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7:55 PM ET, August 2, 2017

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NBC News:
Trump Says U.S.'Losing' Afghan War in Tense Meeting With Generals  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has become increasingly frustrated with his advisers tasked with crafting a new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and recently suggested firing the war's top military commander during …
The White House:
Statement by President Donald J. Trump on Signing the “Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act”  —  Today, I signed into law the “Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act,” which enacts new sanctions on Iran, North Korea, and Russia.
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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Trump signs what he calls ‘seriously flawed’ bill imposing new sanctions on Russia
Discussion: Vox and Mediaite
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
An NSC Staffer Is Forced Out Over a Controversial Memo  —  A top official of the National Security Council was fired last month after arguing in a memo that President Trump is under sustained attack from subversive forces both within and outside the government who are deploying Maoist tactics …
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David Crary / Associated Press:
Boy Scouts: Top leaders didn't call Trump to praise speech  —  https://apnews.com/aedbaf4543ea464dbcef 78491ba281b9  —  Link copied!  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The Boy Scouts denied Wednesday that the head of the youth organization called President Donald Trump to praise his recent, politically aggressive speech to its national jamboree.
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CNBC:
As the lies and contradictions mount, federal officials are deciding to simply ignore Trump  — Evidence arrives every day of the government treating the man elected to lead it as someone talking mostly to himself.  — The phenomenon has grown more pronounced as Trump keeps struggling …
Jay Nordlinger / National Review:   If the President Lies, Does It Matter?
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Boy Scouts and Mexico both deny claims of calling Trump to offer praise
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Here Is Anthony Scaramucci's “Communications Plan” From Before He Was Fired  —  “Make it clear that horn tooting and denigrating colleagues is unacceptable,” Scaramucci's memo notes.  —  Recently ousted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci had big plans for the job …
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Mike Cernovich:
Exclusive — Scaramucci Memo Showed Content Focused Vision for White House Communications Team  —  “An effective Comms shop will dictate the news of the day on most days,” former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci wrote in a rough draft of a memo sent to Cernovich Media.
Mike Allen / Axios:
John Kelly closes the Oval Office door  —  The door to the Oval Office used to be wide open, with favored officials drifting in and out — even in the middle of meetings — to kibitz with Trump.  —  Now, the door is closed.  Gen. John Kelly, the new White House chief of staff …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Is Considering Perry for Homeland Security Chief  —  Energy Secretary among names discussed for Kelly replacement  —  Perry's views on immigration don't align with those of Trump  —  The Trump administration is considering Energy Secretary Rick Perry as one possible replacement …
Dara Lind / Vox:
What John Kelly's final ICE raid tells us about Trump's new chief of staff
Discussion: Daily Kos
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:   Trump plan to hire 15,000 border and immigration personnel isn't justified, federal watchdog says
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
White House aide blasts CNN reporter for ‘cosmopolitan bias’ in bizarre exchange  —  White House senior adviser Stephen Miller smiled as he volunteered to “take one actual last question” at Wednesday's news briefing, before press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders returned to the podium.
Discussion: Occidental Dissent and Gothamist
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Rebekah Entralgo / ThinkProgress:
Stephen Miller attacks Statue of Liberty poem, echoing popular white nationalist talking point  —  Online racists celebrated Miller's performance.  —  At Wednesday's White House press briefing, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller was pressed on whether Trump's new immigration policy …
Discussion: Raw Story
Garet Williams / Vox:
Stephen Miller couldn't defend a new immigration bill without demeaning the press
Discussion: Politico
CNN:
Trump nominee Sam Clovis blasted progressives as ‘race traders’ and ‘race traitors’ in old blog posts  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Sam Clovis, President Donald Trump's nominee to be the Department of Agriculture's chief scientist, maintained a now-defunct blog for years in which he accused progressives of …
Discussion: Boing Boing and The Daily Caller
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump's USDA pick referred to progressives as ‘race traders’ and ‘race traitors’
Discussion: RedState
Annie Karni / Politico:
Zuckerberg hires former Clinton pollster Joel Benenson  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have hired Democratic pollster Joel Benenson, a former top adviser to President Barack Obama and the chief strategist to Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 presidential campaign …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jacey Fortin / New York Times:
Baltimore Drops Dozens of Cases After Video Casts Doubt on Officers  —  State attorneys are dismissing dozens of cases in Baltimore after reviewing a video that appears to show a police officer planting evidence while two other officers look on.  —  Over a hundred criminal cases …
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Andy Shain / Post and Courier:
South Carolina governor candidate Catherine Templeton's ‘proud of the Confederacy’ remarks stir controversy  —  COLUMBIA — Catherine Templeton made waves in her first public forum as gubernatorial candidate by saying she is “proud of the Confederacy” and pledged “we're not going to rewrite history” by removing Confederate monuments.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Raw Story and Splinter
Seth Abramovitch / Hollywood Reporter:
How ‘Sharknado’ Casts Its C-Listers and Nearly Landed Trump as President  —  Months before he declared himself a candidate, Trump was set to play commander-in-chief in the schlocky Syfy film franchise that has lured everyone from Ann Coulter to Charo for cameos while regular Tara Reid makes a quarter of one male co-star's pay.
Ian Cummings / Kansas City Star:
NAACP issues first-ever travel advisory for a state — and it's Missouri  —  NAACP officials say their recent travel advisory for Missouri is the first that the civil rights group has issued for any state.  —  But the warning follows a recent trend of similar alerts issued by other groups …
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
JAMES COMEY HAS BOOK DEAL, PUBLICATION SET FOR NEXT SPRING  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Former FBI Director James Comey has a book deal.  —  Flatiron Books told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Comey is writing a book about leadership and decision making that will draw upon his career in government.
James Kirchick / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Remember all those left-wing pundits who drooled over Venezuela?  —  The majority of Venezuelans oppose the assembly and the new charter it will draft, fearing it will give Maduro dictatorial powers.  —  “Pundits should have fixed terms,” left-wing author Naomi Klein recently told the BBC.
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Tillerson spurns $80 million to counter ISIS, Russian propaganda  —  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is resisting the pleas of State Department officials to spend nearly $80 million allocated by Congress for fighting terrorist propaganda and Russian disinformation.
Drew Johnson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Al Gore's Home Devours 34 Times More Electricity Than Average U.S. Household  —  On Friday, Al Gore's sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth” - “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” - arrives in movie theaters across the country.  But there's another inconvenient sequel worth noting and …
Peter Hancock / The Lawrence Journal-World:
Kobach had duty to publicize new voting schedule; it appears that he didn't  —  Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach presides over Kansas' Electoral College vote for the President of the United States in the Senate chambers of the Kansas Statehouse on Monday, Dec. 19, 2016 in Topeka, Kan.
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Democrats Could Have a 2020 Presidential Field As Wide As an Iowa Cornfield  —  It's the early, silly season of 2020 presidential speculation.  So there's nothing unusual about speculation surrounding two fairly obscure Democratic House members, Seth Moulton of Massachusetts and Tim Ryan of Ohio.
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump, GOP senators to introduce bill to slash legal immigration levels  —  President Trump will appear with a pair of conservative Republican senators at the White House on Wednesday to unveil legislation aimed at slashing legal immigration levels over a decade, a goal Trump endorsed on the campaign trail.
Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed:
Trump Has Launched A “Real News” Program On His Facebook, Hosted By His Daughter-In-Law  —  In one video, Lara Trump said she'd be back every week to provide updates on the president's accomplishments.  —  After months of denigrating the media as fake news, President Trump has launched …
Joshua Holland / The Nation:
Medicare-for-All Isn't the Solution for Universal Health Care  —  The health-care debate is moving to the left.  But if progressives don't start sweating the details, we're going to fail yet again.  —  Within the broad Democratic coalition, it's pretty clear that the discussion of health care has shifted to the left.
Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal:
Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna  —  Cord-cutters accustomed to watching shows online are often shocked that $20 ‘rabbit ears’ pluck signals from the air; is this legal?  —  Dan Sisco has discovered a technology that allows him to access half a dozen major TV channels, completely free.
 
 
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Justice Department Seeks to Hire Attorneys for Affirmative Action Review
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New York Times:
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Associated Press:
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Media Matters for America:
Right-wing troll Mike Cernovich says he's doing a “big pivot” away from Trump
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Patti Smith / New Yorker:
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Discussion: Boing Boing and Althouse
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
McCain: Arizona was about to get ‘screwed’ by GOP healthcare plan
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
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Sadie Stein / New York Times:
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Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
The marketplace of ideas is killing the Trump administration
Discussion: Axios and Politico
Billy House / Bloomberg:
House Judiciary Chairman's Priority: Investigating Hillary Clinton
Discussion: Shakesville, Hullabaloo and Daily Kos