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 Activism — NBC 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 Watch — Politico
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 Years — CBS
To Prevent The Next School Shooting, Listen To Young People — The Nation
Mark Levin’s American Marxism Is An Insult To Your Intelligence — Jacobin
Coinbase Lays Off 18% Of Staff, Prepares For Crypto Winter — CNBC
Musk To Address Twitter Staff For First Time — AP

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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 Election — Politico
Barr Calls Trump ‘Detached From Reality’ In Jan. 6 Testimony — ABC News
Dinesh D’Souza’s Conspiracy Doc Laughing Stock Of Hearing — Daily Beast
Lee, Pocan Propose Biggest Single-Year DoD Cut Ever — Responsible Statecraft
SCOTUS’s Conservatives Have Officially Become Homicidal — The Nation
White House Examines Gas Tax Holiday — The Hill
Abortion Protects Fortified In New York In Advance Of Roe Ruling — Politico
One Nation Under Threat As Congress Debates Gun Legislation — Newsweek
Ohio Makes It Easier For Teachers To Carry Guns At School — AP
Our Homes Should Not Be Playthings For Speculators — Jacobin
S&P 500 Tumbles To New Low For The Year, Officially In Bear Market — CNBC
Bitcoin, Crypto Markets Plunge — CNN
Tech Giants To Tackle Deepfakes Or Risk EU Fines — Reuters
Sources Say Trump Wants To Announce 2024 Run In Florida — Daily 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 Leave — Jordan Uhl
Sarah Palin Advances In House Special Primary — NBC News
Brookings President Resigns Amid FBI Lobbying Probe — Politico
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 Violence — USA Today
Active Shooter Scare At DC March For Our Lives Gathering — Daily Beast
Senators Announce Bipartisan Gun Deal, No Bans Included — CNN
11-Year-Old Uvalde Survivor Nearly Suffers Cardiac Arrest — Mother Jones
Gas Prices Cross $5 A Gallon Nationwide — NPR
31 Arrested After Planning Hate Group Riot At Pride Event — New York Times
Google Engineer Believes Company’s AI Is Sentient — Washington Post
Dems Weighing Whether Biden Should Decline To Run Again — Yahoo
AOC Declines To Say She’ll Endorse Biden in 2024 — Daily Beast
Secret Guantanamo Bay Photos From 2002 Released — New York Times
The Truth Never Mattered At Guantanamo — The 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. Hearings — Newsweek
Repub. Billionaire Funding Super PAC Targeting Rashida Tlaib — The Intercept
Amazon Fires Top Union Organizer, Union Declares War — Common Dreams
Biden Wants To Move Past Khashoggi Killing With Saudis — CNN
Uvalde Hires More Police After 60 Cops Hid During Shooting — Truthout
Inflation Soared 8.6% Through May, Highest Point In Decades — NYT
While Elites Fret Inflation, CEOs Are Robbing Us Blind — Jacobin
GOP House Candidate Says US Needs Its Own Hitler — Vanity Fair
The Real Problem With Dianne Feinstein Isn’t Her Age — The Nation
Alex Jones Defeated Yet Again In Court — RawStory
TikTok Star Found Dead In Parking Lot After Cryptic Video — The 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

PLUS:

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 Titus — Politico
Trump’s Interior Sec. Projected To Win House Primary — Washington Post
Natural Gas Boom Could Add Over 90 Million Tons Of Emissions Annually — Common 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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