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Daily Mail:
'He'll be the next mass shooter': Newsroom gunman who killed five had stalked ex-classmate, got her fired and forced her to move state then began vendetta against the newspaper that exposed him  — Five people are dead after a gunman opened fire Maryland's Capital Gazette newsroom on Thursday
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Wall Street Journal:
Newspaper Staff Warned Years Ago to Call 911 if They Saw Jarrod Ramos  —  Authorities charge suspect in Capital Gazette shooting with five counts of first-degree murder  —  Capital Gazette staff were shown a photo of Jarrod W. Ramos years ago, and warned that if they ever saw him to call 911, a former editor and publisher said.
Discussion: Politico
Jean Marbella / Baltimore Sun:
Capital Gazette shooting victim Rob Hiaasen: A joyful stylist, a generous mentor
Erin Cox / Baltimore Sun:
Capital Gazette shooting victim Gerald Fischman: Clever and quirky voice of a community newspaper
New York Times:
Inside the White House's Quiet Campaign to Create a Supreme Court Opening  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump singled him out for praise even while attacking other members of the Supreme Court.  The White House nominated people close to him to important judicial posts.
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Lili Loofbourow / Slate:
The America We Thought We Knew Is Gone
CNN:
Democrats badly underestimated Trump
Alexandra Glorioso / Politico:
Putnam and DeSantis vow to sign abortion-ban law if elected
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:   Behold the priest-kings of the future Supreme Court
David Pitt / Associated Press:
Iowa court blocks 72-hour waiting period for abortion
Discussion: Political Wire
Daily Mail:
Comedian John Melendez ‘hoax calls President Trump on Air Force One and chats with him about controversial family separation policy while pretending to be a New Jersey senator’  —  A voice sounding very much like that of President Donald Trump is heard in a phone call a comedian claims …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Prank caller patched through to Trump on Air Force One  —  The host of “The Stuttering John” podcast, John Melendez, got President Trump on the phone yesterday by pretending he was New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez.  “This is how easy it is to infiltrate the administration.”  Melendez said in the podcast episode.
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama: ‘You are right to be concerned’  —  In his first public comments in months, the former president talks about anger, regrets — and what the Republicans are doing right.  —  LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama's message to Democrats: Stop dreaming of him.  —  Speaking at a Democratic National …
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New York Times:
‘Shaken’ Rosenstein Felt Used by White House in Comey Firing  —  WASHINGTON — In the days after the F.B.I. director James B. Comey was fired last year, the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, repeatedly expressed anger about how the White House used him to rationalize the firing …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:   Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein, FBI Director Wray face angry House Republicans
The Babylon Bee:
Democratic Socialist Candidate's Primary Win Revoked After All Her Votes Forcibly Redistributed  —  NEW YORK, NY—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was elated when reports broke that she had won the Democratic primary for her district, defeating long-term incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley Tuesday.
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Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Why Young Democrats Are So Open to Socialism
Discussion: Washington Post
CNN:
Millennials are much more open to socialism
Discussion: NewsBusters and The Daily Beast
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
G.M. Says New Wave of Tariffs Could Force U.S. Job Cuts  —  General Motors warned Friday that tariffs being considered by the Trump administration could force the company to scale back its sizable domestic operation at the cost of American jobs.  —  In comments submitted to the Commerce Department …
Discussion: Political Wire
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump's private threat to upend global trade  —  President Trump has repeatedly told top White House officials he wants to withdraw the United States from the World Trade Organization, a move that would throw global trade into wild disarray, people involved in the talks tell Axios.
Reuters:
Manafort assistant gave FBI access to storage locker: testimony  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - A personal assistant to Paul Manafort granted an FBI agent access to a storage locker in Virginia, allowing the government to secure evidence that President Donald Trump's former campaign manager …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Associated Press may have led FBI to Manafort storage locker
Lam Thuy Vo / BuzzFeed:
They Played Dominoes Outside Their Apartment For Decades.  Then The White People Moved In And Police Started Showing Up.  —  “This used to be a bad neighborhood.”  Two areas of New York City that have recently gentrified have a corresponding high rate of quality-of-life complaints, which sometimes draw the police.
Washington Examiner:
Overturn Roe v. Wade  —  We write not to praise Anthony Kennedy's jurisprudence, but to bury it.  —  Across 31 years, Justice Kennedy issued many rulings, good and bad.  But his most lasting legacy was the travesty he released 26 years ago today, Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
12-year-old black kid gets cops called on him for cutting neighbors' grass  —  A 12-year-old black child had the police called on him simply for mowing the lawn as part of his summer business.  —  News 5 Cleveland reports that 12-year-old Reginald Fields was mowing the lawn of Lucille Holt …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Always-Wrong Economist Lawrence Kudlow Wrongly Says Deficit Is Falling  —  President Trump's chief economic adviser Lawrence Kudlow has made a career out of being extraordinarily wrong about everything without ever reconsidering his absolute devotion to the supply-side economics dogma that has produced all the wrongness.
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Hamilton Nolan / Splinter:
We Get Voicemails  —  This week I wrote something that got widely circulated among angry right-wing people on the internet, which caused my personal contact information to be published online, which allowed me to hear voicemails from many new friends.  Let's listen to a few.
Discussion: Raw Story
John Harwood / CNBC:
Trump's White House has been a money-making machine  —  Although Donald Trump handed over control of his businesses to his sons, the president still collects on their profits.  Here's how Trump's White House is a money-making machine.
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
The White House Is Becoming A Ghost Town.  Trump Loyalists Worry It's Going To Get Worse.  —  With high-profile departures and a dysfunctional hiring process, a former White House official jokes part of the building is a “barren wasteland” with rustling “tumbleweed.”  —  Reporting From Washington, DC
Discussion: Brookings
Paul Szoldra / Task & Purpose:
Trump's Pentagon Quietly Made A Change To The Stated Mission It's Had For Two Decades  —  For at least two decades, the Department of Defense has explicitly defined its mission on its website as providing “the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of our country.”
Discussion: Mother Jones
Dara Lind / Vox:
Exclusive: Trump administration plan would bar people who enter illegally from getting asylum  —  A sweeping regulation being considered by the Department of Justice would likely stop most Central Americans from winning asylum in the US.  —  The Department of Justice, under Attorney General Jeff Sessions …
Roque Planas / HuffPost:
Trump Hired A Cop To Run ICE.  It Didn't Work Out.  —  Thomas Homan was unlike anyone who ran Immigration and Customs Enforcement before him.  He retired Friday.  —  Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan retired Friday from government service after spending …
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“This Guy Is Up to Eyeballs in Shit“: Bill Shine, Roger Ailes's Former Enforcer, Has Been Hired to Shake Up the West Wing.  But Might Hope Hicks Be Chief of Staff?  —  Pushed out of Fox partly for helping to enable sexual harassment, Shine imbibed his boss's view that the press was the enemy—the perfect fit for Trump's West Wing.
Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite and Shareblue Media
 
 
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
Federal judge blocks Kentucky's Medicaid work requirements
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
FBI's Strzok ‘smug’ and ‘defiant’ in House interview, but regrets sending anti-Trump texts
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Dinesh D'Souza Compares Trump to Lincoln in New Movie Trailer
Rich Lowry / New York Post:
The left's increasingly unhinged portrayal of Trump as a dictator
Owen Jones / ABC News:
Young Yankees fan gets the thrill of his life during game of catch with outfielder Aaron Judge
 Earlier Items: 
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
‘I snookered them’: Illinois Nazi candidate creates GOP dumpster fire
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Christopher Sign / WBMA-TV:
Did security set up secret Clinton, Lynch tarmac meeting?
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Nicholas St. Fleur / New York Times:
He Died at Pompeii, but His Head Wasn't Crushed by a Block
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Michael Moore: We Have to ‘Put Our Bodies on the Line’ to Stop Trump
Discussion: Louder With Crowder and Breitbart
NBC News:
Trump admin ran ‘pilot program’ for separating migrant families in 2017
Matthew Acton / The Sun:
BLOWN TO SHREDS Kim Jong-un has top army officer blasted with 90 bullets for giving his troops …
 

 
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Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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