discussion: Raw Story
Rasmussen Reports:
Most Democrats Don't Want Congress to Certify Election if Trump Wins
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Breitbart
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
The GOP nominee to head North Carolina's schools is a QAnon conspiracy theorist
Discussion: Wonkette
 Earlier Items: 
Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
NAACP calls on Black student-athletes to boycott Florida public colleges over anti-DEI policy
Discussion: The Hill and Florida Phoenix
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
How Big Pharma is fighting Biden's program to lower seniors' drug costs
Discussion: NaturalNews.com
Ella Lee / The Hill:
Peter Navarro ordered to prison on March 19
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Conservatives are furious, but they're not threatening Speaker Johnson's job
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Examiner
 

 
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