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3:35 PM ET, July 7, 2021

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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:

Trump told chief of staff Hitler ‘did a lot of good things’, book says — Remark shocked John Kelly, author Michael Bender reports — Book details former president's ‘stunning disregard for history’ — On a visit to Europe to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war …

Sara Fischer / Axios:

Scoop: Trump to sue Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey — Former President Donald Trump, who has complained about censorship by social media giants, plans to announce class action lawsuits today against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, sources tell Axios.

Associated Press:

Trump files suit against Facebook, Twitter and YouTube — WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has filed suit against three of the country's biggest tech companies, claiming he and other conservatives have been wrongfully censored. — Trump announced the action against Facebook …

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Washington Post:
Trump files class action lawsuits targeting Facebook, Google and Twitter over ‘censorship’ of conservatives

Discussion: USA Today, New York Times, Politico, CNBC, Gizmodo, The Western Journal, Vox, Human Events, Raw Story, NPR and Talking Points Memo, more at Techmeme »

The Daily Beast:
Trump Joins Forces With a Cardi B-Hating Travel Agent to Take Down Big Tech

Discussion: New Republic, Newsbusters and ABC News

Associated Press:

Official: Haiti President Jovenel Moïse assassinated at home — PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in an attack on his private residence early Wednesday, according to a statement from the country's interim prime minister, who called the killing a …

Discussion: The Hill, CNN, Atlantic Council, New York Magazine, France 24, Faithwire, The Daily Caller, Politico, Louder With Crowder and Townhall

Jacqueline Charles / Miami Herald:
Haiti President Jovenel Moïse assassinated in middle-of-the-night attack at his home

Discussion: Washington Examiner, New York Post, Associated Press and Alternet.org

Washington Post:
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse assassinated overnight in his home by gunmen, says acting prime minister

Discussion: Associated Press, CBS News and New York Post

New York Times:
After the killing of Haiti's president, the threat of further political violence escalates.

Discussion: Responsible Statecraft, NPR, UPI and The New Humanitarian

Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
U.S. condemns ‘heinous’ assassination of Haitian leader, assessing attack

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, The Gateway Pundit and The Moderate Voice

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Kevin McCarthy's struggles over the Jan. 6 committee reveal a dark GOP truth — Here's a puzzling development to ponder. Why is it that the Republicans most eager to join the Jan. 6 select committee are also among those most prone to sowing doubt about the legitimacy of the 2020 election …

Discussion: Politico

Varad Mehta / Arc Digital:

Liz Cheney Fell in a Forest — No one heard her — Eight weeks ago, Liz Cheney's colleagues struck her down—and made her more powerful than they could have possibly imagined. They did so, if the media was to be believed, by inadvertently thrusting into her hands a new megaphone to broadcast her anti-Trump message.

Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Sober inquiry or slash-and-burn? McCarthy at a Jan. 6 crossroads

Discussion: HotAir, TheBlaze, Daily Kos and Political Wire

Nihal Krishan / Washington Examiner:
House Republicans unveil legislative plan to break up Big Tech and stop censorship

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Neil Irwin / New York Times:

A Planned Biden Order Aims to Tilt the Job Market Toward Workers — Noncompete clauses, licensing requirements and corporate mergers have tended to strengthen the hand of business. — According to an increasingly influential school of thought in left-of-center economic circles …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Associated Press

New York Times:
Biden is preparing an executive order targeting noncompete clauses for workers.

Discussion: CNBC

Ben Collins / NBC News:

QAnon' new ‘plan’? Run for school board — Drake Wuertz came to the school board meeting in Seminole County, Florida, in late June with a message familiar to those who had heard him speak at previous meetings: America's children are at risk of systemic abuse. — And the way to stop it is to run for local office.

Discussion: Raw Story

Sarah Brown / Chronicle of Higher Education:

‘A Place That Was Built For Us’: How Howard U. Landed Nikole Hannah-Jones — In mid-May, the fraught fight over Nikole Hannah-Jones's tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill spilled into public view. Shortly after that, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist …

Discussion: CBS News, The Progressive Pulse, Washington Post, MyNorthwest.com and The Hill, more at Mediagazer »

CNN:
What Nikole-Hannah Jones's job decision reveals

Discussion: Politico, The Daily Caller, PRESS RUN and Washington Post

Dominic Green / spectatorworld.com:
The rights and wrongs of Nikole Hannah-Jones

Discussion: CNN, MyNorthwest.com, Power Line, JONATHAN TURLEY, Washington Examiner, Breitbart and ABC7

Insider:

Where is Trump's White House staff now? We created a searchable database of more than 327 top staffers to show where they all landed — Insider set out to find 327 of the most prominent Trump administration alumni. — Nearly 100 have gotten “establishment” jobs.

Ana Monteiro / Bloomberg:
GOP Senator Scoffs at Trump Auto-Tariff Report as Secrecy Ends

Discussion: Reason

Jason Douglas / Wall Street Journal:

Julian Assange Won't Be Held in Supermax Jail If Extradited, U.S. Assures U.K. — American government says the WikiLeaks founder, if convicted on espionage charges, can serve any custodial sentence in his native Australia — LONDON—The U.S. government has given assurances to the U.K …

Paul Blest / VICE:

Tucker Carlson Wants Body Cameras for Teachers to Stop Critical Race Theory — “How widespread is it? Well, we can't really be sure until we finally get cameras in the classroom, as we put them on the chests of police officers.” — PB — Tucker Carlson thinks the renegade teaching …

Discussion: Vanity Fair and New York Post

BuzzFeed News:
Here's The Extremely Broad FOIA Request Tucker Carlson's Producer Filed With The NSA

Discussion: The Hill, The Daily Caller, National Review, Summit News, Media Matters for America and BizPac Review, more at Mediagazer »

Debra Nussbaum Cohen / The Forward:

Max Solomon Lewis, 20, killed by stray bullet in Chicago — Max Solomon Lewis, a 20-year-old University of Chicago student, was commuting home from his summer internship last Thursday evening when a stray bullet pierced the window of his train car and hit him in the back of the neck.

Discussion: The College Fix, The Federalist, The Times of Israel, CBS Denver, Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Caller

Gallup:

Americans' Life Ratings Reach Record High — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The percentage of Americans who evaluate their lives well enough to be considered “thriving” on Gallup's Live Evaluation Index reached 59.2% in June, the highest in over 13 years of ongoing measurement and exceeding the previous high of 57.3% from September 2017.

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Matt Ford / New Republic:

Samuel Alito's Boundless Contempt for Democracy — I spent my Fourth of July holiday this year like most others did: spending time with friends and family, eating hot dogs and hamburgers, and setting off fireworks. It's one of my favorite holidays—partly because of my affection for this country …

Discussion: Townhall, Election Law Blog and New York Times

Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:

Intel Officials Warned of Hate Groups Using Ashli Babbitt to Incite Terrorism Days After Capitol Siege — Hardly a week had passed since a violent mob of Americans had laid siege to their own capital on Jan. 6 in a brutish but futile attempt to reverse the course of a national election.

Discussion: Washington Post, Arizona Republic and The Informant

Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Judge rejects attempt to stop parts of Georgia voting law — New election rules withstand first court challenge — A federal judge denied an effort to invalidate parts of Georgia's voting law Wednesday, the first court ruling upholding new rules passed after last year's elections.

Discussion: CNN, Associated Press and Townhall

Seth Cropsey / The Hill:

China's military prepares for war, while America's military goes ‘woke’ — President Xi Jinping's Chinese Communist Party (CCP) centenary speech conveyed his regime's resolve in many ways. — Those who attempt to drive a wedge between the party and the Chinese nation, he stated …

Washington Post:

All Marylanders who died of covid in June were unvaccinated, data shows — Unvaccinated people made up all of Maryland's reported coronavirus deaths last month, as well as the vast majority of new cases and hospitalizations, the state reported Tuesday — data that public health officials say demonstrates the effectiveness of vaccines.

Discussion: HotAir, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Raw Story

David Fahrenthold / Washington Post:

Trump golf club to pay penalty after customer's fatal car crash — One of former president Donald Trump's golf clubs on Wednesday agreed to pay a $400,000 penalty to the state of New Jersey for overserving alcohol to a customer who later caused a fatal car crash, according to settlement documents released by the state.

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Michael S. Steele / The Bulwark:

Getting to Yes on Voting Rights — Don't let the perfect get in the way of the possible. — Anyone familiar with the art of negotiation knows that success is unlikely unless there's at least some compromise. Given the current tensions around voting and race within our democracy …

Discussion: SCOTUSblog

Marley Parish / Pennsylvania Capital-Star:

Pa. GOP lawmaker — and Trump ally — Mastriano initiates ‘forensic investigation’ into state elections — (*This story was updated at 11:26 a.m., 11:50 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1 p.m., 2:11 p.m. and 2:37 p.m. on Wednesday, 7/7/21 to include the text of the letter that Sen. Doug Mastriano sent to county officials …

Discussion: Politico, The Hill, Senator Doug Mastriano, Associated Press and Raw Story

CNN:

FBI infiltrates group whose members wanted to test homemade bombs, surveil Capitol, secede from US, court records show — Dramatic Capitol riot videos used in court tell a harrowing story — (CNN)The FBI has infiltrated a “Bible study” group in Virginia that after the January 6 riot …

Discussion: Alternet.org, Joe.My.God., Bangor Daily News, Insider, Crooks and Liars and Washington Post

USA Today:

USA TODAY launches subscriber model for premium journalism, but many stories remain free. Here's what you need to know. — Maribel Perez Wadsworth Nicole CarrollUSA TODAY — When major news breaks anywhere in the country, our journalists are on the scene quickly.

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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:

Riot Leader Had ‘Fully Constructed U.S. Capitol Lego Set’ at Home, FBI Says — PLAYING SOLDIER — Federal investigators seized an unusual piece of evidence from a Pennsylvania man indicted last month for his role in the Capitol riot—a Lego replica of the building he allegedly stormed.

Discussion: The Smoking Gun, RedState, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit, Fox News and Twitchy