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8:55 AM ET, July 2, 2019

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New York Times:
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.
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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 …
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.
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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 …
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’ …
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
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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.
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 …
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Scott Rasmussen:
POST-DEBATE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY POLL (JUNE 28-30, 2019)
Discussion: Power Line
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 …
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
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
The Fox News general who ‘spooked’ Trump out of attacking Iran
Discussion: 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 …
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
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Punit Renjen / Popular Information:
Children are suffering. These companies are profiting.
Discussion: Roll Call
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
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.
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.
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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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
 
 
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Trump says more deportations ahead after Independence Day
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Tal Kopan / San Francisco Chronicle:
New rules will give AG William Barr more say over immigration courts
New York Times:
To Evade Sanctions on Iran, Ships Vanish in Plain Sight
Billy House / Bloomberg:
A Reluctant Mueller Is Democrats' Best Shot to Revive Their Trump Investigations
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Record advertising wave heading for swing states in 2020
Washington Post:
Trump's hard line approach appears to soften in meetings with world leaders
Discussion: CNBC and Political Wire
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Booker outlines plan to ‘virtually eliminate immigrant detention’ through executive order
Discussion: USA Today
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Mercedes Schlapp Leaving White House Press Office to Join Trump Campaign
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Paul Gattis / al.com:
Roy Moore ‘likely failed’ polygraph test, Corfman says
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Matt Bors / Medium:
The Future of The Nib, Again
Discussion: The Daily Cartoonist
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump told the troops he gave them their first raise in years. He didn't.
Paul Egan / Detroit Free Press:
Harvard's appointment of former Gov. Rick Snyder sparks social media backlash
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
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Wall Street Journal:
A profile of incoming FCC Chair Brendan Carr, a telecom lawyer and longtime FCC official who believes tech and media companies have been unfair to conservatives

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