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Haaretz:
Pittsburgh Massacre: Netanyahu's Diplomats Add Insult to Injury by Defending Trump and Implicating the Left — Ambassador Dermer and Consul General Dayan mimic the president's false equivalence, which enrages U.S. Jews — Israeli government representatives, from Benjamin Netanyahu on down …
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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.
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Making Pittsburgh shooting about Trump diminishes problem of anti-Semitism
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
What I learned as an American Jew after the Pittsburgh synagogue attack
What I learned as an American Jew after the Pittsburgh synagogue attack
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New York Times and Taylor Marsh
Jessica Kwong / Newsweek:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Had to Persuade President to Explicitly Denounce Anti-Semitism …
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Had to Persuade President to Explicitly Denounce Anti-Semitism …
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Fox News, Washington Post, CBS Los Angeles and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump and aides struggle to balance midterm attacks with empathy after synagogue massacre
Trump and aides struggle to balance midterm attacks with empathy after synagogue massacre
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Political Wire, The Guardian, KRTV-TV, Media Matters for America and Breitbart
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
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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Newsweek:
Migrant Caravan: U.S. Military Will Have Up to 14,000 Troops, Many Armed, Ready to Intervene at Mexico Border — The U.S. military will have an actual force of up to 14,000 ready to intervene at the southern border with Mexico, including an additional 7,000 planned deployment in reserves on round-the-clock standby.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
How Trump-Fed Conspiracies About Migrant Caravan Intersect With Deadly Hatred — MURPHYSBORO, Ill. — Alicia Hooten thinks the country has plenty of problems. “So many; so many,” she said warily, before settling on the one at the top of her mind with the midterm election just a week away.
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Breitbart, Mediaite and Hullabaloo
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Sending 5,200 Troops to the Border in an Election-Season Response to Migrants
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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New York Times and Althouse
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The untrackable horror of Fox Business and Fox News
The untrackable horror of Fox Business and Fox News
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Washingtonian, USA Today and CNN, more at Mediagazer »
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Ron DeSantis Spread George Soros Fear Days After a Bomb Was Sent to Soros
Ron DeSantis Spread George Soros Fear Days After a Bomb Was Sent to Soros
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Washington Post, Sun-Sentinel, ABC News, Shareblue Media, Politico, The Hill, Florida Politics, Daily Kos, Raw Story, Reuters and Salon
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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Politico, POLITICUSUSA, CNBC, The Guardian, Raw Story, Axios and Political Wire
WBRC-TV:
Father shoots, kills masked man who opened fire at Birmingham McDonald's — BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) - Police have confirmed that one person is dead and two people injured after a shooting late Saturday night. — The shooting took place at the McDonald's across from Princeton Hospital.
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Daniel Marans / HuffPost Canada:
Texas Congressman Won't Say Why He Labeled Opponent ‘Indo-American Carpetbagger’ — Republican Pete Olson also led supporters in a chant of “CNN sucks” at a recent event. — Rep. Pete Olson, a Texas Republican in a tough re-election battle, would not explain to a constituent why he recently called …
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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Vox, NBC News, Daily Kos, CNN, The Nation, NPR, Weekly Standard, Boing Boing, Washington Post, IJR, Axios and The Week
Jennifer Weaver / KUTV-TV:
EXCLUSIVE POLL: 4th Congressional District race between Love, McAdams widens by 6 points — (KUTV) — An exclusive poll by KUTV 2News and Dixie Strategies with voters in Utah's 4th Congressional District reports a 6 point lead for Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams over Republican incumbent Rep. Mia Love.
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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HuffPost and ImmigrationProf Blog
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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Muslim Groups Raise Thousands for Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Victims — Two Muslim organizations have raised more than $130,000 to help victims and their families following the shooting massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday. — The online fund-raiser was part …
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency, The Daily Beast and HuffPost
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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 …
Washington Post:
GOP scrambles to save suddenly vulnerable House candidates in Trump districts — Republicans are scrambling to save suddenly vulnerable candidates in congressional districts that President Trump won in 2016, as Democrats have charged deeper into conservative strongholds in their bid to win the House.
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Political Wire
Chesley B. / Washington Post:
We saved 155 lives on the Hudson. Now let's vote for leaders who'll protect us all. — Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, is a safety expert, author and speaker on leadership and culture. — Nearly 10 years ago, I led 154 people to safety as the captain of US Airways Flight 1549 …
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Raw Story
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
U.S.-Funded Broadcaster to Suspend Employees Behind ‘Multimillionaire Jew’ Soros Report — The taxpayer-funded U.S. Agency for Global Media is auditing content at its Cuba broadcasting office after seemingly anti-Semitic report surfaced. — The federal government's state-funded broadcasting arm …
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Washington Post, USAGM, Talking Points Memo and emptywheel
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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DC Tribune, Daily Kos, New Republic, The Atlantic, Hot Air, Hullabaloo, Spectator USA, The Week, Raw Story, Jezebel, POLITICUSUSA, VICE News US, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
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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Breitbart, IndieWire and twitchy.com
Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
'Trump's deporting your illegal cousins today!' man shouts at mother who was on her way to vote — The man's racist rant against a Houston mother was recorded and uploaded to Facebook. — A man was caught on video last week spewing hateful rhetoric and obscenities at a Houston mother who said she was on her way to vote.
Nolan Rappaport / The Hill:
Trump can refuse to accept asylum applications — Many people mistakenly believe that asylum seekers have a right to apply for asylum in the United States. — The first paragraph in the Immigration and Nationality Act's (INA) asylum provisions provides that aliens physically present in the United States “may” apply for asylum.
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Breitbart
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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Daily Wire, CityLab, Washington Free Beacon and Politico
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.
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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Associated Press, IJR and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »
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.
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Raw Story
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 …