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Washington Post:
Justice Thomas discloses two 2019 trips paid for by Harlan Crow  —  2023 financial disclosure reports for Supreme Court justices also show six-figure book payments for Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Jackson  —  Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has disclosed for the first time trips to Bali …
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Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Clarence Thomas, in Financial Disclosure, Acknowledges 2019 Trips Paid by Harlan Crow  —  The justice amended an earlier filing to include vacations to Bali and an exclusive California club paid for by the Texas billionaire Harlan Crow.  —  Justice Clarence Thomas acknowledged …
April Rubin / Axios:
Clarence Thomas officially discloses trips gifted by GOP megadonor … - The trips, both in July 2019, were to Bali, Indonesia, and Monte Rio, Calif. Harlan and Kathy Crow paid for food and lodging at a hotel and private club, per the report. … - He made private school tuition payments for Thomas' grandnephew.
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Robust job growth in May once again exceeds expectations  —  By nearly every metric, the latest jobs report points to a very strong U.S. job market.  The political implications have the potential to be dramatic.  —  Expectations heading into this morning showed projections of about 190,000 …
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Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
Is the US job market beginning to weaken?  Friday's employment report may provide hints  —  America's employers added a vigorous 272,000 jobs in May, accelerating from April and a sign that companies are still confident enough in the economy to keep hiring despite persistently high interest rates.
Victoria Balara / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump holds 4-point edge in Florida rematch as majority says conviction won't matter to vote  —  Nearly 7 in 10 support legalizing marijuana and establishing the right to abortion  —  Former President Donald Trump won Florida in 2016 and 2020 and a new Fox News survey shows he is favored to win it again.
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Jamie Frevele / Mediaite:
‘We Ride at Dawn’: The Federalist Came For Dolly Parton, Now Her Fans Are Coming For Them  —  When is The Federalist going to learn that it's a mistake to go after intensely popular and beloved pop stars just for the sake of contrarianism?  —  Not any time soon, going by their new attack on country music icon Dolly Parton.
Greg Olear / PREVAIL:
Convictions: The Many Crimes of Donald Trump: Bannon Banished  —  On July 1, three days before Independence Day, Stephen Kevin Bannon, the leprous-faced, multi-shirt-wearing, nihilistic windbag, must report to prison, to serve his four-month sentence for Contempt of Congress.
Public Notice:
Revisiting “the biggest political crime in American history, by far”  —  Remember “Obamagate”?  You should. … It's tough to remember now as Donald Trump regularly wails about the need for total presidential immunity, but four years ago, the then-president was a huge proponent of prosecuting presidents.
CNN:
Isolated and inexperienced: A portrait of the judge overseeing Trump's documents case from veterans of her courtroom  —  Judge Aileen Cannon had been on the federal bench for little more than a year when a senior judge offered to preside over one of her first criminal trials in her isolated south Florida courthouse.
Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite and New Republic
Ankush Khardori / Politico:
The Hunter Biden Case Is Solid.  There's Something Rotten About It Too.  —  WILMINGTON, Delaware — The line between criminal prosecution and public flogging was hard to detect this week when federal prosecutors began their case against Hunter Biden for allegedly buying a gun in 2018 while addicted to drugs.
Discussion: Breitbart, Vox and nationalinterest.org
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NBC News:
RNC hires a prominent ‘Stop the Steal’ advocate to help craft its 2024 platform  —  Ed Martin, who was hired by the RNC in May, pushed to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 loss and marched outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.  —  WASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee has hired …
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
'Donald Trump doesn't like America': Ex-GOP pollster writes MAGA movement's obituary  —  Republicans booed and walked out on two former Capitol police officers at the Pennsylvania statehouse, and a former GOP pollster was disgusted by that display of antipathy to American democracy.
David Gilbert / Wired:
Google's and Microsoft's AI Chatbots Refuse to Say Who Won the 2020 US Election  —  With just six months to go before the US presidential election, Gemini and Copilot chatbots are incapable of saying that Joe Biden won in 2020, and won't return results on any election anywhere, ever.
more at Techmeme »
Associated Press:
Biden is to meet with Ukraine's Zelenskyy in Paris as Russia leans into its battlefield offensive  —  U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday for the first time publicly apologized to Ukraine for a monthslong congressional holdup in American military assistance that let Russia make gains on the battlefield.
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Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Biden to offer forceful defense of democracy in Normandy speech commemorating D-Day
Victor Goury-Laffont / Politico:
Zelenskyy to French lawmakers: ‘Nazism is resurgent’
Discussion: DNyuz, The Kyiv Independent and UPI
Gabe Roth / Fix the Court:
A Staggering Tally: Supreme Court Justices Accepted Hundreds of Gifts Worth Millions of Dollars  —  Following the groundbreaking reporting from ProPublica and other outlets, FTC ventured to compile all the SCOTUS gifts, found a few unreported ones  —  Ahead of tomorrow's expected release …
Alex Kaplan / Media Matters for America:
A group of far-right media figures is using social media to recruit for its newly formed militia  —  The group is recruiting on Instagram, despite Meta's previous crackdowns on militias  —  A group of far-right media figures has announced the formation of a militia group that is dedicated to …
Alex Guillén / Politico:
Biden pulls back on tightened car and truck fuel standards  —  The new CAFE standards for the popular classes of vehicles will require more modest mileage improvements than the Biden administration had called for last year.  —  The Biden administration on Friday backed off its proposal …
Discussion: Associated Press
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Yes, Democrats Should Still Care How Real Journalists Cover The News  —  Just because most mainstream news consumers are already Biden voters, doesn't mean big problems with mainstream news coverage don't seep into the larger culture.  —  Six years ago, White House Press Secretary Sarah …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
As Biden rallies the free world, Trump serves a higher cause: Himself  —  In Phoenix, at his first post-conviction campaign rally, Trump portrayed a dark and desperate America.  —  The 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday provided the contrast that should define the election.
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars  —  Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday moved to liquidate his personal assets, agreeing to demands from the families of Sandy Hook victims whom he owes …
Barbara Tasch / BBC:
BBC election debate: Leading figures from seven parties prepare to face each other  —  Watch the build-up to the debate live by tapping the Play button above  —  Summary  — Join us as we build up to the BBC's first election debate, where leading figures from seven parties will face each other at 19:30
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Noah Keate / Politico:
Rishi Sunak apologizes for skipping D-Day event to do TV interview
 
 
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
James Comer Attacked Joe Biden for Using Email Aliases. He Used Two Himself
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump falsely claims Democratic states are passing laws allowing people to execute babies after birth
Discussion: Abortion, Every Day
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on the May Jobs Report
Discussion: CNBC
New York Post:
Briahna Joy Gray fired from The Hill days after rolling her eyes at sister of Oct. 7 hostage during interview
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
Netanyahu to address Congress on July 24
Eric W. Dolan / PsyPost:
Why do Republicans stick with Trump? New study explores the role of white nationalism
Washington Post:
George Clooney called White House to defend wife's work on Israel warrants
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Justice Brett Kavanaugh plans legal memoir
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