Boston Globe: “The 91st MLB All-Star Game is scheduled to be played in Atlanta this July. But on Thursday, in the wake of voting-restriction legislation signed into law by the Georgia governor, the executive director of the MLB Players Association said the players are ready to discuss moving their annual midsummer exhibition out of Georgia….

GA Public Broadcasting: “Changes to absentee voting Mail-in absentee voting will look the most different for voters, especially after 1.3 million people used that method in the November general election. Voters over 65, with a disability, in the military or who live overseas will still be able to apply once for a ballot and automatically receive…

Texas Observer: “Nearly 14 years after her death, Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Taylor Johnson’s legacy, to most who know anything about her at all, has been boiled down to wildflowers alongside Texas highways. In Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight, Julia Sweig makes the convincing case that Johnson’s role in history is far more complex,…

WaPo: “We looked at data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection to see whether there’s a “crisis” — or even a “surge,” as many news outlets have characterized it. We analyzed monthly CBP data from 2012 to now and found no crisis or surge that can be attributed to Biden administration policies. Rather, the current increase in apprehensions…

The Progressive Pulse: “A new Meredith College poll finds even as vaccination rates increase, most North Carolinians are not ready to abandon all COVID-pandemic restrictions. While some states have dropped mask mandates in recent weeks, the new poll found over twice as many respondents favor keeping the mask mandate in place in our state (64.2%) versus those…

Politico: “Former President Donald Trump on Monday endorsed Rep. Jody Hice in a campaign to unseat Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in next year’s Republican primary, saying that “unlike” the incumbent, “Jody leads out front with integrity.” Trump publicly seethed about Raffensperger after the November election, when the secretary of state refused to support…

AL.com: “Congressman Mo Brooks announced Monday night he will run for Senate next year, a confirmation of his rising Republican profile as a fierce fighter for former President Donald Trump. Brooks made the announcement before more than 300 supporters at a gun club in his hometown of Huntsville. “I envy you,” former Donald Trump adviser…

Democracy Now!: “Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, whose election in January helped bring the chamber under Democratic control, used his first speech on the floor of the Senate this week to assail Republican efforts to restrict voting rights. He called the raft of voter suppression bills being introduced in states across the country “Jim Crow in…

NC Policy Watch: “When the sun came up on Sunday morning, Outlaw’s body still hung outside the courthouse. Even his friends and family were frightened to cut him down. The mob had pinned a warning message to his corpse. “Beware ye guilty,” it read. “Both Black and white.” Outlaw’s crime? Daring to challenge white supremacy….

CBS News: “For psychiatrist Nerissa Price, helping the homeless on the streets of Raleigh, North Carolina, is a calling. Answering it is more urgent than ever, with the rush to vaccinate those at greatest risk.  “It just became so clear that this was going to be a population that was going to be ignored if…