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Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
Trump Says It's Not Free Speech to ‘Write Bad’ About ‘Something Good’: That's ‘Dangerous Speech’  —  President Donald Trump had a lot to say at the White House Social Media Summit on Thursday, including offering his take on what does and does not constitute free speech.
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Trump Praises Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorists at White House: ‘The Crap You Think of Is Unbelievable’  —  The social media summit at the White House featured a who's who of the right wing fringe, but the president was the one who made it a truly bizarre affair.
Discussion: Politico, Breitbart and The Week
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Sebastian Gorka at the center of Rose Garden ruckus following Trump event  —  WASHINGTON — It was an unusual spectacle, even by the unconventional standards of the Trump administration.  After President Trump invited a group of right-wing and fringe media figures to the White House for a …
Discussion: VICE
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Social Media Summit Mortifies White House, Enrages Far-Right Allies
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:   ‘Like a rocket’: Trump revels in his love-hate relationship with Twitter
Mark Murray / NBC News:
NBC/WSJ poll: Biden, Warren top 2020 Democratic field  —  Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders round out the top four candidates in the first NBC/WSJ post-debate poll.  —  WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., lead the Democratic presidential field …
Discussion: Bloomberg
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden holds commanding lead among South Carolina Democrats  —  South Carolina Democratic primary voters, more than half of whom are expected to be African American, say former Vice President Joe Biden is the best candidate to handle racial issues.
Discussion: Political Wire and Politico
CBS News:   Biden answer's Trump's “America first” with his own foreign policy plan
David Montgomery / Washington Post:
AOC's Chief of Change  —  Saikat Chakrabarti isn't just running her office.  He's guiding a movement.  —  On a Wednesday morning in late May, emissaries of two of the strongest political voices on climate change convened at a coffee shop a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Democratic lawmaker unloads on Ocasio-Cortez, chief of staff for ‘using the race card’  —  Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) unloaded on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday for “using the race card” after Ocasio-Cortez accused Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of being racially insensitive.
Sam Dorman / Fox News:
House Dem blasts ‘juvenile’ Ocasio-Cortez, chief of staff: ‘Ignorance is beyond belief’
Discussion: Townhall and Daily Wire
Miami Herald:
New victims come forward as Epstein asks to be released from jail to his Manhattan mansion  —  At least a dozen new victims have come forward to claim they were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein even as the multimillionaire money manager tries to convince a federal judge to allow him to await …
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The Daily Beast:
Acosta's Epstein Excuses Are Nonsensical and Self-Serving
Discussion: Breitbart
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump announces end of fight to add citizenship question to census  —  President Donald Trump announced Thursday he is backing down from his effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census, and will instead take executive action that instructs the Commerce Department to obtain …
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Trump Has Backed Down On Adding A Citizenship Question To The 2020 Census  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Thursday that his administration will drop efforts to put a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, a dramatic concession just a week after insisting they were …
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Trump retreats on adding citizenship question to 2020 Census
John T. Bennett / Roll Call:   Trump drops census effort, announces new plan to ‘count’ noncitizens
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Trump expected to announce executive action on adding citizenship question to census
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Fox News Host Tyrus Sent Lewd Text Messages To Colleague: ‘Pull Your Boobs Out’  —  Fox News split up Tyrus and his former Fox Nation co-host, Britt McHenry, after he sent her the messages.  But he still works at the network.  —  Tyrus, a Fox News contributor and a host on the network's digital channel …
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
New book details how Republican leaders learned to stop worrying and love Trump  —  Few people have more power in President Trump's White House than Madeleine Westerhout, his executive assistant who controls access to the Oval Office, delivers the president's marker-scribbled messages …
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Grace Panetta / Business Insider:
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan said he wanted to ‘scold’ …
Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg:
Attorney General Barr Won't Oversee Probe of Boeing's 737 Max  — Department cites his ex-firm's representation of planemaker  — Boeing is the second recusal Barr has announced this week  —  Attorney General William Barr has recused himself from overseeing the Justice Department's investigation …
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
House to vote next week on criminal contempt against Barr and Ross
Discussion: Washington Post, Axios and POLITICUSUSA
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Alabama senator says Trump opposed to Sessions Senate bid  —  President Trump is not on board with a potential Senate bid by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, according to Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.).  —  Shelby told The Hill on Thursday that he has discussed a potential Sessions candidacy …
Cassandra Sweetman / KFOR-TV:
Logan Co. man allegedly driving stolen vehicle filled with uranium, a rattlesnake, and Kentucky Deluxe  —  GUTHRIE, Okla. - Two people were arrested after a traffic stop of a stolen car revealed the two had a rattlesnake, radioactive uranium, and an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe.
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren takes on Trump with immigration overhaul  —  Elizabeth Warren on Thursday unveiled her plan to reform the nation's immigration system amid a deepening crisis over detention at the southern border and a fraught debate across the country and within the Democratic Party on the way forward.
Discussion: New York Times
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Melanie Zanona / Politico:
‘A real barn-burner’: Potential Senate showdown looms in Wyoming  —  Former Rep. Cynthia Lummis announced a bid for Senate in Wyoming Thursday, becoming the first Republican to jump into the race and setting up a potential clash with her successor in the House, Rep. Liz Cheney.
Discussion: Political Wire
Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
Weinstein's Legal Team Falls Apart Again: 'He's Impossible to Work With'  —  Lawyer Jose Baez, who once represented Casey Anthony, was granted permission to withdraw from the disgraced movie mogul's sexual-assault case.  —  Harvey Weinstein's legal “dream team” for his much-anticipated …
Discussion: The Week and CityNews Toronto
John Solomon / The Hill:
Democrats' opposition research got exposed — this time, not by the Russians  —  When the Russians hacked the Democratic National Committee in summer 2016, one of the crown jewels obtained by Vladimir Putin's team was the party's opposition research files on then-GOP candidate Donald Trump.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
‘You are asking my client to lie’: Flynn lawyers fought with prosecutor  —  During a tense exchange last month, Michael Flynn's new legal team accused a federal prosecutor of trying to coerce the former Trump national security adviser to lie under oath, new court documents revealed on Thursday.
Mack Lamoureux / VICE:
People Tell Us How QAnon Destroyed Their Relationships  —  We spoke to people who told us how the QAnon conspiracy theory ruined their marriage, turned their parents into completely different people, and otherwise made their lives miserable.  —  One of the most disheartening signs …
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Republican campaign committee darkened Colin Kaepernick's skin for a fundraising ad  —  WASHINGTON—Former NFL star Colin Kaepernick did not look like himself in a fundraising email that was sent by the National Republican Congressional Committee on Wednesday.
 
 
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Kevin Collier / CNN:
As Feds struggle, states create their own anti-election propaganda programs
Jack Crowe / National Review:
Pelosi Advises Illegal Immigrants on How to Avoid ICE
Washington Post:
Pelosi says she is seeking to finalize deal to raise debt ceiling and resolve budget impasse before August recess
Discussion: Political Wire
Loïc Tregoures / ECFR:
Kosovo, the global far right, and the threat to liberalism
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Joe Biden's Senate records could answer questions about his past actions — but they're being kept secret
 Earlier Items: 
Dan Hassler-Forest / Washington Post:
‘The Lion King’ is a fascistic story. No remake can change that.
Discussion: NB Blog
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
TV Ignores Conservative Authors of No. 1 Book In The Country, While Putting Liberal Author …
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
U.S. allies hold breakfast for departing British ambassador — and ‘the message is clear’
Discussion: Power Line, 1A and The Week
Jason Zinoman / New York Times:
Dave Chappelle on Broadway: The Joke Is Getting Old
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks
 
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