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Administration officials watered down Kamala Harris' Gaza speech before delivery, Harris team denies it (www.nbcnews.com)

Biden may be losing his favorability advantage over Trump, new polls suggest (www.nbcchicago.com)

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Trump-allied election groups burned through millions with no evidence of widespread fraud (www.cnbc.com)

Another problem that doomed some of the groups was their failure to secure any fundraising help from Trump, the de facto leader of the Republican Party, who remains the chief promoter of false claims of widespread voter fraud in the United States.

Kyrsten Sinema Is Resigning in the Most Sinema Fashion Ever (Delusional) (newrepublic.com)

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Kyrsten Sinema will not seek reelection in Arizona [gift link] (wapo.st)

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) announced she will not seek reelection this year, avoiding an unpredictable three-way race in the swing state that had many national Democrats worried about holding onto the seat.

Florida’s ‘Stop WOKE Act’ commits a ‘First Amendment sin,’ appeals court says in ruling that blocks part of the bill (www.cnn.com)

“The ideas targeted in Florida’s Individual Freedom Act are embraced in some communities, and despised in others,” the ruling said. “By limiting its restrictions to a list of ideas designated as offensive, the Act targets speech based on its content. And by barring only speech that endorses any of those ideas, it...

There is something wrong at the New York Times | From presidential polls to refusing to report on Trump’s stumbles, things aren’t adding up at the Gray Lady (www.salon.com)

Texas has an open primary

Anyone registered to vote can choose a Republican or Democratic ballot. Many of the people on the Democratic ballot (in my area) are running unopposed, so it was a good opportunity to try to get the least crazy people on the November ballot. Also, the republican ballot has 13 propositions that are not on the Democratic one, so...

Cuban says he’d vote for Biden even if ‘he was being given last rites’ (thehill.com)

The billionaire also told the outlet that he plans to vote for former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley in the Texas GOP primary Tuesday as “a protest vote against Trump,” but that he would still support the current president versus the former one.

Cookie Monster’s ‘shrinkflation’ woes get White House response (wapo.st)

I’ll note that Biden was already talking about the issue

What 2024’s crucial elections mean for climate change (www.nature.com)

Permanently Deleted (www.nytimes.com)

Donald Trump’s Toxic Politics Continue to Set the Agenda (jacobin.com)

FBI hunts for suspected Iranian assassin targeting Trump-era officials | Semafor (www.semafor.com)

Israeli source: 'Enraged' Netanyahu trying to undermine Gantz's U.S. visit (www.haaretz.com)

"Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz landed Sunday in the United States in what senior Israeli officials said was a calculated move by the White House designed to strengthen the moderate wing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government,” Haaretz reports....

Why is Biden blocking the cheapest, most popular EVs in the world? (www.vox.com)

Psychologist says Trump's latest rally 'consistent with a diagnosis of dementia' (www.rawstory.com)

Putin and Trump – from bad to worse (thehill.com)

Putin’s recent actions, and Trump’s, fit the usual pattern: bad leaders nearly always get worse. They get worse in four phases, each more ominous and compounding than the one before. The progression usually starts slowly — perceptible, perhaps, but unremarkable. Then it picks up steam. Finally, if leaders are left to their...

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