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2:20 PM ET, August 28, 2020

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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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New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: 2 F.D.A. Public Relations Experts Are Fired After Plasma Fiasco  —  A coalition of local health departments called on the C.D.C. to change new recommendations that people without Covid-19 symptoms do not need to be tested.  —  RIGHT NOW Chancellor Angela Merkel …
Politico:
FDA ousts top spokesperson after 2 weeks  —  FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn has ousted his top spokesperson after only two weeks on the job, following unhappiness with the agency's communications strategy.  The move sets up a potential fight with the White House, according to four individuals with knowledge of the decision.
KARE-TV:
Biden planning campaign visits to Minnesota, Wisconsin and other battleground states  —  The Democratic presidential nominee will start doing in-person events after Labor Day.  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says he's planning to hit the campaign trail - in person …
Discussion: France 24
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Ed Scarce / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Barron Trump Is Tall, Conservatives Freak Out When Liberals Point Out This Fact  —  Trump's 14-year-old son towered over Mike Pence last night.  That's NOT an “attack on a child.”  —  One would think that after what the Right spent years spewing about Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls …
Discussion: Althouse
The Daily Beast:
Ivanka Is an Idiot but Unequivocally the Smartest Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Is a Secessionist From the Top
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike Barnicle / The Daily Beast:   A Sick President Scrambles to Spread His Contagion of Fear
Christopher Bedford / The Federalist:
Trump Lit Up The Skies (And The Right) While The Streets Raged — And Remade Conventions Forever
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Protesters confront Rand Paul outside White House after RNC  —  Sen. Rand Paul was confronted by protesters early Friday morning after leaving the Republican National Convention at the White House.  —  “Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100, one block away from the White House.
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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 …
Robby Soave / Reason:
Protesters Tell Rand Paul, Who Wrote the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act, To Say Breonna Taylor's Name
Discussion: Axios, ABC News and New York Times
George Packer / The Atlantic:
This Is How Biden Loses  —  Here is a prediction about the November election: If Donald Trump wins, in a trustworthy vote, what's happening this week in Kenosha, Wisconsin, will be one reason.  Maybe the reason.  And yet Joe Biden has it in his power to spare the country a second Trump term.
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New York Times:
Live Updates: N.B.A. Playoffs to Resume After Jacob Blake Protest  —  The league and its players' union reached an agreement to restart the playoffs on Saturday after a work stoppage following the police shooting of Mr. Blake in Wisconsin.  —  RIGHT NOW The league and the players also announced …
Ursula Perano / Axios:
NBA playoffs to resume after agreement on social justice initiatives
German Lopez / Vox:
The absurdity of Trump's RNC speech, in one photo  —  Evelyn Hockstein/The Washington Post via Getty Images  —  Trump tried to make his Republican convention into a celebration.  America's current reality is much grimmer.  —  President Donald Trump's speech on Thursday …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Mary Trump says GOP convention ‘disturbing to watch,’ calls portrayal of president a sham
Discussion: Breitbart and POLITICUSUSA
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Host Greg Gutfeld Pulls a 180 on Trump's ‘Very Fine People’ in Charlottesville, Now Calls It a ‘Hoax’  —  Gutfeld was one of the more forceful critics of Trump's equivocating on neo-Nazi marchers, but three years later he's all-in on defending the president.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Malign Fantasy of Donald Trump's Convention  —  Using the White House as his prop, the President makes war on Joe Biden, and pretends the pandemic is all but defeated.  —  For four years, Donald Trump has been asking us to believe the unbelievable, to accept the unthinkable, to replace harsh realities with simple fantasies.
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
House committee launches contempt proceedings against Pompeo  —  The House Foreign Affairs Committee announced Friday that it will launch contempt proceedings against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over his refusal to comply with a subpoena for records related to the State Department's involvement …
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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 …
mecknc.gov:
​Data for August 26  —  As of 5 p.m. on August 27, 2020 there were 24,952 cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) with 290 deaths due to COVID-19 reported among Mecklenburg County residents.  —  Of note, approximately 792 COVID-19 tests were conducted among individuals attending …
Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook Employees Slammed Zuckerberg Over Militia Groups And QAnon After Kenosha  —  Frustrated Facebook employees slammed CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday during a companywide meeting, questioning his leadership and decision-making, following a week in which the platform promoted violent conspiracy theories …
Luis Martinez / ABC News:
US to reduce troop level in Iraq to 3,500 from 5,200  —  The Iraqi military's progress was cited as a reason for the drawdown.  —  The U.S. plans to reduce troop levels in Iraq to 3,500 from about 5,200, a U.S. official confirmed to ABC News.  —  The reduction in forces had been anticipated …
Discussion: Associated Press
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USA Today:
Donald Trump's big convention speech was filled with lies and gall: Mastio and Lawrence  —  David: I don't much like the Democrats or Joe Biden and I certainly don't like leftists, anarchists and cancel culture, so there was a lot in Trump's speech that I wanted to like.
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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.
Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
MGM Resorts Lays off 18,000 Workers  —  Casino industry struggles to regain business after pandemic shutdowns  —  MGM Resorts International MGM 5.15% is laying off 18,000 furloughed workers in the U.S. as a global travel slowdown impedes the casino industry's recovery from the ongoing pandemic.
Discussion: CBS Boston
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Pentagon poised to award Medal of Honor to Alwyn Cashe, who died after saving fellow soldiers in Iraq  —  Cashe would be the first African American recipient of the award for valor in Iraq or Afghanistan.  —  The Pentagon is poised to posthumously award the Medal of Honor to Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn C. Cashe …
Discussion: Just The News
Natalie Winters / The National Pulse:
EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden's “Republican” Endorser Runs A Chinese Communist Party-Staffed Consulting Firm  —  Cohen recently endorsed Biden, citing his belief that President Trump's actions were “the mark of a dictatorship” and “a tyrant.”  —  Today, The National Pulse can reveal that Cohen works closely …
Discussion: Fox News
New York Times:
A Word Not Uttered by Republican Officials at the Convention: Obamacare  —  A longtime refrain, promise and rallying cry is gone.  —  In 2012, right in the middle of his convention speech, Mitt Romney declared Obamacare repeal a crucial priority.  It was part of his five-part plan for a “better future.”
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Instead of Evolving as President, Trump Has Bent the Job to His Will  —  In a 40-minute phone call this week, Mr. Trump struggled to describe how he has changed in office.  “I think I've just become more guarded than I was four years ago,” he said.  —  WASHINGTON — For a man on the edge of history …
Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Democrats Failed The Convention Optics Test  —  In comparing the DNC and RNC, the optics and the policy contrasts could not have been clearer.  And that was even before the fireworks.  —  In the past two weeks of conventions, during which Democrats' media champions have increasingly raised alarms …
 
 
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Hans von der Burchard / Politico:
EU mulls sanctions on Turkey over Eastern Mediterranean tensions
Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Biden's Voters Appear Far More Likely To Vote By Mail Than Trump's. That Could Make For A Weird Election Night.
Discussion: YouGov
Dustin Gardiner / San Francisco Chronicle:
Nearly every California GOP state senator in quarantine after coronavirus exposure
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Maria Vasilyeva / Reuters:
Russia releases secret footage of 1961 ‘Tsar Bomba’ hydrogen blast
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
The University of Arizona says it caught a dorm's covid-19 outbreak before it started. Its secret weapon: Poop.
Ghysling / SoundCloud:
SoundCloud  —  Yelling about adrenochrome, fighting pedovores and going into trances for our Lord Jesus Christ.
Lateshia Beachum / Washington Post:
A Black, female veteran could topple the Republican incumbent in her red Florida district
Discussion: National Review and The Capitolist
 Earlier Items: 
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
Belarusian Officials Shut Down Internet With Technology Made by U.S. Firm
Jason Whitlock / OutKick:
BLM 101: Continued Harassment From Protesters Reveals Bigotry And Hate, Not Progress
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
TODAY.com:
Kamala Harris: Officer in Jacob Blake shooting should be charged
Discussion: Politico
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump Botches His Big Speech and No One Will Care
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
What if Facebook Is the Real ‘Silent Majority’?
Discussion: Breitbart
 

 
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