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9:05 AM ET, July 17, 2020

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Jonathan Levinson / OPB:
Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets  —  UPDATE (5:14 p.m. PT) — In the early hours of July 15, after a night spent protesting at the Multnomah County Justice Center and Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse, Mark Pettibone and his friend Conner O'Shea decided to head home.
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Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
‘It was like being preyed upon’: Portland protesters say federal officers in unmarked vans are detaining them  —  When several men in green military fatigues and generic “police” patches sprang out of an unmarked gray minivan in front of Mark Pettibone in the early hours of Wednesday morning, his first instinct was to run.
Piper McDaniel / Oregonian:
Federal officers respond to Portland protests with gas, munitions Thursday amid growing attention …
Discussion: Associated Press
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
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.
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
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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
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
3 Weeks After Primary, N.Y. Officials Still Can't Say Who Won Key Races  —  Tens of thousands of absentee ballots in New York are still uncounted and many races have yet to be called.  What will November look like?  —  More than three weeks after the New York primaries …
Discussion: The Intercept
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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 …
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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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
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
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
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
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. …
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 …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
David Shor's Unified Theory of American Politics  —  David Shor got famous by getting fired.  In late May, amid widespread protests over George Floyd's murder, the 28-year-old data scientist tweeted out a study that found nonviolent demonstrations were more effective than “riots” …
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 …
Discussion: The Sun
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 …
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 …
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.
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: The Guardian and Raw Story
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 …
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.
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
Dara Lind / ProPublica:
Hospitals Are Suddenly Short of Young Doctors — Because of Trump's Visa Ban  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  As hospitals across the United States brace for a difficult six months …
Discussion: Washington Post
Jesselyn Cook / HuffPost:
Mike Huckabee's History For Kids Company Accused Of Scamming Parents  —  Learn Our History's $1 gift promotion comes with a hidden (and costly) catch.  —  Learn Our History, the company that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee co-founded in 2011 “to make it fun for kids to learn American history …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
Caitlyn For Vp / TMZ.com:
Caitlyn Jenner Says She Wants to Be Kanye West's Vice President  —  Caitlyn Jenner wants Kanye West to keep his presidential bid in the family ... and she's already positioning herself to be Yeezy's vice president!!!  —  Caitlyn was walking back to her car after grabbing some Starbucks in Westlake Village …
Lara Seligman / Politico:
Trump skirting Congress to install loyalists in the Pentagon  —  The White House is taking advantage of a loophole to install loyalists to President Donald Trump in acting senior roles at the Pentagon, effectively skirting the Senate confirmation process.  —  While the number of vacancies isn't new …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Jeremy Herb / CNN:
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David Crary / Associated Press:
Record number of LGBTQ candidates running for office in US
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Southern Poverty Law Center adds Stephen Miller to its extremist list
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