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ENERGY INCREASINGLY AT CENTER OF BIDEN’S SUMMER PRIORITIES

Gas Prices Surge, Hitting Yet Another All-Time High
Biden To Invoke Defense Production Act For Solar Goals
Mexico’s President Will Skip Summit After Biden Snubs Cuba, Venezuela

MASS SHOOTINGS UNLIKELY TO BE CURTAILED

Senate Doing Little About Guns
4 In 10 Republicans Think We Have To Live With Mass Shootings
Copycat Threats Pushing Teachers to the Brink

PLUS:

MAGA Mom Left 6 Kids Unattended To Riot On Jan. 6 — RawStory
Percent Of People Who Think Trump Responsible For Jan 6. Drops — The Hill
MTG’s Job Is To Say Something Terrible Everyday — Shitpost
Elon Musk Finds Another Excuse To Bail On Twitter Deal — ABC
Taser Drone Co. Scraps Plans After Resignations Shake Ethics Board — AP
9/11 Families Among Those Calling on Biden to Confront Afghan Humanitarian Crisis — The Intercept
Dianne Feinstein, American Institution — The Cut
Starbucks Declares War On Union Shop — Common Dreams

GUN DEAL IN SIGHT?

Gun Deal Potentially In Reach In Senate
Is it Time to Show Images of Gun Violence?
Peter Thiel’s Candidate Blames “Black People, Frankly” For Gun Violence

PLUS:

Biden Seething Because He’s Deeply Unpopular — Politico
Conspiracy Theorists Driving Many GOP Races — New York Times
Three Dems in the Midwest Who Could Change the Party — New York Magazine
How the Jan 6 Committee Could Actually Succeed — VICE
Mother Who Raced Into Uvalde Elementary While Cops Did Nothing Tells Her Story — Yahoo! News
5 Big Issues The Supreme Court Has Yet To Rule On This Term — The Hill
Only Bad Options For Biden To Lower Gas Prices — New York Times
Democrats Need to Bring Back Acorn — New Republic
Now Is The Time For Unions To Go On Offensive — Jacobin
Arizona Cops Watch Man Drown, Do Nothing — Fox 10 Phoenix
South Korea, US Fires Missiles In Warning To North Korea — BBC

How A GOP Chair Coordinated A Voting Machine Breach — Daily Beast
DOJ Declines To Prosecute Meadows Or Scavino — RawStory
How Biden Lost Manchin And Build Back Better — Washington Post
Baby Formula Maker At Heart Of Scandal Resumes Production — CBS
North Korea Launches 8 Short-Range Missiles — CNN
Wisconsin Judge’s Killer Had Political Hit List — ABC
Starbucks Workers Cruise Past 100 Unionized Stores — Daily Kos
COVID Cases On The Rise As Pride Events Kick Off — CBS
911 Dispatcher Who Hung Up On Buffalo Shooting Call Fired — USA Today
GOP Megadonors Back Gun Control Proposals — RawStory
1 Dead, 8 Injured After Shooting At Phoenix Mall — ABC
3 Dead, 11 Injured In Philadelphia Shooting — CNN
NRA Contributions Underscore Grip In GOP — The Hill
Corporations, Military Try To Pride-Wash Legacies — The Insurgents
Biden Locking Up Thousands Of Immigrants In For-Profit Centers — Jacobin

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

PLUS:

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

Republican Waves Guns During Virtual Hearing On Gun Safety — HuffPost
Tulsa Shooter Bought AR-15 Same Day As Attack — VICE
Biden Will Deliver Prime-Time Address On Gun Violence — The Hill
231 Mass Shootings In The US Already This Year — Washington Post
Ohio Republicans Push For More Guns In Schools — DailyKos
House Judiciary Committee Advances Gun Reform Measures — Politico
Sen. Grassley Bombarded At Town Hall Over Inaction On Guns — RawStory
Full House Vote On Gun Reform Expected Next Week — CNBC
Biden’s Executive Order On Police Reform Is Too Little, Too Late — The Nation
Disaster Looms As GOP Dooms School Lunch Programs — Common Dreams
DMFI Sets Sights On Yet Another Progressive — The Intercept
Leak Reveals GOP Plan To Infiltrate Polling Places — Truthout
Fl. Supreme Court Blocks Challenge To Voting Maps — New York Times
US Admits It Engaged In Digital Warfare With Russia — CNN
The US Has No Endgame In Ukraine — Jacobin

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

PLUS:

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

PLUS:

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

All The Details Uvalde Police Have Backtracked On — Axios
Abbott Forms Commission On School Safety, Doesn’t Blame Guns — Reuters
How SCOTUS Precedent Allows Cops To Refuse To Save Kids — The Lever
No One Has More Blood On Their Hands Than Mitch McConnell — Daily Kos
Senate Negotiators To Meet Again On Gun Bills — NBC News
Grand Jury Indicts Buffalo Shooter On Terrorism Charge — HuffPost
SCOTUS Halts Count On Mail-In Ballots In Pa. GOP Senate Race — The Hill
Pa. GOP Gov. Nominee Says Roe Worse Than Holocaust — Media Matters
Ky. Dem. Nominee For Senate Wears Noose In New Ad — NBC News
Bipartisan Push to End US Involvement In Yemen — Common Dreams
Right-Wing Dark Money Is Coming For Reproductive Rights — Truthout
Florida Health Care Providers Challenge State’s Abortion Ban — The Hill
Marines Post Rainbow Bullets To Kick Off Pride Month — Daily Dot
Depp, Heard Defamation Trial Finally Over — Daily Beast