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7:35 AM ET, June 12, 2020

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NBC News:
Man charged in deputy ambush scrawled extremist ‘Boogaloo’ phrases in blood  —  Steven Carrillo, accused of killing a sheriff's deputy in Santa Cruz County, California, wrote the words on the hood of a car, prosecutors said  —  Steven Carrillo, a California man who was charged with murder …
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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 …
Discussion: Gizmodo and ABC7
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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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 …
Discussion: The Bulwark, Blue Virginia and Jacobin
David Bernstein / Reason:
Cornell Dean Eduardo M. Peñalver on the Jacobson Controversy  —  Earlier today, I wrote about demands that Cornell Law School fire clinical professor William Jacobson, and noted that Jacobson reported that Dean Eduardo M. Peñalver was properly defending his academic freedom.
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Starbucks bans employees from wearing anything in support of Black Lives Matter
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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Gabby Orr / Politico:
Republicans across the spectrum slam RNC's decision to keep 2016 platform
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:   The 2020 RNC Platform Details How Awful the ‘Current President’ Is. It's From 2016.
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Exclusive: Most Americans, including Republicans, support sweeping Democratic police reform proposals - Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Most Americans, including a majority of President Donald Trump's Republican Party, support sweeping law enforcement reforms such as a ban …
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Kendall Karson / ABC News:   64% of Americans oppose ‘defund the police’ movement, key goals: POLL
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 …
Discussion: Fox News, Raw Story, NBC News and Breitbart
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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 …
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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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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Jada Yuan / Washington Post:
Melania Trump was in no rush to move into the White House.  That's when she renegotiated her prenup, a new book says.  —  When Melania Trump stayed behind in New York after her husband's presidential inauguration, she said it was because she didn't want to interrupt their then-10-year-old son Barron's school year.
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
Snopes.com:
Trump Fumes as Protesters Stake Out Festive Zone in Seattle  —  The president taunted Gov. Jay Inslee and Mayor Jenny Durkan about the situation on Twitter and said the city had been taken over by “anarchists.” … SEATTLE (AP) — Following days of violent confrontations with protesters …
Discussion: The Post Millennial and Twitchy
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Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:   Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best: City Leaders Have Failed, Abandoning Precinct “Was Not My Decision”
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.
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.
Discussion: Financial Times
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump pushes fights over racist legacy while much of America moves in a different direction  —  At a time when much of the country appears to be moving in a different direction, President Trump has charged into a series of fights over the nation's racist legacy — gambling that taking divisive stances …
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The National:
Israel annexation: UAE ambassador warns of setbacks in first direct address  —  Ambassador to the US, Yousef Al Otaiba, has written to the Israeli public to lay out the significant impact its government's annexation of the West Bank and Jordan Valley will have regionally
Discussion: Bloomberg
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 …
Audrey Cleo Yap / Variety:
Dave Chappelle Speaks Out on George Floyd's Death, Blasts Candace Owens in Searing Netflix Special  —  How Director Lynn Chen and Her Team of Asian American Actor-Artisans Created Indie ‘I Will Make You Mine’  —  'Supergirl's' Nicole Maines Wants to Evolve Trans Roles: ‘Trans Characters Can Be Less Than Perfect’
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Korea Vows to Boost Nuclear Program, Saying U.S. Diplomacy Failed  —  In a statement marking the second anniversary of a historic summit meeting between Kim Jong-un and President Trump, the North said its hopes had faded into a “nightmare.”  —  SEOUL, South Korea …
Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
Black community braces for next threat: Mass evictions  —  A new tremor is threatening to shake minority communities as protests over racial injustice sweep the country: A wave of evictions as a federal moratorium on kicking people out of their rental units expires.
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 …
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 …
James Hill / ABC News:
Former Jeffrey Epstein companion Ghislaine Maxwell seeks to keep court records under seal  —  The files may “inappropriately influence potential witnesses,” her lawyer said.  —  Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell, the former companion of deceased sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein …
Discussion: The Sun
Shaun Boyd / CBS Denver:
Corporate Donations To Governor's Office ‘Raises All Sorts Of Red Flags’  —  DENVER (CBS4)- A CBS4 investigation has uncovered millions of dollars in donations from corporations and private foundations to the governor's office.  The off-the-books donations date back at least 20 years.
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.
Matthew Goldstein / New York Times:
Goldman Sachs Is Said to Try to Avoid Pleading Guilty in 1MDB Scandal  —  The bank has asked the U.S. to review demands that any settlement include a guilty plea to a felony charge, according to people briefed on the matter.  —  Goldman Sachs is trying to get federal prosecutors to ease …
Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:
Biden's war chest swells as donors, many in California, grow increasingly alarmed by Trump  —  It was another in an unrelenting procession of Zoom fundraisers — the script familiar, the donors determined not to be deterred by technical glitches, and the candidate about to go through the motions …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist:
Caught In De Blasio's Curfew, Essential Worker Spends Week In Jail After NYPD Mass Arrests Bronx Protesters  —  It wasn't yet curfew when the cops trapped Devaughnta Williams.  After clocking out at his job as a janitor at a city social services building on Thursday evening …
Lee Fang / The Intercept:
Facebook Pitched New Tool Allowing Employers to Suppress Words Like “Unionize” in Workplace Chat Product  —  During an internal presentation at Facebook on Wednesday, the company debuted features for Facebook Workplace, an intranet-style chat and office collaboration product similar to Slack.
Discussion: New York Times
Marcia Brown / American Prospect:
How Ongoing Resistance Is Fueling the End of Policing  —  Author and professor Alex Vitale talks about police abolition, minimizing harm, and imagining a radically different society.  —  Demonstrators near the White House on Saturday  —  As hundreds of thousands of Americans join protests across …
 
 
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Washington Post:
Former government spokesman pretended to be CIA operative in $4.4 million scam
Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
Federal judge rules ICE can no longer operate in and around New York courthouses
Discussion: Townhall and The Daily Caller
Sophie Lewis / CBS News:
Trump administration eases restrictions on killing bear cubs and wolf pups in their dens in Alaska
Discussion: Fox News
New York Times:
Ritchie Torres for Congress in the Bronx
Discussion: The Intercept
Kerry Flynn / CNN:
Refinery29 is reeling from claims of racism and toxic work culture.  Employees say it's even worse behind the scenes
Discussion: Vox, more at Mediagazer »
Seth A. Richardson / Plain Dealer:
Ohio GOP state senator fired from ER doctor job after using racist language
Discussion: Raw Story
Omar Wasow / Washington Post:
The protests started out looking like 1968. They turned into 1964.
 Earlier Items: 
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's most loyal media ally promised a pro-Trump poll.  It didn't deliver — and then pulled its story.
Jay Greene / Washington Post:
Microsoft won't sell police its facial-recognition technology, following similar moves by Amazon and IBM
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
'I feel good. I'm alive': Two years after diagnosis, Harry Reid says he's cancer free
Discussion: Fox Business, The Hill and Axios
Dallas Morning News:
Trump snubs Dallas' top law enforcement officials, all black, for talk about policing and race in Dallas
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Still-Vital Case for Liberalism in a Radical Age
 

 
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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