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12:40 PM ET, June 20, 2024

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MSNBC:
Fox News is helping Trump plan another Jan. 6-style assault on democracy  —  Five months before the election, claims that only fraud could explain a future Trump defeat are already common in the right-wing media ecosystem.  —  The cycle of lies that drove the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection is again underway.
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Three-point shift in Biden-Trump matchup since May  —  32% give the economy positive marks, a record-high during Biden's presidency  —  Join Fox News for access to this content  —  President Biden is the frontrunner in a hypothetical matchup against former President Trump …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Why Dictators Want Trump … We're big fans both of decarbonization and of reliable electricity, so two thumbs up on this one from us!  (One assumes the Democrats don't mind the job creation, either?)  Happy Thursday.  —  The Real World  —  Things are hopping in American politics.
Discussion: Raw Story, Associated Press and CNN
Politico:
Scorched-earth summer: Biden, Sunak and Macron go negative
Discussion: Politico and Washington Examiner
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Stephanie Kelly / Reuters:
RFK Jr faces midnight deadline to qualify for CNN presidential debate
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Supreme Court Upholds Trump-Era Tax Provision  —  The tax dispute, which was closely watched by experts, involved a one-time foreign income tax, but many saw it as a broader challenge to pre-emptively block Congress from passing a wealth tax.  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a tax …
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James Bickerton / Newsweek:
Illinois Republican Chair Resigns, Slams Colleagues Weeks Before Convention  —  Party Chair Don Tracy is resigning from his political post, and has condemned colleagues for choosing to fight each other rather than the  —  , in a letter explaining his decision.
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump Media shares sink 12% as DJT slide accelerates … A sell-off of Trump Media picked up speed Thursday, with shares of former President Donald Trump's company falling about 12% shortly after the opening bell.  —  The company behind the conservative social media app Truth Social …
Discussion: Raw Story
ProPublica:
The Delusion of “Advanced” Plastic Recycling  —  LAST YEAR, I became obsessed with a plastic cup.  —  It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes.  And it was the first product I'd seen born of what's being touted as a cure for a crisis.
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
June 2024 State Polls: Trump Maintains Edge over Biden  —  Democratic US Senate Candidates Outperforming Biden  —  New Emerson College Polling/The Hill state polls find former President Donald Trump with a slight edge on President Joe Biden in Arizona (47% to 43%), Georgia (45% to 41%) …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
These 25 rainbow-flag waving companies donated $18 million to anti-gay politicians since the last election  —  At the pride parade in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, accounting giant Deloitte promoted its support of the LGBTQ community:  —  In June 2023, Deloitte produced a report on “LGBT+ Inclusion @ Work.”
Discussion: Raw Story
David Goldman / CNN:
Wikipedia now labels the top Jewish civil rights group as an unreliable source  —  Wikipedia's editors declared that the Anti-Defamation League cannot be trusted to give reliable information on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and they overwhelmingly said the ADL is an unreliable source on antisemitism.
Discussion: Breitbart and Middle East Monitor
Sam Baker / Axios:
Supreme Court gets ready to drop its bombshells … - The court has 23 cases left to decide, and will likely hand down all of those opinions by the end of the month, give or take a few days — meaning the next week or so may redefine the limits of presidential power for generations to come.
Washington Post:
Democrats seek to repeal Comstock abortion rule, fearing Trump crackdown  —  The Comstock Act, an 1873 law that bans abortion-related materials from being sent through the mail, could be used by the GOP to restrict abortion nationwide.  —  Democrats are seeking to overhaul an 1873 federal law …
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Favorite Judge Puts Mar-a-Lago Prosecutor on Trial  —  ADVANTAGE: TRUMP  —  Judge Aileen Cannon stalled the ex-president's trial for hoarding classified documents.  Now she's making Special Counsel Jack Smith prove the case should be brought at all.  —  The tables have turned.
Nancy A. Youssef / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. to Redirect Air-Defense Missile Deliveries to Ukraine  —  Other American allies and partners with contracts for interceptor missiles will face delays  —  The Biden administration will rush the delivery of air-defense interceptors to Ukraine by halting delivery to allied nations, U.S. administration officials said.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Putin Once Tried to Curb North Korea's Nuclear Program.  That's Now Over.  —  Vladimir Putin promised unspecified technological help to North Korea, which could allow it to advance its nuclear weapons program.  —  阅读.体中文.閱讀.體中文.
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Soo-Hyang Choi / Bloomberg:
Putin, Kim Agree to Immediately Offer Military Aid If Attacked
 
 
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NBC News:
Bombarded but ‘unbreakable’: Ukraine's 2nd city relieved by Biden's shift on U.S. weapons
Sabine Siebold / Reuters:
Germany to order 105 Leopard tanks to equip German brigade in Lithuania
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Claire Heddles / NOTUS:
The Supreme Court Is Raising the Stakes of Congressional Dysfunction
Discussion: Reason
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Kennedy Raises Just $2.6 Million, a Sign of Reliance on His Running Mate
Discussion: Business Insider and Axios
Michael Podhorzer / Weekend Reading:
Tipping the Scales: The MAGA Justices Have Already Interfered with the 2024 Elections
Discussion: New Republic
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump's Campaign Has Lost Whatever Substance It Once Had
Discussion: The Dispatch and Alternet.org
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Chris Pandolfo / Fox News:
Indiana Republican says US attorney ‘declined’ to prosecute threat against his daughters and wife
Discussion: RedState
ICE:
ERO Baltimore arrests unlawfully present Salvadoran convicted of sexually assaulting Maryland minor
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Sara Cline / Associated Press:
The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into law
 

 
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