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10:00 PM ET, July 2, 2021

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Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:

Bragg Set to Be Manhattan's Next D.A., and a Potential Trump Scourge — With his main rival, Tali Farhadian Weinstein, conceding, Alvin Bragg is poised to lead the investigation into Donald J. Trump's family business. — Alvin Bragg, a career prosecutor with experience taking on white-collar crime …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, CNN, Insider, The Hill, Talking Points Memo, The Intercept and Joe.My.God.

Deanna Paul / Wall Street Journal:

Alvin Bragg Wins Democratic Nod for Manhattan District Attorney — Runner-up Tali Farhadian Weinstein concedes the race — Alvin Bragg is on the cusp of becoming the first Black Manhattan district attorney after his top rival, Tali Farhadian Weinstein, conceded the race Friday …

Discussion: Washington Post, THE CITY and The Western Journal

NBC News:

'There's just no legal defense': Trump Organization in jeopardy, experts say … Lawyers and representatives for the Trump Organization dismissed the criminal charges against the company as prosecutorial overreach Thursday, but legal experts contacted by NBC News said the company …

Discussion: Washington Post, HotAir, CBS News, MSNBC, Associated Press, One America News Network and Townhall

Jennifer Taub / Washington Monthly:
How to Understand the Trump Tax Indictment

Discussion: Vanity Fair, New York Times, Washington Post, Salon, The Atlantic, Just Security, Daily Kos, Associated Press, The Guardian, DCReport.org, Mother Jones, emptywheel and Japan Times

Dan McLaughlin / New York Post:
Cy Vance's Trump case is straight from a banana republic — punish your political enemies

Discussion: CBS News, Bloomberg, New York Magazine, Washington Post, Fox News, Raw Story, RedState, BizPac Review, No More Mister Nice Blog, CNN, The Guardian and Politico

Tom Boggioni / Raw Story: Weisselberg indictment creates new questions about Trump kids' hidden compensation: John Heilemann

New York Post:
Trump Organization indictments are a travesty of justice

Discussion: BizPac Review

New York Times:

Trump Is Said to Have Called Arizona Official After Election Loss — Donald Trump tried to reach the top Republican in metropolitan Phoenix as his allies were trying to overturn the state's 2020 results, according to the official, who said he did not pick up the calls.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Raw Story, The Hill and Daily Kos

CNN:

Capitol rioter accompanied members of Congress on trip to US-Mexico border — (CNN)A conservative YouTuber who participated in the January 6 riot accompanied Republican members of Congress on a trip to the border Tuesday night, serving as a translator at times.

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Talking Points Memo, Forbes, Joe.My.God., Raw Story, Mediaite and Mock Paper Scissors

Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Latest alleged Oath Keeper arrested in Capitol riot turned over body armor and firearm

Discussion: Raw Story and The Crime Report

Scott Wong / The Hill:
GOP divided on anti-Biden midterm message

Discussion: Documented and Political Wire

CNN:

Trump's Hill allies could be ensnared in January 6 probe as GOP preps strategy — (CNN)House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has asserted he'd “have no problem talking to anybody” about his conversations with then-President Donald Trump on January 6. That proposition may soon be put to the test.

Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Raw Story and New York Magazine

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Nancy Pelosi has backed Kevin McCarthy into a corner — As the Jan. 6 select committee gears up, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy faces a thorny dilemma. Treating the effort to violently overthrow the U.S. constitutional order as an extremely weighty matter worthy of serious investigation …

Discussion: The American Independent, Joe.My.God. and ABC17NEWS

William Saletan / Slate:
Trump Is Working Harder Than Ever to Undermine Democracy

Discussion: RedState and The Bulwark

David Marcus / New York Post:
Ex-Senator Claire McCaskill says Capitol riots were worse than Benghazi

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Louder With Crowder, The Daily Caller, RedState and IJR

Hayes Brown / MSNBC:

Sha'Carri Richardson's drug test suspension is the end result of racist policies … Sha'Carri Richardson should have been spending the next month preparing to win the Olympic gold medal in the 100-meter dash. She had a shot after blazing through the event's qualifying race last month in under 11 seconds.

Discussion: U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, TODAY.com, Yahoo News and CBS News

Maeve Sheehey / Politico:
White House calls Sha'Carri Richardson an ‘inspiring woman’ but stops short of opposing suspension

Discussion: Associated Press, OutKick, New York Post, The Daily Caller, Reason and Washington Examiner

Washington Post:

Biden's cold response to Afghanistan's collapse will have far-reaching consequences — When President Biden chose in April to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by September, we were among those who judged that the result would be a disaster for the country's 38 million people — and in particular, its women.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Politico and Townhall

J.P. Lawrence / Stars & Stripes:
Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram Airfield through the lens of Pokemon Go

Discussion: UPI

Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
U.S. Leaves Its Last Afghan Base, Effectively Ending Operations

Discussion: Politico, Defense One, CNN, The Moderate Voice, HotAir, Stars & Stripes, Deseret News, CBS News, Associated Press, WINK NEWS, NBC News, Insider, Wall Street Journal, The Experiment, Slate, Washington Examiner and Reason

Kevin Collier / NBC News:

Ransomware attack on software manager hits 200 companies — A successful ransomware attack on a single company has spread to at least 200 organizations, according to cybersecurity firm Huntress Labs, making it one of the single largest criminal ransomware sprees in history.

Discussion: Washington Post, Associated Press, The Record, Gizmodo, Raw Story, One America News Network and BIG by Matt Stoller, more at Techmeme »

Devoun Cetoute / Miami Herald:

North Miami Beach condo ordered to close, evacuate after inspection said structurally unsafe — The city of North Miami Beach has ordered that Crestview Towers Condominium be immediately closed and evacuated Friday evening after a building inspection report found it to have unsafe structural …

Discussion: Associated Press, Joe.My.God., Fox News, WSVN-TV, UPI and NBC 6 South Florida

Axios:

Biden aide charges “sabotage” of Harris — Top White House officials are mobilizing to defend Vice President Kamala Harris amid a gusher of leaks about dysfunction and infighting in her office. — Driving the news: White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain told Axios in a statement …

San Antonio Express-News:

Texas history museum pulls out of event on book re-examining Alamo ‘myth’ — AUSTIN — The Texas history museum on Thursday abruptly pulled out of an event scheduled for that night on a new book that re-examines the story of The Alamo, prompting claims of state censorship from its authors.

Discussion: The Texas Tribune, PEN America, The Experiment, Mother Jones, Joe.My.God. and Talking Points Memo

Amy Graff / SFGATE:

710,117 lightning strikes hit western Canada in 15 hours — Van Ness is a mess and it's hurting businesses — This small town is California's ‘adult Disneyland’ — Disneyland should permanently remove this massive perk — Salt Fire near Redding explodes, destroys homes

Discussion: Axios, Yale Climate Connections, Slate, The Daily Caller, New York Post, Associated Press and Gizmodo

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:

Breyer Hires Four New Clerks in Hint He's Staying on Court — Likely retirement window closing as Supreme Court term ends — Liberal activists seeking retirement so Biden can fill seat — Justice Stephen Breyer has hired a full complement of four law clerks for the next Supreme Court term …

Discussion: HotAir, Washington Examiner, HuffPost, New York Magazine and Insider

Reuters: Barrett finds own voice at center of conservative U.S. Supreme Court

Democracy Docket:

Professors and Students Sue Over Florida's New College Survey Law — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today individual professors and students of Florida's public colleges and universities filed a lawsuit against the Florida Commissioner of Education and other higher education officials challenging …

Washington Post:

Andy Harris, Maryland's only Republican in Congress, fears being written off the map. Some say it could happen. — Ten years ago, as Maryland Democrats sat down to redraw the state's eight congressional districts, they considered making Republican members of Congress go extinct.

Foreign Policy:

Study Finds Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. Diplomats Eyeing the Exit Door — Systemic management and morale issues plague the State Department, even after Trump era. — New research has found that nearly a third of the U.S. State Department's diplomats and professional support staff are considering leaving …

Shanti Escalante-De Mattei / ARTnews.com:

U.S. House Votes to Remove Confederate Statues from the Capitol — On June 29th, the House of Representatives voted to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol building. … Last July, a similar bill passed through the House, but not in the Senate, which had a GOP majority at the time.

Alexi McCammond / Axios:

Progressives distance from Bernie Sanders — The progressive movement is in a new phase and activists say they've changed the conversation on key issues.

Discussion: Townhall and HotAir

Bari Weiss / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:

Winston Marshall Was ‘Bloody Terrified’ to Quit Mumford & Sons. He Tells Me Why. — The musician talks about self-censorship, his faith, moral courage, Jordan Peterson, Kanye West, Winston Churchill, and more. — 2 hr ago — Late last week, I was sitting in my kitchen when I read an essay that made me stand up and cheer.

Discussion: RedState, Breitbart and Fox News

Kate Aronoff / New Republic:

The Biden White House Has an Exxon Problem — In a blockbuster report from Greenpeace journalistic arm Unearthed this week, top Exxon lobbyist Keith McCoy all but claimed credit for helping excise climate policies from the Biden administration's much-hyped infrastructure package.

Discussion: ExxonMobil, Washington Examiner and Rolling Stone

ARLnow.com:

BREAKING: NWS Confirms Tornado Ripped Through North Arlington Neighborhoods — (Updated at 9:30 p.m.) The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado caused the widespread damage seen in several North Arlington neighborhoods today. — The tornado struck around 9 p.m. Thursday night …

Stephen Fowler / NPR:

How Pro-Trump Local News Sites Keep Pushing 2020 Election Misinformation — If you don't follow politics in Georgia closely — or even if you do — you might be forgiven for not knowing much about The Georgia Star News. — Founded just after the November election when President Biden narrowly flipped …

more at Mediagazer »

John DiStaso / WMUR:

New Hampshire Supreme Court strikes down 2017 voter registration law Senate Bill 3 as unconstitutional — In unanimous, 4-0, decision, state's highest court upholds lower court ruling, says law ‘imposes unreasonable burdens on the right to vote’ — Hide Transcript Show Transcript

Discussion: InDepthNH.org, Courthouse News Service, The American Independent, The Root, CNN and Political Wire

David French / TIME:

Loving Your Country Means Teaching Its History Honestly — French is a senior editor at The Dispatch and a columnist for Time. His new book is Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation. He is a former major in the United States Army Reserve.