Top Items:
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How Joe Manchin's awful new stance could blow up in his face — By now you've heard that Sen. Joe Manchin III has essentially declared he has consigned us to a future of minority rule. In a new piece, the West Virginia Democrat says he'll vote against his party's voting rights legislation and will never …
Discussion:
The Hill, Roll Call, Fox News, Media Matters for America, Religion News Service, Breitbart, Daily Kos, Insider, Townhall, Mediaite and pjmedia.com
RELATED:
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Time to call Manchin's bluff
Time to call Manchin's bluff
Discussion:
Politico, Salon, Washington Examiner, New Republic, The Guardian and Raw Story
Chandelis Duster / CNN:
Democrat calls Manchin ‘the new Mitch McConnell’ and says he is working to thwart Biden's agenda
Democrat calls Manchin ‘the new Mitch McConnell’ and says he is working to thwart Biden's agenda
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Steve Bannon pushes ‘major effort’ to ‘bring Joe Manchin into the Republican party’
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Joe Manchin's Incoherent Case for Letting Republicans Destroy Democracy The most powerful senator ties himself in knots.
Joe Manchin's Incoherent Case for Letting Republicans Destroy Democracy The most powerful senator ties himself in knots.
Discussion:
Daily Kos, Washington Post, The Root, AMAC, Newsbusters, The Daily Caller, Alpha News, Washington Examiner, NBC News, NBC4 Washington and NewsNation Now
CNN:
Exclusive: New audio of 2019 phone call reveals how Giuliani pressured Ukraine to investigate baseless Biden conspiracies — (CNN)Never-before-heard audio, obtained exclusively by CNN, shows how former President Donald Trump's longtime adviser Rudy Giuliani relentlessly pressured and coaxed …
Discussion:
Raw Story
RELATED:
Evan Perez / CNN:
First on CNN: US recovers millions in cryptocurrency paid to Colonial Pipeline ransomware hackers — Washington (CNN)US investigators have recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom to hackers whose attack prompted the shutdown of the key East Coast pipeline last month, according to people briefed on the matter.
Discussion:
Washington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, CBS News, Insider, Gizmodo, Los Angeles Times, Metro.co.uk, Forbes, Joe.My.God., The Daily Caller and Mediaite, more at Techmeme »
RELATED:
New York Times:
Justice Dept. says it recovered most of the ransom paid after the Colonial Pipeline cyber attack. — The Justice Department said on Monday that it had recovered much of the ransom paid to hackers last month who shut down the computer systems of Colonial Pipeline, a critical pipeline operator.
Discussion:
Bloomberg, HotAir, Denver Post, Twitchy, NBC New York, New York Post and Just The News
Irin Carmon / New York Magazine:
The Tiger Mom and and the Hornet's Nest For decades, Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld were Yale Law power brokers. A new generation wants to see them exiled. — Photo: Photograph by Gillian Laub for New York Magazine — It's supposedly haunted," Amy Chua says brightly as she ushers …
RELATED:
New York Times:
Gripped by ‘Dinner Party-gate,’ Yale Law Confronts a Venomous Divide — A dispute centering on the celebrity professor Amy Chua exposes a culture pitting student against student, professor against professor. — NEW HAVEN, Conn. — On March 26, a group of students at Yale Law School approached …
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Guatemala's prez blames Biden for border crisis as protesters tell Kamala Harris ‘Trump won’ — Vice President Kamala Harris was greeted Monday by protesters in Guatemala telling her “Trump won” and “go home” — as the country's president blamed President Biden for this year's migrant crisis.
RELATED:
Caleb Ecarma / Vanity Fair:
Trump's Deranged Theory That Democrats Would Replace Biden Might Have Helped Him Lose 2020 — The president was obsessed with the idea that Democrats would strip the primary win from Joe Biden and nominate Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama instead, reporter Michael Bender writes in an upcoming book.
Discussion:
Insider, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, The US Sun, Mediaite, Fox News, Slate and Zogby Analytics
Washington Post:
Jeff Bezos announces he'll be on first crewed spaceflight of Blue Origin rocket — The billionaire says he and his brother will be aboard the New Shepard when it takes flight July 20 — roughly two weeks after he steps down as CEO of Amazon — A couple of weeks after Jeff Bezos officially steps …
Discussion:
CNBC, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth, The Wrap, Vox, The Hill, NPR, Associated Press and abc7NY, more at Techmeme »
RELATED:
Jackie Wattles / CNN:
Jeff Bezos is going to space on first crewed flight of rocket
Jeff Bezos is going to space on first crewed flight of rocket
Discussion:
Associated Press, New York Times, CBS News, Breitbart, CBS Miami, The Verge, The Daily Caller, New York Post, TMZ.com, The Times of Israel, Variety and Mediaite
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Schumer recommending 2 voting rights lawyers to be judges — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate's top Democrat is recommending President Joe Biden nominate two prominent voting rights attorneys to serve as judges on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and on the federal bench in Manhattan.
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo and The Hill
RELATED:
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court declines to hear lawsuit challenging male-only draft
Supreme Court declines to hear lawsuit challenging male-only draft
Discussion:
MSNBC, Washington Post, CNBC, Law & Crime, The Daily Caller, CBS News, UPI, Bloomberg, NPR, USA Today, Times of San Diego and Political Wire
CBC News:
Muslim family members targeted in fatal hit and run, police say, driver charged with murder — 3 adults and 1 teen dead, child in London, Ont., hospital with serious injuries from Sunday incident — A 20-year-old man was charged Monday with four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder …
Discussion:
globalnews.ca, Insider and Snopes.com
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court rules against immigrants with temporary status — WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that thousands of people living in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons are ineligible to apply to become permanent residents. — Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court …
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal, CNN, Townhall, Washington Post, UPI, Breitbart, Washington Times, The Gateway Pundit, ABC News, Outside the Beltway, The Daily Caller, USA Today, TheBlaze and Bloomberg
Evie Fordham / Fox News:
Biden snubs D-Day's 77th anniversary, angering veterans — Veteran calls Biden's failure to recognize D-Day ‘reprehensible’ — Trey Gowdy marks the 77th anniversary of D-Day — A homeland security source told Fox News that service members and veterans are upset after President Biden failed …
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, Politico, RedState, The US Sun, The Western Journal, The Daily Caller, Breitbart and The American Independent
Spectrum News NY1:
Exclusive: Eric Adams jumps in front, Yang slips in NY1/Ipsos poll — Eric Adams has surged to the front of the pack, overtaking Andrew Yang and building a six-point lead in the Democratic primary for mayor, according to the exclusive results of a new Spectrum News NY1/Ipsos poll. — What You Need To Know
Discussion:
Politico, Washington Times, Joe.My.God., Bloomberg, Gothamist, The Uprising and New York Magazine
New York Times:
What Happened When Trump Was Banned on Social Media — When Facebook and Twitter barred Donald J. Trump from their platforms after the Capitol riot in January, he lost direct access to his most powerful megaphones. On Friday, Facebook said the former president would not be allowed …
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, Forbes, Nieman Lab and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
The Scandal Rocking the Evangelical World — The sudden departure of Russell Moore is forcing an overdue conversation about the crises of American Christendom. — “This is an earthquake,” a prominent Christian writer told me. — The publication of an extraordinary February 24, 2020 …
Discussion:
The Dispatch
Stephen Fowler / Georgia Public Broadcasting:
Here's How Georgia Could Conduct A Forensic Audit Of November's Election — Auditors split into seven teams of two conducted a manual recount of around 71,000 presidential ballots in Macon, Ga., part of the recount held November 2020. In 2021, efforts to hold so-called “forensic audits” …
Discussion:
Raw Story, The American Independent and Los Angeles Times
Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
GOP chair expects former Nevada AG Laxalt to run for Senate — LAS VEGAS (AP) — The head of the Senate Republican political arm says he expects former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt to challenge Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada next year.
Discussion:
NBC News, Political Wire and Associated Press
Ian Beacock / New Republic:
Who Will Read Niall Ferguson's Doom? — In November 2006, Niall Ferguson traveled to the Bahamas. Then a professor of history at Harvard, he had been invited to address Morgan Stanley's swank annual gathering for investors in Lyford Cay, a 1,000-acre gated community (and tax shelter) of 450 homes in the British Colonial style.
Foreign Policy:
Defiant Belarus Snubs U.S. Ambassador — As relations between the West and Belarus crash, the U.S. envoy is barred from entering the country. — In February 2020, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a historic visit to Belarus on a mission to normalize ties with the authoritarian country …
Jack Rasmus / CounterPunch:
Biden Capitulates: Cuts Corp Taxes & Cuts Infrastructure Spending — Reuters reported last week that Biden announced a massive shift in his fiscal policy, cutting (not raising) corporate taxes even further than had Trump, AND cutting his proposed infrastructure spending bill by hundreds …
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Trump to launch speaking tour with Bill O'Reilly — Former President Trump is launching a speaking tour with former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly that will aim to “provide a never before heard inside view of his administration.” — The series, dubbed “The History Tour,” …
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, Insider, The Daily Caller and POLITICUSUSA
New York Times:
Nicaragua's Democracy Hangs by Thread as Crackdown Deepens — Under President Daniel Ortega, the country is a step away from becoming a one-party state. Money-laundering charges against his main rival have heightened concerns. — MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Opposition candidates have been detained.
Discussion:
Daily Kos and Political Wire
Jason Delgado / Florida Politics:
Twitter suspends Rebekah Jones — Twitter on Monday suspended Rebekah Jones, a former Department of Health data curator who made national headlines after being fired from the department for insubordination from its platform. — While it is unclear why Twitter suspended the account …
Discussion:
National Review, RedState, Joe.My.God., Orlando Weekly, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Too many people are still underestimating the Trump threat — Former president Donald Trump's secret weapon has always been that it is hard for educated people to take him seriously. He acts like a preening buffoon with pretensions of grandeur — doltish and delusional in equal measure.
Discussion:
Raw Story and Vanity Fair
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
What Were They Thinking About Insurrection? — The hopes and fears of the participants in the Capitol attack, government officials, and Donald Trump. — On January 6, 2021, members of the Oath Keepers, high on conspiracies and disinformation, went to Washington, D.C. to support then-President Donald Trump.
Discussion:
Washington Times, Alternet.org and Morning Shots
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Palestinian Government Pays $42,000 to Family of Terrorist Who Killed Israelis — Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas authorized the payment on Sunday of $42,000 to the family of a terrorist who killed two Israelis through a policy that incentivizes and rewards terrorism against Israel.
Discussion:
MEMRI
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Biden promises the feds will stop trampling journalists' rights. But we need more than words. — The New York Times reporter Adam Goldman might have been exaggerating a bit when he said Sunday that for more than a decade, the Justice Department has been treating reporters like members of drug gangs.
Discussion:
The Western Journal, Common Dreams and Townhall
Kim Hart / Axios:
Scoop: Conservatives sound alarm against taking Big Tech money — Conservatives in Washington are growing much more leery of groups with financial ties to Big Tech. — Driving the news: The American Principles Project, a conservative advocacy group, will send a letter today warning Republican lawmakers …
Discussion:
American Principles Project
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Biden should go it alone — Seventeen months — that's all the time that's left. — That's how long President Biden can hope to hold Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. — Now is the time to start thinking about the November 2022 midterm elections.