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11:25 AM ET, June 28, 2021

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CNN:
Honig: Don't buy Bill Barr's latest story about the Big Lie  —  How Trump weaponized the Justice Department  —  Elie Honig is a CNN senior legal analyst and former federal and state prosecutor.  This op-ed is adapted from his book “Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code …
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Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
‘Utterly Deranged’ Trump Has Full Meltdown Over Bill Barr, Mitch McConnell  —  The former president attacked the two key figures who enabled his agenda, calling them “spineless RINOs.”  —  Donald Trump issued a lengthy and rambling statement late Sunday attacking two of his staunchest allies during his one term in office.
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Trump Attacks ‘RINO’ Bill Barr Over ‘Bullsh*t’ Election Fraud Claims: ‘A Disappointment in Every Sense of the Word’
Joan Walsh / The Nation:
Bill Barr's Rehabilitation Tour Begins. Let's Not Fall for It.
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Republicans ramp up attacks on Biden on ... everything  —  Early in Joe Biden's presidency, Republicans openly conceded how poor a target he was for them.  Their hits on the president simply weren't sticking.  —  That hasn't, however, kept Republicans from swinging away.
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Hans Nichols / Axios:   Economists unworried infrastructure will boost inflation
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Statement by the Department of Defense  —  (Attributable to Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby)  —  “At President Biden's direction, U.S. military forces earlier this evening conducted defensive precision airstrikes against facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region.
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Transgender Boy Wins Bathroom Fight as Top Court Spurns Case  — Gavin Grimm sued after being barred from using boys' restrooms  — Thomas, Alito say they would have heard school board's appeal  —  The U.S. Supreme Court refused to question the rights of transgender students …
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Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Supreme Court passes on transgender bathroom challenge  —  The Supreme Court on Monday passed on a long-winding legal battle over transgender students' rights to use bathrooms that match their gender identity.  —  Gavin Grimm, a transgender man, sued his school board in 2015 over its policy …
Declan Garvey / The Dispatch:
Trump Returns to the Stump in Ohio  —  And Rep. Anthony Gonzalez responds to his biggest critic.  —  1 hr ago  —  After five months—long months if you liked the guy, short ones if you didn't—former President Donald Trump returned to form on Saturday, holding his first major political …
Discussion: Insider
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Benjamin Fearnow / Newsweek:
QAnon Supporters Express Boredom With ‘Same Old’ Trump Speech: ‘This Is Getting Ridiculous’
Discussion: Insider and Washington Examiner
Matt Dixon / Politico:
DeSantis ‘very wary’ of upsetting Trump
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Kinzinger on Trump event: ‘Rally of a loser president’  —  Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Sunday dismissed former President Trump's rally in Ohio over the weekend, characterizing it as a gathering of people to support “a loser president.”  —  “It was a rally of a loser president.
Discussion: Mediaite, The Wrap and HuffPost
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CNN:   Republican lawmaker calls Donald Trump a ‘loser president’
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:   Gosar's siblings press for his removal from Congress: ‘Traitor to this country’
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Gosar's siblings want their brother kicked out of Congress. They think Democrats are moving too slow.
Discussion: Insider and POLITICUSUSA
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's Situation Room shouting match  —  Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, repeatedly blew up at President Trump over how to handle last summer's racial-justice protests, The Wall Street Journal's Michael Bender writes in his forthcoming book, “Frankly, We Did Win This Election.”
Michael Wolff / New York Magazine:
His Insurrection Inside the Oval Office on January 6.  —  Seems like quite a few crazies," said the president.  —  A little more than three weeks before rioters and revelers stormed the Capitol on January 6, several thousand Trump fans and fanatics gathered in Washington …
Discussion: The Guardian and Raw Story
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines Likely to Produce Lasting Immunity, Study Finds  —  Immune cells are still organizing to fight the coronavirus months after inoculation, scientists reported.  —  The vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna set off a persistent immune reaction in the body …
Discussion: Forbes
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Where Jobless Benefits Were Cut, Jobs Are Still Hard to Fill  —  Missouri scrapped federal pay to the unemployed, saying it kept people out of the labor market.  But so far, workers still seem to be choosy.  —  MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. — By lunchtime, the representatives …
Discussion: Jezebel and Raw Story
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Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Toyota is the no. 1 donor to 2020 election objectors — by far  —  The Japanese automaker gave $55,000 to 37 GOP objectors this year.
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
How the Arizona Cyber Ninjas Audit Happened—In One Easy Step!  —  It will amaze you how simple it is for politicians to hijack the ballots after an election.  —  Donald Trump wasn't able to use his big lie to overturn the 2020 election through local officials, the courts, or Congress.
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:   Arizona's 2020 Vote ‘Audit’ Will Magnify Election Doubts
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Red America's Covid Problem  —  Cases are rising, because of the Delta variant.  —  There was a strange Covid-19 pattern in the U.S. for much of this spring.  The virus was not spreading any faster in communities with low vaccination rates than in those with high vaccination rates.
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Documents Show Ivanka Trump Didn't Testify Accurately in Inauguration Scandal Case  —  She said she played no role in planning inaugural events.  These records suggest otherwise.  —  Washington, DC, Bureau Chief  —  Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ben Smith / New York Times:
An Accusation Blew Up a Campaign.  The Media Didn't Know What to Do.  —  Handling a delicate allegation of sexual misconduct is a lot more challenging than covering a horse race.  —  Two days after coming in fifth in the election night count of votes for New York mayor last week …
Washington Post:
Trump Organization attorneys given Monday deadline to persuade prosecutors not to file charges against it  —  Prosecutors in New York have given former president Donald Trump's attorneys a deadline of Monday afternoon to make any final arguments as to why the Trump Organization …
 
 
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Toyota draws backlash for supporting GOP insurrectionists: 'So Toyota doesn't believe in democracy. Got it.'
Marc Ang / Washington Examiner:
Juneteenth deserves to be more than a political football
Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
GOP's ‘critical race theory’ astroturfing is the new tea party
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Michelle Fay Cortez / Bloomberg:
The Last-And Only-Foreign Scientist in the Wuhan Lab Speaks Out
Discussion: Townhall
Val Demings / USA Today:
Voters didn't elect us to do nothing and blame the Senate filibuster. Get rid of it.
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OpenAI:
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Bloomberg:
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