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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The Kamala Harris hype is real  —  PN is a reader-supported publication made possible by paid subscribers.  Appreciate our independent journalism?  Then please sign up to support us.  —  🥥 Subscribe to Public Notice 🌴  —  Just three days after President Joe Biden dropped …
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Hillary Rodham Clinton / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton: How Kamala Harris Can Win and Make History  —  History has its eye on us.  President Biden's decision to end his campaign was as pure an act of patriotism as I have seen in my lifetime.  It should also be a call to action to the rest of us to continue his fight for the soul of our nation.
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
How Kamala Harris Changes the Race  —  In some ways, the new matchup figures to be strangely familiar.  —  When all the dust settles on a chaotic few weeks of American politics, this year's presidential race will look very different than it did before.  —  But despite the upheaval …
Washington Post:
Historic flood of cash pours into Harris campaign and allied groups  —  Democrats reported raising more than $250 million since Biden announced he was leaving the presidential race and endorsed Harris.  —  Weeks of pent-up Democratic panic gave way to a historic flood of campaign cash …
Politico:
Playbook: The 2 big questions Harris must answer  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  NEW THIS MORNING — JEN O'MALLEY DILLON outlines KAMALA HARRIS' path to victory in a new interested-parties memo.  —  The VP, she writes, is …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Kamala Harris makes Donald Trump do the one thing he fears most: Get up and get out  —  With Kamala Harris running, Donald Trump needs to actively campaign — and not just in MAGA country  —  The joyful reception that Vice President Kamala Harris received from Democrats when President Joe Biden dropped …
Katrina Kaufman / CBS News:
Trump campaign files complaint with FEC seeking to keep Biden from transferring campaign funds to Harris  —  Donald Trump's campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission claiming the transfer of funds from the Biden reelection campaign to the Harris presidential campaign is a violation of campaign finance rules.
Jason Lange / Reuters:
Exclusive: Harris leads Trump 44% to 42% in US presidential race, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
The Big Picture:
The Kamala Harris Effect
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Harris plans to finish Biden's progressive agenda
Discussion: Politico
Adam Wren / Politico:
Trump is back to insulting his opponents despite reported transformation
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Breitbart
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
The simple reason why Kamala Harris has Donald Trump running scared
Discussion: The Bulwark and Raw Story
New York Times:
Live Election Updates: Harris Rallies Exuberant Wisconsin Crowd, Saying ‘When We Fight, We Win’
NOTUS:
The Very White and Very Male Race to Be Kamala Harris' Vice President Is Underway
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Trump Repeatedly Used N-Word, Says His Own Nephew  —  RACIST RANT  —  Fred C. Trump III reportedly details his uncle's shocking outburst in a forthcoming memoir.  —  Donald Trump repeatedly used the n-word in response to his car being damaged in the early 1970s, his nephew reportedly writes in a new memoir.
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Trump nephew reveals Uncle Donald's racist outburst in new book
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
Veep Stakes  —  In a normal presidential campaign, such as the one Vice-President Kamala Harris is running, “veepstakes” is a harmless play on the word “sweepstakes,” invoking a friendly competition to become a vice-presidential nominee.  One can enjoy thinking about matches between …
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Buttigieg hits Vance over ‘childless’ remarks
Discussion: Mediaite and LGBTQ Nation
Adriana Gomez Licon / Associated Press:
Clip resurfaces of Vance criticizing Harris for being ‘childless,’ testing Trump's new running mate
Ajit Niranjan / The Guardian:
Sunday was world's hottest ever recorded day, data suggests  —  Preliminary data from Copernicus suggests temperature records were shattered, taking world into ‘uncharted territory’  —  World temperature records were shattered on Sunday on what may be the hottest day scientists have ever logged, data suggests.
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Associated Press:
Monday breaks the record for the hottest ever day on Earth  —  Monday was recorded as the hottest day ever globally, beating a record set the day before, as countries around the world from Japan to Bolivia to the United States continue to feel the heat, according to the European climate change service.
Eva Roytburg / Fortune:
Elon Musk backs down from $45 million a month pledge to Trump, says he doesn't ‘subscribe to cult of personality’ … Elon Musk is not spending $45 million a month to elect former President Donald Trump, though he has created a new super political action committee (PAC) to fund the Republican candidate …
Coalition for Sensible Safeguards:
Senators Should Support Bill to Codify Chevron Deference, Modernize Rulemaking  —  Contact: David Rosen, drosen@citizen.org  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senators should support the Stop Corporate Capture Act, introduced today by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards said.
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Secret Service encourages Trump campaign to stop outdoor rallies
Politico:
House GOP leaders urge members: Stop making race comments about Harris  —  Leadership warned lawmakers during a closed-door meeting to focus on the vice president's record, not her race.  —  House Republican leaders told lawmakers to focus on criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris' record without reference …
Bill Mahoney / Politico:
New York's Democratic Party shows new interest in electing Democrats  —  After a poor performance in 2022, the state apparatus appears ready to compete for battleground seats.  —  ALBANY, New York — The New York State Democratic Committee is trying something new this year — working to elect Democrats in New York.
emptywheel:
Now that Joe Biden Stepped Down for the Good of the Country, Joe Kahn Must Join Him  —  In their latest installment of an editorial making demands of Joe Biden, other Democrats, and voters, but never Donald Trump, the NYT on Monday joined the horde of outlets begging for an open primary.
New York Times:
Trump's Favorite Lies, Puffery and Flights of Fancy, Up Against the Data  —  For more than 90 minutes last week, Donald Trump gave a rambling speech accepting the Republican nomination for president for a third time.  He used the opportunity, as well as his June debate with President Biden …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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US Department of Justice:
Indiana Man Pleads Guilty and Is Sentenced for Sending Violent Antisemitic Threats to Anti-Defamation League
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Washington Post:
Netanyahu will have a mostly GOP audience today
Justin Glawe / Popular Information:
Arkansas has the worst voter registration rate. Republicans are pushing to make registration harder.
Discussion: The Keystone Newsroom
Ja'han Jones / MSNBC:
Black men backing Kamala Harris fuel another fundraising spree
NBC News:
Inside the two-year fight to bring charges against school librarians in Granbury, Texas
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Sydney Bauer / The Daily Beast:
Elon Musk, You Are So Wrong About Your Trans Child
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‘Veep’ Viewership Surges Amid VP Kamala Harris' Presidential Bid
Discussion: DNyuz and Axios
 

 
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