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Jessica Kwong / Newsweek:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Had to Persuade President to Explicitly Denounce Anti-Semitism After Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting: Report — President Donald Trump's statement denouncing anti-Semitism after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on Saturday reportedly came at the behest …
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
What I learned as an American Jew after the Pittsburgh synagogue attack — On this day of all days it needs to be said: America has been a blessing for the Jewish people unlike any other blessing given any other people in the history of the world. — One crime — or 29 separate crimes …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's hate and lies are inciting extremists. Just ask the analyst who warned us.
Trump's hate and lies are inciting extremists. Just ask the analyst who warned us.
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Mother Jones, The Intercept, Shareblue Media, The Guardian and Daily Kos
Haaretz:
Pittsburgh Massacre: Netanyahu's Diplomats Add Insult to Injury by Defending Trump and Implicating the Left
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
President Trump, first lady to visit Pennsylvania on Tuesday to commemorate synagogue mass shooting victims
President Trump, first lady to visit Pennsylvania on Tuesday to commemorate synagogue mass shooting victims
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Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
‘There Is Still So Much Evil’: Growing Anti-Semitism Stuns American Jews
‘There Is Still So Much Evil’: Growing Anti-Semitism Stuns American Jews
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Taylor Marsh and The Guardian
Wall Street Journal:
Military to Deploy 5,000 Troops to Southern Border, U.S. Officials Say — The U.S. military is deploying 5,000 troops to the southern border, U.S. officials say, an increase from the initial estimate of 800.
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USA Today:
Where is the caravan? — On Monday, the migrants were still …
Where is the caravan? — On Monday, the migrants were still …
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Nolan Rappaport / The Hill:
Trump can refuse to accept asylum applications
Washington Post:
U.S. will deploy 5,200 additional troops to the Mexican border, officials say
U.S. will deploy 5,200 additional troops to the Mexican border, officials say
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Political Wire, Lawfare, The Week, Boing Boing and Bloomberg
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Sending 5,200 Troops to the Border in an Election-Season Response to Migrants
Trump Sending 5,200 Troops to the Border in an Election-Season Response to Migrants
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The Intercept
Margi Murphy / Telegraph:
Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate — Twitter is planning to remove the ability to “like” tweets in a radical move that aims to improve the quality of debate on the social network. — Founder Jack Dorsey last week admitted at a Twitter event …
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Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
Twitter Should Kill the Retweet — On Monday, Twitter was briefly ablaze after CEO Jack Dorsey reportedly suggested to The Telegraph that the company might eliminate its heart-shaped like button. The company quickly clarified, tweeting that as part of a “commitment to healthy conversation …
New York Times:
Trump Persuaded Struggling People to Invest in Scams, Lawsuit Says — A new lawsuit accuses President Trump, his company and three of his children of using the Trump name to entice vulnerable people to invest in sham business opportunities. — Filed in federal court in Manhattan on Monday …
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Associated Press:
Full text of Carter's letter to Georgia secretary of state — Former President Jimmy Carter, a Georgia resident, wrote on his official letterhead to his state's Republican nominee for governor, Brian Kemp, asking him to resign as Georgia secretary of state. The secretary of state oversees elections.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Enough platitudes: Let's name names — President Trump's defenders and even some of his tepid critics on the right seem determined to keep their moral blinders firmly affixed so as to narrow the discussion about the horrible incidents such as the mass murder at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Ron DeSantis Spread George Soros Fear Days After a Bomb Was Sent to Soros — Attacks against the Democratic financier just haven't stopped. — Just days after federal authorities discovered a bomb left on George Soros' property, Ron DeSantis, the Republican candidate for governor of Florida …
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Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
The Pittsburgh Shooting and the Dark, Specific Logic of Online Hatred — On Saturday, a few hours after eleven people were murdered at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, I put on a tuxedo and went to my cousin's wedding. The ceremony was brief and buoyant.
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Ivana Kottasová / CNN:
Gab, the social network used by the Pittsburgh suspect, has been taken offline
Gab, the social network used by the Pittsburgh suspect, has been taken offline
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Rita Katz / Politico:
Inside the Online Cesspool of Anti-Semitism That Housed Robert Bowers
Inside the Online Cesspool of Anti-Semitism That Housed Robert Bowers
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Raw Story
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Trump Fan Convicted In Anti-Muslim Terror Plot Asks Judge To Consider Trump's Rhetoric — Patrick Stein's attorneys also said he learned about the Quran “from the internet and conservative talk-show hosts such as Sean Hannity and Michael Savage.” — WASHINGTON Attorneys …
Patricio G. Balona / Daytona Beach News-Journal:
Republican Party headquarters vandalized by gunfire in Volusia — SOUTH DAYTONA — The windows of Volusia County's Republican Party headquarters were found shot out Monday morning and four bullet holes were discovered inside the offices. — Police were investigating shattered glass …
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Jack Crowe / National Review:
Shots Fired into GOP Campaign Office in Florida
Shots Fired into GOP Campaign Office in Florida
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Orlando Sentinel and The Daily Caller
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
9 hours of ‘Executive Time’: Trump's unstructured days define his presidency — President Donald Trump had about three times as much free time planned for last Tuesday as work time, according to his private schedule. The president was slated for more than nine hours of “Executive Time,” …
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Emma Platoff / The Texas Tribune:
Ted Cruz leads Beto O'Rourke 51 to 46, Quinnipiac poll finds — With just over a week until Election Day, incumbent Ted Cruz continues to lead his Democratic opponent Beto O'Rourke. — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, leads El Paso Democrat Beto O'Rourke by 5 percentage points, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University.
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Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed News:
First Came Trump, Then Came Beto: Ted Cruz And The Brutal Politics Of Likability
First Came Trump, Then Came Beto: Ted Cruz And The Brutal Politics Of Likability
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The Atlantic and Harper's
Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
Will Fort Worth's Tarrant County remain America's most conservative large county?
Will Fort Worth's Tarrant County remain America's most conservative large county?
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Off the Kuff
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Michael Moore releases footage of mail-bomber suspect Cesar Sayoc at Trump rally — Cesar Sayoc stood in the throng of shouting, teeth-gnashing Trump supporters and joined a chant directed at news cameras. — “CNN sucks! CNN sucks!” they screamed. “Tell the truth! Tell the truth!”
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PRRI:
Partisan Polarization Dominates Trump Era: Findings from the 2018 American Values Survey — Voting Priorities — When asked to pick the top two most important issues for their vote this election cycle, Americans are more likely to point to the cost of health care than any other issue.
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Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
Beto O'Rourke Once Supported an El Paso Real Estate Deal. Barrio Residents Remember. — EL PASO — At a special City Council meeting in 2006, a billionaire real estate investor unveiled his vision for redeveloping downtown El Paso. To replace tenements and boarded-up buildings …
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Politico, Washington Free Beacon, Daily Wire and CityLab
David Wolpe / Tablet Magazine:
The Misguided Rabbis of Twitter — My synagogue is on the west side of Los Angeles. On a rough guess, about half of my congregants support Donald Trump. Many of those who do, but certainly not all, are from the Persian community. We have had frank discussions.
Nate Nickolai / Variety:
James Cromwell: ‘There Will Be Blood in the Streets’ if Trump Isn't Stopped — Though James Cromwell was honored at the fourth annual Carney Awards for his work as a character actor, the industry veteran has worked as a political activist his entire career.
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New York Times:
Mail Bomb Suspect Had a List of 100 Potential Targets, Officials Say — MIAMI — Cesar Sayoc Jr., who was accused of sending more than a dozen pipe bombs to prominent critics of President Trump, had a list of roughly 100 possible targets that was discovered after his arrest, law enforcement officials said on Monday.
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BuzzFeed News:
This Cop Was Accused Of Putting An 11-Year-Old Girl In A Chokehold And Lying About It. He Kept His Job. — Confidential department documents show that then-NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton shut down disciplinary proceedings. The officer has also shared Facebook posts that denigrate black people and Muslims.
Stavros Agorakis / Vox:
A Financial Times editor calls for a Fox News advertiser boycott — Edward Luce said sponsors “bankroll the poison.” — The US editor of the Financial Times is calling for a boycott of companies that advertise on Fox in the wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting and the pipe bombs sent to leading Democrats.
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Bloomberg:
Trump to Skip House Races to Focus on Senate in Final Election Push — By By Alyza Sebenius and By Shannon Pettypiece — Plans 11 rallies in eight states in final campaign effort — Said worried about Senate races in Florida, Missouri, Arizona — President Donald Trump's final …
Alexandra Valencia / Reuters:
WikiLeaks' Assange says Ecuador seeking to end his asylum — QUITO (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Monday that Ecuador is seeking to end his asylum in its London embassy and hand him over to the United States, citing new rules governing his residence at the Andean nation's diplomatic mission as evidence.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
US Government-Run Network Pulls Segment Calling Soros ‘Multimillionaire Jew’ — Radio Televisión Martí, a network overseen by the U.S. government that broadcasts to Cuba, pulled a video segment it produced months ago that relied on material from the conservative group Judicial Watch …
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Tim Mak / NPR:
Devin Nunes' Re-Election Tests Whether All Politics Are Now National — In 2016, Rep. Devin Nunes coasted to re-election by a double-digit margin. Now the eight-term Republican is in for the tightest race of his political life — all thanks to his views on the Russia investigations.
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
‘Nothing to Gain,’ Kavanaugh Accuser Raises Nearly $1 Million — During the crucible of Brett Kavanaugh's Senate confirmation hearings, Democrats repeatedly asserted that Christine Blasey Ford had “nothing to gain” by coming forward with her explosive accusation of attempted rape against the Supreme Court nominee.
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YouTube:
We Can't Go Back … Things are getting better - we can't go back! Learn how to vote now at: https://vote.donaldjtrump.com/ — This dramatic, high-quality ad depicts the new optimism of a working mom and the very real way that the future of her family is at stake in this election.
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