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9:00 AM ET, June 30, 2017

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Washington Post:
Donald Trump is not well  —  President Trump launched personal attacks against us Thursday, but our concerns about his unmoored behavior go far beyond the personal.  America's leaders and allies are asking themselves yet again whether this man is fit to be president.
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Emily Smith / New York Post:
Trump calls out Mika's ‘bleeding facelift’ in low-blow tweetstorm  —  The hosts of MSNBC's “Morning Joe” delayed their vacation plans so they can return to the air Friday morning and fire back at President Trump's Twitter attack.  —  “Joe and Mika were supposed to start their July 4th weekend early …
Editorials / New York Daily News:
The ugly American President: Donald Trump's tweet-rant against Mika and Joe reaches new low  —  Morning breaks over Washington.  The President of the United States, possessed of awesome power and awesome responsibility, readies to grapple with the most urgent business of nation and world.
Seth Fiegerman / CNNMoney:
Why Trump's offensive tweets don't get him kicked off Twitter
Michelle Goldberg / Slate:
Trump No Longer Seems Able to Hide His Raw Misogyny. Good.
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump's bullying of Mika Brzezinski crosses a big line
The Hill:
White House offers unapologetic defense of Trump tweets
Discussion: Axios, RedState and ABC News
Shane Harris / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Operative Sought Clinton Emails From Hackers, Implied a Connection to Flynn  —  Peter W. Smith portrayed the former general as having been an ally in an effort, independent of the Trump campaign, to find personal emails deleted by Hillary Clinton.
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Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
John Podesta Loses It During Russia Debate with Maria Bartiromo  —  Former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta grew angry when Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo highlighted his own ties with companies connected to Russia.  —  Bartiromo asked why Americans weren't paying more attention to Democrat ties to the Russians.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump overrules cabinet, plots global trade war  —  With the political world distracted by President Trump's media wars, one of the most consequential and contentious internal debates of his presidency unfolded during a tense meeting Monday in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, administration sources tell Axios.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump calls for “immediately” repealing ACA if Senate deal fails  —  Early Friday morning President Trump tweeted: “If Republican Senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately REPEAL, and then REPLACE at a later date!”  —  Why this tweet is extraordinary …
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Senate health bill: Mission accomplished?  —  Senate Republicans didn't get a health care deal nailed down before leaving town — but they don't want to lose momentum, so they're going to send the Congressional Budget Office some broad outlines of a new bill to look at over the recess.
Ezra Klein / Vox:
It turns out the liberal caricature of conservatism is correct
The Intercept:
Here's The Audio Of Donald Trump's Private RNC Fundraiser At His Own Hotel  —  President Donald Trump kicked off his re-election campaign's financing efforts with a major fundraiser at his own Washington hotel Wednesday night, excluding media but charging attendees $35,000 each.
Discussion: The Hill and The Week
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Breaking: MSNBC and Greta Van Susteren Agree to Part Ways  —  In an era where liberal anger is driving ratings, the former Fox anchor's show never caught fire.  —  “Remember me?”  Greta Van Susteren crooned to the camera as she raised the curtain on her new MSNBC show on January 9.  “I'm baaack.”
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Media Matters for America:
Bret Stephens and MSNBC's hiring spree: The network keeps moving right
Discussion: Mediaite
Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
NASA Denies That It's Running a Child Slave Colony on Mars … A report on Alex Jones' InfoWars claiming child sex slaves have been kidnapped and shipped to Mars is untrue, NASA told The Daily Beast on Thursday.  —  “There are no humans on Mars.  There are active rovers on Mars.
Discussion: RedState and Balloon Juice
Eitan D. Hersh / New York Times:
The Problem With Participatory Democracy Is the Participants  —  At backyard barbecues this holiday weekend, liberals will gab with one another about how much time they're spending on politics.  More than ever, they are watching cable news, and refreshing Twitter and Facebook feeds.
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Fox News:
House passes Kate's Law, as part of illegal immigrant crackdown  —  House Republicans took action Thursday to crack down on illegal immigrants and the cities that shelter them.  —  One bill passed by the House would deny federal grants to sanctuary cities and another, Kate's Law …
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Doyle Rice / USA Today:
It was 129 degrees in Iran Thursday, which is one of the Earth's hottest temperatures ever recorded  —  The southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz soared to a brutal 129 degrees Thursday, which is Iran's highest temperature ever recorded.  —  It's also one of the world's hottest reliably measured temperatures …
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Progressive Journalists Are Outraged At The NRA For Pointing Out Leftist Violence  —  Barely two weeks after a progressive Democrat activist attempted a mass assassination of Republican officials, progressives are outraged at the NRA for noting that the Second Amendment gives people the right …
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Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
A chilling National Rifle Association ad gaining traction online appears to be ‘an open call to violence’
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Understanding Republican Cruelty  —  The basics of Republican health legislation, which haven't changed much in different iterations of Trumpcare, are easy to describe: Take health insurance away from tens of millions, make it much worse and far more expensive for millions more, and use the money thus saved to cut taxes on the wealthy.
Discussion: New York Daily News
Rhiannon Poolaw / KSWO-TV:
Family's amateur sting operation takes down man targeting young girl  —  DEL CITY, OK (KSWO)- A man accused of targeting a young girl for sex was taken down by an amateur sting operation put together by a Del City family.  —  The father of a 15-year-old girl found out about the relationship …
Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story and WQAD-TV
Science:
Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States  —  1Global Policy Laboratory, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.  —  2National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.  —  3Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences …
Robert Parry / Consortiumnews.com:
NYT Finally Retracts Russia-gate Canard  —  Exclusive: A founding Russia-gate myth is that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies agreed that Russia hacked into and distributed Democratic emails, a falsehood that The New York Times has belatedly retracted, reports Robert Parry.
Raheem Kassam / Breitbart:
HOW SHE LOST: Study Reveals Near Half of Clinton's ‘Deplorables’ Once Supported Her  —  It wasn't Russia.  It wasn't even meme magic.  It was in fact the “deplorables” who once supported Hillary Clinton that propelled President Trump into the White House.  —  This is one of the major takeaways …
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
White House council for women and girls goes dark under Trump  —  When President George W. Bush took office, he quickly and quietly disbanded President Bill Clinton's Office for Women's Initiatives and Outreach — and now President Donald Trump appears to be doing the same thing …
Discussion: The Week
 
 
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Reuters:
Britain says Fox bid for Sky risks giving Murdoch too much power
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
Sarah Jones / New Republic:
How the Democrats' online outreach strategy went haywire.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP senators call for McConnell to shorten August recess
Will Racke / The Daily Caller:
Nashville Abandons Sanctuary City Bill
Discussion: Tennessean.com
Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks / Sacramento Bee:
Federal judge blocks California ban on high-capacity magazines
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Trump's voter-fraud commission wants to know voting history, party ID and address of every voter in the U.S.
Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml/James:
The Main Reason Congress Is Getting So Little Done Is... They Will Have 218 Days Off In 2017
Discussion: SARAH PALIN
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Republicans Left Ron Johnson for Dead Last Year, Now He Could Kill Their Health Care Bill
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Althouse
Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Voters say Trump's tweets hurting agenda
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
A Right-Leaning Foreign-Policy Think Tank Shuts Down
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
Once a Model City, Hong Kong Is in Trouble