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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
White House rattled by McCarthy's spoof of Spicer — As the press secretary for a president who's obsessed with how things play on cable TV, Sean Spicer's real audience during his daily televised press briefings has always been an audience of one. — And the devastating “Saturday Night Live” …
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Rosie O'Donnell: I'll play Bannon on ‘SNL’ if asked
Rosie O'Donnell: I'll play Bannon on ‘SNL’ if asked
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Mashable, Mediaite, Joe.My.God., Raw Story and twitchy.com
Virgin:
Richard vs Barack - kiteboard and foilboard challenge — It was a huge honour to be able to invite President Barack and Michelle Obama down to the British Virgin Islands for a complete break after Barack finished his second term as President and the family left the White House.
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ABC News, The Hill, Occupy Democrats, NBC News, Gothamist, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, IJR, USA Today, CBS New York, Refinery29, AOL, Mediaite and The Week
Washington Post:
Here are the 78 terrorist attacks the White House says were largely under-reported — The White House on Monday night released a list of 78 terrorist attacks in response to an assertion earlier in the day by President Trump that the “very dishonest press” often doesn't report on them.
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ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo, Politico, The Concourse, Mediaite, Mother Jones and Daily Kos
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Media Matters for America:
Conway's Bowling Green Massacre Claim Wasn't An “Honest Mistake”; It's Part Of A Pattern — It turns out senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway didn't misspeak only one time when she referenced a fictional “massacre” that unfolded in Bowling Green, KY, at the hands of two Iraqi-born men in 2011.
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alan.com, Salon, The Daily Beast, ABC News, Big Think, The Guardian, Mediaite, New York's PIX11, New York Times and The Atlantic, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
What's largely and glaringly missing from Trump's list of terrorist attacks: Non-Western victims
What's largely and glaringly missing from Trump's list of terrorist attacks: Non-Western victims
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The Guardian and Common Dreams
Chris Massie / CNN:
WH official: We'll say ‘fake news’ until media realizes attitude of attacking the President is wrong — (CNN)Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, said Monday that the administration will continue using the term “fake news” until the media understands that their …
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Political Wire and The Week, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
President Trump's Real Fear: The Courts — When President Trump doesn't get what he wants, he tends to look for someone to blame — crooked pollsters, fraudulent voters, lying journalists. Anyone who questions him or his actions becomes his foe. — Over the past few days …
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Vox, Washington Post, NBC News, Boing Boing, Rewire, The Guardian, CNN, The Stranger …, Hit & Run, AOL, Washington Times and Common Dreams
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump: I'll take ‘common sense’ travel ban to the Supreme Court, if necessary
Trump: I'll take ‘common sense’ travel ban to the Supreme Court, if necessary
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The Week
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
A Supreme Court Deadlock on Trump's Travel Ban? Not So Fast
A Supreme Court Deadlock on Trump's Travel Ban? Not So Fast
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Power Line, Politico and Washington Examiner
Michael Forsythe / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Tweets About a Judge Find a Critic in an Unlikely Place: China
Donald Trump's Tweets About a Judge Find a Critic in an Unlikely Place: China
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ACS Blog, The Daily Caller, CNN, CBS New York, AOL, Althouse, Washington Post and The Daily Signal
Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Senate narrowly confirms Betsy DeVos as education secretary — The Senate narrowly confirmed Betsy DeVos as education secretary on Tuesday, with Vice President Pence casting a historic tiebreaking vote after senators deadlocked over her fitness for the job.
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Rewire, Joe.My.God., The Guardian, The Week and Mashable
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Franken: DeVos ‘fundamentally incompetent’ to lead Education Dept
Franken: DeVos ‘fundamentally incompetent’ to lead Education Dept
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Common Dreams, Politicus USA and Fox News
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Approve the Cabinet — There is no serious case against DeVos, Price, or Mnuchin.
Approve the Cabinet — There is no serious case against DeVos, Price, or Mnuchin.
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Instapundit
New York Times:
One-Third Don't Know Obamacare and Affordable Care Act Are the Same — A sizable minority of Americans don't understand that Obamacare is just another name for the Affordable Care Act. — These findings, from a poll by Morning Consult, illustrate the extent of public confusion over a health law …
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The Guardian
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The Independent:
Donald Trump's staff get him to agree to policies by saying 'Obama wouldn't have done it' — Military officials got Donald Trump to agree to the botched Yemen raid by suggesting Barack Obama would never have had the courage to do it, it has been reported. The raid, which had been planned …
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Raw Story and Booman Tribune
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Chris Edelson / Baltimore Sun:
Ordinary Americans carried out inhumane acts for Trump — (Video by Ken Lam) … A week ago, men and women went to work at airports around the United States as they always do. They showered, got dressed, ate breakfast, perhaps dropped off their kids at school.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Cotton and Trump plot crackdown on legal immigration — Overlooked in Donald Trump's campaign crusade against illegal immigration was his vow to crack down on legal immigration, too. — Now, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a reliable Trump ally, is taking steps to execute that part …
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Axios, Talking Points Memo, AOL, Outside the Beltway, NBC News and Political Wire
Michael McConnell / Hoover Institution:
Neil Gorsuch: An Eloquent Intellectual — Within hours of the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court of the United States, the battle lines had already formed. Leftwing groups were reflexively opposed—as they would oppose any Republican nominee. Right-leaning groups rallied in support.
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Sen. Chuck Schumer / Politico:
Neil Gorsuch Needs 60 Votes
Neil Gorsuch Needs 60 Votes
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TheBlaze, Hot Air, The Federalist and Daily Kos
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Republican lawmakers face rising anger at town halls — Republican lawmakers hoping for a break from the politically charged atmosphere in Washington, D.C., have instead been met with protests at home. — From California to Florida, liberal activists are bringing the fight to the doorsteps …
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Infowars
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Republicans fear for their safety as Obamacare protests grow
Eli Stokols / Politico:
What Steve Bannon Wants You to Read — The first weeks of the Trump presidency have brought as much focus on the White House's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, as on the new president himself. But if Bannon has been the driving force behind the frenzy of activity in the White House …
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Washington Post, The American Conservative, Taylor Marsh, New York Times and Power Line
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Damon Linker / The Week:
Why so many conservative intellectuals became Trumpists
BBC:
Trump says terror attacks ‘under-reported’: Is that true? — US President Donald Trump has accused the media of under-reporting terror attacks, and produced a list to back up his claim. Is he right? — While on a visit to US Central Command, a wing of the Department of Defense …
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ThinkProgress
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Claire Phipps / The Guardian:
The full list of Trump's ‘under-reported’ terror attacks - and how they were reported
The full list of Trump's ‘under-reported’ terror attacks - and how they were reported
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emptywheel, TVNewser, Politicus USA and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
Ben Riley-Smith / Telegraph:
Exclusive: How Theresa May poked fun at the size of Donald Trump's hands — Theresa May has joked about the size of Donald Trump's hands at a private fundraiser as she made light of a photograph of the pair at the White House. — The Prime Minister's tongue-in-cheek remarks came after her visit …
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The Week and twitchy.com
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
'He'll never be back': CNN's Alisyn Camerota mocks GOP lawmaker after disastrous appearance — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — CNN's Chris Cuomo once again hammered a member of Congress on air for trying to dodge difficult questions. The interview was so contentious …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
How to stop an autocracy — The danger isn't that Trump will build an autocracy. It's that congressional Republicans will let him. — There is nothing about the Trump administration that should threaten America's system of government. The Founding Fathers were realistic about the presence and popularity of demagogues.
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Politico and twitchy.com
Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Melania Trump missed out on ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to make millions, lawsuit says — A lawyer for first lady Melania Trump argued in a lawsuit filed Monday that an article falsely alleging she once worked for an escort service hurt her chance to establish “multimillion dollar …
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Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Steve Bannon Carries Battles to Another Influential Hub: The Vatican — ROME — When Steve Bannon was still heading Breitbart News, he went to the Vatican to cover the canonization of John Paul II and make some friends. High on his list of people to meet was an archconservative American cardinal …
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Millennial and Hot Air
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump offers to ‘destroy career’ of Texas state senator at meeting with sheriff … President Trump on Tuesday offered to go after a Texas state senator who was the target of complaints from a local sheriff. — During a White House meeting, Rockwall County, Texas, Sheriff Harold Eavenson told …
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