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2:30 PM ET, August 25, 2020

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Will Thorne / Variety:
Republican National Convention Night 1 Down on DNC in Early Numbers  —  The first night of the Republican National Convention was down a touch in total viewership on the first night of the Democratic National Convention, at least according to early numbers.  —  Across the three broadcast networks …
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
First night of RNC 2020 was very effective, to media's dismay  —  The first night of the Republican National Convention was, all in all, sensationally effective — and effective in ways that the mainstream media and its Twitter chatterers clearly found it impossible to understand.
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
First night of GOP convention delivers nearly six times more views than start of Democrats' event on C-SPAN livestream  —  C-SPAN's livestream of the first night of the Republican National Convention has attracted nearly 440,000 views, marking a substantial increase over the start …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
GOP Convention Scores First Night Hit [Updated]
Discussion: Instapundit
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Mirror-Image Convention  —  The first night of the 2020 Republican National Convention …
Discussion: Reason
The Daily Beast:
Trump Administration Insider: President Wanted to ‘Maim’ Migrants  —  Miles Taylor, former DHS chief of staff, recalls the moment he said to himself “what the f*ck is happening” during a Trump meeting.  Plus, the gang shits on night one of the RNC.  —  You thought what happened on-screen during …
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
'He's going to be unleashed': Republican DOJ appointees urge against Trump second term  —  A group of onetime Republican presidential appointees who served as senior ethics or Justice Department aides are endorsing Joe Biden for president, warning that Donald Trump has “weaponized” …
David Frum / The Atlantic:
The Platform the GOP Is Too Scared to Publish  —  Republicans have decided not to publish a party platform for 2020.  —  This omission has led some to conclude that the GOP lacks ideas, that it stands for nothing, that it has shriveled to little more than a Trump cult.  —  This conclusion is wrong.
Discussion: National Review and Raw Story
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Former Trump DHS officials launch anti-Trump group
NBC News:
Miles Taylor, other former and current admin officials form anti-Trump group
Discussion: Axios
Rob Eshman / The Forward:
The rabbi who is neighbor to Mark and Patricia McCloskey speaks out: ‘They are bullies’  —  When Rabbi Susan Talve heard that Patricia and Mark McCloskey would be among the speakers addressing the Republican National Convention, she decided she could no longer stay quiet.
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Fact Check: CNN's Jake Tapper Falsely Claims Don Jr. Defended ‘Confederate’ Statues  —  CLAIM: Donald J. Trump Jr., said “keep the Confederate statues up” in his speech at the Republican National Convention.  —  VERDICT: FALSE.  He specifically defended the “Founders” and defended “monuments” in general, not Confederate ones.
Discussion: Axios
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Was Donald Trump, Jr. ‘coked out of his mind’ during RNC speech?
Discussion: Althouse
Adam Harris / The Atlantic:
The Battle for the Future of the GOP Is No Contest
CNN:
Transcript: Nikki Haley's RNC speech
Discussion: Power Line, Alpha News and Townhall
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Clare Proctor / Chicago Sun-Times:
Jacob Blake's father says son's paralyzed from waist down after police shooting in Kenosha  —  The police shooting of Jacob Blake, 29, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is drawing national attention, including this protest Monday in Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed by police earlier this year.
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ABC News:
Jerry Falwell Jr. officially resigns from Liberty University  —  The embattled religious leader says he informed the school Monday night.  —  LIVE NOW  —  After a daylong back and forth, Jerry Falwell Jr. officially resigned from Liberty University Monday night, he told ABC News.
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Associated Press:
Falwell says he's resigned from Liberty University
Discussion: IJR
Religion News Service:
Jerry Falwell Jr. resigns from Liberty University. Again.
USA Today:
I never promised you a rose garden: Melania Trump's renovation of a national treasure  —  On Tuesday, First Lady Melania Trump will address the Republican National Convention from the newly renovated Rose Garden at the White House, a personal project of hers.
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Washington Post:   Melania Trump will give her biggest speech in four years. Can she convince skeptical women to vote for her husband?
James Dawson / NPR:
Unmasked Protesters Push Past Police Into Idaho Lawmakers' Session  —  In Boise, the first day of Idaho's special legislative session erupted into chaos before it began.  Dozens of unmasked protesters, some of them armed, shoved their way past state troopers to pack the gallery overlooking the state's House of Representatives.
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Keith Ridler / Associated Press:   Crowd shatters glass to get to Idaho House session on virus
Carter Sherman / VICE:
An RNC Speaker Said Cops Would Be ‘Smart’ to Racially Profile Her Own Son  —  “Statistically, my brown son is more likely to commit a violent offense over my white sons,” anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson said in a YouTube video earlier this year.  —  CS
Discussion: Raw Story
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Trump Has Now Moved $2.3 Million Of Campaign-Donor Money Into His Private Business  —  Senior editor at Forbes, covering Donald Trump's business.  —  Donald Trump continued to shift money from his donors to his business last month, as his reelection campaign paid his private companies for rent …
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Trump says he'll nominate Chad Wolf to be DHS secretary  —  President Trump tweeted on Tuesday that he will nominate acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf to be the permanent head of the agency.  —  Why it matters: It's been more than 500 days since a Senate-confirmed secretary led …
CNN:
GOP candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene spread conspiracies about Charlottesville and ‘Pizzagate’  —  Trump praises GOP candidate despite her QAnon support  —  (CNN)In the years before she ran for office, GOP congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote two conspiracy-laden blog posts speculating …
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
A Black Vice Mayor In Virginia Urged A Police Chief's Firing.  Now She Faces Charges.  —  A white Portsmouth resident filed the charges against Lisa Lucas-Burke, who called for the ouster of city Police Chief Angela Greene.  —  A mounting political and racial controversy stemming …
Discussion: Blue Virginia and The Root
Robert hagan / KREX:
New mail sorting machine at Grand Junction USPS annex thrown out  —  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — *UPDATE* We reported Monday that a local USPS annex employee said a brand new mail sorting machine was being thrown out.  We got that information from a viewer who called in, but there is more to the story.
 
 
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Rich Lowry / National Review:
The Crisis That Democrats Dare Not Mention
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Bipartisan lawmakers to introduce House resolution condemning QAnon
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Republican Party Must Be Saved From the Conservative Movement
Discussion: Jacobin, National Review and Daily Kos
Simon Murphy / The Guardian:
Boris Johnson will quit in six months, Dominic Cummings' father-in-law reportedly says
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
The Republicans Promised Uplift and Then Tried to Rewrite History
Discussion: National Review and The Federalist
Lauren Sarner / New York Post:
‘West Wing’ reunion starring original cast coming to HBO Max
Discussion: The Week
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Gail Sheehy, Journalist, Author and Social Observer, Dies at 83
Discussion: Variety
Antonia Ayres-Brown / The Public's Radio:
Pro-Trump boat rally draws thousands in Bristol
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Mike Allen / Axios:
Brian Stelter's Fox News book “Hoax” sells out, with rush reprint
Discussion: Raw Story
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
For example: … These cases were in the 9th and 10th Circuits, respectively …
Discussion: Insurance Journal
CBS Dallas / Fort Worth:
Almost 50 North Texans Drank Bleach This Month, Poison Center Warns 'Stop, It Won't Cure COVID'
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Bruce Finley / Denver Post:
Wildfire haze, record heat and pollution combine to make Denver air quality dangerous for all
Discussion: TMI
Debra Kamin / New York Times:
Black Homeowners Face Discrimination in Appraisals
Michael Kruse / Politico:
Trump's Scare Tactics Aren't Working on Women in the Suburbs
Arizona Republic:
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