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David Axelrod / The Atlantic:
What Donald Trump Fears Most  —  Donald Trump's biographers all seem to agree that he didn't get a lot of love from his father.  But what Fred Trump did impart to his son was an indelible lesson: There are two kinds of people in the world—killers and losers—and like his father, Donald had to be a killer.
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Trial Is the Reality Show He Never Wanted  —  The former president faces weeks of challenging witnesses and tawdry stories.  —  Prosecutors and defense attorneys will make opening statements today in a criminal fraud trial in New York that Donald Trump has tried mightily, and unsuccessfully, to delay.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Prosecutors say Trump's hush money was ‘election interference.’ Will jurors — and voters — believe it?
Discussion: Washington Times
Liz Cheney / New York Times:
The Supreme Court Should Rule Swiftly on Trump's Immunity Claim  —  On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Donald Trump's arguments that he is immune from prosecution for his efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election.  It is likely that all — or nearly all …
CNN:
Columbia University faces full-blown crisis as rabbi calls for Jewish students to ‘return home’  —  Columbia University is facing a full-blown crisis heading into Passover as a rabbi linked to the Ivy League school urged Jewish students to stay home and tense confrontations on campus sparked condemnation …
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Fox News:
White House condemns ‘blatantly antisemitic’ protests as agitators engulf Columbia University
Marc Elias / Democracy Docket:
Republicans Are Suing for the Right To Harass Election Workers  —  You might think that even in today's highly polarized election environment there would be a bipartisan consensus to protect election workers from intimidation and harassment.  If you thought so, you would be wrong.
Ana Ceballos / Miami Herald:
Some migrants flown by DeSantis to Martha's Vineyard qualify for victim visas, feds say  —  Some of the 49 migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard by the state of Florida are now able to legally work in the United States and have temporary protections from deportation — because they are considered victims …
Discussion: Sacramento Bee
New York Post:
Ilhan Omar's daughter, Isra Hirsi, says she's homeless, cries poverty after suspension from $90K-per-year college over anti-Israel protests  —  The privileged daughter of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar amazingly claims she's homeless and can't get food after being kicked out of her prestigious $90 …
Discussion: Exposing the role … and RedState
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Yale Daily News:
LIVE: Over 45 pro-divestment protesters arrested on Beinecke Plaza  —  Two pro-Israel counter-protesters have entered the circle, one a man holding a sign that says “I HEART JEWS”, and the other a woman in a hand-decorated t-shirt that says “JEW” on the front and “ISRAEL” on the back.
Washington Post:
How Trump has become angrier and more isolated on Truth Social  —  For years, Donald Trump was among Twitter's loudest and most inescapable voices: a brash, bomb-throwing businessman turned president who could capture the global news cycle with a single tweet.
Discussion: Raw Story
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
‘Civil War’ is terrifying not for what it says about America, but about journalism  —  Around 2 p.m. on Friday, I opened my laptop and bought a ticket on Fandango for that night's showing of Civil War, the No. 1 movie in America that depicts a not-too-distant U.S. future of killing fields, refugee camps and bombed-out shopping malls.
Discussion: Variety and Scripting News
Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill:
John Legend says Trump believes ‘to his core’ that ‘Black people are inferior’  —  Singer John Legend says former President Trump is a racist down “to his core.”  —  Speaking to MSNBC's Jen Psaki on Sunday, Legend spoke of Trump's response to the Black Lives Matter protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd.
Discussion: MSNBC and The Daily Beast
Associated Press:
Papua New Guinea leader takes offense after Biden implies an uncle was eaten by cannibals  —  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape accused Joe Biden of disparaging the South Pacific island nation by implying that an uncle of the U.S. president had been eaten by …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The next president may be chosen by indifference  —  Those born in 1995 or after have never been able to vote in a presidential general election for any Republican besides Donald Trump.  If you were born four years after that, your choices between the two major parties have only been Trump and Joe Biden.
The Hill:
California launches unprecedented targets to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045  —  California on Monday released a first-of-its-kind plan to harness more than half of the state's land to decrease carbon emissions.  —  Over the next two decades, the state will be working to accomplish 81 nature-based goals …
Pluralistic:
Paying for it doesn't make it a market (permalink)  —  Anyone who says “If you're not paying for the product, you're the product” has been suckered in by Big Tech, whose cargo-cult version of markets and the discipline they impose on companies.  —  Here's the way that story goes …
Juliegrace Brufke / Axios:
House Republicans blame Greene and Freedom Caucus for lack of border wins … - GOP leadership brought up border security provisions alongside their foreign aid package — but the package was blocked by Republicans from reaching the House floor under normal rules.
Discussion: New York Times and The Hill
Austin Sarat / The Hill:
Americans who want to protect democracy need to stand up for public libraries  —  Public libraries, once considered the backbone of America's civic infrastructure, are now under attack in many places across the country.  Every day, librarians are harassed, threatened and intimidated for doing …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
How Biden Can Press His Ukraine Advantage  —  A great new spot from our pals at Republican Voters Against Trump is out this morning.  “I was wondering if you guys are hiring right now,” the narrator toting the hidden camera asks a sequence of mall-store managers.  “I'm currently facing 88 felonies.
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Israel has yet to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links, Colonna report says  —  Exclusive: Review finds government has yet to substantiate claims UN relief agency staff have ties to Hamas or Islamic Jihad  —  Israel has yet to provide supporting evidence of its claims that employees …
Discussion: Reuters and RTÉ
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court to decide if Biden administration can regulate ‘ghost guns’  —  The latest gun rights dispute concerns the Biden administration's effort to regulate gun-making kits the same way as commercially available firearms.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed …
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
No Strange New Respect For Mike Johnson  —  At least not until he explains why he sacrificed thousands of lives, swaths of territory, and perhaps the future of Ukraine for nothing.  —  ∙ Paid  —  A weekend of important news has quickly overshadowed something striking that led up to it …
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
The GOP's Pro-Russia Caucus Lost. Now Ukraine Has to Win.
Discussion: The Economist and Raw Story
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Marjorie Taylor Greene's “space lasers” show how the GOP gets away with escalating violence
Leah Willingham / Associated Press:
In race for his Senate seat, Joe Manchin endorses West Virginia Democratic Mayor Glenn Elliott
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Saul Zimet / Human Progress:
The Simon Abundance Index 2024
Discussion: National Review and Reason
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Passover
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Vance versus McConnell defines GOP Ukraine fight
Discussion: Defense One, RedState and Politico
Ron Filipkowski / The Daily Beast:
Trump's a Fraud When It Comes to Law and Order and ‘Backing the Blue’
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The Daily Beast:
Russian Who Bankrolled Trump's Truth Social Set Up Dodgy Sex Pill Sites
Discussion: Alternet.org
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Newsom proposes law to help Arizonans get abortions in California
Henry Gass / Christian Science Monitor:
Can cities criminalize camping? Here's what to know about Supreme Court case.
Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
RFK Jr. rarely mentions abortion — and sends mixed signals when he does
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Some Trump chats with foreign leaders annoy Biden's team
Wall Street Journal:
Chinese-Americans Are Pushing San Francisco Toward the Political Center
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Hakeem Jeffries emerges as Congress' shadow speaker
 

 
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Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN:
Memo: Microsoft's Xbox division to shut down multiple Bethesda studios and consolidate teams to prioritize high-impact titles and invest in Bethesda's portfolio

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
UK and US authorities identify and charge the leader of the LockBit ransomware gang, a 31-year-old Russian national; the US also issued sanctions against him
 
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