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Yael Halon / Fox News:
Zuckerberg knocks Twitter for fact-checking Trump, says private companies shouldn't be ‘the arbiter of truth’ — Mark Zuckerberg on Twitter fact-checking Trump: Private companies shouldn't be the arbiter of truth — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called out Twitter for attaching …
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Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Trump's Mental State Collapses Over Twitter Fact Check — Trump is referring to himself in the third person: … Trump is spreading more Joe Scarborough murder conspiracies: … Trump threatened Twitter: … All of these events happened within one hour.
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Redstate, National Review and Patterico's Pontifications
Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Trump threatens Twitter over fact checks: What's next?
Trump threatens Twitter over fact checks: What's next?
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Politico, NBC News, Breitbart, Real Clear Politics and Associated Press
Emily Birnbaum / Protocol:
Trump supporters are on the attack against Yoel Roth. Twitter is standing by him.
Trump supporters are on the attack against Yoel Roth. Twitter is standing by him.
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The New Civil Rights Movement, CNN, Fox News and The Verge, more at Mediagazer »
Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has voted by mail 11 times in 10 years — The Republican spokeswoman has said it shouldn't be available to everyone. — For a week, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has defended President Donald Trump's assault on vote-by-mail, insisting …
Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
Christian Cooper, That Central Park Incident and His Feelings About Her Fate — Christian Cooper is already back birding at Central Park. “I'm not excusing the racism,” he said. “But I don't know if her life needed to be torn apart.” — His binoculars around his neck, Christian Cooper …
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Kyle Smith / National Review:
The Central Park Dog Case Is Covington 2.0 — Once again, further evidence upended the narrative of a viral video — but not before someone's life and reputation were destroyed. — Funny thing about viral videos: They don't necessarily give the full and complete context for what happened, do they?
Christina Maxouris / CNN:
Christian Cooper is asking people to stop making death threats against the woman who called the cops on him
Christian Cooper is asking people to stop making death threats against the woman who called the cops on him
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The Daily Caller, Discourse Blog and TheBlaze
Business Insider:
The Trump campaign's new chief of staff was arrested on campaign finance charges in 2016 after cops busted her boyfriend for cocaine and found incriminating texts on his phone — Stephanie Alexander was named chief of staff of Donald Trump's re-election campaign on Tuesday.
Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
Conservative Activists Lose Lawsuit That Accused Twitter, Google and Facebook of Censorship — A federal court dismissed activist Laura Loomer's lawsuit against several tech platforms on Wednesday. The complaint alleged a far-flung conspiracy to censor conservative speech.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Appeals court ruling suggests little legal traction for Trump's anti-Twitter campaign
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Social media bias lawsuits keep failing in court
Social media bias lawsuits keep failing in court
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Avie Schneider / NPR:
Trump Threatens To Shut Down Social Media After Twitter Adds Warning To His Tweets
Trump Threatens To Shut Down Social Media After Twitter Adds Warning To His Tweets
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Vox, Big League Politics and Axios
Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
What Would Happen if Twitter Banned Trump?
What Would Happen if Twitter Banned Trump?
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Washington Post, New Republic and Rolling Stone
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
For a numbers-obsessed Trump, there's one he has tried to ignore: 100,000 dead — President Trump has spent his life in thrall to numbers — his wealth, his ratings, his polls. Even during the deadly coronavirus pandemic, he has remained fixated on certain metrics — peppering aides …
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Brian Klaas / Washington Post:
Why does Trump get away with everything?
Why does Trump get away with everything?
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Daily Kos
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
'There's no stigma attached to wearing a mask': McConnell makes plea in favor of face masks
'There's no stigma attached to wearing a mask': McConnell makes plea in favor of face masks
Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
Tech billionaires are plotting sweeping, secret plans to boost Joe Biden — Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Dustin Moskovitz, and Laurene Powell Jobs, Silicon Valley's new power set, are instrumental to fulfilling Democrats' four-year-long quest to oust Donald Trump. Getty Images
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Daniel Lewis / New York Times:
Larry Kramer, Playwright and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84 — He worked hard to shock the country into dealing with AIDS as a public-health emergency. But his confrontational approach could sometimes overshadow his achievements. — Larry Kramer, the noted writer whose raucous …
The Daily Beast:
Trump Administration Preps New Weapons Sale To Saudi Arabia — Congress has rejected weapons sales to the Saudis. The now-fired State Department inspector general was looking into them. Team Trump is going for a sequel anyway. — When State Department inspector general Steve Linick was abruptly fired …
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Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Supreme Court: Lack of immunity to coronavirus alone isn't enough for mail-in ballot — Although the court sided with state Attorney General Ken Paxton's interpretation of what constitutes a disability, it indicated that it is up to voters to assess their health and determine if they meet …
CNN:
Pompeo says Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China, jeopardizing billions of dollars in trade — Washington (CNN)Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he certified to Congress Wednesday that Hong Kong no longer enjoys a high degree of autonomy from China — a decision that could result …
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Hong Kong Has Lost Autonomy, Pompeo Says, Opening Door to U.S. Action
Hong Kong Has Lost Autonomy, Pompeo Says, Opening Door to U.S. Action
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Foreign Policy, The National Interest, Al Jazeera, Twitchy and Politico
Barbara McQuade / Just Security:
Eli Lake's Omissions and Misleading Facts in Defense of Michael Flynn — Eli Lake's essay in Commentary about the “railroading” of Michael Flynn has been lauded lauded by one commentator as “the best summary of the pro-Flynn argument you'll ever read,” and deemed “a comprehensive breakdown on Flynn's side of the case.”
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The real nightmare scenario for this fall's elections — When people raise fears about nightmare scenarios in this fall's elections, they're usually talking about something big and dramatic — President Trump trying to postpone or cancel the election; or Trump refusing to accept the election results in some way.
Nick Swartsell / Dallas Morning News:
Longtime Texas congressman Sam Johnson, POW in Vietnam, dies at age 89 — Staunch conservative served 28 years in Congress and seven years in the Hanoi Hilton after being shot down. — WASHINGTON— Retired congressman Sam Johnson, a conservative stalwart whose service to country spanned seven years …
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Washington Examiner:
Trump's slanderous attack on Joe Scarborough is incompatible with leadership — Nearly two decades ago, when Joe Scarborough was a conservative Republican member of Congress from Florida, his office suffered a tragedy. One of his staff, a 28-year-old woman, named Lori Klausutis …
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Zachary Brennan / Politico:
Fauci: Hydroxychloroquine not effective against coronavirus — National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci on Wednesday became the first Trump administration official to say definitively that hydroxychloroquine is not an effective treatment for the coronavirus, based on the available data.
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Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal:
Fauci Warns About Hydroxychloroquine and In-Person Party Conventions
Fauci Warns About Hydroxychloroquine and In-Person Party Conventions
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Patterico's Pontifications
Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
The U.S. death toll has reached 100,000. — Each of those deaths is represented as a ray of light. — The pandemic has exposed the nation's vulnerabilities and dangerous divide. — Senior editor reporting on a wide range of topics — One hundred thousand Americans dead in less than four months.
Andrew Van Dam / Washington Post:
The unluckiest generation in U.S. history — Millennials have faced the worst economic odds, and many will never recover — After accounting for the present crisis, the average millennial has experienced slower economic growth since entering the workforce than any other generation in U.S. history.
USA Today:
103-year-old Massachusetts woman beats coronavirus, celebrates with Bud Light — EASTON, Mass. - Shelley Gunn describes her Polish grandmother, Jennie Stejna, as having a feisty spirit. Stejna certainly displayed that spirit as the 103-year-old woman recently survived a bout with the coronavirus.
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Easton Journal and The Daily Caller
Jessica Garate / KRQE-TV:
Did the governor break her own rules? — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) -Did Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham play by her own rules during the public health order? KRQE News 13 has learned in April, when she ordered non-essential businesses to shut down and lectured all New Mexicans to stay home …
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The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy, Breitbart, The Federalist, TheBlaze and Political Wire
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A congressman caught in the 1970s Abscam sting is now at the heart of a Philly election fraud probe, sources say — A central question lingered after federal authorities last week disclosed that a South Philadelphia poll worker had admitted taking bribes to stuff ballot boxes in local elections:
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Political Wire
The Guardian:
Revealed: conservative group fighting to restrict voting tied to powerful dark money network — Honest Elections Project, part of network that pushed supreme court pick Brett Kavanaugh, is now focusing on voting restrictions — A powerful new conservative organization fighting to restrict voting …
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Slate, Politico, NBC News and Lawyers, Guns & Money
James Poniewozik / New York Times:
Trump Said, ‘I Have the Best Words.’ Now They're Hers. — Why lip-sync impressions like Sarah Cooper's turned out to be the best way to satirize this president. — Donald Trump has some ideas about fighting the coronavirus. “We hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet …
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Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
CNBC Segment Explodes as Andrew Ross Sorkin Accuses Joe Kernen of Being in the Tank for Trump During Crisis: ‘100,000 PEOPLE DIED!’ — A CNBC debate over the stock market completely exploded early Wednesday, with two Squawk Box hosts throwing down in a vicious debate which saw one accusing …