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Politico:
Trump team launches a sweeping loyalty test to shore up its defenses — In the middle of a devastating pandemic and a searing economic crisis, the White House has an urgent question for its colleagues across the administration: Are you loyal enough to President Donald Trump?
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Washington Post, Alternet.org, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA and Political Wire
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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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Washington Post, PRESS RUN, National Review, IJR, POLITICUSUSA, The Hill, Mediaite and Raw Story
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Trump's coronavirus team puts internal battles on public display
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Vox, Washington Post and Raw Story
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 …
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Axios, Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA and UPI
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David Harsanyi / National Review:
Who Funds the Lincoln Project? Exactly Whom You Expect
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Crooked Media, Power Line, The Hill and Townhall
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kemp bans cities, counties from mandating masks — By Jeremy Redmon - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution J. Scott Trubey - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Willoughby Mariano - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia governor extends coronavirus restrictions while encouraging use of face masks
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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp forbids cities, counties from requiring masks as coronavirus surges in the state
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WAGA-TV, IJR, Common Dreams, Gizmodo and New York Post
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kemp's ban of mask mandates puts Georgia on collision course with its cities
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Daily Kos and The American Independent
Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
Georgia governor overrides all local mask orders in the state
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The Root and The Daily Caller
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 …
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HillReporter.com and Washington Post
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NBC News:
Trump has a 50 percent problem in the new NBC News/WSJ poll — WASHINGTON — One figure continually stands out for President Trump in our new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll: 50 percent. — And not in a good way for him. — Fifty percent of all registered voters in our poll “strongly” disapprove of the president.
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Washington Post, Breitbart, Political Wire, One America News Network and CBS San Francisco
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Replaces Brad Parscale as Campaign Manager, Elevating Bill Stepien — The replacement of Mr. Parscale with Mr. Stepien, who had served as deputy campaign manager, comes as the president has struggled in public and private polling. — President Trump on Wednesday shook up his re-election team …
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Will Feuer / CNBC:
Coronavirus data has already disappeared after Trump administration shifted control from CDC — Since the pandemic began, the CDC has regularly published data on availability of hospital beds and intensive care units across the country. — But Ryan Panchadsaram, who helps run …
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POLITICUSUSA, Gothamist and The Guardian, more at Mediagazer »
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Republican convention in Jacksonville will be scaled back next month — The Republican Party will hold a scaled-back convention in Jacksonville, Fla., next month that includes a mix of outdoor and indoor venues, according to a letter sent to delegates. — The Thursday letter …
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Kelly McBride / NPR:
NPR Let The US Attorney General Tell A Falsehood On The Air — NPR's four-member “election security team” is responsible for covering all things about American voting, from access, to fraud to innovations and investments in the process. It is one of the foundations of NPR's politics coverage.
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Mary Trump says the U.S. has devolved into a version of her ‘incredibly dysfunctional family’ — Mary L. Trump, President's Trump's niece, said that watching the country's leadership devolve into “a macro version of my incredibly dysfunctional family” was one of the factors that compelled …
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Joseph Cox / VICE:
Twitter Is Removing Images of Internal Tool Sources Say Enables Account Takeover — After a wave of account takeovers, screenshots of an internal Twitter user administration tool are being shared in the hacking underground. — Joseph Cox — On Wednesday, a wave of high profile accounts including …
Daniel Bergner / New York Times:
‘White Fragility’ Is Everywhere. But Does Antiracism Training Work? — Robin DiAngelo's best seller is giving white Americans a new way to talk about race. Do those conversations actually serve the cause of equality? — To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
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Althouse and The Federalist
Lisa Mascaro / ABC News:
Senate Democrats seek aid for Black Americans in virus bill — Senate Republicans are poised to come out with their next COVID-19 aid bill as early as next week — WASHINGTON — As Senate Republicans prepare to roll out their next COVID-19 aid bill, the top Democrat said Thursday that he wants …
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The Hill
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Schumer proposes $350B in aid to communities of color ahead of coronavirus talks
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The Hill
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 …
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Alternet.org
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic:
A Second Coronavirus Death Surge Is Coming — Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. — There is no mystery in the number of Americans dying from COVID-19. — Despite political leaders trivializing the pandemic …
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Progress Pond
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Trump prepares new arguments as judge sets timeline of New York tax return case — A judge set dates for court filings after the Supreme Court sent the case down for further argument — President Trump will have less than two weeks to submit new arguments in his case against Manhattan …
Politico:
Inspector general: Medicare chief broke rules on her publicity contracts — A top Trump administration health official violated federal contracting rules by steering millions of taxpayer dollars in contracts that ultimately benefited GOP-aligned communications consultants, according to an inspector general report released Thursday.
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Daily Kos
E. Alex Jung / Vulture:
Who's Afraid of Ziwe Fumudoh? For guests who dare to appear on the comedian's Instagram Live show, the question is not if you are racist, but how. — “I get wild DMs,” Ziwe Fumudoh tells me as she scrolls through her phone. There are suggestions for guests on her Instagram Live show …
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Chuck Todd Claims No Bias At MSNBC: “No Editorial Point Of View On Any Of These Newscasts” — Host Chuck Todd informed viewers that there is no editorial point of view on MSNBC after a guest charged that the network is hypocritical for criticizing Trump rallies over masks but not sharing …
Associated Press:
UK, US, Canada accuse Russia of hacking virus vaccine trials — FILE - In this March 16, 2020, file photo, a subject receives a shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine by Moderna for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus …
Graham Kates / CBS News:
The Trump campaign app is tapping a “gold mine” of data about Americans — President Trump's campaign app is targeted to his most fervent supporters, but it is able to collect data about a swath of the American public far larger than his base. — The app requests access to significantly …
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Raw Story
InStyle:
Dr. Fauci Says, “With All Due Modesty, I Think I'm Pretty Effective.” — Dr. Anthony Fauci and his wife, Dr. Christine Grady, speak with CBS Evening News anchor Norah O'Donnell about a potential COVID-19 vaccine, working with the White House, and what life is like at home.
David Moye / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Poses With Goya Products One Day After Ivanka Tweets Support — Both pics may violate federal regulations that forbid government employees to use their positions, titles or authority to endorse products. — President Donald Trump may be setting himself for a new gig …
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The Hill, CNN and The Daily Caller
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
GOPers Are Trying to Recruit QAnon Voters And Using This YouTube Show to Do It — Patriots' Soapbox is unlike any other Q-related program. And it's begun attracting some actual political figures. — As she gathered support for what was then thought to be a long-shot primary bid against Rep. Scott Tipton …
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Raw Story
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The Myth of Trump as a Centrist Dealmaker — From vaunted negotiator to feckless ideologue. — On a Sunday-morning talk show in December 2015, a rising politician had this to say about Senator Ted Cruz's campaign for president, “Look at the way he's dealt with the Senate, where he goes in there …
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Alternet.org
Lara Seligman / Politico:
Military leaders pressure Esper to ban Confederate flag — The leaders of the armed forces are pressuring their boss, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, to ban the public display of the Confederate flag at Defense Department facilities, amid opposition from the White House, according to three defense officials.
Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
Is the Saudi Government Plotting Against Another U.S.-Based Critic? — In early May, officials with the C.I.A. reached out to Ali Soufan, a former F.B.I. agent who served as a lead investigator in the months before the September 11th attacks, to say they had learned that Al Qaeda militants were plotting against him.
Issues & Insights:
Biden Promises To Outlaw Gas-Powered Cars If Elected President — Joe Biden's $2 trillion climate change plan, released this week, was described by one liberal outlet as “the Green New Deal, minus the crazy.” We beg to differ. Just look at Biden's plan to eliminate the internal combustion engine.
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