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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Roach-Infested Restaurants Are Vile Compared to the Red Hen … President Donald Trump on Monday attacked a rural Virginia restaurant that refused to serve his press secretary over the weekend by criticizing its supposed lack of cleanliness. — “The Red Hen Restaurant should focus …
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Fox News, New York Times, Axios, Talking Points Memo, HuffPost, IJR, WTTG-TV, Refinery29, Boing Boing and Hot Air
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
The Civility Debate Has Reached Peak Stupidity — HEN: WHO WILL EAT THE BREAD? — NARRATOR: SHE ASKED OF THE PIG, THE DUCK, AND THE CAT. — PIG: I WILL! NARRATOR: SAID THE PIG. — DUCK: I WILL! NARRATOR: SAID THE DUCK. — CAT: I WILL! NARRATOR: SAID THE CAT.
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USA Today, Hullabaloo, Eater DC and Media Matters for America
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Yelp, The Red Hen, And How All Tech Platforms Are Now Pawns In The Culture War
Yelp, The Red Hen, And How All Tech Platforms Are Now Pawns In The Culture War
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Media Matters for America and Racked
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Sarah Sanders and the failure of “civility”
Sarah Sanders and the failure of “civility”
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New York Times, Daily Kos, CBS New York and ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
Shame the Trumpers
Shame the Trumpers
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FOX News Radio, New Jersey Online, Washington Post, Hot Air, USA Today and Philly.com
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump trash-talks restaurant that booted his press secretary
Trump trash-talks restaurant that booted his press secretary
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New York Times, The Day and The Daily Beast
Nikki Schwab / New York Post:
Antonio Sabato Jr. says he was ‘blacklisted’ like Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Antonio Sabato Jr. says he was ‘blacklisted’ like Sarah Huckabee Sanders
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Conservative News Today and IJR
Jessica Sidman / Washingtonian:
Read the Messages and Threats Sent to the Wrong Red Hen
Read the Messages and Threats Sent to the Wrong Red Hen
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Motherboard, Mediaite and Mashable
David French / National Review:
Days of Rage — There is no limiting principle on leftist fury. — American politics is taking a dangerous turn. Or, I should say, American politics is taking a dangerous turn again. In the space of a few days last week, leftist protesters individually targeted trump aide Stephen Miller …
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Hot Air, The American Conservative, Washington Post, The Federalist, IJR, Conservative News Today, Roll Call and Daily Wire
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Gabriella Muñoz / Washington Times:
Trump: ‘Be careful what you wish for Max!’ — President Trump slammed Rep. Maxine Waters on Monday afternoon, after her speech calling for supporters to heckle members of the Trump administration went viral over the weekend. — Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person …
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Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Atlantic, RealClearPolitics and Mediaite
Jamie Ehrlich / CNN:
Democratic congresswoman encourages supporters to harass Trump administration officials
Democratic congresswoman encourages supporters to harass Trump administration officials
Tim Johnson / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump foes move toward public shaming even of low-level officials
Trump foes move toward public shaming even of low-level officials
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VICE, twitchy.com and RedState
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Trump aides urged to get a gun
Trump aides urged to get a gun
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ThinkProgress, Axios, CNN and Fox News
Associated Press:
The Latest: US officials order send to sit-in at ICE office — PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Latest on the separation of immigrant children from their parents (all times local): — Federal officials Monday ordered protesters to end their round-the-clock occupation of property outside …
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Politico, National Review and Axios
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NBC News:
Mattis is out of the loop and Trump doesn't listen to him, say officials — On Iran, North Korea and other major issues, the defense secretary has been out of the loop. — NBC Exclusive: Trump relying less on Defense Secretary Mattis, officials say — WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary …
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Shareblue Media, The Week, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Shakesville, MSNBC, Vox, The American Conservative, Talking Points Memo, Outside the Beltway and Politico
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The Daily Beast:
Fox News Suspends Ex-Trump Aide David Bossie for ‘Cotton-Picking’ Remark … David Bossie, the former deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump and current outside adviser to the president, has been suspended from his contributor gig at Fox News, The Daily Beast has learned. — The suspension lasts two weeks.
John Solomon / The Hill:
How Comey intervened to kill WikiLeaks' immunity deal — One of the more devastating intelligence leaks in American history — the unmasking of the CIA's arsenal of cyber warfare weapons last year — has an untold prelude worthy of a spy novel. — Some of the characters are household names, thanks to the Russia scandal: James Comey
James Gordon Meek / ABC News:
Special counsel obtains Trump ally Erik Prince's phones, computer — Special Counsel Robert Mueller is digging deeper into Trump ally and Blackwater founder Erik Prince, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter. — Prince, America's most famous private military contractor …
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Conservative Review, ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Raw Story and Washington Times
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Suppression of Minority Voting Rights Is About to Get Way Worse — On Monday, five years to the day that the Supreme Court decided Shelby County v. Holder, a case in which the court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act with assurances that other parts of the act …
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SCOTUSblog, HuffPost, Associated Press, CNBC, Lawyers, Guns & Money and electionlawblog.org
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
The Supreme Court shows it is in no rush to decide controversial cases
The Supreme Court shows it is in no rush to decide controversial cases
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ABC News, Politico, The Daily Beast, Vox and Axios
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Neil Gorsuch Declares War on the Voting Rights Act
Neil Gorsuch Declares War on the Voting Rights Act
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Washington Post, New York Times and The Root
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
A Parlor Game at Rebekah Mercer's Has No Get Out of Jail Free Card — Members of the right-wing family that helped put Trump in the White House can relive the campaign in an elaborate dinner-party game. — Robert Mercer, the New York hedge-fund magnate whose huge donations to pro-Trump groups …
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Associated Press:
Harley, stung by tariffs, shifts some production overseas — MILWAUKEE (AP) — Harley-Davidson, up against spiraling costs from tariffs, will begin shifting the production of motorcycles headed for Europe from the U.S. to factories overseas. — The European Union on Friday began rolling …
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New York Times, Breitbart, The Hill, Raw Story, Hot Air, Hit & Run, The Resurgent and Daily Kos
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Washington Post:
Harley-Davidson moves work offshore to limit blow from Trump's trade war — Facing higher costs from tariffs, Harley-Davidson said it is shifting production of motorcycles sold to European customers from the United States to another site offshore. — The European Union imposed tariffs …
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New York Times, Shareblue Media and Mother Jones
New York Times:
Democrats Are Turning Out to Vote in the Most Competitive Primary Races — In more than 20 of the most competitive House races of 2018, the share of Democrats voting in primaries notably increased, compared with 2014, the last midterm election cycle. — Democrats have appeared …
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Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Impeach Trump? Even Democrats who despise the president can't agree on a strategy for the midterm election
Impeach Trump? Even Democrats who despise the president can't agree on a strategy for the midterm election
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New York Times:
Sean Spicer Is Testing Out a New Job: TV Talk Show Host — Ellen. Oprah. — ... Sean? — Sean Spicer, arguably the world's most famous White House press secretary, is developing a talk show with the tentative title of “Sean Spicer's Common Ground,” in which the former spokesman …
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Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Pam Bondi: Three Huge Guys Were Screaming at Me and Cursing Me One Inch from My Face - One Spit on My Head! (VIDEO) — Florida Attorney General spoke with FOX and Friends on Monday after after being verbally assaulted, threatened and bullied by raging leftists at a movie theater on Saturday night.
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Politico, Fox News Insider and The Federalist
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Hamilton Nolan / Splinter:
This Is Just the Beginning — Do you think that being asked to leave a restaurant, or having your meal interrupted, or being called by the public is bad? My fascism-enabling friends, this is only the beginning. — One thing that people who wield great power often fail to viscerally understand …
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neo-neocon
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
At a Toast to Trump, the North Korean Anthem Has a Starring Role — WASHINGTON — The North Korean national anthem got plenty of fanfare at the Virginia Women for Trump's birthday party for the president on Sunday. Corey Stewart, the Republican Senate candidate from Virginia, got the hook.
Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Republicans ask Rosenstein for names of everyone working on Mueller probe — A group of nine House Republican lawmakers has signed a letter asking Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to provide the names of everyone “past and present” who has worked on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
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The Gateway Pundit and Sean Hannity
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Echoing Trump, indicted Russians contest Mueller's legitimacy
Echoing Trump, indicted Russians contest Mueller's legitimacy
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The Gateway Pundit
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
It's time for the press to suspend normal relations with the Trump presidency — That is my recommendation. — It sometimes happens in diplomacy that one country has to say to another: “This is extreme. We cannot accept this. You have gone too far.” And so it suspends diplomatic relations.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Loyalty to Trump demands a lack of character — President Trump's mentor, the colorful controversialist Roy Cohn, once said: “I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.” — If this is Trump's strategy, those who jeered Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen …
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Talking Points Memo
Burgess Everett / Politico:
'We've crossed the Rubicon': Toomey takes on Trump — The conservative senator is challenging the president — and his own party — in a bid to rein in Trump's tariffs. — Bob Corker, Jeff Flake, Orrin Hatch — some of President Donald Trump's fiercest GOP critics on trade — are retiring from the Senate at the end of this year.
miamiherald:
A ‘tender age’ shelter for separated children exposes a ‘gut-wrenching’ reality in Miami — In this “tender age” shelter in South Miami-Dade, children as young as 4 can ask for a telephone when they miss their parents. — Two teenage mothers live here with their infants.
Matt Phillips / New York Times:
What's the Yield Curve? ‘A Powerful Signal of Recessions’ Has Wall Street's Attention — You can try and play down a trade war with China. You can brush off the impact of rising oil prices on corporate earnings. — But if you're in the business of making economic predictions …
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TheBlaze and Mother Jones
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
The Power of Nancy Pelosi — Can the Democrats' polarizing leader chart a path to victory in the 2018 midterm elections? — Nancy Pelosi sits in a black-leather booth at Americana, a burger bistro in downtown Des Moines, radiating optimism. “We're in a very good place,” she says of Democrats' odds in November.
Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
Can a viral video flip a Texas Congressional district? MJ Hegar aims to find out — In less than a week, Democrat MJ Hegar's widely praised campaign video has many political insiders wondering if her long-shot campaign against U.S. Rep. John Carter has a shot at success. … MORE IN THIS SERIES