memeorandum: Carlisle: Air Force intel uses ISIS 'moron's' social media posts to target airstrikes (Brian Everstine/Air Force Times)

9:20 AM ET, June 6, 2015

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Hillary Clinton's Grand Strategy to Beat the GOP: Take Bold Positions Early and Often — For the better part of 20 years now, Bill Clinton's presidency has been synonymous with a hazy political concept called triangulation. Since his advisers made the term famous, it has been used …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Booman Tribune, National Journal and Democratic Strategist

Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:

The Coming Democratic Panic — Watch what happens if Hillary Clinton falls behind in the polls. — When a CNN poll last week showed Hillary Clinton leading Rand Paul by a single percentage point (48-47) and only three points ahead of Marco Rubio (49-46) and Scott Walker (49-46), it was mildly shocking.

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Benjamin Bell / ABC News:

Robert Reich Still Sees No ‘Convincing Explanation’ on Hillary Clinton Email … Robert Reich, who served during the administration of former President Bill Clinton as the secretary of labor, will appear on “This Week Sunday morning. Before his appearance, we asked him five questions …

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Fox News:
‘Dividing Americans’: Potential GOP rivals assail Clinton over fiery voting law speech

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Salvador Rizzo / NorthJersey.com:
Gov. Christie attacks Hillary Clinton on voter registration

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Washington Post:

Ben Carson's campaign faces turmoil amid staff exits and super PAC rivalry — The presidential candidacy of Ben Carson, a tea party star who has catapulted into the top tier of Republican contenders, has been rocked by turmoil with the departures of four senior campaign officials and widespread disarray among his allied super PACs.

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Los Angeles Times:

LAPD finds officers were justified in fatal shooting of mentally ill man, sources say — Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck and the Police Department's independent watchdog have determined that two officers were justified in fatally shooting Ezell Ford, a mentally ill black man whose killing …

Discussion: The Week, Reuters and Twitchy

Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:

Justice Scalia Blows Creationist Dog-Whistle During Graduation Speech At Catholic High School — Justice Antonin Scalia spoke on Thursday at his granddaughter's graduation from a Catholic high school in Bethesda, Maryland. During the speech, however, the sitting Supreme Court justice offered …

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Burgess Everett / Politico:

Anti-war activist confronts Sen. Tom Cotton — Hawkish Sen. Tom Cotton was confronted by an anti-war activist on Friday, provoking a tense and awkward exchange about the United States's role overseas. — Fred Boenig, whose son died in Afghanistan in 2010, was seated next to Cotton …

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Brian Everstine / Air Force Times:

Carlisle: Air Force intel uses ISIS 'moron's' social media posts to target airstrikes — OPSEC isn't the Islamic State group's strong suit. — Airmen at Hurlburt Field, Florida, used social media posts by the insurgent group to track the location of an Islamic State group headquarters building.

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New York Times:

A Detainee Describes More C.I.A. Torture — Anyone who had the time to read the summary of the 6,700-page report by Senate investigators on the federal government's program of torturing detainees captured after the Sept. 11 attacks knew, or at least suspected, that there was more to the sickening story.

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Lone Star Stumble — Remember the Texas economic miracle? In 2012, it was one of the three main arguments from then-Gov. Rick Perry about why he should be president, along with his strong support from the religious right and something else I can't remember (sorry, couldn't help myself).

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

New York Times denies American Bridge was behind Rubio report — The New York Times says its report about Sen. Marco Rubio and his wife's traffic violations did not came from an outside source, denying a Free Beacon allegation that the information was provided by American Bridge …

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Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:
Democratic Oppo Firm's Fingerprints on NYT Rubio Hit

Cait Munro / artnet News:

Emma Sulkowicz Breaks New Ground With Troubling Video Performance — Emma Sulkowicz, the recent Columbia graduate who has taken the Internet by storm thanks to her year-long performance art project Mattress Performance: Carry That Weight, released a video, which shows two people …

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Cait Munro / artnet News:
Emma Sulkowicz Speaks Out About Her New Video Performance

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Fox News:

Jessa: Josh Duggar was ‘in puberty and a little too curious about girls’ — Jessa Seewald detailed the sexual abuse she and sister Jill Dillard experienced at the hands of their older brother Josh Duggar in a sit-down interview with Megyn Kelly, set to air Friday night during “The Kelly File” at 9 p.m.

Discussion: Raw Story and FOX2now.com

James Oliphant / Reuters:

Why Ted Cruz's candidacy isn't catching fire with U.S. Latinos — In a less diverse Republican presidential field, Ted Cruz, the make-good son of a Cuban immigrant, would be viewed more for what he is - a candidate with a legitimate shot at making U.S. history as the nation's first Latino president in 2016.

Discussion: Trail Blazers Blog