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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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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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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 …
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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ABC News, CBS San Francisco, Media Matters for America, The National Interest, The Daily Caller and Law & Crime
Susan Scutti / CNN:
Festival shooter Santino Legan legally purchased his rifle in Nevada. Here's what else we know about the 19-year-old
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Guardian, Splinter, Breitbart, Reuters, IJR and KTLA
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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A.B. Stoddard / The Bulwark:
Republicans Can Defend Elijah Cummings Any Time Now — I know I'm not alone, but I spent most of my weekend waiting on Mark Meadows. Meadows has been mute since President Trump attacked one of his dear friends on Saturday—Elijah Cummings. — You may remember that back in February, Rashida Tlaib accused Meadows of “a racist act.”
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National Review, Shareblue Media and Washington Post
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Racism Infests the Republican Party — As his latest foray into bigotry shows, the president is feeling empowered by the lack of opposition from within the GOP. — Back in February, Representative Elijah Cummings, a black Democrat, stood up for his friend, Representative Mark Meadows, a white Republican.
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump's Twitter Attacks Are Backfiring
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Politico, ThinkProgress and Breitbart
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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National Review, UPI, The Daily Caller, Political Wire and Roll Call
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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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Townhall, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Front Page Magazine, CNSNews, Splinter, The Week and National Review
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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New York Times:
Kamala Harris Sets Up Debate Showdown on Health Care With New Plan
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Rahm Emanuel / gen.medium.com:
A Memo to Our Democratic Presidential Candidates
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Axios and BizPac Review
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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Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
Democrats' Attack Machine Revs Up Against Ratcliffe
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CNN, RedState and 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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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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Washington Post, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Times and Political Wire
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 …
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.
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
‘He realizes now that he screwed up’: Biden scrambles to recover from debate flop — Not long after his anemic performance in the first presidential debate, as his poll numbers began to slide, Joe Biden had conversations with nervous donors and personally assured them his campaign was on track.
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NBC News, The Daily Caller and The Week
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Congressman Emanuel Cleaver:
Congressman Cleaver Calls For Impeachment Inquiry — (Kansas City, MO) - Today, United States Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) called for an impeachment inquiry and released the following statement: … Emanuel Cleaver, II is the U.S. Representative for Missouri's Fifth Congressional District …
Adam Behsudi / Politico:
Warren moves to outflank Trump on trade — Elizabeth Warren released a trade plan Monday that's closer to Donald Trump's agenda than Barack Obama's. — The sweeping trade agenda, posted on Medium ahead of a town hall in Toledo, Ohio, on Monday evening, channels many of the critiques …
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Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
Trade—On Our Terms — Last month, I released my economic …
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CNN, Daily Kos, The Guardian and UPI
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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VICE and The Daily Beast
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Texas Made An Example Out Of Crystal Mason — For Trying To Vote — She's appealing a five-year prison sentence and fighting to save her home, all so the state can prop up the myth of “voter fraud.” There are serious questions about the case against her. — RENDON, Texas ― …
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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 …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Democrats sound alarm on “massive” GOP Senate advantage in 2020 — In 2016, every single Senate race went to the candidate of the same party that those states voted for in the presidential election, according to a new analysis by the Democratic group One Country Project, provided exclusively to Axios.
Ayman M. Mohyeldin / Vanity Fair:
No One Is Safe: How Saudi Arabia Makes Dissidents Disappear — The assassination of Jamal Khashoggi was no aberration. A Vanity Fair investigation reveals how Saudi Arabia attempts to abduct, repatriate—and sometimes murder—citizens it regards as enemies of the state. — DÜSSELDORF
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