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6:25 PM ET, June 16, 2020

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Adele-Momoko Fraser / NBC News:
Google bans two websites from its ad platform over protest articles  —  Google has banned two far-right websites from its advertising platform after research revealed the tech giant was profiting from articles pushing unsubstantiated claims about the Black Lives Matter protests.
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
North Carolina Republican calls Black Lives Matter protesters ‘ignorant thugs’ and ‘vermin’ — and says cops should ‘shoot them’  —  According to The Charlotte Observer, North Carolina state Rep. Larry Pittman posted an inflammatory rant against Black Lives Matter protesters on Facebook …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Police detain armed militia members after man is shot at Albuquerque protest  —  Protesters in Albuquerque wrapped a chain around the neck of a bronze statue and began tugging, chanting “Tear it down,” shortly before sunset on Monday.  Their efforts to pull down a monument …
Simon Romero / New York Times:
Man Is Shot at Protest Over Statue of New Mexico's Conquistador  —  Two statues of Juan de Oñate are being removed after long-simmering tension between Native Americans and Hispanics over Spain's conquest of New Mexico.  —  ALBUQUERQUE — Gunfire broke out during a protest Monday night …
Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:
Tucker Carlson Freaks Out Over Right-Wing Poll Showing BLM Is More Popular Than Trump
Discussion: The Daily Beast and LewRockwell
Philip Bump / Washington Post:   Ask Trump and prime-time Fox News hosts, and rampant looting and violence continues unabated
Rich Lowry / National Review:   Selective Social-Distancing Rules Are One of the Great Scams in American Life
Mike Pence / Wall Street Journal:
There Isn't a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave’  —  With testing, treatments and vaccine trials ramping up, we are far better off than the media report.  —  In recent days, the media has taken to sounding the alarm bells over a “second wave” of coronavirus infections.  Such panic is overblown.
David Badash / Raw Story:
Franklin Graham fumes over SCOTUS ruling: My rights to fire LGBTQ people ‘are the freedoms our nation was founded on’  —  Anti-LGBTQ activist Franklin Graham is furious over Monday's Supreme Court ruling that finds Title Vii of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBTQ workers from discrimination …
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Michelle Lee / Washington Post:
Texas Democrats ask Supreme Court to expand access to mail voting
Discussion: The Hill
Daniel Horowitz / Conservative Review:
SCOTUS decision redefining sexuality will wreak havoc on society
Discussion: Breitbart and BuzzFeed News
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Associated Press:   'It's frustrating': Trump advertising blast has limits
detroitnews:
Dingell: 'I don't believe these numbers' showing Biden with big lead
Discussion: IJR and Fox News
WJXT-TV:
Woman, 15 friends test positive for coronavirus after night out at Lynch's  —  40-year-old health care worker says she regrets not taking precautions  —  JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. - Erika Crisp has been short of breath for several days and has tested positive for COVID-19.  —  So have more than a dozen of her friends.
Discussion: Mashable, New York Post and Daily Kos
Los Angeles Times:
Suspect in killing of 2 Bay Area cops tied to right-wing Boogaloo group, prosecutors allege  —  An Air Force sergeant suspected of killing a Santa Cruz County sheriff's sergeant will be charged, along with a Millbrae man, in the fatal shooting of a federal security officer last month in downtown Oakland, federal officials said Tuesday.
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NBC News:
Alleged ‘Boogaloo’ extremist charged in killing of federal officer during George Floyd protest
Discussion: New York Post
U.S. Department of Justice:   Two Defendants Charged with Murder and Aiding and Abetting in Slaying of Federal Protective …
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Files Breach-of-Contract Suit Against Ex-National Security Adviser John Bolton  —  Suit claims Bolton will compromise national security by publishing book it says contains classified information  —  The U.S. on Tuesday filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against former national security …
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
DOJ aims to stop publication of book in new lawsuit against John Bolton
Discussion: Associated Press
New York Times:
Prosecutor in Roger Stone Case Will Testify About Barr's Intervention  —  The prosecutor is one of two Justice Department officials coming forward whom Democrats are calling whistle-blowers.  —  WASHINGTON — Two Justice Department officials have agreed to testify under subpoena …
Politico:
McConnell to keep grip on GOP even if Republicans lose Senate  —  Mitch McConnell spent much of his life laboring to become Senate majority leader.  And for the past six years, he's used that position to become one of the most consequential party leaders in decades.
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Jenna Portnoy / Washington Post:
Hoyer sets June 26 date for historic House vote on D.C. statehood bill
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos, Roll Call and The Hill
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:   House to vote to make Washington DC the 51st state
Knvul Sheikh / New York Times:
Flushing the Toilet May Fling Coronavirus Aerosols All Over  —  A new study shows how turbulence from a toilet bowl can create a large plume that is potentially infectious to a bathroom's next visitor.  —  Here's one more behavior to be hyper-aware of in order to prevent coronavirus transmission: what you do after you use the toilet.
Discussion: Gizmodo and Fox News
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump offers full-throated defense of police in executive action signing  —  Trump considers executive order on police reform  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump takes his first concrete steps on Tuesday to address growing national outcry over police brutality when he signs an executive order creating …
Michelle Roberts / BBC:
Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug  —  A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.  —  The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say.
Holmes Lybrand / CNN:
Fact check: Pence falsely claims coronavirus cases in Oklahoma are on the decline  —  Trump moves Tulsa campaign rally from Juneteenth  —  Washington (CNN)During a White House roundtable Monday, Vice President Mike Pence claimed that Oklahoma - where President Donald Trump is scheduled …
Washington Post:
Elite CIA unit that developed hacking tools failed to secure its own systems, allowing massive leak, an internal report found  —  The theft of top-secret computer hacking tools from the CIA in 2016 was the result of a workplace culture in which the agency's elite computer hackers …
Tamara Lush / Associated Press:
Poll: Americans are the unhappiest they've been in 50 years  —  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Spoiler alert: 2020 has been rough on the American psyche.  Folks in the U.S. are more unhappy today than they've been in nearly 50 years.  —  This bold — yet unsurprising …
Radio Iowa:
Governor Reynolds will issue order on felon voting rights  —  Governor Kim Reynolds will issue an executive order that automatically restores felon voting rights before the November election.  —  “We're working on that right now, sitting down with various groups, listening to what they think is important …
Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
Netflix's billionaire founder is secretly building a luxury retreat for teachers in rural Colorado  —  His Colorado retreat is the latest in Reed Hastings's decades-long attempt to figure out how exactly he wants to spend his now-$5 billion of net worth to improve American schools.
Erin Schumaker / ABC News:
Miami pauses reopening as Florida's new coronavirus cases rise  —  The state reported a record-high one-day increase of 2,783 new cases on Tuesday.  —  Miami, among Florida's most populous cities, won't move into the next phase of reopening because of concern over rising COVID-19 cases …
New York Times:
Worst Clash in Decades on Disputed India-China Border Kills 20 Indian Troops  —  Under nationalist leaders, the nuclear-armed rivals have been increasingly assertive toward neighbors, risking open conflict.  They have contested their Himalayan border for generations.
Bloomberg:
For Black CEOs in Silicon Valley, Humiliation Is a Part of Doing Business  —  Will Hayes has grown accustomed to an awkward start to business meetings.  On numerous occasions, venture capitalists would confuse Hayes, the head of software company Lucidworks Inc., with another man on his executive team.
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Trump's COVID Data Crunchers See Coronavirus Racing Down America's Major Highways  —  As more people are traveling, the virus is spreading.  And researchers are seeing it follow the paths of our busiest roads.  —  Doctors behind a COVID-modeling study used by the president's coronavirus task force …
Discussion: Daily Kos
ProPublica:
Somebody's Gotta Help Me"  —  Phillip Garcia was in psychiatric crisis.  In jail and in the hospital, guards responded with force and restrained the 51-year-old inmate for almost 20 hours, until he died. … MORENO VALLEY, Calif. — Phillip Garcia was desperate to sit up.
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Trump says Obama didn't reform policing.  But he did and then the president ditched it.  —  President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that his predecessor did not take action on reforming police in America — despite the fact that it was under Trump that several Obama-era reforms were scrapped.
Teri Kanefield / DemCast:
Chaos in Georgia, Part II  —  Part I is here.  —  (Information from this thread is taken from the report I'm currently working on for the Georgia Voter Protection Organization.)  —  In March when the pandemic hit, the GA Secretary of State mailed applications for Vote By Mail (VBM) ballots to all voters on the rolls: 6.9 million.
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
The Russian Disinfo Operation You Never Heard About  —  The campaign known as Secondary Infektion appears to be a distinct effort from the meddling of the IRA and GRU—and it went undetected for years.  —  The Internet Research Agency is infamous for flooding mainstream social media platforms with compelling disinformation campaigns.
 
 
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CNN:
Buffalo protester Martin Gugino has a fractured skull and cannot walk
Discussion: Gothamist
Lila Shapiro / Vulture:
The National Book Critics Circle Has Imploded
The White House:
Executive Order on Safe Policing for Safe Communities
EEAS:
International Criminal Justice: Statement by the High Representative following the US decision …
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
As Meat Plants Stayed Open to Feed Americans, Exports to China Surged
 Earlier Items: 
Jon Kamp / Wall Street Journal:
Coronavirus Deaths in U.S. Nursing, Long-Term-Care Facilities Top 50,000
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Disrn
Wall Street Journal:
Black Officers Say Discrimination Abounds, Complicating Reform Efforts
Caroline Spiezio / Reuters:
Did elite David Boies law firm get a pandemic bailout? It's a secret
Sarah Kliff / New York Times:
Most Coronavirus Tests Cost About $100. Why Did One Cost $2,315?
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Mia Jankowicz / Business Insider:
Fauci said US government held off promoting face masks because it knew shortages were so bad …
Discussion: National Review, The Hill and Gizmodo
 

 
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