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EXCLUSIVE: Text Messages Show Cassidy Hutchinson Referring To January 6 Committee As ‘BS’ — The January 6 committee's key witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, called the committee “bs” in a text message obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller. — On Feb 1. Hutchinson sent a text …
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RedState and The Daily Wire
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New Insights Into Trump's State of Mind on Jan. 6 Chip Away at Doubts — Former President Donald J. Trump has weathered scandals by keeping his intentions under wraps, but recent testimony paints a stark portrait of a man willing to do almost anything to hang onto power. — Give this article- - - Read in app

GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger: More Witnesses, Evidence Surface In Jan. 6 Probe — Kinzinger says more evidence is emerging that supports testimony that President Trump wanted to join an angry riot that marched to the Capitol. — WASHINGTON (AP) — More evidence is emerging in the House's Jan. 6 investigation …
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Talking Points Memo, The Hill, Mediaite, Raw Story, Washington Times and KSLTV.com

Not prosecuting Trump for Jan. 6 would fuel a ‘much graver threat,’ Liz Cheney says — A criminal case could be “difficult” but necessary, Cheney said on “This Week.” — ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl interviews Congresswoman Liz Cheney at The Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif. June 29, 2022.

Multiple criminal referrals of Trump possible, Cheney says
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Trump told allies he's considering announcing 2024 presidential bid early, sources say
Trump told allies he's considering announcing 2024 presidential bid early, sources say
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RedState, PoliticusUSA, Mother Jones, Telegraph, Washington Times, Christian Americanism,, Raw Story, Vanity Fair and CNBC
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Liz Cheney warns GOP 'can't survive' if Trump becomes 2024 nominee
Liz Cheney warns GOP 'can't survive' if Trump becomes 2024 nominee
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ABC News, Axios, AFP, BizPac Review, Insider and NOQ Report

Akron police release video of officers shooting Black man dozens of times — AKRON, Ohio — Police on Sunday released footage showing officers firing dozens of rounds at a Black man who left his car to flee a traffic stop last week. — Akron Police Chief Stephen Mylett …
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Videos of Jayland Walker Shooting by Police Raise More Questions — Mr. Walker's family urged calm as protests continued in Akron, Ohio. — Give this article- - - Read in app — AKRON, Ohio — A 25-year-old Black man who was killed last week by police officers in Akron, Ohio …
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New York Post, TMZ.com, The Daily Wire and Fox 8 Cleveland WJW
Amanda Holpuch / New York Times:
Akron Police Officers Placed on Leave After Fatal Shooting of Black Man
Akron Police Officers Placed on Leave After Fatal Shooting of Black Man
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100-year-old WWII vet breaks down, says this isn't the ‘country we fought for’: ‘I am so upset’ — Carl Spurlin Dekel served in the U.S. Marines during World War II — Coming up on ‘Fox News Sunday’: July 3 — Much of what American soldiers fought for in World War II has “gone down the drain …

The Far Right and Far Left Agree on One Thing: Women Don't Count — Perhaps it makes sense that women — those supposedly compliant and agreeable, self-sacrificing and everything-nice creatures — were the ones to finally bring our polarized country together.
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Kara Dansky's Substack and The Mourning

An American's Murky Path From Russian Propagandist to Jan. 6 — Charles Bausman, a former financial executive who runs websites that promote far-right views, recorded footage in the Capitol for a Russian television producer. Soon after, he fled to Moscow as a “political refugee.”

‘The Pro-Life Generation’: Young Women Fight Against Abortion Rights — Many American women mourned the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe, but for others it is a moment of triumph and a matter of human rights. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Digby's Hullabaloo

The Holy Anarchy of Fun — In our era of high vigilance, emergency measures and vast decrees, Walter Kirn makes the case for fun. — Writes Unbound · Subscribe … So, a little late as always, because I like my pop culture to ferment some before I swill it down, I saw the sequel to Top Gun.

Why Glenn Youngkin — or someone like him — must run in 2024 — Virginia's new Republican governor is seriously thinking of running for president in 2024. And that's good news. — My Richmond-based Post colleagues Laura Vozzella and Gregory S. Schneider wrote last week of the telltale clues …

Happy(?) Fourth of July — Cheer up. We're still America. There are worse things to be. — Warning: this isn't exactly a fully-formed essay. Just a grab-bag of Fourth of July sentiments, poetry, and song. Neither, despite the photo above, is it intended to be some concentrated meditation on Johnny Cash.

How California's legal cannabis dream became a public health nightmare — A ROW of luxury ‘healing’ creams is guarded by a locked glass cabinet, gilded in gold trim. — The packaging is stylishly minimal - clean and white with small black typeface - and beside the tubs sit decorative …

Judge puts Biden on the spot over immunity for Saudi crown prince — Court invitation to clarify prince's status comes as president faces criticism for ditching promise to turn Saudi Arabia into a ‘pariah’ — A US judge has asked the Biden administration to weigh in on whether Mohammed bin Salman …
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Washington Post

Justice Dept. Braces for Summer of Violent Crime — Top officials at the department met with prosecutors and the local police in Philadelphia in an effort to help cities prepare for a hot-weather crime wave marked by the Fourth of July. — Give this article- - - Read in app

Gavin Newsom goes on the air against Ron DeSantis as political rivalry grows — (CNN)Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis aren't just avatars for the different futures of their parties, but also for the separate realities blue and red Americans are living in — two people of opposing viewpoints looking …
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Can Ukraine Win? — A Ukrainian soldier shows off a HIMARS multiple rocket launcher - part of the package of US military aid (Photo by Anastasia Vlasova for The Washington Post via Getty Images) — ‘Despise the enemy strategically, but respect him tactically’
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Now more than ever, Democrats need Hillary Clinton — THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL — Earlier this year, I co-authored a piece for The Wall Street Journal that argued that a perfect storm in the Democratic Party is making a once unfathomable scenario …
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