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Adm. Steve Abbot / Defending Democracy Together:
A STATEMENT BY FORMER REPUBLICAN NATIONAL SECURITY OFFICIALS  —  We are former national security officials who served during the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and/or Donald Trump, or as Republican Members of Congress.
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New York Times:
Joe Biden Accepts Democratic Nomination: ‘I Will Draw on the Best of Us’  —  Mr. Biden urged Americans to have faith that they could “overcome this season of darkness,” and he pledged to bridge the country's divisions in ways President Trump had not.  —  Joseph R. Biden Jr. accepted …
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
‘I will be an ally of the light, not the darkness’: Biden frames election choice as light versus dark  —  Accepting the Democratic presidential nomination, a moment he has worked toward for decades, Joe Biden on Thursday condemned what he called the divisive path that President Donald Trump …
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Julia Louis-Dreyfus: “Biden goes to church so regularly that he doesn't even need tear gas”  —  Comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the emcee for Night 4 of the Democratic National Convention, concluded a segment on Joe Biden's faith by quipping: “Just remember, Joe Biden goes to church so regularly …
Discussion: Politico and Fox News
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Republicans have a lot to live up to  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  EVEN IF YOU'RE A REPUBLICAN, you have to admit that the Democratic convention — which nominated JOE BIDEN on Thursday night — was a technical success.  The Dems programmed a four-night television show …
Megan Henney / Fox News:
Pelosi implies she'll remain most powerful woman in US politics, even if Harris elected VP  —  Pelosi implied that Harris may not wield much power as vice president  —  Pelosi: I've seen firsthand Donald Trump's disrespect for facts, working families, and women in particular
Megan Henney / Fox News:
Duckworth dismisses Trump as ‘coward-in-chief’ in DNC speech
Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
Trump slams Biden in his birthplace ahead of Democratic nomination speech
Adam Carlson / People.com:
Stephen and Ayesha Curry Say 'We're Voting for Joe Biden' and Will Appear with Their Kids at DNC
Discussion: TheGrio and Mercury News
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
A Fractious Democratic Coalition Unites Around Opposition to Trump
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Los Angeles Times:
‘Like Armageddon’: Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks  —  Six weeks ago, U.S. Postal Service workers in the high desert town of Tehachapi, Calif., began to notice crates of mail sitting in the post office in the early morning that should have been shipped out for delivery the night before.
Discussion: Off the Kuff and Daily Kos
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Aaron Gordon / VICE:
USPS Warns Employees Not to Speak to Press
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
The Republican Embrace of QAnon Goes Far Beyond Trump  —  As the president all but endorses the internet-driven conspiracy theory, it is shifting from the fringes of the internet to become an offline political movement.  —  Late last month, as the Texas Republican Party was shifting into campaign mode …
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Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
Texas QAnon Supporter Used Car to Attack Strangers She Believed Were ‘Pedophiles’  —  A Waco, Texas, woman arrested last week and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and driving while intoxicated​ appears to have been motivated by the QAnon conspiracy theory President …
Discussion: Vox, The Daily Beast and New York Times
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
How to talk — and ask — about QAnon
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
The “Narcissism and Ego” That Led to Steve Bannon's Arrest  —  On Thursday, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York charged Steve Bannon—a top strategist on Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, and one of his key White House advisers before being fired, in 2017—with fraud.
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NBC News:
Who is Guo Wengui, the Chinese billionaire who owns the boat Steve Bannon was arrested on?  —  WASHINGTON — Earlier this month, a sunburned Steve Bannon, holding a lit cigar and wearing a blue polo shirt with the collar turned up, stood in front of a camera on a yacht owned by his friend Guo Wengui, a Chinese billionaire.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Cain Gang
HuffPost:
Inside Steve Bannon's Alleged Scheme To Fleece Trump Voters Who Wanted A Border Wall  —  The president's family denies knowing anything about the scheme, but a HuffPost investigation reveals close ties.  —  Brian Kolfage had a problem.  It was late 2018, and the triple-amputee and Air Force veteran …
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Trump directed Homeland Security to give $400 million to firm tied to Bannon's We Build the Wall scheme: report  —  President Donald Trump was caught in a precarious position when one of his top former aides and former campaign CEO was indicted for fraud after running a fake effort to build the wall on the southern American border.
Discussion: HillReporter.com
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Joe Biden Finally Got the Timing Right  —  More than three decades after his first presidential run, in the midst of a deadly pandemic and without his son Beau at his side, the former vice president has met his moment.  —  Joe Biden tells funny stories at funerals and sad ones at campaign stops.
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Hard evidence at last that shreds Trump's lies about a Russia ‘hoax’  —  As Democrats accelerate their drive to defeat President Trump in November, they have a potent new weapon in a report by a Republican-led Senate committee that chronicles the “grave counterintelligence threat” …
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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Hillary Clinton rips GOP senators: They seem like they've had a “lobotomy”
Discussion: Breitbart
Robby Soave / Reason:
Tulsi Gabbard Says the DNC Didn't Even Ask Her To Speak  —  Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) won two pledged delegates during the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries and stayed in the race longer than Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.).
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Annie Linskey / Washington Post:   The only thing missing from the Democratic convention? Democrats.
NBC News:
Trump cabinet officials voted in 2018 White House meeting to separate migrant children, say officials  —  WASHINGTON — In early May 2018, after weeks of phone calls and private meetings, 11 of the president's most senior advisers were called to the White House Situation Room where they were asked …
Discussion: The Hill, The Week and Mediaite
Michael McFaul / Washington Post:
A Russian dissident is fighting for his life.  Where is the U.S.?  —  Michael McFaul is director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Hoover fellow at Stanford University and a contributing columnist to The Post.  He is the author of “From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia.”
Discussion: Foreign Policy, NPR and Politico
Kevin Jones / National Catholic Register Bloggers Feed:
Religious Sister Who Will Pray at DNC: Legal Abortion ‘Above My Pay Grade’  —  Sr. Simone Campbell is scheduled to deliver the invocation Thursday at the Democratic National Convention.  —  DENVER, Colo. — Sister Simone Campbell, who is set to offer a prayer at the Democratic National Convention Thursday …
Discussion: National Review
David Slotnick / Business Insider:
Navy SEAL who killed Osama Bin Laden was banned by Delta for refusing to wear a mask on a flight  — James O'Neill, the former Navy SEAL famous for his role in the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, was banned by Delta Air Lines on Thursday for refusing to wear a mask on a flight the day before.
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Democrats question whether Trump is breaking the law with RNC speech  —  A House committee is questioning whether President Donald Trump might be breaking the law next week if he orders government employees to assist in his Republican National Convention speech.
Discussion: Reuters and Raw Story
Richard Salame / The Intercept:
Trump Comes Up Empty When Pressed for Evidence of Election Fraud in Court  —  President Donald Trump's campaign, ordered by a federal court judge in Pennsylvania to back up its claims of fraud in the state's vote-by-mail system, has documented only a handful of cases of election fraud in recent years …
Discussion: Washington Times and Raw Story
 
 
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell to give taped remarks as part of GOP convention
Discussion: USA Today and The Week
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Keisha Lance Bottoms: “We must pass on the gift John Lewis sacrificed to give us”
Discussion: The Hill
John Kruzel / The Hill:
Trump asks Supreme Court to let him block critics on Twitter
Bradford Betz / Fox News:
California Gov. Newsom failed to take promised pay cut, newspaper finds
Discussion: Deadline
Matt Donnelly / Variety:
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 Earlier Items: 
Jeremy B. White / Politico:
Trump blames California for wildfires, tells state ‘you gotta clean your floors’
Discussion: The Hill
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Disinformation campaign stokes fears about mail voting, using LeBron James image and boosted by Trump-aligned group
Federal Reserve System Alumni:
Fed Alumni Urge Senate Rejection of Fed Nominee Shelton
Discussion: LEVEL and Bloomberg
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Looks like Trump just validated a key Stormy Daniels affair allegation — by complaining about sharks
Discussion: Raw Story
Taylor Mooney / CBS News:
The racial origins of fat stigma
Discussion: Twitchy
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy tests positive for coronavirus
Politico:
Falwell's use of yacht comes under scrutiny
Discussion: Raw Story
Victoria McGrane Globe / The Boston Globe:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorses Joe Kennedy in race against Ed Markey