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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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The Hill, New York Post, Shareblue Media, The Week, No More Mister Nice Blog, 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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The Bulwark, The Resurgent, Daily Kos, The Week, VICE, New York Times, Outside the Beltway, USA Today, Althouse, Political Wire, KCLO-TV and Post and Courier
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, The Daily Beast and Reason
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 …
Nida Khan / Medium:
Trump's Attacks on The Squad Aren't Just Racist; They're a Deliberate Attempt to Stifle Their Freedom of Speech
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
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, Mondoweiss, Outside the Beltway, Reason, The Root, The Guardian, The Federalist Papers, CNN, POLITICUSUSA, The American Conservative and Althouse
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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MSNBC:
Newly-found footage shows Trump, Epstein at a '92 party — Newly found footage from NBC News' archives shows Donald Trump apparently talking about women with Jeffrey Epstein, now a registered sex offender, at a party at Mar-a-Lago in November 1992. The party was a decade before Epstein's plea deal in Florida.
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Sanders vows to reject donations from drug and health insurance industry, seeking to pressure Biden — Sen. Bernie Sanders plans to challenge his Democratic presidential rivals Wednesday to refuse campaign donations from executives and lobbyists of health insurance and pharmaceutical companies …
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Politico and Political Wire
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Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
Joe Biden Is ‘Dangerously Close to Using Republican Talking Points’, Says Ex-Clinton Adviser
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Democrats duel over health care in new campaign dust-up
Democrats duel over health care in new campaign dust-up
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Washington Post, New Republic and Washington Free Beacon
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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CNN, Talking Points Memo, Slate and Washington Post
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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Heather Caygle / Politico:
House to vote on whether to consider articles of impeachment for Trump — The House is slated to vote Wednesday afternoon on whether to immediately consider articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, the first barometer of efforts to remove the president by the Democrat-led House.
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.
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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The Federalist, RedState, Reason, Bearing Arms, twitchy.com, The Resurgent, Big League Politics, Page Six and Daily Wire
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Eric Trump: ‘95 percent’ of Americans agree with my 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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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
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
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Nancy Pelosi was rebuked for calling Trump's tweets racist. She can thank Thomas Jefferson and the Brits. — For more than an hour Tuesday, as the House debated whether to condemn President Trump's racist tweets telling four minority congresswomen to “go back” to their “crime-infested” countries, the debate had to be put on pause.
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ThinkProgress, CNN, Foreign Policy and Media Matters for America
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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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New York Times:
Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than people knew. This is how it was saved. — A baffling alert. A race to the wrong building. Notre-Dame still stands only because firefighters decided to risk everything, a New York Times reconstruction has found.
Los Angeles Times:
An ultra-violent MS-13 gang entered the U.S., then stalked L.A. with blades and bats — One by one, the victims were lured to remote locations: an abandoned building in downtown Los Angeles, an empty rooftop in Hollywood, a quiet park in the San Fernando Valley.
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The Daily Caller and American Greatness
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
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
With Name-Calling and Twitter Battles, House Republican Campaign Arm Copies Trump's Playbook — WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is portrayed as wearing clown makeup. Democratic congressional candidates — including an Air Force combat veteran — are labeled “socialist losers” or anti-Semites.
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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
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Once Trump Talked About ‘American Carnage.’ Now He Says Critics Should Leave. — WASHINGTON — America stinks. At least that's what Donald J. Trump seemed to be saying before becoming president. — He did not believe in “American exceptionalism,” he said, because America was not exceptional.
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Washington Press, Mother Jones and New York Magazine
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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