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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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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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CNN:
Sanders opens briefing with statement about being 86'd from the Red Hen
Sanders opens briefing with statement about being 86'd from the Red Hen
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Washington Free Beacon and Breitbart
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
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Trump slams Red Hen for being ‘filthy.’ Inspectors found no violations but Mar-a-Lago was cited 78 times in three years
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
As Activists Confront Trump Officials, Democrats Confront Democrats
As Activists Confront Trump Officials, Democrats Confront Democrats
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Fox News, IJR, Associated Press and The Last Refuge
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
The Civility Debate Has Reached Peak Stupidity
The Civility Debate Has Reached Peak Stupidity
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USA Today, Hullabaloo, Media Matters for America, Vox and Eater DC
Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed:
Trump Supporters Boo A CNN Reporter, Then Ask Him For Selfies — Live from civility night in South Carolina. — Reporting From — West Columbia, South Carolina — Hundreds of President Trump's supporters marched into a high school gymnasium Monday and began blistering their new perceived enemy …
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
In South Carolina rally, Trump targets Sanford, McCain and TV comedians — WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — President Trump flew here Monday night ostensibly to urge South Carolina Republicans to vote for Gov. Henry McMaster in the Republican primary Tuesday, repaying a political favor to one of his earliest supporters.
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Political Wire, Breitbart and ABC News
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The tax bill as a political football — ATTN. PRESIDENT TRUMP ... EVENING STANDARD (U.K.): “TfL Tube strike: Piccadilly Line drivers to strike across FOUR days including during Donald Trump's visit to U.K.”: “London Underground drivers are set to strike across four days …
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Deadline, Political Wire and Mediaite
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Trump Implores Voters to Back South Carolina Governor on Eve of Runoff — WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — President Trump pleaded Monday night with South Carolina Republicans to vote for Gov. Henry McMaster in a runoff election on Tuesday, warning conservatives that if the governor lost …
Tim Johnson / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump foes move toward public shaming even of low-level officials — WASHINGTON — The public shaming of high-level, widely known Trump administration officials has expanded to the divulging of personal information about rank-and-file government employees who are carrying out President Donald Trump's least popular policies.
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Los Angeles Times, American Greatness, twitchy.com and RedState
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David French / National Review:
Days of Rage — There is no limiting principle on leftist fury.
Days of Rage — There is no limiting principle on leftist fury.
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Village Voice, NPR, The American Conservative, alicublog, Daily Wire, IJR, The Federalist, Hot Air and Power Line
Scott Morefield / The Daily Caller:
GOP Lawmakers Introduce Censure Measure, Call On Maxine Waters To Resign
GOP Lawmakers Introduce Censure Measure, Call On Maxine Waters To Resign
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Conservative News Today and Louder With Crowder
Gabriella Muñoz / Washington Times:
Trump: ‘Be careful what you wish for Max!’
Trump: ‘Be careful what you wish for Max!’
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NBC News, Washington Examiner, RealClearPolitics, Washington Post and The Atlantic
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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Conservative News Today and The Daily Caller
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 Gateway Pundit and emptywheel
Bloomberg:
Mueller Poised to Zero In on Trump-Russia Collusion Allegations — Special counsel to focus once he resolves obstruction inquiry — The meetings with Russians stretched as far back as 2015 — Special Counsel Robert Mueller is preparing to accelerate his probe …
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Political Wire and BloombergQuint
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Lee Smith / RealClearInvestigations:
The Mysterious Seven Preludes of the FBI's Trump-Russia Probe
The Mysterious Seven Preludes of the FBI's Trump-Russia Probe
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The Atlantic
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.
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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CNN, New York Times, CBS Los Angeles, 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
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Sometimes it's the crime you didn't commit that nails you
New York Times:
Top Tech Companies Met With Intelligence Officials to Discuss Midterms — SAN FRANCISCO — Eight of the tech industry's most influential companies, in anticipation of a repeat of the Russian meddling that occurred during the 2016 presidential campaign, met with United States intelligence officials …
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Washington Post and Axios, more at Techmeme »
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 …
Nolan Finley / Detroit News:
Trump should forget second term — President Donald Trump was back on the campaign trail last week, doing what he most loves — tossing red meat to his base. — The president was full of himself and bravado, predicting to his Minnesota audience that he'll roar to re-election in 2020.
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.
Associated Press:
Latest: US official: Fort Bliss to house detained families — EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the separation of immigrant children from their parents (all times local): — A federal official says the U.S. Army post Fort Bliss in El Paso will house families detained after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.
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New York Times, The Crime Report, Politico, One America News Network, TheBlaze, Axios and National Review
Chad Pergram / Fox News:
Intern who cursed at Trump is identified, was suspended but not fired — The Congressional intern who hollered “Mr. President, f— you!” across the Capitol Rotunda last week during a presidential visit has been identified. — Sources tell Fox News the woman in question is 21-year-old Caitlin Marriott …
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HuffPost, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Times
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 …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's domestic gridlock — For President Trump's first term, the domestic agenda appears to be all but over. Congress has little chance of doing anything notable before the election, beyond confirming judges. — Why it matters: Whichever party ekes out a House win in November, the margin will likely be narrow.
Aura Bogado / Reveal:
Doctor giving migrant kids psychotropic drugs lost certification years ago — The psychiatrist who has been prescribing powerful psychotropic medications to immigrant children at a federally funded residential treatment center in Texas has practiced without board certification to treat children …
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Law & Crime
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 …
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
ABC News:
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Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:
Migrant kids could end up in already strained foster system — Foster care advocates say the government won't likely be able to reunite thousands of children separated from parents who crossed the border illegally, and some will end up in an American foster care system that is stacked against Latinos and other minorities.
Melissa Hipolit / WTVR-TV:
Goochland mom shoots man who flew around the world to see her teenage daughter … GOOCHLAND COUNTY, Va. — The FBI is now investigating after a woman shot a New Zealand man outside her Goochland County home Friday afternoon. — Troy Skinner, 25, flew to Virginia to meet the woman's teenage daughter …
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Daily Wire and Breitbart
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
WATCH: CNN's Chris Cuomo call BS on Rick Santorum demanding ‘civility’ while refusing to require it of Trump — President Donald Trump's supporters are demanding civility after years of attacking Muslims, Latinos, women, LGBT people, Democrats, people who live in states that didn't vote for him …
Politico:
Grimm's comeback and other big storylines in Tuesday's primaries — President Donald Trump backed incumbents over outsiders claiming his mantle, like ex-Rep. Michael Grimm and a South Carolina governor hopeful. — Two of Donald Trump's biggest cheerleaders are on the ballot in Tuesday night's marquee primary elections.
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ABC News and BloombergQuint
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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New York Daily News and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
UK democracy under threat and need for reform is urgent, says regulator — Electoral Commission asks government to change law after series of online political campaign scandals — The Electoral Commission has called for urgent reforms to electoral law after a series of online political campaign scandals …
New York Times:
The Law Did Not Create This Crisis, but Lawyers Will Help End It — Mr. Karp is chairman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Mr. Wingens is chairman and managing partner of Lowenstein Sandler. — President Trump's recent executive order ending the unlawful and immoral policy …
New York Times:
What My 6-Year-Old Son and I Endured in Family Detention — The author wrote on the condition of anonymity because of the gang-related threats she and her family face in the United States and in El Salvador. — I came to this country from El Salvador in 2014 seeking safety for myself and my son.