memeorandum: U.S. prepared to take action against North Korea (Alexi McCammond/Axios)

6:10 PM ET, July 5, 2017

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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:

How A Random GIF From Reddit Probably Ended Up On President Trump's Phone — Last Wednesday, a Reddit user named /u/HanAssholeSolo posted a GIF titled “Trump takes down fake news (Colorized, 2017)” to Reddit's largest pro-Trump subreddit, /r/The_Donald. — The post gained a few thousand upvotes and …

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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:

How CNN found the Reddit user behind the Trump wrestling GIF — (CNN)The Reddit user who initially claimed credit for President Donald Trump's tweet that showed Trump tackling CNN issued an apology Tuesday for the video and other offensive content he posted — one day after CNN identified …

Adam Peck / ThinkProgress:

Does CNN owe racists anonymity? — The whole episode has shifted focus away from the person behind the bigoted posts and toward a more complicated question. — Over the weekend, the President of the United States tweeted out a GIF of himself in a professional wrestling arena attacking …

Discussion: American Greatness, Mediaite, Washington Post, Raw Story, Business Insider, Conservative News Today, myfox8.com and The Gateway Pundit

Greg P. / twitchy.com:

If BuzzFeed is correct, it appears CNN's Andrew Kaczynski outed the wrong guy … According to an analysis by BuzzFeed, the CNN-WWE GIF that President Donald Trump tweeted last week was not the same as the one created by HanAssholeSolo, which means CNN's Andrew Kaczynski outed the wrong guy:

Discussion: Questions and Observations, Chicago Boyz, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Power Line and Instapundit

Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:

CNN Is Standing By Its Controversial Reddit User Story — CNN executives thought they were showing restraint by not identifying Reddit user HanAssholeSolo. But a strange contingency line has set off the pro-Trump social internet. — When a CNN reporter tracked down the Reddit user …

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Keegan Hankes / Southern Poverty Law Center Hatewatch:

Daily Stormer Troll Army Threatens CNN Staffers Over Reddit User Behind Trump/CNN GIF — Andrew Auernheimer, the notorious hacker and Internet troll known as ‘Weev,’ rallied the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer's troll army for its latest campaign this morning, claiming that CNN was blackmailing a “teen shitposter.”

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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
What the hell were you thinking, CNN?

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Ricochet:
Trump Has Driven CNN Stark, Raving Mad

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David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
What CNN's Threat To Dox A Redditor Tells Us About The State Of Journalism

Discussion: twitchy.com, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite

New York Times:

U.S. Vows Tougher Action on North Korea After Missile Test — SEOUL, South Korea — The United States responded Wednesday to North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile test by conducting a rare joint missile exercise with South Korea and pushing to impose tougher United Nations sanctions …

Discussion: Telegraph, The Hill, The Daily Signal, Washington Free Beacon, Slate, Business Insider, Mediaite, RedState, Washington Times, The National Interest, TheBlaze, The Week, Gizmodo, AOL, The Daily Caller, Wall Street Journal and Just Security

Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:

Trump Warsaw Speech to Focus on Poland's National Example — White House Watch: Will Trump kick off the G20 with an anti-globalist stand? — President Donald Trump leaves for Europe Wednesday morning ahead of the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg Friday and Saturday.

Discussion: New York Times and The Daily Caller

Alexi McCammond / Axios: U.S. prepared to take action against North Korea

Washington Post:
At G-20 summit, it looks more and more like Trump against the world

Discussion: Politico, ThinkProgress and Politicus USA

Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Haley warns China on North Korea, says Beijing risks U.S. trade

Discussion: ABC News

United States Forces Korea:
Combined Statement on Alliance Response

Discussion: Washington Post, New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Hill, The Root, Politico, CNBC and Guns.com

Motoko Rich / New York Times:
In North Korea, ‘Surgical Strike’ Could Spin Into ‘Worst Kind of Fighting’

Discussion: Washington Post, JustOneMinute, NPR, CNN, New York Magazine, TheBlaze and Shareblue

CNN:
US: North Korea launched new kind of missile

Discussion: Axios

New York Times:

Aides' Biggest Worry on Trump's Europe Trip: A Meeting With Putin — WASHINGTON — President Trump has been briefed repeatedly. His advisers have alerted him to the web of potential risks, complex issues and diplomatic snags. — But even his top aides do not know precisely what Mr. Trump …

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Brian Bennett / Los Angeles Times:
Stakes are high for Trump's meeting with Putin. Here's what to expect.

Discussion: The Guardian, Daily Kos and AOL

Ari Berman / The Nation:

The Trump Administration's Voter-Suppression Plans Are Backfiring Badly — In an unprecedented show of bipartisan resistance, 44 states are refusing to hand over private voter data to Kris Kobach. — On June 28, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the vice chair of Donald Trump's presidential commission …

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Washington Post:

Why almost every state is partially or fully rebuffing Trump's voter fraud commission … In a rare display of bipartisanship, officials in nearly every state have said they will partially or fully refuse to comply with President Trump's voting commission, which has encountered criticism …

Discussion: Politicus USA

NBC News:

Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Discovered Photo Suggests — A newly discovered photograph suggests legendary aviator Amelia Earhart, who vanished 80 years ago on a round-the-world flight, survived a crash-landing in the Marshall Islands.

Discussion: IJR, Refinery29, The Daily Caller, The Week and ABC News

Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed:

NPR Tweeted The Declaration Of Independence And Some Trump Supporters Were Offended — In celebration of the 4th of July, National Public Radio tweeted out the Declaration of Independence in a series of more than 100 tweets on Tuesday. … Many people responded with praise for the historic document, and thanked NPR for sharing it.

Discussion: Raw Story, Washington Post, Hot Air and NPR

Bob Collins / NewsCut:
NPR's tweets expose a thin grasp of American history

Discussion: IJR

Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
NPR Tweeted Declaration Of Independence, And Trump Supporters Flipped Out

Discussion: Gizmodo, The Daily Banter, Above the Law, Daily Kos, The Week and AOL

Fox News:

Cruz's ObamaCare fix gets support from Hill conservatives — A low-flying proposal from Sen. Ted Cruz to overhaul a major component of ObamaCare is attracting the kind of conservative enthusiasm that could prove critical in the broader GOP push to repeal and replace the 2010 law.

Discussion: RedState

Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post: ‘Repeal now, replace later’ will kill the GOP's health-care reform

Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:

White House gender pay gap more than triples under Trump — The pay gap between male and female White House staffers has more than tripled in the first year of the Trump administration, according to an analysis by economist Mark Perry of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.

Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, The Week and The Daily Banter

Mark J. Perry / American Enterprise Institute:
Based on median salaries, gender pay gap at Trump White House is almost 2X (37%) what the media are reporting (20%)

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, New York Post and Fusion

Kimberly Dozier / The Daily Beast:

U.S. Commandos Running Out of ISIS Targets … U.S. special operations forces have removed roughly 50 top ISIS leaders off the battlefield since President Donald Trump took office, down from 80 killed in the last six months of the Obama administration, according to figures obtained by The Daily Beast.

Discussion: Mother Jones, Mediaite and The Daily Caller

Jon Levine / Mediaite:

A GOP Congressman Made a Selfie Video From Inside Auschwitz — It's as Bad as You Think — There are few places more hallowed than the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. More than a million people, mostly Jews, were killed there during the second world war, many in the camp's infamous gas chambers.

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Sewell Chan / New York Times:

Police Officer Is Shot and Killed in ‘Unprovoked Attack’ in the Bronx — A police officer was shot and killed early Wednesday while sitting in a police vehicle in the Bronx, in what the New York City police commissioner called an “unprovoked attack” and an assassination. The gunman was killed, the police said.

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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:

Seth Rich Murder Conspiracy Is Being Used to Sell Face Cream … Trump campaign email vendors are marketing an anti-aging cream with the help of conspiracy theories surrounding the 2016 murder of a Democratic Party staffer. — The ad hawking the wrinkle-fighting formula is very clearly a scam.

Discussion: Raw Story

Robert Leonard / New York Times:

Want to Get Rid of Trump? Only Fox News Can Do It — KNOXVILLE, Iowa — President Trump's administration is in crisis, consumed by fears of what Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russia's meddling in the election, might find. Everyone's lawyering up — even the lawyers have lawyers.

Matthew Yglesias / Vox:

Bernie Sanders is the Democrats' real 2020 frontrunner — He's staffing up, touring the country, and still drawing record crowds. — Amid a swirl of speculation about Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, and practically everyone else under the sun …

Discussion: New York Magazine