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Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept:
Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost Was a Member of Secret Facebook Group — When news broke that thousands of current and former Border Patrol agents were members of a secret Facebook group filled with racist, vulgar, and sexist content, Carla Provost, chief of the agency, was quick to respond.
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VICE, The Outline and GovExec.com
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This framed photo of Tomi Lahren hangs in US Border Patrol headquarters — A large, framed photo of far-right commentator Tomi Lahren posing with US Border Patrol officials hangs prominently on the wall of the agency's headquarters in Washington, DC. A person with access to the area described …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“Congratulations Again, Mr. President”: Trump and the Co-opting of the G.O.P. — He is a Twitter cry baby, but it's more calculated than it looks. — Donald Trump hates criticism but loves to criticize. As President, he's done more of it than perhaps any of his predecessors.
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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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Slate, No More Mister Nice Blog and Patterico's Pontifications, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Trump Praises Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorists at White House: ‘The Crap You Think of Is Unbelievable’
Trump Praises Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorists at White House: ‘The Crap You Think of Is Unbelievable’
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Breitbart, Politico, Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
President Trump Says Only Trump Supporters Deserve Free Speech
President Trump Says Only Trump Supporters Deserve Free Speech
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Hullabaloo
Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
Uncle Trump Wants You! (To Join His Troll Army)
Uncle Trump Wants You! (To Join His Troll Army)
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The Daily Beast, The Week, Mother Jones and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
‘Like a rocket’: Trump revels in his love-hate relationship with Twitter
‘Like a rocket’: Trump revels in his love-hate relationship with Twitter
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New York Post and Balloon Juice
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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CNN, CNBC, FOX31 Denver, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Week, New York Post, Slate, CBC News, Crooks and Liars and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
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Michelle Celarier / New York Magazine:
Real Hedge-Fund Managers Have Some Thoughts on What Epstein Was Actually Doing — Long before Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to prostitution charges in Florida more than a decade ago, his fellow Palm Beach resident and hedge-fund manager Douglas Kass was intrigued by the local gossip about his neighbor.
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New York Times, Slate, Instapundit and ThinkProgress
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's cave on Census stuns allies — Top figures in the conservative legal community are stunned and depressed by President Trump's cave in his fight for a citizenship question on the 2020 Census. — The state of play: Sources say Leonard Leo and other Federalist Society stalwarts …
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Washington Post, The White House, The Week, Political Wire, The Last Refuge, Associated Press, New York Times and NBC News
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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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Fox News, National Review, The Federalist, Politico, Breitbart, Daily Wire, Mother Jones, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, Washington Free Beacon and Instapundit
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
CBC lawmakers rip Justice Democrats for targeting black lawmakers for primaries
CBC lawmakers rip Justice Democrats for targeting black lawmakers for primaries
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Hot Air, The Daily Caller and Eschaton
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Democratic lawmaker unloads on Ocasio-Cortez, chief of staff for ‘using the race card’
Democratic lawmaker unloads on Ocasio-Cortez, chief of staff for ‘using the race card’
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Overhyped Feud Between Nancy Pelosi and AOC
The Overhyped Feud Between Nancy Pelosi and AOC
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CNN, New York Post and Washington Post
NBC New York:
R. Kelly Arrested on Federal Sex Trafficking Charges: Law Enforcement Officials — The 52-year-old was arrested by NYPD detectives and Homeland Security Investigators on sex trafficking charges — Singer R. Kelly has been arrested in Chicago on federal sex crime charges, according two law enforcement sources.
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CNBC, The Daily Caller, Fox News, Chicago Sun-Times, Rolling Stone, Consequence of Sound and The Root
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 …
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Politico, Bloomberg, Political Wire, Fox News, New York Times, The Week and Breitbart
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Sanders and Warren voters have astonishingly little in common
Sanders and Warren voters have astonishingly little in common
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Outside the Beltway
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
'This wasn't just a briefing': Pompeo grilled CIA analysts on Russia findings — Attorney General Bill Barr has ordered an investigation into whether the CIA was correct to determine that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to boost Donald Trump during the 2016 election.
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Laura Bassett / GQ:
When Does America Reckon with the Gravity of Donald Trump's Alleged Rapes? — In light of the new legal scrutiny of Jeffrey Epstein, it's time to re-examine all the sexual misconduct allegations against the president. — For more than a decade, it's been no secret that multimillionaire …
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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 …
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Trump's big deal gets battered by 2020 Dems and Pelosi — The Democratic presidential primary is becoming a big problem for what would be President Donald Trump's premier bipartisan achievement. — The leading White House contenders are amping up their opposition to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement …
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Political Wire
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Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
The ‘Billy Graham rule’ doesn't honor your wife. It demeans her — and all women. — It's charitable to first assume our fellow humans are acting in good faith, so let's first assume that Robert Foster genuinely believes he is the hero of this story. Let's assume that when the Mississippi …
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RedState, FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV, The Slot, New York Post, ThinkProgress and FOX31 Denver
ABC7:
CA lawmakers pass bill requiring Trump, presidential candidates to release tax returns — SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KABC) — California legislation that would require presidential and state gubernatorial candidates to release their tax returns in order to appear on the state's ballot cleared a significant hurdle …
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Pentagon in its longest-ever stretch of leadership limbo — WASHINGTON (AP) — When he resigned as defense secretary last December, Jim Mattis thought it might take two months to install a successor. That seemed terribly long at the time. — Seven months later, the U.S. still …
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The Week
New York Times:
U.A.E. Pulls Most Forces From Yemen in Blow to Saudi War Effort — For four years, the United Arab Emirates have been the military linchpin of the Saudi-led war in Yemen, providing weapons, money and thousands of ground troops to a campaign to drive out Yemen's Houthi rebels.
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Sean Wilentz / New Yorker:
Nancy Pelosi, Impeachment, and Places in History — Crises make and break historical reputations. In our current constitutional emergency, a few unlikely figures, above all the former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, have upheld the rule of law, possibly redeeming their places in history.
Mona Charen / Mona Charen from Creators Syndicate:
Claremont Would Make Founders Weep — The Claremont Institute was part of the flowering of intellectual conservatism that graced America in the 1970s and '80s. Founded by students of Lincoln scholar Harry Jaffa, the California think tank was devoted to teaching “the principles …
David Reid / CNBC:
Turkey takes delivery of Russian missile system, despite risk of US sanctions — KEY POINTS — The United States says Turkey is risking the security of the NATO alliance and the F-35 fighter jet program. — A Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system.
Claire Parker / Washington Post:
A Soviet-era submarine is emitting radiation at levels 800,000 times normal, Norway says — Norway has discovered that a Soviet-era submarine that sank in the Norwegian Sea 30 years ago is leaking radiation up to 800,000 times the normal levels. — Using a remote-controlled vehicle to probe the wreck …
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Priscilla Alvarez / CNN:
House report: At least 18 migrant children under the age of 2 were separated from parents for 20 days to 6 months — Washington (CNN)At least 18 migrant infants and toddlers under the age of two were separated from their parents at the border “including nine infants under the age of one,” …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Why Pence spiked a Trump judge — In January 2018, Judge Michael Kanne received an unexpected call from the White House. Kanne, an Indiana native who sits on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, was then 79 years old. — Under leadership of Don McGahn, the White House counsel's office …
Max Cohen / USA Today:
Obama sends letter to prisoner he freed, who made the dean's list: ‘I am so proud of you’ — President Barack Obama granted Danielle Metz clemency in 2016. Out of prison, she made the dean's list in college. She wished she could thank Obama for his help.