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Miami Herald:
As Trump's reliable sycophant, Rubio drags us further into the president's swamp |  Editorial  —  Witnessing Sen. Marco Rubio's pathetic response last week to President Trump's latest racist outrages, it is impossible now to believe that Florida's senior senator was once hailed as …
Daily Mail:
Why I helped expose ambassador's embarrassing cables: Journalist, 19, behind Trump scoop comes forward to reveal his motivation and fears he's being targeted by security services  —  Lying awake at 2am last Wednesday and unable to sleep for the third night in a row, I listened as footsteps crunched …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Hans von der Burchard / Politico:
Two UK ministers to quit if Boris Johnson wins  —  U.K. Chancellor Philip Hammond and U.K. Justice Secretary David Gauke announced Sunday they will resign if Boris Johnson wins the Tory party leadership contest and becomes prime minister, with Gauke warning that a no-deal Brexit would lead to national “humiliation.”
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Washington Post:   Boris Johnson, Britain's likely next prime minister, is a hack — a journalist who has reached the pinnacle of power
Adam Geller / Associated Press:
Sanders' early life in Brooklyn taught lessons, some tough  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Back on Brooklyn College's red brick campus this winter to launch his second bid for the White House, Bernie Sanders set aside rhetoric for a few minutes to acknowledge the neighborhood where he grew up.
Ethan Cai / Campus Reform:
STUDY: Faculty diversity at near stand-still despite MILLIONS spent by universities  — A new study finds that universities have made little progress on faculty diversity despite pouring more money into inclusivity initiatives.  —  A new study found that universities have not made much progress …
Ana Swanson / New York Times:
A New Red Scare Is Reshaping Washington  —  WASHINGTON — In a ballroom across from the Capitol building, an unlikely group of military hawks, populist crusaders, Chinese Muslim freedom fighters and followers of the Falun Gong has been meeting to warn anyone who will listen that China poses …
Discussion: New York Times
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 …
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.
Alexandra Hutzler / Newsweek:
Bernie Sanders Campaign Responds to $15 Minimum Wage Controversy with Better Hours for Staff  —  Amid a pay war within his own 2020 presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders will limit the amount of time his organizers can work to guarantee that no one is making less than $15 per hour …
WSB-TV:
State rep. says man told her to ‘go back where you came from’ at grocery store  —  COBB COUNTY, Ga. - A man accused of harassing an African American Georgia lawmaker at a Cobb County grocery store has come forward to tell Channel 2 Action News his side of the story.
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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
Robert Silverman / The Daily Beast:
Inside Baseball Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera's Secret Far-Right Politics  —  The Yankees legend—who will be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday—has managed to keep his political leanings hidden for decades.  —  Mariano Rivera, the greatest relief pitcher in baseball history …
Discussion: Breitbart
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 …
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Emma Graham-Harrison / The Guardian:   Brexit funder Arron Banks threatens Netflix over Great Hack documentary
Nick Schager / The Daily Beast:   Netflix Takes Aim at Facebook With ‘The Great Hack’
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Elizabeth Warren Has Momentum.  Can She Build a Movement?  —  Elizabeth Warren was walking around Milwaukee a week and a half ago, listening to a community activist and a 22-year-old whose parents are undocumented immigrants.  They told her the history of bilingual education …
Politico:
Meet the woman who ties Jeffrey Epstein to Trump and the Clintons  —  Heiress Ghislaine Maxwell paved the way to presidents.  —  How did wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein come to be palling around with Bill Clinton and Donald Trump?  —  People who know those involved say Epstein's connections …
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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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
There Is Nothing Strategic About Trump's Racism
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Fox News:
Border agents use tear gas to stop nearly 50 undocumented migrants who stormed Rio Grande bridge
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Joe Biden compares Trump to segregationist George Wallace
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Devan Cole / CNN:
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Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
‘The Antithesis of Bolsonaro’: A Gay Couple Roils Brazil's Far Right
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Oliver Stone Asks Vladimir Putin to Be His Daughter's Godfather
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