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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Mueller Testifies Russia Had Blackmail on Trump  —  The most interesting and newsworthy portion of Robert Mueller's six hours of testimony before the House yesterday came in the final two exchanges of the day, long after the narrative was set and the national media had grown bored.
Discussion: RedState and Wall Street Journal
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
GOP blocks election security bills after Mueller testimony  —  Senate Republicans blocked two election security bills and a cybersecurity measure on Wednesday in the wake of former special counsel Robert Mueller warning about meddling attempts during his public testimony before congressional lawmakers.
Elie Mystal / Above the Law:
Imagine Mueller Just Said All That About A Black President  —  The mainstream media continues to botch the Mueller testimony.  Maybe if they pretended Trump was a black man, they'd get it right.  —  Former special counsel Robert S. Mueller testified before the House Judiciary …
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Why the Mueller Hearings Were So Alarming
Discussion: Common Dreams
Washington Post:
A weary old man with a warning
Discussion: 1A
Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
Robert Mueller Hearings Draw 13M Viewers, Fox News and MSNBC Lead
Discussion: The Week, The Wrap and Mediaite
Axios:
Senate Intel releases 1st volume of report on 2016 Russian interference
Discussion: Politico
CNN:
Treasury pick Monica Crowley spread Obama smears: ‘Can he be both loyal to Islam and loyal to the United States?’  —  Trump security pick plagiarized in 2012 book  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's pick for the top spokeswoman job at the Treasury Department repeatedly spread conspiracy theories …
Betsy Klein / CNN:
Trump appeared in front of this doctored seal and now a TPUSA aide is fired  —  (CNN)An audiovisual aide for conservative student group Turning Point USA was fired this week after President Donald Trump appeared on a stage in front of a parody image of the presidential seal at its Teen Student Action Summit.
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Nicholas Wu / USA Today:
Trump appears in front of altered presidential seal saying ‘45 is a puppet’
Discussion: VICE
Washington Post:
How Trump ended up in front of a presidential seal doctored to include a Russian symbol
Jerry Mitchell / ProPublica:
We Found Photos of Ole Miss Students Posing With Guns in Front of a Shot-Up Emmett Till Memorial.  Now They Face a Possible Civil Rights Investigation.  —  OXFORD, Miss. — Three University of Mississippi students have been suspended from their fraternity house and face possible investigation …
U.S. Department of Justice:
Federal Government to Resume Capital Punishment After Nearly Two Decade Lapse  —  Attorney General William P. Barr Directs the Federal Bureau of Prisons to Adopt an Addendum to the Federal Execution Protocol and Schedule the Executions of Five Death-Row Inmates Convicted of Murdering Children
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Margaret Harding McGill / Politico:
States talk tech antitrust concerns with AG Barr
Alexandra Svokos / ABC News:
Federal government resuming executions after 2 decades, names first 5 people to be killed
Discussion: Washington Post, Fox News and Politico
Renato Mariotti / Politico:
Actually, Robert Mueller Was Awesome  —  Former special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony Wednesday has been described as “excruciatingly awkward,” “confused,” “struggling” and “a stammering, stuttering mess.”  —  I saw something completely different.  From my perspective …
Discussion: Hot Air, Townhall and New York Post
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Christina Prignano / BostonGlobe.com:   Ed Markey calls for Trump impeachment in Senate speech
Ashe Schow / Daily Wire:   Adam Schiff's Hypocritical Lecture On ‘Morality’
Jonathan Dienst / NBC New York:
Jeffrey Epstein Found Injured in NYC Jail Cell After Possible Suicide Attempt or Assault: Sources  —  One source says an assault has not been ruled out, and that another inmate accused of murder has been questioned  —  No Bail for NYC Financier Jeff Epstein
Polls:
Biden Holds Large Edge  —  African American support boosts former VP  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Former Vice President Joe Biden is the clear front-runner among likely Democratic primary voters in South Carolina in the first Monmouth University Poll here for the 2020 cycle.
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Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:
Tulsi Gabbard, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Sues Google for $50 Million  —  Representative Tulsi Gabbard, the long-shot presidential candidate from Hawaii, said in a federal lawsuit that Google infringed on her free speech when it briefly suspended her campaign's advertising account after the first Democratic debate in June.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Mueller didn't fail.  The country did.  —  Being thousands of miles away from home in Portugal, a country that 45 years ago was in the grasp of a brutal dictatorship, gives me an interesting perspective on former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's Wednesday testimony and on the now nearly forgotten …
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Worst Part of the Mueller Hearings?  Republican Conspiracy Theories.  —  There's nothing wrong with defending the president during a scandal.  But denying reality helps no one.  —  Some things are so obvious that no one even bothers to mention them.  So I want to be clear …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and National Review
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Tom Nichols / USA Today:
Conspiracy theories, excusing Russians, attacking Mueller: How low can Republicans go?
Sarah Kendzior / Globe and Mail:   Mueller acted like a man terrified to state the obvious. The question remains: Why?
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Pro-Trump Republican aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar charged with felony theft  —  Exclusive: Danielle Stella, reported to support baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, held twice this year over alleged shoplifting  —  A pro-Trump Republican candidate for Congress who is aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar …
Discussion: Mediaite
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Will Trump's Racist Attacks Help Him?  Ask Blue-Collar White Women.  —  Donald Trump's turn toward more overt racism in his “go back” attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of color rests on an unspoken bet: that the women who are part of his core constituencies will respond to his acrimony as enthusiastically as the men.
Ilhan Omar / New York Times:
It Is Not Enough to Condemn Trump's Racism  —  The nation's ideals are under attack, and it is up to all of us to defend them.  —  Ms. Omar is a Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota.  —  Throughout history, demagogues have used state power to target minority communities and political enemies, often culminating in state violence.
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Speaker Pelosi just laid out the roadmap to impeachment  —  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) just used a high-profile press conference with three top committee Chairmen to lay out a path to impeachment in the wake of today's Mueller hearings which revealed detailed evidence of impeachable offenses.
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
GOP Sen. Josh Hawley grossly mischaracterized the views of 4 academics in his ‘cosmopolitan elites’ speech  —  The GOP's wunderkind doesn't appear to do his homework.  —  In his recent keynote address at the National Conservatism Conference, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) spoke about how a …
Caroline Haskins / VICE:
Amazon Requires Police to Shill Surveillance Cameras in Secret Agreement  —  The Lakeland, Florida police department is required to “encourage adoption” of Ring products as part of a secret agreement with the company.  —  Amazon's home security company Ring has enlisted local police departments around …
Katie Bo Williams / Defense One:
Graham: I Told Turkey They Can Avoid Sanctions If They Don't Activate Russian Radar  —  Sen. Lindsay Graham says President Trump asked him to make the call.  —  At President Trump's request, Sen. Lindsey Graham said, he called Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu with a simple pitch on Wednesday …
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Elizabeth Warren Has a Radical Plan to Beat Trump at His Own Game  —  The professor-turned-senator worked inside the system for decades.  Now she's stepping outside—way outside—and forcing Democrats to go with her.  —  Last fall, Elizabeth Warren got an email from Klaus Schwab …
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
David M. Drucker / Vanity Fair:
“She's Dangerous”: GOP Insiders Fear Kamala Could Be the Next Obama  —  Rattled by her deft vivisection of Joe Biden at the last debate, Republicans wonder how Harris might do against a real villain like Trump.  “She doesn't come across as a nutjob,” worries one GOP operative.
Caitlin Emma / Politico:
House Republicans balking as budget vote looms  —  GOP leaders — with some help from President Donald Trump — are scrambling to round up Republican support for a two-year, $2.7 trillion budget deal as the House moves toward a vote on the package Thursday afternoon.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Russia Thought the Mueller Hearings Were Hilarious  —  Russian state television evaluated the content of the hearings more honestly than Republicans and their pet networks in the United States.  —  As Robert S. Mueller III, the former special counsel, testified before Congress about the findings …
Discussion: Brookings and PJ Media Home
Congressman Peter DeFazio:
Statement from Rep. Peter DeFazio on Opening an Impeachment Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON—Rep. Peter DeFazio today released the following statement on opening an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump's offenses:  —  I believe that the time has come for the Judiciary Committee to open …
Discussion: The Guardian
UN Watch:
UN Singles Out Israel as World's Only Violator of Women's Rights; Iran, Saudi Arabia & Yemen Among the Voters  —  Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Pakistan were among members of the UN's 54-nation economic and social council, a principal organ of the world body, who voted to single …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Rubio cries ‘racist’ after being duped by a misleading tweet and video  —  “I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country, and so if fear was the driving force of policies to keep America safe …
Discussion: Townhall, Vox and Summit News
 
 
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Jean Mikle / Asbury Park Press:
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Peter Kirsanow / National Review:
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Elizabeth McLaughlin / ABC News:
16 Marines arrested at Camp Pendleton on charges ranging from human smuggling to drug-related offenses
New York Times:
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Discussion: Common Dreams and Mashable
Franco Ordoñez / NPR:
Trump Administration Considering ‘Travel Ban’ On Guatemalans After Asylum Snub
Discussion: Daily Wire and Fox News
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Inside Liberty University's ‘culture of fear’
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