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10:00 AM ET, August 12, 2017

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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
Twitter users want Trump's account suspended for ‘threatening violence’ against North Korea  —  Can a president be suspended from Twitter for threatening to attack another country?  —  That's what some Twitter users, including actor and former Barack Obama aide Kal Penn, are demanding …
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Pentagon: We've received no new orders on Venezuela after Trump remarks  —  The Department of Defense is pushing back on President Trump's assertion that he is refusing to rule out a U.S. military intervention in Venezuela.  —  “The Pentagon has not received any orders with regards to Venezuela …
Discussion: RedState
Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump says he won't rule out military option in Venezuela  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump would not rule out the possibility of a military intervention in Venezuela on Friday, stepping up rhetoric directed at a regime the President has already accused of being led by a “dictator.”
Discussion: CNNMoney, Axios and Business Insider
Mark Katkov / NPR:
Despite Rhetoric On North Korea, U.S. Military Posture Hasn't Really Changed
Discussion: Defense News and twitchy.com
Ankit Panda / The Diplomat:
US Intelligence: North Korea's ICBM Reentry Vehicles Are Likely Good Enough to Hit the Continental US
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Ben Kesling / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Won't Rule Out Military Option for Venezuela
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Despite Trump's threats to North Korea, the U.S. military doesn't appear to be on a new wartime footing
Discussion: Sputnik International and RedState
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Donald Trump Wins Round One with North Korea
Eddie Baza Calvo:
I just got off the phone with Chief of Staff General John Kelly and with the President of the United States of America.  —  They called me from the White House this morning and both assured me that the people of Guam are safe.  —  In the President's words they are behind us “1000 percent.”
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump's China trade crackdown coming Monday
Discussion: Axios and The Gateway Pundit
John Wagner / Washington Post:   Trump predicts ‘tenfold’ boost in tourism for Guam amid threats by North Korea
Joe Heim / Washington Post:
March of white supremacists at University of Virginia ends in skirmishes … Chanting “White lives matter!”  “You will not replace us!” and “Jews will not replace us!” several hundred white nationalists and white supremacists carrying torches marched in a parade through the University of Virginia campus Friday night.
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Nicole Chavez / CNN:
Charlottesville remains on edge ahead of ‘Unite the Right’ rally  —  (CNN)White nationalists and counterprotesters are expected to flood downtown Charlottesville Saturday as the Virginia city braces for the “Unite the Right” rally.  —  By noon, thousands are expected to gather in Emancipation Park …
Joe Heim / Washington Post:   Charlottesville prepares for a white nationalist rally on Saturday
James Damore / Wall Street Journal:
Why I Was Fired by Google  —  James Damore says his good-faith effort to discuss differences between men and women in tech couldn't be tolerated in the company's ‘ideological echo chamber’  —  I was fired by Google this past Monday for a document that I wrote and circulated internally raising questions …
Wall Street Journal:
Unmasking Samantha Power  —  We still don't know why Obama officials needed to know the names of so many Trump officials.  —  Of all the Russia storms raging around Donald Trump —the Christopher Steele dossier, the email to Don Jr. promising dirt on Hillary Clinton —there is still …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Inquiry Into Russian Meddling Could Wrap Up This Year, Burr Says  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Richard Burr, the initially reluctant but now determined leader of the Senate Intelligence Committee inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election, said the investigation had expanded beyond …
Discussion: Political Wire
Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg:
Manchin Emerges as Possible Pick for Energy Department  —  Move would let West Virginia's GOP governor to name successor  —  Idea in early stages of discussion, with Perry stance unclear  —  Some White House and Republican officials are exploring the idea of putting West Virginia Democratic …
Ben White / Politico:
Kelly considers further shuffling of West Wing staff, officials say  —  White House chief of staff John Kelly spent this week in Bedminster, N.J., pondering changes in the West Wing, according to four White House officials.  —  Kelly summoned aides to President Donald Trump's golf club …
New York Times:
Scott Pruitt Is Carrying Out His E.P.A. Agenda in Secret, Critics Say  —  WASHINGTON — When career employees of the Environmental Protection Agency are summoned to a meeting with the agency's administrator, Scott Pruitt, at agency headquarters, they no longer can count on easy access …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Bernie Bros and sisters are coming to Republicans' rescue  —  (Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto Agency)  —  Things could go well for the Democrats in next year's midterm elections — if they don't Bern out.  —  President Trump is woefully unpopular, feuding with Senate Majority …
Discussion: NPR
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Ship Monitoring Rescues of Migrants Refuses to Be Rescued  —  ROME — In the end, it was the gang that couldn't sail straight.  —  A group of hard-right white nationalists determined to keep migrants from reaching Europe garnered international attention this summer when they chartered a ship …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Judge Won't Let Ex-Fox News Star Keep Secret Her Feminism Book Was Ghostwritten by a Man  —  A judge rejects Andrea Tantaros' argument that professional jeopardy overcomes a presumption of access to judicial documents.  —  A New York federal judge has decided to lift the veil from a case captioned as [Under Seal] v. [Under Seal].
Vincent M. Mallozzi / New York Times:
She's 98.  He's 94.  They Met at the Gym.  —  Gertrude Mokotoff and Alvin Mann were introduced eight years ago at a gym in Middletown, N.Y., where they still work out twice a week.  —  “A mutual friend said to me, 'I'd like you to meet a very nice young lady,'” Mr. Mann recalled …
 
 
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Jordan Crucchiola / Vulture:
Taylor Swift's Best Comebacks During Her Cross-Examination at Her Sexual-Assault Trial
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Hannah Strange / Telegraph:
Spain could top Greece for 2017 migrant sea arrivals, as video emerges of beach being ‘stormed’
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Silicon Valley billionaire loses bid to prevent access to public beach
Discussion: Boing Boing and WND
Weekly Standard:
When Loretta Met Bill
 Earlier Items: 
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Neo-Nazi Website Tells Fat U.S. Nazis to ‘Get it Together,’ Offers Fashion Tips
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Former Mueller deputy on Trump: ‘Government is going to kill this guy’
Discussion: RedState
Peter Maass / The Intercept:
Steve Bannon's Tall Tale About How He Visited Pakistan in the Navy and Saw the Muslim Threat
Discussion: Raw Story
Daniel / Crooked Timber:
From a logical point of view ...
Discussion: bradford-delong.com and Vox
Peter Baker / New York Times:
News Analysis: Combative Trump Pulls His Punches for One Man: Putin
Discussion: IJR and Mediaite