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Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service:
Ahead of Trump Bible photo op, police forcibly expel priest from St. John's church near White House — U.S. — Judaism — Islam — Unaffiliated/Atheism — Hinduism — Buddhism — Sikhism — Alternative Faiths — Other Faiths — Cart — Apparel — Miscellaneous
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Digby's Hullabaloo, Progress Pond, The Guardian, NPR, CNBC, The Hill, Raw Story and Right Wing Watch
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Washington Post:
Live updates: Violent clashes between police and public escalate — Clashes between police and the public intensified Monday night, as largely peaceful daytime protests descended into violence and chaos after dark, amid widespread curfews and National Guard deployments.
Dana Hedgpeth / Washington Post:
Live updates: Mayor's office says federal officials floated idea of taking over D.C. police; protesters holed up in D.C. home emerge after curfew lifts — Federal law enforcement officers fired rubber bullets and chemicals at peaceful protesters outside the White House on Monday evening …
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Mother Jones, The Hill, DCist and Common Dreams
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump goes full law-and-order — President Trump's final decision to speak in the Rose Garden last evening as protests raged outside the gate was made only hours before, reflecting chaos on both sides of the fence. — Why it matters: Trump's ultimate remarks fell where his instincts always were …
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Christians Who Loved Trump's Stunt — He wielded the Bible like a foreign object, awkwardly adjusting his grip as though trying to get comfortable. He examined its cover. He held it up over his right shoulder like a crossing guard presenting a stop sign. He did not open it.
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The Mahablog, Slate, Talking Points Memo, Common Dreams, Law & Crime, The Guardian and Daily Kos
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Protesters Dispersed With Tear Gas So Trump Could Pose at Church — “He did not pray,” said Mariann E. Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington. “He did not mention George Floyd, he did not mention the agony of people who have been subjected to this kind of horrific expression of racism and white supremacy for hundreds of years.”
Max Cohen / Politico:
Tim Scott: Lafayette Square should not have been cleared for Trump — Sen. Tim Scott said Tuesday that protesters in Lafayette Square should not have been cleared with tear gas and rubber bullets to accommodate President Donald Trump's visit to a historic church, a rebuke of the president by the only black Republican in the Senate.
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Talking Points Memo, ABC News, The Hill, Washington Post, Vanity Fair and IJR
Washington Post:
‘I find it baffling and reprehensible’: Catholic Archbishop of Washington slams Trump's visit to John Paul II shrine — President Trump triggered sharp condemnation from top religious leaders for the second time in two days on Tuesday, with Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory slamming …
Politico:
Republicans chastise Trump for ousting protesters, church photo-op — Senate Republicans offered rare criticism of President Donald Trump on Tuesday after protesters outside the White House were cleared out with tear gas the day before so the president could pose for photos in front of a historic church.
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Axios
Quint Forgey / Politico:
‘Outraged’: Trump faces condemnation for clearing protesters, threatening military force — President Donald Trump faced withering criticism in the hours after spurring a violent incursion against apparently peaceful protesters for the purposes of staging a political photo opportunity …
John McCormack / National Review:
Sasse Slams Clearing of Protesters for Trump's Church Photo Opportunity — In response to The Scene outside the White House Last Night — Nebraska Republican senator Ben Sasse issued a statement on Tuesday morning criticizing President Trump's visit to St. John's Church Monday night as a …
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Mother Jones and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Inside the push to tear-gas protesters ahead of a Trump photo op
Inside the push to tear-gas protesters ahead of a Trump photo op
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ABC News, Associated Press, Mother Jones, POLITICUSUSA, The Hill, Fox News, Vanity Fair, CNN, Breitbart, The American Spectator, IJR, DCist, The Root, Raw Story, The American Independent, Twitchy, 444 and Politico
Michael J. O'Loughlin / americamagazine.org:
Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory calls Trump's visit to John Paul II Shrine ‘reprehensible’
Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory calls Trump's visit to John Paul II Shrine ‘reprehensible’
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, CBS Baltimore and KRON4
Washington Post:
Biden, in speech to the nation, denounces President Trump's actions against protesters and vows to heal racial wounds
Biden, in speech to the nation, denounces President Trump's actions against protesters and vows to heal racial wounds
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The Hill and The Daily Beast
Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
Reverend at St. John's Church Says Clergy Was Tear Gassed to Clear Church For Trump's ‘Cheap Political Stunt’
Reverend at St. John's Church Says Clergy Was Tear Gassed to Clear Church For Trump's ‘Cheap Political Stunt’
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Gini Gerbasi, DCist, WHYY and Damian J. Penny
Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
GOP senator: Trump used ‘Word of God as a political prop’
GOP senator: Trump used ‘Word of God as a political prop’
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The Hill
NBC News:
White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on twitter — A Twitter account claiming to belong to a national “antifa” organization and pushing violent rhetoric related to ongoing protests has been linked to the white nationalist group Identity Evropa, according to a Twitter spokesperson.
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Redstate, Fox News, Mother Jones and Althouse, more at Techmeme »
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Zachary Petrizzo / Mediaite:
RedState Duped By Fake Antifa Account Reportedly Run By White Nationalists
RedState Duped By Fake Antifa Account Reportedly Run By White Nationalists
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Politico
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
White supremacists pose as Antifa online, call for violence
White supremacists pose as Antifa online, call for violence
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Daily Kos, VICE, The American Independent, FactCheck.org and Washington Post
Politico:
North Carolina governor rejects GOP's demand for full-fledged convention — North Carolina's Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, on Tuesday rejected the GOP's plans for a full-fledged convention in Charlotte, telling Republican officials the only way the convention would move forward is with proper health protocols in place.
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Associated Press, NPR and CBS17.com
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CNN:
Pentagon officials express concern as Trump threatens to use military to ‘dominate’ protestors — Washington (CNN)Defense officials tell CNN there was deep and growing discomfort among some in the Pentagon even before President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is ready to deploy …
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KTVZ-TV, fox8.com, Task & Purpose, IJR, Reuters, Gizmodo, Spectator USA and Variety
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Kevin Baron / Defense One:
Trump Finally Gets the War He Wanted
Trump Finally Gets the War He Wanted
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New York Times, Slate, Common Dreams, Raw Story and CNBC
Anders Hagstrom / The Daily Caller:
At Least Five Police Officers Reportedly Shot, One On Life Support As Rioters And Law Enforcement Battle Across The Country — At least four police officers in St. Louis, Missouri, were shot and another was killed in Las Vegas on Monday night, according to multiple reports.
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CBS News, Raw Story, FOX5 Las Vegas and KLAS - 8 News Now
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Vicky Prodeline / Polls:
Protestors' Anger Justified Even If Actions May Not Be — Most say police more likely to use excessive force on black individuals — West Long Branch, NJ - Most Americans say the anger about black deaths at the hands of police officers that led to recent protests is fully justified …
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Fox News
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
The Flynn Calls: His Dismissal of Russian Interference and the Kremlin's Savvy — Newly declassified transcripts show the seeds of Russia's overtures to the Trump administration as both sides sought to downplay Moscow's election sabotage. — WASHINGTON — Russian spy services had just carried …
ProPublica:
This Treasury Official Is Running the Bailout. It's Been Great for His Family. — Deputy Treasury Secretary Justin Muzinich has an increasingly prominent role. He still has ties to his family's investment firm, which is a major beneficiary of the Treasury's bailout actions.
New York Times:
Zuckerberg Defends Hands-Off Approach to Trump's Posts — In a call with Facebook employees, who have protested the inaction on Mr. Trump's messages, Mr. Zuckerberg said his decision was “pretty thorough.” — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive …
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Axios, VICE, WLNS-TV and Vanity Fair, more at Techmeme »
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Floyd Protests Are Backed by Most Americans as More Say Racism Isn't Taken Seriously Enough — 61% agree ‘white people do not recognize the real advantages they have’ — 54% of U.S. adults — including 69% of Democrats, 49% of independents and 39% of Republicans …
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Mother Jones and Axios
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
1 in 7 Republicans don't think a coronavirus vaccine is necessary
1 in 7 Republicans don't think a coronavirus vaccine is necessary
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Political Wire
Daniel McCarthy / Spectator USA:
This riot is brought to you by Nike — In Chicago last weekend 82 people were shot, 22 of them fatally. Between May 2019 and late May 2020, homicide claimed the lives of over 300 black men in the city. That's not a police brutality problem, that's a problem of insufficient police power being deployed to stop violent criminals.
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TMZ.com, Instapundit, Big League Politics, KTVZ-TV and KSTP-TV
Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post:
Decades-old Confederate statue removed from Alexandria intersection — The Confederate statue “Appomattox,” which depicts a southern-facing Civil War soldier and has stood in an Alexandria intersection for decades, was removed Tuesday morning, a month earlier than planned.
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NPR, The Daily Beast, The Hill, Washingtonian and KTVZ-TV
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Stop Playing with Fire — On the menu today: how the country is paying the price for a long line of leaders and aspiring leaders who saw public anger as a force they believed they could control and manipulate; why Donald Trump won't give a unifying speech and has no particular desire to do so …
Thomas Wright / The Atlantic:
We've Now Entered the Final Phase of the Trump Era — We are in the Götterdämmerung now, the final phase of the Trump era. We began with the axis of adults that imperfectly constrained him. We then entered the age of hubris and action during which he systematically rid himself …
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Politico, KTVZ-TV and LewRockwell
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trump Takes Us to the Brink — Will weaponized racism destroy America? — Last fall Bob Kroll, the head of the Minneapolis police union, appeared at a Trump rally, where he thanked the president for ending Barack Obama's “oppression of police” and letting cops “put the handcuffs on criminals instead of us.”
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Washington Post, Raw Story, POLICE Magazine, Mother Jones, Politico and Reason
New York Times:
Where the Virus Is Growing Most: Countries With ‘Illiberal Populist’ Leaders — Brazil, Russia, Britain and the U.S. have something in common. — The four large countries where coronavirus cases have recently been increasing fastest are Brazil, the United States, Russia and Britain.