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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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NBC News, NBC Bay Area, Mercury News, Denver Post, The Daily Beast, Splinter and Media Matters for America
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 Chicago, Hot Air, Media Matters for America, CBS San Francisco 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
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, Reuters, Breitbart, 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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Mediaite, PJ Media Home, Talking Points Memo, RedState and POLITICUSUSA
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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CityLab, Salon, Hullabaloo, The Daily Beast, Axios, Daily Kos and The Resurgent
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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National Review, Shareblue Media and NB Blog
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump's Twitter Attacks Are Backfiring
Trump's Twitter Attacks Are Backfiring
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Politico, ThinkProgress and Breitbart, more at Mediagazer »
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The Yuripzy Morgan Show
The Yuripzy Morgan Show
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Washington Monthly, Axios, USA Today, Talking Points Memo, Breitbart, Fortune, Politico, New York Post and The Week
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Democrats call Trump racist as he doubles down on attack on Baltimore, Rep. Cummings
Democrats call Trump racist as he doubles down on attack on Baltimore, Rep. Cummings
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Townhall, Roll Call, POLITICUSUSA, twitchy.com, Big League Politics, Breitbart, Daily Wire, Dienekes' Place, Rolling Stone and The Week
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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Rahm Emanuel / gen.medium.com:
A Memo to Our Democratic Presidential Candidates
A Memo to Our Democratic Presidential Candidates
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Fox News, Breitbart, 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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Politico, The Daily Caller, The Atlantic, Talking Points Memo, The Week, The Stream and New York Times
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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, ThinkProgress 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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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, CNN 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.
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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Washington Post, Axios and Reason
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Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
Trade—On Our Terms — Last month, I released my economic …
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
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 …
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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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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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 …
Tom Scocca / Slate:
Who Are Your Chrises? — I was trying to figure out whether I could make the new Twitter layout show me the latest tweets forever, instead of constantly reverting to showing me what Twitter thinks are the tweets I should see, and that sent me blundering into the Twitter preferences menus …
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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