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TIME:
Exclusive: Navy Document Shows Plan to Erect ‘Austere’ Detention Camps — The U.S. Navy is preparing plans to construct sprawling detention centers for tens of thousands of immigrants on remote bases in California, Alabama and Arizona, escalating the military's task in implementing President Donald Trump's …
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Boing Boing
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NBC News:
Tom Arnold tweets picture with Michael Cohen, says he ‘has all the tapes’ — Arnold is hunting for ‘incriminating’ tapes of Trump as part of a show for Vice. — President Donald Trump's embattled personal attorney, Michael Cohen, retweeted a photo of himself with comedian Tom Arnold …
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Above the Law, Talking Points Memo, The Right Scoop, Law & Crime, Taylor Marsh, Daily Wire, The Week and Mediaite
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The Daily Beast:
Tom Arnold Meets Michael Cohen: ‘This Dude Has All the Tapes’ — Tom Arnold—the actor and comedian who's said he's on a mission to find incriminating video of President Trump—tweeted a photo of himself with Michael Cohen late Thursday, saying “this dude has all the tapes.”
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Hullabaloo
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump to GOP: Wait until after midterms to pass immigration bill — As House Republicans scramble for votes on its comprehensive immigration bill, President Trump tweeted Friday that Republicans should “stop wasting their time” and punt the immigration fight to after the midterms.
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Wall Street Journal, Shareblue Media, CNN and Politico
Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
The crying Honduran girl on the cover of Time was not separated from her mother, father says — The photo of the little girl crying as a U.S. Border Patrol agent patted down her mother became a symbol of the families pulled apart by the Trump administration's “zero tolerance” policy at the border …
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CBS News:
Viral photo of crying girl: Border Patrol agent involved says there's more to the story — The picture of a Honduran girl crying as she and her mother are detained in Texas has grabbed worldwide attention and come to symbolize the intense debate about separating children from their parents.
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Breitbart, neo-neocon, Washington Post and The Daily Caller
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Trump's Immigration Policies Are Actually Pretty Popular
Trump's Immigration Policies Are Actually Pretty Popular
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The Daily Signal, Breitbart and Daily Wire
Daily Mail:
Denis Javier Varela Hernandez (far right) spoke out about his wife Sandra and daughter, Yanela
Denis Javier Varela Hernandez (far right) spoke out about his wife Sandra and daughter, Yanela
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Politico:
Young Trumpies Hit D.C. — ... And D.C. hits them right back. — When Matt Mowers moved to Washington in November 2016, he wasn't expecting a hero's welcome. The young political operative had worked for Donald Trump's campaign in New York, where you can hardly walk down the block …
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
If We Want to End the Border Crisis, It's Time to Give Trump His Wall — You could think of the last week as a solid victory for the Democrats and for basic human decency. An utterly indefensible and morally foul policy of separating children from their parents is over for now.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Washington Monthly, The Atlantic, The Federalist and The Other McCain
Jon Hernandez / CBC News:
Jogger accidentally crosses U.S. border from B.C., gets detained for 2 weeks by authorities — Cedella Roman, visiting mom from France, says border patrol held her for crossing into Blaine, Wash. — Cedella Roman says she was jogging along the beach in White Rock, B.C., when she crossed the U.S. border without realizing it.
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VICE
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump's Cynical Immigration Strategy Might Work for Him—Again — The lesson Trump learned was not that saying shocking, untrue, and arguably racist things about immigrants was politically dangerous but that doing so helped him become President. — On Sunday, June 3rd, Senator Jeff Merkley …
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Political Wire
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Senator Jeff Merkley, a Quiet Stalwart of the Left, Has a Breakout Moment at the Border
Senator Jeff Merkley, a Quiet Stalwart of the Left, Has a Breakout Moment at the Border
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CNN
Lesley Clark / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Liberal group to go on offensive against Kentucky judge Trump likes for Supreme Court — WASHINGTON — A group opposed to President Donald Trump's judicial picks is taking aim at a Kentucky judge who has made the president's short list of potential Supreme Court justices.
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Damon Root / Hit & Run:
Huge Win for Everyone With a Cellphone (and for the Fourth Amendment) at the Supreme Court
Huge Win for Everyone With a Cellphone (and for the Fourth Amendment) at the Supreme Court
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New York Times, SCOTUSblog and Outside the Beltway, more at Techmeme »
Sam Baker / Axios:
Supreme Court limits cell phone searches
Supreme Court limits cell phone searches
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Washington Post, ABC News, The Daily Beast and Politico
Washington Post:
Trump threatens Europe with 20 percent tariffs on auto imports, escalating trade showdown with U.S. allies — President Trump on Friday threatened to unilaterally impose a 20 percent tariff on all automobile imports from Europe, further breaking from Republicans in Congress and front-running …
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The Atlantic, The Nation and New York Times
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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
After Nevada GOP push, Treasury quietly changed lucrative policy benefiting one county — The Treasury Department last week quietly reversed itself after lobbying by Nevada Republicans and agreed to let a previously ineligible county reap huge benefits from the new tax law.
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Raw Story
Philip Lewis / HuffPost:
Protesters Outside Kirstjen Nielsen's House Play Audio Of Detained Migrant Children — The DHS secretary had to walk by protesters shouting “Shame!” as she left her house. — ALEXANDRIA, Va. Protesters gathered outside Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's townhouse Friday morning …
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Daily Kos, VICE, Raw Story, The Right Scoop, Breitbart, AOL, The Gateway Pundit, Splinter, Washington Press, The Daily Caller and twitchy.com
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Matthew Walther / The Week:
What pro-lifers can learn from the Democratic Socialists of America
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller seeks to bar Manafort from tying charges to Trump campaign role — Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is seeking to prevent the defense for Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, from arguing to jurors that he was targeted for prosecution because of his role in Donald Trump's presidential bid.
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The Gateway Pundit
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Emily Holden / Politico:
New Pruitt question: Where are his emails? — The EPA administrator wrote only one email in 10 months to anyone outside the agency, if the official paper trail is to be believed. Watchdog groups don't believe it. — An examination of Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt's …
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ThinkProgress, Washington Press, ABC News, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine, Mediaite, Washington Post, The Week, Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo
Vanessa Friedman / New York Times:
Melania Trump, Agent of Coat Chaos — Melania Trump's excursion in her “I Really Don't Care” jacket did not send a hidden message. It was there for all to see. — “I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?” — When the first lady, Melania Trump, on an unannounced humanitarian visit to a children's shelter in Texas …
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Washington Post, New Republic, Outside the Beltway, Gothamist and CNN
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Under Trump, Americans are becoming more supportive of immigration
The Daily 202: Under Trump, Americans are becoming more supportive of immigration
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Outside the Beltway, HuffPost, Washington Press and Gallup
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Vote against the GOP this November — Amid the carnage of Republican misrule in Washington, there is this glimmer of good news: The family-shredding policy along the southern border, the most telegenic recent example of misrule, clarified something. Occurring less than 140 days before elections …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Steve King singles out Somali Muslims over pork — The Iowa congressman says they shouldn't work in his district's meat-packing plants because they won't eat pig products. — Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said Friday that he doesn't want Somali Muslims working at meat-packing plants in his district …
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Mediaite
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“The Images Are Out of His Control”: How Trump Lost His Grip on the Child-Detention Narrative — Trump has done plenty of ugly things. In the past, he's outrun the narrative—this time, he can't get past the imagery. — BY - PETER HAMBYJune 22, 2018, — Rarely has Donald Trump been on his heels as he has over the past week.
Tim Reid / Reuters:
In age of Trump, evangelicals back self-styled top U.S. pimp — PAHRUMP, Nev. (Reuters) - He styles himself as America's best-known pimp, a strip-club owner who runs multiple brothels and looks set to win a seat as a Republican in the Nevada legislature with the blessing of many conservative Christian voters.
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New Republic and The Daily Caller
Media Matters for America:
Fox & Friends host: “These aren't our kids. ... It's not like [Trump] is doing this to the people of Idaho or Texas” — Brian Kilmeade: “Like it or not, these aren't our kids” — From the June 22 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends: — Loading the player reg...
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Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Conservative News Today, The Ring of Fire Network, Raw Story, Shareblue Media, Axios and Splinter
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Elena Kagan Is Up to Something — What is Justice Elena Kagan doing? So far this term, the liberal justice has crossed ideological lines at least three times to join the Supreme Court's conservatives. Most recently, on Thursday, Kagan authored the majority opinion in Lucia v. SEC …
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Wall Street Journal and ThinkProgress
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Democrats see most news outlets as unbiased. Republicans think they're almost all biased. — Plus: Facebook expands its fact-checking program; for one thing, it now covers photos and video. — The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to keep up with.
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twitchy.com, The Daily Caller and Engadget, more at Mediagazer »
Associated Press:
AP-NORC Poll: Americans say no to presidential self-pardons — NEW YORK (AP) — Even in an era of deep political division, Democrats and Republicans agree presidents should not pardon themselves. And if the nation's chief executive ever does so, majorities of Americans in both parties believe Congress should impeach that president.
Tom Embury-Dennis / The Independent:
Italy's deputy PM Salvini called for ‘mass cleansing, street by street, quarter by quarter’, newly resurfaced footage reveals — Minister's comments recirculate after leader of far-right League party announces ‘census’ of Roma community — POPULAR VIDEOS
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The Guardian
Sarah Rumpf / RedState:
WaPo Begins Krauthammer's Obituary By Blaming Him for the Iraq War — Charles Krauthammer was a Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist, best-selling novelist, and Fox News commentator, and that was in addition to an admirable medical career, graduating from Harvard Medical School after a 14 month break …
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Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, twitchy.com, Washington Post, Townhall and The Mahablog
Julie Turkewitz / New York Times:
In the Race for Governor, How Far Left Is Colorado Willing to Go? — DENVER — Jared Polis, a leading Democratic candidate for Colorado governor, walked into the home of a prominent marijuana entrepreneur for a campaign event recently, wearing a suit and bright blue sneakers.
Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix Fires PR Chief After Use of N-Word in Meeting (Exclusive) — The streaming giant is letting its top spokesperson go after six years in the role. — Netflix is letting go of its top communications spokesman. — Jonathan Friedland, who's served as the streaming giant's chief communications officer …
VICE News:
A Michigan Republican keeps falsely accusing his Democrat opponent of ties to the Muslim Brotherhood — DETROIT — A Republican candidate for Michigan governor isn't backing down from unfounded claims one of his Democratic opponents has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood …
CNN:
GOP nominee who railed against diversity also called Kwanzaa ‘phony,’ made anti-Muslim comments — (CNN)The Republican nominee for a US House seat in New Jersey has said diversity leads to Muslims killing Christians and that Kwanzaa is a fake holiday made by black racists to divide America.
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Raw Story
Laura McGann / Vox:
Study: male political reporters retweet other dudes 3 times more than their female colleagues — A new study reveals why female journalists are so much less influential on Twitter than men. — Anyone that follows Beltway Twitter knows it's a deeply insular and self-involved world dominated …
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Democratic Senate Candidate Arrested at Texas Detention Center While Trying to Deliver Toys and Food … Zak Ringelstein, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, was arrested Friday morning outside a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas. — Ringelstein, who is challenging …
Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
CREW FILES CRIMINAL, ETHICS COMPLAINTS AGAINST WILBUR ROSS — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Washington—Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross should be investigated for possible violations of the STOCK Act or other insider trading laws and false statements to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) …
The Marshall Project:
Inside Family Detention, Trump's Big Solution — The administration is no longer separating them. Now more parents and children will be held at places like this. … At first glance, it resembles a doctor's office, or perhaps a rec center. Security footage depicts sterile gray hallways leading …