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Statement by NCSC Director William Evanina: Election Threat Update for the American Public — WASHINGTON D.C. - Statement by William R. Evanina Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center Office of the Director of National Intelligence “Election Threat Update for the American Public”
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Seeing Trump as ‘unpredictable,’ China would prefer he not win reelection, intelligence official says — The government of China prefers that President Trump not win reelection in November, seeing the incumbent as “unpredictable,” a top U.S. intelligence official said in a statement Friday …
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The Week
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Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
US sees election threats from China, Russia and Iran
US sees election threats from China, Russia and Iran
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Daily Kos
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Abolish the Police? Those Who Survived the Chaos in Seattle Aren't So Sure — What is it like when a city abandons a neighborhood and the police vanish? Business owners describe a harrowing experience of calling for help and being left all alone. — SEATTLE — Faizel Khan was being told …
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Rumor: Biden Has Chosen His VP, As Susan Rice Offloads Netflix Stock — The sourcing here is an inch thin, but what the hell. — It's Friday. Anything goes. — Jon Cooper formerly chaired a Democratic Super PAC and was part of a “Draft Biden” outfit in 2016.
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Kasich and Sanders to join forces for a night of unity at Democratic convention
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Over 300 DNC delegates, members urge Biden to pick Bass for VP
Over 300 DNC delegates, members urge Biden to pick Bass for VP
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Reuters
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Released from jail at height of pandemic, Alexandria rape suspect allegedly killed his accuser — Ibrahim Bouaichi then shot himself as police closed in Wednesday, leaving him in critical condition — The incident in Karla Dominguez's apartment last October was violent, and it was not consensual …
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Police: Rape suspect, freed due to virus, kills his accuser in Alexandria — A rape suspect who was released from jail in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Ibrahim E. Bouaichi, went on to kill the woman who had accused him, police in Virginia say. On Wednesday, July 29, officers found a woman shot to death on S. Greenmount Drive.
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The Gateway Pundit
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A Historian of Economic Crisis on the World After COVID-19 — In March, history broke into our house, and ever since, we've been cowering in panic rooms, wondering what our home will look like when the mad thief is finally through. — Or at least this is how living in the COVID era can feel.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Trump fiasco just got worse. That gives Biden a hidden opening.
The Trump fiasco just got worse. That gives Biden a hidden opening.
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Raw Story
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POLITICO Playbook: The politics of walking away — DRIVING THE DAY — THERE ARE LOTS OF POLITICAL CALCULATIONS in legislative negotiations: what to give away when, what to ask for, where to hold the meeting and what aide to bring in tow, for example. — PERHAPS NOTHING IS MORE TRICKY than deciding when — and how — to walk away.
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Pelosi, Schumer say White House declined $2T coronavirus deal
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One America News Network
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump's desperate attacks are revealing the scam Republicans have been pulling for years
Trump's desperate attacks are revealing the scam Republicans have been pulling for years
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CNN, Raw Story, The Guardian and Rolling Stone
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Georgia student suspended after posting a photo of a crowded school hallway says it was ‘good and necessary trouble’ — (CNN)A viral photo showing students in a Georgia high school crowded in hallways and with few visible masks resulted in the sophomore who posted it being suspended, she said.
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Sensitive to claims of bias, Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages — Facebook has allowed conservative news outlets and personalities to repeatedly spread false information without facing any of the company's stated penalties, according to leaked materials reviewed by NBC News.
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Health directors told to keep quiet as Fla. leaders pressed to reopen classrooms — “I don't think any of us are in a position to balk the governor,” one director said. — As Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed this summer for schools to reopen, state leaders told school boards they would need Health …
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The US declared war on TikTok because it can't handle the truth … I cannot emphasize enough how messed up this entire “sell TikTok to an American company” saga is. The latest twist is a deeply confusing set of executive orders banning transactions with ByteDance (TikTok's Chinese parent company) and WeChat (a Chinese texting app).
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House can sue to force former White House counsel Donald McGahn to comply with subpoena — House Democrats can sue to force President Trump's former White House counsel Donald McGahn to comply with a congressional subpoena, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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U.S. Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps to Track Phones — Anomaly Six has ties to military, intelligence agencies and draws location data from more than 500 apps with hundreds of millions of users — WASHINGTON—A small U.S. company with ties to the U.S. defense …
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Statement on the Administration's Executive Order — TikTok is a community full of creativity and passion, a home that brings joy to families and meaningful careers to creators. And we are building this platform for the long term. TikTok will be here for many years to come.
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Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
Trump Blew Up More Than Just TikTok and WeChat
Trump Blew Up More Than Just TikTok and WeChat
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New York Times, Wired, TheStreet and Lawfare
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Jewish advocacy groups slam Trump's pick for German ambassador for bigoted comments — (CNN)Several Jewish advocacy groups are opposing President Donald Trump's nominee to become the US ambassador to Germany in light of his incendiary comments, including some unearthed by CNN's KFile, about Germany, the Holocaust and Jewish groups.
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Editor's Note on Mercedes Schlapp Column About Brianna Keilar — Vote fraud and election manipulation are as old as our country. How else can one view a system that, at its outset, prevented black Americans and women from casting ballots at all? — Nor did disenfranchising voters …
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American Bridge posts 1,043-page Trump oppo book online — In the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton's campaign paid for the opposition research book on Donald Trump compiled by the liberal Super PAC American Bridge. — In 2020, American Bridge is putting it online for free.
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DCCC
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Joe Lieberman's Son Is Running For Senate. He Also Wrote A Book Filled With Racist Tropes. — The president of the Georgia NAACP called the novel disturbing, and said Matt Lieberman should drop out of the contest. — A Democratic Senate candidate in Georgia wrote and self-published …
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Trump Has Launched a Three-Pronged Attack on the Election — As President Donald Trump reflects on his sinking approval ratings and grows more desperate by the day, he's been floating a dictator's dream: postponing the November election. Even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell …
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Raw Story
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‘I can say anything I want’: Michigan official defends using racist slur while refusing to wear a mask — A local road commission meeting in northern Michigan on Monday started with one commissioner asking another why he wasn't wearing a mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Where Do Republicans Go From Here? — The party looks brain-dead at every spot Trump touches. But off in the corners, there's a lot of intellectual ferment. — Jonathan V. Last thinks President Trump is here forever. Last, an editor at The Bulwark, a conservative site that's been hostile to Trump …
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Washington Monthly
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Pompeo Warned Russia Against Bounties on U.S. Troops in Afghanistan — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is said to have sternly discussed payouts and red lines in a telephone call with Sergey V. Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister. — WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo …
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National Review and Mediaite
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What the Hell Is Kanye West's Campaign About? — There is no word in the English language to adequately describe Kanye West's presidential campaign. — The campaign is not serious, but it's not a joke, either. It has aspects of both a vanity project and a Republican ratfucking operation, but not fully either.
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Portland protesters cause mayhem again, police officer hurt — PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A crowd of about 200 people, some wielding homemade shields, clashed with police early Friday in Portland, Oregon for the third consecutive night as two other Black Lives Matter rallies proceeded peacefully elsewhere in the city, authorities said.
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CREW Files Hatch Act Complaint Against Mark Morgan — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Washington—Acting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan appears to have violated the Hatch Act by criticizing Joe Biden's stance on immigration and advocating for President Trump's re-election …
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At the Census Bureau, a Technical Memo Raises Alarms Over Politics — A directive orders experts to find ways to tally undocumented residents. Some fear the end result will be a skewed allotment of seats in the House of Representatives. — WASHINGTON — A Census Bureau memorandum …
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“Mr. President, What Are Your Priorities?” Is Not a Tough Question — Trump is running for reëlection, but, unlike four years ago, he can't even say why. — It was not supposed to be a trick question, or even all that tricky. For any other candidate, it would have been the softest of softballs, the slowest of pitches.
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Mission impossible? The new duo running Trump's campaign is working overtime to control the president and avoid him going down in the history books as a one-termer — New Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien and senior adviser Jason Miller have taken firm control of the 2020 effort trying …
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Right-wing media defanged as anti-Biden storylines disintegrate — The three biggest anti-Joe Biden storylines in right-wing media over the last year have either fizzled or are getting less online traction than they used to, according to data from NewsWhip provided exclusively to Axios.
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Raw Story