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Trump to Put Kennedy and Gabbard on his Transition Team — Mr. Kennedy and Ms. Gabbard, who had been progressive Democrats for many years, will join the former president's sons and Senator JD Vance, his running mate, as honorary co-chairs. — Donald J. Trump plans to name his former rival …
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Fox News is championing RFK Jr's view of public health, even as it puts your kids at risk — Fox News hosts like Ainsley Earhardt are overjoyed about notorious anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s purported ability to help former President Donald Trump's campaign appeal to “moms” concerned with public health.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The thread connecting Robert Kennedy Jr., chemtrails and Project 2025
The thread connecting Robert Kennedy Jr., chemtrails and Project 2025
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Nicholas Nehamas / New York Times:
How Democrats View Kennedy and Trump: ‘A Weirdo Campaign Just Got Weirder’
How Democrats View Kennedy and Trump: ‘A Weirdo Campaign Just Got Weirder’
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Harris takes lead over Trump after convention: Poll — Video Player is loading. — Play Video — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 — Loaded: 0% — Stream Type LIVE — Seek to live, currently behind liveLIVE — Playback Rate — Chapters — Chapters — Descriptions
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Joshua Glanzer / Florida Atlantic University:
FAU/Mainstreet USA Poll: Harris Gains Momentum in Wake of DNC — The 2024 presidential election is just a few months away — A new poll from the Florida Atlantic University Political Communication and Public Opinion Research Lab ( PolCom Lab ) and Mainstreet Research USA reveals significant shifts …
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Julia Shapero / The Hill:
X changes AI chatbot after election misinformation warnings
X changes AI chatbot after election misinformation warnings
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Saul Elbein / The Hill:
Texas GOP doubles down on fraud claims as Trump, Cruz leads shrink — Texas Republicans are doubling down on claims that Democrats in the state's biggest cities are attempting to steal an election in which the GOP's leads in the Senate and presidential races are increasingly narrowing.
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Arelis R. Hernández / Washington Post:
Critics ask for probe after Texas raids homes of Latino campaign workers
Critics ask for probe after Texas raids homes of Latino campaign workers
Mike Allen / Axios:
Taunting Trump: Harris campaign's sneer tactics … Now he's the taunted. — It's another dimension of Vice President Harris' “happy warrior” approach to a campaign that's sure to get uglier this fall. … - But Monday's widespread coverage of the backstage fight over the “muted mics” …
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill:
Crockett: Trump will ‘get his butt handed to him’ if he debates Harris
Crockett: Trump will ‘get his butt handed to him’ if he debates Harris
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Cruz urges Trump to agree to ‘whatever stupid rules’ Harris campaign wants for debate
Cruz urges Trump to agree to ‘whatever stupid rules’ Harris campaign wants for debate
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Politico:
Playbook: Inside Harris' big interview decision — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — ONE CEASE-FIRE DOWN — “Oasis reunites for tour and ends a 15-year hiatus during Gallagher brothers' feud,” by AP's Danica Kirka and Maria Sherman in London
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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
The Conservatives Who Sold Their Souls for Trump — The rage and shame of the anti-anti-Trumpers is getting worse. — Today, Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review (the flagship conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley Jr.), published an article claiming that Donald Trump could win the 2024 election “on character.”
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Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Michael Sparks, the first Jan. 6 defendant to breach U.S. Capitol, sentenced to 53 months in prison — Michael Sparks, who was the first defendant to breach the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to 53 months in prison Tuesday for felony and misdemeanor charges.
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
First Trump supporter to breach the Capitol on Jan. 6 sentenced to over 4 years in prison — Michael Sparks, the very first rioter to breach the Capitol building on Jan. 6, indicated in court that he still believes Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election “to this day.”
Politico:
The bewildering politics of Telegram — Here are two big reasons the controversial app just became a global flashpoint. — When Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested late Saturday at an airport outside Paris, accused of complicity in illegal online behavior and refusing to disclose information …
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Casey Newton / Platformer:
How Telegram played itself
How Telegram played itself
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
MAGA attacks on Kamala Harris' stepdaughter threaten to backfire on Donald Trump — Ella Emhoff has triggered Trump's bitter bro fanbase — but his embrace of the incel vote could come back to haunt — MAGA thought leaders can't stop proving that they are weird, just as Vice President Kamala Harris …
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Axios:
Harris flip-flops on building the border wall … - Harris is embracing a more hawkish immigration policy as Donald Trump's campaign spends tens of millions of dollars attacking her about the border. — But she still has significant differences with Trump on immigration …
Gabe Ortiz / America's Voice:
Biden Program To Keep American Families Together Blocked By Ken Paxton and Project 2025 Allies Led by Stephen Miller — On Monday, sixteen states, led by Texas and Idaho, blocked the Biden administration's new immigration program helping keep American families together.
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Zuckerberg says Biden admin “pressured” Meta to censor Covid-19 content … - This included censoring “humor and satire,” he added, noting that officials “expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree.” — “I believe the government pressure was wrong …
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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Trump's Latest NFT Sale Depicts Him as Superhero, Motorcyclist — Buyers of 75 NFTs will have dinner with Trump in Florida — Purchasers of 15 NFTs can get a piece of Trump's debate suit — Building on the growing interplay between crypto and politics, Donald Trump is offering …
Alex Burness / Bolts:
Nebraska Reverts to 19th-Century Voting Restrictions, Clouding Rights for Thousands — The Nebraska Voting Rights Restoration Coalition was ready for July 19. A new state law, Legislative Bill 20, would take effect that day, instantly granting voting rights to some 7,000 people with past felony convictions.
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Katherine Swartz / NOTUS:
The Lawmaker Leading the Investigation Into the Trump Assassination Attempt Says He Warned Campaign Staff About the Venue — Rep. Mike Kelly insisted in an interview that his task force would skirt politics as it seeks a complete answer to what happened in July. — Copy
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Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
Trump's Evangelical Supporters Just Lost Their Best Excuse — The pro-life justification for supporting the former president has now collapsed. — The most common argument made by former President Donald Trump's evangelical supporters in defense of their support is that although Trump …
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Thom Hartmann / The Hartmann Report:
Confederate Voter Intimidation 2.0: The GOP's Dark Strategy for Winning — From Reconstruction to DeSantis to Paxton: How Republicans Are Keeping Power by Any Means Necessary... The song that was inspired by this article is available here. — The Republican attorney general …
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Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Wisconsin Supreme Court refuses to hear case seeking to revive recall of GOP Assembly speaker Vos — The effort to salvage an attempt to recall Republican Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos from office suffered another legal defeat on Tuesday. The Wisconsin Supreme Court, without comment …
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