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8:30 PM ET, August 16, 2017

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Robert Tracinski / The Federalist:
Donald Trump Needs To Not Be President Yesterday  —  We're done with the “Well, maybe it won't be so bad and we should take what we can get” phase of this administration.  It's time for the “He's a disaster and needs to go” phase.  For everybody's good, Donald Trump needs to not be president …
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David Ferguson / Raw Story:
'I'm terrified': Neo-Nazi blubbers like a baby in video reporting he's wanted for arrest in Charlottesville  —  Neo-Nazi Christopher Cantwell — who was one of the “Unite the Right” Charlottesville marchers interviewed by Vice.com — released a weepy, rambling video of himself discussing …
Discussion: Business Insider and Towleroad
The Times of Israel:
Yair Netanyahu says leftists more dangerous than neo-Nazis  —  Echoing Trump, PM's son claims ‘thugs of Antifa and Black Lives Matter are getting stronger’ while Nazis are a thing of the past  —  The son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said American left-wing groups are more dangerous than neo-Nazis.
Faith Gates / Mediaite:   Shep Smith: We Haven't Yet Found ‘The Very Fine People Protesting With the White Supremacists’
David Rothkopf / Washington Post:
Donald Trump gave the most disgusting public performance in the history of the American presidency
Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
‘The President Was Entirely Correct’
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
What Steve Bannon thinks about Charlottesville  —  On Tuesday night, while Gary Cohn was fuming about President Trump's latest comments, Steve Bannon was excitedly telling friends and associates that the “globalists” were in mass freakout mode.  — Today, Bannon reveled in the disbanding …
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Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
Steve Bannon, Unrepentant  —  Steve Bannon on the phone, December 9, 2016  —  You might think from recent press accounts that Steve Bannon is on the ropes and therefore behaving prudently.  In the aftermath of events in Charlottesville, he is widely blamed for his boss's continuing indulgence of white supremacists.
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
German Lopez / Vox:
It sure looks like Trump's Charlottesville talking points came straight from Fox News
Discussion: ABC News
New York Times:
Trump Ends C.E.O. Advisory Councils as Main Group Acts to Disband  —  President Trump's main council of top corporate leaders disbanded on Wednesday following the president's controversial remarks in which he equated white nationalist hate groups with the protesters opposing them.
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CNBC:
Top CEOs jump from Trump, disband strategic council of corporate giants  —  Members of President Donald Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum have agreed to disband the group, sources told CNBC, as corporate backlash mounts against the president.  —  The business advisory council …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Business Councils Disband After CEOs Defect
CJ Hunt / GQ:
A Charlottesville White Supremacist Stripped Down to Escape Protesters and We Got It on Video  —  I arrived in Charlottesville at sundown on Friday, where I'd come looking for an ending to the documentary I'm making on Confederate monuments.  In two years of covering the debate in New Orleans …
Discussion: The Root
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Baltimore Sun:
Confederate monuments taken down in Baltimore overnight
New York Times:
Baltimore Mayor Had Statues Removed in ‘Best Interest of My City’
Sara Ashley O'Brien / CNNMoney:
The ‘March on Google’ is off  —  Fired engineer: Google a ‘psychologically unsafe environment’  —  Rallies were slated to happen Saturday in at least nine major U.S. cities to protest Google (GOOG)'s firing of James Damore, an engineer who wrote a controversial memo on the company's diversity policies.
Discussion: RedState, CNN, Mashable, Business Insider and IJR
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Sarah Jones / New Republic:
Liberals Helped Create Trump's New Bogeyman, the “Alt-Left”  —  The term was coined by the right-wing as a slur.  Then it was adopted by the left's would-be allies.  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday introduced a new nemesis to join the “fake news” media, Crooked Hillary, and Mexican rapists: the alt-left.
New York Times:
Trump Lawyer Forwards Email Echoing Secessionist Rhetoric  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's personal lawyer on Wednesday forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matter …
Kate Conger / Gizmodo:
Cloudflare CEO on Terminating Service to Neo-Nazi Site: ‘The Daily Stormer Are A**holes’  —  Internet companies typically take a hands-off approach to offensive content on their networks, erring on the side of maintaining an open internet.  But this approach sometimes ends in PR disaster.
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Matthew Prince / Cloudflare Blog:
Why We Terminated Daily Stormer  —  Earlier today, Cloudflare terminated the account of the Daily Stormer.  We've stopped proxying their traffic and stopped answering DNS requests for their sites.  We've taken measures to ensure that they cannot sign up for Cloudflare's services ever again.
Discussion: Gizmodo
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Right-Winger Jack Posobiec, Retweeted by Trump, Is Navy Intel Officer  —  WASHINGTON — A right-wing activist who brought attention to debunked conspiracy theories — and who gained new prominence when he was retweeted by President Donald Trump this week — is a U.S. naval intelligence officer detailed …
Discussion: Raw Story and Politicus USA
Mike Levine / ABC News:
Special counsel's Russia probe loses top FBI investigator  —  One of the FBI's top investigators, tapped by special counsel Robert Mueller just weeks ago to help lead the probe of Russian meddling in last year's presidential election, has left Mueller's team, sources tell ABC News.
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Joe Uchill / The Hill:
High-ranking FBI official leaves Russia probe
Discussion: Raw Story
Zachary Cohen / CNN:
Former CIA director slams Trump's ‘despicable’ comments in letter to CNN anchor  —  Washington (CNN)Former CIA director John Brennan slammed President Donald Trump's “dangerous” and “ugly” comments on the deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia …
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Angry White Boys  —  What do the white nationalists actually want?  —  W  —  hat is it these white boys are so angry about?  —  You don't go to a protest because you're happy.  You go to a protest because you are mad about something or, in my case, because it is your job.
Discussion: Weekly Standard and The Week
CNN:
Trump defiant after outburst and GOP picks up pieces  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Republican lawmakers and administration aides found themselves again Wednesday weighing the costs and benefits of remaining loyal to President Donald Trump, whose equivocal statements about neo-Nazis …
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Fox's Abby Huntsman Humiliates Herself as Guests Weep Over ‘Morally Bankrupt’ Trump … What's a Fox & Friends host to do when they desperately want to push President Donald Trump's narrative the “both sides” are to blame for Charlottesville, but their guests want to talk about what's really going on in America right now?
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Poll: Majority Believes Trump's Response To Charlottesville Hasn't Been Strong Enough  —  A majority of Americans thinks President Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville was “not strong enough,” according to a NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.  —  Fifty-two percent of respondents said so …
Ben Gray / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
KKK's request to burn cross on Stone Mountain denied  —  The Stone Mountain Memorial Association this week denied a Ku Klux Klan request to burn a cross at the park, citing the trouble at a “pro-white” rally last year.  —  Joey Hobbs, a Dublin man with the Sacred Knights of the Ku Klux Klan …
Discussion: The Guardian
Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed:
Apple Pay Is Cutting Off White Supremacists  —  Apple and PayPal have started to disable payment support from websites selling white nationalist and Nazi apparel following this weekend's events in Charlottesville. … The most valuable company in the world is taking a stand …
Charles Robinson / Yahoo Sports:
Documents: Ezekiel Elliott's accuser admitted to talk of leveraging sex videos of herself and RB for money  —  Dallas Cowboys star Ezekiel Elliott of domestic violence admitted to NFL investigators having a text exchange in which she discussed leveraging sex videos featuring her and Elliott …
 
 
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Yashar Ali / New York Magazine:
Rabbi That Oversaw Ivanka Trump's Conversion to Judaism Slams Trump on Charlottesville Response
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Ben Carson calls criticism of Trump's Charlottesville response ‘little squabbles’ being ‘blown out of proportion’
Discussion: The Stranger …
Southern Poverty Law Center:
The Daily Caller has a White Nationalist Problem
Teresa Watanabe / Los Angeles Times:
UC Berkeley chancellor unveils ‘Free Speech Year’ as right-wing speakers plan campus events
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Fox's Shep Smith: We couldn't find a Republican willing to come on and defend Trump
Discussion: The Week
Natalie Robehmed / Forbes:
The World's Highest-Paid Actresses 2017: Emma Stone Leads With $26 Million
Discussion: The Guardian, AOL, NBC News and Refinery29
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Members of Trump's remaining commissions say they have no plans to resign
 Earlier Items: 
Josh Delk / The Hill:
Pence ends international trip early amid Trump controversy
Discussion: ABC News, The Daily Caller and TheBlaze
Zachary Tracer / Bloomberg:
Obamacare Startup Oscar Posts $57.6 Million First-Half Loss
Discussion: The Daily Signal
Amber Randall / The Daily Caller:
Antifa Protesters Crash Heather Heyer's Funeral
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Ex-Trump Campaign Aides Start Voter Registration Effort
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon's Ideological Allies Inside the White House Are Souring on Him
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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