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Trump expected to sign executive order that could threaten punishment against Facebook, Google and Twitter over allegations of political bias — The president is expected to sign the order on Thursday. — President Trump is preparing to sign an executive order Thursday that could open …
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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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Daniel Villarreal / Newsweek:
Zuckerberg Says Twitter Is Wrong to Fact-Check Trump — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized Twitter on Wednesday after the microblogging platform fact-checked a tweet of President Donald Trump's that claimed mail-in voting increases voter fraud. — Twitter tagged Trump's tweets …
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Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
What Would Happen if Twitter Banned Trump?
What Would Happen if Twitter Banned Trump?
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Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
‘We Loved Each Other’: Fauci Recalls Larry Kramer, Friend and Nemesis — In public, the activist berated the infectious disease expert for federal inaction on AIDS. But their affection lasted decades and changed the course of the epidemic. — “How did I meet Larry?
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Daniel Lewis / New York Times:
Larry Kramer, Playwright and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84
Larry Kramer, Playwright and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84
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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
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Joe Biden Humiliates Trump With Powerful Message As US Passes 100K Virus Deaths — As Trump is threatening Twitter, Joe Biden delivered a powerful and heartfelt message as the US passed 100,000 coronavirus deaths. — Biden said: … Video: … Biden's message revealed just how inadequate and humiliating Trump is as a president.
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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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Politico, Mother Jones and Redstate
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
African-American activists escalating efforts to persuade Biden not to pick Klobuchar for VP
African-American activists escalating efforts to persuade Biden not to pick Klobuchar for VP
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Washington Post, ABC News and Redstate
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
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.
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.
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Matthew Rozsa / Salon:
Donald Trump just issued his most serious threat yet to free speech — Twitter is well within their right to call out Trump's fabrication. Does he misunderstand the First Amendment? — view in app — There is no freedom more important than the right to free speech.
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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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Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
Conservative Activists Lose Lawsuit That Accused Twitter, Google and Facebook of Censorship
Conservative Activists Lose Lawsuit That Accused Twitter, Google and Facebook of Censorship
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The Verge
Fox News:
Barr asks US Attorney John Bash to review ‘unmasking’ before and after 2016 election, DOJ tells Fox News — Attorney General Bill Barr has asked U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas John Bash to review the practice of “unmasking” before and after the 2016 presidential election …
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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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Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
Christian Cooper on Amy Cooper's Fate and Central Park Birdwatching — 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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Tom Cotton / Featured Items:
Cotton, Blackburn, Kustoff Unveil Bill to Restrict Chinese STEM Graduate Student Visas & Thousand Talents Participants — Washington, D.C. - Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) today unveiled the SECURE CAMPUS Act, legislation that would prohibit Chinese nationals …
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Slate:
The Right-Wing Legal Network Is Now Openly Pushing Conspiracy Theories — The right-wing legal network spawned by the Federalist Society has finally gone full Trumpian. It has morphed from a group of apparently principled conservatives debating high-minded theories of legal interpretation …
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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 …
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The Boogaloo Movement Is Not What You Think — On May 26th, crowds gathered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to protest the death of 46-year-old George Floyd at the hands of the city's police department. Floyd was black. Many of the protesters were people of color.
Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times:
He was part of Amazon's coronavirus hiring spree. Two weeks later he was dead — When Harry Sentoso got called back to work at an Amazon delivery center in Irvine in late March, he was excited. — He had been working in Amazon warehouses on and off for two years, always hoping to get a full …
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 …
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Biden says he'll pick running mate by Aug. 1 — Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic candidate for president, told supporters Wednesday night that his campaign has interviewed every candidate on his short list to be his running mate and hoped to name the woman by Aug. 1.
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The Hill
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
“Everyone Is Shocked”: CBS News Hit Hard by Layoffs — “I'm really sorry,” network president Susan Zirinsky said Wednesday on an all-staff Zoom meeting about the cuts. “There is not a person who won't be missed.” — CBS News was hit hard by a round of corporate cost-cutting that saw …
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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Ursula Perano / Axios:
CDC issues guidelines for reopening offices: Masks, handshake bans and more — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidelines on Wednesday detailing how office buildings can reopen following months of social distancing amid the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
You cannot keep from getting swept up in Trump's agenda without a firm grasp on your own — The 2020 campaign is here. Those who are covering it had better figure out what they are for, or they will end up as his enablers— as they were in 2016. — Not sure how long I'm going to be doing this.
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
'There's no stigma attached to wearing a mask': McConnell makes plea in favor of face masks — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday made an extensive pitch for Americans to don face masks as a means to begin returning the country to normalcy while the coronavirus remains a threat.