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A.C. Thompson / ProPublica:
Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.
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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
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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Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris Looked Like Winners At The First Debates: Poll
Scott Rasmussen:
POST-DEBATE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY POLL (JUNE 28-30, 2019)
Discussion: Power Line
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 …
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 …
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 …
Washington Post:
Trump asks for military tanks on the Mall as part of grandiose July Fourth event  —  National Park Service acting director P. Daniel Smith faces plenty of looming priorities this summer, from an $11 billion backlog in maintenance needs to natural disasters like the recent wildfire damage to Big Bend Park.
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Stephanie Grisham, Trump's New Press Secretary, Literally Pushes for Press Access  —  WASHINGTON — Stephanie Grisham, the new White House press secretary, returned from the Demilitarized Zone with a bruise on her arm after physically pushing North Korean officials to clear a way for American journalists …
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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
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Ivanka Trump Tests Her Diplomatic Chops and Riles a Legion of Critics
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.
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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 …
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
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 …
The New York Review of Books:
An Open Letter to the Director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum  —  Omer Bartov, Doris Bergen, Andrea Orzoff, Timothy Snyder, and Anika Walke, et al.  —  On June 17, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, posted an Instagram live video discussing the detention camps along …
Discussion: Splinter and CNN
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Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
More Than 140 Holocaust, Genocide Experts Think Ocasio-Cortez Should Be Allowed to Call Migrant …
Discussion: Common Dreams
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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Ruth Brown / Page Six:
Hunter Biden started dating brother's widow right after crack binge  —  Hunter Biden began dating his late brother's widow while recovering from a week spent buying crack from a homeless encampment in Los Angeles, according to a new report.  —  In a candid New Yorker interview …
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Adam Entous / New Yorker:
Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father's Campaign?
Gregg Re / Fox News:
White House: ‘Little doubt’ Iran was enriching uranium under Obama administration's watch  —  President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday that Iran is “playing with fire,” hours after the country effectively acknowledged that it was violating the terms of the 2015 multinational nuclear accord …
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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.
Paul Egan / Detroit Free Press:
Harvard's appointment of former Gov. Rick Snyder sparks social media backlash  —  LANSING — News that Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government has named former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder a senior research fellow has sparked a social media backlash.  —  Many have expressed outrage …
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 …
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 …
Paul Gattis / al.com:
Roy Moore ‘likely failed’ polygraph test, Corfman says  —  Roy Moore “likely failed” a December 2017 polygraph he took in an effort to clear his name from accusations made against him by women during the Senate race that year, according to a lawsuit filing Monday.
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Democrats In No Hurry To Get Trump's Tax Returns  —  We're six months into Democratic control of the House, and they still haven't sued over the president's secret tax returns.  —  WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump is the first president in 40 years not to disclose his personal income tax returns …
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 …
 
 
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Joshua Matz / Take Care Blog:
Thoughts on the Chief's Strategy in the Census Case
Discussion: Axios
New York Times:
Mercedes Schlapp Leaving White House Press Office to Join Trump Campaign
Chantal Da Silva / Newsweek:
Lawyers Who Visited Detained Migrant Children Say Border Officials Barred Them From Seeing …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Andy Campbell / HuffPost:
Far-Right Extremists Wanted Blood In Portland's Streets. Once Again, They Got It.
Discussion: RedState, The Daily Caller and Fox News
Jesse Paul / The Colorado Sun:
11,467 Colorado parolees can now vote after new law goes into effect
Discussion: Splinter
Michele Goodwin / New York Times:
Alabama Isn't the Only State That Punishes Pregnant Women
Matt Bors / Medium:
The Future of The Nib, Again
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump told the troops he gave them their first raise in years. He didn't.
 Earlier Items: 
VICE:
Marianne Williamson Knows You Think She's a Joke. But Her Campaign Isn't.
Discussion: Breitbart
Amy Chozick / Vogue:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
OpenSecrets.org:
Russia paid radio broadcaster $1.4 million to air Kremlin propaganda in DC
Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
King of Viral Outrage: How Ryan Saavedra Gamed Twitter and Poached Content to Rise in Conservative Media
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Journalism Job Cuts Haven't Been This Bad Since the Recession
Discussion: Politico
 

 
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Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
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