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10:50 AM ET, August 21, 2020

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Washington Post:
‘Pure, unvarnished, courage’: A 13-year-old ‘regular kid’ with a stutter gave a must-watch Democratic convention speech  —  Twenty seconds into his speech to the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, Brayden Harrington started to stutter.  —  He knew he would — it was the reason …
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Sleight-of-Hand Convention  —  Joe Biden delivered the best speech in a half-century political career on Thursday night.  It was interesting to contrast his delivery with Kamala Harris's 24 hours earlier.  Both the presidential and vice-presidential nominee spoke to an empty hall.
Discussion: New York Post
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
John Hendrickson / The Atlantic:
Stuttering Through It  —  You could hear the stutter in Brayden's lungs, all those heavy inhalations, his search for sounds that wouldn't come.  The 13-year-old stared into a stationary camera and told the world about his problem, the affliction he shares with 3 million Americans …
Discussion: Axios, Mashable, Politico and Mother Jones
Rudy Giuliani / Washington Times:
Biden has nothing to offer Black America but fear
Discussion: Associated Press
Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
Mnuchin's role in postmaster's appointment becomes target  —  WASHINGTON — In the weeks before Republican donor Louis DeJoy was installed as postmaster general, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin held a series of one-on-one meetings with members of the Postal Service Board of Governors …
Discussion: Reuters, KNSD-TV, The Hill and Rantt Media
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CNN:
Now the VP nominee, Harris won't interrogate DeJoy at hearing  —  Democrats call on watchdog to investigate USPS changes  —  (CNN)Fresh off the Democratic National Convention, vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris is back to her day job as a US senator for a high-profile showdown …
Discussion: NPR
Washington Post:
DeJoy Senate hearing live updates: Postal Service will prioritize ballots over other mail, postmaster testifies
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Ex-Postal Service board member testifies Mnuchin tried to politicize agency
Discussion: Politico, Washington Times and Reuters
Washington Post:
Postmaster general eyes aggressive changes at Postal Service after election
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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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Completely Nutso Universe of QAnon  —  An explainer for the conspiracy theory that's taking over the GOP.  —  The deranged QAnon conspiracy theory movement came close to a presidential endorsement this week when Donald Trump praised the group as “people that love our country,” …
Discussion: Axios and The Bulwark
Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
Texas QAnon Supporter Used Car to Attack Strangers She Believed Were ‘Pedophiles’
Discussion: Vox
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
The End of Steve Bannon—And Maybe Trump, Too  —  Steve Bannon's arrest on charges that he defrauded donors to a right-wing immigration group for $1 million marks the end of a political era—the era when a Trumpian admixture of economic populism and nativist immigration policy looked as if it could …
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HuffPost:
Inside Steve Bannon's Alleged Scheme To Fleece Trump Voters Who Wanted A Border Wall
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:   LOCK HIM UP: Anti-Neocon Grifter Steve Bannon Indicted for Wall Fraud
NBC News:
Who is Guo Wengui, the Chinese billionaire who owns the boat Steve Bannon was arrested on?
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Cain Gang
The Texas Tribune:
San Antonio postal union leader describes mass delays, says Postal Service hid backlogged mail from congressman  —  The union leader said tens of thousands of pieces of mail were carted away ahead of U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro's visit.  The office's delays have been exacerbated by employees missing because of COVID-19 concerns.
Discussion: The Federalist, NPR and Daily Kos
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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.
James Comer / Fox News:   Why Dems' USPS controversy is a manufactured distraction
Aaron Gordon / VICE:
USPS Warns Employees Not to Speak to Press
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Biden speaks from a place Trump doesn't know — the heart  —  President Trump has tried every dirty trick in the book — and a few new ones — to cast doubts about the workings of Joe Biden's brain.  But Trump has been focusing on entirely the wrong organ.  Biden's appeal is from the heart.
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New York Times:
Joe Biden Accepts Democratic Nomination: ‘I Will Draw on the Best of Us’
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Republicans have a lot to live up to
Fredreka Schouten / CNN:
Trump pledges to send ‘sheriffs’ and ‘law enforcement’ to polling places on Election Day, but it's not clear he can  —  Trump slams mail-in voting while signing his mail-in ballot  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would send law enforcement officials to polling locations …
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Washington Post:
Trump's reelection effort has officially spent more than $1 billion, a record sum at this point in the campaign  —  President Trump's campaign, the Republican Party and two affiliated committees, have spent more than $1 billion since 2017, a record-breaking sum spent toward a reelection effort …
Discussion: Raw Story
Annie Karni / New York Times:   Republicans Gear Up to Renominate Trump
Washington Post:
‘Are you really going to impeach me?’:  How the Ukraine bombshell unfolded over 48 hours and laid bare Trump's fixation with Biden  —  This article is adapted from “Trump on Trial” by Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan, which will be published Aug. 25 by Scribner.
Chicago Tribune:
Citing threats, Mayor Lori Lightfoot defends ban on protesters on her block: ‘I have a right to make sure that my home is secure’  —  Mayor Lori Lightfoot defended the Chicago Police Department's ban on protesters being able to demonstrate on the block where she lives, telling reporters Thursday …
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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” …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Hillary Clinton rips GOP senators: They seem like they've had a “lobotomy”
Discussion: Breitbart
Franklin Graham:
In watching some of the Democratic National Convention on television this week, it has been interesting to see the absence of God.  I don't believe America's finest hours will be in front of us if we take God out of government and public life.  It is God who set the standards we are to live by.
Discussion: Fox News
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
The permanent outsider  —  President Trump has no idea how to run for reelection as an incumbent  —  At a White House signing ceremony this month, President Trump lamented the “deep-swamp things happening” in the nation's “deep state.”  Speaking to workers at a Whirlpool plant in Ohio a few days later …
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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Neda Ulaby / NPR:
Susan B. Anthony Museum Rejects President Trump's Pardon Of The Suffragist
Bloomberg:
Billionaire Robert Smith Fighting U.S. Criminal Tax Inquiry
Discussion: New York Post
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
DNC's audacity of hope was that America is really empathetic and good
Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
California Rep. Katie Porter Says She'd Consider Joining The Biden Administration
Discussion: The Hill
Andy Newman / New York Times:
Are New Yorkers Wearing Masks? Here's What We Found in Each Borough
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell to give taped remarks as part of GOP convention
Discussion: Fox News, USA Today and The Week
 Earlier Items: 
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Joe Biden Finally Got the Timing Right
Kevin Jones / National Catholic Register Bloggers Feed:
Religious Sister Who Will Pray at DNC: Legal Abortion ‘Above My Pay Grade’
Discussion: National Review
Jeremy B. White / Politico:
Trump blames California for wildfires, tells state ‘you gotta clean your floors’
Discussion: The Hill
Michael McFaul / Washington Post:
A Russian dissident is fighting for his life. Where is the U.S.?
Discussion: NPR, Foreign Policy and Politico
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Democrats question whether Trump is breaking the law with RNC speech
Discussion: Reuters and Raw Story
David Slotnick / Business Insider:
Navy SEAL who killed Osama Bin Laden was banned by Delta for refusing to wear a mask on a flight
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
Discussion: HillReporter.com