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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Fox & Friends Correct Record After Diamond & Silk Mock Nancy Pelosi for Slurring Her Words: ‘Not a Real Video’ — Fox & Friends did the right thing Friday morning in swiftly correcting the record after Fox Nation hosts and frequent Fox News guests Diamond & Silk made remarkably disparaging remarks about Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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Rick Klein / ABC News:
The Note: Pelosi figures out Trump's game — This week started out by highlighting Democratic divisions, but it ends underscoring and reinforcing the party's unity. — Democrats can thank, again, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She redirected an emerging rebellion over impeachment …
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Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
WHOOPS: Giuliani Busted With Doctored Pelosi Video As He Tweets About Integrity — The former New York mayor shared a video that was altered to make the House speaker appear to be slurring her words. — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani shared a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi …
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Faked Pelosi videos, slowed to make her appear drunk, spread across social media — Distorted videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), altered to make her sound as if she's drunkenly slurring her words, are spreading rapidly across social media, highlighting how political disinformation …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump shares heavily edited video that highlights verbal stumbles by Pelosi and questions her mental acuity — President Trump shared a video on Twitter Thursday night that spliced together several verbal stumbles of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at a news conference earlier in the day …
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Facebook refuses to delete fake Pelosi video spread by Trump supporters — Footage of House speaker deliberately slowed down to make her appear drunk or ill — Facebook says it will continue to host a video of Nancy Pelosi that has been edited to give the impression that the Democratic House Speaker …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Watch This Very Carefully — As Kate Riga reported earlier …
Watch This Very Carefully — As Kate Riga reported earlier …
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Contemptor and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Jumps Into Impeachment Fray With Both Feet — WASHINGTON — The idea was to talk about relief for farmers hurt by tariffs, with a couple of them standing behind him in cowboy hats. But it did not take long on Thursday for President Trump to go off on “Crazy Nancy” and “Crying Chuck” …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Devotes Press Conference to Instructing Aides to Explain That He's Definitely Not Mad — He claims Nancy Pelosi has ‘lost it,’ while he remains an ‘extremely stable genius.’ — Accused of having a temper tantrum at a White House the day before, President Donald Trump did what anyone trying …
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Politico, Contemptor and AllNews 24/7
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Gets White House Witnesses to Attest to His ‘Very Calm’ Demeanor
Trump Gets White House Witnesses to Attest to His ‘Very Calm’ Demeanor
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JONATHAN TURLEY, Fox News, The Week and Washington Post
New York Times:
Nancy Pelosi Says Democrats Are ‘Not on a Path to Impeachment’
Nancy Pelosi Says Democrats Are ‘Not on a Path to Impeachment’
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NBC News, Talking Points Memo, The Guardian, Daily Wire, CNN, Politico, The Week, The Sun, Vox, Mediaite, Roll Call and Breitbart
USA Today:
Donald Trump, put on your billionaire britches and act like a president
Donald Trump, put on your billionaire britches and act like a president
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Hullabaloo, The Hill, ABC News and Daily Kos
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Democrats are getting sucked into Trump's chaos vortex
POLITICO Playbook: Democrats are getting sucked into Trump's chaos vortex
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Talking Points Memo, Daily Wire and Joe.My.God.
Nancy Cook / Politico:
A week of Trump-fueled dysfunction leaves Congress gasping
A week of Trump-fueled dysfunction leaves Congress gasping
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
‘He always brings them up’: Trump tries to steer border wall deal to North Dakota firm — President Trump has personally and repeatedly urged the head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to award a border wall contract to a North Dakota construction firm whose top executive is a GOP donor …
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Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
New Trump administration rule would weaken protections for transgender people in health care — HHS civil rights director says the change interprets sex according to the “plain meaning of the term” — The Department of Health and Human Services on Friday proposed a new rule …
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ThinkProgress, Out Magazine, The Intercept, Curbed and VICE
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New York Times:
Trump Gives Attorney General Sweeping Power in Review of 2016 Campaign Inquiry — President Trump took extraordinary steps on Thursday to give Attorney General William P. Barr sweeping new authorities to conduct a review into how the 2016 Trump campaign's ties to Russia were investigated …
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Trump gives Barr power to declassify intelligence related to Russia probe
Trump gives Barr power to declassify intelligence related to Russia probe
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Public Pool, Power Line, Conservative News Today, Shareblue Media, Shakesville, Raw Story, Bipartisan Report, Instapundit and The Week
BBC:
Theresa May to resign as prime minister — Theresa May has said she will quit as Conservative leader on 7 June, paving the way for a contest to decide a new prime minister. — In an emotional statement in Downing Street, Mrs May said she had “done my best” to honour the 2016 EU referendum result.
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Hollywood Life, Quartz, Joe.My.God., The Week, Political Wire and Mashable
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Politico:
Theresa May steps down in emotional Downing Street speech
Theresa May steps down in emotional Downing Street speech
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One America News Network, The Resurgent, Common Dreams and The Daily Beast
Heather Stewart / The Guardian:
Theresa May announces she will resign on 7 June
Theresa May announces she will resign on 7 June
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New York Times, Vanity Fair, Breitbart, Outside the Beltway and Balloon Juice
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Twitter Bans #Resistance-Famous Krassenstein Brothers for Allegedly Operating Fake Accounts — Ed and Brian Krassenstein are banned for life after ‘operating multiple fake accounts and purchasing account interactions,’ a Twitter spokesman said. — Twitter has permanently banned prominent …
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Out-of-Control Hannity Thumbs His Nose at Fox News Bosses — Despite reportedly being told to stop referring to dubious pundits as ‘investigative reporters,’ the primetime star has continued to do so. Does anyone at Fox control Hannity? — Sean Hannity is apparently above the law at Fox News.
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Michael McAuliff / New York Daily News:
Pro-choice activists push reluctant Jerry Nadler to reveal secret Justice Kavanaugh abortion opinions from Bush White House — WASHINGTON — With states passing harsh abortion restrictions aimed squarely at bringing a challenge in the Supreme Court, pro-choice activists are turning their attention …
Tom Coleman / Kansas City Star:
Former GOP Rep. Tom Coleman: Trump, Pence are illegitimate. Impeach them — According to the redacted Mueller report, candidate Donald Trump, along with members of his team, on multiple occasions welcomed Russian interference on his behalf during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Washington Times
Washington Post:
Fight over Trump's financial records accelerates, could land at Supreme Court as 2020 race peaks — A federal appeals court in Washington said Thursday that it will expedite its review of President Trump's request to block a congressional subpoena seeking financial records from the president's accounting firm.
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Brian Faler / Politico:
IRS could be forced to release Trump's taxes in the heat of 2020
IRS could be forced to release Trump's taxes in the heat of 2020
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Raw Story and Contemptor
New York Times:
Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues — WASHINGTON — Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks leader, has been indicted on 17 new counts of violating the Espionage Act for his role in publishing classified military and diplomatic documents in 2010 …
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Washington Post:
$19.1 billion disaster aid package stalls after single House Republican objects — House leaders had hoped to pass the disaster aid bill by unanimous consent, allowing them to move the measure despite most lawmakers having left Washington for the Memorial Day recess.
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Political Wire
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
'We're getting back on track': Dems ready Mueller strategy shift — Democrats admit it: They need to shift their post-Mueller strategy. — They've been so busy fighting technical battles over access to special counsel Robert Mueller's report that they've barely had time to speak directly …
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Fox News and American Greatness
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Doha Madani / NBC News:
Rep. Nadler: Robert Mueller wants to testify to Congress — but in private
Rep. Nadler: Robert Mueller wants to testify to Congress — but in private
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Issues & Insights, Washington Post, Breitbart, Fox News and The Week
Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
Did We Learn Anything From Michael Avenatti? — The enemies of your enemy are not always your friends. — “Some would argue at this point that I flew too close to the sun,” says Michael Avenatti as new indictments rain down on him. “As I sit here today, yes, absolutely, I know I did. No question.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Michael Avenatti once dominated cable news. Now he's watching it.
Michael Avenatti once dominated cable news. Now he's watching it.
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Mediaite, twitchy.com, The Daily Caller, RedState, Conservative News Today, Don Surber and Breitbart
Barton Swaim / Wall Street Journal:
Politics: A Closer Look at the American Fabric — The poor are hurt by the decline of civil society: churches, clubs, unions, marriage. — The book market is awash just now with what might be called post-Trump travel books. These are books in which the authors advance arguments …
Washington Post:
Planned Parenthood, other health clinics sue Alabama over near-total abortion ban — The law would criminalize abortion in almost all circumstances — Planned Parenthood and the Alabama Women's Center on Friday filed suit against the state of Alabama to block the most restrictive abortion law in the nation.
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Racial prejudice has declined as a reaction to Trump's presidency, a new study suggests — Donald Trump began his campaign for the presidency by branding Mexicans as “rapists.” He initially declined to denounce David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Althouse and The College Fix