memeorandum: Princeton drops Woodrow Wilson's name from school due to “racist thinking” (Rashaan Ayesh/Axios)

2:05 PM ET, June 27, 2020

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President Eisgruber's message to community on removal of Woodrow Wilson name from public policy school and Wilson College — President Eisgruber's message to community on removal of Woodrow Wilson name from public policy school and Wilson College — Board of Trustees concludes …

Discussion: New York Times, Politico and Outside the Beltway

Princeton University News:

Search Sites & People × — Board of Trustees' decision on removing Woodrow Wilson's name from public policy school and residential college — Princeton University Board of Trustees' decision on use of Woodrow Wilson's name June 26, 2020 — The Princeton University Board …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Hill

Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:

Princeton drops Woodrow Wilson's name from school due to “racist thinking” — Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber announced Saturday the University will remove President Woodrow Wilson's name from its public policy school and a residential college.

CNN:

Measures to protect Trump from coronavirus scale up even as he seeks to move on — (CNN)President Donald Trump appears ready to move on from a still-raging coronavirus pandemic — skipping the first White House task force briefing in months and moving the event out of the White House itself.

Discussion: Raw Story

Politico:

The Lincoln Project is trolling Trump. But can it sway voters? — The moment President Donald Trump started tweeting at 12:46 a.m. about the “RINO Republicans” at the Lincoln Project who'd just run an ad attacking his response to the pandemic, Reed Galen knew his hunch was right …

Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire

Evan Semones / Politico:

Grassley chides Trump, Fox News for answer on second term agenda — Sen. Chuck Grassley laid blame on Fox News — and President Donald Trump — on Saturday over failing to articulate what his administration's second term priorities would be during a recent interview with the news organization.

Discussion: The Hill and Fox News

Erik Wemple / Washington Post: The recklessness of Tucker Carlson

New York Times:

New Numbers Showing Coronavirus Spread Intrude on a White House in Denial — Both President Trump and Vice President Pence seem oblivious to the new chapter in the pandemic. — WASHINGTON — In the past week, President Trump hosted an indoor campaign rally for thousands of cheering …

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Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
What to wear: Feds' mixed messages on masks sow confusion

Discussion: CNN

Harry Enten / CNN:

Candidates who recover from Trump-like deficits are rarely incumbents — (CNN)The polls are fairly unanimous: Former Vice President Joe Biden holds a significant advantage over President Donald Trump. On average, he's up by 10 points nationally and in the pivotal battleground state of Wisconsin.

Washington Post:

Russian operation targeted coalition troops in Afghanistan, intelligence finds — A Russian military spy unit offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to attack coalition forces in Afghanistan, including U.S. and British troops, in a striking escalation of the Kremlin's hostility toward …

Discussion: New York Post, The Mahablog, DCReport.org, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, Task & Purpose, Just The News and Mediaite

Wall Street Journal:
Russian Spy Unit Paid Taliban to Attack Americans, U.S. Intelligence Says

Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times

Miriam Jordan / New York Times:

U.S. Must Release Children From Family Detention Centers, Judge Rules — The order, which cited the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, applies to children held in the nation's three family detention centers for more than 20 days. — Citing the severity of the coronavirus pandemic …

Discussion: The US Sun, Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway and NPR

Dennis Romero / NBC News:
Government must release migrant children in detention centers because of coronavirus, judge orders

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Priscilla Alvarez / CNN: Judge rules migrant children in government family detention centers must be released due to coronavirus

New York Times:

How the World Missed Covid-19's Silent Spread — Symptomless transmission makes the coronavirus far harder to fight. But health officials dismissed the risk for months, pushing misleading and contradictory claims in the face of mounting evidence. — MUNICH — Dr. Camilla Rothe …

Associated Press:

Reporter at Trump's Tulsa rally tests positive for COVID-19 — OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A journalist who attended President Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa last week said Friday he has tested positive for COVID-19. — Oklahoma Watch reporter Paul Monies said he was notified Friday of his positive diagnosis.

Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story

Kim Barker / New York Times:

The Black Officer Who Detained George Floyd Had Pledged to Fix the Police — Alex Kueng is one of four former officers accused of crimes in the killing of Mr. Floyd, which happened on his third shift. His decision to join the force had frayed friendships.

Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:

What Activities Are Safe as the Coronavirus Continues to Spread? — On Tuesday, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testified before Congress that the U.S. is seeing a “disturbing surge” in coronavirus cases.

WPEC:

“I will not be muzzled like a mad dog;' face mask debate turns fierce in St. Lucie County — The debate over a proposed mandate for face masks in certain areas of St. Lucie County turned heated. “I will not be muzzled like a mad dog,” said one man during the public comment session.

Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story

New York Times:

How Trump and the Black Lives Matter Movement Changed White Voters' Minds — A majority of American voters support demonstrations on police brutality, and many see the president as ill-equipped on racial justice. — A majority of American voters support the demonstrations against police brutality …

Max Nisen / Bloomberg:

A Horrifying U.S. Covid Curve Has a Simple Explanation — A growing gap in case growth between Europe and the U.S. tells the tale: Declaring victory too soon is an excellent way to return to new heights. — The alarming chart below has been making the rounds.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

Associated Press:

Nurses, doctors feel strain as virus races through Arizona — PHOENIX (AP) — They saw the ominous photos: Crowded hospitals, exhausted nurses, bodies piling up in morgues. It was far away, in New York, northern Italy and other distant places. — Now, after three months of anxiously waiting …

Ari Levy / CNBC:

Trump fans are flocking to the social media app Parler — its CEO is begging liberals to join them — Parler's user base has grown to 1.5 million from 1 million in about a week, CEO John Matze said. — Republican politicians and conservative pundits have flocked to the app …

Discussion: Mediaite

Emily Wagster Pettus / Associated Press:

Mississippi could strip Confederate symbol from state flag — JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers could vote this weekend to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, a symbol that has come under intensifying criticism in recent weeks amid nationwide protests against racial injustice.

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Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:

Stop Firing the Innocent — As companies and organizations of all sorts have scrambled to institute a zero-tolerance policy on racism over the past few weeks, some of them have turned out to be more interested in signaling their good intentions than punishing actual culprits.

New York Times:

‘PizzaGate’ Conspiracy Theory Thrives Anew in the TikTok Era — The false theory targeting Democrats, now fueled by QAnon and teenagers on TikTok, is entangling new targets like Justin Bieber. — WASHINGTON — Four minutes into a video that was posted on Instagram last month …

Michele L. Norris / Washington Post:

George and Martha Washington enslaved 300 people. Let's start with their names. — Since this moment of reckoning has led to a prickly discussion about our Founding Fathers' slave-owning pasts, let us take a moment, starting with George Washington, to think about the people they enslaved.

Wall Street Journal:

The Coronavirus Surge in Florida, Arizona, Texas Isn't the Same as New York's Crisis — Younger people are getting sick with Covid-19 in places where some took the end of stay-home orders as permission to live their lives again — PHOENIX—The virus that ravaged Northeastern U.S. cities …

Discussion: Fox News

Christopher Bonanos / New York Magazine:

Milton Glaser, Co-Founder of New York Magazine and Creator of ‘I❤NY,’ Dies at 91 — If they're talented and they're lucky, designer-artist-creators get to lob an icon out into the larger culture — Leo Fender's Stratocaster guitar, say, or Shepard Fairey's Obama poster.

Discussion: New York Times, Vanity Fair, Gothamist, NPR and The Wrap

Associated Press:

AP FACT CHECK: Trump's see-no-evil posture on coronavirus — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's persistent see-no-evil posture on coronavirus testing — if you don't look for the virus, the cases go away — defies both science and street sense. Yet he took it a step further …

Amelia Lucas / CNBC:

This chart shows the link between restaurant spending and new cases of coronavirus — JPMorgan analyzed data from 30 million Chase cardholders and Johns Hopkins University's case tracker and found that higher restaurant spending in a state predicted a rise in new infections there three weeks later.

Discussion: New York Post

Tom Lyden / FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul:

Minneapolis Council members get private security after threats — MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The City of Minneapolis is spending $4,500 a day for private security for three council members who have received threats following the police killing of George Floyd, FOX 9 has learned.

Discussion: Redstate, New York Post, The Daily Caller, The Hill, Twitchy and TheBlaze

Ted Mann / Wall Street Journal:

Hundreds Gather Around Now-Fenced-Off Lincoln Statue in D.C. — After calls to pull down monument depicting Abraham Lincoln and a kneeling slave, debate shifts to consider other options — WASHINGTON—Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Lincoln Park on Friday evening for a heated …

Discussion: The Daily Caller and New York Post

Claire Atkinson / NBC News:

Facebook just lost one of the biggest advertisers in the world for the rest of 2020 — The campaign to convince marketers to ditch Facebook has added one of the world's largest advertising spenders. — The global consumer packaged goods company Unilever announced Friday that it will halt …

Discussion: Axios, Unilever USA and Popular Information, more at Mediagazer »

Bloomberg Law:

Virus Fatality Picture Is Obscured by Ultimate Lagging Indicator — Listen — The Trump administration has highlighted an apparent disconnect between rising cases and declining mortality as proof the Covid-19 pandemic is under control. — “Fatalities are declining all across the country …