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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump Wins Big as Virginia Dems Won't Go Nuclear to Save 4 House Seats  —  Top Virginia Democrats have decided against exercising a controversial procedural end run around last week's state Supreme Court ruling that struck down their redistricting, which wiped away a gain of four House seats …
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New Republic:
Transcript: Trump Blurts Out Plot to Rig Midterms as Polls Turn Brutal  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 11 episode of The Daily Blast podcast.  Listen to it here.  —  Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
Discussion: RedState and Townhall
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Trump's Redistricting Push Could Cost Republicans More Than It Gains … Last week was the best one President Donald Trump has had in months.  —  Trump reminded Republicans who's boss by ousting Indiana lawmakers who defied his redistricting demands, saw Democrats' attempt to gerrymander Virginia blocked …
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
This is a crisis of democracy. What will Dems do about it?
Nancy Cordes / CBS News:
Trump says he aims to suspend gas tax “for a period of time”  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Washington — President Trump said in a phone interview with CBS News Monday morning that he aims to suspend the federal gas tax “for a period of time.”  —  “I think it's a great idea,” the president said.
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New York Times:
Iran Defends Its Demands After Trump's Rejection
Politico:
Trump casts doubt on teetering ceasefire
New York Times:
Cost of Reflecting Pool Repairs Nearly Doubles, Trump Administration Says  —  A no-bid contract for repairs to the Lincoln Memorial pool now costs $13.1 million, far more than the $1.8 million Mr. Trump initially said it would.  —  President Trump said that his handpicked contractor …
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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Nonprofit sues to stop Trump's changes to Reflecting Pool, a historic site
Discussion: NOTUS and HuffPost
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Lawsuit filed over Trump's Reflecting Pool renovations
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Clears Way for More Beef Imports, Aiming to Bring Down Record-High Prices  —  The administration is suspending tariff-rate quotas on all beef-exporting nations; beef prices have climbed steadily since Trump took office  —  The Trump administration is opening the way to import more steaks …
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Lalee Ibssa / ABC News:
Trump sounds off SCOTUS justices he appointed over tariff ruling
Steve Benen / MS NOW:
The problem(s) with the transportation secretary's tone-deaf reality series  —  Sean Duffy's return to reality programming isn't just a political mess, it also raises unavoidable ethical questions.  —  Just two weeks into Donald Trump's second term, Axios published a report noting …
Discussion: HuffPost and NBC News
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The White House:
Nominations and Withdrawal Sent to the Senate  —  NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE:  —  Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.  —  Cameron Hamilton, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
Gary Sernovitz / New York Times:
'Bill Cassidy Sold His Soul to the Devil, and He Didn't Get Anything for It'  —  On Saturday, we'll get some data on how yet another Trump Tragedy will end.  Recent polls put Bill Cassidy, the senator from Louisiana, in third place heading into the first round of the Republican primary here.
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
People Want What They Want  —  1. The People  —  Sarah had Tim on The Focus Group this weekend.
Discussion: The Atlantic
theRighting:
Traffic to Truth Social Soars 45% in April While Other News Websites Decline  —  Trump-Controlled Platform Vaults to #2 in Traffic for First Time Ever  —  Year-over-year (YOY) visits in April to the Trump-controlled Truth Social rose 45%, while almost every news website monitored by TheRighting experienced declines.
Liam Scott / Washington Post:
Many Americans think Trump assassination attempts were fake, survey finds  —  About 1 in 4 say the correspondents' dinner shooting was staged, the poll found, including roughly a third of Democrats, as conspiracy theories spread widely online.  —  Summary  —  About 1 in 4 Americans …
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Inside the wild fight to oust a top GOP Trump critic  —  The fight between Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and President Trump-backed rival Ed Gallrein is now the most expensive U.S. House primary in history — and it's one of the nastiest, too. … - One pro-Gallrein super PAC ad features …
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
The families going hungry because of Trump's food stamp cuts  —  Under President Donald Trump's “big, beautiful bill,” food stamp applicants are fighting to prove eligibility and facing questions about birthday gifts sent over Zelle.  A crisis in Arizona offers a warning for America.
Discussion: Al Jazeera
The Atlantic:
Stephen Miller in Retreat  —  Just hours before Stephen Miller arrived at the Mar-a-Lago ballroom on New Year's Eve—where he would welcome 2026 by dancing next to the soon-to-be-defenestrated homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, as the 1990s cultural relic Vanilla Ice performed—he won a great, though ultimately fleeting, victory.
New York Times:
Kennedy Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into Vaccines, Despite His New Silence on the Issue … Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said little publicly about vaccines in recent months, at the behest of a White House worried that his unpopular stance will hurt Republicans in November's midterm elections.
Discussion: MS NOW and HuffPost
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians … It's a simple proposition: Whatever our views of the Middle East conflict, we should be able to unite in condemning rape.  —  Supporters of Israel made that point after the brutal sexual assaults against Israeli women during the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Steve Vladeck / One First:
227. “We're All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This”  —  With both its ruling in Callais and its behavior before and since, the Supreme Court has not only accelerated the race to the redistricting bottom; it has placed itself *squarely* in the middle of it.  —  Welcome back to “One First …
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Why Two Big Companies Just Cut Paid Family Leave  —  Deloitte and Zoom are among the employers reducing support for working parents, signaling a retreat from a “golden age of benefits.”  —  Not long ago, employers were competing over who could be most generous in providing family-friendly benefits …
Ryan Burke / Just Security:
Lessons from the Pentagon's Empty Case Against Mark Kelly  —  Secretary Pete Hegseth's Pentagon is in disarray.  Adherence to the rule of law, is now, apparently, a ground for termination.  The latest target in Hegseth's continued purge was former Secretary of the Navy John Phelan.
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Aleena Fayaz / CNN:
Hegseth calls for Sen. Mark Kelly to be investigated by Pentagon for second time
Associated Press:
Supreme Court temporarily extends women's access to a widely used abortion pill  —  The Supreme Court is leaving women's access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, mifepristone, to take effect.
Fox News:
GOP lawmaker unveils historic move to ‘expunge’ both ‘maliciously false’ impeachments against Trump  —  Rep Issa's resolution has support from House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan  —  FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has introduced a resolution aimed at reversing the two impeachments …
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
An FCC Commissioner Tells Disney the Agency Is on a Campaign to Censor It  —  In letter to Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro, Commissioner Anna Gomez criticizes agency for trying to curtail press freedom  —  ABC has been a victim of a “sustained, coordinated campaign of censorship and control” …
Gabriela Aoun Angueira / Associated Press:
Trump nominates Cameron Hamilton to lead FEMA, a year after he was fired from the role  —  President Donald Trump nominated Cameron Hamilton Monday to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a surprising comeback for the former Navy SEAL who was fired from his role as FEMA's temporary leader …
Discussion: Federal News Network
Bloomberg:
Starmer Losing Fight to Stay in Power as Rebellion Spreads  —  Starmer Seeks To Save His Premiership in Crucial Speech  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 56.10% Playback Rate  — captions off, selected This is a modal window.  —  Unmute
Discussion: The Guardian, Fox News, GV Wire and Mediaite
 
 
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NBC News:
The cage match is on for tickets to Trump's UFC fight at the White House
Discussion: Raw Story
Breccan F. Thies / The Federalist:
Exclusive: Virginia School District Injects DEI Into AI Tools
Discussion: Blaze Media
Aaron Pellish / Politico:
Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice leaves Democratic Party over antisemitism concerns
Discussion: Jewish Insider and Reason
Reuters:
Americans don't think Trump has explained Iran war goals, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows
Discussion: Forbes
Washington Post:
In turf battle over AI, U.S. spy agencies vie for more sway than Commerce
Discussion: NewsMax.com
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Bernard Mokam / New York Times:
They Were Promised New Septic Tanks. Trump Called It ‘Illegal DEI.’
Discussion: Esquire
Paul Krugman:
Will our Hyper-Gilded Age Usher in Genuine Populism?
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New York Times:
Sources: OpenAI leans toward holding off its IPO until 2027 after warnings that Sam Altman's desired $1T valuation may not be met in current market conditions

Om Malik / On my Om:
Om Malik, a longtime technology writer, founder of Gigaom, and a partner at True Ventures, died on Wednesday at 59

The Information:
Sources: Sam Altman told staff the US government asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6 over security concerns, approving “access customer by customer”

 
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