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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Overheard at the DSCC retreat on Martha's Vineyard  —  SEN. MARK WARNER (D-Va.) hosted a dinner Friday night for more than 100 guests at his house on Martha's Vineyard as part of the DSCC'S annual Majority Trust retreat.  OVERHEARD: Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee …
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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.
Discussion: Politico
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Trump Appeals to Republicans in Las Vegas, Leaving Behind Washington's Legislative Chaos
Washington Post:
Let the Trump team eat in peace  —  OVER THE WEEKEND there was a fair bit of argument over the decision by a small restaurant in Lexington, Va., not to serve dinner to President Trump's press secretary.  It wasn't the first time recently that strong political feelings have spilled into what used to be considered the private sphere.
Washington Post:
Trump advocates depriving undocumented immigrants of due-process rights  —  President Trump on Sunday explicitly advocated depriving undocumented immigrants of their due-process rights, arguing that people who cross the border into the United States illegally must immediately be deported without trial …
Discussion: The Week
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Doina Chiacu / Reuters:   Trump calls for deporting illegal immigrants with ‘no judges or court cases’
CBS News:
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.
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CBS News:   CBS News Battleground Tracker: Sharp divides over immigration, separation
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  Repealed?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.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Allan Richarz / The Hill:   The strategic blunder of ‘Trump-as-Hitler’
Mitt Romney / Salt Lake Tribune:
Where I stand on the Trump agenda  —  I appreciate the argument made by those who believe we should stay silent, but I cannot subscribe to it.  —  One of the questions I am asked frequently on the campaign trail is whether as Senator I will support the Trump agenda.
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.
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Axios:
What we're watching: How Trump's Democrat-blaming plays with the GOP  —  As pressure builds for Congress to pass legislation that would keep migrant families together at the border, President Trump continues to tweet, blaming Democrats for lawmakers' failure to act and forcing fellow Republicans to contend with his statements.
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Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:   Mixed Signals in the Battle for Congress
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 …
New York Times:
New Emails Suggest Scott Pruitt Discussed Hiring a Friend of Lobbyist Landlord  —  Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, discussed hiring a friend of a lobbyist family that owned a condominium he was renting for $50 a night, newly released emails suggest.
Discussion: CNN and Political Wire
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
The big picture: 2018's stormiest clouds for the GOP  —  A source close to Republican leadership emails about the biggest political clouds hovering over the rest of the year:  —  “Only thing that matters now is a) how bad they get crushed on ACA premium increases; b) the final Mueller verdict; and c) how crazy Trump gets with the CR.”
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Paul Demko / Politico:   Reversal of fortune: Obamacare rate hikes pose headache for Republicans
Business Insider:
America's closest allies are furious about Trump's tariffs, and now an unorthodox idea to go after him is gaining steam  —  President Donald Trump's headlong push toward a trade war is prompting unprecedented responses from countries around the world and blowback from top US allies.
Earl Blumenauer:
It's time we abolish ICE  —  We've all experienced a phone app that's not working properly, or a computer program that freezes the machine.  What do you do?  Lesson number one: shut it down.  —  It works for computers.  Maybe that's what we need to do with Immigration and Custom Enforcement …
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.
Molly McKew / Los Angeles Times:
The whole world sees it: Trump is doing lasting damage to the global order that made the U.S. a superpower  —  A little more than a week ago, as President Trump completed his world mini-tour, my Ukrainian researcher emailed me.  She witnessed some of the violence of Ukraine's latest revolution …
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 …
Discussion: American Greatness
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
This Obama-era pilot program kept asylum-seeking migrant families together.  Trump canceled it.  —  ICE said the Family Case Management Program, which cost the government $36 a day, was too expensive compared to other monitoring methods.  —  In the wake of the 2014 migrant crisis that saw …
Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
Maxine Waters orders MORE public harassment of Trump aides: ‘God is on OUR side!’  —  Maxine Waters wants more people to harass Trump administration officials in public spaces.  —  The California Congresswoman went on a shouting rampage during a toy drive outside the Wilshire Federal Building on Saturday.
Discussion: Daily Wire
Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
Stormy Daniels to meet with prosecutors in Michael Cohen investigation  —  Stormy Daniels is scheduled Monday to be interviewed by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, preparing for a potential grand jury appearance about a $130,000 payment from President Trump's attorney Michael Cohen …
 
 
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Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Kamala Harris Says Congress Needs To Change ICE, Perhaps ‘Start From Scratch’
Washington Post:
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Ivanka and Vodka, on the Rocks
Discussion: Raw Story
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Thomas Lifson / American Thinker:
Facing humiliation, Mueller backs away from prosecution of Russian entities
Discussion: Power Line
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
U.S. officials separated him from his child. Then he was deported to El Salvador.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
Thermostats, Locks and Lights: Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse
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Dan Spinelli / Mother Jones:
She Spoke out About Climate Change—and They Tried to Make Her Pay for It
Julia Jacobo / ABC News:
‘Not knowing anything about my daughter is torture’: Immigrants separated from children …
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
Trump's China crackdown enjoys wide support. Here's why that could be a problem for him.
Discussion: Raw Story
Francis Whittaker / NBC News:
The end of memes? Campaigners dismayed at European internet ruling
John Verhovek / ABC News:
Intra-party squabbles color Tuesday's slate of primaries
Discussion: Politico
Tampa Bay Times:
Pam Bondi confronted by protesters outside Mister Rogers movie