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4:40 PM ET, July 4, 2024

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Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Kamala Harris' epic edge … - Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who chaired the House Jan. 6 committee, told Axios' Hans Nichols that Harris is “incredibly strong ... You can't say Biden has done a good job without saying she's done a good job.” … Of course, all this may take a while.
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Ken Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Tries to Prove He Is Still Democrats' Best Bet  —  President speaks with Netanyahu, plans July 4 barbecue with military service members  —  WASHINGTON—President Biden warned Thursday that the winner of the 2024 election would control the future of the Supreme Court …
Discussion: RedState and Bloomberg
Politico:   Playbook: Biden goes from bunker to blitz
Politico:
Biden tells governors he got a medical checkup
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Netflix Co-Founder Becomes One of the Biggest Democratic Donors to Call for Biden to Step Aside
NBC News:
Biden privately remains torn between defiance and acceptance amid calls to step aside
New York Times:
Biden Tells Governors That He Is Staying in the Race
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Biden wins crucial support of Democratic governors to continue campaign: 'We're going to have his back' - as it happened
Washington Post:
Jeffries seeks to stem House defections, for now, as Democrats panic over Biden
Discussion: Raw Story, Politico and Axios
Tim Balk / New York Times:
Raúl Grijalva Is Second House Democrat to Call for Biden to Drop Out
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
There Is Apparently No Accountability — Ever — for Donald Trump  —  We tell children — or at least we used to — that actions have consequences.  What goes around comes around.  Watch your behavior.  You'll answer for it someday.  —  Donald Trump is the living, lying contradiction of that.
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Gil Duran / George Lakoff and Gil Duran:
Criminal Trump is clearly unfit for office  —  It's been a brutal week for American democracy.  President Joe Biden's surprisingly poor performance in the presidential debate has thrown many in the Democratic Party into full panic mode.  —  In the aftermath of the debate …
Discussion: Associated Press
Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
How Biden's Struggles Are Factoring Into Trump's V.P. Selection
Discussion: Forbes and Florida Politics
The Daily Beast:
Trump Caught on Video Claiming ‘Broken-Down’ Biden Has Quit: 'It's Kamala'
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Strongman, Weak State  —  The dispiriting vision of American governance offered by the Roberts Court  —  The hinges of history, the moments that determine the shape of our world, are usually only obvious in retrospect.  Sometimes, dramatic political events, like assassinations, announce their own importance.
Discussion: New York Times, NPR and The Atlantic
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Sidney Blumenthal / New Republic:
If Joe Biden Were as Ruthless About Immunity as Donald Trump ...
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Raw Story
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:   House Democrat is proposing a constitutional amendment to reverse Supreme Court's immunity decision
Jennifer Kraus / WTVF-TV:
State of Tennessee tells U.S. Navy veteran he's not an American citizen and cancels his driver's license  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — As we celebrate the nation's birthday and what it means to be an American, a U.S. Navy veteran who has lived in the U.S. for more than seven decades …
Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
The Supreme Court Has Murdered the Constitution  —  America's founding document is now an all-but-meaningless scrap of paper.  Happy Fourth!  —  Chief Justice John Roberts is seen before the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol on March 7, 2024.
Ruth Graham / New York Times:
Why a New Conservative Brain Trust Is Resettling Across America  —  Pro-Trump professionals aren't just talking about remaking Western civilization.  Some are uprooting their lives to show that they mean it.  —  Fed up by what they see as an increasingly hostile and disordered secular culture …
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump's New Racist Insult  —  The former president's recent attack on Senator Chuck Schumer is like an Everlasting Gobstopper of offense, with new layers emerging one after another.  —  Weird things happen on the debate stage—just ask Joe Biden.  So when Donald Trump used Palestinian …
National Center for Immunization …:
COVID-19 can surge throughout the year  —  AT A GLANCE … Summary  —  What CDC knows  —  In the United States, respiratory virus illnesses typically peak during the fall and winter.  These peaks are due to several factors, including human behaviors and environmental conditions …
Henry Foy / Financial Times:
The untold story of the most chaotic Nato summit ever  —  Told by the people who witnessed the 2018 Trump show first hand  —  Donald Trump was going to pull out of Nato.  As the president's motorcade powered through the early morning light of July 12 2018, bound for a summit …
James Regan / Bloomberg:
Le Pen Set to Fall Short of French Majority, Polling Shows  — Far right and allies seen winning 210-240 seats, Ifop says  — Voters head to polling stations for second round on Sunday  —  Marine Le Pen's National Rally is set to fall well short of an absolute majority …
Discussion: Reuters
Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
“Bloodless if the left allows it to be”  —  A week ago, I started my post to you with some comments made by Kevin Roberts, the head of the Heritage Foundation and architect of Project 2025, when he learned Democrats were making plans to take on Project 2025.
Alex Henderson / Alternet.org:
Ex-DOJ prosecutor: Trump could sell pardons for ‘a million bucks a pop’ — thanks to SCOTUS  —  When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its controversial 6-3 immunity ruling in Trump v. the United States, Justice Sonia Sotomayor's scathing dissent laid out a variety of possible abuses that she fears.
Discussion: Raw Story
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The partisan gap in views of American greatness  —  Democrats are more proud of the U.S. Republicans are more likely to view it as the greatest country on Earth.  —  America, we are often told, is less a country than an idea.  That idea can be nebulous in its formulation, but it generally centers on opportunity and around freedom.
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