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New emails show how Trump and his allies pressured Justice Department to try to challenge 2020 election results — (CNN)New emails show how former President Donald Trump's White House assistant, chief of staff and other allies pressured the Justice Department to investigate claims of voter fraud …
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Trump Pressed Official to Wield Justice Dept. to Back Election Claims — The former president began pressuring his acting attorney general even before announcing that his predecessor was stepping down, emails show. — WASHINGTON — An hour before President Donald J. Trump announced …
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New Documents Show Trump Repeatedly Pressed DOJ to Overturn Election Results Before Inciting Capitol Attack — Ahead of Hearing on Insurrection, Oversight Committee Releases New Evidence and Seeks Transcribed Interviews with Key Officials — Washington, D.C. (June 15, 2021)— Today …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The more we learn about Trump's corruption of DOJ, the worse it gets
The more we learn about Trump's corruption of DOJ, the worse it gets
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'He's screwed over so many publishers': Trump confronts a skeptical book industry — Almost five months after leaving office, major publishing houses still are wary of publishing a book by former President Donald Trump, even though a post-White House memoir would almost assuredly be a best-seller.
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
New Book Publisher Caters to Conservative Voices It Says Are Being Silenced
New Book Publisher Caters to Conservative Voices It Says Are Being Silenced
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Critical race theory invades school boards — with help from conservative groups — A booby-trapped billboard. A list of demands. A conservative media frenzy. — Jeff Porter, superintendent of a wealthy suburban school district in Maine, had no idea that his community was about to become part …
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Fighting Critical Race Theory, One Door at a Time
Fighting Critical Race Theory, One Door at a Time
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A Composer Condemned Arson. Now No One Will Hire Him. — Until last year, Daniel Elder—a 34-year-old musician who lives in Nashville, Tennessee—had a promising career ahead of him. The theme of the prize-winning composer's work, truth through emotion, is evident across his catalogue of choral music …

FACT SHEET: National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism … On his first full day in office, President Biden directed his national security team to lead a 100-day comprehensive review of U.S. Government efforts to address domestic terrorism, which has evolved into the most urgent terrorism threat the United States faces today.
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Get Ready for the Shitstorm That Will Follow the Arizona “Recount” — Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy's plan for Arizona is the same as it was before January 6. — Your whole life, like a sandglass, will always be reversed and will ever run out again,—a long minute of time will elapse until …
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Republicans Now Want to ‘Audit’ Election Results in States That Trump Won
Republicans Now Want to ‘Audit’ Election Results in States That Trump Won
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The Amazon That Customers Don't See — Each year, hundreds of thousands of workers churn through a vast mechanism that hires and monitors, disciplines and fires. Amid the pandemic, the already strained system lurched.

Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson to be judge on powerful appeals court — WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Monday to confirm President Joe Biden's nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. — The vote was 53-44.
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The one part of the Senate that's working for Democrats
The one part of the Senate that's working for Democrats
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U.S. and E.U. Agree to Suspend Feud Over Aid for Airbus and Boeing — The agreement, coming as President Biden prepares to meet European leaders, ends a 17-year dispute over aircraft subsidies. — BRUSSELS — President Biden on Tuesday announced the end of a bitter, 17-year dispute …
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U.S. and EU resolve 17-year Boeing-Airbus trade dispute
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The Wuhan lab-leak explanation is “not a conspiracy theory, ” says ... Jon Stewart? — That strange popping sound you've been hearing overnight? Media-elite heads exploding, perhaps, or maybe just eardrums adjusting to the new narrative pressure provided by Jon Stewart.
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The Jolt: What Marjorie Taylor Greene did not apologize for — By Patricia Murphy - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Greg Bluestein - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tia Mitchell - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution … Marjorie Taylor Greene has been called on to apologize many times before.
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Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Finds Out How Bad the Holocaust Was
GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Finds Out How Bad the Holocaust Was
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Texas' main power grid operator urges reduced electricity use through Friday due to “tight grid conditions” — The Electric Reliability Council of Texas says a large number of power plants are offline, but it could not provide details as to what may be causing the “very concerning” number of outages.
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Ex-Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, now a Mainer, marched on the Capitol on Jan. 6 — The former Californian, who's been called 'Putin's favorite congressman,' said he participated to protest the ‘stolen election’ but urged fellow protesters not to storm the Capitol. — POLITICS
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Call it authoritarianism — The Republican Party has embraced an agenda that rigs the rules in their favor. There's a name for that behavior. — American democracy is in a bad way, and the Republican Party is the reason why. — Blocking an inquiry into the January 6 attack on the Capitol …
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Unindicted Co-Conspirators in 1/6 Cases Raise Disturbing Questions of Federal Foreknowledge — Experience Revolver without ads … Of all the questions asked, words spoken, and ink spilled on the so-called “Capitol Siege” of January 6, 2021, none hold the key to the entire event quite …

Republicans plot an infrastructure 2-step: Spend more, then kill Biden's agenda — Senate Republicans are mulling support for a massive amount of new spending on infrastructure — in part because they think it'll help kill President Joe Biden's liberal agenda.
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Who Let Capitol Protesters Into the Building on January 6? — By contradicting the groupthink on January 6, Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) is taking fire from the usual suspects while most of his Senate colleagues remain silent. — Judge Amit Mehta thinks no one let protesters into the Capitol building on January 6.

Why Is Merrick Garland Defending Bill Barr's Policies? — Biden's attorney general is siding with Donald Trump's Justice Department on everything from the Mueller Report to a rape accusation. — Merrick Garland took the helm of the United States Justice Department three months ago …
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Why Mike Lindell Can't Stop — CHASKA, Minn.— One day in mid-May, after a rally in South Dakota to promote his new website, Mike Lindell, the pillow magnate and indefatigable election-conspiracy promoter, barreled into his company headquarters, sat himself down at a long table …
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What Nikki Haley Got Very Wrong in Her Meeting With Netanyahu — Netanyahu hosted Haley in the prime minister's residence, where he is currently a guest. She described him as if he's still the country's leader. Together, they showed a lack of respect toward Israel's new government — Zen Read
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Former Trump officials help Biden with Putin summit prep — The previously unreported session demonstrates the extent to which Biden wants to be well prepared.
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Biden, Putin and the new era of information warfare … The homepage of Global Research, a Canadian website that bills itself as an independent research and media organisation, is universally bleak about the prospects of western-made Covid-19 vaccines. — “Covid-19 Vaccines lead to new Infections …
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