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New York Times Says Senator's Op-Ed Did Not Meet Standards — After a staff uproar, The Times says the editing process was “rushed.” Senator Tom Cotton's “Send In the Troops” essay is now under review. — Executives at The New York Times scrambled on Thursday to address the concerns …
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The Inside Story of the Tom Cotton Op-Ed that Rocked the New York Times — The Cotton team explains how the explosive piece got accepted and edited. — When a newspaper publishes a bombshell op-ed, it doesn't want the chief casualty to be its own credibility.
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New York Times Journalists Scared To Have an Op-Ed Page — Last night, The New York Times, which has long maintained the pretentions of being the serious journalistic institution in the United States, published an article about how its own employees were scared—not just irritated, or …
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Tom Cotton's Fascist Op-Ed — How should opinion pages respond to the right's authoritarian turn? — Before Donald Trump became president, most newspaper op-ed pages sought to present a spectrum of politically significant opinion and argument, which they could largely do while walling off extremist propaganda and incitement.
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Slate, No More Mister Nice Blog, Just The News, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, Fox News, The Daily Caller and Los Angeles Times
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Former Joint Chiefs Chairman Condemns Trump's Threat To Use Military At Protests — In rare public comments, the former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Ret. Gen. Martin Dempsey condemned Trump's threat to use military force to suppress nationwide protests as “dangerous” and “very troubling,” in an interview with NPR on Thursday.
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New York Times and Axios
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Trump Agrees to Send Home Troops From Washington, Easing Tensions With the Pentagon — But what appeared to be an uneasy truce between the White House and military leaders did not mean the conflict was over. — WASHINGTON — President Trump agreed on Thursday to begin sending home 82nd …
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ABC News, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Beast, Mediaite, fox8.com, Politico and POLITICUSUSA
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Trump shares letter that calls peaceful protesters ‘terrorists’
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Defense One and Daily Kos
Katelyn Caralle / Daily Mail:
Is John Kelly joining the generals' mutiny? …
Is John Kelly joining the generals' mutiny? …
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Washington Post
Washington Post:
As protests spread, tensions escalated over Trump's reach for military in response
As protests spread, tensions escalated over Trump's reach for military in response
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Progress Pond, New York Times, The Nation and Fox News
Max Cohen / Politico:
Ex-Defense Secretary William Perry joins Mattis in condemning Trump
Ex-Defense Secretary William Perry joins Mattis in condemning Trump
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The Hill, NBC News and New York Magazine
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Why Mattis and Mullen toppled their bridge of silence
Why Mattis and Mullen toppled their bridge of silence
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Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and Politico
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Biden Says About ‘10 to 15 Percent’ of Americans Are ‘Not Very Good People’ — Mr. Biden, speaking to black supporters about the need to improve the country, accused President Trump of dividing the nation and pledged to unite it. — WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. told …
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Mediaite
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Biden lauds America as a decent nation, if one with a small portion of ‘just not very good people’
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The Hill and Political Wire
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Biden: “10 to 15 Percent” Of Americans Are “Not Very Good People”
Biden: “10 to 15 Percent” Of Americans Are “Not Very Good People”
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Fox News
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Trump's Approval Slips Where He Can't Afford to Lose It: Among Evangelicals — Polls and private concerns from top social conservatives show the president's standing with the cornerstone of his base isn't what it used to be. A photo op with the Bible was supposed to help fix that.
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Raw Story
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Law Enforcement Seizes Masks Meant To Protect Anti-Racist Protesters From COVID-19 — The masks, reading “Stop killing Black people,” were meant to quell the spread of the coronavirus, which has disproportionately affected Black Americans. — WASHINGTON ― Law enforcement agents …
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Attorneys: 2 Ex-Cops Charged in Floyd's Death Were Rookies — MINNEAPOLIS — Two of three Minneapolis police officers accused of aiding and abetting in the death of George Floyd were rookies barely off probation when a more senior white officer ignored the black man's cries for help and pressed …
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Mattis wrongly criticizes Trump - ignores facts about rioting and president's accomplishments
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Anchorage Daily News, Just The News and ABC News
Paul Szoldra / Task & Purpose:
Former Marine commandant on nationwide protests: ‘The time for being silent has passed’
Former Marine commandant on nationwide protests: ‘The time for being silent has passed’
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LinkedIn and Digby's Hullabaloo
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Emotional debate erupts over anti-lynching legislation as Cory Booker and Kamala Harris speak out against Rand Paul amendment — (CNN)In an emotional exchange on the Senate floor, Democratic Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California spoke out Thursday against an amendment …
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The Daily Beast, POLITICUSUSA, Daily Kos and Truthout
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Rand Paul battles Kamala Harris and Cory Booker on anti-lynching bill
Rand Paul battles Kamala Harris and Cory Booker on anti-lynching bill
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The Hill
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Twitter removes Trump campaign tribute to George Floyd claiming copyright complaint — Twitter on Thursday removed a video tribute to George Floyd posted by President Trump's reelection campaign, claiming it had run afoul of the website's policy on copyrighted material.
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Politico, Al Jazeera, Just The News, Variety, Associated Press, The Guardian and Washington Times, more at Techmeme »
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People are sawing through and climbing over Trump's border wall. Now contractors are being asked for ideas to make it less vulnerable. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection has asked contractors for help making President Trump's border wall more difficult to climb over and cut through …
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With White House effectively a fortress, some see Trump's strength — but others see weakness — The security perimeter around the White House keeps expanding. Tall black fencing is going up seemingly by the hour. Armed guards and sharpshooters and combat troops are omnipresent.
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74% of Americans view George Floyd's death as an underlying racial injustice problem: POLL — This is a significant shift from a similar question asked just six years ago. — Nearly three-fourths of Americans view the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer as a sign …
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George Floyd's memorial filled with love, hope and calls for change
George Floyd's memorial filled with love, hope and calls for change
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New York Post, New York Times, The Daily Caller, Breitbart and Mediaite
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Four Texas GOP county leaders share racist Facebook posts, including one juxtaposing an MLK quote with a banana — Gov. Greg Abbott called on two Republican county chairs to resign after they shared a racist conspiracy theory about George Floyd's death. — Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout.
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Raw Story, Mediaite, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth, The Sun, KXAN-TV, The Hill and New York Post
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Estee Lauder Workers Demand Heir Ouster Over Trump Support — Employees of Estee Lauder Cos., one of the world's largest beauty businesses, called for the ouster of a board member and family heir over his support for President Donald Trump and criticism of the company's response to the protests against police violence.
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American Civilization and Its Discontents — In 1969, Irving Kristol was appointed Henry R. Luce professor of urban values at New York University's Stern School of Business. He delivered his inaugural lecture the following spring. Its title, “Urban Civilization and Its Discontents,” …
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What Happens When It Is the Police Who Riot in the Streets? — It is an attack on civil society and democratic accountability. — If we're going to speak of rioting protesters, then we need to speak of rioting police as well. No, they aren't destroying property.
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Research Shows Students Falling Months Behind During Virus Disruptions — The abrupt switch to remote learning wiped out academic gains for many students in America, and widened racial and economic gaps. Catching up in the fall won't be easy. — While a nation of burned-out …
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James O'Keefe's infiltrated ‘antifa headquarters’ is a bookstore from ‘Portlandia’ — It's also closed. — Undercover video trickster James O'Keefe appears to be back at it with another “timely” video from his group of well-known fraudsters at Project Veritas.
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Mediaite
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Law enforcement leaders are essential to overcoming systemic racism — Police march with protesters in act of solidarity — The Hon. Kevin K. McAleenan served as Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection, the nation's largest law enforcement agency, and as acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security until 2019.
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Redstate, Raw Story and Washington Times
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VIDEO: Group posting signs for George Floyd in Bethesda say they were assaulted by cyclist — The Maryland-National Capital Park Police are searching for a man wanted in an alleged assault that happened on the Capital Crescent Trail in Montgomery County on June 1.
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New York Post
Alyssa Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Shut down all police movies and TV shows. Now. — Police procedurals have a long, fraught history. I don't know if it's possible for them to find a way forward.
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Ukrainian prosecutors find no evidence against Hunter Biden — Audit probed energy company Burisma, of which Biden was a board member from 2014-2019 — An audit of thousands of old case files by Ukrainian prosecutors found no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Hunter Biden …
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NYC reports no new coronavirus deaths for first time since mid-March — The Big Apple marked a major turning point in its battle against the coronavirus pandemic Wednesday with no new confirmed deaths from COVID-19 for the first time since March 12. — “In the face of extraordinary challenges …
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New Trump Appointee to Foreign Aid Agency Has Denounced Liberal Democracy and “Our Homo-Empire” — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — A new Trump appointee to the United States' foreign aid agency …