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New York Times:
Trump Humiliated Jeff Sessions After Mueller Appointment  —  WASHINGTON — Shortly after learning in May that a special counsel had been appointed to investigate links between his campaign associates and Russia, President Trump berated Attorney General Jeff Sessions in an Oval Office meeting …
Discussion: Axios, Business Insider and Raw Story
Jon Levine / Mediaite:
Fox & Friends: Maybe Trump Wall Was ‘Symbolic’  —  Fox & Friends took viewers on a trip down gaslight alley on Thursday, with the show hosts scrambling to make sense of the alleged deal between Donald Trump and “Chuck and Nancy” to save DACA and punt the border wall until later.
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John Binder / Breitbart:
Report: Trump Caves on DACA, Wants ‘Quick’ Amnesty for 800K Illegal Aliens  —  In a meeting with establishment politicians from the Problem Solvers Caucus and the Blue Dog Coalition, President Trump signaled a full-fledged cave on the issue of giving amnesty to nearly 800,000 illegal aliens currently protected …
Axios:
Trump: “If there's not a wall, we're doing nothing”
Discussion: The Hill, RedState and Politico
ProPublica:
Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’  —  Want to market Nazi memorabilia, or recruit marchers for a far-right rally?  Facebook's self-service ad-buying platform had the right audience for you.  —  Until this week, when we asked Facebook about it, the world's largest social …
Discussion: KTLA and Eschaton
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UVA Center / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
New Poll: Some Americans Express Troubling Racial Attitudes Even as Majority Oppose White Supremacists  —  Survey conducted by Reuters/Ipsos in conjunction with UVA Center for Politics measures racial sentiments in aftermath of August neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville
Fran Brennan / NTK Network:
FLASHBACK: Sanders: If We Do Medicaid-For-All Type Plan, It Would Bankrupt The Nation  —  “If we expanded Medicaid to everybody...we would be spending such an astronomical sum of money...we would bankrupt the nation,” Sanders said in 1987.  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) …
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Anthony Scaramucci to guest co-host ‘The View’ … Anthony Scaramucci is still a hot topic, and now he's joining the table.  —  The former White House communications director will guest co-host “The View” for the first “Guy Day Friday” of Season 21.  —  He will join the co-hosts at the …
Discussion: The Hill, The Daily Caller, IJR and Mediaite
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Sean Langille / Washington Examiner:
Watch: Chuck Schumer caught on hot mic saying Trump ‘likes us’ … Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was caught on a hot mic Thursday saying, “He likes us.  He likes me anyway,” about President Trump.  —  The comments came shortly after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's floor speech.
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:   Read My Lips: Schumer Is Playing You For A Fool, Mr. President
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump thanks media for being ‘so understanding’  —  President Trump extended a rare message of gratitude to the press on Thursday, thanking members of the media for being “so understanding” in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.  —  “Media, we appreciate you being so understanding,” …
Discussion: RedState
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Eric Boehlert / Shareblue:
“Such a small number.” Trump callously dismisses 33 Hurricane Irma deaths
Discussion: IJR, CNN, KFOR-TV and KTLA
John B. Judis / New Republic:
Redoing the Electoral Math  —  I argued that demographics favored the Democrats.  I was wrong.  —  If any force on Earth could be powerful enough to unite the Democratic Party, you'd have thought the words “President Donald Trump” would do the trick.  Instead, Hillary Clinton's defeat …
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Single-payer health care failed miserably in Colorado last year.  Here's why.  —  Nearly 80 percent of Coloradans voted no — including many Democrats and progressives.  —  On the day the state of Colorado voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by about 5 points …
Fox News:
Harvard makes convicted spy Chelsea Manning a ‘fellow,’ igniting firestorm  —  Former CIA Acting Director Michael Morell on Thursday announced his resignation as a senior fellow at Harvard after the university named U.S. Army soldier-turned-convicted felon Chelsea Manning a visiting fellow.
Pew Research Center:
Mexican Views of the U.S. Turn Sharply Negative  —  Widespread dissatisfaction with economy and political leaders  —  More Mexicans view the United States unfavorably than at any time in the past decade and a half.  Nearly two-thirds of Mexicans (65%) express a negative opinion of the U.S. …
Discussion: New York Times
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Google ‘segregates’ women into lower-paying jobs, stifling careers, lawsuit says  —  Exclusive: Women say Google denied them promotions, telling the Guardian they were forced into less prestigious jobs despite qualifications  —  Google systematically pays women less than men doing similar work …
Dan Merica / CNN:
Clinton: It's time to abolish the Electoral College  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton told CNN on Wednesday that it is time to abolish the Electoral College, part of a sweeping interview where the former Democratic nominee sought to explain why she lost the 2016 election.
Louis Sahagun / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says Whittier Narrows Dam is unsafe and could trigger catastrophic flooding  —  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has determined that the earthen Whittier Narrows Dam is unsafe and could trigger catastrophic flooding in working-class cities along …
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Trump Says Jump.  His Supporters Ask, How High?  —  In the Trump era, Republicans have been revising their views on right and wrong.  —  In 2011, the Public Religion Research Institute asked voters if  —  White evangelical Protestants were the least forgiving.
Julie Jordan / People.com:
Fergie and Josh Duhamel Separate After 8 Years of Marriage: ‘We Are and Will Always Be United’  —  After eight years of marriage, Fergie and Josh Duhamel are going their separate ways, they confirm to PEOPLE exclusively.  —  “With absolute love and respect we decided to separate as a couple earlier …
Eli Hager / New York Times:
From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones  —  Michelle Jones was released last month after serving more than two decades in an Indiana prison for the murder of her 4-year-old son.  The very next day, she arrived at New York University, a promising Ph.D. candidate in American studies.
Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:
House GOP Worries About ‘Mass Exodus’ Of Frustrated Members  —  Following a rash of retirements, House Republican leaders are scrambling to get something done legislatively to convince other frustrated members not to toss in the towel in a tough political environment.
Julia Ioffe / The Atlantic:
Why Didn't Trump Build Anything in Russia?  —  Thirty years ago, in July 1987, Donald and Ivana Trump flew to the Soviet Union, apparently at the invitation of the Soviet ambassador to the United States, in order to scout locations for a Trump hotel in Moscow.  “It was an extraordinary experience,” Trump wrote in The Art of the Deal.
Discussion: Raw Story
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The Trump administration's big new anti-leak memo leaked last night  —  Of course it did.  —  Every administration faces leaks, and no administration likes them.  The Obama administration went further than its predecessors in launching criminal prosecutions of national security leakers …
Emma Loop / BuzzFeed:
Tim Scott Says It's Unrealistic To Think Trump Will Have An “Epiphany” On Race  —  “To assume that immediately thereafter he's going to have an epiphany is just unrealistic.”  —  Reporting From Washington, DC  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Tim Scott, a black Republican from South Carolina …
Discussion: IJR
 
 
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Jeff Stein / Vox:
27 Senate Democrats get behind a big new plan to make child care an entitlement
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CNNMoney:
Trevor Noah renews ‘Daily Show’ contract for five more years
Billy Hallowell / Faithwire:
Meet the Epic 13-Year-Old Boy Who Used an Air Mattress to Save 17 of His Neighbors During Hurricane Harvey
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Sean Spicer A Ratings Magnet For Jimmy Kimmel, As Donald Trump Forecast
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