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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Donald Trump vs. the United States of America — The full picture reveals a man who presents a clear and present danger to the country. — Sometimes it's worth stepping back to look at the full picture. — He has pressured a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 American presidential election.
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Raw Story and Hullabaloo
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Nancy Pelosi's Failure to Launch — The House speaker's hesitation on impeachment empowers a lawless president. — Elizabeth Warren on Friday evening sent out a series of tweets that, in addition to calling out Donald Trump for his criminality, rebuked Congress for enabling him.
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CNN, Breitbart, Splinter and Occupy Democrats
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
It's time, Speaker Pelosi — Let's imagine for the moment a hypothetical in which Nancy Pelosi continues along the current course, keeping it somewhat vague on her final intentions until, in the end, the drive to impeach President Trump concludes without the Speaker endorsing or allowing any full House vote on impeachment articles.
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U.S. Political News …, CNN, New York Times, Vanity Fair, Shareblue Media and Hot Air
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How the Media Helped Trump Carry Out His Ukraine Smear — On May 1, the New York Times published a story that contained the most important facets of the Ukraine story. The Times reported that President Trump, through his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was pressing Ukraine's government to investigate Joe Biden.
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Crooked Media, Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Common Dreams, New York Times, Hot Air and Raw Story
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
The strategic case for impeaching President Trump — Welcome to some zero-sum game theory. — The facts are dribbling out about President Trump's efforts to seek official foreign assistance to take actions that would harm his domestic political rivals. Those facts are rather appalling …
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Bloomberg, The Independent, Talking Points Memo, KTLA, Althouse, The Week, Common Dreams, New York Times and Raw Story
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Blurts Out to Reporters That He Pressured Ukraine to Smear Biden — Over the past two days, President Trump has drained most of the remaining mystery from the world's least mysterious crime drama. In a series of comments to the media, the president casually revealed that yes …
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Graham urges Trump to release more details of call with Ukrainian president — Sen. Lindsey Graham on Monday repeatedly encouraged President Donald Trump to release further details of his July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which Trump reportedly pressured …
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Townhall, Bloomberg, CNBC, Mother Jones, Hot Air, One America News Network, Daily Kos, Political Wire and Breitbart
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump just inched toward spilling the beans on Ukraine — President Trump's lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani has been defending his client as if Trump offered Ukraine a quid pro quo in exchange for investigating their political opponents. Yet this weekend, Trump denied pressuring Ukraine to do anything.
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RedState, Just Security, New York Post, Political Wire, Raw Story and Wall Street Journal
Quint Forgey / Politico:
White House press secretary says daily briefings aren't coming back any time soon
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Axios, New Republic, Raw Story, FiveThirtyEight, Wall Street Journal, Daily Kos, U.S. Political News … and Breitbart
John Wagner / Washington Post:
GOP rival Bill Weld says Trump has committed ‘treason, pure and simple’
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Reason, Breitbart and Alaska Public Media
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Moderate Dems eye impeachment as Ukraine furor builds
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U.S. Political News …, Roll Call, Washington Post, The Guardian, Slate and Political Wire
Caitlin Webber / Bloomberg:
Giuliani Says He Can't Guarantee That Trump Didn't Threaten Ukraine Aid
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Mother Jones
Rex Huppke / Chicago Tribune:
Column: Trump pulls ‘reverse-Nixon’ over Ukraine call: ‘I AM A CROOK!’
Fox News:
Source says whistleblower didn't have ‘firsthand knowledge’ of Trump call with Ukraine president
Discussion:
Townhall and Daily Wire
Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
The Trump-Ukraine Story is a Stress Test
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Politico, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, Washington Examiner and The American Conservative, more at Mediagazer »
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Impeachment pressure escalates as Democrats demand release of whistleblower's Trump complaint
Discussion:
Common Dreams, Fox News and Daily Kos
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Truth, Lies, and the Nonsense Trump-Biden-Ukraine False Equivalency
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National Review, The Federalist and Power Line
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Republicans Have Four Options on Trump and Ukraine. They're All Bad.
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Raw Story
Mike Levine / ABC News:
FBI arrests Army soldier who allegedly discussed plans to bomb major American news network — The FBI has arrested a U.S. soldier who allegedly discussed plans to bomb a major American news network, planned to travel to Ukraine to fight with violent far-right group Azov Battalion …
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Zach Montellaro / Politico:
DNC raises threshold to make November debate stage — The Democratic National Committee has slightly raised the bar to qualify for the November primary debate in a move unlikely to significantly reduce the number of participating candidates. — Candidates will need to clear 3 percent …
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New York Times, Townhall, Washington Post, Axios, The Week, Splinter and Political Wire
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Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Elizabeth Warren's choice: ‘Medicare for All’ purity or a path to beating Donald Trump? — Medicare for All is one of the most hotly debated topics in the 2020 election. But what is it? And how will it work? We explain. … CONNECT — TWEET — LINKEDIN — COMMENT — EMAIL
Discussion:
DemCast and Iowa Starting Line
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Biden-Linked Firm Tests Messages to Undercut ‘Medicare for All’
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Politico
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
Immigrant kids fill this town's schools. Their bus driver is leading the backlash. — WORTHINGTON, Minn. — It was the first day of school, so Don Brink was behind the wheel of his bus, its yellow paint glistening in the drizzling dawn. Wearing jeans and a John Deere cap …
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Balloon Juice
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump says he is worthy of a Nobel Prize ‘for a lot of things’ — but isn't treated fairly — President Trump claimed Monday that he deserves a Nobel Prize for “a lot of things” but complained that the committee that hands out the awards does so unfairly. — The comment came during …
Discussion:
Political Wire, The New Neo, Breitbart and The Week
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Osita Nwanevu / New Republic:
The “Cancel Culture” Con — On April 1, 1964, Herbert Ruhe, an ex-CIA agent formerly stationed in Vietnam, submitted a surveillance report to the office of the Manhattan District Attorney about a person of interest to city officials. On the basis of the material Ruhe had gathered the previous night …
Ben Jacobs / Jewish Insider:
Pete Buttigieg: College football is ‘problematic’ — The Notre Dame fan and presidential hopeful thinks the amateur model 'isn't fair anymore' — ELKADER, IOWA — Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg said he had moral qualms about being a college football fan and found it “problematic” on Monday.
Jennifer Maloney / Wall Street Journal:
Federal Prosecutors Conducting Criminal Probe of Juul — E-cigarette maker facing several federal, state investigations into its marketing — Federal prosecutors in California are conducting a criminal probe into e-cigarette maker Juul Labs Inc., according to people familiar with the matter …
Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
Boris Johnson Faces a New Scandal, and ‘People See Blood in the Water’ — LONDON — On Prime Minister Boris Johnson's turbulent path to Downing Street, serial philandering and ethical sloppiness became part of his schtick, blots on a career so chaotic and beguiling that the British public always seemed to forgive the mistakes.
Popular Information:
Massive “I Love America” Facebook page, pushing pro-Trump propaganda, is run by Ukrainians — The “I Love America” Facebook page boasts 1.1 million fans, with viral content that reaches more Facebook users than some of the largest media outlets in the United States.
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The Week, more at Techmeme »
Ott Ummelas / Bloomberg:
Police Begin Search After Danske's Ex-CEO in Estonia Goes Missing — Police in Estonia are looking for the man who used to run the Danske Bank unit now at the center of a money-laundering scandal that's triggered multiple criminal investigations. — Aivar Rehe, who was the chief executive officer …
Mark Maremont / Wall Street Journal:
NRA Board Retroactively Approved Transactions Benefiting Insiders — Audit committee gave OK after the fact to IT contract for friend of CFO, 10-year renewal of board member — The National Rifle Association's board retroactively approved numerous financial arrangements benefiting top officials …
Miriam Elder / BuzzFeed News:
Two #MeToo Books Were Just Published. One Is Great. The Other Shows You What Not To Do. — Early in She Said, the new book by New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey on their investigation into Harvey Weinstein, the reporters describe the way that he-said/she-said dynamics prevent stories …
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