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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
We need someone who can lift us up again. Enter President Obama. — An open letter to Barack Obama: — Mr. President, it is time. You must speak. Your country needs you. — Eleven summers ago, as you accepted the Democratic nomination for president, you announced: “Tonight …
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
CNN Panel on Trump's Demagoguery Goes Off the Rails: ‘The White Nationalists Will Never Love You’ — CNN went wild on Monday night when former Trump adviser Steve Cortes and New York Times columnist Wajahat Ali collided over President Donald Trump's racist attacks on Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
Gabby Orr / Politico:
How Trump aides rushed to repackage the ‘go back’ tweets — Within hours of President Donald Trump's radioactive tweets on Sunday urging several Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to other countries, his campaign was scrambling to repackage the attack on the four women of color into a broader patriotic message.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
‘Racist’ tweets? News media grapple with how to label Trump's latest attacks
‘Racist’ tweets? News media grapple with how to label Trump's latest attacks
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Associated Press
David Moye / HuffPost:
Rep. Ilhan Omar Has Been A U.S. Citizen Longer Than Melania Trump
Rep. Ilhan Omar Has Been A U.S. Citizen Longer Than Melania Trump
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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Trump Tells America What Kind of Nationalist He Is
Trump Tells America What Kind of Nationalist He Is
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New York Times, Washington Post, Vox, Media Matters for America and Mediaite
Sarah Parvini / Los Angeles Times:
For children of immigrants like me, ‘go back’ is a familiar racist taunt
Michael Luo / New Yorker:
Trump's Racist Tweets, and the Question of Who Belongs in America
Trump's Racist Tweets, and the Question of Who Belongs in America
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Boing Boing, CBS News and Washington Post
Associated Press:
The Latest: Romney calls Trump's tweets ‘destructive’
The Latest: Romney calls Trump's tweets ‘destructive’
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CNN and Lawyers, Guns & Money, more at Mediagazer »
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Twitter says Trump's racist tweets don't break its rules
Twitter says Trump's racist tweets don't break its rules
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The Verge, WPIX 11 New York and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Trump's Aides, Not Eager to Defend His Tweets, Also Don't Condemn Them
Trump's Aides, Not Eager to Defend His Tweets, Also Don't Condemn Them
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Politico, Daily Kos, Media Matters for America and Mercury News
Charles Creitz / Fox News:
Jesse Watters: Trump ‘won’ the ‘squad’ press conference, Dems just want to ‘impeach him for tweeting’
Jesse Watters: Trump ‘won’ the ‘squad’ press conference, Dems just want to ‘impeach him for tweeting’
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Politico and Geller Report News
Molly Olmstead / Slate:
Lindsey Graham Called AOC a “Communist” in Rambling Fox & Friends Segment About the President's Racist Tweets
Lindsey Graham Called AOC a “Communist” in Rambling Fox & Friends Segment About the President's Racist Tweets
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Townhall, Power Line and Breitbart
Toluse Olorunnipa / Washington Post:
Trump's incendiary rhetoric is met with fading resistance from Republican and corporate leaders
Trump's incendiary rhetoric is met with fading resistance from Republican and corporate leaders
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New York Post, LifeZette and Washington Press
Heather Caygle / Politico:
‘Bile of garbage’: Progressive squad tears into Trump
‘Bile of garbage’: Progressive squad tears into Trump
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Politico:
Trump ambushes Republicans with attacks on minority congresswomen
Trump ambushes Republicans with attacks on minority congresswomen
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RedState, Axios and One America News Network
George Prayias / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
The Truth About the Latest Trump Tweet Uproar
The Truth About the Latest Trump Tweet Uproar
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No More Mister Nice Blog, BuzzFeed News, USA Today, ABC News and Daily Wire
George T. Conway III / Washington Post:
George Conway: Trump is a racist president — George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York. — To this day, I can remember almost the precise spot where it happened: a supermarket parking lot in eastern Massachusetts. It was the mid-1970s; I was not yet a teenager, or barely one.
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Beto O'Rourke's Fund-Raising Falters as 2020 Democrats Announce Finances — The gap between the rich and the poor in the Democratic presidential primary is growing — and Beto O'Rourke has landed on the worrisome side of the dividing line. — Mr. O'Rourke, who had entered the race in March …
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Washington Post:
Pelosi torpedoes White House debt limit plan, throwing budget talks into chaos — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi late Monday said the House of Representatives would not raise the debt ceiling unless it is part of a broader budget deal, putting extreme pressure on the White House and congressional leaders to cut a deal within days.
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Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
Trump's racist tweets were written in the White House, which slaves helped build
Trump's racist tweets were written in the White House, which slaves helped build
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New York Times:
After 2016 Bible Slip, Trump Lashed Out at ‘So-Called Christians,’ Book Says — Furious after he was criticized by evangelicals for stumbling in his reference to a book of the Bible during the 2016 campaign, Donald J. Trump lashed out at “so-called Christians” and used an epithet in describing …
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Mediaite
Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed News:
A Neo-Nazi Blogger Was Ordered To Pay $14 Million To A Woman Who Was Targeted In A Racist “Troll Storm” — A federal judge awarded more than $14 million to a woman who was barraged with anti-Semitic and threatening messages online after a neo-Nazi blogger instructed his followers to target her and her family with a “troll storm.”
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Charles Creitz / Fox News:
Peter Thiel tells Tucker Carlson which 2020 Dem has him ‘most scared’ — Billionaire Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel says there is one Democratic presidential candidate who makes him most concerned ahead of the 2020 elections. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is the only Democratic …
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Axios
CNN:
Exclusive: Security reports reveal how Assange turned an embassy into a command post for election meddling — Watch this story on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer at 6 p.m. ET and on Anderson Cooper 360 at 8 p.m. ET. — Atlanta (CNN)New documents obtained exclusively by CNN reveal …
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Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Harris blasts, and takes money from, Epstein's law firm — WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris bemoaned the influence of the powerful and connected elite last Tuesday when she called on top Justice Department officials to recuse themselves from any matter related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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Townhall, twitchy.com and New York Post
Niv Elis / The Hill:
WH projects $1 trillion deficit for 2019 — The White House projects that the federal deficit will surpass $1 trillion this year, the only time in the nation's history the deficit has exceeded that level, excluding the four-year period following the Great Recession.
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg / The Appeal:
Philadelphia D.A. Asks Court to Declare Death Penalty System Unconstitutional — Larry Krasner says the punishment is ‘really about poverty’ and race. — Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner—who vowed as a candidate not to seek the death penalty—has asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court …
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Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
Ousted UK ambassador leaked US intelligence — Leaked U.K. diplomatic cables critical of President Trump have led Britain's ambassador, Sir Kim Darroch, to announce his departure from Washington earlier than expected. But the story is not yet concluded. — According to one current …
New York Times:
Tariffs on China Don't Cover the Costs of Trump's Trade War — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday portrayed America as being on the winning end of his trade war, saying tariffs are punishing China's economy while generating billions of dollars for the United States …
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The Daily Caller
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
BBC Accepts Iran's Demand Of Blackout On Its Persian Sites Amid Regime's Attacks On Press — A deal to not share reporting from Iran on BBC Persian has angered staffers who see it as complicity with a government that imprisons, tortures and kills journalists.
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John DiStaso / WMUR:
Kamala Harris rises into second place in new Saint Anselm College poll of NH primary voters — California senator 3 percentage points behind Biden; Sanders drops to fifth place — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Sen. Kamala Harris has moved into second place among Democratic presidential contenders …
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Robert A. George / New York Daily News:
None dare call it racism: Afraid of the r-word, Republicans? Here's a better one to describe this president — The canary in the coal mine for our current moment was Judge Gonzalo Curiel. An Indiana-born jurist who had the misfortune to catch the Trump University fraud lawsuit.
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Kellyanne Conway defies subpoena, skips Oversight hearing — White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway on Monday defied a congressional subpoena, refusing to show up for testimony to the House Oversight and Reform Committee about her violations of the Hatch Act and prompting House Democrats to threaten to hold her in contempt of Congress.
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