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House divided: Vote temporarily halted after Pelosi calls Trump comments ‘racist’ on the floor — The resolution would rap Trump for racist tweets, but Collins said denigrating the president violates House rules. He moved to have Pelosi's remarks stricken.
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Kellyanne Conway Snaps Back at Reporter: 'What's Your Ethnicity?' — “My ethnicity is not relevant to the question I'm asking you,” the reporter replied. — When White House reporter Andrew Feinberg posed a question to Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday about the president's racist tweets …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
What Would It Cost for Republicans to Condemn Trump? — Anything you will have to do eventually, you should do immediately. — This is the passage that struck me most in the George Conway piece everyone is talking about: … What is it, exactly, that we want from elected Republicans?
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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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump feeds his voters another scam, wrapped in racist packaging — In the closing days of the 2018 elections, President Trump's political guru, Brad Parscale, rolled out a massive TV ad campaign featuring a worried suburban mom fussing over her daughter. The woman told herself that everything …
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
House Condemns Trump's Attack on Four Congresswomen as Racist — WASHINGTON — The House voted on Tuesday to condemn as racist President Trump's attacks against four congresswomen of color, but only after the debate over the president's language devolved into a bitterly partisan brawl …
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Strawman Elegy — I like and admire our friend J. D. Vance, but I do want to throttle him just a little bit — just a little! — when he says things like this: “The question conservatives confront at this key moment is this: Whom do we serve? Do we serve pure, unfettered commercial freedom?
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The American Right Defines Patriotism As Complacency About Racism
The American Right Defines Patriotism As Complacency About Racism
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National Review, Media Matters for America and Politico
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Why Donald Trump is thrilled about this fight with the ‘Squad’
Why Donald Trump is thrilled about this fight with the ‘Squad’
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New York Post, Washington Post and Slate
Isabella Borshoff / Politico:
Scaramucci: Trump ‘turning into’ a racist
Scaramucci: Trump ‘turning into’ a racist
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
A Racist in the White House
A Racist in the White House
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Gregg Re / Fox News:
Floor fight erupts as Pelosi speaks ahead of vote to condemn Trump's ‘racist’ comments
Floor fight erupts as Pelosi speaks ahead of vote to condemn Trump's ‘racist’ comments
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Kellyanne Conway just said something that should stun you
Kellyanne Conway just said something that should stun you
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Planned Parenthood Removes Leana Wen as President — Planned Parenthood on Tuesday removed its president after less than a year in the job, seeking new leadership at a time when abortion rights have come under increasing attack from statehouses and Republicans in Washington.
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Washington Post:
Head of Planned Parenthood forced out after eight months — The president of Planned Parenthood was forced out of her job Tuesday in a dispute over the direction of the the nation's largest women's reproductive rights organization amid growing political and legal challenges to abortion.
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RedState, Associated Press and Students For Life
Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump Aide Jason Miller Admits to Hiring Prostitutes in 2015 and 2017 — Republican operative Jason Miller, the former communications chief for the Trump campaign and transition team, said he hired numerous prostitutes and visited “hand job” massage parlors as recently …
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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 …
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
A Judge Has Banned Roger Stone From Posting Anything On Instagram, Facebook, Or Twitter — WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday issued an order prohibiting Roger Stone, a longtime ally and adviser of President Donald Trump, from posting anything on Instagram, Facebook …
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Ali Dukakis / ABC News:
Judge finds longtime Trump confidante Roger Stone in violation of gag order
Judge finds longtime Trump confidante Roger Stone in violation of gag order
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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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Amy Spiro / Jewish Insider:
Ex-CNN commentator at progressive summit: Major news outlets are ‘Zionist orgs’ — PHILADELPHIA — Former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill claimed that news outlets like NBC and ABC were “Zionist organizations” that produced “Zionist content,” during a panel on Friday at the annual Netroots Nation summit held …
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The Hill:
GOP put on the back foot by Trump's race storm — President Trump's attacks on four minority Democratic lawmakers have created a rift in the GOP, putting many Republicans on the defensive. — Most are seeking to steer clear of the firestorm, but a few GOP lawmakers came out against Trump's suggestion …
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Frida Ghitis / Washington Post:
Trump's racist tweets come straight from the authoritarian playbook
Trump's racist tweets come straight from the authoritarian playbook
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
'That's all I've got': Romney fails his own test on Trump's racist tweets
'That's all I've got': Romney fails his own test on Trump's racist tweets
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The Daily Beast:
Jeffrey Epstein Abused Victims While Serving Time in Florida, Accuser's Lawyer Says — Attorney Brad Edwards says a new accuser has come forward to say Epstein took advantage of work release to prey on young women. — An attorney representing Jeffrey Epstein accusers said Tuesday that at least …
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George Prayias / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Caller Wants to Nominate a “Normal” Republican Instead of Trump — RUSH: Let's grab Douglas on line 4, San Diego. Douglas, it's great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello. — CALLER: Well, thanks. It's wonderful to be here. Of course, I often... I listen to your show.
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Trump's threat to investigate Google isn't based on evidence. It's based on Fox News. — Trump at the White House on Monday. — Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images — How Peter Thiel's Google conspiracy theory made its way from Fox & Friends to the White House.
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Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
Peter Thiel Says Elizabeth Warren Is Most ‘Dangerous’ Candidate
Peter Thiel Says Elizabeth Warren Is Most ‘Dangerous’ Candidate
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New York Times:
In 2020 Democratic Fund-Raising, Five Candidates Stand Out — Five Democratic presidential candidates raised a combined $96 million from individual donors in the last three months — about three-quarters of the total fund-raising by the entire Democratic field, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday.
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JM Rieger / Washington Post:
Steve Scalise says House Republicans didn't disrespect Obama's position. Let's go to the tape. — House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) made quite an assertion Tuesday about how Republicans treated President Barack Obama while he was in office. — “We had disagreements with a lot …
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TIME:
The 25 Most Influential People on the Internet — For our fifth annual roundup of the most influential people on the Internet, TIME evaluated contenders by looking at their global impact on social media and their overall ability to drive news. Here's who made this year's unranked list.
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
An Asylum Officer Said She Won't Enforce “Immoral” Asylum Standards At The US-Mexico Border — At least one asylum officer won't enforce a new regulation that ended asylum protections for hundreds of thousands of Central Americans and other immigrants, calling the change “illegal” and “immoral.”
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.”
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Ally Mutnick / National Journal:
Freshmen Dems Fortify House Advantage With Massive Q2s — More than 30 newly elected members raised over $500,000 each in the second quarter. — Swing-seat freshman Democrats raised a collective $24 million in the second quarter of 2019, a staggering sum that will provide an early fortification …
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Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Judge Decides Neo-Nazi Owes Woman Over $14M After ‘Storming’ Her Family — A federal judge in Montana decided Monday that Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin owes real estate agent Tanya Gersh more than $14 million after rallying other white supremacists on his site to inundate her and her family with a barrage of threats and vitriol.
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HuffPost:
Donald Trump's ‘Go Back’ Slur All Too Familiar To Minority Members Of Congress — White lawmakers, however, acknowledged that people generally assumed they were American. — WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump insists he wasn't being racist when he told four minority congresswomen who've …
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Julia Horowitz / CNN:
Ikea is closing its only US factory and moving production to Europe — London (CNN Business)Ikea is shutting down its only furniture factory in the United States. — The Swedish company will end production this December at its plant in Danville, Virginia. Operations will move to Europe, where the company says it can cut costs.
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Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Google VP grilled by senators over allegations of tech giant's bias against conservatives — Republican lawmakers on Tuesday criticized Google during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing over allegations of bias against and censorship of conservative groups on the tech giant's platforms.
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Politico