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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Criticizes 75-Year-Old Buffalo Protester Injured in Altercation With Police — Two Buffalo, N.Y., police officers were charged with felony assault in connection with the Thursday night altercation that was caught on video — President Trump criticized a 75-year-old protester …
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WGRZ-TV:
Protester injured in Niagara Square still hospitalized — The 75-year-old man who was injured when shoved by Buffalo Police officers during a protest in Niagara Square last week is still in the hospital recovering. — BUFFALO, N.Y. — The 75-year-old man who was injured when shoved …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump claims 75-year-old man shoved by Buffalo police could be part of ‘set up’ — President Trump on Tuesday shared an unfounded theory that an incident in which elderly man was pushed to the ground by police in Buffalo, New York, during a protest over the death of George Floyd could be a “set up.”
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump sides with deranged conspiracy theories over Black Lives Matter protesters — The White House communications team has gone to great lengths to present President Trump's position on the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests as evenhanded and sympathetic.
Ben Collins / NBC News:
President Trump tweets antifa conspiracy theory that originated on anonymous blog — President Donald Trump tweeted a conspiracy theory on Tuesday about a Buffalo man injured by police that has circulated around fringe, far-right online media in recent days, adding to efforts from the president …
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, CBS News, The Hill, Los Angeles Times and Mother Jones
Politico:
‘Ugh’: Republicans cringe after Trump's attack on 75-year old protester
‘Ugh’: Republicans cringe after Trump's attack on 75-year old protester
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The Hill
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Trump tweets outrageous conspiracy theory about injured Buffalo man
Trump tweets outrageous conspiracy theory about injured Buffalo man
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Talking Points Memo, Vox and The American Independent
Alayna Treene / Axios:
GOP senators avoid discussing Trump's Buffalo protester tweet
GOP senators avoid discussing Trump's Buffalo protester tweet
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The Daily Caller
Politico:
Trump's latest attempt to tag Biden as a radical flops — Joe Biden declared he opposed a growing movement on the left to defund police departments. — President Donald Trump and Republicans are determined to make him own it anyway. — Trump lit into Biden on Twitter …
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Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
Bernie Sanders Is Not Done Fighting
Bernie Sanders Is Not Done Fighting
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Ben Carson on defunding police: People will ‘realize how irrational it is’
Ben Carson on defunding police: People will ‘realize how irrational it is’
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The Daily Beast
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
‘The Future Is Blue, Not Purple’: Is This the Year Georgia Flips? — With both Senate seats in play and President Trump up for re-election in November, Georgia Democrats are telling anyone who will listen: This time, it's real. — ATLANTA — There's a joke about Atlanta's most popular sports teams …
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Wave of New Polling Suggests an Erosion of Trump's Support — Joe Biden appears in a stronger position to oust an incumbent president than any challenger since Bill Clinton in the summer of 1992. — The coronavirus pandemic, a severe economic downturn and the widespread demonstrations …
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The Hill and The American Independent
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
White voters are turning on Trump, new data shows. Why now? — In the mythology that holds sway over President Trump's political imagination, the massive crises rocking the country — pandemic, depression, the worst civil unrest in 50 years — are all being alchemized by the president's …
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Raw Story and The Mahablog
The Daily Beast:
Team Trump ‘Desperately’ Wants Bush to Endorse Biden. Some Dems Love the Idea, Too. — A president once reviled could prove to be an easy punching bag for Trump or a signal of bipartisan appeal for Biden. Choose your own adventure. — President Donald Trump and his political lieutenants …
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Tom Benning / Dallas Morning News:
At least one notable Bush - George P., the Texas land commissioner - will vote for Trump in November — The Republican, son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, said Trump is the ‘only thing standing between America and socialism’ — WASHINGTON - At least one notable member …
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Washington Post:
Big majorities support protests over Floyd killing and say police need to change, poll finds — Americans overwhelmingly support the nationwide protests that have taken place since the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis, and they say police forces have not done enough …
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New Republic, Vox, Truthout, POLITICUSUSA, The Crime Report, Mediaite and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Joe Biden delivers video message at George Floyd's funeral
Joe Biden delivers video message at George Floyd's funeral
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NBC News
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Biden appeals to younger voters in new ad spotlighting systemic racism
Biden appeals to younger voters in new ad spotlighting systemic racism
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Washington Post and ABC News
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump gets the 2016 band back together as he tumbles in polls — President Donald Trump, increasingly nervous about the direction of his campaign as he struggles in general election polls, is considering bringing back more loyal aides from his successful campaign in 2016, according to five Republicans who speak to the president.
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Washington Post and Raw Story
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Adam Ganucheau / Mississippi Today:
Bipartisan group of lawmakers, with Speaker Gunn's blessing, pushes to change Mississippi state flag — A bipartisan group of Mississippi lawmakers, with the blessing of Speaker of the House Philip Gunn, began whipping votes and drafting a resolution on Monday to change the state flag …
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The Hill
Washington Post:
14 states and Puerto Rico hit highest seven-day average of new coronavirus infections — The Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free. For more free coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, sign up for our Coronavirus Updates newsletter where all stories are free to read.
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Ashley Southall / New York Times:
Officer Who Violently Shoved Protester in Brooklyn to Face Charges — The police officer, who was recorded knocking down a young woman that questioned his order, surrendered himself on Tuesday. — A New York City police officer surrendered to face criminal charges on Tuesday …
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The Hill
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: It's more than just a tweet — THE CHASM BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT and pretty much everyone else in Washington is growing, as DONALD TRUMP seems more alone and isolated with his thoughts, and detached from the overall political conversation in the Capitol, and the rest of America.
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Scottie Andrew / CNN:
This city disbanded its police department 7 years ago. Here's what happened next — (CNN)Last week, Minneapolis officials confirmed they were considering a fairly rare course of action: disbanding the city police department. — It's not the first locale to break up a department, but no cities as populous have ever attempted it.
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New York Times:
Live Coronavirus Updates: A Warning From the W.H.O. — Seven million people have been infected worldwide, and new cases hit a high globally on Sunday, according to the W.H.O. Central banks are seeking new tools to offset the downturn. — RIGHT NOW New Jersey's governor said on Tuesday …
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UPI, Gizmodo, The Dispatch and WGN-TV
Just Security:
The Untold Power of Bill Barr to Direct US Military Forces in Case of “Civil Unrest” — Left completely to his own devices, President Trump apparently sees no problem with deploying U.S. military forces to American streets even when there's no need for such intervention.
Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept:
He Tweeted That He Was the Leader of Antifa. Then the FBI Asked Him to Be an Informant. — It all began with a tweet. Chandler Wirostek, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was reading the news last Monday when he saw that the attorney general had declared that the leaderless anti-fascist movement known …
David Petraeus / The Atlantic:
Take the Confederate Names Off Our Army Bases — As I have watched Confederate monuments being removed by state and local governments, and sometimes by the forceful will of the American people, the fact that 10 U.S. Army installations are named for Confederate officers has weighed on me.
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Kristie Eshelman / Niskanen Center:
What the Pandemic Revealed — On March 3, in response to reports that some Republican lawmakers favored free testing and treatments for COVID-19, Derek Thompson of The Atlantic tweeted, “There are no libertarians in a pandemic.” The witticism bounced all over social media during the ensuing days …
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Crooked Timber
The Daily Beast:
Trump Camp Runs Ads on D.C. Cable to Ease the Boss' Anxieties and Buck Up Congressional GOPers — The president has been worried about his standing electorally. So his team gave him some content to watch on his favorite cable networks. — With their boss growing increasingly agitated …
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The American Independent, Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Raw Story and New York Magazine
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
New voting machines cause lines and problems on Georgia election day — Problems with Georgia's new voting computers plagued the state's primary election Tuesday, leading to lines and voters leaving without casting their ballots. — Poll workers said they had difficulties turning …
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CNN, Axios and The Guardian
Mike Bunge / KIMT-TV:
St. Paul man arrested for burning down of Minneapolis police precinct — Accused of arson in federal court. — Photo Gallery — 5 Images — ST. PAUL, Minn. - A federal charge has been filed against a St. Paul man for the burning down of the Third Police Precinct in Minneapolis.
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David Roth / New Republic:
American Psycho — To understand how Jared Kushner received the opportunity to fail at managing the federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic, you mostly need to know that he is married to the president's daughter. But to truly grasp the distinctive style of failure that Kushner has brought …
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Raw Story
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
If You Want To Know What Disbanding The Police Looks Like, Look At Mexico — The rise of vigilante groups in Mexico offers a hint of what happens when institutions fail and civil society collapses. America should be paying attention. — One of the most visible and insistent demands …
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New Republic, Spectator USA and New York Times
Associated Press:
Confederate statue in Florida is removed in predawn hours — JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Confederate statue that had been in a northeast Florida park for more than a century was removed in the predawn hours Tuesday ahead of a protest demanding racial equality.
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Have we normalized the COVID-19 death toll? — In early May, Charlie Warzel, a columnist at the New York Times, saw a tweet that hit him “like a ton of bricks.” In the tweet, Eric Nelson, who works in book publishing, imagined a future in which Americans simply get used to the death toll from covid-19 …