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Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost:
Controversial Trump Aide Katharine Gorka Helped End Funding For Group That Fights White Supremacy  —  Life After Hate works to de-radicalize neo-Nazis.  The Trump administration decided it wasn't a priority.  —  WASHINGTON Weeks before a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville …
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Not Planning on Charlottesville Trip; ‘Why The Hell Would We Do That?’  Aides Say … President Donald Trump does not have plans to visit Charlottesville, Virginia in the wake of the the white-supremacist and neo-Nazi gathering that took place in the city over the weekend.
Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Trump ad-libbed ‘many sides’ remark in response to Charlottesville violence
Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Fifth leader resigns from Trump's manufacturing council  —  The president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing has resigned from President Trump's American Manufacturing Council, making him the fifth business leader to do so.  —  “I'm resigning from the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative …
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New York Times:
Walmart's C.E.O. Joins Group to Rebuke Trump Over Charlottesville  —  Walmart's chief executive issued a strong rebuke of President Trump's response to the protests that turned violent in Charlottesville, Va., saying the president “missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together.”
CNNMoney:
Three CEOs walk away from Trump after Charlottesville
Tony Romm / Recode:
Here are the business leaders who are — and aren't — officially advising Trump
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New York Times:
Trump Threat to Obamacare Would Send Premiums and Deficit Skyward  —  WASHINGTON — Premiums for the most popular health insurance plans would shoot up 20 percent next year, and federal budget deficits would increase by $194 billion in the coming decade if President Trump carries out his threat …
Discussion: CNBC
New York Times:
A Combative Trump Criticizes ‘Alt-Left’ Groups in Charlottesville  —  President Trump angrily defended himself on Tuesday against criticism that he did not specifically condemn Nazi and white supremacist groups following the weekend's deadly racial unrest in Virginia, and at one point questioned whether …
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Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?
Discussion: Business Insider
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Some Thoughts on Public Memory
Discussion: IJR
Emily Smith / CNN:
Holocaust Memorial in Boston vandalized  —  (CNN)A 17-year-old has been charged with willful and malicious destruction of property for allegedly vandalizing the Holocaust Memorial in Boston Monday, according to the Boston Police Department.  —  Photos from the memorial showed shattered glass lying …
Discussion: TheBlaze
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Elliot Kaufman / National Review:
Campus Conservatives Gave the Alt-Right a Platform  —  They deserve their fair share of the blame for the entirely predictable consequences of that choice.  —  Why did so many otherwise respectable conservative groups host Milo Yiannopoulos, an apologist for the alt-right, on college campuses across America?
Discussion: Weekly Standard
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David French / National Review:
Fire Steve Bannon
Julian Quinones / CBS News:
“What kind of society do you want to live in?”:  Inside the country where Down syndrome is disappearing  —  “CBSN: On Assignment” airs Mondays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and on our streaming network, CBSN.  Explore more on this topic in our “Behind the Lens” report.
Henry Grabar / Slate:
In January, Fox News Posted a Video of Cars Mowing Down Protesters That Urged Viewers to “Study the Technique”  —  Conservatives are rightfully aghast at the terror attack on Saturday that left one woman dead and more than a dozen injured in Charlottesville, Virginia.  —  Henry Grabar is a staff writer for Slate's Moneybox.
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
From Trump Aide to Single Mom  —  A.J. Delgado and Jason Miller stood in the New York Hilton ballroom on the night of the 2016 election, watching the man they helped elect president deliver the unlikeliest of victory speeches.  It was a heady moment for the small band of aides and operatives …
Discussion: The Slot, Mediaite and The Week
Heather Mac Donald / Wall Street Journal:
Don't Even Think About Being Evil  —  Corporate America has managed to make higher education look like an open marketplace of ideas.  —  'Just wait till those campus snowflakes enter the real world—that'll shape 'em up!  " So goes a typical response to totalitarian hysteria at colleges.
Discussion: Instapundit
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CNNMoney:
Former Google engineer: ‘I do not support the alt-right’
Discussion: WGNO
Mehdi Hasan / The Intercept:
Donald Trump Has Been a Racist All His Life — And He Isn't Going to Change After Charlottesville  —  “Racism is evil,” declared Donald Trump on Monday, “and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The Obama-Trump Voters Are Real.  Here's What They Think.  —  The story of the 2016 presidential election is simple.  Donald J. Trump made huge gains among white voters without a college degree.  His gains were large enough to cancel out considerable losses among well-educated white voters and a decade of demographic shifts.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Trump, Obama and the Politics of Evasion  —  Regarding last week's events in Charlottesville, Va., consider the following propositions:  —  (1) James Alex Fields Jr., the young man who on Saturday, police say, rammed his Dodge Challenger into a crowd in Charlottesville …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Hunter Woodall / Kansas City Star:
Kansas Democrat Paul Davis announces congressional bid, says he won't vote for Pelosi  —  The man who many thought would make another run for Kansas governor is officially running for Congress instead.  —  Democrat Paul Davis announced his entrance into the race for the 2nd District congressional seat Tuesday morning.
Fr. Mark Hodges / LifeSiteNews:
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Monmouth University:
Monmouth University Polling Institute  —  Trump Temperament Consequences … - Donald Trump making Washington politicians uncomfortable may be a good thing according to half of the American public.  But his behavior is seen as making it more difficult to get anything done according to the latest Monmouth University Poll.
Discussion: Washington Post
Dominique Mosbergen / HuffPost:
White Supremacist In Charlottesville Wearing 82nd Airborne Hat Gets Called Out... By 82nd Airborne  —  The elite paratrooper unit continues to battle fascism — but now on American soil.  —  The 82nd Airborne Division fought several campaigns against Nazi Germany during World War II.
The Daily Beast:
Trump Retweets Cartoon of Train Killing CNN Reporter  —  President Trump has retweeted a cartoon of a train bearing the Trump logo killing a CNN reporter, just days after a protester at a white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was fatally run down by a driver who participated in that rally.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Political Wire
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
An ugly pattern is taking shape.  Trump exaggerates certain threats.  He plays down other ones.  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  President Trump's reluctance to issue a direct, full-throated condemnation of the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville continues to be scrutinized for clues …
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Dianne Feinstein / USA Today:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein: Keep Iran nuclear deal and apply lessons to North Korea
Discussion: New York Times
 
 
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Ross Barkan / Village Voice:
After Attacks, Dems Push Stewart-Cousins for State Majority Leader
Discussion: Gothamist and New York Times
Bloomberg:
Trump to Sign Order to Speed Up Public-Works Permits
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Daily Caller
Colin Dwyer / Africa : NPR:
Zimbabwe's First Lady Accused Of Beating South African Model With Extension Cord
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Guardian
Jeff Stein / Vox:
Alabama GOP Senate frontrunner: “there are communities under Sharia law right now”
Luke Broadwater / Baltimore Sun:
Two top Hogan officials OK'd participation in Trump voter fraud commission, emails show
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Anti-Trump Bourbons: Learning and Forgetting Nothing in Time for 2020
 Earlier Items: 
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
An Ohio officer beat a black man during a traffic stop. A town wants to know why.
Discussion: The Root
Josh Meyer / Politico:
Domestic hate groups elude feds
Discussion: Raw Story
Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Why Was an Italian Graduate Student Tortured and Murdered in Egypt?
Danielle Ryan / Salon:
What if the DNC Russian “hack” …
N. D. B. Connolly / Associated Press:
Charlottesville showed that liberalism can't defeat white supremacy. Only direct action can.
Sarah Wildman / Vox:
“You will not replace us”: a French philosopher explains the Charlottesville chant
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump acts like the president of the Red States of America
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

Karen Weise / New York Times:
Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending

 
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