memeorandum: As Left Wins Culture Battles, G.O.P. Gains Opportunity to Pivot for 2016 (Jonathan Martin/New York Times)

12:15 PM ET, June 28, 2015

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Scott Johnson / Power Line:

The need to get our minds right — National Review has posted a symposium contemplating what the Supreme Court has wrought in its gay marriage decision of this past Friday. The decision represents itself as the culmination of a long line of cases and related social developments.

Jonathan Rauch / TIME:

Here's How 9 Predictions About Gay Marriage Turned Out — Jonathan Rauch is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. — Ideas can matter—and small, marginal voices can make themselves heard — Not often—in fact, pretty much never—have I been lost for words in the gay-marriage debate.

Discussion: The Last Tradition, The Gateway Pundit, Althouse, Politico and protein wisdom

Richard A. Posner / Slate:

The chief justice's dissent is heartless. — It was no surprise that the Supreme Court held Friday that there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. It is very difficult to distinguish the case from Loving v. Virginia, which in 1967 invalidated state laws forbidding miscegenation.

Discussion: Washington Post

Mark Hensch / The Hill:

Sanders: I was ahead of the curve on gay rights — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Saturday he has been waiting for the nation to catch up to his support for same-sex marriage. — Sanders' remarks come a day after Friday's landmark 5-4 Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

Discussion: ABC News and Prairie Weather

Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Fiorina: Marriage is ‘grounded in spirituality’

Discussion: Liberaland

Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz calls for judicial retention elections for Supreme Court justices

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Political Wire, Instapundit, Washington Monthly, The Other McCain and NewsMax.com

Gerard V. Bradley / National Review:
The Supreme Court Has Legalized Same-Sex Marriage: Now What?

Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show and The American Conservative

Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
God and Marriage Equality

Discussion: The Last Tradition and Prairie Weather

Eli Stokols / Politico:
Jeb Bush has a new problem: John Roberts

Discussion: Instapundit and Washington Post

Washington Post:

In a fast-changing culture, can the GOP get in step with modern America? — CORYDON, Iowa — Mike Huckabee — former Fox News personality, Arkansas governor and Baptist preacher — gathered with a modest crowd here in the back of Breadeaux Pizza on his “Main Street American Family” tour and opened the floor to questions.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Liberaland, Political Wire and Politico

Sally Kohn / The Daily Beast:

The GOP Gay Marriage Freakout — It is wrong for public officials to defy the Supreme Court. Yet that's what Republican presidential candidates have promised. — Marriage equality has won at the Supreme Court, but the fight over gay marriage is far from over. Now we enter the Republican temper tantrum phase.

Discussion: Informed Comment and Daily Kos

Jonathan Martin / New York Times:

As Left Wins Culture Battles, G.O.P. Gains Opportunity to Pivot for 2016 — WASHINGTON — A cascade of events suggests that 2015 could be remembered as a Liberal Spring: the moment when deeply divisive and consuming questions of race, sexuality and broadened access to health care were settled …

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Medium:

My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to use on the site — I always knew this day would come. The day that Facebook decided my name was not real enough and summarily cut me off from my friends, family and peers and left me with the stark choice between using my legal name or using a name people would know me by.

Discussion: Raw Story, Guardian and PinkNews

Kyle Balluck / The Hill:

US official: Iran talks to push past deadline — The U.S., Iran and other world powers will push negotiations to limit Tehran's nuclear ambitions past a June 30 deadline, according to multiple reports. — “Given the dates, and that we have some work to do ... the parties are planning …

Discussion: Reuters and Weekly Standard

Associated Press:

Nuke Talks to Miss Target; Iran Foreign Minister Heads Home — A senior U.S. official acknowledged Sunday that Iran nuclear talks will go past their June 30 target date, as Iran's foreign minister prepared to head home Sunday for consultations before returning to push for a breakthrough.

Discussion: Bloomberg Business and ABC News

Hugh Naylor / Washington Post:

Witnesses recall the horror of terrorist attack on Tunisian beach … SOUSSE, Tunisia — In the final moments of the worst terrorist attack in Tunisia's history, witnesses recalled, the assailant casually strolled to the ocean at a popular resort to wash his hands and face.

Discussion: Guardian and Booman Tribune

Associated Press:

Eurozone Meets Without Greece to Assess Stability — BRUSSELS — Greece's place in the euro currency bloc looked increasingly shaky on Saturday after eurozone nations rejected a monthlong extension to its bailout program and the prime minister called for a risky popular vote on the country's financial future.

Discussion: Bloomberg View and The Week

Bloomberg Business:
Greeks Line Up at Banks and Drain ATMs as Tsipras Calls Vote

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USA Today:

Fourth of July terror warning issued by FBI, Homeland Security — Federal authorities have warned local law enforcement officials across the country about a heightened concern involving possible terror attacks targeting the July 4th holiday, a U.S. law enforcement official said.

Discussion: Israel Matzav and The PJ Tatler