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Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Most Americans call Trump's tweets targeting 4 congresswomen ‘un-American’ — WASHINGTON - A clear majority of Americans say President Trump's tweets targeting four minority congresswomen were “un-American,” according to a new USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll. But most Republicans say they agreed …
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New York Post, Shareblue Media, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Week, The National Interest and New York Times
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Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Republican support for Trump rises after racially charged tweets: Reuters/Ipsos poll — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Support for U.S. President Donald Trump increased slightly among Republicans after he lashed out on Twitter over the weekend in a racially charged attack on four minority Democratic congresswomen …
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Daily Kos, The Week, VICE, New York Times, Outside the Beltway, USA Today and Political Wire
New York Times:
Trump Sets the 2020 Tone: Like 2016, Only This Time ‘the Squad’ Is Here — WASHINGTON — With three days of attacks on four liberal, minority freshman congresswomen, President Trump and the Republicans have sent the clearest signal yet that their approach to 2020 will be a racially divisive reprise …
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Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA and The Daily Beast
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Trump attacks on ‘The Squad’ drives wedge between campaign and critical voters — President Trump's incendiary claims that his Democratic critics in Congress are un-American are driving a deep wedge between his 2020 campaign and critical elements of the coalition he needs to secure a second term with.
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The Week, Breitbart, CNN and Washington Post
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Reminder: Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib questioned the loyalty of Americans who support Israel — Over the weekend President Trump unleashed a series of tweets that I agreed were racist, because they lumped together four nonwhite congresswomen who he said should go back to their countries …
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Trump voters cringe and shrug at tweets while Democrats rage — HELENVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Bill Brasch greeted President Donald Trump's latest tweet controversy with a shrug. — He doesn't believe Trump was being racist for telling four congresswomen, all women of color, to “go back” to the countries they came from.
Axios:
Trump's premeditated racism is central to his 2020 strategy
Trump's premeditated racism is central to his 2020 strategy
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The Daily Beast and Political Wire
NBC News:
House divided: Vote temporarily halted after Pelosi calls Trump comments ‘racist’ on the floor
House divided: Vote temporarily halted after Pelosi calls Trump comments ‘racist’ on the floor
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Spectator USA, Axios, Roll Call, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Splinter, Breitbart, CBS News, Washington Post, UPI, Washington Press, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Power Line, IJR, CNN, NPR and Washington Times
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
House Condemns Trump's Attack on Four Congresswomen as Racist
House Condemns Trump's Attack on Four Congresswomen as Racist
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The Week, Washington Post, The Root, The Guardian, CNN, The Federalist Papers, POLITICUSUSA, The American Conservative, Althouse and Reason, more at Mediagazer »
Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times:
House votes to condemn Trump's tweets as racist
House votes to condemn Trump's tweets as racist
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Indianapolis Star, CBS News and Slate
Jack Bohrer / NBC News:
Tape shows Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein discussing women at 1992 party — The November 1992 tape in the NBC archives shows Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein more than a decade before Epstein pleaded guilty to felony prostitution charges in Florida. — Inside a 1992 party with Trump, Jeffrey Epstein
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Eric Trump: ‘95 percent’ of Americans agree with his father — Eric Trump on Wednesday heralded his father, President Donald Trump, as “the greatest fighter in the world,” and claimed that “95 percent” of people in the U.S. support his political message even as the president has worked to beat …
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Political Wire
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Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost:
Federal Law Says ‘Go Back To Where You Came From’ Counts As Discrimination
Federal Law Says ‘Go Back To Where You Came From’ Counts As Discrimination
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The Bulwark, Talking Points Memo, Connecticut Employment … and Boing Boing
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Once Trump Talked About ‘American Carnage.’ Now He Says Critics Should Leave.
Once Trump Talked About ‘American Carnage.’ Now He Says Critics Should Leave.
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Washington Press, Mother Jones and New York Magazine
Ted Lieu / Washington Post:
I have served in the Air Force and in Congress. People still tell me to ‘go back’ to China.
I have served in the Air Force and in Congress. People still tell me to ‘go back’ to China.
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PJ Media Home, Breitbart and New York Post
NBC News:
‘Unfit to be president’: Full text of House impeachment resolution on Trump
‘Unfit to be president’: Full text of House impeachment resolution on Trump
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ABC News, Common Dreams and Washington Post
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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Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Washington Post, Vox and The Guardian, more at Mediagazer »
David Montanaro / Fox News:
Eric Trump supports father's message to AOC's ‘squad’: 'If you don't love our country, leave'
Eric Trump supports father's message to AOC's ‘squad’: 'If you don't love our country, leave'
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Power Line and Breitbart
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Who Led Liberal Wing, Dies at 99 — John Paul Stevens, whose 35 years on the United States Supreme Court transformed him, improbably, from a Republican antitrust lawyer into the outspoken leader of the court's liberal wing, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 99.
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Alanna Vagianos / HuffPost:
Another Mississippi Gov. Candidate Refuses To Be Alone With Woman Other Than Wife
Another Mississippi Gov. Candidate Refuses To Be Alone With Woman Other Than Wife
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Talking Points Memo, Slate, Washington Post and The Clarion Ledger
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
'Trump's Going to Get Re-elected, Isn't He?' — Voters have reason to worry. — I'm struck at how many people have come up to me recently and said, “Trump's going to get re-elected, isn't he?” And in each case, when I drilled down to ask why, I bumped into the Democratic presidential debates in June.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Why Democrats' oversight machine is moving so slowly against Trump — House Democrats have kicked and screamed about the White House's refusal to allow key Trump officials to come before Congress. But they haven't done the one thing they can do to force the issue: Go to court.
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Yahoo:
Chris Pratt criticised for ‘white supremacist’ T-shirt — Chris Pratt is facing criticism over a T-shirt he was pictured wearing featuring a controversial symbol. — The — Marvel star's top shows the American flag with a coiled snake over the top and a message underneath which reads “Don't Tread On Me.”
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Washington Post:
76 billion opioid pills: Newly released federal data unmasks the epidemic — America's largest drug companies saturated the country with 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pain pills from 2006 through 2012 as the nation's deadliest drug epidemic spun out of control, according …
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The Guardian, STAT and KTLA
Bryan Caplan / Econlib:
Reflections from Spain — I just got back from a five-week visit to Spain. The first four weeks, I was teaching labor economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquín while my sons took Spanish-language classes on Islamism, Self-Government, and the Philosophy of Hayek.
Colleen Flaherty / Inside Higher Ed:
Pinker, Epstein, Soldier, Spy — Steven Pinker's aid in Jeffrey Epstein's legal defense renews criticism of an increasingly divisive public intellectual. — That convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had help in avoiding federal or state prison is unsurprising: money and power often buy what they shouldn't.
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Florida Politics and Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality
Armin Rosen / Tablet Magazine:
Everybody Knows — The incidents now pass without much notice, a steady, familiar drumbeat of violence and hate targeting visibly Jewish people in New York City. — Early on the morning of June 15, a Saturday, two men in a white Infiniti drove around Borough Park, a vast …
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twitchy.com and Jewish Insider
The Daily Beast:
CNN Invites White Supremacist Richard Spencer to Talk About Trump's Racist Tweets — A man who wants ‘peaceful ethnic cleansing’ and invokes Nazi slogans was allowed to represent racists. It's the latest instance of the press struggling to cover the far right.
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Splinter, RedState, Washington Times, twitchy.com and CNN
Bill Scher / Politico:
How the Democratic Netroots Died — Twelve years ago, progressive political bloggers were so influential that nearly every 2008 Democratic presidential candidate attended the Yearly Kos convention—a gathering of liberal online activists named after Markos Moulitsas' popular Daily Kos website.
Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
Can Scott Walker Save the Future of Conservatism? — Maybe even a little? — Former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will soon have a new job: President of Young America's Foundation. — As The Hill reports, Walker says that “Starting January 2021, this will be full-time. . . . I won't be engaged in anything else.
Daniel Dale / CNN:
‘Sir’ alert: This one word is a telltale sign Trump is being dishonest — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump told a dramatic story on Twitter last month. — Explaining how he decided to cancel a possible attack on Iran, he wrote, “We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night …
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Talking Points Memo
John Solomon / The Hill:
FBI's spreadsheet puts a stake through the heart of Steele's dossier — Some in the news media have tried in recent days to rekindle their long-lost love affair with former MI6 agent Christopher Steele and his now infamous dossier. — The main trigger was a lengthy interview in June …
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RedState
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Trump Has Put Judges All Over The Courts With Awful Records On Voting Rights — “This administration is weaponizing the federal judiciary to restrict the vote,” the NAACP warns in a new report. — WASHINGTON ― Two and a half years into his presidency, Donald Trump has filled …
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Russia probe critic Gaetz accuses feds of shrugging off threat against him — Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz is questioning whether federal prosecutors are applying a double standard by not bringing charges in connection with a graphic threat against him — and suggesting his criticism …
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Breitbart
Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
Joe Biden Is ‘Dangerously Close to Using Republican Talking Points’, Says Ex-Clinton Adviser — A former adviser to 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said that 2020 hopeful Joe Biden is “dangerously close to using Republican talking points” and sounds like President Donald Trump …
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New Republic