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NEW: A growing right-wing movement is trying to overturn Supreme Court precedents that protect the media’s ability to investigate politicians and other powerful people. It might succeed. An inside look, adapted from my forthcoming book MURDER THE TRUTH. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/m...

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He has this backwards: 52% support Ukraine, 4% Russia, and 44% are neutral

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Perhaps the Washington Post can change the name of its revamped opinion section to something catchy like “the heritage foundation”

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It’s obviously beneficial to foster understanding, but this analysis is as naive as it is wrong. For Dems to win over R voters, they must find a way to meaningfully challenge the credibility of the right’s information ecosystem

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It is time for The NY Times to reinvest in metro

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“I’m collaborating,” Eric Adams said, accidentally uttering the most truthful statement of his career

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ShotStoppers, a program that prevents violence through collaboration, proved to be crucial to Detroit’s gun violence turnaround in 2024. But now that the $10 million initiative, funded with federal dollars from the American Rescue Plan Act, is set to expire this year, activists are worried.

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There is a stunning lack of creativity among both the dem leadership and the dem rank and file. From left to center, I cannot detect a measurable level of cerebral activity

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Obviously Chuck Schumer is the one who should be saying this—saying it repeatedly, every day—and it’s a total failure of leadership that he isn’t

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Notable that the “iconoclastic” writers who championed the authenticity of rightwing populism have nothing to say about the richest man in the world taking the U.S. government hostage

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TMZ is going to stalk Pete Hegseth like he’s a C-list reality tv star

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A high school student opened fire in a Nashville cafeteria yesterday, killing a 16 year old girl. Last year, TN Republicans enacted a statue banning the use of red flag laws in their state

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Despite the meathead cosplay and the billions of dollars, Mark Zuckerberg will always be the last pick in gym class

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There is a single narrative that runs through all tech stories and it is a tale about irredeemable John Hughes nerds who amassed wealth and power in order to transform themselves into the guys who gave them wedgies in high school

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Yes, one side frets over norms, truth, hypocrisy, and adhering to protocol, while the other throws up the middle finger and waltzes into power

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It is not said enough that in the United States lawyers have way too much power and are never held accountable when they abuse it on behalf of deep-pocketed or famous clients. In fact, they’re basically incentivized to abuse it.

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A former NRA employee was shot and killed by her husband in 2008. A red flag law could have saved her. But despite initially supporting these laws in 2018, the NRA has joined other gun rights groups in trying to quash them.

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Laws meant to keep firearms away from unstable people are under attack by Second Amendment radicals. Inside the ugly campaign to undermine a bipartisan compromise to stop mass shootings:

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Trump’s TikTok flip-flop: • 2020: He tries to ban TikTok and force its sale. • March 2024: He meets with Jeff Yass, a megadonor with a large investment in TikTok’s China-based parent company. • Nov 2024: “I’m now a big star on TikTok.” • Dec 2024: He tries to halt the bipartisan TikTok ban.

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If Hunter Biden is the precedent, the DOJ will need to investigate whether Gaetz purchased any new firearms during this period of illegal drug use

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Gun violence in the U.S. is a public health crisis, and it has been for some time. Get an overview of the staggering numbers and key history in the Data Hub’s “Gun Violence 101” guide:

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This is the problem with Dems: they issue reports and take to social media when half the country doesn’t care and believes the ends justify the means. Attention does not equal power in the legislature.

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This is true. Dems persistent failure to tactically use power is why Dems consistently find themselves out of power. Time to form a Robert Caro LBJ book club, or prepare to spend eternity in the wilderness

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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1/ Homicide leads among causes of death for pregnant and postpartum women. At the highest risk: Black and young women. Most of the deaths are attributed to firearms. When I first read these data points, I was shocked, so I spent the next year reporting on it. www.thetrace.org/2024/12/preg...

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For decades, researchers, epidemiologists, and domestic violence advocates have been sounding the alarm on a long-standing American reality: Pregnant women and birthing people are more likely to die by homicide than any other obstetric-related cause. At the center of the crisis is the firearm.

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NEW: Trump and his allies are using legal threats to try to intimidate news outlets and others that criticize or question him and his cabinet picks. The trend seems likely to accelerate thanks to the ABC News settlement. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/b...

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🧵 The Supreme Court’s 2022 Bruen ruling was the biggest gun rights decision in a generation, transforming how lower courts evaluate the constitutionality of gun laws. The Trace compiled a database of post-Bruen legal challenges to track the ruling’s sweeping ramifications.

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Philipps’s coverage of this subject—a subject he discovered—has been incredible

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Single Headline explainer of why we have Eric Adams gothamist.com/news/new-yor...

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Donald Trump has "lost faith" in the NRA, one of its top officials says. I also looked at its latest financials, which show the gun group deep in the red. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/u...

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A society that is both highly unstable and heavily armed can expect deadly acts of violence that once seemed unimaginable

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www.thetrace.org/2024/12/gun-...

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@janemayer.bsky.social doing the kind of essential reporting that she does better than anyone else www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

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This is a poor, pseudo-zeitgeist observation, but quitting X bc it is rigged to serve the agenda of the richest man in the world is a perfectly valid—even necessary—reason to leave

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A former NRA employee was shot and killed by her husband in 2008. A red flag law could have saved her. But despite initially supporting these laws in 2018, the NRA has joined other gun rights groups in trying to quash them.

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Ryan Adams has written some beautiful songs, but last night at Carnegie Hall I saw a person consumed by his own bitterness and manic narcissism, completely unwilling to look at himself in the mirror, or incapable of it. Awful and depressing to watch.

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Looking for that enterprising story about why Garland's DOJ declined to indict Matt Gaetz, b/c based on what's out there, the decision to drop the case makes zero sense, esp in light the department's bringing a flaky gun case against Hunter Biden

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Georgia officials have dismissed all members of a state committee charged with investigating deaths of pregnant women, in response to ProPublica's reporting on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller. propub.li/gammrc

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The DOJ threw Martha Stewart in prison, but declined to charge Matt Gaetz

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I don't know if this explains what happened to turnout, but it sure is disturbing: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Democrats rescued Mike Johnson, who was at the mercy of Gaetz’s caucus. Democratic lawmakers are too often unwilling or unable to strategically use power, + their GOP counterparts just laugh at them

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This is such a charming glimpse at what it was like to grow up as a kid on the road with the Grateful Dead, by Reya Hart (daughter of Mickey!) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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