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Cameron Joseph / VICE:
The GOP Just Nominated a ‘QAnon Whackjob’ and a ‘True Confederate’ in Maryland  —  A guy who tried to impeach Maryland's GOP governor was just nominated to replace him—and he's not even the most extreme candidate who won on Tuesday.  —  Cameron Joseph  —  WASHINGTON, US
Discussion: HuffPost
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Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
Maryland GOP Throws It All Away  —  Republicans turned their backs on their popular two-term governor, Larry Hogan, by elevating a crank over his chosen moderate successor.  —  Back in April, I introduced readers to Dan Cox, a far-right kook and Maryland state legislator running for governor.
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Trump wins proxy war with Hogan in Maryland primary — boosted by Democrats
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Trump-backed election denier Dan Cox wins Maryland's GOP primary for governor
Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:
Documents show the secret strategy behind Trump's census citizenship question push  —  Former President Donald Trump's administration spent years trying to add a census citizenship question as part of a secret strategy for altering the population numbers used to divide up seats in Congress …
Discussion: Axios and Associated Press
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
New Findings Detail Trump Plan to Use Census for Partisan Gain  —  A new trove of memos and emails suggest that the plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census aimed to cause an undercount that would favor Republicans.  —  A new stash of documents obtained by Congress has confirmed …
Associated Press:
‘The mouth of a bear’: Ukrainian refugees sent to Russia  —  NARVA, Estonia (AP) — For weeks Natalya Zadoyanova had lost contact with her younger brother Dmitriy, who was trapped in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol.  —  Russian forces had bombed the orphanage where he worked …
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Aubrie Spady / Fox News:
Trump-backed Kari Lake shared anti-Trump ‘not my president’ meme on Facebook days before 2017 inauguration  —  Former VP Pence and Gov. Ducey both recently endorsed Lake's primary opponent Karrin Taylor Robson.  —  Republican Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona speaks on Trump's impact on the primaries
Discussion: The Hill and Mediaite
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Alex Rogers / CNN:
Trump-backed Arizona Senate candidate escalates election fears ahead of GOP primary  —  (CNN)Arizona Republican Blake Masters, who earned Donald Trump's endorsement for the Senate race by embracing the former President's lies that he won the 2020 election, has turned to questioning whether …
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
CD Media:   CD Media Big Data Poll: Blake Masters Holds 11-Point Lead In Arizona Republican Primary For U.S. Senate
Washington Post:
Arizona Senate candidate embraces Trump's extreme style
Discussion: FOX News Radio
David Siders / Politico:
'It's the accumulation': The Jan. 6 hearings are wounding Trump, after all  —  The conventional wisdom about the Jan. 6 committee hearings was that no single revelation was going to change Republican minds about Donald Trump.  —  What happened instead, a slow drip of negative coverage, may be just as damaging to the former president.
James Rogan / Washington Examiner:
Why a climate national emergency declaration is ill-advised  —  At the heart of the climate emergency discussion is the National Emergencies Act of 1976.  It's a statute that delegates broad authorities to the president to declare a national emergency.  —  The NEA reads: “With respect …
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Eric Connor / Post and Courier:
US Rep. Timmons deflects affair, abuse of power allegations on Upstate SC radio  —  GREENVILLE — U.S. Rep. William Timmons went on conservative talk radio to address rumors circling for weeks that he had an extramarital affair and abused his power as a congressman to further it.
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Okay, but Cassandra cannot possibly be right *again*  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  I hear what you are saying.  And, yes, the data is compelling.  Cassandra has been right literally every time she has made a prediction.  War.  Famine.  Rights rollbacks.
Jamie Gangel / CNN:
Secret Service provided a single text exchange to IG after request for many records  —  (CNN)The Secret Service was only able to provide a single text exchange to the DHS inspector general who had requested a month's worth of records for 24 Secret Service personnel, according to a letter …
Thomas Franck / CNBC:
Senate advances more than $50 billion bill to boost U.S. semiconductor production  — The Senate on Tuesday voted to advance a slimmed-down version of its bill designed to boost U.S. semiconductor competition with China.  — The legislation, which would provide about $50 billion …
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
GOP's grassroots money problem  —  Democrats across the 10 most competitive Senate races are out-raising Republicans by more than $75 million among small-dollar donors — those giving less than $200 — according to an Axios analysis of Federal Election Commission records.
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Trump's choices set nation on path to Jan. 6 violence, committee shows  —  Across seven hearings, the panel's findings have illustrated how the president repeatedly escalated tensions following his election defeat  —  Gift Article  —  Donald Trump had already been told by his campaign manager …
Discussion: Words & Deeds
Washington Post:
Brett Kavanaugh's neighbors: For abortion rights but tired of protests  —  Weekly demonstrations on their street prompt increased noise complaints; police warn of possible arrests  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  On paper at least, Emily Strulson might seem a welcoming host …
Discussion: HotAir, Townhall and Althouse
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Washington Post:
After 246 years, Marines set for their first Black four-star general … Listen  —  Gift Article  —  In the late 1980s, Maj. Ronald Bailey met a young Marine he knew had promise.  Michael E. Langley was a powerlifter who dominated flag football games, an intellectual who set records …
John Solomon / Just The News:
Colbert crew's behavior in Capitol complex caused Democrat staffer to call for emergency help  —  Stephen Colbert's comedy crew was warned “several times” it could not trespass on Capitol grounds, and its behavior in a congressional office building during an unauthorized nighttime visit …
Discussion: RedState
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Scoop: GOP's oil reserve amnesia  —  The Trump administration sold oil from the U.S. strategic reserves to China's largest oil producer in 2017, according to government data reviewed by Axios. … - Former President Trump and conservative media personalities have also criticized the sale …
Jack Shafer / Politico:
You Trust the Media More Than You Say You Do  —  If you follow the trendline of plummeting trust in newspapers, as just updated by Gallup, you could make an argument that by the year 2030 or so, 0 percent of respondents will say they have any “confidence” in newspapers and TV news.
Discussion: TheBlaze, Washington Post and Breitbart
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Ohio Republicans want more action, effort from JD Vance in key fall Senate race  —  Complaints about JD Vance and his Senate campaign are rising among Ohio Republicans after the conservative populist posted an anemic second-quarter fundraising report.  —  Vance entered July with $628,804 …
Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
Republicans Have Created a Pro-Life Dystopia  —  And they're not going to do anything to fix it  —  Roe v. Wade Protest  —  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is arrested during a sit-in outside of the Supreme Court to protest the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on July 19, 2022.
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Doctor who treated 10-year-old rape victim moves to sue state AG for defamation  —  Caitlin Bernard, the OB-GYN who provided an abortion on a 10-year-old girl from Ohio who was raped, took the first legal step to sue Indiana's attorney general for defamation over his comments alleging medical misconduct.
Jerusalem Demsas / The Atlantic:
U.S. Messaging on Monkeypox Is Deeply Flawed  —  This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture.  Sign up for it here.  —  As monkeypox cases rise in the U.S. …
Discussion: TheGrio, eugyppius and New York Times
 
 
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The Hill:
Democrats want Biden to go scorched-earth on GOP
Discussion: Bloomberg, Vox and HotAir
Paul Hannon / Wall Street Journal:
U.K. Inflation Hits 9.4%, a New 40-Year High
Discussion: New York Times
Politico:
Covid cases are skyrocketing again. States have no new plans.
BBC:
Mission largely accomplished, says Johnson in final PMQs
Mary Chastain / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Place Where Biden Fell Off His Bike is Named ‘Brandon Falls’ on Google Maps
Leor Sapir / Reality's Last Stand:
Pediatric Gender Medicine and the Moral Panic Over Suicide
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Theodore Schleifer / Puck:
DeSantis Plays the Silicon Valley Money Machine
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Matt Hilburn, who fought to ‘Unsuck’ Metro, dies at 54
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