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Carbon Dioxide Levels Are Highest In Human History — New York Times
Giuliani Emails Reveal Plans For Pence Ouster — RawStory
Amazon CEO Of Worldwide Consumer Resigns — CNN
Amazon Accidentally Forwards PR Strategy To Press — Politico
GOP Candidate Compares Finance Transparency To Kristallnacht — HuffPost
Depp Trial A Grim Reminder The Men Always Win — The Flashpoint
SF Cops Are Trying to Stop Chesa Boudin — The Intercept
Ending the Filibuster a Matter of Life and Death — DailyKos
Sanders Defends Social Security — Common Dreams
Afghanistan’s Coal Mines and Child Labor — VICE
Yemen Ceasefire Extended For Two Months — Responsible Statecraft
Surprising No One, DeSantis Is A Monster During Pride — Daily Kos

COUNTRY OF GUNS

Uvalde Teacher Falsely Accused By Police Of Leaving Door Open “Traumatized”
Body Cam Footage of Uvalde Shooting Unlikely to Ever Be Released
Uvalde, Buffalo Survivors & Families Will Testify In Congress
Three Dead In Iowa Church Shooting
Why Canada Has Made Change

PLUS:

DeSantis Moves to Ban Transition Care For Minors, Medicaid Recipients — NBC News
Kyle Rittenhouse to Follow Johnny Depp Model — VICE
How Content Creators Exploited Depp/Heard Trial — Washington Post
GOP Hits Sen. Hassan Over Ties to Tech — The Intercept
NY’s Redistricting and the Dems — New York Magazine
Seattle City Council Passes Min Wage For Gig Workers –TruthOut
Plastic Pollution Could Triple By 2060 — Common Dreams
Trump Advisor Peter Navarro Indicted — RawStory
House Will Investigate Kushner’s Saudi Relationship — HuffPost
Jan 6 Hearings Have Republicans Running Scared — Salon
Majority Of Americans Identify As Pro-Choice — NPR
Dr. Oz’s Senate Run May Come Back To Haunt Us — The Nation

PRESIDENT SEIZES MOMENT

Biden Calls For Assault Weapons Ban
“Guns Are the Number One Killer Of Children In the US”
Tulsa Shooter Bought AR-15 Same Day As Rampage
Bipartisanship Not the Goal for Gun Laws, Says Pressley
Fox Blames Weed For Gun Violence

FALLOUT FROM DEPP-HEARD TRIAL

Daily Wire Spent Millions Promoting Johnny Depp
Breaking Down the Depp-Heard Verdict
The Malice of the Trial

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Evil Pride ‘Celebrations,’ Ranked — Discourse Blog
Fetterman MIA On Campaign Trail — New York Magazine
Dems In Nevada Need Help — Blue Tent
The Limits of Reform For Michelle Wu — American Prospect
In Ukraine, Russia Wiping Towns Off the Map — Politico
Chomsky: No Nuclear Option — TruthOut
Biden Goes to Saudi Arabia to Bend the Knee — Washington Post
DMFI Targets Marie Newman — The Intercept

WHOSE PRIDE IS IT ANYWAY?

Pride Flag Waving Companies Donated to Anti-Gay Politicians — Popular Info
The Courts Won’t Free Us — Them

POLITICAL WILL ON GUNS ALREADY FADING

Dems Scared Gun Control May Hurt Them In Midterms — The Hill
The Rise of Gun Company Daniel Defense — New York Magazine
Should Blue States Use Red State Anti-Abortion Laws to Go After Guns? — Boston Globe

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Harvard Faculty Backs Students on BDS — Mondoweiss
Are We Already Two Americas? — The Nation
Dems Trying to Pass Climate Legislation in New York — New Republic
Dems Press Amazon On Internal Chat App Censorship — The Intercept
Internal Documents Reveal Amazon’s Dystopian Worker Tracking — VICE
All Loans From For-Profit Corinthian College Cancelled — American Prospect
Crypto Gets First Insider-Trading Indictment — New York Magazine
Officials Warn Of Rolling Regional Blackouts This Summer — Washington Post
Climate Activists Interrupt Queen Elizabeth’s Military Parade — Reuters
Billionaire’s 300-Year Plan Fueled Tech Bubble — VICE
Children Died Under Border Patrol Chief’s Watch, Then She Ran Emergency Shelter Under Biden — The Real News
Avenatti Gets Four Years For Defrauding Stormy Daniels — NBC News

EPIDEMIC OF US MASS SHOOTINGS CONTINUES

Another Mass Shooting, This Time in Oklahoma, Leaves Five Dead
Shooting At Pennsylvania Walmart, One Wounded
Another Shooting At California High School
AR-15s Are Not For Civilians
Uvalde Shooting Makes Case For Defunding The Police

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LA Sheriff’s Race Test Limits of “Reform” — Bolts
Paul LePage Is Back — The Nation
Congress Aims to End US Involvement in Yemen — The Intercept
Hinckley Granted Full Freedom — New York Magazine
Paul Ryan Comes For Trump — RawStory
Sheryl Sandberg Leaves Facebook After 14 Years — BBC
Johnny Depp’s Victory and Free Speech — Mercury News
Democrats in Iowa Fighting to Turn State Purple — New Republic
Biden Sending Armed Drones to Ukraine — Common Dreams
Pentagon Resisting Calls to Monitor Ukraine Funding — Politico

DON’T TURN AWAY

Networks Need to Stay With Uvalde
Cops In Schools Make Things Worse
Gun Safety Monoculture
Untraceable Ghost Guns Surging Across US

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Cops Who Arrested Parody Facebooker Granted Qualified Immunity By SCOTUS — Balls and Strikes
GOP Gains In South Texas a Warning — Politico
Republicans Plan To Send “Army” Against Democracy — Politico
We Are So Close To A Win Against The Student Debt Crisis — The Nation
Student Debt Activists Target of Attacks — Discourse Blog
Don’t Cancel $10,000 Of Student Debt, Cancel All Of It — Jacobin
Consumer Electronics and War — Wars of Future Past
Racists Taken By Obviously Fake Race-Grade Story — Can We Still Govern?
Gas Prices Jump To Yet Another Record High — CNN
California To Unveil Groundbreaking Reparations Report — ABC
Starbucks Union Scores First Unanimous Win In the South — Truthout
Buick To Go All Electric By 2030 — The Hill

POLICE LIES IN UVALDE REACHING CRITICAL MASS AS CHILDREN PUT TO REST

Uvalde Police No Longer Cooperating With Investigation Into Massacre
Accusations Against Teacher Over Open Back Door Fall Apart
Eyewitnesses Dispute Shifting Official Narrative
Uvalde Shows Us What Cops Are Really For

UKRAINE WAR FAR FROM OVER

US Sending Advanced Weapons Systems, Says Biden
Germany Shipping Arms As Well
Russia Nowhere Near Defeat

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Kshama Sawant and the Billionaires — Salon
Police in Missouri Shoot Pregnant Woman — Mother Jones
Fears of US Democracy Dying By “1,000 Cuts” — Raw Story
Pro Athletes and Social Justice Movements — TruthOut
School Shooting Survivors Ask How Many More Need to Die — VICE
Missouri Dem Senate Candidate Planned to Hold NRA Fundraiser — The Intercept
Florida Man Arrested For Threatening School Shooting — DailyKos
Manchin Whines About Drug Prices, Progressives Pounce — Common Dreams
Elizabeth Warren Is Still Furious — The Cut

POLICE UNDER SCRUTINY

How the Cops Got 40% of Uvalde’s City Budget
Baltimore Cops Disciplinary Records Leaked
The Least We Can Do Is Be Honest About Guns

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Anti-Trans UK Education Secretary Heckled at Event — BBC
Canada Announces “Freeze” on Handguns — DailyKos
Kellyanne Conway’s Book Plays Fast and Loose With Truth — The Guardian
SCOTUS Leak Probe Intensifies — Daily Beast
Biden and Fed Chair Meet Re Inflation — New York Times
Supreme Court Greenlights DOJ Subpoenas Re Voting Rights Act/Redistricting — CNN
DeSantis Donors Get Pay Off — Lever News
Far Right Aiming at College Now — Salon
Alt-Right Researcher Turns Attention to Crypto — Washington Post
Puerto Ricans March For Right to Abortion — Latino Rebels
How the Right Uses Anti-Blackness to Stifle Reform — New Republic
Dems Fight Grassroots on Student Debt — Discourse Blog

ONE WEEK AFTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MASSACRE, FAMILIAR POLITICAL BATTLE LINES

At Least 11 Mass Shootings During Memorial Day Weekend 
Everything But Guns Blamed At NRA Convention 
Supreme Court Might Just Expand Gun Rights Anyway 
The Mass Killer’s Favorite Bullet

DEMOCRATS STILL CHASING ELUSIVE “COMPROMISE”

Austin Pushing To Decriminalize Abortion In Advance Of Roe Decision 
Biden Suggests Mitch McConnell Will Be Rational In Gun Debate 
Senate Chasing Ever-Elusive Gun Deal 

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EU to Cut 90% of Russian Oil Imports By End of Year — Fortune
Biden Is Ramping Up The US’s Forever War In Somalia — Jacobin
How Workers’ Pensions Are Funding Insurrectionists — The Lever
EU Leaders Agree On Partial Embargo On Russian Oil — LA Times
NY Redistricting Pits Longtime Dems Against Each Other — New York Times
What the Amazon Union Drive Can Teach Workers — TruthOut
Women of Jane Risked It All — The Cut
Attacks on Voting Machines Add Risk — CNN
French Ex-Chambermaid Runs For Office — Raw Story

UVALDE COPS WERE INSIDE THE BUILDING AS SHOOTER RAMPAGED THROUGH CLASSROOM

Students In The Classroom With the Gunman Called 911 Multiple Times
Training Manuals Called For Action
Abolish the Police
A Pack of Racist, Xenophobic Cowards
Maker Of Uvalde Shooter’s Rifle Is Deep-Pocketed GOP Donor
Giant Protest Outside NRA Convention In Houston
There Are Signs The NRA Is In Decline

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We Already Turned Schools Into Fortresses — Curbed
American Exceptionalism and Fascism — New Statesman
Biden Administration Pursues Trump Plan For Mideast — The Intercept
“Manchin of the House” Officially Loses Primary — Common Dreams
… While Manchin Joins Republicans In Failed Anti-Migrant Vote — DailyKos
Dem Super PAC To Spend $1 Million To Oust Squad Member Tlaib — Politico
Great Replacement Theory Part of a Longstanding Pattern of Hate — FAIR
The Twisted Logic Behind Great Replacement Theory Arguments — 538
New Asylum Adjudication Policy, Explained — Border / Lines
How Bad Could The Monkeypox Outbreak Get? — Vox
Conservative Who Lost Election By 70 Points Still Won’t Concede — Daily Beast
Cawthorn Violated STOCK Act, Failed To Disclose Cypto Purchases — Yahoo