The Continuing Crisis
- Florida taxpayers pick up bill for Ron DeSantis’s culture war lawsuits (theguardian.com)
- Constituent Confronts Marjorie Taylor Greene on Bowman Comments: ‘The Same Thing…That Got Emmett Till Killed!’ (mediaite.com)
- These Activists Distrust Voting Machines. Just Don’t Call Them Election Deniers. (nytimes.com)
- DeSantis Scorches Trump for Sending ‘Congratulations’ to Kim Jong Un: A ‘Murderous Dictator’ Who Just Imprisoned ‘An Infant’ for Life (mediaite.com)
- The Trumperor’s New Clothes: Debt ceiling deal reveals the impotence of MAGA movement (news.yahoo.com)
- Donald Trump Is Promising Peace In A Second Term. War With Iran Seems More Likely. (news.yahoo.com)
- Most Floridians Disapprove of State’s Direction – DeSantis’s Approval Rating Drops by 19 Points in New Poll (theamericanonews.com)
- Trump-appointed judge rejects Tennessee’s anti-drag law as too broad, too vague (apnews.com)
- Biden Signs Fiscal Responsibility Act in End to Debt Limit Crisis (nytimes.com)
- ‘You’re a F**king Fascist!’ Watch an Angry Heckler Get Ron DeSantis Riled Up During SC Speech (mediaite.com)
- ‘The Stakes Could Not Have Been Higher’: Biden Praises Debt-Ceiling Deal in Oval Office Speech (nytimes.com)Biden Praises McCarthy, Declares Victory Over Heckling Republicans From SOTU (mediaite.com)Mehdi Hasan Splits from MSNBC Colleagues on Biden’s Oval Office Speech: ‘Messaging Is All Wrong’ (mediaite.com)‘Kevin McCarthy Is His B😈tch’: Fascist Steve Bannon Shocks His Followers, Trolls House Speaker, Praises Hakeem Jeffries as 'The Man' over Debt Ceiling Tactics (mediaite.com)
- Amazon and Google fund anti-abortion lawmakers through complex and corrupt-looking shell game (theguardian.com)
- U.S. Will Try to Bring China Into Arms Control Talks (nytimes.com)US defense secretary says Washington won’t stand for ‘coercion and bullying’ from China (apnews.com)
- Trump, DeSantis in open warfare as they hit the trail in early states (msn.com)
- Clarence Thomas, Ken Paxton and Donald Trump: The corrupting influence of oligarchy (salon.com)
- Fox News’ In-House Trump Adviser Allows Him To Lie And Whine For Full Hour in Iowa (huffpost.com)
More News
- Lung cancer pill cuts risk of death by half, says ‘thrilling’ study (theguardian.com)
- India Train Crash Investigation Centers on Possible Signal Failure After Rescue Efforts End (nytimes.com)
- Aaron Judge crashes through door to make potential MLB catch of the year (theguardian.com)
- Target gets caught in cultural crossfire over Pride Month items (washingtonpost.com)
- Traffic cop sues city over ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ cards for NYPD friends and family (theguardian.com)
- Taliban moving senior officials to Kandahar. Will it mean a harder line? (washingtonpost.com)
- Journalist Arthur Kent releases remastered footage from Tiananmen Square massacre (cbc.ca)
- Ex-wrestler proves he’s not Lauren Boebert’s dad – after decades of hounding from her mom (rawstory.com)
- Youth pastor accused of filming girls in shower at SC church (cleveland19.com)
- 10 arrested in Ohio human trafficking sting, including former superintendent (cleveland19.com)
- Chuck Todd to Be Replaced by Kristen Welker on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ (wsj.com)
- A former gun company executive explains the roots of America’s gun violence epidemic – and warns of the business sector’s racicalization (salon.com)
- Lawyers Were Unable to Find Document Trump Discussed in Recorded Conversation (nytimes.com)Trump Lawyer’s Notes Could Be a Key in the Classified Documents Inquiry (nytimes.com)CNN Reporter Bombards Trump With Shouted Questions About Bombshell Report: ‘How Did Those Documents Get To Bedminster, Sir?’ (mediaite.com)
- ‘Wailing for help’: passengers and bystanders tell of India train crash horror as death toll exceeds 200 (theguardian.com)
- G.M. and Stellantis Paid $364 Million in Fuel Economy Fines (nytimes.com)
- ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners. (washingtonpost.com)
Media Mess
- Could Jeff Zucker Fix CNN? He Seems to Think So. (nytimes.com)
- Why Steve Bannon May Still Go Down for a Pardoned Crime (thedailybeast.com)
- Chris Licht CNN Flap Exposes the Status-Quo Fundamentalism of the ‘Moderate’ Arbiters of Reason (thomaszimmer.substack.com)
- Elon’s rightwing takeover of Twitter is complete. Why are liberals still on it? (theguardian.com)
- ‘Extra Trumpy’: Atlantic profile of CNN chief Licht details town hall disaster (theguardian.com)Trump’s Fox News Town Hall Brings in Fewer Viewers Than His CNN Town Hall (mediaite.com)CNN’s Licht Cedes Control of Business Operations as Execs Have ‘Diminishing Confidence,’ Report Says (mediaite.com)
- “Shiny Happy People”: The 8 most horrifying revelations from Prime Video’s Duggar family doc (salon.com)
- Inside the meltdown at CNN (theatlantic.com)
- CNN Introduces Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Republican in Chyron Blunder (mediaite.com)
Wide World of War
- Explosions Hit Southern Ukraine as Both Sides Brace for Counteroffensive (nytimes.com)NATO-trained units will serve as tip of spear in Ukraine’s counteroffensive (washingtonpost.com)
- To liberate territory, Ukraine must smash fortified Russian defenses (washingtonpost.com)
- Russian Missile Strike on Kyiv Kills 3 (nytimes.com)
- Biden shows growing appetite to cross Putin’s red lines (washingtonpost.com)Iran plans to escalate attacks against U.S. troops in Syria, documents show (washingtonpost.com)
- Ukraine war: The mothers going to get their children back from Russia (bbc.com)
- Drones hit Moscow – shocking Russian capital after new missile attack on Kyiv (washingtonpost.com)
Insurrection Watch
- New Hampshire veteran accused of calling in threat to kill sitting US senator (cnn.com)
- Marjorie Taylor Greene Changes Her Tune, Now Says Releasing Jan. 6 Tapes to Public Would Put ‘The Security of the Capitol at Risk’ (mediaite.com)
- Two More Oath Keepers Members Receive Sentences for Sedition in Jan. 6 Case (nytimes.com)
- Speaker Kevin McCarthy is reportedly giving January 6 security footage to conspiracy theorist Julie Kelly (mediamatters.org)
- Far-right Oath Keeper Roberto Minuta sentenced for 4.5 years for Jan. 6 Capitol attack (nydailynews.com)
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- ‘Sanctionable from the get-go’: Wisconsin governor urges appeals court to make ‘Kraken’ lawyer to pay up for ‘frivolous’ election suit (lawandcrime.com)
