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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Mueller has waited long enough.  It's subpoena time.  —  What should the special counsel do next?  I'd suggest it's subpoena time.  —  Robert S. Mueller III has proved himself a remarkably patient prosecutor.  His negotiations with President Trump's lawyers have stretched on for at least six months …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Did Putin Help Trump Come Up With His Cover Story?  (Pretty Likely)  —  One of the many revelations from that “leaked” letter from the White House to the Mueller team is that the White House is now stating as a fact what it had long denied or at least seriously downplayed: that the President personally …
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Cops are called when a senator tries to see kids taken from their immigrant parents
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Says Appointment of Special Counsel is ‘Totally Unconstitutional’
Discussion: Vox, USA Today, CBS News and The Atlantic
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Secret memo to Mueller actually reveals weakness of Trump's position
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Lawyers Say He Is the Law
Allan Smith / Business Insider:
Rudy Giuliani: Here's what Trump's talking about when he floats pardoning himself and lashing out at Mueller
Discussion: Mother Jones, CNN and National Review
Washington Post:
The many holes in the memo from the president's legal team.
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court rules in favor of baker who would not make wedding cake for gay couple  —  The Supreme Court on Monday ruled narrowly for a Colorado baker who refused to create a wedding cake for a gay couple.  —  In an opinion by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the court held …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court throws out lower court decision that allowed immigrant teenager to obtain abortion  —  The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a lower court's decision that allowed an undocumented immigrant teenager to obtain an abortion over the protests of the Trump administration.
David French / National Review:
In Masterpiece Cakeshop, Justice Kennedy Strikes a Blow for the Dignity of the Faithful  —  Tolerance, it appears, is not a one-way street.  —  Since the rise of the gay-marriage movement, it has become fashionable to decry dissenters as haters and bigots, to attempt to write …
Leah Litman / Take Care Blog:   Masterpiece Cakeshop And The Entry Ban
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Gay Americans Have Little to Fear From the Supreme Court's Compromise in Masterpiece Cakeshop
CNBC:
Supreme Court rules narrowly for Colorado baker who wouldn't make same-sex wedding cake
Washington Post:
Pruitt had aide do numerous personal tasks, including a hunt for a used Trump hotel mattress  —  In mid-September, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator's director of scheduling and advance, Millan Hupp, reached out to the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., with an unusual request.
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New York Times:
Aide Sought a New Apartment for Scott Pruitt, as Well as an ‘Old Mattress’ From Trump Hotel  —  WASHINGTON — A senior Environmental Protection Agency official acted essentially as the personal assistant to the administrator, Scott Pruitt, helping him hunt for an apartment …
Discussion: Politico, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Associated Press:   Aide: EPA's Pruitt sought used Trump-hotel mattress
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Bill Clinton: I wouldn't have done anything differently in Lewinsky scandal even in #MeToo era  —  Clinton stuck by his decision to fight his impeachment rather than resign.  “I think I did the right thing.  I defended the Constitution,” he said.  —  Former President Bill Clinton says that …
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Aaron Klein / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE - Juanita Broaddrick: NBC Skipped ‘Perfect Opportunity’ to Ask Bill Clinton About Rape Allegations
Discussion: IJR and Townhall
Courier-Journal:
Crowd cheers when valedictorian quotes Trump.  Then reveals it was Obama  —  Ben Bowling graduation speech Courtesy of Ben Bowling  —  Bell County high school student and valedictorian Ben Bowling wanted to share some words of wisdom with his graduating class, but there was a twist that no one saw coming.
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Told Kim Kardashian She and Kanye West Are Helping Him With Black Voters  — Met with reality TV star on pardon plea for 63-year-old woman  — Credits her husband Kanye West with rise in black support  —  President Donald Trump welcomed Kim Kardashian to the White House last week to discuss prison reform.
Discussion: Axios, Mediaite, Noisey and smokeroom.com
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Jeff Weiss / Washington Post:   Kanye West's ‘Ye’ is the unedited ramblings of the world's oldest adolescent
CNN:
Trump's phone call with Macron described as ‘terrible’  —  Washington (CNN)A call about trade and migration between US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron soured last week after Macron candidly criticized Trump's policies, two sources familiar with the call told CNN.
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Why Melania Trump's vanishing act matters  —  WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump has all but vanished.  —  She hasn't been seen with President Donald Trump at a public event since May 10, four days before she underwent surgery for a kidney problem.  She won't be at her husband's side …
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Bryan Bender / Politico:
The ‘weirdness’ of dealing with North Korean officials
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
BuzzFeed Allowed Key Defense in Russian's Defamation Suit Over Trump Dossier  —  A Florida judge rejects a Russian entrepreneur who argued that the Trump dossier publication wasn't protected as a fair report of official government action.  —  In its continuing fight against a Russian tech entrepreneur …
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
CD01 Incumbent Popular, But Race is Close  —  Democratic enthusiasm makes race competitive  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The race for House of Representatives in Pennsylvania's newly drawn 1st congressional district is shaping up to be a close contest, according to the Monmouth University Poll.
Discussion: Political Wire
Patti Davis / Washington Post:
Mourning America: What my father, Ronald Reagan, would say today  —  Patti Davis is an author and the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.  —  My father used to talk about a recurring dream he had in which he was walking into a beautiful white building with grand columns, knowing that it was his new home.
Michael Mcgough / Sacramento Bee:
Nearly half of Bay Area residents want out, poll shows.  The reason why is no surprise  —  The idea of a Bay Area “exodus” is no joke, and appears to be growing more vivid and real with each year.  —  A poll released Sunday by a local advocacy group showed that 46 percent of Bay Area residents surveyed …
Discussion: Sean Hannity
Ben White / Politico:
Cohn kept the jobs numbers for Trump  —  COHN KEPT THE JOBS NUMBERS FROM TRUMP — MM hears that before he left the White House, former National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn would withhold jobs report data from President Trump until shortly before their release because he was worried …
Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:
New US ambassador to Germany under fire for rightwing support  —  Politicians accuse Richard Grenell of breach of protocol after interview in Breitbart  —  German politicians have criticised Donald Trump's new ambassador to Germany after he said he wanted to “empower” anti-establishment rightwing forces throughout Europe.
Sarah Jones / Columbia Journalism Review:
The great remove  —  How journalism got so out of touch with the people it covers  —  To become a journalist, Rajaa Elidrissi knew she would need a strategy.  Growing up in a low-income household in Elmhurst, Queens, she started collecting clips at age 13.
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin says he'd support a move by Trump to commute Blagojevich's sentence  —  Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), the second-ranking Senate Democrat, said Monday that he would support a move by President Trump to commute the prison sentence of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich (D).
Discussion: Political Wire
Beatrice Verhoeven / The Wrap:
Woody Allen Says He Should Be ‘Poster Boy for the #MeToo Movement’  —  “I've worked with hundreds of actresses and not a single one... have ever ever suggested any kind of impropriety at all,” says the filmmaker  —  Woody Allen says he should be the “poster boy” for the #MeToo movement given …
Kassy Dillon / Daily Wire:
WATCH: VA Senate Candidate Corey Stewart Calls Anti-Semite Paul Nehlen ‘Hero’  —  A video has recently surfaced of Corey Stewart, the perceived front-runner of the Virginia Republican nomination for Senate, calling known anti-Semite Paul Nehlen one of his “personal heroes.”
Discussion: Raw Story
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Scandal on the Other Foot  —  Consider the following alternate reality.  —  Imagine that it is now summer 2024.  A 78-year-old lame-duck President Trump is winding down his second term, basking in positive polls.  His dutiful vice president in waiting, Mike Pence, is at last getting his chance to run for president.
Discussion: RealClearPolitics
 
 
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Rebecca Ritzel / Washingtonian:
Rudy Giuliani Takes in “Camelot” in DC, Gets a Shoulder Rub During “Lusty Month of May”
Discussion: Splinter
Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
‘Fighting for our lives.’ Orange County Dems nervous ahead of Tuesday primary
Kalina Oroschakoff / Politico:
Maroš Šefovi enters race to become European Commission president
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
House generic ballot a toss-up: poll
Discussion: Power Line, Axios, Newsmax and Splinter
Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
WOKE? Maxine Waters plays to empty seats as only 10 millennials show up to campaign event
Discussion: Daily Wire
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Billionaire Koch brothers' political network will spend millions to oppose Trump's tariffs …
Jared Keller / Task & Purpose:
The Civil War's Latest Casualty: This Reenactor Who Shot Himself With A Minie Ball
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
How The Alt-Right Manipulates The Internet's Biggest Commenting Platform
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Rory Carroll / The Guardian:
Elon Musk: as business fortunes dip, he starts a war with the media
Ronald Radosh / The Daily Beast:
Pro-Trump Author Says CIA Has Plan to Kill the President
Discussion: National Review
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
Trump's mind-control superpowers
Discussion: Daily Kos
Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:
Business economists worry about possible recession in 2020
Discussion: Axios
Jane Ross / Reuters:
California city fights poverty with guaranteed income
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
A historic exodus is leaving Venezuela without teachers, doctors and electricians
Discussion: Instapundit
New York Times:
Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

 
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