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New York Times:
Videos Show How Federal Officers Escalated Violence in Portland — Peaceful protests were already happening for weeks when federal officers arrived on July 4. Our video shows how President Trump's deployment ignited chaos. — Federal officers in military gear ... ... clouds of tear gas ... ... crowd control munitions ...
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Talking Points Memo, Associated Press, Slate and Washington Post
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Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
More willful blindness by the media on spying by Obama administration — The Washington press corps seems engaged in a collective demonstration of the legal concept of willful blindness, or deliberately ignoring facts, following the release of yet another declassified document …
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New York Times:
The F.B.I. Pledged to Keep a Source Anonymous. Trump Allies Aided His Unmasking. — After a Russia expert who had collected research on Donald Trump for a disputed dossier agreed to tell the F.B.I. what he knew about it, law enforcement officials declassified a road map to identifying him.
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Althouse
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Local TV stations across the country set to air discredited ‘Plandemic’ researcher's conspiracy theory about Fauci — New York (CNN Business)Local television stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group are set to air a conspiracy theory over the weekend that suggests Dr. Anthony Fauci …
Barbara Boxer / Washington Post:
DHS was a mistake. I regret voting for it. — I never imagined a president like Trump when I voted to create the Department of Homeland Security. — Here are the three words that no elected official, serving or retired, wants to say: “I was wrong.” — Throughout my career, I was known for taking some very lonely votes.
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Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police Force — In a press conference on Tuesday, Chad Wolf, the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security, responded to media reports that unidentified federal agents using unmarked vehicles have been arresting protesters in Portland, Oregon.
Jonathan Blitzer / New Yorker:
Is It Time to Defund the Department of Homeland Security?
Is It Time to Defund the Department of Homeland Security?
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Lawfare
People.com:
Regis Philbin, Legendary Television Host, Dies at 88 — “His family and friends are forever grateful for the time we got to spend with him - for his warmth, his legendary sense of humor, and his singular ability to make every day into something worth talking about,” the Philbin family shares with PEOPLE in an exclusive statement
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globalnews.ca, KRON4, Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, Variety, Disrn, The Inquisitr, The Wrap, OutKick, Vanity Fair, TMZ.com, WANE-TV and Page Six
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court's surprising decision on churches and the pandemic, explained — Nevada churches brought an unusually strong challenge to the state's public health rules, but they lost anyway. — The Supreme Court has ruled, for the second time in the last two months …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Split 5 to 4, Supreme Court Rejects Nevada Church's Challenge to Shutdown Restrictions
Split 5 to 4, Supreme Court Rejects Nevada Church's Challenge to Shutdown Restrictions
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Fox News, Mother Jones, Star Tribune, Redstate, Mediaite, The Hill, Twitchy, SCOTUSblog, Wall Street Journal, Townhall and Disrn
David Siders / Politico:
Donald Trump's suburban horror show — Donald Trump says Joe Biden wants to abolish the suburbs. But polls show a different truth: The suburbs want to abolish Donald Trump. — If current numbers hold, the Republican Party will suffer its worst defeat in the suburbs in decades — with implications reaching far beyond November.
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Raw Story, Vanity Fair and Fox News
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Danielle Zoellner / The Independent:
Key Trump campaign donor steps back from supporting president's 2020 election bid
Key Trump campaign donor steps back from supporting president's 2020 election bid
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Business Insider
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
'It's Bleak': Trump's Great American Comeback Is a Dumpster Fire
'It's Bleak': Trump's Great American Comeback Is a Dumpster Fire
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Raw Story
USA Today:
As America tops 4 million COVID cases, the cult of Donald Trump has become a death cult — America has now passed the milestone of 4 million COVID cases, and we're still arguing with doctors and epidemiologists about masks and school closures. I expected some of this …
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Raw Story and Progress Pond
Hallie Golden / The Guardian:
'That's an illegal order': veterans challenge Trump's officers in Portland — Two veterans asked federal agents if they understood their oath to defend the constitution as teargas was fired — The Black Lives Matter protest in Portland looked to be winding down last Saturday night …
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The Biggest Takeaway from Trump's Barstool Suck-Up Session — The president's anti-Black Lives Matter shtick is so extreme he's even lost the Barstool bros. — President Trump invited Dave “El Presidente” Portnoy to the White House on Thursday for a discussion vaguely resembling an …
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Raw Story, Game 7, Breitbart, Mediaite, The Federalist and Spectator USA
Gwen Aviles / NBC News:
Florida lawyers offering free living wills to teachers returning to school during the pandemic … A number of Florida lawyers are offering free or discounted living wills for teachers who may be required to return to the classroom this school year. — “I had read a story a few weeks ago …
Washington Post:
House GOP's pleas to Republican National Committee for financial help go unanswered — Senior House Republicans are pleading with the deep-pocketed Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign to provide financial help as Democrats vastly outraise the GOP, but top campaign officials are so far declining to commit.
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The Week and Political Wire
New York Times:
Corporate Insiders Pocket $1 Billion in Rush for Coronavirus Vaccine — Well-timed stock bets have generated big profits for senior executives and board members at companies developing vaccines and treatments. — On June 26, a small South San Francisco company called Vaxart made a surprise announcement …
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American Prospect
Julie Satow / New York Times:
Turning a Second Home Into a Primary Home — Those who are lucky enough to have a weekend house have discovered that living there full-time can require some adjustment. — 20 PhotosView Slide Show — › — When the pandemic slammed into New York City in March, Sally Fischer …
Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
Ron DeSantis was supposed to star at Trump's Florida convention. Not anymore. — A Jacksonville convention was a chance for the 41-year-old Republican to snag a top billing during Trump's final coronation and test the waters for a potential run at the GOP presidential nomination in 2024.
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Balloon Juice
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Washington Post:
Spin, deride, attack: How Trump's handling of Trump University presaged his presidency — The judge was out to get him, he said. So was that prosecutor in New York, whom he called a dopey loser on a witch hunt. So were his critics, who he said were all liars.
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Raw Story
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
American Catastrophe Through German Eyes — Trump says he wants to protect law-abiding citizens. In 1933, Hitler issued his ‘Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State.’ — PARIS — No people has found the American lurch toward authoritarianism under President Trump more alarming than the Germans.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Media coverage of the 2016 campaign was disastrous. Now's the last chance to get 2020 right. — How did the news media mess up in the 100 days leading up to the 2016 presidential election? Let me count the ways. — Journalists relied too much on what opinion polls were saying …
Charles Fain Lehman / Washington Free Beacon:
The Wages of Woke — Dr. Robin DiAngelo, the bestselling author of White Fragility, claims to believe in accountability. DiAngelo used to list the “racial justice” organizations she donates to as part of her extensive “accountability statement,” including a monthly “land rent” …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump's week of retreat: The president reverses course as the coronavirus surges out of control — President Trump was adamant that Congress cut payroll taxes — until, suddenly, he backed down. — He demanded that all of the nation's schools reopen for the fall semester — until, suddenly, he allowed for some wiggle room.
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The Moderate Voice and Raw Story
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia Senate: Ossoff in self-isolation after his wife contracts COVID-19 — Georgia Democratic Senate nominee Jon Ossoff said Saturday he is in self-quarantine after his wife Alisha Kramer, an Emory University physician, contracted the coronavirus. — Ossoff, who is challenging U.S …
New York Times:
Anatomy of an Election ‘Meltdown’ in Georgia — Last month, Daryl Marvin got his first taste of voting in Georgia. — Mr. Marvin had previously lived in Connecticut, where voting was a brisk process measured in minutes. But on the day of the primary, June 9, he and his wife waited four hours …
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Coronavirus Disease 2019 — Forecasts of Total Deaths — Observed and forecasted cumulative reported COVID-19 deaths as of July 20, 2020. — Interpretation of Cumulative Death Forecasts — This week CDC received 26 individual national forecasts.