Evening Drive: June 14, 2022

FALLOUT FROM INSURRECTION INVESTIGATION CONTINUES

Who Cares About the 1/6 Hearing?
Trump Needed 12 Pages to Be Pissed Off About the 1/6 Committee
Photos From Election Night 2020

PLUS:

Hatewatch Identifies White Nationalist Book Publishers — SPLC
Nebraska GOP PAC Under Investigation — DailyKos
Medicare For All Would Have Saved Lives During Pandemic — Common Dreams
49 Million Facing Famine — Washington Post
Dem Leaders Are Smiling Their Way to Apocalypse — New York Times
Biden’s Medicare Price Hike — Lever News
Markey Calls On Ring to Be Less Cop-Friendly — The Intercept
Historic Floods Wash Out Yellowstone Roads — HuffPost
Gun Bill Gets McConnell’s Support — The Hill
Border Patrol Agents Circulating Racist “Challenge Coin” — Miami Herald

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Midday Magazine: June 14, 2022

Time to Impeach Clarence Thomas — DailyKos
Untold Story Of Ginni Thomas’s Anti-Cult ActivismNBC News
Poll: Biden Needs to Go After Corporate Cheats to Rein in Inflation — Common Dreams
Potato Roll Empire Bankrolling Far-Right Candidate in Pennsylvania — New York Magazine
Nevada Primaries Today, What Races To WatchPolitico
Dems Need to Go Big or Go Home — The Intercept
Wednesday’s Jan 6 Hearing Postponed a Day — ABC News
Biden Will Visit Saudi Arabia and Israel Next Month — AP
Violent Threats Against Congress Have Doubled Last Five YearsCBS
To Prevent The Next School Shooting, Listen To Young PeopleThe Nation
Mark Levin’s American Marxism Is An Insult To Your IntelligenceJacobin
Coinbase Lays Off 18% Of Staff, Prepares For Crypto WinterCNBC
Musk To Address Twitter Staff For First TimeAP

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Morning Commute: June 14, 2022

AS ROE REPEAL LOOMS, TAKING STOCK OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

Missouri Birth Control Fight Harbinger of Post-Roe World
23 States Will Ban Abortion When Roe Falls, and Offer Parents Nothing

THE BIG LIE AND THE GOP

The Big Lie’s Effect on Local Races
GOP Ties to Extremists On Display
Don’t Be Fooled By the Jan 6 Hearings

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“The Children Scream From the Hunger at Night” In Afghanistan — Common Dreams
Anti-Trans Bigots Fueling Attacks On Pride Events — The Intercept
Mutilated Body of Zimbabwean Activist Found — VICE
Crypto Crash Goes From Bad to Worse — VICE
Trump and Giuliani Were Locked In From the Jump — New York Magazine
NY’s BQE Is Crumbling With No Fix in Sight — New York Times
Big Tech’s Biden Administration Lackey — American Prospect
Fed Chair Targets Workers, Lets CEO Pay Slide — Lever News
Garland Should Do Job or Resign: Former Federal Prosecutor — New Civil Rights Movement

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Evening Drive: June 13, 2022


Drunk Giuliani Told Trump To Declare Victory After 2020 ElectionPolitico
Barr Calls Trump ‘Detached From Reality’ In Jan. 6 TestimonyABC News
Dinesh D’Souza’s Conspiracy Doc Laughing Stock Of HearingDaily Beast
Lee, Pocan Propose Biggest Single-Year DoD Cut EverResponsible Statecraft
SCOTUS’s Conservatives Have Officially Become HomicidalThe Nation
White House Examines Gas Tax HolidayThe Hill
Abortion Protects Fortified In New York In Advance Of Roe RulingPolitico
One Nation Under Threat As Congress Debates Gun LegislationNewsweek
Ohio Makes It Easier For Teachers To Carry Guns At SchoolAP
Our Homes Should Not Be Playthings For SpeculatorsJacobin
S&P 500 Tumbles To New Low For The Year, Officially In Bear MarketCNBC
Bitcoin, Crypto Markets PlungeCNN
Tech Giants To Tackle Deepfakes Or Risk EU FinesReuters
Sources Say Trump Wants To Announce 2024 Run In FloridaDaily Kos

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Midday Magazine: June 13, 2022

JAN 6 HEARINGS CONTINUE

Where Do the 1/6 Hearings Go From Here?
Key Witness Backs Out Of 1/6 Hearing

PLUS:

Starbucks CEO Begs Workers To Return To the Office — Insider
Fed Declares War on Workers — Lever News
The Bad Vibes Economy — Vox
Eric Adams Approval Nosedives — Insider
The Case For “Highbrow Shitposting” — Columbia Journalism Review
American Elite Silence on Afghanistan — The Week
Amazon Attempts to Overturn Staten Island Union Vote — Gothamist
Biden Team Doesn’t Understand the Press — New Republic
Texas Cops Want Uvalde Body Cam Footage Suppressed — VICE
Chelsea Manning Is Putting the Pieces Back Together — Daily Beast

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Morning Commute: June 13, 2022

GUN DEAL PANNED

Senate Reveals Bipartisan Gun Measures Deal…
…People Impacted By Gun Violence Say It’s Not Enough
“Pathetically Weak”
Uvalde Parents Prepare To Go After Gunmaker

1/6 HEARINGS CONTINUE

Trump’s Big Lie Takes Center Stage At Second Jan. 6 Hearing
Former Fox News Producer Will Testify At Jan 6. Hearing

PLUS:

I Hate It Here And Never Want To LeaveJordan Uhl
Sarah Palin Advances In House Special PrimaryNBC News
Brookings President Resigns Amid FBI Lobbying ProbePolitico
SC Lt. Gov Says Christians Need To Be “Led By Men” — DailyKos
Bolsonaro Hopes To Work With Military Against Will Of Voters — New York Times
Patriot Front Leader Arrested in Idaho — Politico
American Gerontocracy — Axios
Harris Hits GOP During DC Pride Speech — The Hill

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Sunday Review: June 12, 2022

Thousands Rally Nationwide To Demand End To Gun ViolenceUSA Today
Active Shooter Scare At DC March For Our Lives GatheringDaily Beast
Senators Announce Bipartisan Gun Deal, No Bans IncludedCNN
11-Year-Old Uvalde Survivor Nearly Suffers Cardiac ArrestMother Jones
Gas Prices Cross $5 A Gallon NationwideNPR
31 Arrested After Planning Hate Group Riot At Pride EventNew York Times
Google Engineer Believes Company’s AI Is SentientWashington Post
Dems Weighing Whether Biden Should Decline To Run AgainYahoo
AOC Declines To Say She’ll Endorse Biden in 2024Daily Beast
Secret Guantanamo Bay Photos From 2002 ReleasedNew York Times
The Truth Never Mattered At GuantanamoThe Intercept

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Evening Drive: June 10, 2022

Will The Jan. 6 Committee Hearings Even Matter?The Insurgents
MAGA Madness On Full Display In Jan 6. HearingsNewsweek
Repub. Billionaire Funding Super PAC Targeting Rashida TlaibThe Intercept
Amazon Fires Top Union Organizer, Union Declares WarCommon Dreams
Biden Wants To Move Past Khashoggi Killing With SaudisCNN
Uvalde Hires More Police After 60 Cops Hid During ShootingTruthout
Inflation Soared 8.6% Through May, Highest Point In DecadesNYT
While Elites Fret Inflation, CEOs Are Robbing Us BlindJacobin
GOP House Candidate Says US Needs Its Own HitlerVanity Fair
The Real Problem With Dianne Feinstein Isn’t Her AgeThe Nation
Alex Jones Defeated Yet Again In CourtRawStory
TikTok Star Found Dead In Parking Lot After Cryptic VideoThe Daily Beast

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Midday Magazine: June 10, 2022

FALLOUT FROM JAN 6 HEARINGS HAS GOP ON EDGE

1/6 Hearings Went For Jugular
Capitol Cop Describes Slipping On Blood During Attack
The Trial Trump Feared Is Here
What the Hearings Are Really About

PRIDE MONTH ASSAULT ON LGBTQ+ CONTINUES

Attacks on Trans Youth Are a Fascist “Moral Battering Ram”
Evangelical Attacks On Community Ramping Up

PLUS:

Spoiler Or Needed Voice? — The Flashpoint Podcast
Inflation Is Killing “Economic Optimism” — New York Magazine
The Death of Newspapers — American Prospect
Animal Rights Activists Face Trial Over Hog Farm Occupation — Unicorn Riot
Gun Bill the “Floor” Says Dem — New Republic
Uvalde Resiste — Latino Rebels
Vaccine Equity, Insurance and Covid — FAIR

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Morning Commute: June 10, 2022

JAN 6 HEARINGS BEGIN

Trump ‘Lit the Flame’ For 1/6 Riot
The 5 Most Dramatic Moments From Jan 6. Hearing

UVALDE FALLOUT CONTINUES

More Details Emerge On How Uvalde Cops Hid Outside As Kids Died
Uvalde Chief Lies, Claims Officers “Never Hesitated” to Enter School
Dems Regret Not Extending the Assault Weapons Ban

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Invasion News on the Front Page—When It’s Not the US — FAIR
Amy Klobuchar and the Shipping Cartel — The Intercept
Cop Charged With Murder For On-Duty Shooting — VICE
Washington Post: Somnez Out After Newsroom Turmoil — Daily Beast
Bernie Sanders Endorses Challenger To Dina TitusPolitico
Trump’s Interior Sec. Projected To Win House PrimaryWashington Post
Natural Gas Boom Could Add Over 90 Million Tons Of Emissions AnnuallyCommon Dreams
Drug Testing Changes Could Imperil Transportation Workers — American Prospect
Democrats Need Vision, Any Vision — New York Magazine
The Modern-Day Captains Of Industry Linked To The Nazis — Lever News
How the Pandemic Changed the Professor-Student Relationship — Chronicle

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