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9:00 AM ET, July 2, 2019

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Trump Says Tanks Will Be on Display in Washington for July 4 — WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Monday that the Pentagon would put military tanks on display on Thursday in Washington as part of his plans to turn the annual Fourth of July celebration in the nation's capital into a salute to the country's military prowess.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Associated Press, Roll Call, ABC News, CNN, The Gateway Pundit, Politico, Hullabaloo, Mediaite, New York Post, ThinkProgress, Boing Boing, Washington Press, Fortune, Rolling Stone and Washington Times

Washington Post:

Trump's Fourth of July plans just keep getting worse — THIS PAGE in recent weeks has been graced with letters from readers recounting their memories of gathering on the Mall and watching the fireworks on the Fourth of July. Claire O'Dwyer Randall remembered her father driving her family …

Discussion: Splinter and Shareblue Media

HuffPost:

RNC Giving Out Tickets To Trump's Hijacked Fourth Of July Celebration — What had been a nonpolitical, nonpartisan celebration on the National Mall will now likely be a multimillion-dollar, taxpayer-financed political rally, critics worry. — WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump …

Discussion: Vanity Fair, Fox News, PJ Media Home, Task & Purpose, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos and DCist

Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:

Vets To Give Out Thousands Of USS John McCain Shirts At Trump's July 4 Event — “It's really a way to honor a family that ... has shown that the country is bigger than any one individual,” said Peter Kauffmann of VoteVets. — WASHINGTON ― Irked by President Donald Trump's plan to hold …

Reuters:
Trump plans tanks and flyovers at Fourth of July celebration in Washington

Discussion: Associated Press and Axios

Emily Cochrane / New York Times:

‘It Feels Like a Jail’: Lawmakers Criticize Migrant Holding Sites on Border — CLINT, Tex. — Women held in rooms without running water, sleeping bags set up on concrete and children left apart from their families: That was what Democratic lawmakers said they heard about on Monday as they toured two Texas border facilities.

Discussion: CBS News, cbp.gov, The Resurgent, New York Daily News and Fox News

Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:

AOC screamed at Border Patrol agents in ‘threatening manner’ during tour: Witnesses — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., screamed at federal law enforcement agents “in a threatening manner” during a visit to a Border Patrol facility in El Paso, Texas, and refused to tour the facility …

Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed News:
Immigrant Women Held In Border Patrol Custody Say They Were Told To Drink Water From Toilets

Discussion: RedState, The Gateway Pundit, The Intercept and Townhall

Karoli Kuns / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Reps Say Border Patrol Ordered Migrants To Drink Out Of Toilets

Discussion: ABC News, Daily Kos and Breitbart

Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
More Than 140 Holocaust, Genocide Experts Think Ocasio-Cortez Should Be Allowed to Call Migrant …

Discussion: Front Page Magazine, Splinter, The New York Review of Books, Common Dreams and CNN

Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Democrats decry ‘inhumane conditions’ at migrant detention camps

Discussion: NPR, 6abc and ABC News

Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
Holocaust survivor says Ocasio-Cortez should be ‘removed’ …

Discussion: Politico, Washington Free Beacon and Liberty Unyielding

Wall Street Journal:

Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes — Sneaker maker pulls Independence Day-themed shoe after NFL star raised concerns about its symbolism — Nike Inc. is yanking a U.S.A.-themed sneaker featuring an early American flag after former NFL star-turned …

The Daily Beast:

Ivanka's North Korea Photobombs Perplex White House Officials — Multiple officials in Washington were caught off guard by the news that Ivanka Trump had found her way into a conversation about nuclear weapons between her father and Kim Jong Un. — When Donald Trump and his advisors crossed …

Discussion: The National Interest

Edward Wong / New York Times:

Trump Officials Are Split Over Approach to North Korea Talks — WASHINGTON — As President Trump reveled in his historic weekend stroll into North Korea, administration officials were sharply at odds on Monday over what demands to make of Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, while preparing to restart negotiations on a nuclear deal.

Discussion: The Atlantic, New Republic, Politico, Associated Press, Just Security, Daily Kos, Political Wire and Washington Post

Annie Karni / New York Times:
Stephanie Grisham, Trump's New Press Secretary, Literally Pushes for Press Access

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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Welcome Humiliation of John Bolton

Discussion: Washington Post, BuzzFeed News and Vox

CNN:

CNN Poll: Harris and Warren rise and Biden slides after first Democratic debates — Harris confronts Biden over busing, school desegregation — WASHINGTON (CNN)Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren have made steep gains after the first Democratic presidential debate …

Discussion: Scott Rasmussen, USA Today, Bloomberg, Outside the Beltway, FiveThirtyEight, Washington Post, Breitbart, Power Line, Mediaite, Refinery29, The Daily Caller, POLITICUSUSA, KTLA, Washington Monthly, New York Post, HuffPost, Political Wire and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Harris allies see sexism and desperation in Biden camp backlash

Discussion: Splinter, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller and Front Page Magazine

New York Times:

Trump and R.N.C. Raised $105 Million in 2nd Quarter, Outdoing Obama — WASHINGTON — President Trump's re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee on Tuesday said they had raised $105 million in the second quarter of this year, dwarfing what President Barack Obama raised …

Discussion: Bloomberg, Axios, Political Wire, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and Towleroad Gay News

YouTube:

Exclusive Interview: Trump sits down with Tucker Carlson in Japan … President Donald Trump discusses trade negotiations with China, tensions in the Middle East on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ — FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio …

Discussion: Axios

Eliana Johnson / Politico:
The Fox News general who ‘spooked’ Trump out of attacking Iran

Discussion: Mediaite

Nick Givas / Fox News:
Exclusive: Trump shares plans to combat homelessness and mental illness in interview with Tucker Carlson

Discussion: The Guardian, The Daily Beast and Mediaite

Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:

Center for American Progress Puts ThinkProgress Up for Sale — News site launched during the Bush years is running millions of dollars short. Its parent think tank says it will consider the editorial leanings of prospective owners. — ThinkProgress, the flagship news site of the Democratic …

Discussion: Townhall, Fox News, CNN, RedState, Washington Free Beacon, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

Chantal Da Silva / Newsweek:

Lawyers Who Visited Detained Migrant Children Say Border Officials Barred Them From Seeing the Sickest Kids, Who Were Held Separately — A group of lawyers that shone a light on “appalling” conditions at U.S. detention centers where migrant children were being held say border officials barred …

Discussion: Daily Kos

Punit Renjen / Popular Information:
Children are suffering. These companies are profiting.

Discussion: Roll Call

Ken Dilanian / NBC News:

New study shows Russian propaganda may really have helped Trump — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his allies have long insisted that Russian's 2016 propaganda campaign on social media had no impact on the presidential election. — A new statistical analysis says it may well have.

Discussion: Axios, Power Line, twitchy.com, Washington Post, Hullabaloo, Reason, firstmonday.org and Boing Boing

Megan Brenan / Gallup:

American Pride Hits New Low; Few Proud of Political System — WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Americans prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday, their pride in the U.S. has hit its lowest point since Gallup's first measurement in 2001. While 70% of U.S. adults overall say they are proud to be Americans …

Discussion: Axios

Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:

‘We all suffer’: why San Francisco techies hate the city they transformed — San Franciscans have long complained that tech workers ruined their city, driving up rents and homelessness and eliminating diversity. Now even the tech workers agree — Cities is supported by — About this content

Discussion: CityLab

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:

Trump looking ‘very strongly’ at delaying census — President Trump said Monday he's looking “very strongly” at delaying the 2020 census if the administration is not allowed to add a citizenship question, an unprecedented move that would surely trigger new legal challenges.

Joshua Matz / Take Care Blog:
Thoughts on the Chief's Strategy in the Census Case

Discussion: Axios

Michelle Kosinski / CNN:

Exclusive: Democrats investigating whistleblower claims Pompeo's security picked up Chinese food and his dog — Washington (CNN)Democrats on a key House congressional committee are investigating allegations from a whistleblower within the State Department about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo …

Discussion: Political Flare, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Washington Press and Splinter

Andy Campbell / HuffPost:

Far-Right Extremists Wanted Blood In Portland's Streets. Once Again, They Got It. — It's not a surprise a conservative writer was bloodied in a street brawl in Portland ― far-right extremists have been freely hosting skirmishes there for years. — A conservative writer was injured …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, RedState, The Daily Caller and VICE

Daniel Lippman / Politico:

Spies fear a consulting firm helped hobble U.S. intelligence — America's vast spying apparatus was built around a Cold War world of dead drops and double agents. Today, that world has fractured and migrated online, with hackers and rogue terrorist cells, leaving intelligence operatives scrambling to keep up.

Human Rights Watch:

US: Asylum Seekers Returned to Uncertainty, Danger in Mexico — Little Safety, Shelter, Due Process While Awaiting Immigration Hearings — (El Paso, TX) - The United States government should cease returning asylum seekers to wait in Mexico during their US immigration court proceedings …

Alex Thompson / Politico:

Hickenlooper finance director flees to Beto — The national finance director for John Hickenlooper's presidential campaign is departing and joining rival Beto O'Rourke's effort, O'Rourke's campaign told POLITICO on Monday. — The aide, Dan Sorenson, is leaving the former two-term Colorado governor …

Discussion: Political Wire, UPI, New Yorker, FOX31 Denver and Denver Post

Todd Bensman / CIS.org:

The Next Influx: The Entire World's Poor and Dispossessed — Tens of Thousands of “Exotics” and “Extra-Continentals” from around the Globe Moving Through Panama — Like the proverbial “bulge in the belly of the snake,” unusually high numbers of non-Latino migrants, obviously not from Central America …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and illegal immigration …

Patrick Redford / Deadspin:

Another Dead Cyclist In The City — Around 9:30 a.m. on June 24 in Manhattan, cyclist Robyn Hightman rounded the corner from 23rd Street onto Sixth Avenue, where they were struck by a large white delivery truck and thrown off their bike into the middle of the street.