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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.  —  President Trump and Republicans are lashing out at the notion that they bear primary responsibility for the climate of rage and hate that has consumed our politics, now that a man has allegedly gunned …
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
President Trump, first lady to visit Pennsylvania on Tuesday to commemorate synagogue mass shooting victims
Discussion: Breitbart
Rita Katz / Politico:
Inside the Online Cesspool of Anti-Semitism That Housed Robert Bowers
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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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Washington Post:
U.S. will deploy 5,200 additional troops to the Mexican border, officials say  —  BREAKING: The U.S. will deploy 5,200 additional troops to the Mexican border, officials say, more than tripling the military presence there.  This story will update.  —  The Trump administration is preparing …
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Sending 5,200 Troops to the Border in an Election-Season Response to Migrants
Discussion: The Intercept
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P.R. Lockhart / Vox:
Former President Jimmy Carter calls for Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp to resign
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 …
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.
Discussion: New York Times and Althouse
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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 …
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,” …
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
Bend the Arc:
Letter to President Trump from Pittsburgh Jewish Leaders  —  We are the Pittsburgh affiliate of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice.  —  President Trump:  —  Yesterday, a gunman slaughtered 11 Americans during Shabbat morning services.  We mourn with the victims' families and pray for the wounded.
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Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
‘He is not welcome here’: Thousands support Pittsburgh Jewish leaders calling on Trump to ‘denounce white nationalism’
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
Media Tout ‘Jewish Leaders’ In Pittsburgh Telling Trump He's Not Welcome. …
Discussion: Townhall and IJR
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
Discussion: Harper's
Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
Will Fort Worth's Tarrant County remain America's most conservative large county?
Discussion: 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!”
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Political Wire
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Inside a Trump rally: Stelter's view from the press pen
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
YouTube:
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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.
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.
Associated Press:
Iranian official says president's cellphone was tapped  —  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian officials say President Hassan Rouhani's mobile phone was tapped, without providing details on who was behind it or what information they might have gleaned.  —  The semi-official ISNA news agency …
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.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
However the Midterms Go, the Republican Party Is Going to Get More Extreme  —  Politics since Donald Trump's election has felt like a static state of misery, as the president's approval ratings have been surprisingly stable and the only apparent variable has been each party's chances of gaining or consolidating power in the midterms.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Althouse
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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