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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the lost art of shunning — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders — whose lies are piling up at a furious rate and whose defense of the child-separation policy prompted a reporter to exclaim, “Come on, Sarah, you're a parent” — was reportedly asked …
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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Why a small-town restaurant owner asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave — and would do it again
Why a small-town restaurant owner asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave — and would do it again
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Red Hen owner reveals she allowed employees to vote on booting Huckabee Sanders out of restaurant — and Sarah lost
Red Hen owner reveals she allowed employees to vote on booting Huckabee Sanders out of restaurant — and Sarah lost
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Washington Post, Daily Wire and Mother Jones
Tamar Auber / Mediaite:
Red Hen Owner Who Booted Sarah Sanders Speaks Out: Would ‘Absolutely’ Do it Again
Red Hen Owner Who Booted Sarah Sanders Speaks Out: Would ‘Absolutely’ Do it Again
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Conservative News Today, CNN and Power Line
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Condemned Trump in Reno. He Answered in Las Vegas With a Slur. — HENDERSON, Nev. — The clash began Saturday morning with a populist denunciation of President Trump's policies, delivered in Reno, Nev., by a Democratic senator who is one of his most ferocious critics.
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Trump Appeals to Republicans in Las Vegas, Leaving Behind Washington's Legislative Chaos
Trump Appeals to Republicans in Las Vegas, Leaving Behind Washington's Legislative Chaos
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Talking Points Memo
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
In Nevada, Trump goes after ‘Wacky Jacky’
In Nevada, Trump goes after ‘Wacky Jacky’
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The Week, Fox News, Nevada - FOX5 Vegas and HuffPost
CBS News:
CBS News Battleground Tracker: Sharp divides over immigration, separation — The issue of family separation reveals deep divisions over not just immigration as an issue, but over views of immigrants, themselves - and over what their treatment signals about America.
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CBS News Battleground Tracker: Arizona, Florida, Texas - immigration and key Senate races — The latest CBS News Battleground Tracker dives into how the issue of immigration and the separation of families at the border is playing in the key states of Arizona, Texas and Florida.
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Trump Leaves His Mark on a Presidential Keepsake — Under President Trump, once stately medallions have gotten glitzier, and at least one featured a Trump property. Ethics watchdogs are worried. — WASHINGTON — Since Bill Clinton occupied the White House, the commemorative medallions known …
Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
Poop. Needles. Rats. Homeless camp pushes SF neighborhood to the edge — One awful experience on one unremarkable city block represent the hellscape that has infuriated many San Francisco residents — The Chronicle receives a deluge of email every day, but one message sent …
Ilan Ben Zion / Associated Press:
Kushner rips Abbas, says Mideast peace plan due ‘soon’ — JERUSALEM (AP) — President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser said in an interview published Sunday that the administration will soon present its Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, with or without input from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
This Was the Week That Finally Broke Trump's Spell … Donald Trump can't define or pronounce the word Manichaean, but he knows it when he sees it. For Trump, there are two types of people; Donald Trump, and losers, and the one thing Donald Trump can't abide is a loser.
Paul Demko / Politico:
Reversal of fortune: Obamacare rate hikes pose headache for Republicans — Unlike recent campaign cycles, when Republicans capitalized on Obamacare sticker shock, they're now likely to be the ones feeling the wrath of voters. — Obamacare premiums are once again poised to spike by double digits in 2019 …
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Political Wire
Department of Homeland Security:
Fact Sheet: Zero-Tolerance Prosecution and Family Reunification — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Health and Human Services (HHS) have a process established to ensure that family members know the location of their children and have regular communication after separation to ensure …
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Axios, The Guardian, Daily Caller News Foundation and Washington Post
Dan Spinelli / Mother Jones:
She Spoke out About Climate Change—and They Tried to Make Her Pay for It — Oceanographer Sarah Myhre believes “science has never been apolitical.” — In 2015, a University of California, Davis researcher named Sarah Moffit appeared in a four-and-a-half-minute video detailing her work studying ancient ocean ecosystems.
Tampa Bay Times:
Pam Bondi confronted by protesters outside Mister Rogers movie — When asked whether Mister Rogers would have approached the situation the same way the activists did, one of the protesters said, “I'm not Mister Rogers.” — A group of protesters accosted Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi outside …
Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
Republicans prepare bill allowing migrant children to be detained more than 20 days — Republican lawmakers are preparing to vote on a more narrow immigration bill that would allow immigrant children to stay in detention facilities with their parents for more than 20 days, senior White House and Hill officials tell ABC News.
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POLITICUSUSA and Washington Monthly
Mike Godwin / Los Angeles Times:
Do we need to update Godwin's Law about the probability of comparison to Nazis? — Does Godwin's Law need to be updated? Suspended? Repealed? I get asked this question from time to time because I'm the guy who came up with it more than a quarter century ago.
CNN:
DHS employees warned about safety amid backlash over family separations — Tapper fact-checks DHS on family separations — Washington (CNN)Amid the furor over the policy that resulted in thousands of families separated at the border, Department of Homeland Security employees have been warned …
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ABC News, Politico, TheBlaze and The Gateway Pundit
Francis Whittaker / NBC News:
The end of memes? Campaigners dismayed at European internet ruling — Article 13 of a new E.U. law would place responsibility for enforcing copyright onto platforms rather than individuals, with potentially big implications for internet culture. — LONDON — A means to an end, or an end to memes?
Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
Thermostats, Locks and Lights: Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse — SAN FRANCISCO — The people who called into the help hotlines and domestic violence shelters said they felt as if they were going crazy. — One woman had turned on her air-conditioner, but said it then switched off without her touching it.
miamiherald:
Babies separated from parents are in immigrant shelters near Miami, lawmaker says — At least 10 babies and toddlers taken away from their parents after crossing the the U.S.-Mexico border are being housed in “tender-age shelters” in Miami-Dade, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz told the Miami Herald on Saturday.
Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:
White Woman Threatened To Call Cops On 8-Year-Old Girl Selling Water — Alison Ettel told HuffPost she was only “pretending” to call the police. — An apparent competition over who can threaten to call the police on people of color for no good reason is really ramping up.
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Thomas Lifson / American Thinker:
Facing humiliation, Mueller backs away from prosecution of Russian entities — The Mueller special counsel investigation purportedly was instigated to discover possible illicit Russian influence on the 2016 presidential election but now is backing away from the only indictments aimed at Russian entities …
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Power Line, The American Spectator and emptywheel