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G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
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Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
Audit Immunity for Trump Family Puts I.R.S. in a Bind
Politico:
‘A huge omission’: Everyone is baffled by the exclusion of Gaza in DNC autopsy
Erica Orden / Politico:
Todd Blanche pulls his most eyebrow-raising move yet  —  When Todd Blanche announced charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center last month, critics accused him of placating President Donald Trump in an effort to secure the attorney general job permanently.
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Jamie Raskin / New York Times:
There's a Way to Stop Trump's I.R.S. Slush Fund  —  These days it takes a spectacular burst of corruption to get the attention of our scandal-weary nation, but President Trump and his administration have managed, once again, to transfix Americans by establishing a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” …
Discussion: CNN, CBS News and Truthout
Talking Points Memo:
Their Loved Ones Died for the Voting Rights Act.  The Supreme Court's Ruling Is a New Injustice.  —  Dennis Dahmer was 12 years old in January 1966 when Klansmen stormed his family home and set it on fire, murdering his father, Vernon.  He still remembers the shootout; he remembers watching his father die from smoke inhalation.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones / New York Times:
The Civil Rights Era Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes  —  On May 7, amid the din of protesters, Tennessee's Republican-majority legislature met to vote on a bill that would eliminate the state's lone majority-Black and Democratic House district, divvying its voters up between three heavily white ones.
Ryan Quinn / Inside Higher Ed:
Science: NIH, NASA Restrict Co-Authoring With Foreign Scientists  —  The National Institutes of Health and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are targeting collaborations between U.S. scientists and foreign researchers, Science reports.  —  The journal wrote that NIH officials …
Mikael Thalen / Straight Arrow:
Kash Patel's personal merch site hacked to trick users into installing malware  —  This recording was made using enhanced software.  —  FBI Director Kash Patel's personal merchandise site went offline Friday after a hack apparently tricked visitors into downloading malware.
Jordain Carney / Politico:
‘Goes to Show You How Stupid They Are’: Tillis Lets Loose on Trump Advisers  —  Sen. Thom Tillis isn't afraid to give his party, or the president, a dose of bitter medicine.  —  In an interview with POLITICO Magazine in his Capitol Hill Office, the retiring North Carolina Republican said his criticism …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump officials tried to ban half of U.S. voting machines, citing conspiracy theories  —  U.S. President Donald Trump's election-security czar last year sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of U.S. states by asking whether the Commerce Department could declare …
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Semafor:
How Trump lost Senate Republicans
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Dumb and dumber, Republican-style
Politico:
GOP calls off votes after contentious meeting on ‘anti-weaponization’ fund
Associated Press:
NATO allies bewildered by Trump's about-face on US troop moves in Europe  —  NATO allies and defense officials expressed bewilderment on Friday at U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement that he would send 5,000 U.S. troops to Poland just weeks after he ordered the same number of forces pulled out of Europe.
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Brittany Gibson / Axios:
Scoop: Trump escalates citizenship crackdown  —  The Trump administration is temporarily moving immigration lawyers to the Justice Department to speed up efforts to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans, Axios has learned. … - One source said staffers were being “volun-told” to move offices.
Matt Friedman / Politico:
Tom Kean Jr.'s absence from Congress makes Democrats bullish they can flip his seat … But others caution they're being “cocky” about taking down Kean, who's never been big on unscripted public appearances anyway.  On Thursday, Kean spoke to the New Jersey Globe and reiterated that he'll …
Discussion: NBC News
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David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
Kean says he expects full recovery, confirms re-election bid
Sara Tenenbaum / CBS News:
All charges dismissed against “Broadview Six,” defense says grand jury transcript revealed “gross misconduct”  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  All remaining charges against the “Broadview Six” defendants have been dismissed with prejudice, U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros announced in court Thursday afternoon.
Holly McDede / ProPublica:
California Teacher Previously Fired for Sexual Harassment Is No Longer in the Classroom After New Complaints  —  A San Francisco Bay Area school district has replaced a middle school math teacher for the remainder of the academic year following an investigation by KQED and ProPublica that showed …
ProPublica:
Louisiana's Tough-on-Crime Policies Stand to Cost Taxpayers Millions More for Years to Come  —  The day after a shooting last month killed a teenager and injured five people at the Mall of Louisiana, Gov. Jeff Landry blasted what he referred to as “hug-a-thug” policies …
Politico:
Trump yanked AI order after David Sacks raised industry concerns … But during a conversation with Trump, Sacks told the president that companies were already cooperating, and that having the federal government review models before their public release would slow down innovation and harm …
Discussion: UPI, more at Techmeme »
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New York Times:
G.O.P. Pulls Measure to End Iran War, Lacking Votes to Defeat It  —  House Republican leaders abruptly scrapped a planned vote on a measure to direct President Trump to end the conflict or win authorization for it, amid party defections and absences.  —  House Republicans on Thursday abruptly canceled …
Discussion: Bloomberg
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Axios:
House Republicans scrap vote to rein in Trump's war in Iran
Discussion: CNN and Reuters
Josh Moody / Inside Higher Ed:
UF Interim President to Receive $2M Exit Package  —  University of Florida interim president Donald Landry is set to receive a $2 million payout as part of an unusual contract provision entitling him to severance pay if he didn't get the permanent job.  —  On Monday UF announced …
 
 
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Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
Trump self-deals, lies and seems to fall asleep in meetings. The media treats it all as ‘priced in’
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Home-Wrecked Wife Slams ‘Swinger’ MAGA Candidate Running on Family Values
Discussion: MS NOW and U.S. Home
Elian Peltier / New York Times:
New Taliban Decree on Divorce Formalizes Child Marriage, U.N. Warns
Discussion: Associated Press
Jim Acosta / The Jim Acosta Show:
I'd Like to Apply for the Anti-Weaponization Fund
Washington Post:
Poll shows voter confidence in economy plummeting to a nearly 4-year low
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Acting Navy secretary: Taiwan weapons sales paused to ensure munitions for Iran war
Alayna Treene / CNN:
Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding will be on a small island in the Bahamas — without his father present, sources say
 Earlier Items: 
Politico:
The $5.02 ghost: Trump's team faces a symbolic blow to one of its favorite economic talking points
NBC News:
Suicides rise in ICE detention, 911 calls detail serious cases of self-harm
Robert Kagan / The Atlantic:
Trump's Endgame Is Surrender
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Raw Story
Aura Bogado / The Guardian:
US homeland security put out alert on comedian who created parody ICE tip website
Discussion: Raw Story
Reuters:
Exclusive: Grok falls flat in Washington, undercutting SpaceX's AI growth story
Discussion: The Hill and Gizmodo
 

 
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple sues OpenAI, alleging that ex-Apple employees stole “Apple's trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI”, and says OpenAI never responded to its concerns

Bloomberg:
Phia, a shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates that has raised $43.5M, appears to be using fake clicks or “cookie stuffing” to claim affiliate commissions

Corbin Bolies / Variety:
Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism
 
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