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New York Times:
Trump Employs an Old Tactic: Using Race for Gain — For the fourth season of “The Apprentice,” Donald J. Trump searched for a gimmick to bolster ratings. His idea was simple if explosive — pit an all-white team against an all-black team. — “Do you like it?” he asked …
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Political Wire
Zak Doffman / Forbes:
Russia's Secret Intelligence Agency Hacked: ‘Largest Data Breach In Its History’ — I write about security and surveillance. — Red faces in Moscow this weekend, with the news that hackers have successfully targeted FSB—Russia's Federal Security Service.
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Emma Graham-Harrison / The Guardian:
Brexit funder Arron Banks threatens Netflix over Great Hack documentary — Legal threat comes as campaigners warn UK government that courts are being used to intimidate journalists — The businessman Arron Banks and the unofficial Brexit campaign Leave.EU have issued a legal threat …
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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
The Great Hack: the film that goes behind the scenes of the Facebook data scandal — This week, a Netflix documentary on Cambridge Analytica sheds light on one of the most complex scandals of our time. Carole Cadwalladr, who broke the story and appears in the film, looks at the fallout …
Washington Post:
‘He always doubles down’: Inside the political crisis caused by Trump's racist tweets — President Trump's own top aides didn't think he fully understood what he had done last Sunday, when he fired off a trio of racist tweets before a trip to his golf course.
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Crooked Timber
Lori Rozsa / Washington Post:
For ‘client’ Jeffrey Epstein, an unlocked cell in a Florida jail — PALM BEACH, Fla. — In 2008, a supervisor at the county jail here alerted staff members to the needs of an inmate serving an 18-month sentence for sex crimes involving a minor. Jeffrey Epstein, he wrote in a memo …
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Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed News:
This State Lawmaker Says She Was Told In A Supermarket This Week To “Go Back” To Where She Came From — After a week of controversy sparked by President Trump's racist tweets against four Democratic women of color, a black Georgia state representative described being harassed at a grocery store …
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New York Times:
U.K. Warns Iran of ‘Serious Consequences’ for Seizing Oil Tanker — LONDON — Britain on Saturday warned Iran that “there will be serious consequences” for seizing a British-owned oil tanker and warned ships to avoid the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial shipping route for the world's oil supplies.
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Associated Press, CNN, U.S. Central Command, NPR, Outside the Beltway and The Guardian
VICE:
The Democratic Party Is Getting Crushed in Fundraising: “They Need to Get Their Shit Together” — WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee is getting smoked by its GOP counterpart in fundraising — and some major Democrats are panicked it could hurt their chances at defeating President Trump next year.
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Mediaite, The Daily Caller, GOP.com and The Hill
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Billings Gazette:
Gazette opinion: More a sycophant than a Senator — There is no shortage of fools in Washington, D.C. — Or even in Montana. — Because fools, as the saying goes, rush in where wise men fear to tread. — Wise men, or even those with common sense, would see President Donald Trump's most recent Twitter tirade and back away.
Devan Cole / CNN:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Trump's immigration policies are about ‘ethnicity and racism’ — AOC confronts DHS chief over border agent Facebook group — Washington (CNN)Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday slammed President Donald Trump's policies on immigration in her latest argument …
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Mother Jones and Outside the Beltway
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Vivian Wang / New York Times:
House Democrats Prepare for Civil War as Challengers Plot Primary Battles
House Democrats Prepare for Civil War as Challengers Plot Primary Battles
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Instapundit and Power Line
Jeremy Stahl / Slate:
Trump Falsely Claims Four Congresswomen Used the Slur “Evil Jews”
Trump Falsely Claims Four Congresswomen Used the Slur “Evil Jews”
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CNN
Tim Reid / Reuters:
Joe Biden compares Trump to segregationist George Wallace — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Joe Biden, former U.S. vice-president and Democratic presidential candidate, compared President Donald Trump on Friday to the late George Wallace, a prominent supporter of racial segregation.
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Political Wire and POLITICUSUSA
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Matt Stevens / New York Times:
Democrats Call Out Racism, New Debate Lineups: This Week in the 2020 Race
Democrats Call Out Racism, New Debate Lineups: This Week in the 2020 Race
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Washington Post, Opinion Today and One America News Network
Washington Post:
Boris Johnson, Britain's likely next prime minister, is a hack — a journalist who has reached the pinnacle of power — LONDON — Boris Johnson, the far-ahead front-runner to become Britain's prime minister this week, waved a vacuum-packed fish over his head and railed at the European Union.
Daily Mail:
‘I just made it up’: Florida Dem admits lying about treating Pulse shooting victims after going on the record as saying ‘I personally removed 77 bullets from 32 people. It was like an assembly line’ — Elizabeth McCarthy told the Florida Department of Health that she had fabricated claims …
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Breitbart, Orlando Sentinel, Fox News, The Last Refuge and LGBTQ Nation
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
WATCH: Trump Hangs Melania and Ivanka Out to Dry, Says They Never Objected to Racist Chant — President Donald Trump contradicted reports that First Lady Melania Trump and White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump objected privately to rally chants urging that U.S. citizen Rep. Ilhan Omar be sent back to Africa.
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New York Times, Refinery29, Washington Press and Hullabaloo
Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Oliver Stone Asks Vladimir Putin to Be His Daughter's Godfather — “OK, we'll make her that,” the bootlicking filmmaker said when the Russian leader asked if she'd be willing to convert to Orthodox Christianity. — Filmmaker and conspiracy theorist Oliver Stone has made no secret …
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Sputnik International, Bloomberg and New York Post
Harry Enten / CNN:
How Trump's 2020 reelection strategy could work — but probably won't — Washington (CNN)First things first: The theme song of the week is the theme from The Larry Sanders Show. — Poll of the week: A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that President Donald Trump's approval rating among voters nationwide is 45%.
Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
‘The Antithesis of Bolsonaro’: A Gay Couple Roils Brazil's Far Right — RIO DE JANEIRO — The votes had been tallied, and the skies of Rio de Janeiro crackled with fireworks as supporters celebrated the decisive election of a far-right populist, Jair Bolsonaro, as Brazil's president.
Associated Press:
Trump offers to guarantee A$AP Rocky's bail in Sweden — BERLIN (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said he spoke with Sweden's prime minister Saturday about jailed rapper A$AP Rocky and “offered to personally vouch for his bail.” — Trump tweeted that during a “a very good call” …
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Slate, The Root and New York Times
People.com:
The Surprising Phone Call Ted Kennedy Made to His Mistress After a Woman Died in His Car in Chappaquiddick — In the early morning hours after Sen. Ted Kennedy crashed his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, killing his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, he turned first not to his wife — but to his mistress for help
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twitchy.com, Hot Air and RedState
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Mueller Hearings on Wednesday Present Make-or-Break Moment for Democrats — WASHINGTON — For more than two years, Democrats have hoped that Robert S. Mueller III would show the nation that President Trump is unfit for office — or at the very least, severely damage his re-election prospects.
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
National Conservatives Want Cultural Dominance Not ‘Social Cohesion’ — While Donald Trump was imploring nonwhite Democrats to “go back” to the “crime infested places from which they came” this week, a group of his sympathizers gathered in D.C. to lament America's bitter social divisions, and call for a return to national unity.
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency, RedState and Daily Kos
Brian Kahn / Earther:
Scientists Wrote a Eulogy for Iceland's First Glacier Lost to Climate Change — That may sound like an Onion headline, but alas, it is not. We've reached the point in our wild planetary experiment where humans are memorializing the things we're knowingly wiping out.