Portland Press Herald - Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday joined the right-wing chorus denying that a violent riot took place at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after Fox News aired cherry-picked footage of the incident provided by Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Ron DeSantis urged Florida’s Republican-controlled state legislature to consider a slate of breathtaking anti-press measures. The proposals include lowering the threshold for when a public figure can sue a media outlet. In a serious threat to investigative reporting, comments made by anonymous sources in news stories would be presumed false for the purposes of defamation lawsuits.
Intercept - Police in St Louis are working to wrest control of their department from the city’s progressive mayor and put it in the hands of the Republican governor. Law enforcement unions argue that local control has “put politics in policing” and that state oversight would help address an increase in homicides and a drop in police morale and staffing levels. They have rallied around Senate Bill 78, which would reinstate a Civil War-era system of state control overturned by Missouri voters in 2012 — and make St. Louis one of the only major cities in the country without authority over its own police force. The attempt by the Missouri Legislature to strip power away from city officials is a “slap in the face” to constituents in St. Louis, Mayor Tishaura Jones said.
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