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10:45 AM ET, June 8, 2015

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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Local Homeowners Defend Texas Cops Who Brutalized Black Teens At Pool Party  —  The police's brutal treatment of black teens attending a pool party in McKinney, Texas has sparked a nationwide outrage.  The video shows officer Eric Casebolt grabbing 15-year-old Dajerria Becton …
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David Mack / BuzzFeed:
Texas Police Officer Suspended After Pulling Weapon On Teens During Pool Party  —  A police officer in McKinney, Texas, has been suspended from duties after being filmed aggressively handcuffing, and then pulling a weapon on, a group of black teens following an “incident” at a local pool party on Friday night.
Peter Holley / Washington Post:
New video shows Texas police officer pulling gun on teenagers at pool party  —  A McKinney, Texas police officer has been suspended after pulling his gun on a group of teenagers at a pool party.  A witness uploaded this video of the incident to YouTube.  Editors Note: This video has been edited.
Austin American-Statesman:
APD looking into downtown incident posted to YouTube
Discussion: Daily Mail, Mediaite and Raw Story
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: What Scott Walker Said In Iowa … NOTABLES  —WALKER WOULDN'T RULE OUT RE-INVASION OF IRAQ: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he wouldn't rule out a full-blown re-invasion of Iraq if he were to become the next commander-in-chief.  The likely Republican presidential candidate …
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Wisconsin straw poll surprise: A narrow Clinton win  —  Bernie Sanders surprises with 41 percent of the vote.  —  Bernie Sanders scored 41 percent in a straw poll vote at the Wisconsin Democratic Party convention this weekend — finishing a close second to Hillary Clinton, who won 49 percent.
John Nichols / The Nation:
Wisconsin Straw Poll: Clinton 49 Percent, Sanders 41 Percent
Discussion: Liberaland and Washington Times
Peyton M. Craighill / Washington Post:
Public to Supreme Court: Don't gut Obamacare  —  The Affordable Care Act hangs in the balance in the Supreme Court for the second time in three years, but the public has rendered a judgment ahead of the court's ruling.  By a margin of 55 percent to 38 percent, more people say the court …
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business:
Can Republicans Win by Losing at the Supreme Court?
Discussion: ABC News
Kenneth Jost / Jost On Justice:
Counting Everyone for ‘One Person, One Vote’
Discussion: Salon
Matt Latimer / Politico:
Scandals only make the Clintons stronger  —  The Republican plan to defeat Hillary Clinton is doomed.  It's time to go easy on her.  —  Lead image by AP Photo.  —  One has to wonder: When Republicans gathered earlier this year to scheme the defeat of Hillary Clinton, who was the genius who stood up and said, “I know.
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Nicholas Ballasy / PJ Media:
Nader: Hillary Tried to ‘Overcompensate’ for Gender with ‘Shocking’ Militarism
Discussion: Hit & Run
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:   Clinton Labor secretary: Bill Clinton should stop paid speeches
New York Post:
Employee probed as possible accomplice in jailbreak  —  A female prison worker was interrogated Sunday as a possible accomplice in the Hollywood-style escape of two killers from an upstate penitentiary, sources told The Post.  —  “It's an employee being questioned,” a high-level source said …
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Jennifer Gonnerman / New Yorker:
Kalief Browder, 1993-2015  —  Last fall, I wrote about a young man named Kalief Browder, who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime.  He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed.
Michael Kruse / Politico:
On talk circuit, George W. Bush makes millions but few waves  —  Toward the end of his presidency, George W. Bush told Robert Draper, reporting for a book called Dead Certain, that he intended after vacating the Oval Office to “replenish the ol' coffers.”  He said he could make “ridiculous” money on the lecture circuit.
Constanze Letsch / Guardian:
Turkey election: ruling party on course to lose majority  —  Recep Tayyip Erdoan's Justice and Development party is projected to win 41% of vote - meaning it will need a coalition partner to form a government  —  Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoan, suffered his most significant electoral defeat …
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Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Turkey's election is a blow to Erdogan and a victory for Kurds
Chris Jordan / Asbury Park Press:
NJSP fire tear gas into angry Summer Jam concert crowd  —  Concert fans threw bottles at State Police officers on a phalanx defense positions outside the MetLife gate at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford on Sunday evening.  This is raw video of an arrest.  VIDEO BY CHRIS JORDAN  —  CONNECT
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Which GOP governor can make best economic case in '16?  —  Seven governors are among the possible contenders for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, and all will be making their state economic records a pivotal part of their campaign pitch.  —  “If you are a governor who has been able …
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
The Awkward Moment Between Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister … President Obama will meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi at the G7 Summit in Germany today to discuss the fight against ISIS.  But there was an awkward moment between the two leaders ahead of their meeting.
 
 
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