memeorandum: John Lewis's Legacy and America's Redemption (David Remnick/New Yorker)

12:25 PM ET, July 18, 2020

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Barack Obama / Medium:

My Statement on the Passing of Rep. John Lewis — America is a constant work in progress. What gives each new generation purpose is to take up the unfinished work of the last and carry it further — to speak out for what's right, to challenge an unjust status quo, and to imagine a better world.

Discussion: Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Vox, The Atlantic, Clinton Foundation, The Hill, HillReporter.com, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, UPI, TMZ.com, New York Post and Axios

Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:

John Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80 — Images of his beating at Selma shocked the nation and led to swift passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act; he was called the conscience of the Congress. — Representative John Lewis, a son of sharecroppers and an apostle …

Discussion: The Bulwark, Mother Jones, CNBC, Vox, The Mahablog, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Hill, Daily Kos, BuzzFeed News, emptywheel and Rolling Stone

Joe Biden:

Statement by Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden on the Passing of Congressman John Lewis — We are made in the image of God, and then there is John Lewis. — How could someone in flesh and blood be so courageous, so full of hope and love in the face of so much hate, violence, and vengeance?

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA

New York Times:

The Radical Resistance of John Lewis — Willingness to risk his life for civil rights was essential to the quest for justice. — The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom.

Discussion: Washington Post and The Guardian

Michael A. Fletcher / The Undefeated: I didn't understand John Lewis at first

David Remnick / New Yorker: John Lewis's Legacy and America's Redemption

CNN:
Civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis dead at 80

Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog and KTLA

Laurence I. Barrett / Washington Post:
John R. Lewis, front-line civil rights leader and eminence of Capitol Hill, dies at 80

Discussion: The Nation, Fox News and Outside the Beltway

David Cohen / Politico:
John Lewis, civil rights icon and longtime congressman, dies

Discussion: Axios, Business Insider, The Hill, The Daily Beast, Breitbart, The Guardian, IJR, Reuters, Common Dreams, New York Times, One America News Network, ABC News and Daily Kos

Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
John Lewis, civil rights hero, Georgia congressman, dies at 80

Discussion: Common Dreams

Calvin Woodward / Associated Press:
Remembering John Lewis, rights icon and ‘American hero’

Discussion: Slate

USA Today:
Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon who began pushing for racial justice in the Jim Crow south, has died

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Chad Pergram / Fox News:
John Lewis, civil rights icon, congressman for 33 years, dead at 80

Discussion: Politico, Townhall, NBC News, Washington Post and Associated Press

NPR:

DHS Official On Reports Of Federal Officers Detaining Protesters In Portland, Ore. — NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with acting Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli about reports of federal officers using unmarked vehicles to detain protesters in Portland, Ore. — SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST:

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

DHS Under Boss: We're Taking This National — When asked about calls for an investigation into DHS police tactics in Portland, Oregon, Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli tells NPR not only are they not going to stop but they want to take the tactics nationwide.

Ryan Haas / OPB:

US Attorney For Oregon Calls For Investigation Into Portland Protester Arrests — UPDATE (1:36 p.m. PT) — U.S. Attorney Billy Williams said Friday he wants an investigation into actions of federal officers who have pulled Portland protesters off the street and into unmarked vehicles.

Discussion: NPR, Informed Comment, POLITICUSUSA, Twitchy, Reason, Washington Post, The Guardian, Daily Kos and Common Dreams

Ken Klippenstein / The Nation:
The Border Patrol Was Responsible for an Arrest in Portland

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Fox News, The Daily Beast, POLITICUSUSA, The Daily Caller and Balloon Juice

Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
50 Nights of Unrest in Portland

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Eschaton, The Root and Breitbart

New York Times:
Federal Agents Unleash Militarized Crackdown on Portland

Discussion: CNN, Lawyers, Guns & Money, KOIN-TV, Mother Jones, Lawfare, Alternet.org and New Republic

Des Moines Register:

Joni Ernst: If Trump has a Supreme Court nominee, Senate should hold hearings — U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst said Friday that the Senate should hold hearings on any Supreme Court nomination President Donald Trump might make this year, even if he loses November's election.

Discussion: Iowa Starting Line

Twitter:

An update on our security incident — As we've been informing via the @TwitterSupport account, on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, we detected a security incident at Twitter and took immediate action. As we head into the weekend, we want to provide an overview of where we are.

Discussion: Breitbart, Sputnik News, UncoverDC, The Verge and Florida Politics, more at Techmeme »

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:

Trump Promotes Caricature of What Conservatives Want — A series of events during his White House tenure has made clear that Mr. Trump views the voters he calls “my people” through the lens of what he imagines they like. — Standing in the White House colonnade this week …

Discussion: Alternet.org

Brett Samuels / The Hill:

Fox host Chris Wallace fact-checks Trump claim Biden wants to defund police — “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace in a new interview shut down President Trump's claim that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is in favor of defunding the police.

Discussion: Reuters, Raw Story, Breitbart, Deadline, Twitchy, POLITICUSUSA and The Guardian

Ursula Perano / Axios: Biden says he receives briefings warning of Russian and Chinese election interference

MSNBC: Trump falsely claims Joe Biden would ‘abolish the suburbs’

Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Joe Biden, citing intelligence briefings, warns that Russia, China are engaged in election interference

Discussion: Associated Press and Reuters

Christo Grozev / bellingcat:

World's Most Wanted Man Jan Marsalek Located in Belarus; Data Points to Russian Intel Links — It can safely be assumed that Jan Marsalek is currently one of the most hunted-for persons on earth. The company he oversaw operationally, Germany's Wirecard, collapsed overnight last month …

CNN:

White House portraits of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush moved from prominent space to rarely used room — WH: Trump's doing a lot of things at once amid case surge — (CNN)The official portraits of former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were removed from the Grand Foyer …

Discussion: Mediaite

Bret Stephens / New York Times:

American Crime and the Baltimore Model — Cities across the country are in danger of making the same mistakes. — In 2014, there were 211 homicides in the city of Baltimore. The following year, there were 342, an astonishing increase of 62 percent. The murder rate has barely budged since.

Washington Post:

Rancor between scientists and Trump allies threatens pandemic response as cases surge — This week's remarkable character assault by some top White House advisers on Anthony S. Fauci, the nation's leading infectious-disease expert, signified President Trump's hostility toward medical expertise …

Discussion: Balloon Juice, Raw Story and Political Wire

Wall Street Journal:

The FBI's Dossier Deceit — New evidence that the bureau knew the Russia info was phony in 2017. — By The Editorial Board — The Justice Department's release of documents from the Obama Administration's 2016-17 Trump-Russia investigation is beginning to paint a picture, and the more we learn the worse the FBI looks.

Stephen Gutowski / Washington Free Beacon:

St. Louis Gun Couple to Join Friday Night Trump Campaign Event — The St. Louis couple at the center of a firestorm over their armed confrontation with a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters will join an official Trump campaign event on Friday night. — Mark and Patricia McCloskey …

Tina Nguyen / Politico:

Trump keeps fighting a Confederate flag battle many supporters have conceded — President Donald Trump is fighting to retain people's right to fly the Confederate battle flag — but many of his own supporters and government have already turned in their swords.

Discussion: Raw Story

Eugene Scott / Washington Post:

Trump may finally be facing the political consequences of his untrustworthiness — Concerns about President Trump's dishonesty began before he entered the White House, but the consequences of his not being trustworthy are now fully evident. — Trump surpassed 20,000 false or misleading claims …

Discussion: Raw Story, Breitbart and The Guardian

Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:

The Revolution Is Winning — Radicals from the 1960s and 1970s now hold powerful positions in government and academia — T — his is what the revolution looks like. — Weather Underground terrorists, who made no secret of being anti-AmeriKKKan “small-c” communists …

Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:

See You Next Friday: A Farewell Letter — The good news is that my last column in this space is not about “cancel culture.” Well, almost. I agree with some of the critics that it's a little nuts to say I've just been “canceled,” sent into oblivion and exile for some alleged sin. I haven't.