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Maybe This Isn't Such a Good Time to Prosecute a Culture War — Trump has gone to the well one time too many. — Donald Trump made his name in Republican Party politics as a “birther,” a true believer in — and an evangelist for — the racist conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was a foreign-born, illegitimate president.
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Sports Illustrated, The Guardian, Washington Post, Raw Story, Daily Kos, MelaniePhillips.com and NBC News
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Mulvaney: Trump faces ‘real headwinds’ if election turns into a ‘referendum’ on him — Former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Tuesday conceded that if November's general election becomes a “referendum” on President Donald Trump, the Republican incumbent will face …
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ABC News, Political Wire, Fox Business and Washington Post
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Trump turns clock back 155 years with Confederacy-inspired election strategy
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New York Times, Breitbart and The Atlantic
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Deutsche Bank Settles Over Ignored Red Flags on Jeffrey Epstein — The German lender repeatedly overlooked suspicious transactions, including payments to people a New York regulator described as his co-conspirators. — Payments to his alleged co-conspirators. Money wired to Russian models.
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Former Melania Trump Confidante to Release an ‘Explosive’ Tell-All Before the Election — Another blockbuster Trump book is set to hit shelves next month and contain “explosive” revelations about first lady Melania Trump. — Following months of legal drama, threats, and public controversy …
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The Hill, Vanity Fair, Raw Story, The Guardian, CANNONFIRE and Political Wire
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POLITICO Playbook: White House searches for intel leakers — DRIVING THE DAY — GOOD TUESDAY MORNING — a few interesting nuggets from the White House world: — SEARCHING FOR LEAKERS ... THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION has opened an internal investigation to try to uncover who leaked intelligence …
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Here are some of the billionaires who got PPP loans while small businesses went bankrupt — Billionaire property developer Joe Farrell, a prominent Republican fundraiser, received up to $1 million in taxpayer coronavirus relief funds, according to federal data released Monday.
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DeSean Jackson shares anti-semitic quotes attributed to Hitler on Instagram — DeSean Jackson shared anti-semitic quotes attributed to Adolf Hitler on his Instagram story over the July 4th holiday, and continued to use the quotes as a conversation piece during several posts on the social media network on Monday afternoon.
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The Daily Caller, ProFootballTalk, Twitchy and Fox News
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Eagles' DeSean Jackson says he doesn't hate Jewish community after posting anti-Semitic messages — Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson said he has no hatred toward the Jewish community after posting anti-Semitic messages on social media Monday that he attributed to Adolf Hitler and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
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Trump's Small Biz Rescue Bailed Out Kushner's Family, Obama's Aides and Other Political Elite — The PPP program was designed to help small businesses. And it has. But some of the most connected figures in politics also cashed in. — When the Trump administration began implementing …
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Fox News, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, Outside the Beltway, Associated Press, Breitbart, MeidasTouch, The Intellectualist and Politico
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A Letter on Justice and Open Debate — We welcome responses at letters@harpers.org — Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality …
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Pompeo: Trump administration is “looking at” TikTok ban — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News' Laura Ingraham on Monday that the Trump administration is “looking at” a ban on Chinese social media app TikTok. — Why it matters: Lawmakers have long expressed fears that the Chinese government …
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CNN, NBC News, CNBC, KSLTV.com, One America News Network, The Wrap, The Verge and Breitbart, more at Techmeme »
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Were Democratic Voters Right About Biden's Electability? — The idea that there is often a difference between the candidate you love the most and the candidate who has the best chance to win is a long-standing fixture of nomination politics, especially in the Democratic Party.
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Bloomberg and Washington Post
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Tucker Carlson suggests Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who lost her legs in Iraq, hates America — Before launching a broadside against Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Fox News host Tucker Carlson acknowledged that it's not easy to go after a Purple Heart recipient who lost both her legs while serving her country in Iraq.
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The American Independent, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, The Hill, POLITICUSUSA, Twitchy, Althouse, Mediaite and The Wrap
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A high-risk Florida teen who died from covid-19 attended a huge church party, then was given hydroxychloroquine by her parents, report says — At just 17, Carsyn Leigh Davis had already experienced more challenges than most people face in their entire lives.
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Florida COVID Victims, New York Post and Raw Story
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Hogan, Maryland Governor, Plans Book Tour as He Eyes 2024 White House Run — Larry Hogan, the Republican governor of a solidly Democratic state, who has drawn attention for his criticism of President Trump's coronavirus response, writes at length about the experience.
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The Hill
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Right-Wing Media Outlets Duped by a Middle East Propaganda Campaign — DOES NOT EXIST — Conservative sites like Newsmax and Washington Examiner have published Middle East hot takes from “experts” who are actually fake personas pushing propaganda. — If you want a hot take about the Middle East, Raphael Badani is your man.
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The Verge and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
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Republicans in danger of losing huge portion of their women senators — Senate Republicans could lose nearly half of the women currently in their caucus come November after recently making painstaking gains — the latest potential blow to the party in the Trump era.
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Raw Story and Scripting News
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Democrats target memorials to Confederate leaders in government spending bills — WASHINGTON — With the national debate over memorials to Confederate leaders intensifying, Democrats are targeting statues, military installation names and other commemorations of these officials …
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The Hill
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Trump's worldview forged by neglect and trauma at home, his niece says in new book — A tell-all book by President Trump's niece describes a family riven by a series of traumas, exacerbated by a daunting patriarch who “destroyed” Donald Trump by short-circuiting his “ability to develop …
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UN slams Donald Trump for killing Iranian General Soleimani because there was ‘insufficient evidence he was behind an ongoing or imminent attack’ — A U.N. human rights investigator issued the report on Monday noting that the January 3 attack which killed Iranian General Soleimani violated the U.N. charter
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The Gateway Pundit and Breitbart
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A Leader Without Leading — Nancy Pelosi is an expert at obtaining power.
But what does she want to use it for? — Pelosi — Nancy Pelosi was upset. Her blitz of cable news appearances as a high-profile counterpart to Donald Trump had taken her to CNN in late April.
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Trump could sink the House GOP in suburbia — (CNN)President Donald Trump's continuing erosion among well-educated voters looms as perhaps the most imposing headwind to Republican hopes of recapturing the House of Representatives in November — or even avoiding further losses in the chamber.
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Political Wire
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Donald Trump, the unbriefable president — Chris Whipple is the author of the forthcoming book “The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future.” — In the wake of reports that Russia offered the Taliban cash bounties to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, the question arises …
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The Guardian
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U.S. Will Pay $1.6 Billion to Novavax for Coronavirus Vaccine — The Maryland-based company, which has never brought a product to market before, just made the biggest deal to date with the Trump administration's Operation Warp Speed. — The federal government will pay …
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Colorado Newsline
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The Pandemic Experts Are Not Okay — Many American public-health specialists are at risk of burning out as the coronavirus surges back. — saskia popescu's phone buzzes throughout the night, waking her up. It had already buzzed 99 times before I interviewed her at 9:15 a.m. ET last Monday.
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Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego says federal government denied requests for COVID-19 testing help — The Federal Emergency Management Agency denied multiple requests for a mega-COVID-19 testing site in Phoenix, according to Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego. — Gallego said her office asked FEMA …
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The Hill
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How “Starship Troopers” Aligns with Our Moment of American Defeat — It has become clear, in these last decades of decadence, decline, towering institutional violence, and rampant bad taste, that American life is stuck somewhere inside the Paul Verhoeven cinematic universe.
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Is This The Beginning Of The End Of White-Centric Identity Politics In America? — In her new book, “The End of White Politics,” Zerlina Maxwell explores how progressives have often centered whiteness — and why that must end in 2020. — When political analyst Zerlina Maxwell agreed …
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What 9 GOP Campaign Consultants Really Think About Republicans' Chances in November — The mood in MAGA-land: “Every shred of evidence points to a likely ass kicking” — Shooting rubber bullet grenades at protesting priests. Catastrophically botching the pandemic response, resulting in a public health and economic calamity.
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Authors of study on race and police killings ask for its retraction, citing “continued misuse” in the media — The authors of a controversial paper on race and police shootings say they are retracting the article, which became a flashpoint in the debate over killings by police …
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National Review
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In Conversation: Thandie Newton After decades onscreen, nothing surprises the Westworld actress, though what she's ready to share will surprise you. — As outspoken as Thandie Newton has been throughout her career, there are still stories she's been holding off on telling.
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