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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Trump's New Favorite COVID Doctor Believes in Alien DNA, Demon Sperm, and Hydroxychloroquine  —  A Houston doctor who praises hydroxychloroquine and says that face masks aren't necessary to stop transmission of the highly contagious coronavirus has become a star on the right-wing internet …
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Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Facebook deleted a viral video full of false coronavirus claims.  Then Trump shared it on Twitter.  —  On Monday evening, Facebook scrubbed from its site a viral video showing a group of doctors making misleading and false claims about the coronavirus pandemic after more than 14 million people had watched it.
Bobby Lewis / Media Matters for America:
Fox reporter John Roberts: “The president may have a legitimate argument” that he and his son are being censored by Twitter  —  Roberts sanitized Donald Trump Jr.'s spread of dangerous coronavirus lies to reinforce the zombie claim that social media censors conservatives
Reed Richardson / Mediaite:
Trump Goes on Hydroxychloroquine Twitter Binge, Retweets Anti-Mask Conspiracies and False Claims That Drug Is ‘Cure’ for Covid-19  —  President Donald Trump went on a late night Twitter binge on Monday with more than a dozen posts pushing dubious claims about the drug hydroxychloroquine …
CNN:
Social media giants remove viral video with false coronavirus claims that Trump retweeted
NBC News:   Dark money and PAC's coordinated ‘reopen’ push are behind doctors' viral hydroxychloroquine video
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Twitter temporarily limits Donald Trump Jr.'s account
Discussion: NPR and TheBlaze, more at Techmeme »
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Twitter temporarily bars Donald Trump Jr. from tweeting over coronavirus misinformation
Discussion: The Verge, Politico and Breitbart
Libor Jany / Star Tribune:
Police: ‘Umbrella Man’ was a white supremacist trying to incite George Floyd rioting  —  Police say the suspect has been identified, but no charges had been filed as of Tuesday afternoon.  —  TEXT SIZE  —  A masked man who was seen in a viral video smashing the windows …
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Hill
Aiden Pink / The Forward:
Republican senator deletes ad that made Jewish opponent's nose bigger  —  Sen. David Perdue of Georgia deleted a Facebook ad targeting his Jewish election opponent, Jon Ossoff, that appeared to have been altered to make Ossoff's nose bigger.  —  The ad called for donations to Perdue …
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NBC News:
Here are six things that could change the 2020 presidential race  —  WASHINGTON — With 98 days to go until the election, Joe Biden has a bigger and more durable lead over President Trump than Hillary Clinton ever had in 2016, particularly in the key battleground states.
NBC News:
Senate Republican coronavirus aid plan excludes evictions moratorium
Discussion: Politico, Reuters and Breitbart
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Democrats assail Perdue over ‘hateful’ ad that made Ossoff's nose look bigger
Discussion: The Hill
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
“He's Lying.”  New Book Reveals Havoc Bill Barr Wrought Inside Congress  —  On Tuesday morning, when Attorney General William Barr finally appears before the House Judiciary Committee, a book will be released covering one of Barr's most controversial and most consequential actions to date …
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:   Attorney General William Barr testifies before House Judiciary Committee - watch live
Michelle Lee / Washington Post:
Lawsuit alleges Trump campaign, fundraising committee shielded millions in payments  —  A legal complaint filed Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission alleges that the Trump campaign and an affiliated fundraising committee have not properly reported nearly $170 million in campaign spending …
Discussion: Associated Press, ABC News and The Hill
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HuffPost:
Complaint: Trump Making Illegal Secret Payments, Including To His Own Family
Discussion: Raw Story
Roger Sollenberger / Salon:   Exclusive: Trump campaign kept paying Kayleigh McEnany after White House hiring
Talmon Joseph Smith / VICE:   Trump Campaign ‘Laundering’ Campaign Finance Money, Election Watchdog Says
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Three Tests for the Future of the Republican Party  —  The least we can expect from a responsible political party and political movement.  —  Life is a learning experience.  Even the three months before a presidential election.  So it might make sense to ask a question:
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Daily News
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Andrew Solender / Forbes:
Gallup Poll: Fewer Americans Identifying As Conservatives, More As Liberals Since Outbreak Began  —  A new Gallup poll shows a significant drop in Americans identifying as conservative and a rise in those identifying as liberal since February, as President Trump and Republicans in Congress …
Associated Press:
Trump administration to resume processing DACA renewals  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will begin allowing so-called “Dreamer” immigrants to renew their permits to remain and work in the U.S. for a year while it reviews a Supreme Court ruling and the underlying legality …
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NBC News:   Trump announces steps to roll back DACA program
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
After Quitting Deadspin in Protest, They're Starting a New Site  —  The journalists who took part in a staff rebellion last year are starting Defector Media, a company with a podcast and a website dedicated to sports and culture.  —  One of the biggest staff rebellions in online media took place last year …
Nick Laughlin / Morning Consult:
Extensive New Battleground Polling Shows Biden Gaining Ground  —  Biden has put Republican strongholds in play while extending his lead in several swing states  —  President Donald Trump faces an increasingly daunting electoral map according to new battleground state polling from Morning Consult Political Intelligence.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Sarah Palin's Facebook grift  —  Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican nominee for Vice President, is not the cultural icon she was a decade ago.  In March, she appeared on “The Masked Singer,” where she sang “Baby Got Back” dressed in a pink bear costume.  So how is Palin making ends meet?
The Markup:
Google's Top Search Result?  —  The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page  —  In Google's early years, users would type in a query and get back a page of 10 “blue links” that led to different websites.
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Maya Wiley Is Leaving MSNBC to Weigh Run for N.Y.C. Mayor  —  Ms. Wiley, who once led the city's police oversight board, would enter a mayoral race that has been reshaped by Black Lives Matter protests.  —  Maya D. Wiley, a former top counsel for Mayor Bill de Blasio, is leaving her role …
Discussion: Mediaite
Serena Smith / VICE:
Have You Been ‘Wokefished’ While Dating?  Here's How to Tell  —  If a dude describes himself on Hinge as a “feminist”, pay close attention to how he actually treats women.  —  SS  —  When I was about 17, I decided to go vegan (I was trying a lot of things at the time …
Juan Perez Jr / Politico:
AFT threatens ‘safety strikes’ in school reopening talks  —  The American Federation of Teachers adopted a resolution denouncing “unsafe and unsound plans” or “the faulty implementation of plans.”  —  Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers president, speaks during a news conference.
Discussion: ABC News
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New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: National Teachers' Union Authorizes Strikes if Safety Measures Fall Short
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
Jaime Harrison is chasing Lindsey Graham like a cheetah running down an impala  —  In American politics, some candidates give their opponents a real run for their money.  And then there are those candidates who lay chase like a cheetah running down an impala on the Serengeti.
Discussion: Althouse
Michael Weiss / The Daily Beast:
Revealed: A Former FBI Director's Double Game With Stolen Russian Money  —  Louis Freeh has been hired to investigate stolen Russian cash.  But he repped one of the alleged money launderers in another case—alongside Russia's Trump Tower meeting lawyer.  —  This investigation was conducted jointly …
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Democrats Reject Marijuana Legalization In Party Platform  —  The document supports decriminalization but stops short of full legalization.  —  Democratic National Committee delegates voted 105-60 against including marijuana legalization in the party platform on Monday.
Discussion: Marijuana Moment, Reason and Daily Kos
Bill Mahoney / Politico:
Cuomo offers every MLB team a home in New York  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo is offering every Major League Baseball team a temporary home in New York.  —  “New York state could host any Major League Baseball game that any teams want to play and they could play those games in our stadiums,” the governor said in a briefing on Tuesday.
Discussion: ESPN, UPI and The Hill
Robert P. Jones / NBC News:
Racism among white Christians is higher than among the nonreligious.  That's no coincidence.  —  Over the last several weeks, the United States has engaged in a long-overdue reckoning with the racist symbols of the past, tearing down monuments to figures complicit in slavery and removing Confederate flags from public displays.
Department of Homeland Security:
Department of Homeland Security Will Reject Initial Requests for DACA As It Weighs Future of the Program  —  Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad F. Wolf announced that in response to the Supreme Court's decision, the Department of Homeland Security will take action to thoughtfully consider …
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump Still Prefers Fox News Over Expert Advice  —  The president's penchant for snake oil and conspiracies shows just how much sway the partisan press now has.  —  I highly recommend Greg Sargent's detailed look at how Fox News is damaging Donald Trump — because the president keeps watching it and believing what he sees.
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Joe Biden debates how big to go on the presidential battlefield  —  Contrary to the president's countless retweets last night, the FDA revoked the emergency use authorization of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in June and has deemed the anti-malarial drug as “unlikely to be effective” in treating covid-19.
 
 
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Politico:
House Democrats yank Homeland Security spending bill from floor
Discussion: The Hill
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Sanders unveils bill to provide masks to all Americans, says it's ‘a no-brainer’
Discussion: The Hill
Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
The Republicans Have Written a Pro-Virus Bill
Anthony Adragna / Politico:
Park Police head defends clearing BLM protesters near White House
Discussion: The Hill
Washington Post:
GOP coronavirus bill replaces money for Pentagon projects Trump raided for border wall
Discussion: COURIER
Jennifer Maloney / Wall Street Journal:
Cigarette Smoking Makes Comeback During Coronavirus Pandemic
Spectrum News NY1:
Mike Bloomberg Promised to Spend Big Against Trump. What Happened?
Discussion: Political Wire
CNN:
EXCLUSIVE: Anger, leaks and tensions at the Supreme Court during the LGBTQ rights case
Discussion: SCOTUSblog and Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
ABC News:
As coronavirus threatened invasion, a new ‘Red Dawn’ team tried to save America
Discussion: Raw Story
Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
The Revenge of the Never Trumpers
Tim Alberta / Politico:
Trump's Biggest Problem Isn't Wealthy Suburbanites. It's the White Working Class.
Discussion: Raw Story
Noelle Crombie / Oregonian:
Vietnam vet gets pepper-sprayed in face by fed officer during Portland protests: ‘He did not like what I was saying’
Discussion: Daily Kos and Towleroad Gay News
New York Times:
Like Father, Like Son: President Trump Lets Others Mourn
Edgar Walters / The Texas Tribune:
Texas' count of coronavirus deaths jumps 12% after officials change the way they tally COVID-19 fatalities
New York Times:
Trump Announced, Then Canceled, a Yankees Pitch. Both Came as a Surprise.