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The Daily Beast:
Trump 'Couldn't Give a Shit' About China Rounding Up Millions of Muslims — John Bolton described a president perfectly fine with concentration camps being built in western China. Administration officials say it's painfully true. — The ugliest claim made by John Bolton …
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Make Sure I Win”: John Bolton's Unredacted Book Shows What Trump Was Really Trying to Hide — Trump's own words to Xi Jinping, among others, were so damning and politicized that the government insisted they be removed. — John Bolton's account that Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping …
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New York Times, Washington Post, United States Department …, The Week, Deadline and Talking Points Memo
Lawfare:
Questions for the Government in the Bolton Book TRO Hearing(s)
Questions for the Government in the Bolton Book TRO Hearing(s)
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Raw Story, emptywheel, Washington Post and Reason
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Seizing the Presidency to Suit His Own Needs
Seizing the Presidency to Suit His Own Needs
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Politico, Althouse and The Daily Beast
The Hill:
GOP fears Biden's low-key campaign is paying off — Joe Biden hasn't held a press conference in 77 days but Democrats aren't feeling much pressure to put the presumptive nominee front and center at the moment. — Biden has, for the most part, kept a low profile throughout the coronavirus pandemic …
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Joe Biden may win more than 400 electoral votes, but there's a long way to go — (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden is well ahead in the national polls right now. More importantly, he holds the advantage in the pivotal swing states. — Chances are Biden will still be ahead come November …
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KEYT-TV and Balloon Juice
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden widens lead over Trump; Republicans enthusiastic, but fear motivates Dems
Fox News Poll: Biden widens lead over Trump; Republicans enthusiastic, but fear motivates Dems
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New York Times, The Hill, QU Poll, The Week, TheBlaze, Mediaite, Washington Times and Politico
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
‘My biggest risk’: Trump says mail-in voting could cost him reelection — President Donald Trump called mail-in voting the biggest threat to his reelection and said his campaign's multimillion-dollar legal effort to block expanded ballot access could determine whether he wins a second term.
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Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Twitter labels Trump video tweet as manipulated media, continuing its crackdown on misinformation — The label marks the fourth time Twitter has added labels to the president's tweets. — Twitter on Thursday evening took the rare step of appending a warning label to one of President Trump's tweets …
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Reuters, The Daily Dot, TheGrio, Variety, The Gateway Pundit, Just The News, The Verge, TVNewser, Mediaite and The Week
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
Twitter labels Trump tweet of “racist baby” as manipulated media
Twitter labels Trump tweet of “racist baby” as manipulated media
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Kate Conger / New York Times:
Twitter Labels Trump Tweet About ‘Racist Baby’ as Manipulated Media
Twitter Labels Trump Tweet About ‘Racist Baby’ as Manipulated Media
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Breitbart
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Tulsa imposes curfew ahead of Trump rally to prevent violent protesting — The city of Tulsa announced a last-minute curfew that began Thursday night and will continue Friday and Saturday, restricting people from a large area surrounding the arena where President Trump will hold his first campaign rally in months.
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's tailspinning presidency is in turmoil — even by his own standards — Washington (CNN)If he was any other President, at any other time, Donald Trump's reelection hopes would probably already be doomed. — Trump has endured one of the most disastrous political streaks of any modern commander …
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Brent Lang / Variety:
AMC Theatres Unveils Plans to Reopen During Coronavirus — AMC Theatres, the world's largest exhibitor, has unveiled plans to re-open after coronavirus forced it to close its more than 600 venues in the U.S. for nearly four months. — The company is expected to resume operations in 450 …
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Top State Department official resigns in protest of Trump's response to racial tensions in the country — A senior State Department official who has served in the Trump administration since its first day is resigning over President Trump's recent handling of racial tensions across the country …
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
New 2020 Electoral College Ratings — With just under five months until the election, President Trump is a severe underdog for re-election. Polls show that voters do not trust him to handle the two most pressing issues of the day — the coronavirus pandemic and race relations — which has helped drive his job approval to 41 percent.
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National Review
Michael Ruane / Washington Post:
Original ‘Juneteenth’ order found in the National Archives — The handwritten document informed the enslaved in Texas they were free on June 19, 1865 — The National Archives on Thursday located what appears to be the original handwritten “Juneteenth” military order informing thousands …
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Real Clear Politics, Associated Press and The Week
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Why Juneteenth Matters — It was black Americans who delivered on Lincoln's promise of “a new birth of freedom.” — Neither Abraham Lincoln nor the Republican Party freed the slaves. They helped set freedom in motion and eventually codified it into law with the 13th Amendment …
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NBC News
Andrew Pulver / The Guardian:
Ian Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire, dies aged 88 — The versatile actor went from the RSC and Harold Pinter to international movie stardom with roles as the hobbit Bilbo Baggins and an android in Alien — Ian Holm, the versatile actor who played everything …
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The Week, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Mashable
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
Sorry, Junior, but He'll Never Love You Like He Loves Ivanka — Watching Donald Trump Jr. interview Donald Trump Sr. was crazy, and f*cked up, but mostly it was sad. — BEAST INSIDE — It was billed as the Triggered Father's Day Special and at 8 PM on Thursday, the president's namesake …
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Raw Story
Tim Mak / NPR:
Whistleblower: TSA Failed To Protect Staff, Endangered Passengers During Pandemic — Audio will be available later today. — The Transportation Security Administration withheld N-95 masks from staff and exhibited “gross mismanagement” in its response to the Coronavirus crisis …
MSNBC:
Sen. Klobuchar takes herself off Biden's list of possible running mates — Sen. Amy Klobuchar says a woman of color should be the one to serve alongside Joe Biden as vice president, and so she is withdrawing herself from consideration. She talks to Lawrence O'Donnell about her decision.
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Juan Williams Leaves Fox News Co-Hosts Speechless With Powerful Black Lives Matter Defense — “The Five” hosts had nothing to say after Williams condemned them for “demonizing” BLM protesters while giving violent white supremacists a pass. — As one of the very few left-leaning personalities still left …
New York Times:
Air Force Investigates Military Planes That Monitored Protesters — The Air Force inspector general is examining whether secretive National Guard surveillance aircraft improperly monitored demonstrators in Washington and Minneapolis. — WASHINGTON — The Air Force inspector general …
Brent Staples / New York Times:
The Burning of Black Wall Street, Revisited — Nearly a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, the search for the dead continues. — Mr. Staples is a member of the editorial board. — The lynch mobs that hanged, shot or burned African-Americans alive during the early 20th century sometimes varied …
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Eddie S. Glaude, Jr / New Yorker:
The History That James Baldwin Wanted America To See — For Baldwin, the past had always been bent in service of a lie. Could a true story be told? — On March 16, 1968, James Baldwin walked to the podium at a fund-raiser, at Anaheim's Disneyland Hotel, to introduce Dr. Martin Luther King …
Mia Cathell / The Federalist:
While Thousands Protested Freely, My Grandmother Died Alone During Lockdown — Policies put in place during the coronavirus lockdowns barred unnumerable families from saying goodbye to their loved ones. Our stories are heartbreaking. — “Don't worry,” the mob said, “Grandma is safer than ever.”
Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
Trump says he's heard ‘interesting’ things about Roswell — President Donald Trump says he's heard some interesting things about Roswell, but he's not sharing even with his eldest child. — Trump made the comments Thursday in a Father's Day-themed interview with his son Don Trump Jr., hosted by the president's reelection campaign.
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CNN:
Retired generals pull support for Trump nominee after offensive tweets uncovered by CNN — (CNN)At least two retired Army generals have pulled their support for President Donald Trump's nominee to oversee the Pentagon's policy shop after CNN's KFile reported last week that he has a history …
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Foreign Policy and Wall Street Journal
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
A Farrakhan Supporter Led the LA Black Lives Matter Rally That Became a Pogrom — Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. — “It's no coincidence that the riots …
Paul Hammel / Omaha World-Herald:
Ricketts tells local governments they won't get federal COVID-19 money if they require masks — LINCOLN — At his regular coronavirus press conferences, Gov. Pete Ricketts makes a point of urging Nebraskans to wear a mask when they go to a store. — But when it comes to the state's 93 courthouses …
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Emily Goodin / Daily Mail:
John Bolton insisted on a personal Air Force jet flying him to London for Donald Trump's state visit - and staff called him ‘mean and nasty,’ Trump confidante claims in fightback against aide's book — John Bolton was disliked by his White House staff and demanded his own Air Force jet …
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Lara M. Brown / The Hill:
The ‘blue wall’ is reforming in the Rust Belt — In 2016, President Trump broke through Hillary Clinton's “blue wall.” He won three states that Democrats had carried since the 1980s: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. — As Politico explained in an analysis last December that examined …
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Dennis Romero / NBC News:
SEC to Mississippi: Change Confederate-themed flag or risk losing college sports events — The NCAA's Southeastern Conference commissioner warned that Mississippi could lose SEC championship games if it doesn't alter the state flag.. — The NCAA's Southeastern Conference on Thursday told …
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Martha S. Jones / New York Times:
Ida, Maya, Rosa, Harriet: The Power in Our Names — Ayanna Pressley and Harriet Tubman both used naming in a way to evoke power. — “SoJo,” the cat of Representative Ayanna Pressley, Democrat of Massachusetts, is a celebrity in her own right. SoJo is a minor Twitter influencer …
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Seattle Soviet — “What,” Marx asked, “is the Commune, that sphinx so tantalizing to the bourgeois mind?” — In 1871 the Commune was the revolutionary government of Paris, a revolt against the newborn Third Republic of Adolphe Thiers. The communards, drawn from the ranks of city-dwelling laborers …
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Wall Street Journal:
Early Data Show No Uptick in Covid-19 Transmission From Protests — Public health experts say preliminary test results are encouraging; outdoor locations and masks may have helped — Early coronavirus testing data from a handful of U.S. cities and states suggest that recent protests …
Bloomberg:
Biden Campaign Lags in Hiring Top Staff in Battleground States — Democrats worry about leadership vacuum in key states — Arizona is the first battleground to get a state director — Joe Biden's campaign has only begun to hire top officials in key states, leaving him without senior staff …