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Washington Post:
From dream job to nightmare … A few months after Emily Applegate started working for the Washington Redskins in 2014, she settled into a daily routine: She would meet a female co-worker in the bathroom during their lunch breaks, she said, to commiserate and cry about the frequent sexual harassment and verbal abuse they endured.
Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Legendary Foreign Correspondent Chris Dickey Dies in Paris  —  ICON  —  Chris Dickey hopscotched across the globe to land stories—and mentored a generation of journalists in how to do the same.  —  The hardest thing about writing an obituary for Chris Dickey, the legendary foreign correspondent …
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Game show host retweeted by Trump deletes his account after announcing his son has coronavirus  —  Former game show host Chuck Woolery announced Wednesday his son has tested positive for COVID-19, just days after accusing medical professionals and Democrats of lying about the virus in an effort …
Discussion: Eschaton
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Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:
After Peddling Conspiracy, Chuck Woolery Announces Son Has COVID And Deletes Twitter  —  Conservative commentator and ex-"Wheel of Fortune" host Chuck Woolery, from whom President Donald Trump retweeted an unhinged post accusing health experts of “lying” about COVID-19, deleted his Twitter account …
David Moye / HuffPost:   Chuck Woolery Changes Stance On COVID-19 ‘Lies’ After Son Tests Positive
Liz Essley Whyte / Center for Public Integrity:
Exclusive: White House document shows 18 states in coronavirus “red zone”  —  Unpublicized recommendations say states should return to stringent control measures … A document prepared for the White House Coronavirus Task Force but not publicized suggests more than a dozen states should revert …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump's campaign team tries to steady operation after messy shakeup  —  President Donald Trump's outgoing campaign manager and his successor gathered staffers at the Trump campaign's Arlington, Va., headquarters Thursday morning for a “pass the torch” ceremony, after Trump abruptly replaced Brad Parscale …
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Washington Post:   Republicans fear campaign shake-up can't counteract Trump's self-sabotage
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: Kemp's office seeks to block Atlanta mask mandate in court  —  Gov. Brian Kemp's administration went to court Thursday seeking to block Atlanta from enacting coronavirus restrictions and requiring residents to wear masks, setting up a legal showdown between the state and local governments …
Discussion: Axios, Fox News, Politico, NPR and UPI
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Charles Ornstein / ProPublica:
Out of View: After Public Outcry, CDC Adds Hospital Data Back to Its Website — for Now
Discussion: IJR, Balloon Juice and Raw Story
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Frantically Plots New Ways to Make Him Feel Good About Himself  —  From the campaign trail to combating coronavirus, the goal is to please the boss.  —  On Tuesday night, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro—whom Donald Trump affectionately calls “my Peter” …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
USA Today, After Fracas, Says Op-Ed Attacking Fauci Fell Short of Standards
Discussion: Fox News, STAT and Washington Post
NBC News:
White House tries to separate official business from the campaign with limited success
Discussion: Breitbart and MSNBC
Christie D'Zurilla / Los Angeles Times:
Mary Trump's memoir sells 950,000 on first day, setting a record for publisher  —  Looks like a lot of people want to read about the president's psychological back story.  “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man” by Mary L. Trump has set …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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Los Angeles Times:
The true story of the heartthrob prince of Qatar and his time at USC  —  When a Qatari sheikh came to live in L.A., an entire economy sprouted to meet his wishes.  “His highness doesn't like to hear no,” one associate told a professor.  —  5 AM  —  Los Angeles has long enjoyed a reputation …
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
Pompeo slams ‘rioters pulling down statues’ for ‘assault’ on tradition  —  The secretary's new report on “unalienable rights” seeks to narrow their scope.  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unveiled a new report on “unalienable rights” Thursday, defining human rights in a narrow scope …
Discussion: Washington Post and Breitbart
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Pompeo rolls out a selective vision of human rights
Discussion: Associated Press
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
U.S. Party Preferences Have Swung Sharply Toward Democrats  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Since January, Americans' party preferences have shifted dramatically in the Democratic Party's direction.  What had been a two-percentage-point Republican advantage in U.S. party identification and leaning …
Courtney Tanner / Salt Lake Tribune:
In separate rallies, Utahns protest mask mandate and demand in-person classes  —  • As she walked up to the podium to speak, one of the moms grabbed a face mask and spit her gum out into it.  “It's garbage,” she shrugged, wadding it up.  “It doesn't work anyway.  Not for me and not for my kids.”
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trumpism Corrupts: Wall Street Journal Edition  —  When people show you who they are, you should believe them.  —  The Wall Street Journal ran a strikingly oblique editorial on Thursday morning.  I'm going to quote from it extensively and bold the phrases that are most interesting:
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Twitter says ‘no evidence’ passwords were stolen during hack, but no word on DMs  —  Twitter has said that there is “no evidence” that attackers obtained user account passwords after its security breach on Wednesday, which forced the company to lock down user accounts to prevent verified users from tweeting.
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Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Q&A: What's behind the Twitter Bitcoin hack?
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
New York Could Throw Out 1 in 5 Mail-in Ballots in One District, Disproportionately Hitting Brooklyn  —  As part of the effort to mitigate the exploding pandemic in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed voters toward casting their ballots by mail, which New Yorkers did in record numbers.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
The Plot Against America: The GOP's Plan to Suppress the Vote and Sabotage the Election
Discussion: Politico
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Biden cuts deep into Trump's 2020 cash advantage  —  Joe Biden has nearly closed the once-yawning cash gap between him and President Donald Trump, with big donors flooding his campaign and the Democratic National Committee with money in recent months.  —  Trump and the Republican National Committee …
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Scaramucci Says He Wants to See Trump ‘Humiliated’  — Former Trump communications chief seeks GOP votes for Democrat  — Trump politicized coronavirus pandemic, Scaramucci says  —  Merely beating Donald Trump in November won't be enough for Anthony Scaramucci …
Discussion: IJR and The Hill
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Trump Campaign Legal Adviser Appears on Kremlin-Backed TV  —  No Trump official had appeared on the network since 2016, in part because U.S. Intel determined it was a propaganda outlet.  —  A top Trump campaign adviser recently appeared on the Russian-government funded TV network RT …
Discussion: Raw Story
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Coronavirus cases shut down Florida's emergency operations center  —  The coronavirus thrashing Florida has penetrated the state's emergency operations center, a clearinghouse for disaster-related information and a command center of sorts for the pandemic response.
Discussion: Tampa Bay Times and Daily Kos
Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Alarmed by Democratic Senate Hopefuls' Fundraising Haul  —  'We're scared to death by what we see,' one Senate GOP strategist says  —  Republicans are sounding alarms after Democratic Senate candidates outraised their GOP opponents in the first six months of the year …
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Barr lambastes Apple in China speech  —  Attorney General William Barr on Thursday criticized corporate America's relationship with the Chinese Communist Party — while singling out Apple once again as an example of a “double standard” in how tech companies treat the U.S. government versus Beijing.
Politico:
Senate Republicans eye subpoenas of Biden advisers in Burisma probe  —  A Senate committee is eyeing subpoenas for current and former advisers to Joe Biden as part of an investigation into the former vice president's son, an escalation of GOP scrutiny of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and his family.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
In the Same Towns, Private Schools Are Reopening While Public Schools Are Not  —  Private schools have always had more flexibility, and usually more money, but never has that disparity made a bigger difference than now.  —  In Honolulu, nearly all public schools are planning to allow students to return for just part of the week.
Discussion: Joanne Jacobs and Twitchy
lohud:
MSNBC's Mimi Rocah unseats Anthony Scarpino in Westchester County D.A. primary  —  Former federal prosecutor and MSNBC legal analyst Mimi Rocah has won the Democratic primary for Westchester County district attorney.  —  Incumbent Anthony Scarpino conceded the race Thursday …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Even if the Polls Are Really Off, Trump Is Still in Trouble  —  Joe Biden's lead is sufficient to cover a sizable error.  And several of the biggest problems with polling in the last election have either been addressed or become less relevant.  —  With Joe Biden claiming almost a double-digit lead …
Politico:
Trump demands payroll tax cut in next Covid relief bill  —  President Donald Trump has signaled to Hill Republicans that he will not sign a new coronavirus stimulus package without the inclusion of a payroll tax cut, according to three sources close to the issue.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Kayleigh McEnany tries to clean up Trump's comment about police killing ‘more white people’  —  Earlier this week, President Trump shrugged off questions about police killing black people by claiming that they killed more white people.  This is technically true, but also wholly misleading given …
Discussion: The Hill
Popular Information:
Kelly Loeffler is running against Black Lives Matter.  These corporations are supporting her campaign.  —  This is the online version of the Popular Information newsletter.  Sign up to get independent accountability journalism straight to you inbox:  —  Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) …
Discussion: NPR
Mary Louise Kelly / Wall Street Journal:
The Pandemic Has Made My Hearing Problem Even More of a Problem  —  Masks and social distancing are now essential, but they make life and work more difficult for those with serious hearing loss  —  'Good mumble!" calls my neighbor from across the street.  —  “Good morning!”  I call back.
Ruy Teixeira / Persuasion:
Demography Is Not Destiny  —  John Judis and I came up with the idea of an emerging Democratic majority.  A dangerous misinterpretation of it helped elect Donald Trump.  —  5 hr … In the months after Barack Obama's historic victory, the conventional wisdom held that Democrats would now dominate the nation's politics for decades.
 
 
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The entire foundation of Trump's appeal in 2016 has been swept away
John Bresnahan / Politico:
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Frank Figliuzzi / NBC News:
Trump's Rose Garden speech was a warning to China — and American 2020 voters
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