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During El Paso hospital visit, Trump compared his and O'Rourke's crowd sizes at political rallies, video shows — A video that surfaced of President Trump's visit Wednesday to an El Paso hospital in the wake of a mass shooting shows him talking to medical staff about the crowd sizes …
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Mediaite, CNN, Vanity Fair, Shareblue Media, Colorado Pols, Daily Kos, Politico, The Daily Caller, Hullabaloo, Common Dreams, The Week, Towleroad Gay News, Axios and Breitbart
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The ugliness of politics is on full display right now
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NRCC and The Federalist
John Fritze / USA Today:
A USA TODAY analysis found Trump used words like ‘invasion’ and ‘killer’ at rallies more than 500 times since 2017
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Maggie Haberman: White House Staffers Privately Admit Trump's El Paso, Dayton Visits Were a ‘Debacle’
Maggie Haberman: White House Staffers Privately Admit Trump's El Paso, Dayton Visits Were a ‘Debacle’
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Vanity Fair and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
Bill Clinton / TIME:
President Bill Clinton: Reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban Now
President Bill Clinton: Reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban Now
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Washington Post, Reason, CNN, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Washington Times, Daily Kos and Mediaite
Richard Parker / New York Times:
Was Trump's El Paso Visit a Turning Point?
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Biden: If Elected President, I'll Let Mitch McConnell Block Everything — Joe Biden, touring Iowa, told reporters, in so many words, that his plan is to have an ineffectual, failed presidency. Or, as Biden put it more pithily, “Ending the filibuster is a very dangerous move.”
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Trump Weighs New Stance on Guns as Pressure Mounts After Shootings — WASHINGTON — In the wake of two mass shootings, the divisive politics of gun control appeared to be in flux on Thursday as President Trump explored whether to back expanded background checks on gun purchasers and Senator Mitch McConnell …
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New York Post, Washington Post, Shareblue Media, Daily Kos, The Root, FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV, FOX2now.com and CNN
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Trump campaign, GOP committees halt Twitter spending after McConnell account locked
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Harry Reid to Dems: Kill the Filibuster to Tackle the Climate Crisis
Harry Reid to Dems: Kill the Filibuster to Tackle the Climate Crisis
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The Atlantic, Axios, Washington Post, Politico, Commentary, Vox, One America News Network and Common Dreams
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Deputy Intel Chief Sue Gordon Is Out After Trump Snub — Sue Gordon would have been next in line as acting director following the scheduled departure of Dan Coats on Aug. 15. — One of America's most seasoned intelligence officials is leaving the building.
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Balloon Juice
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Trump announces shakeup at top of U.S. intelligence — President Trump said in a tweet Thursday that he will name Joseph Maguire, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, as the acting director of national intelligence. — Maguire will assume the role Aug. 15, when Sue Gordon …
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Says Deputy Intelligence Director to Resign With Coats
Trump Says Deputy Intelligence Director to Resign With Coats
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Townhall
Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Trump names counterterror chief Joseph Maguire acting director of national intelligence
Trump names counterterror chief Joseph Maguire acting director of national intelligence
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Axios, The Daily Caller and UPI
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Biden Holds Lead, Warren on the Chase — Most prefer public option over Medicare for All; Less than half the 2020 field seen as likely to beat Trump — West Long Branch, NJ - Former Vice President Joe Biden maintains a lead in the Hawkeye State, but Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren …
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New York Times, CNN, Politico, POLITICUSUSA, Breitbart, Florida Politics, Washington Times, New York Post, The Daily Caller, Fox News, The Federalist and Political Wire
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They Paid $42 for a SoulCycle Ride, Not for Trump — A look at what happens when politics enters every spandex-clad corner of life, especially in the Hamptons. — WATER MILL, N.Y. — Dressed in workout clothes, Lulu Hall hovered by the front door of the SoulCycle while fighting back tears.
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CBS Miami, Los Angeles Times, Slate and Washington Post
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Sobbing 11-year-old girl begs for dad's release after massive ICE raid — After ICE agents took approximately 680 workers at seven Mississippi food processing plants into custody on Wednesday in the largest single-state immigration raid in U.S. history, 11-year-old Magdalena Gomez Gregorio tearfully begged for her father's release.
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WDEF-TV and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Alex Love / WJTV:
Children of undocumented immigrants arrested in Mississippi rely on strangers for food and shelter
Children of undocumented immigrants arrested in Mississippi rely on strangers for food and shelter
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The Clarion Ledger, CNN, Justice News, WTVR-TV, NPR, Washington Post, New York Times, Law & Crime, The Guardian, UPI, Reason, The Post Millennial, Diamond & Silk, The Week, ImmigrationProf Blog, Boing Boing, Shareblue Media, Splinter, Rolling Stone, ICE, Daily Kos, Jezebel, Jackson Free Press and Towleroad Gay News
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Long John Silver's Drops Fox News After Tucker Carlson Said White Supremacy's A ‘Hoax’ — The brand is one of more than 20 that have stopped advertising during the Fox News host's show because of his offensive rhetoric. — Fox News and host Tucker Carlson are losing more advertisers.
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ThinkProgress, The Daily Beast and TVNewser
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Kellyanne Conway Defends Tucker Carlson, Says White Supremacy Gets ‘Outsized Coverage’ Compared to Antifa
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CNN
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The Harvard Professor Scam Gets Even Weirder Six other men describe their encounters with the same mysterious Frenchwoman. — Two weeks ago, New York readers were introduced to Bruce Hay, the Harvard Law School professor who had a brief affair with a young woman named Maria-Pia Shuman …
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I can no longer justify being a part of Trump's ‘Complacent State.’ So I'm resigning. — Chuck Park's resignation from the Foreign Service is effective Thursday. — I was 26, newly married and more than a little idealistic when I set off for my first diplomatic assignment almost a decade ago …
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CNN, Fox News, Washington Press, Hullabaloo and Mediaite
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Exclusive: Critical U.S. Election Systems Have Been Left Exposed Online Despite Official Denials — The top voting machine company in the country insists that its election systems are never connected to the internet. But researchers found 35 of the systems have been connected to the internet …
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Engadget, The Verge and Florida Politics, more at Techmeme »
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Quiz: Let Us Predict Whether You're a Democrat or a Republican — Tell us a few details about you and we'll guess which political party you belong to. It shouldn't be that simple, right? We're all complex people with a multiplicity of identities and values.
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Andrew McCabe sues FBI over firing, alleges plot by Trump to oust those disloyal to the president — Andrew McCabe, the acting FBI director who authorized an investigation into President Trump for ties to Russia and possible obstruction of justice, filed a lawsuit against the bureau …
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Vox, POLITICUSUSA and Political Wire
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Andrew McCabe, Former F.B.I. Deputy Director, Sues Over His Dismissal
Andrew McCabe, Former F.B.I. Deputy Director, Sues Over His Dismissal
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Power Line
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Episode 2: Attorney General William Barr — A conversation with Mr. Barr about how his thinking about criminal justice issues has evolved since he first served as Attorney General in the early 1990s, as well as a conversation about the themes of justice as depicted in popular culture.
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Talking Points Memo and Law & Crime
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Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
In New Interview, Bill Barr Sees Dirty Harry, Death Wish As Justice Done Right
In New Interview, Bill Barr Sees Dirty Harry, Death Wish As Justice Done Right
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Crime Story and Hullabaloo
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Will Shootings Sway Voters? Look First to Virginia Races — The state's elections in November will test the potency of gun rights as a voting issue. Democrats are looking to take power and enact gun control legislation next year. — CENTREVILLE, Va. — At door after door, house after house …
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Lead U.S. prosecutor in '08 Epstein case — who sources say wanted to charge him — resigns — A. Marie Villafaña, the lead federal prosecutor who helped negotiate a controversial plea deal for accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, has submitted her resignation to the Justice Department, the Miami Herald has learned.
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New York Post and Breitbart
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Ocasio-Cortez rips her ex-chief of staff for ‘divisive’ tweet about fellow Dems, but insists he left her office on good terms — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez scolded her ex-chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti on Wednesday for comparing some of her centrist colleagues to racist Dixiecrats …
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Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, PJ Media Home, IJR, Politico and National Review
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Collins attends fundraiser at $4m mansion of nation's top anti-choice judicial activist — Senator Susan Collins attended a private campaign fundraising event tonight at the $4-million Northeast Harbor summer mansion of Leonard Leo, the executive vice president of the Federalist Society.
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Superior man believed he was acting on Trump's orders in attacking boy for wearing hat during national anthem — The attorney for a 39-year-old man charged with assaulting a child who didn't take his hat off for the national anthem says his client, compromised by a traumatic brain injury …
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Task & Purpose, Talking Points Memo, The Independent and VICE
Archie Carter / Quillette:
DSA Is Doomed — I am working class and a Marxist-Leninist. I believe in a revolution of the proletariat, and the usurpation of the ruling class. As I looked around the political landscape after Donald Trump's election win, I noticed the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
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Splinter