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The Daily Beast:
Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting Suspect Posted About Far-Right Book Moments Before Shooting  —  Santino Legan allegedly told an eyewitness he was “really angry” and ranted in white supremacist fashion on Instagram from the event.  —  The gunman who murdered three people at a food festival …
Discussion: Associated Press, Daily Kos and VICE
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‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams Tries to Sell Interviews With Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting Survivors  —  After the mass shooting, he advertised his new app that would somehow let people set a price for their stories—and give him a 20 percent cut.  —  As police in Gilroy, California …
Ellyn Santiago / Heavy.com:
Santino William Legan: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know  —  Santino William Legan has been identified as the 19-year-old suspect accused of killing three people and wounding several others in a mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California, according to CBS News.
San Francisco Chronicle:
Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting: 3 killed, 15 wounded, gunman dead
Washington Post:
House Republicans plan yearly retreat in Baltimore despite Trump's attacks  —  President Trump on Saturday called Baltimore a “very dangerous & filthy place” and suggested that Democratic politicians, including Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, had made the city all but uninhabitable.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's new racist tweetstorm is actually a sign of weakness  —  Whenever President Trump unleashes one of his racist attacks, the political world tends to go through a now-predictable cycle.  We are first told Republicans think Trump's latest racist display is brilliant politics, a view often pushed by Trump himself.
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The Yuripzy Morgan Show
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump's Twitter Attacks Are Backfiring
Discussion: Politico, ThinkProgress and Breitbart
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Blue-collar white women are turning on Trump
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
David Zurawik / Baltimore Sun:
As furor over Trump's Baltimore tweets continues, CNN host asks how the press should cover them
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Trump aide submitted drafts of 2016 ‘America First’ energy speech to UAE for edits, emails show  —  When candidate Donald Trump prepared to give a major energy speech during the 2016 campaign, one of his closest advisers provided a pre-speech review to senior United Arab Emirates officials …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Axios
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Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Trump Pals Pushed Nuke Firm That Wanted to Undercut Protections Against a Saudi Bomb  —  Two of Trump's most trusted confidants pushed hard for a company looking to take away the guardrails preventing Saudi Arabia from becoming a nuclear power.  —  Two of President Trump's closest advisers pushed hard …
Discussion: Politico
House Committee on Oversight and Reform:   New Documents Show Corporate and Foreign Interests Seek to Influence U.S. Nuclear Policy
Washington Post:
Trump friend with business ties to Middle East pushed to shape U.S. policy in the region, House Democratic report says
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:   House Dems blast Trump insider in new report, allege profit motive in push for Saudi nuclear plan
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Top DCCC staffer out amid diversity uproar  —  The executive director of the House Democrats' campaign arm is stepping down amid an outcry from Democratic lawmakers over the lack of diversity in the committee's senior ranks.  —  Executive Director Allison Jaslow, a close confidante …
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
DCCC in ‘complete chaos’ as uproar over diversity intensifies  —  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is in full-blown turmoil.  —  Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairwoman Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) was set to make an unplanned trip to Washington from her district Monday amid …
NBC News:
Executive director of House Democrats' campaign arm resigns
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Intelligence chief pick Ratcliffe made his name during the Trump inquiries by backing the president  —  Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Tex.), President Trump's pick to serve as the next director of national intelligence, has made his name in Congress as one of the GOP's most dogged critics …
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Mad Dog PAC:   Dear John (RATcliff) - I have a few questions about your Financial Disclosures
Kamala Harris / Medium:
My Plan For Medicare For All  —  There is perhaps no more complicated or more personal issue for Americans than health care.  I know this from my own personal life, caring for my mother as she battled colon cancer.  And I also know it from talking to so many Americans in this campaign …
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QU Poll:
Release Detail  —  July 29, 2019 - Biden Bounces Back As Harris Slumps Among U.S. Dems, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 54 Percent Of All U.S. Voters Say Never Trump  —  Former Vice President Joseph Biden reverses his slump following the first Democratic presidential debate …
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Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“You Know Where She Stands”: Is Elizabeth Warren the One?
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
You'll never believe what Donald Trump just said about 9/11  —  (CNN)Donald Trump has always had a bit of Walter Mitty in him.  But on Monday morning, in a speech to first responders and others impacted by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, he took his fantastical memory of himself to new and not-at-all-appropriate heights.
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Fact-Checking Trump's Claim He ‘Spent a Lot of Time’ With 9/11 Responders
Discussion: Washington Post
Connie Bruck / New Yorker:
Alan Dershowitz, Devil's Advocate  —  The noted lawyer's long, controversial career—and the accusations against him.  —  “A lie is a lie is a lie,” Whoopi Goldberg said.  It was May 2nd, and she was on the set of “The View,” the daytime talk show that she co-hosts.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Inside Trump's 'Apprentice'-worthy showdown with airline CEOs  —  Exclusive: The president rebuffed U.S. airlines and trade adviser Peter Navarro in a tense Oval Office meeting.  —  WASHINGTON — The three largest U.S. airlines presumed that President Donald Trump would take their side in a ferocious …
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Trump Strain in American History  —  White supremacy has its own peculiar logic, to which the president is peculiarly attuned.  —  President Trump has done nothing for his white working-class voters.  His signature tax cut was a giveaway to powerful business interests and wealthy heirs.
Discussion: Daily Kos, VICE and The Daily Beast
VICE:
Michigan's White, Blue-Collar Voters Helped Give Trump the White House.  Will They Turn on Him in 2020?  —  WARREN, Michigan — Ryan Hartung has worked at General Motors' Warren transmission plant for 13 years, a short stretch compared to his dad and many others who put in decades at the plant.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Inside Donald Trump's ‘brilliant and sinister’ merchandising operation  —  Brad Parscale had just boarded a Jet Blue flight earlier this month when the paper straw he was using ripped in half.  —  As he tried to keep his iced tea from spilling onto his suit, the annoyed Trump campaign manager tweeted …
Michael Sneed / Chicago Sun-Times:
Betsy Ebeling, Hillary Clinton's best friend and ‘incredibly wonderful person,’ dies  —  Betsy Ebeling, bottom, school friend of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., cheers after Clinton won six states during the presidential primary at Junior's Sports Lounge, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008.  AP
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Don't get complacent.  Things really are that bad under Trump.  —  The economy is humming.  We're not at war (much).  So he can't be that bad, right?  —  Steadfast NeverTrumpers may find it hard to believe, but I'm hearing that argument more and more lately, as people try to come to terms …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 
 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

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DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

 
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