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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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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.
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Raw Story and Political Wire
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
How Fox News lost the Black Lives Matter debate — A nation turns its back on Murdoch … Support independent voices — Channeling his deepest white privilege fury, Tucker Carlson opened his Monday night Fox News show with an angry, 25-minute, race-baiting monologue about Black Lives Matter …
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Washington Post, The Wrap and Slate
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Charles Love / City Journal:
False Prophets … If you really want to help black America …
False Prophets … If you really want to help black America …
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The Federalist, spiked and Breitbart
John Bowden / The Hill:
Starbucks bans employees from wearing anything in support of Black Lives Matter
Starbucks bans employees from wearing anything in support of Black Lives Matter
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The Sun, Louder With Crowder and Fox News
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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Politico, New York Post, New York Times and Vanity Fair
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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 …
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NBC News, The Bulwark, Blue Virginia and Jacobin
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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Daily Kos and Financial Times
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump defiant as cultural change sweeps America — (CNN)The deeper the change sweeping America, the more President Donald Trump digs into positions that even some of his natural allies have recently forsaken. — Defending the memory of Confederate generals, proudly crisscrossing …
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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Raw Story
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Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:
The Virus Will Win — Americans are pretending that the pandemic is over. It certainly is not. — Contributing writer at The Atlantic — A second wave of the coronavirus is on the way. When it arrives, we will lack the will to deal with it. Despite all the sacrifices of the past months …
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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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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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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JONATHAN TURLEY, Fox News and The Gateway Pundit
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Fascists Are After William Jacobson [Updated]
The Fascists Are After William Jacobson [Updated]
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Le\u00b7gal …, The Gateway Pundit and Fox News
Axios:
John Bolton's forthcoming book includes multiple allegations about Trump misconduct in office — In a memoir coming June 23 that the White House has tried to delay, former national security adviser John Bolton will offer multiple revelations about President Trump's conduct in office …
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MyNorthwest.com
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 …
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 …
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’
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, The Sun, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, CSNY and New York Post
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
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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CNN, Washington Post, The National Pulse, Bloomberg, TheStreet, Gizmodo, Mashable, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon, Politico, Mediaite and UPI, more at Techmeme »
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.
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
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Bloomberg
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 …
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National Review
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Worse than the limousine liberal: ‘Prius woke-sters’ cheer chaos at personal risk — In 1969, New York mayoral candidate Mario Procaccino went after his rival, the movie-star-good-looking incumbent John Lindsay, by deriding him and his supporters as “limousine liberals” — people who …
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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Truthout and Patterico's Pontifications
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 …
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.
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump is so set on harassing immigrants that his immigration agency needs a bailout — The immigration agency admonishing immigrants to pull themselves up by their bootstraps seems to have destroyed its own boots. — For three years, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services …
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GovExec.com
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.
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Right-wing media says Antifa militants have seized part of Seattle. Local authorities say otherwise — New York (CNN)Armed militant activists with the group Antifa have seized a sizable section of Seattle and are plotting to expand their territory — all as the local police surrender to them and evacuate a local precinct.
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Twitchy, Townhall, Fox News, The Daily Dot, Politico and Rolling Stone
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's Grotesque Tulsa Trip — A racist president trolls his enemies with a rally on Juneteenth. — Most people — or, at any rate, most readers of The New York Times — remember Donald Trump's response to the white nationalist riot in Charlottesville, Va., as a particularly low point in a presidency full of them.
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The American Independent, NPR and CNN
Charles Fain Lehman / Washington Free Beacon:
Why Is Laurene Powell Jobs Funding Fake News? — Laurene Powell Jobs has portrayed herself as a defender of the free press, but while journalistic projects she supports have laid off employees and turned to the government for help, the billionaire has funded a political group …
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 …
Axios:
Scoop: Biden won't tap Bloomberg agency Hawkfish for campaign — The Biden campaign won't rely on the tech and ad agency with close ties to Mike Bloomberg to run its digital operation in 2020, people familiar with the process tell Axios. — Why it matters: Hawkfish billed itself …
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Los Angeles Times
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Embattled at home, Pompeo and Barr lash out at foreign foe — WASHINGTON — A defiant Secretary of State Mike Pompeo denounced the International Criminal Court as a “highly politicized” institution on Thursday morning as he announced new sanctions against it for its investigation …
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ABC News