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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
For Fear of William Barr  —  The attorney general gets attacked because his probe endangers many powerful people.  —  The only thing uglier than an angry Washington is a fearful Washington.  And fear is what's driving this week's blitzkrieg of Attorney General William Barr.
Discussion: Power Line and twitchy.com
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CNN:
Nadler threatens to hold Barr in contempt if DOJ doesn't comply with new Democratic offer on Mueller report  —  Sarah Sanders: Nadler ‘incapable’ of asking Barr questions  —  Washington (CNN)House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler on Friday sent his latest offer Attorney General William Barr …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump, Wrecker of Reputations  —  On Attorney General William Barr's testimony and the coming constitutional crisis.  —  In the first year of the Trump Presidency, White House advisers often promised reporters that this would be the week when they would unveil Trump's plans for a massive investment in American infrastructure.
House Judiciary Dems / House Committee …:
House Judiciary Chairman Sends DOJ Detailed Counter Offer for Mueller Report Redactions and Underlying Evidence  —  Nadler Sets 9 a.m. Monday Deadline  —  Washington, D.C. — Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:   William Barr's 2 strangest defenses of Trump haven't gotten enough attention
Adam Schiff / USA Today:
William Barr lied to Congress about the Mueller report. He should resign
Discussion: Fox News and NBC News
CNN:
READ: New Democratic letter to Barr on Mueller report
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
In Barr, Trump has found someone who licks his boots out of principle
CNN:
Pressure grows for Mueller to speak
Discussion: Power Line and Mashable
Barbara Allen / Poynter:
Letter from the Editor  —  Dear readers:  —  On Tuesday, April 30, Poynter posted a list of 515 “unreliable” news websites, built from pre-existing databases compiled by journalists, fact-checkers and researchers around the country.  Our aim was to provide a useful tool for readers to gauge …
Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Why Wages Are Finally Rising, 10 Years After the Recession  —  For years it was the central question in an otherwise impressive recovery by the American job market: Why aren't wages rising faster?  —  Unemployment was low.  Hiring was strong.  Corporate executives were complaining …
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Associated Press:
U.S. jobless rate drops to 49-year low
Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
U.S. Added 263,000 Jobs in April; Unemployment Rate at 3.6%
Megan Henney / Fox Business:   US job growth surges in April, beating expectations with 263,000 added
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Inside Bernie Sanders's 1988 10-day ‘honeymoon’ in the Soviet Union  —  Bernie Sanders was bare-chested, towel-draped, sitting at a table lined with vodka bottles, as he sang “This Land Is Your Land” to his hosts in the Soviet Union in the spring of 1988.  —  The just-married socialist mayor …
Discussion: Shakesville, Althouse and Dispatches
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
‘Anyone Ever Seen Cocaine?’  What We Found in the Archives of Bernie Sanders's Long-Lost TV Show.  —  Dozens of children scurry on the screen across Ethan Allen Park in Burlington, Vermont, bobbing for apples and running three-legged races.  It is a beaming July day, and they're at a summer camp …
Discussion: The Week and Mediaite
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Watergate had the Nixon tapes.  Mueller had Annie Donaldson's notes.  —  The notes, scribbled rapidly on a legal pad, captured the fear inside the White House when President Trump raged over the Russia investigation and decreed he was firing the FBI director who led it: “Is this the beginning of the end?”
Discussion: Daily Kos and Raw Story
Media Matters for America:
Study: Major media outlets' Twitter accounts amplify false Trump claims on average 19 times a day  —  Major media outlets failed to rebut President Donald Trump's misinformation 65% of the time in their tweets about his false or misleading comments, according to a Media Matters review.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Alexandria Neason / Columbia Journalism Review:
On Twitter, news outlets amplify Trump's false statements: study  —  When a president speaks, what he says is, by journalistic norms, inherently newsworthy.  But when a president lies—on social media, at press conferences, and in speeches—news organizations have to reconsider old rules …
The Daily Beast:
Mark Halperin Enlists Pals Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Michael Smerconish to Rehab His Career After Sexual Misconduct Scandal  —  The disgraced pundit has re-emerged from #MeToo hiding and has met with media friends for new punditry work—including a scrapped gig with the hosts of MSNBC's ‘Morning Joe.’
Sasha Pezenik / ABC News:
Gov. Jay Inslee unveils sweeping initiative to combat climate change  —  The rising tide of 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls calling for environmental reform now includes Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington, a politician who has made climate change the crux of his campaign.
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Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
California Senate passes bill that would keep Trump off 2020 ballot unless he releases tax returns  —  The California state Senate on Thursday approved a bill to require candidates appearing on the presidential primary ballot — including President Trump — to release five years' worth of income tax returns.
Discussion: The Stranger
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The New York Times Company:
Sarah Kliff of Vox to Join Investigations  —  Sarah Kliff, a versatile journalist who has used a variety of media to explain complex health legislation, will be based in Washington.  Read more in this note from Rebecca Corbett, Dean Murphy and Carolyn Ryan.
Matthew Cole / The Intercept:
How Erik Prince Used the Rise of Trump to Make an Improbable Comeback  —  When Erik Prince arrived at the Four Seasons resort in the Seychelles in January 2017 for his now-famous meetings with a Russian banker and UAE ruler Mohammed bin Zayed, he was in the middle of an unexpected comeback.
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
The 2019 governor's race that has Trump's team sweating  —  Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin is a presidential phone-buddy and White House regular who's become one of President Donald Trump's loudest surrogates.  —  He's also one of the most unpopular governors in the country, facing a treacherous reelection in November.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
The Coming Subpoena Fights Between Trump and Congress, Explained  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr defied on Thursday a deadline imposed by a congressional subpoena to provide lawmakers with the full-text Mueller report.  —  President Trump, meanwhile, has vowed to resist …
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
William Barr's Justice Department Just Filed the Most Nakedly Political Brief in the Agency's History
Associated Press:
Cohen's prison reality: ‘The Situation’ and Shabbat services  —  NEW YORK (AP) — “The Situation” and the Fyre Festival fraudster are already there.  President Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, is up next.  —  It's not reality TV.  It's a federal prison 70 miles …
Discussion: Mediaite
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
The Economy and the Election  —  For as long as I've covered politics, the conventional wisdom has been that presidents win re-election in good economic times and they lose when the economy stinks.  Ronald Reagan won re-election when the economy was booming.  Jimmy Carter lost when we sunk into economic “malaise.”
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Trump and Putin Discuss Venezuela, Mueller Report  —  The two leaders spoke for more than an hour, according to the White House  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump spoke with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for more than an hour on Friday morning and discussed the special counsel's report …
Angie Martoccio / Rolling Stone:
John Lewis Looks Ahead  —  The civil rights icon on Selma, impeachment and the art of making “good trouble”  —  Congressman John Lewis' Washington, D.C., office is filled from floor to ceiling with photographs and souvenirs from a lifetime of activism: the Freedom Rides he risked his life …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jessica Kwong / Newsweek:
Kellyanne Conway Broke the Law Attacking Joe Biden in White House Driveway and Should Be Fired: Bush Ethics Chief  —  A chief ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush accused Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway of breaking federal law yet again for bashing former Vice President …
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Press
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
Otto Warmbier's mother calls diplomacy with North Korea a ‘charade’  —  Cindy Warmbier, the mother of American Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old American student who died shortly after being brought back to the U.S. after being held for 18 months in North Korea, made an emotional appeal on Friday …
 
 
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Fedor Indutny / BostonGlobe.com:
Remarkably unremarkable: Pete Buttigieg rises in the polls as the first major openly gay candidate for president
Bloomberg:
Kudlow Says Moore Pulled Out of Fed the Day Before Saying 'I'm All In'
Discussion: Splinter
Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Dying Is No Reason to Stop Fighting
Matt Dixon / Politico:
Biden wins endorsement of Florida Democrats in early show of force
Discussion: Florida Politics
Reveal:
CFPB moves to limit home loan data
Christopher Jacobs / The Federalist:
The CBO Report On Single Payer Isn't The One We Deserve To See
Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats ask NRA execs, PR firm for documents related to alleged self-dealing
Discussion: The Trace
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Joseph Simonson / Washington Examiner:
Biden brags about his time in ‘the hood’
Discussion: Breitbart and twitchy.com
CNN:
Allegations remain in forefront for Kavanaugh, 7 months after his confirmation
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
The White House wants Maduro gone. But it may be helping him stay in power.
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
She's Asian and female. But she's not me.
Andy Borowitz / New Yorker:
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