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Jana Winter / Foreign Policy:
FBI and DHS Warned of Growing Threat From White Supremacists Months Ago  —  Trump doesn't want to call out white supremacists.  The FBI already did.  —  The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security in May warned that white supremacist groups had already carried out more attacks …
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Trump, Saying ‘Racism Is Evil,’ Condemns Violence in Charlottesville  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump bowed to overwhelming pressure that he personally condemn white supremacists who incited bloody demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend — labeling their racist views …
Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Trump approval falls to lowest level ever in Gallup poll  —  President Trump's approval rating has dropped to its lowest level ever in a Gallup tracking poll.  —  The president's approval rating is only 34 percent in the latest Gallup average released Monday, while 61 percent of adults disapprove …
Maura Judkis / Washington Post:
Charlottesville white nationalist demonstrator loses job at libertarian hot dog shop  —  A white nationalist who participated in the torch-lit march through the University of Virginia's campus this weekend has lost his job at a Berkeley, Calif., hot dog restaurant after Twitter users posted his photo and place of employment.
Discussion: Berkeleyside, Raw Story, IJR, AOL and The Week
John Harwood / CNBC:   GOP is more likely to vent ‘personal disgust’ for Trump after Charlottesville
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
CNN: Trump wanted economic remarks at top of Charlottesville statement
Discussion: RedState and HuffPost
Wall Street Journal:
The Poison of Identity Politics
Rachael Bade / Politico:   Democrats press GOP to scrutinize rise in white supremacy
Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Trump attacks Merck CEO for stepping down from manufacturing council in protest
NBC News:
Pence Defends Trump From Critics of Charlottesville Remarks
Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump calls KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists ‘repugnant’
Bloomberg:
Trump Denounces White Supremacists After Backlash
Discussion: Althouse
Gregg Jarrett / Fox News:
Trump ‘seriously considering’ a pardon for ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio  —  EXCLUSIVE: President Trump may soon issue a pardon for Joe Arpaio, the colorful former Arizona sheriff who was found guilty two weeks ago of criminal contempt for defying a state judge's order to stop traffic patrols targeting suspected undocumented immigrants.
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Fox News host delivers speech arguing America isn't racist—seconds later, he proves himself wrong
Discussion: Mother Jones
New York Times:
Bannon in Limbo as Trump Faces Growing Calls for the Strategist's Ouster  —  WASHINGTON — Rupert Murdoch has repeatedly urged President Trump to fire him.  Anthony Scaramucci, the president's former communications director, thrashed him on television as a white nationalist.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and CNNMoney
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Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Trump campaign emails show aide's repeated efforts to set up Russia meetings … Three days after Donald Trump named his campaign foreign policy team in March 2016, the youngest of the new advisers sent an email to seven campaign officials with the subject line: “Meeting with Russian Leadership - Including Putin.”
John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
Explaining Trump's Charlottesville Behavior  —  The nucleolus of Trump.  —  You can choose to have whatever opinion you have on the president's statement today condemning white supremacists, but it's hard to believe he would have read it out if he'd had his druthers.
Discussion: New Yorker and NPR
Pearce Tefft / INFORUM:
Letter: Family denounces Tefft's racist rhetoric and actions  —  My name is Pearce Tefft, and I am writing to all, with regards to my youngest son, Peter Tefft, an avowed white nationalist who has been featured in a number of local news stories over the last several months.
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
‘You will have to shovel our bodies into the oven, too’: Father of Charlottesville neo-Nazi disowns him  —  One father of a marcher in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend is denouncing his own son after the young man was seen on national news spouting hate.
Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer  —  Google has canceled the domain registration for The Daily Stormer, a company spokesperson confirmed Monday.  —  “We are cancelling Daily Stormer's registration with Google Domains for violating our terms of service,” the spokesperson told Business Insider.
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Kaila White / Arizona Republic:
After months of criticism, GoDaddy kicks out neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer
CNBC:
Google cancels Neo-Nazi site registration soon after it was dumped by GoDaddy
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Oklahoma man charged in anti-government bomb plot  —  The FBI has arrested an Oklahoma man on charges that he tried to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb outside a bank, acting out of a hatred for the U.S. government and an admiration for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy Mc­Veigh, according to court papers.
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DreamHost.blog:
We Fight for the Users  —  For the past several months, DreamHost has been working with the Department of Justice to comply with legal process, including a Search Warrant (PDF) seeking information about one of our customers' websites.  —  At the center of the requests is disruptj20.org …
Discussion: The Verge
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Ken White / Popehat:
Department of Justice Uses Search Warrant To Get Data On Visitors to Anti-Trump Site
Media Matters for America:
Alex Jones: A lot of KKK protesters are “Jewish actors” who look like the “cast of Seinfeld” with their hoods off  —  ALEX JONES (HOST): Here's a little bit of audio of me like 18 years ago protesting the KKK.  There's no big crowd of Antifa there supporting me, and them threatening to kill me, everything else.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Sheldon Adelson comes out in support of H.R. McMaster  —  Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson has come out in support of National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, disavowing a campaign against McMaster by a group Adelson funds, the Zionist Organization of America.
Discussion: Political Wire
Agence France-Presse:
Merkel condemns ‘disgusting’ US far-right violence  —  Recommended  —  Protests, vigils around US decry white supremacist rally  —  Trump faulted for not rebuking racists  —  Police, FBI probe deadly violence at white nationalist rally  —  Entities  —  Your feedback is important to us!
Media Matters for America:
Right-wing media provided home for white supremacist before he organized Charlottesville rally  —  Before he organized the recent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, VA, Jason Kessler wrote for The Daily Caller and the white nationalist site VDare and appeared as a purported expert on Alex Jones' Infowars network.
Nathan L. Gonzales / Roll Call:
‘Kid Rock’ May Be Ineligible for Michigan Ballot  —  Elections bureau would decide whether Ritchie can use stage name  —  Merkley's Mild Town Hall in a Red County When Congressional Spouses (Allegedly) Misbehave Rating Change: Nevada Senate Race Moves to Toss-Up
 
 
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Devin Henry / The Hill:
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump lashes out at ‘fake news’ when pressed about failure to hold news conference
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New York Post:
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