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3:50 PM ET, June 15, 2015

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Spokane NAACP / Facebook:
Dear Executive Committee and NAACP Members,  —  It is a true honor to serve in the racial and social justice movement here in Spokane and across the nation.  Many issues face us now that drive at the theme of urgency.  Police brutality, biased curriculum in schools, economic disenfranchisement …
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KREM-TV:
Rachel Dolezal cancels NAACP meeting
Discussion: CBS DC and BizPac Review
USA Today / WXIA-TV:
Last Slide  —  Dolezal, who is also chairwoman of a police …
Discussion: CBS DC, ABC News and NBC News
Nick Gass / Politico:
Mitt: Hillary smiles with her mouth, but her eyes say 'Where's my latte?'  —  Mitt Romney took on Hillary Clinton's campaign launch speech, calling it “jarring” in some respects from what the former secretary of state has said in the past.  Clinton's mouth often belies her eyes, he said.
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Jeb Bush's Surprising Struggle With Moderates  —  It was easy to see Jeb Bush's path to the Republican nomination when he announced the formation of his super PAC in December.  He wasn't guaranteed to pull it off — not by any stretch — but he seemed well positioned to appeal to the coalition …
Washington Post:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump will declare $9 billion in assets as he reveals 2016 plans
Discussion: miamiherald and Business Insider
Politico:
Jeb Bush's smooth money machine
Discussion: ABC News and Bloomberg Business
Chris Spargo / Daily Mail:
Hillary Clinton campaign denies access to DailyMail.com political editor as Monday's pool reporter in New Hampshire  — The Clinton campaign denied access to David Martosko of DailyMail.com in New Hampshire this morning  — Clinton press aide Nick Merrill offered varied and contradictory reasons …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Clinton campaign denies access to pool reporter  —  The Hillary Clinton campaign denied access to the print pool reporter on Monday, reigniting reporters' longstanding concerns about the campaign's commitment to running an open and transparent campaign.  —  David Martosko, the U.S. political editor …
Discussion: Mediaite
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James Hibberd / EW.com:
GAME OF THRONES STAR ON HER BRUTAL WALK OF SHAME  —  'I don't think anyone deserves that treatment'  —  Warning: This story discusses a sequence from the Game of Thrones season 5 finale...  Even on the sunny Game of Thrones set, surrounded by a friendly production team and tourist-trap bars …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and a President's Legacy  —  WASHINGTON — For more than six years, the short walk from the Oval Office downstairs to the Situation Room has all too often meant bad news or grim choices.  Whether it was war in the Middle East, Russian aggression in Ukraine …
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Reid Wilson / Morning Consult:
Clinton Leads in Early States, But Sanders Popular in New Hampshire  —  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leads the Democratic primary field by a wide margin in three early nominating states — though any Democrat who captures the party's presidential title could be saddled with an albatross named Barack Obama.
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
Hillary Clinton's Fainthearted Populism
Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
Bernie Sanders Is Building an Army to Take D.C.
Discussion: The Intercept and Liberal Values
David Zweig / Salon:
The facts vs. David Brooks: Startling inaccuracies raise questions about his latest book  —  Factual discrepancies in the NYT columnist's new book raise some alarming questions about his research & methods  —  For at least the past four years David Brooks, the New York Times columnist …
Athens Daily News:
The sun has not exploded  —  OnlineAthens.com, the website of the Athens Banner-Herald, was the victim of an online miscue early Monday when an unauthorized updated news item atop the site announced “the sun just exploded.”  —  The item was taken off the site and the Banner-Herald is investigating.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:   Georgia Newspaper Retracts Alert Saying ‘The Sun Just Exploded’
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Scalia slips, refers to Justice ‘Goldberg’  —  The Supreme Court erupted in laughter Monday morning when Justice Antonin Scalia goofed and referred to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by the wrong name.  —  While delivering the decision in the immigration case Kerry v. Din on Monday …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices' Words Combed for Clues on Major Pending Decisions
Discussion: Wonk Wire and Washington Post
New York Post:
Bob Simon knew he was dying after crash: suit  —  Newsman Bob Simon was in horrific agony and knew he was dying after a West Side crash caused by a limo driver who never should have been behind the wheel, his widow charges in a new lawsuit.  —  The award-winning CBS vet “suffered conscious pain …
Discussion: TVNewser and Associated Press
Casey Conley / Portsmouth Herald:
Scott Brown goes from Senate to cycle assembly  —  Scott Brown's work at Gus' Bike Shop on his ‘bucket list’
Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
Cuomo created ‘total cluster f—k’ in escaped-killers hunt  —  The massive manhunt for two escaped murderers from the Dannemora prison has been hampered by State Police secrecy, inter-agency rivalries, and the disrupting involvement of Gov. Cuomo on the first day of the breakout, law-enforcement sources have told The Post.
Discussion: BizPac Review
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
It's Not Just About Bad Choices  —  WHENEVER I write about people who are struggling, I hear from readers who say something like: Folks need to stop whining and get a job.  It's all about personal responsibility.  —  In a 2014 poll, Republicans were twice as likely to say that people …
Discussion: PolicyShop
Soraya Nadia McDonald / Washington Post:
Exclusive: Dave Chappelle won't be making jokes about Rachel Dolezal anytime soon.  Here's why.  —  Anyone who remembers great comedy from 2003-2006 remembers “Chappelle's Show,” Dave Chappelle's eponymous sketch program that aired for just over two glorious seasons on Comedy Central.
 
 
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Glenn Reynolds: What if Pearl Harbor happened and nobody noticed?
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New York Post:
Bride rages as Waldorf cancels reception after shooting
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Daily Mail
David DeMille / Spectrum:
Warren Jeffs vehicle, personal items sells for $80k
Discussion: Associated Press
Peter R. Orszag / Bloomberg View:
Congress Doesn't Understand Health Costs, or Care
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
California's Water Czar, Part Empathetic Confessor and Part Friendly Scold
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Brendan J. Lyons / Albany Times Union:
Source: Plot included murder
Discussion: New York Times and Daily Mail
Heather Mac Donald / Wall Street Journal:
Explaining Away the New Crime Wave
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JSOnline:
Russ Feingold's PAC funded fees, salaries for former staffers, himself
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
CIA torture appears to have broken spy agency rule on human experimentation
Discussion: Common Dreams
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Obama, Cuomo and de Blasio: The 3 stooges of the apocalypse
Discussion: Hot Air
 

 
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