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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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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners — Last year, the white nationalist Richard Spencer was kicked out of his Virginia gym after another member confronted him and called him a Nazi. This incident did not generate a national round of hand-wringing about the death of tolerance …
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Hullabaloo, No More Mister Nice Blog, IJR, Washington Post and Washington Free Beacon
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 — Platforms both big and small have both the ability and responsibility to stop their sites from becoming a battleground in the information war. — Only a few hours after White House press secretary Sarah …
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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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Daily Kos, IJR, RedState and ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
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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USA Today, The Daily Beast, Motherboard, Mediaite and Mashable
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
Shame the Trumpers
Shame the Trumpers
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New York Times, FOX News Radio, Washington Post, New Jersey Online, Fox News Insider and Hot Air
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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The Gateway Pundit, Conservative News Today and IJR
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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Gabriella Muñoz / Washington Times:
Trump: ‘Be careful what you wish for Max!’
Trump: ‘Be careful what you wish for Max!’
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Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker calls on Waters to resign, introduces censure measure
GOP lawmaker calls on Waters to resign, introduces censure measure
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The Daily Caller
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, CNN, Raw Story and Atlanta Black Star
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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New York Times:
Border Officials Suspend Handing Over Migrant Families to Prosecutors
Border Officials Suspend Handing Over Migrant Families to Prosecutors
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Mother Jones, Associated Press, VICE News, TheBlaze, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos and al.com
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
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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.
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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CNN:
Stone's alleged Assange conduit expects to be subpoenaed
Stone's alleged Assange conduit expects to be subpoenaed
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Law & Crime and The Daily Beast
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
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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The Week, Daily Kos, Shareblue Media, Mediaite, Shakesville, MSNBC, Splinter, Vox, The American Conservative, Talking Points Memo, Outside the Beltway and Politico
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Elise Labott / CNN:
Exclusive: Pompeo says no timeline on North Korea negotiations
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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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
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
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 …
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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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.
Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Why women are dominating Democratic primaries — Anna Greenberg was Bill de Blasio's pollster in 2013 when the then-candidate for New York City mayor defeated former frontrunner Christine Quinn — a victory Greenberg says was a case of the liberal de Blasio's ideology trumping Quinn's gender.
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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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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
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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Justin Story / Daily News:
Sen. Paul files civil suit against Boucher — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Bowling Green has filed a lawsuit against the neighbor who admitted to assaulting him in front of his house. — In the civil complaint, filed Friday in Warren Circuit Court, the Republican senator seeks an unspecified amount …
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Political Wire
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 …
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.
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.
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
David Boroff / New York Daily News:
SEE IT: Trump supporter berates landscapers because they're ‘Mexican,’ calls them ‘rapists and animals’ — A 27-year-old California man and his mother were called “rapists” and “animals” by a Trump supporter while trying to do landscaping work — and video of the exchange has been viewed millions of times online.
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New York Times, Law & Crime and Raw Story
Wesley Yang / New York Times:
Harvard Is Wrong That Asians Have Terrible Personalities — There's a moving passage contained in a deposition taken in the major class-action lawsuit accusing Harvard University of racial bias against Asian-Americans. An attorney for Students for Fair Admissions, the nonprofit group representing …
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National Review
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
GOP candidate: Civil war wasn't about slavery — Republican Senate nominee Corey Stewart said that he doesn't believe that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery, arguing that it was mostly about states' rights. — In a Monday interview with Hill.TV's “Rising,” Stewart …
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Splinter
Jonathan H. Adler / Reason:
A Quick Due Process Lesson for the President — It is well-established that everyone within the United States, even those who may have entered illegally or over-stayed a visa, are entitled to Due Process. — Over the weekend, President Donald Trump expressed frustration with the legal process afforded …
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Conservative Review, New York Times, Splinter, Hot Air and JONATHAN TURLEY