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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
More drama in Trumpland: Gorka publicly shuns Tillerson's effort to scale back North Korea red line  —  For those worried that President Trump might get into nuclear war with North Korea, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson provided some solace Wednesday.  “Americans should sleep well at night …
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Kambiz Foroohar / Bloomberg:
U.S. Ambassador Haley Loses Two Key Aides at United Nations  —  Chief of staff and communications director both resigned  —  Haley said on Twitter the men were leaving for family reasons  —  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has lost two of her top aides …
Susan E. Rice / New York Times:
It's Not Too Late on North Korea  —  North Korea's substantial nuclear arsenal and improving intercontinental ballistic missile capacity pose a growing threat to America's security.  But we need not face an immediate crisis if we play our hand carefully.  —  Given the bluster emanating …
Washington Post:
Trump escalates rhetoric on threat from North Korea
Discussion: Political Wire
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:   More drama in Trumpland: Gorka publicly shuns Tillerson's effort to scale back North Korea red line
Jordain Carney / The Hill:   Graham: Trump doesn't need Congress's approval for North Korea strike
Washington Post:
In a new poll, half of Republicans say they would support postponing the 2020 election if Trump proposed it  —  Critics of President Trump have repeatedly warned of his potential to undermine American democracy.  Among the concerns are his repeated assertions that he would have won …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge orders new searches for Clinton Benghazi emails  —  Nine months after the presidential election was decided, a federal judge is ordering the State Department to try again to find emails Hillary Clinton wrote about the Benghazi attack.  —  U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled …
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Judge orders new search for Hillary Clinton's Benghazi emails
Discussion: RedState
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Gingrich: Trump deserves some blame for ObamaCare repeal failure  —  Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said Thursday that President Trump should share some of the blame for Senate Republicans' failure to pass a scaled-down ObamaCare repeal measure.  —  “The fact is, with very narrow margin …
Discussion: RedState
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Dave Lawler / Axios:
Vacationing Trump tweets “get back to work” to Mitch McConnell
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
ABC News:
Trump continues on tear against McConnell over health care
Discussion: Axios
Bloomberg:
With Bank Subpoenas, Mueller Turns Up the Heat on Manafort  —  Investigators seek account records linked to Trump ex-adviser  —  Special counsel pressuring Manafort's son-in-law, associates  —  Follow @bpolitics for all the latest news, and sign up for our daily Balance of Power newsletter.
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Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg:
Trump's Legal Team Is No Match for Mueller's
Discussion: emptywheel
Foreign Policy:
Here's the Memo That Blew Up the NSC  —  Fired White House staffer argued “deep state” attacked Trump administration because the president represents a threat to cultural Marxist memes, globalists, and bankers.  —  The memo at the heart of the latest blowup at the National Security Council paints …
Dan Molinski / Wall Street Journal:
West Virginia Gov. Justice Asks Trump for $4.5 Billion to Save Eastern Coal  —  Miners in Western states say proposal goes against free market principles  —  West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is asking President Donald Trump to extend his support for the coal industry by providing some $4.5 billion …
Bob Dreyfuss / Rolling Stone:
Sebastian Gorka, the West Wing's Phony Foreign-Policy Guru  —  Gorka's a former Breitbart editor with Islamophobic views and ties to neo-Nazi extremists - and he has the ear of the president  —  The Breitbart News headline, back in November 2014, rang like a five-alarm fire bell: MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD OVERRUNS NATIONAL CATHEDRAL IN DC.
Discussion: Mediaite and IJR
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
White House adviser says people should stop criticizing white supremacists so much
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Michael Whitney / Politico:
The Democratic Party's Looming Fundraising Crisis  —  Halfway through Year One of the Trump presidency, the Democratic base is energized.  Its voters are showing up at rallies, crowding town hall forums, self-organizing into local groups and scaring Republican incumbents …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Democratic Fight in California Is a Warning for the National Party
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Blowback from staffer scandal burns Wasserman Schultz  —  The chatter about a House leadership post is gone.  So is talk of statewide office.  After Hillary Clinton's defeat, there's no prospect of an administration job for Debbie Wasserman Schultz.  —  One year after the Florida …
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Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a threat to national security
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
CNN:
Trump pick Sam Clovis stoked birther conspiracy, called Eric Holder a ‘racist black’  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Sam Clovis, Donald Trump's pick to be chief scientist for the Department of Agriculture, pushed unfounded theories about then-President Barack Obama's upbringing and called …
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Study: Trump actions trigger health premium hikes for 2018  —  https://apnews.com/cc6b335865e24a4b843d c0e2c4cc6c7a  —  Link copied!  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration's own actions are triggering double-digit premium increases on individual health insurance policies purchased …
Nathan Heller / Vogue:
Chelsea Manning Changed the Course of History.  Now She's Focusing on Herself  —  “It's not like I'm living in fear or anything,” Manning says.  “I'm so glad to be out and about and walking around.”  Here, Manning in a Norma Kamali swimsuit.  —  Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, September 2017
Fatima Hussein / Indianapolis Star:
Republicans limiting early voting in Marion County, letting it bloom in suburbs  —  Absentee voting in Hamilton County grew in 2016 with the addition of early polling places.  Why was Marion County limited to just one?  Stephen J. Beard / IndyStar  —  CONNECT
Media Matters for America:
CNN's Jeffrey Lord just issued a Nazi victory salute.  Really.  —  BLOG ››› August 10, 2017 ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF  —  CNN contributor Jeffrey Lord tweeted the Nazi victory salute.  —  On August 10, the American Spectator PUBLISHED an attack piece by Jeffrey Lord against Media Matters.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
DNC Hack As Inside Job?  —  The Nation, hardly a bastion of right-wing conspiracists, picks up the story that the alleged Russian hack of the DNC was in fact an inside job.  This notion has percolated on the right for a while but now the Democracy Dies In Darkness crowd will need a bigger pillow.
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Patrick Lawrence / The Nation:
A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year's DNC Hack
The Guardian:
‘The perfect Alabama candidate’: Republicans warm to Vladimir Putin - video  —  Vladimir Putin's favorability ratings have tripled among Americans in recent years - and the polls say he's most popular among Republicans.  To find out why, Paul Lewis travels to deeply conservative Alabama …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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