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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
N.Y.C. Tenants Say They Were Tricked Into Appearing in R.N.C. Video  —  “I am not a Trump supporter,” one of the tenants said, adding that she was furious that her interview with a government official was used for the convention.  —  It started with an unexpected call last week from Lynne Patton …
Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook Employees Are Outraged At Mark Zuckerberg's Explanations Of How It Handled The Kenosha Violence  —  Frustrated Facebook employees slammed CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday during a companywide meeting, questioning his leadership and decision-making, following a week …
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Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
A Kenosha Militia Facebook Event Asking Attendees To Bring Weapons Was Reported 455 Times.  Moderators Said It Didn't Violate Any Rules.  —  In a companywide meeting on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that a militia page advocating for followers to bring weapons to an upcoming protest in Kenosha …
Shirin Ghaffary / Vox:
Facebook banned violent militia groups. We still found plenty of them on its platform.
Discussion: New York Post
Caleb Parke / Fox News:
Rand Paul calls for FBI arrests, investigation into ‘mob’ he believes ‘would have killed us,’ if not for police  —  ‘It was horrific,’ the GOP senator tells ‘Fox & Friends’  —  Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told “Fox & Friends” he believes he would have been killed if not for the police …
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Masha Gessen / New Yorker:   Trump's Republican National Convention Was a Spectacle Fit for a Would-Be King
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:   As Trump appointees flout the Hatch Act, civil servants who get caught get punished
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Biden hits Trump where it hurts: in the convention speech ratings  —  New York (CNN Business)President Trump's Thursday night convention speech making the case for his reelection was lower-rated than his challenger Joe Biden's speech one week ago, according to overnight Nielsen ratings.
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
President Trump's acceptance speech draws 21.6 million TV viewers, trailing the audience for Biden  —  The final night of the Republican convention, which featured President Trump's acceptance speech from the White House South Lawn, had an average audience of 21.6 million viewers Thursday …
Discussion: Mercury News
Roger Friedman / Showbiz411:   RNC Ratings for Night 4, on Broadcast Networks Remains Low with Just 5 Million Viewers
New York Times:
Two P.R. Experts at F.D.A. Have Been Ousted After Blood Plasma Fiasco  —  The agency's chief spokeswoman, Emily Miller, was removed from her position just 11 days into the job.  —  Two senior public relations experts advising the Food and Drug Administration have been ousted from their positions …
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Peter Coy / Bloomberg:
New Study Suggests Polls Are Missing Shy Trump Voters  —  A new online study finds that Republicans and independents are twice as likely as Democrats to say they would not give their true opinion in a telephone poll question about their preference for president in the 2020 election.
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump campaign rakes in $76 million during Republican National Convention  —  The GOP convention brought in 147.9 million views across television and online, Fox News has learned  —  EXCLUSIVE: The Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee and their joint-fundraising committees raked …
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jsonline:   Suburbs are vital, but Donald Trump needs another rural rout to win Wisconsin again
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
“Melania Did.  Not.  Care”: In a Blistering New Book by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Melania Trump Sounds a Lot Like Her Husband  —  Wolkoff's book is remarkable both for its intimacy and for the sheer volume of receipts it contains.  It's also the first real look at what's under Melania Trump's hood …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Political Flare
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Secret Service copes with coronavirus cases in aftermath of Trump appearances  —  When President Trump gave a speech to a group of sheriffs in Tampa late last month, his decision to travel forced a large contingent of Secret Service agents to head to a state that was then battling one of the worst coronavirus surges in the nation.
The Daily Beast:
Trump Advisers: He Was ‘Triggered’ by Talk of White Supremacy  —  Two disaffected officials recount a president who simply didn't want to hear things he thought were bad for him.  —  Two former top Homeland Security officials in the Trump administration tell The Daily Beast …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Natalie Escobar / NPR:
One Author's Argument ‘In Defense Of Looting’  —  In the past months of demonstrations for Black lives, there has been a lot of hand-wringing about looting.  Whether it was New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo saying that stealing purses and sneakers from high-end stores in Manhattan was “inexcusable …
Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
The Trap The Democrats Walked Right Into  —  If law and order are what this election is about, they will lose it. … It finally happened.  We have lethal battles in the streets between the two tribes of our polarized politics.  This week, a 17-year-old man, Kyle Rittenhouse …
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Top general says no role for military in presidential vote  —  Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley testifies during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday, July 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington.  (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP)
CNN:
Jacob Blake is no longer shackled to his hospital bed, attorney says  —  (CNN)[Breaking news update at 3:32 p.m. ET]  —  Handcuffs restraining Jacob Blake to a hospital bed have been removed, his attorney, Patrick Cafferty, told CNN Friday afternoon.  —  Kenosha County Sheriff's Department spokesman …
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CNN:
Top Colorado RNC official spread conspiracy theories and made Islamophobic and sexist comments  —  (CNN)A recently installed Republican National Committee official for the state of Colorado has a history of spreading conspiracies and making sexist and Islamophobic comments.
Discussion: Political Wire
ABC News:
Former pool attendant details alleged relationship with Becki and Jerry Falwell Jr.  —  Giancarlo Granda claims he had a lengthy affair with Becki Falwell.  —  The war of words between a former pool attendant and Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife Becki escalated on Friday morning as Giancarlo Granda claimed on …
Shams Charania / The Athletic:
Sources: LeBron James sought out Barack Obama for advice to players  —  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — After walking out of Wednesday's players meeting in support of sitting out NBA's games, LeBron James led a small group of players who turned to perhaps America's biggest basketball fan for advice.
Ashe Schow / The Daily Wire:
Black Lives Matter Protesters Surround Congressman With Prosthetic Legs, Won't Accept It's Wrong To Kill Anybody  —  Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), who lost both his legs while serving in Afghanistan, was leaving the Republican National Convention Thursday night when a group of Black Lives Matter activists surrounded …
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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
WGN America to launch ‘News Nation’ on Tuesday, aiming to transform the house that Bozo built into the next CNN  —  WGN America, the erstwhile home to Bozo and Andy Griffith, is set to reinvent itself as a cable news network with the Tuesday launch of “News Nation,” a prime-time newscast that pledges to deliver unbiased reporting.
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
FBI: Chinese researcher caught trying to fly to China with stolen bio-inspired computer code  —  A Chinese military-linked researcher was caught by U.S. authorities at the airport attempting to flee to China with highly advanced computer code he stole from a U.S. university that could be used …
Anthony G. Attrino / New Jersey Online:
N.J. teen who held Black Lives Matter protest gets hit with $2,500 bill for police overtime  —  When Emily Gil learned of the lack of affordable housing in Englewood Cliffs — and the fact she believes Black residents are priced out of her Bergen County hometown — she felt an urgent need to enact change.
Discussion: Townhall, The Hill and ABC30
Politico:
Mick Mulvaney's new side gig: A hedge fund betting on D.C.  —  Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump's special envoy to Northern Ireland, has a new side gig: He's starting a hedge fund.  —  Mulvaney is launching the fund with the longtime investor Andrew Wessel.  The angle?
Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
DeVos: It's a ‘good thing’ that pandemic will force schools to make long-overdue changes  —  In a new push for school choice, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said on Friday that it's a “good thing” that the coronavirus pandemic will force the nation's schools to make changes that should have “happened many years ago.”
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's parade of desperate lies reveals one big and awful truth  —  When Donald Trump accepted the presidential nomination from the Republican Party in 2016, he declared to the nation: “I alone can fix it.”  —  Four years later, as he accepted the nomination for a second term on Thursday night …
Discussion: Raw Story and Sputnik News
New York Times:
Rival Themes Emerge as Race Enters Final Weeks: Covid vs. Law and Order  —  The national political conventions over the last two weeks set the battle lines for the election's remaining weeks.  Joe Biden is focusing on President Trump's virus management, while the president is hammering a law-and-order message.
 
 
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Katy Lederer / New York Times:
A Gen-X Adviser to Biden Argues Equality Is Good for Growth
Elaine S. Povich / The Pew Charitable Trusts:
Fearing Delays and Chaos, Swing States Weigh Early Counting of Mail-In Ballots
CNN:
Controversial organization led by Trump allies has tax-exempt status revoked by IRS
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Sen. Thom Tillis says he “fell short” by not wearing mask at Trump's RNC speech
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds gripe about wall backer's rants against prosecution
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Alex Pareene / New Republic:
The Police Are Pretty Sure They're Going to Get Away With It
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
The perfectly logical case for Donald Trump
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Billionaire Trump friend and donor Ronald Lauder goes quiet on the fundraising front in 2020
Discussion: Raw Story
Reuters:
Law Firm for Teenager Accused of Kenosha Killings Has Represented Trump Lawyer Giuliani
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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