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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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The Daily Beast:
‘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 …
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Mercury News
NBC News:
Gilroy Garlic Festival gunman referred to ‘Might is Right’ manifesto before shooting — Santino William Legan used an AK-47-style rifle he bought legally in Nevada to kill three and wound a dozen more. — What we know about shooting suspect's social media footprint
Ellyn Santiago / Heavy.com:
Santino William Legan: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Santino William Legan: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
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Rolling Stone, Hot Air, ABC News, CBS San Francisco, Media Matters for America and Law & Crime
New York Times:
Gilroy Festival Shooting in California Kills at Least 3
Gilroy Festival Shooting in California Kills at Least 3
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New York Magazine, NBC News, NBC Bay Area, CBS News, TMZ.com, The Trace, Media Matters for America and Splinter
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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Blue-collar white women are turning on Trump — The other day, Ron Brownstein served up a comprehensive, detailed analysis that suggested President Trump's base may be fracturing. In particular, Brownstein looked at an array of data that suggests blue-collar white women may be turning on Trump.
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POLITICUSUSA
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
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's new racist tweetstorm is actually a sign of weakness
Trump's new racist tweetstorm is actually a sign of weakness
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Politico, PJ Media Home, Talking Points Memo, POLITICUSUSA, Deadline and Mediaite
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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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Intel officials worry Trump's pick for top spy will politicize the job
Intel officials worry Trump's pick for top spy will politicize the job
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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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Bloomberg, The Hill, Daily Kos and ThinkProgress
David Rohde / New Yorker:
Trump's Message to U.S. Intelligence Officials: Be Loyal or Leave
Trump's Message to U.S. Intelligence Officials: Be Loyal or Leave
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CNN, Slate and Washington Post
Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
Democrats' Attack Machine Revs Up Against Ratcliffe
Democrats' Attack Machine Revs Up Against Ratcliffe
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CNN, Washington Post, Foreign Policy and VICE
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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Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA, The Week, Shareblue Media, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, Axios and New York Times
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Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Trump Pals Pushed Nuke Firm That Wanted to Undercut Protections Against a Saudi Bomb
Trump Pals Pushed Nuke Firm That Wanted to Undercut Protections Against a Saudi Bomb
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CNN, Politico and Washington Post
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Secret Campaign to Export U.S. Nuclear Tech to Saudi Arabia
Inside the Secret Campaign to Export U.S. Nuclear Tech to Saudi Arabia
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Politico, Fox News, Axios and New York Times
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
House Dems blast Trump insider in new report, allege profit motive in push for Saudi nuclear plan
House Dems blast Trump insider in new report, allege profit motive in push for Saudi nuclear plan
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Balloon Juice
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.
Associated Press:
Analysis: Trump's political and policy guardrails fall away — WASHINGTON (AP) — An unrepentant President Donald Trump has been testing the limits of the nation's tolerance from the day he took office. Now he has cast off one of the few remaining voices trying to curtail his at times mercurial impulses.
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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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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 Big League Politics
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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Rahm Emanuel / gen.medium.com:
A Memo to Our Democratic Presidential Candidates — Don't make Detroit's debates a repeat of Miami — rimary debates are about two things. First, candidates need to distinguish themselves from the rest of the field — something some of you did more successfully than others in Miami.
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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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Kamala Harris / Medium:
My Plan For Medicare For All — There is perhaps no more complicated …
My Plan For Medicare For All — There is perhaps no more complicated …
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
McConnell lashes out at media, Democrats over “Moscow Mitch” label — Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took to the Senate floor Monday to angrily defend himself against allegations that he is doing the bidding of Russian President Vladimir Putin by blocking a series of election security bills proposed by Democrats.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell blasts ‘modern-day McCarthyism,’ defends blocking election bills
McConnell blasts ‘modern-day McCarthyism,’ defends blocking election bills
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Political Wire
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
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Is Sally Quinn an Aristocrat? Let's Ask Sally Quinn — Despite not completely miserable DC-area weather, a segment of journalism Twitter users spent part of their weekends debating whether Sally Quinn is an aristocrat. How did we get here? It involves Maureen Dowd, Howard Fineman …
U.S. Department of Justice:
Two Men Arrested for Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIS — John Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Michael Bailey, the United States Attorney for the District of Arizona, Michael McGarrity, Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterterrorism Division …
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Big League Politics
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.
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump's race playbook: Excoriate the left and enthrall his base — Reigniting his racially divisive rhetoric, Trump is testing whether an amped-up version of his 2016 strategy can deliver victory again in 2020. — With 16 months until the next election, President Donald Trump is making …
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Washington Post, Vox and New York Times
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.