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12:15 PM ET, March 27, 2023

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Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
Americans Pull Back From Values That Once Defined U.S., WSJ-NORC Poll Finds  —  Patriotism, religion and hard work hold less importance  —  Patriotism, religious faith, having children and other priorities that helped define the national character for generations are receding in importance to Americans …
Discussion: New York Post, The Hill and Fox News
Helen Lewis / The Atlantic:
How Did America's Weirdest, Most Freedom-Obsessed State Fall for an Authoritarian Governor?  —  A journey through Ron DeSantis's magic kingdom In the course of a single month this year, the following news reports emanated from Florida: A gun enthusiast in Tampa built a 55-foot backyard pool shaped …
Discussion: Sean Hannity
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Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Trump's Favorite Extreme Think Tank Is Jumping Ship for DeSantis  —  The Claremont Institute's leaders helped engineer Donald Trump's efforts to stay in office after his 2020 loss.  They're now mostly siding with Gov. Ron DeSantis.  —  As the Claremont Institute launched its new office …
Discussion: Raw Story
Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
Trump and DeSantis have the same authoritarian plan to “drain the swamp”
Discussion: Newsbusters and The Atlantic
Jeffrey S. Solochek / Tampa Bay Times:
Removal of ‘Ruby Bridges’ film from Pinellas school sparks outrage  —  A parent complained that the movie might teach white children to hate Black children.  —  The Disney movie “Ruby Bridges,” which tells the tale of a 6-year-old who integrated New Orleans schools in the 1960s …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Sarah Fitzpatrick / NBC News:
Ex-Tucker Carlson producer files new claims Fox News lawyers coached her testimony in Dominion lawsuit  —  Abby Grossberg sued Fox last week, alleging she was coerced into giving misleading testimony about the network's election fraud coverage.  She was fired Friday.
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Olivia Rubin / ABC News:
Fox News producer who sued network says she's been fired, would consider testifying on behalf of Dominion  —  Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News for defamation regarding the election.  The Fox News producer who sued the network last week alleging she was “conditioned and coerced” …
Tia Goldenberg / Associated Press:
Israeli president urges Netanyahu to halt legal overhaul  —  Workers from a range of sectors in Israel launched a nationwide strike on Monday, threatening to paralyze the economy as they joined a surging protest movement against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to overhaul the judiciary.
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Michael Hauser Tov / Haaretz:
Likud Sources: Netanyahu to Freeze Judicial Overhaul After Boisterous Night of Protests
Ben Samuels / Haaretz:
Thousands Take to Streets After Netanyahu Fires Defense Minister
Washington Post:
The gun that divides a nation … The AR-15 wasn't supposed to be a bestseller.  —  The rugged, powerful weapon was originally designed as a soldiers' rifle in the late 1950s.  “An outstanding weapon with phenomenal lethality,” an internal Pentagon report raved.
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:   About the terminology … MAYODAN, N.C. — Kelly Menard had been working the front counter …
The Texas Tribune:
Texas Observer, legendary crusading liberal magazine, is closing and laying off its staff  —  The 68-year-old progressive publication, which published Ronnie Dugger, Molly Ivins and Kaye Northcott, hit financial troubles and wasn't able to broaden its audience, board members said.
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
‘Absolutely Awful!’  Brian Kilmeade Calls Trump ‘Insane’ for Defending January 6th Rioters at Waco Rally  —  Brian Kilmdeade did not hold back in his criticism of Donald Trump on Monday morning, lacing into the former president for harping on ongoing court cases instead of touting his accomplishments as 45th president.
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump leans into extremism at first 2024 rally as legal woes mount  —  Donald Trump is igniting his White House bid at a moment of unprecedented peril in the criminal investigations against him - a confluence that could send America into a new political and legal collision.
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Shelby Talcott / Semafor:   Donald Trump is still winning by being Donald Trump
Rachel Hall / The Guardian:
Agatha Christie novels reworked to remove potentially offensive language  —  Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries have passages edited by sensitivity readers for latest HarperCollins editions  —  Several Agatha Christie novels have been edited to remove potentially offensive language, including insults and references to ethnicity.
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Alec Karam / The Daily Beast:
Agatha Christie Novels Stripped of Slurs, References to Ethnicity
Discussion: New York Post and Telegraph
FDIC:
First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company, Raleigh, NC, to Assume All Deposits and Loans of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, N.A., From the FDIC  —  WASHINGTON - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) entered into a purchase and assumption agreement for all deposits and loans of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank …
Popular Information:
Top Congressional Republicans bolster Trump's violent rhetoric  —  Former president Donald Trump has launched a scorched-earth campaign to intimidate Alvin Bragg, the district attorney for Manhattan.  Following reports that Bragg is likely to indict Trump for a hush money payment …
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Devan Cole / CNN:
Supreme Court declines to hear Kansas racial gerrymandering case, leaves congressional map in force  —  The US Supreme Court on Monday declined a request from voters in Kansas to review a state court decision they say allows for racial gerrymandering of congressional districts there.
Discussion: The Hill
Brian Fung / CNN:
Asian Americans are anxious about hate crimes.  TikTok ban rhetoric isn't helping  —  Ellen Min doesn't go to the grocery store anymore.  She avoids bars and going out to eat with her friends; festivals and community events are out, too.  This year, she opted not to take her kids to the local St. Patrick's Day parade.
Dylan McGuinness / Houston Chronicle:
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is running for Houston mayor, scrambling the race for City Hall's top job  —  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a mainstay in Houston politics for more than three decades, is running for mayor.  —  In broadcast remarks at City Cathedral Church, the congresswoman said on stage …
Discussion: NBC News
Sarah Nadeau / Center for American Progress:
Tax Cuts Are Primarily Responsible for the Increasing Debt Ratio  —  The need to increase the debt limit1 has focused attention on the size and trajectory of the federal debt.  Long-term projections show2 that federal debt as a percentage of the U.S. economy is on a path to grow indefinitely …
Discussion: Semafor
New York Times:
Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online  —  The leak adds to the challenges facing the Elon Musk-owned company, which is trying to unmask the person responsible and any other people who downloaded the code.  —  Parts of Twitter's source code, the underlying computer code …
Stephen Neukam / The Hill:
Jon Stewart says Senate is ‘like an assisted-living facility’  —  Comedian and political commentator Jon Stewart joked that the U.S. Senate is like “an assisted living facility,” reflecting on his time spent on Capitol Hill fighting for benefits for veterans, first responders and their families.
John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
The Jock/Creep Theory of Fascism  —  It's Real and It Works … A little while ago, I came up with the idea that that the difference between Italian Fascism and German Nazism was that Fascism essentially had “Jock-Douche” vibes while Nazism had “Creep-Loser” vibes.
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
The Dual Education of Hakeem Jeffries  —  Shaped by Black Brooklyn and trained by Manhattan's legal elite, the House Democrats' new leader is not easily pigeonholed.  —  The campus at Binghamton University was in uproar.  Whispers of outside agitators swirled among the mostly white student body.
David Zipper / Vox:
How to save America's public transit systems from a doom spiral  —  Don't let buses and subways become another casualty of the pandemic.  —  America's largest public transportation systems are facing their greatest challenge in generations — a crisis with the potential to decimate their service …
Washington Post:
The Blast Effect: How bullets from an AR-15 blow the body apart  —  The Washington Post examined autopsy and postmortem reports from nearly a hundred victims of mass shootings that involved an AR-15 style rifles.
Jenni Reid / CNBC:
Humza Yousaf wins leadership election of Scotland's ruling party, set to lead the country  — Humza Yousaf has been elected the new head of the Scottish National Party by party members.  — In a speech following the announcement, he said he felt like the “luckiest man in the world” …
 
 
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Jim Jordan doesn't understand his job
Discussion: Raw Story
Timothy Noah / New Republic:
They're Not Joking: House Republicans Actually Compare Themselves to the Mob
Discussion: Raw Story
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
A Republican Spending Problem
Discussion: The Hill
Tom Soufi Burridge / ABC News:
Russian jets of newer generation increase ‘dominance’ in combat zone, Ukrainian official says
Brittany Gibson / Politico:
Abortion puts New York Republicans on defense
Discussion: Morning Consult
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Mary Eberstadt / Wall Street Journal:
You Can't Cancel Me, I Quit  —  I was supposed to speak at Furman University.
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Welcome to the New Era of The Liberal Patriot
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
U.S. and Mexico weighing deal for Mexico to crack down on fentanyl going north while U.S. cracks down on guns going south
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Oregonian
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Americans hooked on Chinese apps
Associated Press:
Amid strained U.S. ties, China finds unlikely friend in Utah
Discussion: HotAir and Fox News
Anthony Man / Sun-Sentinel:
Antisemitic incidents surge in Florida, growing more than nationwide. ‘More bold, more egregious and more attention-grabbing.’
 

 
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Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models and their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching

Wes Davis / The Verge:
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Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
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