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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Can we stop pretending Trump is fit to be president? — At various times over the past three and a half years, many of us have asked what would happen if President Trump truly went over the edge or if his behavior became so frightening that his unfitness for the most powerful position on Earth could no longer be denied.
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JONATHAN TURLEY, Raw Story, The Guardian and The Hill, more at Mediagazer »
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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Biden makes 1st in-person appearance in more than 2 months — NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden made his first in-person appearance in more than two months on Monday as he marked Memorial Day by laying a wreath at a veterans park near his Delaware home. — Since abruptly canceling …
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NBC News, Fox News, Axios, The Guardian and Florida Politics
Trevor Hunnicutt / Reuters:
Out of the house: Biden makes first public campaign stop in weeks — NEW CASTLE, Delaware (Reuters) - Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday made his first campaign trip outside his Delaware home since quarantining himself due to the coronavirus pandemic 10 weeks ago …
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The Hill
Baltimore Sun:
President Trump speaks at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, likening military service to those on front lines …
President Trump speaks at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, likening military service to those on front lines …
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Talking Points Memo
Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Trump honors fallen warriors at Memorial Day ceremonies, assures ‘we are the captains of our own fate’
Trump honors fallen warriors at Memorial Day ceremonies, assures ‘we are the captains of our own fate’
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Trump doubles up on Memorial Day events
Trump doubles up on Memorial Day events
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Breitbart
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Donald Trump, the Most Unmanly President — So many mysteries surround Donald Trump: the contents of his tax returns, the apparent miracle of his graduation from college. Some of them are merely curiosities; others are of national importance, such as whether he understood the nuclear-weapons briefing given to every president.
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Washington Monthly, The Root, Twitchy, Raw Story, Althouse and Scripting News
Politico:
Trump threatens to pull Republican convention out of North Carolina — President Donald Trump on Monday morning threatened to move August's Republican National Convention out of North Carolina unless there are guarantees the state will let everyone attend. — “I love the Great State …
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Associated Press, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Guardian, Breitbart and Althouse
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Tweets and Golfs, but Makes No Mention of Virus's Toll — Coronavirus deaths in the United States approached a staggering 100,000, a number the president once predicted would never be reached. — WASHINGTON — As President Trump's motorcade pulled into his golf club in Virginia …
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Common Dreams, The Hill and Vox
Courier-Journal:
Beshear hanged in effigy as Second Amendment supporters rally at Capitol before Memorial Day — What started out as a freedom-loving celebration of the Second Amendment ahead of Memorial Day turned into Gov. Andy Beshear being hanged in effigy and protesters chanting outside the governor's mansion.
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The Daily Caller, New York Post and TheBlaze
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Hollie Silverman / CNN:
An effigy of Kentucky Gov. Beshear was hung from a tree at the end of a Second Amendment rally
An effigy of Kentucky Gov. Beshear was hung from a tree at the end of a Second Amendment rally
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VICE, Talking Points Memo, IJR and Raw Story
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Is This the Blueprint for Sanders and AOC to Take Over the Democratic Party? — “When [Donald] Trump assumed the presidency after a 2016 election that Democrats should have won by a landslide ...” writes John Nichols in his new book, “the crisis came into focus. It was not the Republican Party that was ruining our politics.
Bari Weiss / New York Times:
Why Joe Rogan's Spotify Deal Matters — Talking to the podcasting king about his monster Spotify deal. — Ms. Weiss is an Opinion staff writer and editor, and the author of “How to Fight Anti-Semitism.” — When I saw the news that the king of all podcasting, Joe Rogan …
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The Wrap and Althouse, more at Mediagazer »
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Five Simple Tricks for Stealing the Election — Sure, he could use ordinary cheating to eke out another narrow Electoral College win and popular vote loss. But he has other cards up his sleeve if that doesn't work out this time. — BEAST INSIDE
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Raw Story and New York Times
David Siders / Politico:
Trump sees a ‘rigged election’ ahead. Democrats see a constitutional crisis in the making. — First he lit into Michigan and Nevada, threatening to withhold federal funding because of his assertion that both states were preparing to commit voter fraud through mail-in ballot applications.
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Raw Story and Rolling Stone
Wenxin Fan / Wall Street Journal:
Wuhan Tests Nine Million People for Coronavirus in 10 Days — City used ‘sample pooling’ for mass-testing regimen after a handful of fresh cases sparked concern — HONG KONG—The central Chinese city of Wuhan said early Monday that it had collected coronavirus swab tests from more than nine million …
Declan Walsh / New York Times:
By Air and Sea, Mercenaries Landed in Libya. Then the Plan Went South. — A short-lived mission uncovered by U.N. investigators offers a glimpse into the world of those who have thrived off Libya's chaos. — CAIRO — Two former British marines piloted their boats, a pair of military-grade inflatables …
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Trump Wants Schools ‘Opened ASAP’ After Watching Fox News Segment — ‘VERY GOOD INFORMATION’ — “Schools in our country should be opened ASAP. Much very good information now available,” Donald Trump tweeted on the eve of Memorial Day as the U.S. coronavirus death toll approached 100,000.
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The Sun
Axios:
WHO temporarily suspends trial of hydroxychloroquine over safety concerns — The World Health Organization is temporarily pausing tests of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus treatment in order to review safety concerns, the agency's director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu said Monday.
Nick Perry / Associated Press:
New Zealand leader carries on with TV interview during quake — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern barely skipped a beat when an earthquake struck during a live television interview — WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern barely skipped a beat …
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The Wrap
Ben Kesling / Wall Street Journal:
Swastikas Are Carved Into Three Military Gravestones. A Veteran Wants Them Removed. — VA officials say they can't remove the Nazi symbol on the World War II-era gravestones because of historical preservation laws — The Department of Veterans Affairs maintains more than four million gravesites across …
Washington Post:
As Trump removes federal watchdogs, some loyalists replacing them have ‘preposterous’ conflicts — The political appointee President Trump installed last week to investigate waste, fraud and abuse at the Transportation Department is the same official in charge of one of the agency's key divisions.
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Patterico's Pontifications and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Michael R. Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
Trump's Firing of Watchdogs Must Be Checked