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Ed O'Keefe / CBS News:
Trump tells “weak” governors they “have to dominate” as civil unrest divides the nation — President Trump unloaded on the nation's governors Monday morning, calling them “weak” for failing to more aggressively enforce law and order over the weekend, as some of the nation's biggest cities burned …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What is President Trump thinking? — DRIVING THE DAY — 80 days since Friday, March 13, which many Americans remember as the last day of normalcy pre-Covid-19. — AN UGLY MIASMA of disease, economic unrest and protests and riots is simmering around America.
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New York Times:
Trump Calls Protesters ‘Terrorists’ and Urges Governors to Seek ‘Retribution’ — President Trump, in a call with governors, said they would look like “jerks” if they did not toughen their response to protesters. “Someone throwing a rock is like shooting a gun. You have to do retribution.”
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Chicago Sun-Times, Bangor Daily News and Raw Story
New York Times:
Trump Moves to Underground Bunker as Protests and Violence Spill Over — The death of George Floyd at the hands of the police set off days of protests in Minneapolis. Demonstrators challenged a curfew on Saturday and took to the streets for the fifth day in a row. Here's why.
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Washington Post:
Trump calls governors ‘weak,’ urges them to use force against unruly protests — President Trump on Monday berated the nation's governors on a conference call, describing them as “weak” in the face of growing racial unrest and urging them to try to “dominate” unruly protests …
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Politico, Reason and Vanity Fair
Washington Post:
Live updates: Trump urges governors to ‘dominate’ protesters after another night of unrest — After pockets of the United States descended into chaos — following more protests over the death of yet another black man in police custody, leading to another night of fire and fury …
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New York Times:
Protests Today Live: News Updates and Video
Protests Today Live: News Updates and Video
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USA Today:
AG Barr deploying federal riot teams to DC, Miami to quell unrest, DOJ official says
AG Barr deploying federal riot teams to DC, Miami to quell unrest, DOJ official says
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The Hill, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, New York Post and DCist
Fox News:
Trump unloads on governors over protest response, calls them ‘weak’
Trump unloads on governors over protest response, calls them ‘weak’
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The Hill, Althouse, The Guardian and Associated Press
NBC News:
Trump dismissing advice to tone down rhetoric, address the nation
Trump dismissing advice to tone down rhetoric, address the nation
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Associated Press:
Trump took shelter in White House bunker as protests raged
Trump took shelter in White House bunker as protests raged
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's bunker retreat crystallizes his AWOL response to George Floyd unrest
Trump's bunker retreat crystallizes his AWOL response to George Floyd unrest
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The Moderate Voice, Fox News, Vanity Fair, Raw Story and Daily Kos
Barack Obama / Medium:
How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change — As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing problem of unequal justice, many people have reached out asking how we can sustain momentum to bring about real change.
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George Clooney / The Daily Beast:
America's Greatest Pandemic Is Anti-Black Racism
America's Greatest Pandemic Is Anti-Black Racism
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New York Times:
Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout to Protest Trump Posts — While Twitter started labeling some of the president's inflammatory posts, Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has said his company should leave them alone. — OAKLAND, Calif. — Dozens of Facebook employees …
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NBC News:
Minneapolis police rendered 44 people unconscious with neck restraints in five years — Several police experts said that number appears to be unusually high. “By using this tactic, it's a self-fulfilling tragedy,” said one. — Since the beginning of 2015, officers from the Minneapolis Police Department …
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, San Francisco Chronicle, INSIDER, New York Post, Daily Kos and The Hill
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Killed Obama's Police Reforms. Now He's Getting What He Asked For.
Trump Killed Obama's Police Reforms. Now He's Getting What He Asked For.
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Crispian Balmer / Reuters:
New coronavirus losing potency, top Italian doctor says — ROME (Reuters) - The new coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said on Sunday. — “In reality, the virus clinically no longer exists in Italy,” said Alberto Zangrillo …
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Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
LISTEN FOR YOURSELF: Trump's ‘Unhinged’ Rant to Governors on Protests — ‘BUNCH OF JERKS’ — President Trump on Monday told the nation's governors that they needed to get “much tougher” in responding to the protests breaking out across the country. He said the lack of response has so far made state officials look weak.
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Politico, The Daily Beast and Blue Virginia
Mattathias Schwartz / New York Times:
William Barr's State of Emergency — The attorney general has long held an expansive view of presidential power. With multiple crises converging in the run-up to the 2020 election, he is busy putting his theories to work. — On the first Monday in May, the Department of Justice headquarters …
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Law & Crime, Talking Points Memo, IJR and The American Independent
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New York Post:
Mayor Bill de Blasio's daughter, Chiara, arrested at Manhattan protest — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's daughter was arrested at a Manhattan protest on Saturday night, law enforcement sources told The Post on Sunday. — Chiara de Blasio, 25, was taken into custody around 10:30 p.m …
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Erin Durkin / Politico:
De Blasio takes tougher tone on police misconduct, weighs curfew as protests continue
De Blasio takes tougher tone on police misconduct, weighs curfew as protests continue
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Axios
Charlie Cooper / Politico:
UK would veto Russia's return to G7 — LONDON — Any push by Donald Trump to readmit Russia to the G7 gathering of economically advanced nations would be vetoed by the U.K., Boris Johnson's official spokesperson said Monday. — Trump announced Saturday he is postponing the annual G7 summit …
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Steve Scherer / Reuters:
Russia not welcome at G7, Canada's Trudeau says
Helen Branswell / STAT:
Anthony Fauci on Covid-19 reopenings, vaccines, and moving at ‘warp speed’ — Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has seen the photos of bars packed with mask-less patrons. He was not impressed. — He was similarly unenthused …
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CNN:
Trump's crazy designation of Antifa as terrorist organization — Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. He is the editor of the Coronavirus Daily Brief and author of “United States of Jihad …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / The Hill:
It wasn't just religious liberty that Chief Justice Roberts strangled — The big story is even bigger than it appears to be at first blush. — Close to midnight on Friday, while rioters used the killing of George Floyd as a pretext to set America aflame, the U.S. Supreme Court issued …
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Adam Rubenstein / New York Times:
The G.O.P. Tosses Steve King Overboard — The Iowa congressman is too much, even for the party of Donald Trump. He still might win. — Mr. Rubenstein is a member of the Opinion staff. — Steve King, the suicidally outspoken Republican representing Iowa's Fourth Congressional District …
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Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
What Did They Think Would Happen? — Actually, character does count. — An awful lot of Trump's defenders in conservative media appear to be shocked by what is happening right now in America. — But I'm kind of curious. What did they think was going to happen? — The president has a real job.
Fox News:
Biden accuses Trump of breathing ‘oxygen into hate’ at first public campaign event since coronavirus lockdown — Former Vice President Joe Biden argued the comments made by President Trump are encouraging violence amid a wave of protests interspersed with rioting across the country sparked …
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Dave Zirin / The Nation:
Gregg Popovich: ‘The System Has to Change’ — The legendary San Antonio Spurs coach is past done with Donald Trump's inability to rise to this moment. — People from across the sports world have spoken out, raised money, and taken part in demonstrations following the police murder of George Floyd.
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Out of Control and Capable of Anything — He is so morally unfit to be president. If he were president of a bank, he'd have been fired ages ago. School principal—fired. Partner of a law firm—fired. — BEAST INSIDE — Naively, I always thought that even Donald Trump would stop short of actually inciting violence.
Washington Post:
Judge Sullivan says he is not required to ‘rubber stamp’ DOJ's bid to dismiss Flynn case — Judge Emmet G. Sullivan should not be required to act as a “mere rubber stamp” for the government's unusual move to undo the guilty plea of President Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
America at the breaking point — The social upheaval of the 1960s meets the political polarization and institutional dysfunction of the present. — In the early years of the Trump era, I was often asked if American politics had been this bad before. I always said the same thing.
Patrick Semansky / Spectrum News NY1:
Exclusive: Engel's Challengers to the Left Join Forces Against Him — NEW YORK - Sixteen-term Congressman Eliot Engel was already facing a formidable primary challenger this month in education activist Jamaal Bowman. — But Bowman's chances look even stronger with what NY1 exclusively reports …
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