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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 …
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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 …
New York Times:
Gilroy Festival Shooting in California Kills at Least 3 — At least three people were killed and 12 more were injured in a shooting at a garlic festival in Gilroy, Calif., on Sunday, the authorities said. — A suspect carrying an assault-style rifle was fatally shot by the Gilroy police …
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New York Magazine, NBC News, NBC Bay Area, Mercury News, The Trace, CBS News, Splinter and Media Matters for America
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.
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Rolling Stone, CBS San Francisco, ABC News, Hot Air, Media Matters for America and Law & Crime
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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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Racism Infests the Republican Party
Trump's Racism Infests the Republican Party
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CNN, Washington Examiner, Salon, CityLab, Hullabaloo, The Daily Beast and Axios
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Blue-collar white women are turning on Trump
Blue-collar white women are turning on Trump
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POLITICUSUSA
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump's Twitter Attacks Are Backfiring
Trump's Twitter Attacks Are Backfiring
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Politico, Breitbart and Common Dreams
A.B. Stoddard / The Bulwark:
Republicans Can Defend Elijah Cummings Any Time Now
Republicans Can Defend Elijah Cummings Any Time Now
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CNN, Shareblue Media and National Review
Washington Post:
Trump friend with business ties to Middle East pushed to shape U.S. policy in the region, House Democratic report says — Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a Los Angeles-based investor and informal adviser to President Trump, sought powerful positions in the Trump administration in 2017 while pushing …
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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 …
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Talking Points Memo and Axios
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 …
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House Committee on Oversight and Reform:
New Documents Show Corporate and Foreign Interests Seek to Influence U.S. Nuclear Policy
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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New York Times:
Trump's Choice of a Partisan for Top Intelligence Post Rattles Critics
Trump's Choice of a Partisan for Top Intelligence Post Rattles Critics
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ThinkProgress, Bloomberg and The Hill
Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
Democrats' Attack Machine Revs Up Against Ratcliffe
Democrats' Attack Machine Revs Up Against Ratcliffe
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Washington Post, CNN and VICE
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?
“You Know Where She Stands”: Is Elizabeth Warren the One?
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Washington Free Beacon
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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Rahm Emanuel / gen.medium.com:
A Memo to Our Democratic Presidential Candidates
A Memo to Our Democratic Presidential Candidates
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Politico, Breitbart, Axios and BizPac Review
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Release Climate ‘Equity’ Plan
Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Release Climate ‘Equity’ Plan
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Mother Jones, ThinkProgress, Breitbart, Common Dreams, Earther and Curbed
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 …
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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
Fact-Checking Trump's Claim He ‘Spent a Lot of Time’ With 9/11 Responders
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
ProPublica:
Parents Are Giving Up Custody of Their Kids to Get Need-Based College Financial Aid — First, parents turn over guardianship of their teenagers to a friend or relative. Then the student declares financial independence to qualify for tuition aid and scholarships.
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