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5:30 PM ET, May 20, 2017

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CNN:
First on CNN: Comey now believes Trump was trying to influence him, source says  —  Washington (CNN)Former FBI Director James Comey now believes that President Donald Trump was trying to influence his judgment about the Russia probe, a person familiar with his thinking says …
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Rob Tornoe / Philly.com:
Jim Comey's father, a NJ Republican, speaks out about Trump  —  Fired FBI director Jim Comey will testify publicly sometime after Memorial Day, but we won't have to wait that long to hear from his father.  —  J. Brien Comey is lifelong Republican and a former councilman in Allendale …
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Trump's Berating of Comey for the Consumption of Our Enemies  —  I admit to being slack-jawed over the New York Times report that President Trump smeared former FBI director James Comey in a conversation with representatives of Russia's murderous, anti-American regime.
Wall Street Journal:
Fired FBI Director James Comey to Testify in Public  —  Former FBI Director James Comey has agreed to testify publicly in Congress, capping a week that may shape President Donald Trump's administration for months, or even years, and prompting White House aides to rethink how they operate in this new political and legal environment.
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Comey's father rips Trump: 'He's nuts'  —  James Comey's father defended the former FBI director on Friday while returning criticism of President Trump, calling him “nuts.”  —  “I never was crazy about Trump,” J. Brien Comey, 86, told NorthJersey.com for a column on the view of residents …
Discussion: RedState and NorthJersey.com
CNN:
First on CNN: Russian officials bragged they could use Flynn to influence Trump, sources say
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Conservative media coverage gap on Trump, Obama bows  —  When Trump received The Collar of Abdulaziz Al Saud Medal at the Royal Court Palace in Saudi Arabia, he bowed ever so slightly to the Saudi leader presenting it to him.  —  In 2009, when Obama greeted the Saudi King with a bow …
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Associated Press:
Melania Trump skips headscarf as she arrives in Saudi Arabia
Annie Karni / Politico:
Saudis give Trump a reception fit for a king
Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
Trump receives Saudi Arabia's highest civilian honor
Discussion: The Week and Mother Jones
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump signs ‘tremendous’ deals with Saudi Arabia on his first day overseas
New York Times:
Killing C.I.A. Informants, China Stifled U.S. Spying  —  WASHINGTON — The Chinese government systematically dismantled C.I.A. spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources over two years and crippling intelligence gathering there for years afterward.
Discussion: Axios, The Daily Caller and emptywheel
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Evan Williams is the guy who opened up Pandora's box.  Until he came along, people had few places to go with their overflowing emotions and wild opinions, other than writing a letter to the newspaper or haranguing the neighbors.
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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Twitter co-founder: ‘Very bad’ if Twitter helped make Trump president  —  Twitter co-founder Evan Williams apologized for the role Twitter may have played in electing President Trump.  —  In an interview published Saturday in The New York Times, Williams discussed the president's March claim …
Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com and twitchy.com
patribotics:
EXCLUSIVE: Judiciary Committee Considering Articles of Impeachment  —  Multiple sources close to the intelligence, justice and law enforcement communities say that the House Judiciary Committee is considering Articles of Impeachment against the President of the United States.
Charles Ventura / USA Today:
Anderson Cooper ‘genuinely sorry’ for ‘crude’ remark directed at Jeffrey Lord  —  15k Shares  —  CNN host Anderson Cooper apologized for a “crude” remark directed at President Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord during his show on Friday, calling his comment “unprofessional.”
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Skeptic:
The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct: A Sokal-Style Hoax on Gender Studies  —  Note from the editor: Every once in awhile it is necessary and desirable to expose extreme ideologies for what they are by carrying out their arguments and rhetoric to their logical and absurd conclusion …
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Why Evolution Is True:
A new academic hoax: a bogus paper on “the conceptual penis” …
Discussion: The College Fix
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
West Wing aides brace for big attorney bills  —  President Donald Trump has deep pockets to pay for personal lawyers to defend him from the evolving federal investigation into his campaign's contacts with Russian officials.  It's a very different story for his staff.
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Melania scours media to protect Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Roger Ailes: The Man Who Wrecked Conservatism  —  Friends and colleagues who knew Roger Ailes better than I did attest that he was a nicer and more considerate man than most liberal obituarists will ever give him credit for.  They add (and the same obituarists concede) that the creator …
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Defeated Pro-Trump Democratic Mayor is Down in the Dumps  —  Last year, the mayor of a seen-better-days steel town in Western Pennsylvania became the poster child of President Donald Trump's appeal to white working-class Democrats.  But he'll soon be out of work after a 26-year-old assistant band director …
Discussion: Raw Story
ESPN:
OKC's Enes Kanter detained in Romania  —  Oklahoma City Thunder center Enes Kanter is being detained in Romania after his passport was “canceled” by the Turkish embassy on Saturday morning, he said in a video posted to Twitter.  —  Kanter, who arrived in Bucharest from Jakarta, Indonesia …
John Steele Gordon / Commentary Magazine:
A SLOW-MOTION COUP D'ÉTAT?  —  A quote of a quote of a quote.  —  Let me see if I have this straight.  —  POLITICS & IDEAS  —  POLITICS & IDEAS  —  POLITICS & IDEAS  —  The Russia investigation converges with the Comey scandal.  —  On Friday afternoon, two alleged “bombshell” …
Discussion: Chicago Boyz and Instapundit
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James Downton / The Federalist:
We Are Watching A Slow-Motion Coup D'etat
Discussion: neo-neocon
 
 
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Daniel Dale / Toronto Star:
Black voters say they're already losing under Trump
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Philip N. Howard / Washington Post:
Facebook could tell us how Russia interfered in our elections. Why won't it?
Howard Altman / Tampa Bay Times:
Buckhorn's joke about pointing machine guns at media draws fire
Discussion: Raw Story
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Trump Discovers the Dangers of Governing at Daredevil Speed
Discussion: Eschaton
Michael Izzo / Daily Record:
‘Ringleaders’ gather at Frelinghuysen's Morristown office
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CBS News:
Notre Dame students plan walk out during Pence speech
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