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NBC News:
Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley discussed resigning over role in Trump's church photo op — The Pentagon's top general discussed resigning amid criticism over his participation in President Donald Trump's controversial photo op at a Washington church, three defense officials familiar with the matter told NBC News.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump Hates Losers, So Why Is He Refighting the Civil War—on the Losing Side? — A week of protest, pandemic, and political unrest in the capital. — It was a small moment in a week of craziness, but there is nothing like the rage of Donald Trump when a media outlet publishes a poll proclaiming him an almost-certain loser.
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Financial Times
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Trump Will Give Convention Speech in Jacksonville, Capping a Dispute Over Safety — The move from Charlotte, N.C., where the Republican convention was originally planned, came after the president demanded to hold an event without social distancing rules. — WASHINGTON — It's official …
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New York Times:
G.O.P. Platform, Rolled Over From 2016, Condemns the ‘Current President’ — The party's 2020 platform includes more than three dozen unflattering references to those in power at the White House, after the Republican National Committee chose not to change its language from four years ago.
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The Daily Beast, Raw Story and Big League Politics
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Republicans announce Trump convention events will move to Jacksonville
Republicans announce Trump convention events will move to Jacksonville
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Associated Press, WJXT-TV, The Hill, IJR, Politico and The American Independent
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump rally attendees must agree not to sue campaign over potential coronavirus exposure — Supporters of President Donald Trump will soon be able to attend one of his signature, raucous campaign rallies again after a monthslong hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic — but first …
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The Dispatch, Patterico's Pontifications, Truthout, HuffPost and Raw Story
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NBC New York:
‘His Brain Is Injured:’ Lawyer Updates on 75-Year-Old NY Protester Shoved by Police — The confrontation during a peaceful protest in Buffalo, New York, last week was captured on video that has since gone viral — What to Know — The 75-year-old man hospitalized after he was pushed …
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The Daily Beast, CSNY, The Daily Caller, Raw Story and New York Post
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Scoop: Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt Are the First Couple of Fox — Two of the Murdoch network's staunchest Trump defenders have been quietly in a relationship for months. — On a Friday last August, Sean Hannity flew his private helicopter to Trump National Golf Course in Colts Neck …
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Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and Page Six
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best: City Leaders Have Failed, Abandoning Precinct “Was Not My Decision” — In an address to officers Thursday, Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best spoke out about the decision to abandon the 13th Police Precinct and surrounding neighborhood to the Revolutionary …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Right-wing media says Antifa militants have seized part of Seattle. Local authorities say otherwise
Right-wing media says Antifa militants have seized part of Seattle. Local authorities say otherwise
Mike Baker / New York Times:
Free Food, Free Speech and Free of Police: Inside Seattle's ‘Autonomous Zone’
Free Food, Free Speech and Free of Police: Inside Seattle's ‘Autonomous Zone’
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New York Post:
NYPD lieutenant apologizes for kneeling alongside George Floyd protesters — A Manhattan NYPD lieutenant sent an email to his fellow officers apologizing for kneeling alongside George Floyd protesters late last month — telling them that “the cop in me wants to kick my own ass.”
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The Western Journal, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Digby's Hullabaloo, Gothamist, Raw Story and The Sun
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Kelly Loeffler's Fundraising Committee Takes the Prize for Tone Deafness — The Georgia Republican is offering donors and fundraisers benefit packages to support her re-election bid. — As Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) proclaims her exoneration from allegations of insider trading …
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Raw Story
Ellen Knickmeyer / Associated Press:
Black Tulsans call Trump rally plan ‘a slap in the face’ — OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Black community and political leaders called on President Donald Trump to at least change the Juneteenth date for a rally kicking off his return to public campaigning, saying Thursday that plans for a rally …
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Twitter:
Disclosing networks of state-linked information operations we've removed — Today we are disclosing 32,242 accounts to our archive of state-linked information operations — the only one of its kind in the industry. The account sets we're publishing to the archive today include three distinct operations …
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Wall Street Journal:
How New York's Coronavirus Response Made the Pandemic Worse — The hasty expansion of medical facilities by state, city and hospital leaders led to grave mistakes, a Wall Street Journal investigation found; ‘wartime conditions’ — New York leaders faced an unanticipated crisis …
Ebony Bowden / New York Post:
Trump confidantes push him to drop re-election campaign manager Brad Parscale — WASHINGTON — Advisers to President Trump are pushing him to dismiss his campaign manager Brad Parscale, arguing he lacks the political instincts to lead the team to a second term in the White House.
Nate Gartrell / Mercury News:
Suspect in Santa Cruz ambush linked to federal officer killing in Oakland; charged with 19 felonies — Suspect was a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force — A U.S. Air Force sergeant accused of ambushing Santa Cruz County deputies is also believed to be the gunman who shot a federal officer in Oakland …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Still-Vital Case for Liberalism in a Radical Age — David Shor is a 28-year-old political data analyst and social democrat who worked for President Obama's reelection campaign. On May 28, Shor tweeted out a short summary of a paper by Princeton professor Omar Wasow.
New York Times:
As Americans Shift on Racism, Trump Digs In — With much of the country acknowledging that protesters' frustrations are justified, the president increasingly sounds detached from many voters in the political middle and even some of his allies. — WASHINGTON — NASCAR is demanding that its fans …
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The Bulwark, Blue Virginia and Jacobin
Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
Alarming rise in virus cases as states roll back lockdowns — NEW YORK (AP) — States are rolling back lockdowns, but the coronavirus isn't done with the U.S. — Cases are rising in nearly half the states, according to an Associated Press analysis, a worrying trend that could intensify …
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KTLA, Instapundit and ProFootballTalk
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
There's an effort to get me fired at Cornell for criticizing the Black Lives Matter Movement — Or if not fired, at least publicly denounced by the law school. Student groups plan to demand the law school “critically examine the views of the people they employ as professors of the law.”
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
'I feel good. I'm alive': Two years after diagnosis, Harry Reid says he's cancer free — Harry M. Reid has a message for these incredibly bleak times: Keep fighting. — Last summer the former Senate majority leader hid from the obvious fact that pancreatic cancer was on the verge of defeating him.
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Fox Business, The Hill and Axios
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Is OAN the Leading Edge of Russian Misinformation? — In what appears to be a signal of intensifying political warfare ahead of the November election, One America News Network, the Trump-supporting cable channel that has been promoting anti-Biden conspiracies for several months …
Chicago Tribune:
Chicago police made coffee and popcorn in US Rep. Bobby Rush's office while shopping plaza was being looted, he says — Chicago police officers made popcorn and coffee in U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush's office while nearby businesses were being looted, he announced at a stunning news conference alongside Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
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Block Club Chicago, Fox News, Mediaite and New York Post
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's most loyal media ally promised a pro-Trump poll. It didn't deliver — and then pulled its story. — CNN's release of a poll this week showing President Trump trailing former vice president Joe Biden by 14 points nationally clearly rattled the president and his reelection campaign.
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One America News Network
Thomas Novelly / Post and Courier:
2 SC National Guardsmen found glass baked into pizza they ordered while on DC deployment — The soldiers were staying at the Marriott Marquis Hotel during their mission to the nation's capital when they decided to order a pizza from a nearby establishment using Uber Eats …
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Washingtonian, Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and fox8.com
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Biden Prepares Attack on Facebook's Speech Policies — The campaign will urge its supporters to push the social media giant to strengthen its rules against misinformation and harmful comments. — WASHINGTON — The Biden presidential campaign, emboldened by a recent surge in support, is going after a new target: Facebook.
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Dallas Morning News:
Trump snubs Dallas' top law enforcement officials, all black, for talk about policing and race in Dallas — The White House defends exclusion of Dallas' police chief, sheriff and DA from a talk on race relations and police ahead of the president's $10M campaign dinner.
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Joe Biden for President:
MoveFastFixIt — #MOVEFASTFIXIT After foreign operatives and rightwing trolls used Facebook to hack the 2016 election, Facebook vowed “never again” and promised to take action. But with fewer than 5 months until the 2020 election, Facebook seems to be on a crash course to let the same mistakes happen again.
Des Moines Register:
Iowa Legislature unanimously approves bill to address police officer misconduct, sending it to Gov. Kim Reynolds — As protests calling for racial justice continue around Iowa, the Iowa Legislature unanimously approved a bill Thursday evening to ban most police chokeholds and address police officer misconduct.
Michael Flynn / The Western Journal:
Exclusive from Gen. Flynn: Forces of Evil Want To Steal Our Freedom in the Dark of Night, But God Stands with Us — There are seminal moments in American history that test every fiber of our nation's soul. — We are facing one now. — Revolutionary forces are causing every American citizen …
Seth A. Richardson / Plain Dealer:
Ohio GOP state senator fired from ER doctor job after using racist language — CLEVELAND, Ohio - State Sen. Steve Huffman, a Dayton-area Republican, has been fired from his position as an emergency room doctor after using racist language to question whether people of color are disproportionately affected …
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Raw Story
Omar Wasow / Washington Post:
The protests started out looking like 1968. They turned into 1964. — As in the mid-1960s, peaceful protests drove news coverage and woke up the public — While the brutality and injustice of George Floyd's death in police custody have been condemned by liberal and conservative politicians alike …
Jay Greene / Washington Post:
Microsoft won't sell police its facial-recognition technology, following similar moves by Amazon and IBM — SEATTLE — Microsoft has joined the list of tech giants that have decided to limit the use of its facial-recognition systems, announcing that it will not sell the controversial technology …
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Kerry Flynn / CNN:
Refinery29 is reeling from claims of racism and toxic work culture. Employees say it's even worse behind the scenes — Amid the protests over the death of George Floyd and larger racial inequalities in the US last week, Refinery29 swapped the colors of its website, going from its usual jewel-tone …
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