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New York Times:
Trump Gives White Supremacists an Unequivocal Boost — WASHINGTON — President Trump buoyed the white nationalist movement on Tuesday as no president has done in generations — equating activists protesting racism with the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who rampaged in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
‘The President Was Entirely Correct’ — Every day, the White House communications office sends official talking points to Republican members of Congress. These communiqués help the GOP stay on the same page (and, in the Trump era, help the embattled president's allies come up with arguments in his defense).
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The Definitive Source:
How to describe extremists who rallied in Charlottesville — The events in Charlottesville are an opportunity to take another look at our terminology around “alt-right” and the way that we describe the various racist, neo-Nazi, white nationalist and white supremacist groups out there.
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Political Wire
ITV:
Theresa May attacks Donald Trump over refusal to condemn white supremacists — Theresa May has attacked Donald Trump for refusing to condemn neo-Nazis after violent protests in the US city of Charlottesville in which a woman was killed. — The Prime Minister said those in power …
Politico:
Full text: Trump's comments on white supremacists, ‘alt-left’ in Charlottesville
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Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, The Week, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Hit & Run, Taylor Marsh, RedState, Axios and CANNONFIRE
Washington Post:
The nation can only weep — TUESDAY WAS a great day for David Duke …
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Hullabaloo
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Alt-Right, Alt-Left, Antifa: A Glossary of Extremist Language
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Althouse, Scared Monkeys, Politico, The Week, Business Insider, Instapundit and ThinkProgress
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Trump's horrifying ‘take three’ on Charlottesville
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Weekly Standard, The Week, Gizmodo and LewRockwell
David French / National Review:
Donald Trump Just Gave the Press Conference of the Alt-Right's Dreams
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Reuters:
Trump yields to pressure, calls neo-Nazis and KKK criminals
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Washington Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The Ring of Fire Network
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump has not yet reached out to Charlottesville victim's family
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New York Post and RedState
Rachel Stoltzfoos / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Hope Hicks To Be Named White House Comms Director — Hope Hicks will be named the new White House communications director, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. — President Trump has offered the job to Hicks and she has accepted the position, according to a White House insider.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
If a top Trump aide leaves, it could ‘start a run on the bank’ — White House aides say Trump lashed out because he felt that the barrage of media criticism for his Saturday remarks was unfair and wrong — that he was fighting back, campaign style. — A veteran of several Republican White Houses told us …
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Zero Hedge and Business Insider
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Aides Tried to Conceal His Crazy, Racist Beliefs From the Country — Donald Trump's aides have been angry with him frequently — indeed, usually — since the beginning of his presidential campaign. But they have rarely registered their dismay as nakedly as they did Tuesday night …
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The Week
Russell Goldman / New York Times:
Baltimore Removes Confederate Statues in Overnight Operation — Statues dedicated to Confederate heroes were swiftly removed across Baltimore in the small hours of Wednesday morning, just days after violence broke out over the removal of a similar monument in neighboring Virginia.
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Baltimore Sun:
Confederate monuments taken down in Baltimore overnight — Confederate statues in Baltimore were removed from their bases overnight, as crews using heavy machinery loaded them onto flat bed trucks and hauled them away, an end to more than a year of indecision surrounding what to do with the memorials.
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Governor Roy Cooper:
North Carolina Monuments
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Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:
Abrams calls for removal of Confederate faces off Stone Mountain
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The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart and The Daily Caller
John Harwood / CNBC:
Donald Trump has a very clear attitude about morality: He doesn't believe in it — President Trump, in a raucous press conference, again blamed “both sides” for deadly violence in Charlottesville — He attacked business leaders who quit a White House panel over Trump's message on the weekend incident
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
‘Wow’: Stunned TV Hosts Reacted in Real Time to Trump — “What I just saw gave me the wrong kind of chills,” a visibly stunned Chuck Todd said on MSNBC. “Honestly, I'm a bit shaken by what I just heard.” — Unable to disguise her disgust, the Fox News host Kat Timpf said …
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Axios and Political Wire
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Digg:
VICE News' Inside Account Of The Charlottesville Protests Is A Terrifying Must-Watch — Days after the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville spiraled out of control, with a protester driving his car into a crowd of counter-protesters and killing one, we're still picking through what happened.
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RedState, Mother Jones and VICE Video
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Marist Poll:
8/16: Trump at Lowest Point With 35% Job Approval Rating... Crack at the Base — President Donald Trump's job approval rating is at its lowest point since taking office with only 35% of Americans giving him a positive score. — President Donald Trump's job approval rating …
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Washington Post, Politicus USA, Political Wire and Washington Times
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon's Ideological Allies Inside the White House Are Souring on Him … Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's besieged chief strategist, came into the White House in late January with a core group of right-wing allies and ideological fellow travelers, including senior policy adviser Stephen Miller …
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Raw Story
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Bloomberg:
Texas Voter Maps Blocked as Racially Biased by U.S. Judges — Federal courts declare Texas voter maps unfair for fourth time — State given three days to say whether it will correct maps — Texas can't use its current voter maps in the upcoming congressional midterm elections after a panel …
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Axios
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Fox News, Daily Caller delete posts encouraging people to drive through protests — Months before a man allegedly turned his vehicle into a weapon and plowed through a group of protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, an article that made the rounds in conservative media encouraged readers to do something similar.
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New York Times:
In Ukraine, a Malware Expert Who Could Blow the Whistle on Russian Hacking — KIEV, Ukraine — The hacker, known only by his online alias “Profexer,” kept a low profile. He wrote computer code alone in an apartment and quietly sold his handiwork on the anonymous portion of the internet known as the Dark Web.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The Nation is reviewing a story casting doubt on Russian hack of DNC — There is some discontent in the Nation. — Staffers and contributors at the storied lefty magazine have raised concerns about an Aug. 9 piece by contributing writer Patrick Lawrence under the headline …
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