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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
White Flight From Trump?  What a Decisive Biden Win Would Look Like  —  Republican structural advantages in the House, the Senate and the Electoral College would be in jeopardy.  —  Recent national polls show that Joe Biden's commanding lead has eroded longstanding demographic divisions …
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Electoral College: Florida Moves From Toss Up to Lean Democrat  —  Given its track record in presidential campaigns over the last 20 years, it's hard to think of Florida as anything other than a Toss Up.  Since 2000, the winner of the state has never carried it by more than 5 points.
Discussion: Washington Post and Axios
Ben Jacobs / GEN:
All Your Most Paranoid Transfer of Power Questions, Answered  —  What happens if Donald Trump refuses to accept the results of the election?  —  Can Donald Trump continue as president even if he loses the election in November?  —  Trump's refusal to say that he would accept the results …
Discussion: The Atlantic and Raw Story
Rick Klein / ABC News:
Biden holds early edge in ABC News' Electoral College race ratings: ANALYSIS
Discussion: Bloomberg
The Daily Beast:
The Shocking Secret Past of One of QAnon's Most Toxic Stars  —  QAnon conspiracy theorist Tommy Gelati loves to talk.  Just not about this.  —  Trash-talking QAnon conspiracy theorist Tommy Gelati has a long list of celebrities he thinks belong in prison—or who might secretly be there already.
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Media Matters for America:
Pro-Trump OAN attacks bans of “the new mainstream” QAnon: “The deep state appears to be fighting back”  —  Laura Ingraham's show used Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's speech condemning sexism to fearmonger about Democrats  —  Twitter just cracked down on QAnon for causing harm.
Discussion: Mediaite
Tom Porter / Business Insider:
Fauci says he has been assigned personal security after receiving ‘serious threats’ to his family  —  Foto: Dr. Anthony Fauci at a House committee hearing on Capitol Hill on June 23, 2020.  — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious-disease expert, told CNN's “The Axe Files” …
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Martin Matishak / Politico:
Counterintelligence chief issues dire warning about foreign threats to U.S. election  —  William Evanina's statement lists China first among threats, an unusual twist given Washington's fixation on Russia.  —  William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center.
Discussion: Raw Story
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U.S. Department of Justice:   Singaporean National Pleads Guilty to Acting in the United States as an Illegal Agent of Chinese Intelligence
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios:
Singaporean national pleads guilty to serving as Chinese government agent
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
No, it's not ‘fascism’ to protect federal property from riots, revolutionaries  —  Are the images of lawlessness and disorder pouring out of Portland, Ore., and the gun violence and crime waves overtaking New York and Chicago going to have a negative impact on the rising political fortunes of the left?
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Marty Johnson / The Hill:
Trump after Portland mayor tear-gassed: ‘He made a fool out of himself’
Discussion: Reuters and Portland Police
Dave Levinthal / Business Insider:
Trump's most important 2016 donor is sitting out 2020  — Robert and Rebekah Mercer ranked among President Donald Trump's most influential backers in 2016.  But they've all but abandoned the embattled president and aren't likely to help him in the home stretch for 2020, five people who know the media-averse Mercers tell Insider.
Sarah Zhang / The Atlantic:
A Vaccine Reality Check  —  Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers.  Find the collection here.  —  Nearly five months into the pandemic, all hopes of extinguishing COVID-19 are riding on a still-hypothetical vaccine.
Discussion: The Week, 1A and The Guardian
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Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:   What's the backup plan if there's no COVID-19 vaccine?
Dave Levinthal / Business Insider:
Republican Party officials hid COVID-19 mask purchases by labeling them ‘building maintenance’ in federal disclosures  — The Republican National Committee in a new federal filing this week said it spent $14,000 on “building maintenance.”  In reality, it was disguising a purchase of face masks.
Discussion: Fox News and Washington Post
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
What's left for the Republican nominating convention, and how will it work?
Discussion: Breitbart
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Future of Nonconformity  —  Where freethinkers go to fight.  —  Like other realms, American intellectual life has been marked by a series of exclusions.  The oldest and vastest was the exclusion of people of color from the commanding institutions of our culture.
New York Times:
Trump vs. Biden: Who's Winning the Money Race in Your ZIP Code?  —  Estimated donors by ZIP code, April through June  —  ◄ MORE TRUMP DONORS MORE BIDEN DONORS ►  —  Notes: The map shows which candidate had more individual donors in each ZIP code from April 1, 2020, to June 30, 2020.
Hamza Shaban / Washington Post:
FDA says at least 77 brands of hand sanitizers may be toxic  —  Regulators say the brands contain dangerous levels of methanol, which can lead to blindness, hospitalization and even death  —  Federal regulators have recalled dozens of hand sanitizers — many widely available through Walmart …
Discussion: ABC7, WAVY-TV and CBS New York
Lisa M. Collins / New York Times:
Sultry Nights and Magnolia Trees: New York City Is Now Subtropical  —  Winter is warmer and summer is sweltering, with torrential afternoon downpours.  What's next, palm trees?  —  It was the fig trees that tipped him off.  Something was very unusual at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
James D. Mason / ODNI Newsroom:
Statement by NCSC Director William Evanina: 100 Days Until Election 2020  —  WASHINGTON D.C. - Statement by NCSC Director William Evanina: 100 Days Until Election 2020  —  Election security remains a top priority for the Intelligence Community and we are committed in our support to DHS and FBI …
Discussion: Axios
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
ODNI ‘primarily concerned’ with China, Russia, Iran ‘seeking to compromise’ campaigns in 2020 election
Discussion: Reuters, Politico and Breitbart
Garrett M. Graff / Politico:
8 Big Reasons Election Day 2020 Could Be a Disaster  —  In a campaign year marked by a global pandemic, a recession and a national wave of protests, it's easy to forget that this whole election season began with an absolute debacle when it came to the simple act of voting.
Michelle Cottle / New York Times:
The Battle for Joe Biden  —  He's not listening to Twitter.  So who does have the candidate's ear?  —  For months, President Trump's re-election team has been test-driving possible lines of attack against Joe Biden: He's sleepy.  He's creepy.  He's corrupt.  He's soft on China.  He's soft in the head.
Dana Stevens / Washington Post:
Held back  —  As parents realize how badly the U.S. botched the next school year, we're furious  —  The happiest day in my household since the pandemic started — maybe the only truly happy one — was the Wednesday in mid-March when we found out on the New York City Department of Education website …
HuffPost:
Exclusive: Leader Of Dylann Roof-Worshipping Neo-Nazi Group Exposed  —  Andrew Richard Casarez is a 27-year-old pizza delivery driver and the leading voice in a confederation of neo-Nazis, HuffPost has confirmed.  —  A prominent white supremacist who encourages acts of domestic terror …
Gary Fineout / Politico:
LeBron James joins push to turn out ex-felon vote in Florida  —  TALLAHASSEE — A group founded by NBA superstar LeBron James and other Black athletes and entertainers is stepping into the fight to register Florida voters with felony records, saying it will help pay court debts and fees …
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Trump's Magical Thinking Runs Into Reality, Again  —  President Trump is making history again.  Not the kind of monumental, glorified achievements he envisions, though.  This time he's become the first president in modern history to foul up not one, but two of his own conventions.  In the same summer.
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“Trump Could Not Be More on the Wrong Side”: New Poll Shows Trump's Black Lives Matter Protest Response Could Cost Him 2020  —  Exclusive polling suggests the protests changed Americans' minds so quickly, and so profoundly, that Trump planted himself even further on the wrong side of public opinion than previously understood.
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
CNN's ‘Reliable Sources’ Fixated on ‘Right-Wing’ Media  —  CNN's Reliable Sources team purports to cover the entire press, but it overwhelmingly discusses and criticizes conservative and right-wing media and personalities, a Washington Free Beacon analysis finds.
Associated Press:
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen released from prison again  —  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer was released Friday after a judge ruled that he had been sent back to prison from home confinement as retaliation for his plan to release a book critical of Trump before November's election.
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Delivers a Lesson in Decency on the House Floor  —  One could be forgiven for thinking that rhetorical dynamism long ago vanished from the hallways and chambers of the United States Congress.  It has been a hundred and sixty-four years, for example, since Charles Sumner …
Wall Street Journal:
A Note to Readers  —  These pages won't wilt under cancel-culture pressure.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  We've been gratified this week by the outpouring of support from readers after some 280 of our Wall Street Journal colleagues signed (and someone leaked) a letter to our publisher criticizing the opinion pages.
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
A&E Has Lost Half Its Viewers Since Dropping ‘Live PD’  —  Network's prime-time viewership was up 4% this year before it canceled its hit police reality show, Nielsen data show  —  Ratings for A&E Network have plummeted since it canceled the hit police reality show “Live PD” on June 10 …
Discussion: OutKick and The Daily Caller
David Nather / Axios:
Exclusive poll: Coronavirus sinks GOP governors in hard-hit states  —  The governors in four of the states hit hardest by the coronavirus have taken a massive hit in public approval over their handling of the pandemic, according to SurveyMonkey poll data shared exclusively with Axios.
Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News:
Ukrainian Operatives Are Gearing Up Again To Take On The Bidens.  They Say They Have Giuliani And Republicans On Their Side.  —  The Ukrainians have ties to Russia and their own checkered pasts.  But some Republicans are taking them seriously, and two of the operatives plan to be in Washington soon to push their agenda.
Discussion: Raw Story
Peter Baker / New York Times:
As Trump Calls for Schools to Fully Reopen, His Son's School Says It Will Not  —  St. Andrew's Episcopal School, the private school in the Maryland suburbs attended by Barron Trump, said it was considering either a hybrid part-time plan or going back to entirely online classes.
 
 
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Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed News:
An Elite Group Of Scientists Tried To Warn Trump Against Lockdowns In March
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Did New York Just Get the Nation's Most Liberal Legislature?
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal REVOLUTION:
Frequent, Fast, and Cheap is Better than Sensitive
Discussion: Mother Jones
Washington Post:
Trump's ‘Operation Legend’ was supposed to combat crime.  It's produced one arrest, and some see a political stunt.
Stacey Matthews / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Conservative UNC-Wilmington Professor Mike Adams Found Dead in His Home
Discussion: Redstate, WECT-TV, Breitbart and Townhall
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Who Is Black Lives Matter?
 Earlier Items: 
Alex Pavlovic / NBCSports.com:
Why Giants' Sam Coonrod didn't kneel in Black Lives Matter moment of unity
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Republicans, Facing Political Headwinds, Begin Diverging From Trump
Discussion: Sara A. Carter and The Hill
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Trump Doesn't Speak for the ‘Silent Majority’
Martin Sheil / The Daily Beast:
These Trump Campaign Payments to the Trump Organization Look Shady as Hell
Discussion: Raw Story
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The 12 most logical picks for Joe Biden's vice president, ranked
Discussion: MarketWatch