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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Here's the Latest From the Bullshitter-in-Chief — Donald Trump knows exactly how to appeal to the women's vote: … Oh goody. I guess in a few days we'll be treated to a barrage of thumbsuckers relitigating the titillating tales of Kathleen Willey, Gennifer Flowers, and Paula Jones. Christ.
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Hullabaloo
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton is going to be exonerated on the email controversy. It won't matter. — The latest news on the Hillary Clinton email controversy reinforces everything we've heard so far on this subject: … That point about her intending to break classification rules is important …
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Hot Air
EndPlay / WSB-TV:
Poll: Georgians largely undecided about presidential race — A large portion of likely Georgia voters are undecided about who they would vote for in an election between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump. — Nearly 1 in 5 voters said they have not made up their minds …
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The Hill, RedState and The Daily Caller
Bloomberg:
Masters in Politics Podcast: Adviser Says Trump Is ‘Very Much’ Like Bill Clinton — “When they talk to you they just own you. They're staring right into your soul,” says Barry Bennett, a senior adviser to Trump. — haddadmedia — In an interview on Bloomberg's Masters in Politics podcast Friday …
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Washington Examiner, Politicus USA, RedState, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit and Politico
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Former GOP senator: Trump is a sociopath — Former U.S. Sen. Gordon Humphrey (R-N.H.) called Donald Trump — a sociopath Friday, saying he would never support the presumptive GOP nominee even though his favored candidate, John Kasich, suspended his campaign earlier this week.
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Raw Story and Political Wire
Los Angeles Times:
Obama to Republicans: Like it or not, you're stuck with Trump
Obama to Republicans: Like it or not, you're stuck with Trump
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Post and Courier, U.S. Uncut, Washington Post, Independent Journal …, Tampa Bay Times, Complex, Politico, The Atlanta Journal …, Outside the Beltway, The Hill, BizPac Review, Donald J. Trump, The Week, RedState, The Gateway Pundit, ABC News, New York Magazine, WSPA-TV, The Last Tradition and Mother Jones
Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Trump revives attacks on Bill Clinton affair
Trump revives attacks on Bill Clinton affair
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Hot Air and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Nicknames Donald Trump the ‘Presumptuous Nominee’
Hillary Clinton Nicknames Donald Trump the ‘Presumptuous Nominee’
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Associated Press and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump: Hillary Clinton a ‘nasty, mean enabler’
Trump: Hillary Clinton a ‘nasty, mean enabler’
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New York Magazine and New York Times
Doug McKelway / Fox News:
Elizabeth Warren going on Trump attack for Dems
Elizabeth Warren going on Trump attack for Dems
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BizPac Review, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Last Tradition
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight — On Thursday evening, a 40-year-old man — with dark, curly hair, olive-skinned and an exotic foreign accent — boarded a plane. It was a regional jet making a short, uneventful hop from Philadelphia to nearby Syracuse.
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View from the Wing, Complex, Mother Jones, Mashable, Slantpoint, Watts Up With That?, Mediaite, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, New York Magazine, Gothamist, U.S. Uncut, The Week and AOL
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Julie Shaw / Philly.com:
Passenger thinks Penn prof doing math is ‘terrorist;’ flight delayed
Passenger thinks Penn prof doing math is ‘terrorist;’ flight delayed
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Raw Story
New York Times:
Republican Party Unravels Over Donald Trump's Takeover — By seizing the Republican presidential nomination for Donald J. Trump on Tuesday night, he and his millions of supporters completed what had seemed unimaginable: a hostile takeover of one of America's two major political parties.
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Washington Post and American Power
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump spurs some conservative leaders to step back from the GOP — Donald Trump's looming nomination has spurred some leaders of the conservative movement — for generations, the backbone of the GOP — to break free from a Republican Party now being rapidly reshaped by the New York billionaire's incendiary tone and unorthodox populism.
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Balloon Juice and Western Journalism
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
In Arkansas, a Preview of Democratic Attacks to Come
In Arkansas, a Preview of Democratic Attacks to Come
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American Power
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Welcome to the Great Republican Squirm of 2016
Welcome to the Great Republican Squirm of 2016
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The Moderate Voice
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Sanders leaves door open to Clinton VP spot … Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders — on Friday left the door open to being Hillary Clinton — 's running mate if she were to offer him the position after the party's convention this summer. — “Right now, we are focused …
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CNN, ABC News and The Daily Caller
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton wins Guam caucuses
Clinton wins Guam caucuses
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pacificnewscenter.com, Politicus USA, WV MetroNews and The Week
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
A Confession of Liberal Intolerance — WE progressives believe in diversity, and we want women, blacks, Latinos, gays and Muslims at the table — er, so long as they aren't conservatives. — Universities are the bedrock of progressive values, but the one kind of diversity that universities disregard is ideological and religious.
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Althouse
Sarah Newton / WHTM-TV:
Bishop McDevitt girl thrown out of prom for wearing a suit — HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) - A Midstate high school student had the experience of a lifetime at her prom Friday night, but not in the way her family expected. — Aniya Wolf was thrown out of Bishop McDevitt's prom.
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CBS 4, FOX6Now.com and WCMH-TV
Walt Whitman / The Atlantic:
An American Primer … [The American Primer is a challenge rather than a finished fight. Whitman shows in it what he was prepared to do rather than what he thought he had perfected. It was his original intention to enlarge these notes into a study which would in a sense inclose the theme and dignify it in the way it deserved.
Politico:
Obama's full remarks at Howard University commencement ceremony — PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Thank you! Hello, Howard! (Applause.) H-U! — AUDIENCE: You know! — Story Continued Below — OBAMA: H-U! — AUDIENCE: You know! — OBAMA: (Laughter.) Thank you so much, everybody.
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Balloon Juice
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
Roy Moore, Alabama Judge, Suspended Over Gay Marriage Stance — An Alabama judicial oversight body on Friday filed a formal complaint against Roy S. Moore, the chief justice of the state's Supreme Court, charging that he had “flagrantly disregarded and abused his authority” …
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Southern Poverty Law Center, Mediaite, Outside the Beltway, RedState, The Last Tradition, Friendly Atheist and Joe.My.God.
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