memeorandum: After confronting a diner in a MAGA hat, customer gets tossed from Hill Country Barbecue (Tim Carman/Washington Post)

6:20 PM ET, July 6, 2019

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:

Susan Collins, a Fixture in Maine, Has Twin Troubles: Trump and Kavanaugh — EASTPORT, Me. — Senator Susan Collins jogged her way through the Fourth of July parade in this picturesque little port city, handing out American flag stickers to cheers and shouts of “Thank you!”

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Hill, Washington Times, The Daily Caller and IJR

Paul Kane / Washington Post: In the Trump era, Sen. Susan Collins's declaration as a New England moderate is challenged

CNN:

Elizabeth Warren's first law review article blasted an anti-busing court ruling — Harris confronts Biden over busing, school desegregation — Washington (CNN)The most dramatic showdown during the first Democratic debate was between Sen. Kamala Harris and former Vice President Joe Biden …

New York Times:

Hungry, Scared and Sick: Inside the Migrant Detention Center in Clint, Tex. — An out-of-the-way border station in the desert outside of El Paso has become the epicenter of outrage over the Trump administration's policies on the southwest border. — CLINT, Tex. — Since the Border Patrol opened …

Washington Post:
CBP officials knew about derogatory Facebook group years ago and have investigated posts from it before

Discussion: Mother Jones, Splinter, CNN, Vox, NewNowNext and Reuters

Hayley Peterson / Business Insider:

Arizona governor slammed for a photo showing him wearing Nike shoes 2 days after yanking incentives for a new Nike plant over ‘Betsy Ross flag’ sneakers — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is facing criticism for a photograph showing him wearing Nike shoes on Thursday.

Discussion: Conservative News Today, The Unz Review, IJR, Fox News, Contemptor and Splinter

Emily Crane / Associated Press: Nike stocks surge 2% following controversial decision to recall ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ …

Michael Hobbes / HuffPost:

Progressive Boomers Are Making It Impossible For Cities To Fix The Housing Crisis — Residents of wealthy neighborhoods are taking extreme measures to block much-needed housing and transportation projects. — SEATTLE — In May 2018, a public meeting in a wealthy enclave of one of America's …

Mirror.co.uk:

Moment white supremacist is engulfed in flames after pouring petrol on synagogue — Tristan Morgan splashed fuel through a window at Exeter Synagogue but took the full blast of the explosion in his face — Terrorist firebomber blasted by flames during arson attack on synagogue

Elena Schneider / Politico:

Buttigieg campaign multiplies in size after huge cash haul — Before the first Democratic presidential debates kicked off last week, close to 100 Pete Buttigieg supporters and donors sheltered from the Miami heat in a Hilton hotel conference room, where Buttigieg's senior staff briefed …

Discussion: Axios, One America News Network and Washington Post

Sara Burnett / Associated Press:
Pete Buttigieg has money, but can he turn it into 2020 win?

Discussion: KTLA

Mark Hemingway / New York Post:

Joe Biden keeps making things worse for himself — In an especially combative interview Friday with CNN's Chris Cuomo, Joe Biden was hoping to rebound from his dismal debate performance. Instead, he kept making it worse. — Most notably, the former vice president stumbled trying to explain …

Discussion: Power Line and CNN

Kira Davis / RedState: Joe Biden: If Trump Wins 2020 NATO Will Cease to Exist in 4-5 Years

Tim Carman / Washington Post:

After confronting a diner in a MAGA hat, customer gets tossed from Hill Country Barbecue — A public relations contractor who previously worked for the Democratic National Committee said that he was kicked out of Hill Country Barbecue Market after he confronted a diner wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat on the Fourth of July.

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Patterico's Pontifications, Althouse and twitchy.com

Jonathan Turley / The Hill:

France has turned into one of the worldwide threats to free speech — Just over one year ago, French President Emmanuel Macron came to the United States to import two potentially invasive species to Washington. One was a tree and the other was a crackdown on free speech.

Dom Calicchio / Fox News:

Starbucks shop boots police officers because customer ‘did not feel safe’ around them: reports — Some police officers in Tempe, Ariz., say they were asked to leave a Starbucks coffee shop on the Fourth of July because a customer complained they “did not feel safe” with the cops present, according to reports.

Discussion: KASW-TV, Breitbart, RedState, Washington Times, KSAZ, The Daily Caller and twitchy.com

Ted Mann / Wall Street Journal:

Amtrak Has Lost Money for Decades. A Former Airline CEO Thinks He Can Fix It. — Onetime Delta boss Richard Anderson has nearly eliminated the railroad's operating losses, but some train fanatics are fuming about the changes. Among his challenges: congressmen whose rural states and districts are traversed by long-haul trains.

Jon Levine / New York Post:

Biden condemns violent Antifa assault on conservative journalist Andy Ngo — Former Vice President Joe Biden spoke out against the violent assault on journalist Andy Ngo. — The Democratic presidential candidate “believes violence directed at anyone because of their political opinions is never acceptable …

David Von Drehle / Washington Post:

Mad magazine's demise is part of the ending of a world — The demise of Mad magazine is hardly a surprise. Times are tricky for print publications in general — all the more so for a title targeted with exquisite precision at middle-school boys. They are Nature's neglected travelers …

New York Daily News:

Melinda Katz's lead over Tiffany Cabán shrinks to 16 votes in nail-biting Queens DA primary amid continued accusations of disenfranchisement — Tiffany Cabán's campaign accused city election officials of “disenfranchising” voters Friday after getting another six ballots counted …

New York Times:

'I Don't Run It': Trump Responds to Reports of Undocumented Workers at His Properties — After months of silence, President Trump responded on Friday to reports that the Trump Organization has employed dozens of undocumented immigrants by saying that he doesn't know whether the organization does or not.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, CBS News, New York Daily News and Mother Jones