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“How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?” The crowd erupted in cheers. “No,” American Conservative Union chairman responded, shaking his head. “That was the wrong answer. Let me try it again. How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?” he asked the crowd again....

newrepublic.comCPAC Host Stunned as Crowd Erupts in Cheers for Trump ImpeachmentAttendees at this years Conservation Political Action Conference seem more lost than ever.

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Virginia: early voting for the redistricting amendment is happening now through April 18. Protect your voting power and help level the playing field ahead of the midterm elections by voting YES today or on Election Day, April 21.

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Jessica: I love that you read a newspaper. Watters: I read more than you. Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New York Post. Jessica: And you still say this crap on TV after you've read all that?

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Today is the 115th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire: 148 workers killed, most of them young Jewish immigrant women. Survivors like Pauline Newman fought for child labor protections. The @forward.com asks what it means that those protections are eroding again. forward.com/opinion/8095...

forward.comWe're forgetting the lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fireStates have been gradually rolling back the protections that activists like Pauline Newman and Clara Lemlich bravely fought for

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Senator Chris Murphy, "The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war began" "We are now seeking to solve a problem that we created" "This is insanity"

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PabloReports: What do you make of your Republican colleagues who have said for months that ICE agents can only be safe if they wear masks, and now they show up at airports without any masks on? AOC: They were always full of it then, and they are full of it now.

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BBC Newsnight brought five Epstein survivors together for the first time. "During the hours-long discussion that followed, there were supportive gestures and, as they studied photos of themselves from the time when they first met Epstein, there were tears," the BBC reported. #EpsteinCoverUp

bbc.com'He liked the fear in our eyes,' Epstein survivors tell BBCIn an interview with BBC Newsnight, five women abused by the disgraced financier describe the impact of their shared ordeal.

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Lawmakers are introducing a bill to ban Congress and the president from trading in certain prediction markets. The ban would also extend to: Lawmakers' dependents and spouses, senior congressional staff, political appointees, the VP and senior executive branch employees.

politico.comLawmakers introduce bill to prohibit members of congress, president from prediction market tradingThe bill comes amid an uptick of bipartisan legislation focused on prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi.

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BBC Newsnight has two special episodes on the Epstein files this week, apparently! Last night they spoke to Massie; today they’re speaking to the survivors. “I’m not satisfied until the survivors are satisfied. That’s my benchmark…”

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The 11th Circuit was asked Wednesday to decide whether an FBI agent violated the Fourth Amendment when he led a raid into the wrong home, detonated a flash-bang grenade and held an innocent family at gunpoint at 5 a.m. www.courthousenews.com/11th-circuit...

courthousenews.com11th Circuit takes fresh look at FBI raid of wrong Atlanta homeAn Atlanta mother was held at gunpoint in front of her 7-year-old son after agents broke into their home in 2017.

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MacFarlane: There is a new inquiry into the Trump Mar-a-Lago classified records matter According to this new inquiry, it suggests that records were either seen or shared by Trump outside the presidency that were so highly classified that only six people in the American government had access to them

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The "No Kings" protests were already historically huge when they happened last June, and then again bigger in October, and that was before...

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EXCLUSIVE: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is finalizing a plan to move oversight of In-Q-Tel, the venture capital firm that funds high-tech gadgets and software for U.S. spies, to her office — and away from the CIA.

politi.coGabbard to shift coveted, CIA-backed high-tech fund to her officeDirector of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is finalizing a plan to assume responsibility for the CIA-backed venture capital firm In-Q-Tel.

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The Washington Post reported this weekend that Szijjártó regularly called Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during breaks in EU meetings to give "direct reports on what was discussed" and suggest possible courses of action.

themoscowtimes.comEU Expresses Concern About Claims That Hungarian FM Shared Info With Russia - The Moscow TimesEuropean officials said Monday that allegations that Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó had passed sensitive information about EU negotiations to Russia were "greatly concerning."

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Ana Navarro didn’t hold back, calling it disgraceful for a president, in the middle of a war, to attack a decorated veteran while having dodged service himself. She framed it as a pattern of cruelty, unchecked impulses, and reckless rhetoric.

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We are missing 100 hours of interviews with Epstein that are not in the files, they are privately owned and could be put on a Google Drive and made public today. I'll wait. #EpsteinFiles

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“The answer to unchecked power is not more violence — it’s more people.” Join former Capitol Police Officer Mike Fanone in the fight against Trump's authoritarian regime by peacefully protesting on No Kings Day, March 28.

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Monday's grants of certiorari "before judgment" in the TPS cases were the 25th and 26th since 2/2019—after #SCOTUS hadn't done it once in the prior 15 years. Today's "One First" looks at why this shift is happening—and why, although it's preferable to unexplained stays, it still has lots of costs: