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Department of Homeland Security:
Acting Secretary Wolf Condemns The Rampant Long-Lasting Violence In Portland  —  “The city of Portland has been under siege for 47 straight days by a violent mob while local political leaders refuse to restore order to protect their city.  Each night, lawless anarchists destroy and desecrate property …
Piper McDaniel / Oregonian:
Federal officers respond to Portland protests with gas, munitions Thursday amid growing attention …
Discussion: Associated Press
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.
Washington Post:
Trump faces rising disapproval and widespread distrust on coronavirus, Post-ABC poll finds  —  Americans' views of President Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic have deteriorated significantly as cases rise across the country and personal fears of becoming infected persist, a Washington Post-ABC News poll finds.
Discussion: The Hill
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
64% distrust Trump on coronavirus pandemic; approval declines as cases grow: POLL  —  Six in 10 in a new ABC/Post poll disapprove of how he's handling COVID.  —  With COVID-19 cases soaring nationally, Americans by nearly a two to one margin distrust what President Donald Trump says about the pandemic …
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 …
Plain Dealer:
Operation Grant seeks to stop President Trump's re-election in Ohio: John Weaver and Bill Kristol  —  “We are now in the midst of trying times when every one must be for or against his country, and show his colors too, by his every act.  Whatever may have been my political opinions before, I have one sentiment now.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Rick Rouan / The Columbus Dispatch:   Anti-Trump Republicans targeting Ohio with new ads
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Media are just plain lying about Kayleigh McEnany ‘science’ quote  —  It has been said before, but it bears repeating: You are better off watching raw footage of the White House press briefings than trusting the word of journalists.  —  Put more simply, members of our vaunted Fourth Estate cannot …
Discussion: Power Line
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's outrageous refusal to lead is making the pandemic worse
Discussion: Contemptor
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Kayleigh McEnany tries to clean up Trump's comment about police killing ‘more white people’
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
Inside the Planning for the Incredibly Shrinking Democratic Convention  —  An event that was once expected to draw 50,000 people to Milwaukee may now involve just 300, with plans still far from settled a month before the convention.  —  When Democrats awarded their 2020 convention to Milwaukee …
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CNN:
GOP to Trump: Change tune on mail-in voting or risk ugly November  —  (CNN)Republican officials throughout the country are reacting with growing alarm to President Donald Trump's attacks on mail-in ballots, saying his unsubstantiated claims of mass voting fraud are already corroding the views of GOP voters …
Discussion: Raw Story
ABC News:
The Note: Trust in Trump's word plummets, as harsh realities sink in  —  Trump replaces his campaign manager and downscale plans for his convention.  —  A president used to defining his own realities is running into some stubborn ones — big enough to force him to maneuver around them rather than try to barrel through them.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and CNN
detroitnews:
Amash not campaigning for re-election to his seat in Congress  —  When U.S. Rep. Justin Amash ended his exploratory bid for the presidency, Libertarian activists held out hope he would run for re-election to his seat in the U.S. House, where he is the first and only Libertarian to serve in Congress.
Discussion: Politico, Fox News, IJR, Breitbart, The Hill and Axios
Krystie Lee Yandoli / BuzzFeed News:
Former Employees Say Ellen's “Be Kind” Talk Show Mantra Masks A Toxic Work Culture  —  Ellen DeGeneres has built her worldwide, multimillion-dollar brand on the motto “be kind,” with lavish giveaways and acts of charity.  But behind the scenes, current and former employees on her leading daytime show …
Washington Post:
Republicans fear campaign shake-up can't counteract Trump's self-sabotage  —  A sudden shake-up of President Trump's campaign was an attempt to refocus a reelection effort cratering under the weight of a deadly pandemic, a stalled economy and a national reckoning on racial injustice.
Discussion: Raw Story
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David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
House Rating Changes: 20 Races Move Towards Democrats  —  President Trump's abysmal polling since the pandemic began is seriously jeopardizing down-ballot GOP fortunes.  We may be approaching the point at which dozens of House Republicans will need to decide whether to cut the president loose and run on a …
Discussion: OpenSecrets.org and Bloomberg
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Do Progressives Have a Free Speech Problem?  —  The illiberal left is a lot less threatening than the right.  That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.  —  An acquaintance came to me a few weeks ago with the rough draft of a letter about free speech and asked me to sign.
Discussion: Townhall and naked capitalism
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 …
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
C.T. Vivian, Civil Rights Icon, Is Dead at 95  —  A close associate of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he was a disciplined advocate of nonviolence in the battle for racial justice.  —  The Rev. C. T. Vivian, a pioneering civil rights organizer and field general for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr …
Janelle Griffith / NBC News:
Chuck Woolery says ‘everyone is lying’ about coronavirus, then reveals son's COVID-19 diagnosis … Former game show host Chuck Woolery, who tweeted Sunday that “Everyone is lying” about COVID-19, including the media, Democrats and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
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Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:   After Peddling Conspiracy, Chuck Woolery Announces Son Has COVID And Deletes Twitter
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Fox News' Neil Cavuto Cuts Away From Trump Speech to Fact-Check Attacks on Obama's Economy  —  Fox News host Neil Cavuto cut away from a speech by President Donald Trump on deregulation to fact-check his claims regarding the economy of his predecessor.  —  Trump went after the regulations put …
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Democrats—and Some Republicans—See Signs of Political Realignment in the South  —  The DNC and the Biden campaign have identified North Carolina, Georgia and Texas as targets in the presidential race; ‘Bless their hearts,’ Trump campaign responds  —  WAKE FOREST, N.C. …
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
A Club of G.O.P. Political Heirs Push Back on Trump  —  Mitt Romney, Larry Hogan and Liz Cheney — descendants of sometimes rebellious or resolute Republicans of the past — are dissenting voices on a president who has taken over their party.  —  WASHINGTON — One of the presumed takeaways …
Discussion: Raw Story
Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News:
Back To School: Teachers Are Ready To Quit Rather Than Put Their Lives At Risk  —  This spring, a teacher in Dallas was invited to the high school graduation of the first class of students she had taught when she became a teacher a little over a decade ago — but the ceremony was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump's Losing, So When Are Republican Candidates Going to Abandon Him?  —  On Wednesday afternoon, the latest batch of polls in the Presidential campaign were released, and they showed an increasingly grim picture for Donald Trump.  The NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey had Joe Biden up by eleven points.
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
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Is the Anti-Racism Training Industry Just Peddling White Supremacy?  —  There's an old syllogism used to describe desperate politicians: (1) We must do something; (2) This is something; (3) We must do this.  In the wake of mass national demonstrations that followed George Floyd's murder …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Harris Faulkner Gets a Bigger Spotlight at Fox News Channel … A viewer had slipped into her direct messages on Twitter with an unpleasant remark, and McCain, who says she is prone to react to such things, learned a different strategy from Faulkner, with whom she appeared regularly …
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 …
Michael Kruse / Politico:
Donald Trump's Long, Losing War with the NFL  —  On May 25, a police officer in Minneapolis killed George Floyd by putting his knee on his neck.  A week and a half later, a group of stars from the National Football League demanded that the highest officials of the nation's biggest, richest …
Christopher Bedford / The Federalist:
'I'm... At A Loss For Words': The Unraveling Narrative Behind The Atlantic's Defund-The-Police ‘Shooting’ Tale  —  A powerful story published by The Atlantic has a serious problem: proof it ever happened.  —  When social justice activist and lawyer Derecka Purnell was just 12 years old …
John Sexton / HotAir:
Joy Reid Loses In Court As 2nd Circuit Revives Libel Claim Against Her  —  Joy Reid recently got a promotion at MSNBC where she'll soon have a nightly show instead of the weekend show she has had for the past couple of years.  It looks like it's going to be a rocky start to her new job.
Discussion: Washington Post
Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Gowdy worked with Giuliani on legal matter ahead of impeachment proceedings, new documents show  —  (CNN)Former Rep. Trey Gowdy was working with President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani last summer when Giuliani secured a meeting at the Justice Department with Attorney General William Barr …
New York Times:
Mask Rules Expand Across U.S. as Clashes Over the Mandates Intensify  —  More retailers and states are instituting mask requirements, but tensions are mounting for people who see the rules as infringements.  —  As images of people wearing surgical masks flashed across the screen …
 
 
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David Crary / Associated Press:
Record number of LGBTQ candidates running for office in US
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David Ian Klein / The Forward:
Southern Poverty Law Center adds Stephen Miller to its extremist list
Raga Justin / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says “there is no shutdown coming” as coronavirus cases surge
Discussion: Breitbart
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Supreme Court Just Stopped 1 Million Floridians From Voting in November
Wall Street Journal:
Growing Wait Times for Covid-19 Test Results Hinder Virus Response
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
In the Same Towns, Private Schools Are Reopening While Public Schools Are Not
Discussion: The Guardian, Twitchy and Joanne Jacobs
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Scaramucci Says He Wants to See Trump ‘Humiliated’
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Coronavirus cases shut down Florida's emergency operations center
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