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2:55 PM ET, July 15, 2019

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Trump Fans the Flames of a Racial Fire — WASHINGTON — President Trump woke up on Sunday morning, gazed out at the nation he leads, saw the dry kindling of race relations and decided to throw a match on it. It was not the first time, nor is it likely to be the last.

John Bresnahan / Politico:

Pelosi announces resolution condemning Trump for racist tweets — House Democrats are drafting a resolution to condemn President Donald Trump's racist tweets against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other high-profile freshman congresswomen, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Monday.

Discussion: RedState, Axios, Breitbart, twitchy.com and Politico

Mike Allen / Axios:

A tough time to be a Trump supporter — Conservatives who reluctantly support President Trump often try to pretend the daily outrage didn't happen, but yesterday's “go back” tweets were like his “both sides” comment on Charlottesville — a transgression that won't instantly fade, and can't be laughed off.

Discussion: Washington Post, Daily Kos, Reason, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Week, Townhall, Power Line, Mashable, Mississippi Politics and News and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed News:

Trump Said His Racist Tweets Are Fine Because “Many People” Agree With Him — President Trump on Monday claimed his racist tweets attacking progressive congresswomen weren't racist, and he added that he's not concerned about backlash because “many people” hold his same views.

Discussion: The Week

CNN:

Trump denies racist tweets were racist — (CNN)President Donald Trump denied Monday that the inflammatory tweets he issued Sunday were racist. — Asked on the South Lawn during an event on American-made products if his tweets were racist, he said: “Not at all.”

Discussion: RedState, Political Wire, The Nation, ImmigrationProf Blog and WPIX 11 New York

David French / National Review:

Donald Trump's Tweets Were Malicious, and Republican Silence is Deafening — In 2016 Speaker Paul Ryan called Donald Trump's attacks on Judge Alonzo Curiel — Trump had called the American-born judge “Mexican” and claimed he was therefore too biased to preside over the Trump University litigation …

Discussion: Mother Jones, Vox, Townhall and Roll Call

Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:

Republicans are quiet as Trump urges minority congresswomen to leave the country — A day has passed without prominent Republicans stepping forward to disagree with President Trump's notion that four minority congresswomen who have been critical of his approach to immigration enforcement should …

Discussion: Politico, Vanity Fair, Breitbart, New York Times, Daily Kos, The Guardian, The Bulwark, Dispatches From the …, Fortune, Slate, VICE, Shareblue Media and The Daily Beast

Los Angeles Times:

Trump is truly America's Bigot-in-Chief — President Trump's Twitter feed is a repugnant place, and no one would want the thankless task of having to weed through all his bitter, bigoted ramblings to determine which are the most offensive. But a three-tweet thread early Sunday morning …

Discussion: CNSNews

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

Tiptoeing around Trump's racism is a betrayal of journalistic truth-telling — Long before Donald Trump ran for president, an inside-journalism battle was raging over the ideas of objectivity and balance. — It went like this: Should reporters and editors strive for a kind of neutral even-handedness …

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump just denied his attacks are racist. He only confirmed the worst.

Discussion: Politico, CNN and The Hill

Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
After years of decrying McCarthyism, Lindsey Graham accuses members of Congress of being Communists

Discussion: New York Post, Talking Points Memo and Daily Wire

Devan Cole / CNN:
Graham declines to condemn racist Trump tweets and calls Democratic congresswomen ‘a bunch of communists’

Discussion: Vox, RedState, VICE, Slate, Shakesville and Political Wire

Goldie Taylor / The Daily Beast:
Trump Is a Racist. If You Still Support Him, So Are You.

Elizabeth Thomas / ABC News:
Trump says his ‘go back’ remarks to lawmakers ‘not at all racist’ as outrage grows

Discussion: The Rush Limbaugh Show, CBS News and Talking Points Memo

Owen Daugherty / The Hill:
Ted Lieu: Trump a ‘racist ass’

Discussion: CNN, Axios, Coffee House and Breitbart

Brian Stelter / CNN:
How news outlets are dealing with the ‘moral dimension’ of covering Trump and his racist tweets

Discussion: Daily Wire, Media Matters for America, The Daily Beast and Rolling Stone

Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep. Insists Trump Was Probably Just Talking About Congresswomen's Districts

Discussion: WBAL NewsRadio 1090/FM 101.5 and Political Wire

Bloomberg: U.K. Leader Says Trump's Tweets on Democrats Are ‘Completely Unacceptable’

Christina Zhao / Newsweek:
RacistInChief Trends After Trump Tells Lawmakers to ‘Go Back’ …

Discussion: Washington Post, Mother Jones, RedState and Politico

Colleen Long / Associated Press:

Trump moves to end asylum protections for Central Americans — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday moved to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants in a major escalation of the president's battle to tamp down the number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, NBC News, Reuters, Politico, Common Dreams, Splinter, Shareblue Media, FOX6Now.com, The Week, The Gateway Pundit and Daily Kos

Washington Post: Trump administration moves to restrict asylum access, aiming to curb Central American migration

Bill Chappell / NPR:
Trump Administration Implementing ‘3rd Country’ Rule On Migrants Seeking Asylum

Discussion: ThinkProgress, ACLU and CNSNews

Department of Homeland Security:
DHS and DOJ Issue Third-Country Asylum Rule

Discussion: Fox News, The Daily Signal, UPI and Daily Wire

Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill:
Trump to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants at US-Mexico border

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Sara A. Carter and Patterico's Pontifications

Dan Diamond / Politico:

Biden unveils health care plan: Affordable Care Act 2.0 — Democratic front-runner Joe Biden on Monday unveiled a health plan that's intended to preserve the most popular parts of Obamacare — from Medicaid expansion to protections for patients with preexisting conditions …

Discussion: YouTube, Fox News, Washington Post, Daily Kos, UPI, Shakesville, Washington Free Beacon, twitchy.com and New York Times

Joe Biden / Joe Biden for President:
Health Care — “When we passed the Affordable Care Act …

Discussion: CNN, People's Policy Project, Axios, STAT, Washington Post, Common Dreams, Splinter, The Daily Caller and The Week

Stephen Braun / Associated Press:
Biden cancer nonprofit suspends operations indefinitely

Discussion: New York Post and The Daily Caller

NBC News:

Trump weighs ousting Commerce chief Wilbur Ross after census defeat — Some White House officials expect the Cabinet secretary, who has known the president for years, to depart as soon as this summer. — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has told aides and allies that he is considering …

Discussion: Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Politico, Outside the Beltway, Talking Points Memo, The Week, New York Post and Wall Street Journal

BBC:

Italy seizes ‘combat-ready’ missile in raids on far right — Anti-terrorism police in northern Italy have seized an air-to-air missile and other sophisticated weapons during raids on far-right extremist groups. — Three people were arrested - two of them near Forli airport.

Iga Lis / Politico:
Italian police seize missile in raids on far right

Discussion: ThinkProgress and One America News Network

Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed News:

Elizabeth Warren's Campaign Turned To A Big Donor To Pay For The DNC Voter Database, Despite Her Fundraising Pledge — Elizabeth Warren relied on a multimillion-dollar Democratic donor to cover the cost of an expensive voter database — a move that risks putting her campaign at odds with the spirit …

Discussion: Political Wire and twitchy.com

Nate Cohn / New York Times:

Huge Turnout Is Expected in 2020. So Which Party Would Benefit? — Democrats typically gain from a broader electorate in presidential races, but that pattern is not assured in the Trump era. — The 2020 presidential election is poised to have the highest turnout in a century …

Garrett M. Graff / Politico:

The Border Patrol Hits a Breaking Point — Vice President Mike Pence's Friday visit to a Border Patrol detention facility in Texas didn't go according to plan. Meant to pressure Democrats to address the migrant crisis at the southern border, the visit instead appeared to horrify …

Discussion: New York Times and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Jeff Stein / Washington Post:

Obama officials say Trump administration hasn't delayed new $20 bill, despite Harriet Tubman firestorm — Congressional Democrats have been hammering the Trump administration for delaying the introduction of 19th-century abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

Discussion: Axios, Townhall, Washington Free Beacon and twitchy.com

Tim Alberta / Vanity Fair:

“You Crossed the Rubicon...There's No Going Back”: Karl Rove, Kellyanne Conway, and the Odd Couple Marriage Between Mike Pence and Donald Trump — He didn't like Rove (Trump: “I'll win New York”; Rove: “No, you won't"). Conway had worked for “Lyin' Ted Cruz.” And Pence was a choirboy, albeit a hyper-ambitious one.

Lizzie Presser / ProPublica:

The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It. — 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.

Discussion: Boing Boing

Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:

Award-Winning Reporter to Counter-Sue Man Who Bankrolled Brexit for ‘Harassment’ — Award-winning journalist Carole Cadwalladr hits back with countersuit against Brexit campaigners who are suing her for libel. — LONDON—The award-winning journalist whose investigations led to the collapse …

Jim Galloway / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

The Jolt: Son of Joe Lieberman contemplates a run for U.S. Senate in Georgia — So far, the dominant themes of the Democratic side of the 2020 U.S. Senate contest in Georgia has been its slow formation and leftward drift, even as Republican incumbent David Perdue rakes in boatloads of campaign cash.

Discussion: Political Wire