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3:50 AM ET, July 29, 2013

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Cumulus planning to drop Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity  —  In a major shakeup for the radio industry, Cumulus Media, the second-biggest broadcaster in the country, is planning to drop both Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity from its stations at the end of the year, an industry source told POLITICO on Sunday.
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Obama, Hillary Clinton set for Monday lunch  —  President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are set to meet for lunch Monday.  —  The private lunch between the president and the woman many Democrats hope will succeed him in office was announced Sunday by the White House press office.
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New York Times:
A New Defense of Voting Rights
Discussion: National Review
Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
Governor Admits He ‘Does Not Know Enough’ About The Voter Suppression Bill He's About To Sign
Greg B. Smith / NY Daily News:
Weiner campaign paid private eye $45,000 to investigate own 2011 Twitter ‘hacking’ lie, reports show  —  The ‘hacking’ never happened — Weiner later admitted to sending the racy pics himself — but his furious attempt at damage control included an expensive investigation by T&M Protection services.
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Marion Barry: Weiner a ‘good Democrat’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Kari Rea / ABC News:
Glenn Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have ‘Powerful and Invasive’ Search Tool  —  Today on “This Week,” Glenn Greenwald - the reporter who broke the story about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs - claimed that those NSA programs allowed even low-level analysts to search …
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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Greenwald Claims Private Contractors Can Spy On Calls, Emails: ‘I Defy NSA Officials To Deny’ These Capabilities
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Greenwald: Low-level NSA analysts allowed to spy on phone calls
Discussion: Politico
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Rep. Peter King Blasts Rand Paul For ‘Apologizing For America’: ‘Fringes’ Will ‘Destroy’ GOP  —  Congressman Peter King appeared on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday morning and warned that Senator Rand Paul's “isolationist streak” will destroy the GOP in much the same way the anti-war movement crippled …
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Rep. Peter King: Rand Paul destroying GOP reputation on national security
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP senators to Liz Cheney: We like Mike Enzi  —  Republican senators are nearly united in their response to Liz Cheney's challenge to their low-key Wyoming colleague: We like Mike.  —  That is Mike Enzi, the three-term senator from the Cowboy State who was otherwise on a glide path …
David Carr / New York Times:
Bloomberg Media Recruits a New Chief From The Atlantic  —  Justin B. Smith, whose digital strategy swiftly transformed The Atlantic, one of the statelier media vessels around, is about to get a bigger boat.  —  On Monday, Bloomberg will announce that Mr. Smith, the president of Atlantic Media …
Hope Yen / Associated Press:
EXCLUSIVE: 4 IN 5 IN US FACE NEAR-POVERTY, NO WORK  —  You are here  —  Home » Barack Obama » Exclusive: 4 in 5 in US face near-poverty, no work  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives …
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Lew: No federal bailout for Detroit  —  Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Sunday defended the administration's decision not to help bail out Detroit, saying that the city would need to negotiate its own resolution with creditors.  —  “Detroit's economic problems have been a long time in developing.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Lew: IRS exhibited ‘equal opportunity bad judgment’ in targeting
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Lew warns GOP to avoid ‘false crises’ over spending, debt limit
Discussion: CNN, The Week and Politico
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Sequester, “Austerity,” and Obama's Attempt at a Comeback  —  On Thursday, the Congressional Budget Office wrote a letter to Democratic Congressman Chris Van Hollen, responding to Van Hollen's questions about the effect of canceling the sequester of a modest amount of federal spending for the rest of 2013, and 2014.
Discussion: Fox News and Scared Monkeys
Daniel Politi / Slate:
Fox News to Scholar: Why Would a Muslim Write a Book About Jesus?  —  It's got plenty of competition but this may just be the single most cringe-worthy, embarrassing interview broadcast on Fox News.  At least in recent memory.  Fox News anchor Lauren Green had religious scholar Reza Aslan …
Jim Mustian / Baton Rouge news …:
Sheriff's Office sets up park stakeouts to ensnare gay men  —  An undercover East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputy was staking out Manchac Park about 10 a.m. one day this month when a slow-moving sedan pulling into the parking lot caught his attention.  The deputy parked alongside …
 
 
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
I Want to Be a Mayor
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Alan Duke / CNN:
Police: Robbers tell man, ‘This is for Trayvon Martin’
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
From doubts to confidence to defeat
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Brad DeLong
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Stalker terrorizes CNN's Anderson Cooper
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Fighting Back Against Wretched Wages
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The Charitable-Industrial Complex
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Rep. Rogers: Amash effort to curb NSA powers ‘dangerous’
Discussion: Politico
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Feinstein: Filner should resign
Discussion: Politico
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Going for Bolingbroke
Tal Kopan / Politico:
States seek to nullify Obama efforts
Discussion: americanthinker.com and Hullabaloo
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Va. first lady McDonnell spent thousands from husband's PAC on clothes, other items
Gethin Chamberlain / Guardian:
Admit it. You love cheap clothes. And you don't care about child slave labour
Discussion: normblog and Samizdata
 

 
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports Q3 digital subscribers hit 260K, for 11.9M in total, digital ad revenue rose 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic turned its first profit

Porter Anderson / Publishing Perspectives:
PEN America: 10,046 school books bans across 29 states were recorded from July 2023 to June 2024, up ~200% YoY; Florida had 4,500+ bans and Iowa had 3,600+ bans

Ross Raihala / Twin Cities:
Q&A with Aaron Rupar on leaving Vox to start Public Notice on Substack, watching ~400 Trump rallies to share clips with his 989K followers on X, and more

 
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