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Sun-Sentinel:
One dead after pickup truck drives into crowd attending Wilton Manors LGBTQ Pride parade  —  A pickup truck drove into a crowd of spectators at the start of the Wilton Manors Stonewall Parade and Festival in what appeared to be an intentional act, witnesses said.
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Rubén Rosario / WSVN-TV:
Mayor: 1 dead, 1 hospitalized after truck hits pedestrians at Stonewall Pride Parade; driver in custody  —  One person has died and another has been taken to the hospital after they were run over by a truck in Fort Lauderdale at the beginning of Stonewall Pride Parade, according to the city's mayor.
WPLG-TV:
2 hit by truck, 1 killed at Pride parade in Wilton Manors  —  Man behind the wheel was wearing Fort Lauderdale Gay Men's Chorus t-shirt  —  WILTON MANORS, Fla. - One man was killed and another injured when they were run over by a pickup truck as the Stonewall Pride Parade in Wilton Manors was just getting started Saturday night.
Devoun Cetoute / Miami Herald:
One killed, two injured by pickup truck at Broward Stonewall Pride Parade, reports say  —  The Stonewall Pride Parade and Festival in Wilton Manors turned deadly Saturday night when a person drove a truck into two people, killing one, and narrowly missing U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Washington Post:
Leader of companies that pushed ‘Italygate’ election conspiracy theory falsely claimed $30 million mansion was her home  —  Late last December, as President Donald Trump pressed senior officials to find proof of election fraud, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows emailed acting attorney …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
ItalyGate Is The Crown Jewel Of Big Lie Conspiracies.  And It Just Got A Lot Wilder.  —  For those ready to believe that President Trump really won re-election, there's one particularly fantastical conspiracy theory to hang your hat on.  —  It's called ItalyGate, and it offers a simple …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Hunter Walker / New York Magazine:
A Very Late Night With the Yangs The former frontrunner and his wife vent about Eric Adams, the media, and much more.  —  “I have a pet peeve I want to share with you,” Andrew Yang declared immediately after we were introduced on Zoom late Thursday night.  —  The emotional toll of a series …
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New York Times:
Yang and Garcia Form Late Alliance in Mayor's Race, Drawing Adams's Ire  —  Andrew Yang and Kathryn Garcia campaigned together on Saturday in a show of unity that their top rival, Eric Adams, sought to portray as racially motivated.  —  Andrew Yang and Kathryn Garcia, two leading candidates …
New York Times:   ‘Keep an Eye on This Guy’: Inside Eric Adams's Complicated Police Career
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Is U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley now ‘vincible’?  In new Iowa Poll, nearly two-thirds say it's time for someone new  —  Fewer than a third of Iowa's likely voters say they would vote to reelect Republican Chuck Grassley if the U.S. Senate elections were held today, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows.
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
New York Times:
How Republican States Are Expanding Their Power Over Elections  —  In Georgia, Republicans are removing Democrats of color from local boards.  In Arkansas, they have stripped election control from county authorities.  And they are expanding their election power in many other states.
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Georgia Republicans purging Black election officials as they eye 2022 midterms: report
Discussion: HotAir
NBC News:
Charges dropped for hundreds of alleged looters in New York City  —  In late May and early June 2020, looters smashed storefronts in the Bronx and Manhattan boroughs of New York City.  —  Many were caught on tape, some with their faces visible.  Others even posted their own videos of their actions those nights on social media.
Lizzie Widdicombe / New Yorker:
What Is Going On at Yale Law School?  —  The prestigious institution has tied itself in knots over a dispute involving one of its most popular—and controversial—professors, Amy Chua.  —  A decade ago, back when we talked about things besides new coronavirus strains and vaccination rates …
Jonathan D. Salant / New Jersey Online:
How much did you pay to cover Trump visits to his N.J. golf club as president?  We added it up.  —  Donald Trump's trips to his Bedminster golf club as president cost U.S. taxpayers more than $2.4 million, according to U.S. Secret Service records obtained by NJ Advance Media.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Manhattan City Council candidate caught with dominatrix in leaked video … It's a late-breaking case of electoral bondage.  —  Zack Weiner, 26, a City Council candidate running in Manhattan, has found his campaign tied up after video of him enjoying a sadomasochism session found its way onto Twitter.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
The One About Bibi Netanyahu's Father and the Perils of Diaspora … When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.  —  THE NETANYAHUS  —  An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
Discussion: Foreign Policy
Danielle Echeverria / San Francisco Chronicle:
Only one U.S. city saw a bigger pandemic exodus than San Francisco  —  Seattle was the fastest-growing city in 2020, while San Francisco and San Jose shrank  —  San Francisco saw the second largest population decline of all major cities in the U.S. in 2020, according to census data.
Natalie Winters / The National Pulse:
REVEALED: Google & USAID Funded Wuhan Collaborator Peter Daszak's Virus Experiments For Over A Decade.  —  Google funded research conducted by Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance - a controversial group which has openly collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on “killer” …
Discussion: 100PercentFedUp.com
Jon Levine / New York Post:
AOC skips out on congressional voting to campaign for Maya Wiley  —  AOC is MIA.  —  Queens Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been skipping out on congressional votes citing pandemic hardship — but has found time to campaign for progressive mayoral candidate Maya Wiley.
Wall Street Journal:
The World Relies on One Chip Maker in Taiwan, Leaving Everyone Vulnerable  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s dominance poses risks to the global economy, amid geopolitical tensions and a major chip shortage  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. 's chips are everywhere, though most consumers don't know it.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Michael Hauser Tov / Haaretz:
Prime Minister's Office to Investigate Whether Netanyahu Shredded Documents Before Bennett Took Office  —  On Thursday, Haaretz reported that documents stored in safes in the Prime Minister's Office were shredded in violation of the law, shortly before Bennett took office
Olivia Solon / NBC News:
Drought-stricken communities push back against data centers  —  On May 17, the City Council of Mesa, Arizona, approved the $800 million development of an enormous data center — a warehouse filled with computers storing all of the photos, documents and other information we store “in the cloud” …
Leonard Pitts Jr / Miami Herald:
That ‘well-regulated militia?’  It was originally created to quell rebellions of the enslaved, prof says  —  Conservatives have a special purgatory for uppity black women who dare question America's founding myths.  —  New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones — her Pulitzer Prize-winning …
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Washington Post:
Severe heat and drought the hallmarks of a changing west  —  Farmers, regulators and politicians facing the consequences of historic water shortages  —  LAKE OROVILLE, Calif. - The work had to be done quickly as water vanished to vapor in the early summer heat.
Discussion: Gizmodo
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The Capitol Riot Indictments Do Not Suggest an FBI Entrapment Scheme  —  A Tucker Carlson monologue misconstrues the facts of the case.  —  finally watched Tucker Carlson's monologue from Tuesday night, which has understandably caused a stir.  —  Tucker speculates that the January 6 Capitol tumult …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
The Simple Remedy for Jan. 6 Trutherism
 
 
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Cassandra Pollock / The Texas Tribune:
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Russell Contreras / Axios:
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Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
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