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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Trump's new impeachment problem — President Trump's racist tweets had an unintended consequence: They gave House Democrats a new rationale for impeachment. — Why it matters: This has the potential to fundamentally change the conversation around impeachment, which has so far mostly focused …
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Politico and Rep. Al Green
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Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Trump's racism cements his party's place among the West's far right — Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. — President Trump tweets with such frenzy and frequency that we have become almost inured to his rhetorical excesses. But there are times when you have to pay attention.
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New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, The Guardian and CBS News
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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Dispatches From the … and twitchy.com
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 …
David Remnick / New Yorker:
A Racist in the White House — On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama beat John McCain by nine and a half million votes and became the country's first African-American President. In 2016, Donald Trump, an unapologetic racist, lost the popular ballot by three million votes but …
Isabella Borshoff / Politico:
Scaramucci: Trump ‘turning into’ a racist — Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House communications chief, said that U.S. President Donald Trump could be “turning into” a racist. — Scaramucci told the BBC's “Today” program on Tuesday that the president's recent Twitter tirade …
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 Republic, Washington Post, New York Times, PJ Media Home, Vox, Mediaite and The Week, more at Mediagazer »
Gabby Orr / Politico:
How Trump aides rushed to repackage the ‘go back’ tweets
How Trump aides rushed to repackage the ‘go back’ tweets
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POLITICUSUSA, The Intercept and The Week
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Trumpworld says attacks on minority congresswomen are actually good politics
Power Up: Trumpworld says attacks on minority congresswomen are actually good politics
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Reuters, Shareblue Media and NPR
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
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Republicans embrace Trump's racism. Blame them as much as him.
Republicans embrace Trump's racism. Blame them as much as him.
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MSNBC, New York Post, The Mahablog, Washington Press, The Nation and Media Matters for America
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.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Washington Times, The Week and Mediaite
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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The Week
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POLITICO Playbook: The political world Trump made
POLITICO Playbook: The political world Trump made
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Associated Press, Fox News, CNN and NBC News, more at Mediagazer »
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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Daily Kos, Associated Press and Politico
New York Times:
Eric Garner's Death Will Not Lead to Federal Charges for N.Y.P.D. Officer — The decision came five years after Mr. Garner's dying words — “I can't breathe” — became a rallying cry. — The Justice Department will not bring federal charges against a New York City police officer in the death …
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Washington Post:
Justice Dept. will not charge police in connection with Eric Garner's death — The Justice Department will not bring federal charges against any police officers involved in the death of Eric Garner, a 43-year-old black man whose videotaped takedown in New York in 2014 helped coin a rallying cry …
Caitlin Byrd / Post and Courier:
Mark Sanford, SC Republican, former US Rep considers presidential run against Trump — Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina congressman ousted from office after President Donald Trump urged voters to reject him, is considering a run for president. — Sanford, in an exclusive interview Tuesday …
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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Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
Peter Thiel Says Elizabeth Warren Is Most ‘Dangerous’ Candidate — Peter Thiel, the technology industry's most prominent supporter of President Donald Trump, called Elizabeth Warren the most “dangerous” Democratic presidential candidate. — In a rare television interview …
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Boing Boing, Mercury News and Washington Free Beacon
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Kate Morrissey / Stars & Stripes:
Customs and Border Protection denies Marine Corps veteran entry for scheduled citizenship interview — SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Tribune News Service) — A deported Marine Corps veteran who has been unable to come back to the U.S. for more than a decade was denied entry to the country Monday morning …
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Joe Biden: I'll challenge Trump to do push-ups on stage if he makes fun of my age or mental state — If President Trump makes of fun of his age or questions his mental state during a debate, Joe Biden has a response at the ready: He'll challenge him to do push-ups on stage.
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
It's taking longer and longer to become a legal immigrant — The number of immigrants waiting on a judge to decide whether they can stay in the U.S. keeps climbing, according to Justice Department data. — Why it matters: Immigration-court backlogs “are basically crippling the whole system …
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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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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Ginger Thompson / ProPublica:
A Border Patrol Agent Reveals What It's Really Like to Guard Migrant Children — With the agency under fire for holding children in deplorable conditions and over racist and misogynistic Facebook posts, one agent speaks about what it's like to do his job. “Somewhere down the line people just accepted what's going on as normal.”
Min Joo Kim / Washington Post:
North Korea hints it may resume nuclear testing, accuses U.S. of reneging on pact — SEOUL — North Korea warned Tuesday that planned military exercises involving U.S. and South Korean forces would jeopardize proposed disarmament talks with Washington, and hinted it might respond by resuming nuclear and missile tests.
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Eric Felten / RealClearInvestigations:
The Labyrinthine Ways and Wages of Stefan Halper — Stefan Halper, the shadowy Cambridge academic who may have helped the FBI spy on the Trump campaign, was paid more than $1 million by a U.S. agency for research papers of dubious value, according to a new government report.
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Real Clear Politics
George Joseph / www.wnyc.org:
Data Company Directly Powers Immigration Raids in Workplace — Palantir, a secretive data-mining firm co-founded by Trump adviser Peter Thiel, is facing mounting criticism for its work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In response, the company has tried to distance itself …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP mega-donors pour money into Trump campaign — President Donald Trump savaged the mega-donor class during his 2016 campaign. Now, he's turning to them to bankroll his 2020 effort. — The Trump political machine raked in $108 million for his campaign and the Republican National Committee during …
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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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RedState, more at Mediagazer »
Harry Enten / CNN:
Most moderate GOP voices on immigration were wiped out in the 2018 Democratic wave — (CNN)Following President Donald Trump's racist tweets this weekend telling “'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen [to...] go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came …
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Outside the Beltway, The Daily Beast, The Daily Caller, Big League Politics, Mediaite and Dallas Morning News
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 …
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RedState
Girl Scout Blog:
BIG NEWS: 42 New Girl Scout Badges to Change the World — Say hello to 42 NEW Girl Scout badges and one NEW Journey exclusively for girls ages 5-18! — The new programming allows girls to make their own choices about how they want to experience and influence the world while preparing …