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7:30 PM ET, May 28, 2020

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The White House:
Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:  —  Section 1.  Policy.  Free speech is the bedrock of American democracy.
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The Daily Beast:
Trump's Plan: Break the Internet to Suppress the Vote  —  Trump will never leave Twitter.  He loves it too much.  Now he's trying to browbeat it into helping him win re-election.  —  The internet, and Twitter in particular, is central to President Donald Trump's power.
Discussion: Gizmodo, Protocol and New York Times
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's assault on truth takes an ugly new turn  —  President Trump is set to roll out a new executive order designed to punish Twitter for daring to attach a mild fact-check to his false tweets about vote-by-mail.  This debate will get thorny, so let's first state clearly exactly what Trump is trying to accomplish here:
Eugene Volokh / Reason:
47 U.S.C. § 230 and the Publisher/Distributor/Platform Distinction
New York Times:
Trump Prepares Order to Limit Social Media Companies' Protections
CNBC:
Trump targets social media companies with executive order after Twitter fact-checks his tweets
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:   The wannabe tyranny of Trump's attempted social media policing
Washington Post:
Trump expected to sign executive order that could threaten punishment against Facebook …
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Phil Helsel / NBC News:
George Floyd protest turns violent, deadly; Minneapolis mayor requests National Guard  —  “We can have peaceful demonstrations,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said.  “But I also have to ensure the safety of everyone in the city.”  —  The mayor of Minneapolis has requested help …
NBC News:
Minneapolis police officer at center of George Floyd's death had history of complaints  —  Derek Chauvin had been with the Minneapolis police since 2001.  During his career, he was the subject of a dozen police conduct complaints; he was never disciplined.  —  The Minneapolis police officer …
Gabrielle Fonrouge / New York Post:
Amy Cooper allegedly stalked ex-love interest, slammed him for Obama vote  —  The white dog-walker, who called 911 on a black man when he asked her to leash her cocker spaniel in Central Park, allegedly stalked a former love interest and chided him for voting for President Barack Obama, The Post has learned.
Discussion: TheGrio
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Graham urges senior judges to step aside before November election so Republicans can fill vacancies  —  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday urged federal judges who are in their mid-to-late 60s to step aside so that Republicans, increasingly nervous …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Breitbart and Raw Story
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Washington Post:
Breaking precedent, White House won't release formal economic projections this summer that would forecast extent of downturn  —  The president's aides will not publish updated economic forecasts, citing volatility in U.S. economy  —  White House officials have decided not to release updated …
CNN:
GOP operatives worry Trump will lose both the presidency and Senate majority  —  Washington (CNN)A little more than three months ago, as Democrats cast their ballots in the Nevada caucuses, Republicans felt confident about their chances in 2020.  The coronavirus seemed a distant, far-off threat.
Tony Schwartz:
The Psychopath in Chief … Among the accomplishments Trump parades most proudly is that he has won eighteen golf club championships.  Like so many of his claims, this one is pure fiction.  When the sportswriter Rick Reilly investigated for his book Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump …
HuffPost:
Kellyanne Conway Voted By Mail — But She Thinks You Should Have To Wait In Line  —  She argued that if you'd wait an hour to buy a cupcake, you ought to be able to wait that long to vote.  Yet in 2018, she ditched the line and voted by mail.  —  WASHINGTON — White House aide Kellyanne Conway …
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Emma Tucker / The Daily Beast:   Kellyanne Conway Voted by Mail—But Insists Others Should Do It In-Person
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
‘Callous liars’: Pennsylvania Democrats say GOP put them at risk by hiding member's positive covid-19 test  —  Democratic state legislators in Pennsylvania accused their Republican counterparts Wednesday of keeping a GOP lawmaker's positive coronavirus diagnosis under wraps for days …
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Lori deserves better.  So does America.  —  One is a politician so obsessed with a morning cable news show that he has sought retribution by repeatedly defaming a dead woman's memory.  —  The other is a soft-spoken Air Force engineer who has worked on projects for 32 years with the singular goal …
Discussion: Techdirt
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Craig Brandhorst / University of South Carolina:
1 tweet, 1 sandwich, 1 beer  —  White House reporter Josh Dawsey tells it like it is  —  Josh Dawsey is a lowlife reporter.  —  That's not us talking.  That's straight from the mouth of Donald J. Trump.  Or straight from his thumbs anyway.  Here's the original tweet …
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Get Republicans to Vote Against Trump?  This Group Will Spend $10 Million to Try  —  A new organization, Republican Voters Against Trump, is testing the premise of whether there are really any persuadable voters left.  —  WASHINGTON — Four years ago, 50 of the country's …
Washington Post:
Administration initially dispensed scarce covid-19 drug to some hospitals that didn't need it  —  Officials describe early missteps that delayed treatment to critically ill patients.  —  The Trump administration mishandled the initial distribution of the only approved coronavirus medication …
Discussion: Raw Story and Common Dreams
Teo Armus / Washington Post:
‘Sorry, no mask allowed’: Some businesses pledge to keep out customers who cover their faces  —  For 64 days, Kevin Smith had shut down the Liberty Tree Tavern to comply with government orders.  Now he was cleaning and disinfecting and removing stools to cut seating by three-quarters as he prepared to reopen the bar.
Discussion: Althouse
Evan Walker / Surveys:
Missouri Statewide General Election Survey Results  —  We Ask America, a nationally recognized polling firm, today released the first in a series of 2020 statewide public opinion polls from across the country.  The first state tested is Missouri and produced very strong approval ratings …
Katia Dmitrieva / Bloomberg:
Americans on Unemployment Benefits Post First Drop of Pandemic  — Continuing claims fell to 21.1 million in week ended May 16  — Initial jobless claims totaled 2.12 million last week  —  U.S. states' jobless rolls shrank for the first time during the coronavirus pandemic …
Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
Sen. Cortez Masto withdraws name from Biden VP consideration  —  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada said Thursday that she's not interested in serving as running mate to presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden.  —  Cortez Masto, who in 2016 became …
Discussion: Axios
 
 
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Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
White House encourages hydroxychloroquine use for coronavirus again
USA Today:
Coronavirus postcard that featured Trump's name cost struggling Postal Service $28 million
Discussion: The Hill
Haaretz:
Netanyahu Says Palestinians in Jordan Valley Won't Get Citizenship After Annexation
Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
GOP Senate Hopeful Employs Monarchist and Anti-Semite to Manage Campaign
Discussion: Breitbart
Marty Lederman / Just Security:
Understanding the Michael Flynn Case: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff, and the Proper from the Improper
Discussion: emptywheel
Washington Post:
U.S. brings massive N. Korean sanctions case, targeting state-owned bank and former government officials
Discussion: Law & Crime
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Tim Kaine tests positive for coronavirus antibodies
 Earlier Items: 
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. taxpayers' virus relief went to firms that avoided U.S. tax
The Economist:
Masks probably slow the spread of covid-19
Science:
Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2
Discussion: Wired, New York Post and Balloon Juice
Bangor Daily News:
New poll shows Sara Gideon leading Susan Collins by 9 points
Discussion: Raw Story
Dana Rubinstein / New York Times:
Lights. Camera. Makeup. And a Carefully Placed 1,246-Page Book.
Discussion: Althouse
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Trump is courting a landslide defeat
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Andrew Goudsward / Reuters:
A US judge orders the White House to lift access restrictions imposed on the AP while the AP's lawsuit moves forward

Josh Xiao / Bloomberg:
Two influential Chinese bloggers say China is considering a ban on Hollywood movies as part of a set of measures to retaliate against Trump's tariffs

Nicole Meir / The Associated Press:
The AP Fund for Journalism announces a pilot program supported by the Google News Initiative to provide content, tools, and training to ~50 nonprofit news orgs
 
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