The Show Notes: Buffalo Shooting, Russia's Retreat, & Bezos Attacks Biden
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Must read: Four-year college degrees are significantly less popular post-pandemic vs pre-pandemic. - CNBC
Quick glance: Go look at the Biden approval rating chart at Real Clear Politics.
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Jeff Bezos Attacks Biden
Jess Bezos went after the Biden administration over “inflation misdirection” in two separate tweets over the weekend. The usually reserved billionaire said “raising corporate taxes is fine to discuss” but “mushing” it into the inflation discussion “is just misdirection.”
Russia’s Retreat?
A new report from the Institute for the Study of War claims that Russia’s military has been decimated and is running out of combat-ready reservists. The same publication claims Russia suffered “catastrophic losses in a failed river crossing” on May 11th which has shaken confidence in military leadership. Ukraine retook the pivotal Kharkiv region according to multiple sources. Here’s a notable line from The Wall Street Journal on Kharkiv:
Russia has inflicted on the Kharkiv region some of the worst devastation Europe has seen since World War II. In the city of the same name, which is Ukraine’s second most populous, some 2,000 high-rises have been destroyed, according to the municipality. Nearly three months of shelling has turned much of it into a landscape of eviscerated buildings, shrapnel-littered streets and burned-out cars.
Ukraine says troops reached Russian border in Kharkiv Region - Yahoo
McConnell heads to Kyiv and becomes the latest U.S. official to meet with Zelenskyy - NPR
Once neutral Sweden seeks NATO membership in historic shift - AP News
Church Shooting
A racially motivated teenage gunman opened fire in a grocery store in Buffalo, New York on Saturday. 10 people are dead and three are injured. The shooter made previous threats after graduating high school and was known by the police. Here’s more from the New York Post.
The rest of the news:
Where megadonors are spending big money to shape the Democratic Party’s future - Politico
Arby’s manager caught urinating in milkshake mix - NY Post
Biden set to redeploy troops to Somalia, reversing Trump withdrawal - The Hill
Churchgoers hog-tie gunman after shooting in California church kills one - Reuters
Your guide to the 2022 midterm elections - The Washington Post
Buffalo shooting suspect Payton Gendron planned to continue rampage: cops - NY Post
Uyghur county in China has the highest prison population in the world. - AP News
Google is sharing our data at a startling rate. - Washington Post
Chicago shootings: 33 shot, 5 fatally, in weekend violence - ABC7
Supreme Court sides with Cruz in campaign finance case - Axios
Bernanke says the Fed’s slow response to inflation ‘was a mistake’ - CNBC
Industry disputes Interior Department's rationale for canceling Alaska offshore lease sale - Washington Examiner
Donna Brazile on midterms: ‘Democrats got to stop sleeping at the wheel’ - The Hill
Biden starts conceding that the bygone era of D.C. may, indeed, be gone - Politico
Crist gives another jumbled response on abortion - Politico
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