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5:45 PM ET, June 22, 2018

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TIME:
Exclusive: Navy Document Shows Plan to Erect ‘Austere’ Detention Camps  —  The U.S. Navy is preparing plans to construct sprawling detention centers for tens of thousands of immigrants on remote bases in California, Alabama and Arizona, escalating the military's task in implementing President Donald Trump's …
Discussion: Boing Boing and Daily Kos
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Wall Street Journal:   Pentagon Had Spurned U.S. Space Force, Prompting Trump's Decree
NBC News:
Tom Arnold tweets picture with Michael Cohen, says he ‘has all the tapes’  —  Arnold is hunting for ‘incriminating’ tapes of Trump as part of a show for Vice.  —  President Donald Trump's embattled personal attorney, Michael Cohen, retweeted a photo of himself with comedian Tom Arnold …
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The Daily Beast:
Tom Arnold Meets Michael Cohen: ‘This Dude Has All the Tapes’  —  Tom Arnold—the actor and comedian who's said he's on a mission to find incriminating video of President Trump—tweeted a photo of himself with Michael Cohen late Thursday, saying “this dude has all the tapes.”
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Mediaite
Peter Stone / McClatchy Washington Bureau:   Inside the Ukraine peace plan in Mueller probe: More authors, earlier drafting than believed
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump to GOP: Wait until after midterms to pass immigration bill  —  As House Republicans scramble for votes on its comprehensive immigration bill, President Trump tweeted Friday that Republicans should “stop wasting their time” and punt the immigration fight to after the midterms.
Politico:
Young Trumpies Hit D.C.  —  ... And D.C. hits them right back.  —  When Matt Mowers moved to Washington in November 2016, he wasn't expecting a hero's welcome.  The young political operative had worked for Donald Trump's campaign in New York, where you can hardly walk down the block …
Discussion: Splinter, DCist, VICE, Raw Story and Mashable
Jon Hernandez / CBC News:
Jogger accidentally crosses U.S. border from B.C., gets detained for 2 weeks by authorities  —  Cedella Roman, visiting mom from France, says border patrol held her for crossing into Blaine, Wash.  —  Cedella Roman says she was jogging along the beach in White Rock, B.C., when she crossed the U.S. border without realizing it.
Discussion: VICE
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
If We Want to End the Border Crisis, It's Time to Give Trump His Wall  —  You could think of the last week as a solid victory for the Democrats and for basic human decency.  An utterly indefensible and morally foul policy of separating children from their parents is over for now.
Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
The crying Honduran girl on the cover of Time was not separated from her mother, father says  —  The photo of the little girl crying as a U.S. Border Patrol agent patted down her mother became a symbol of the families pulled apart by the Trump administration's “zero tolerance” policy at the border …
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CBS News:
Viral photo of crying girl: Border Patrol agent involved says there's more to the story  —  The picture of a Honduran girl crying as she and her mother are detained in Texas has grabbed worldwide attention and come to symbolize the intense debate about separating children from their parents.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Vote against the GOP this November  —  Amid the carnage of Republican misrule in Washington, there is this glimmer of good news: The family-shredding policy along the southern border, the most telegenic recent example of misrule, clarified something.  Occurring less than 140 days before elections …
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Elena Kagan Is Up to Something  —  What is Justice Elena Kagan doing?  So far this term, the liberal justice has crossed ideological lines at least three times to join the Supreme Court's conservatives.  Most recently, on Thursday, Kagan authored the majority opinion in Lucia v. SEC …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump's Cynical Immigration Strategy Might Work for Him—Again  —  The lesson Trump learned was not that saying shocking, untrue, and arguably racist things about immigrants was politically dangerous but that doing so helped him become President.  —  On Sunday, June 3rd, Senator Jeff Merkley …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Senator Jeff Merkley, a Quiet Stalwart of the Left, Has a Breakout Moment at the Border
Discussion: CNN
Washington Post:
Trump threatens Europe with 20 percent tariffs on auto imports, escalating trade showdown with U.S. allies  —  President Trump on Friday threatened to unilaterally impose a 20 percent tariff on all automobile imports from Europe, further breaking from Republicans in Congress and front-running …
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Doug Saunders / Globe and Mail:   There's no migration crisis - the crisis is political opportunism
Brianna Ehley / Politico:
House overwhelmingly passes final opioid package  —  The House on Friday overwhelmingly passed sweeping bipartisan opioid legislation, concluding the chamber's two-week voteathon on dozens of bills to address the drug abuse epidemic.  —  The measure combines more than 50 bills approved individually …
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Marianna Sotomayor / NBC News:
House passes massive package to address opioids crisis
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
After Nevada GOP push, Treasury quietly changed lucrative policy benefiting one county  —  The Treasury Department last week quietly reversed itself after lobbying by Nevada Republicans and agreed to let a previously ineligible county reap huge benefits from the new tax law.
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller seeks to bar Manafort from tying charges to Trump campaign role  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is seeking to prevent the defense for Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, from arguing to jurors that he was targeted for prosecution because of his role in Donald Trump's presidential bid.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:   Ex-Trump campaign manager loses bid to dismiss money laundering charge
Philip Lewis / HuffPost:
Protesters Outside Kirstjen Nielsen's House Play Audio Of Detained Migrant Children  —  The DHS secretary had to walk by protesters shouting “Shame!” as she left her house.  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. Protesters gathered outside Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's townhouse Friday morning …
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Matthew Walther / The Week:   What pro-lifers can learn from the Democratic Socialists of America
Emily Holden / Politico:
New Pruitt question: Where are his emails?  —  The EPA administrator wrote only one email in 10 months to anyone outside the agency, if the official paper trail is to be believed.  Watchdog groups don't believe it.  —  An examination of Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt's …
Vanessa Friedman / New York Times:
Melania Trump, Agent of Coat Chaos  —  Melania Trump's excursion in her “I Really Don't Care” jacket did not send a hidden message.  It was there for all to see.  —  “I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?”  —  When the first lady, Melania Trump, on an unannounced humanitarian visit to a children's shelter in Texas …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Under Trump, Americans are becoming more supportive of immigration
Tim Reid / Reuters:
In age of Trump, evangelicals back self-styled top U.S. pimp  —  PAHRUMP, Nev. (Reuters) - He styles himself as America's best-known pimp, a strip-club owner who runs multiple brothels and looks set to win a seat as a Republican in the Nevada legislature with the blessing of many conservative Christian voters.
Discussion: New Republic and The Daily Caller
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Trump autographed photos of deceased crime victims for White House ‘Angel Families’ event  —  President Donald Trump appears to have autographed photos of deceased young people that were featured at a White House event Friday highlighting victims of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants.
Media Matters for America:
Fox & Friends host: “These aren't our kids. ...  It's not like [Trump] is doing this to the people of Idaho or Texas”  —  Brian Kilmeade: “Like it or not, these aren't our kids”  —  From the June 22 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:  —  Loading the player reg...
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Steve King singles out Somali Muslims over pork  —  The Iowa congressman says they shouldn't work in his district's meat-packing plants because they won't eat pig products.  —  Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said Friday that he doesn't want Somali Muslims working at meat-packing plants in his district …
Discussion: Mediaite
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“The Images Are Out of His Control”: How Trump Lost His Grip on the Child-Detention Narrative  —  Trump has done plenty of ugly things.  In the past, he's outrun the narrative—this time, he can't get past the imagery.  —  BY - PETER HAMBYJune 22, 2018,  —  Rarely has Donald Trump been on his heels as he has over the past week.
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Facebook Built A New Team To Spot Problems Before They Arise  —  Silicon Valley's giants are looking for future crises before they happen.  —  In an attempt to spot vulnerabilities in its system before bad actors exploit them, Facebook has hired a team of ex-intelligence officers, researchers …
Associated Press:
AP-NORC Poll: Americans say no to presidential self-pardons  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Even in an era of deep political division, Democrats and Republicans agree presidents should not pardon themselves.  And if the nation's chief executive ever does so, majorities of Americans in both parties believe Congress should impeach that president.
Discussion: IJR, Daily Kos and Axios
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The original source for Trump's claim of 63,000 immigrant murders?  Bad data from Steve King in 2005.  —  All right.  Settle in for a bit and maybe swipe over to the calculator app on your phone.  We're about to go on quite a numeric roller coaster ride.  —  President Trump shifted …
Discussion: Mediaite and New York Times
Michael Wear / TIME:
Don't Quit the Republican Party.  Stay and Fight  —  Blend Images - Hill Street Studios—Getty Images  —  What is an anti-Donald Trump Republican to do?  For Steve Schmidt — a top campaign aide to President George W. Bush's re-election campaign, Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential run …
Discussion: Slate, Bloomberg and Washingtonian
Sarah Rumpf / RedState:
WaPo Begins Krauthammer's Obituary By Blaming Him for the Iraq War  —  Charles Krauthammer was a Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist, best-selling novelist, and Fox News commentator, and that was in addition to an admirable medical career, graduating from Harvard Medical School after a 14 month break …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Democrats see most news outlets as unbiased.  Republicans think they're almost all biased.  —  Plus: Facebook expands its fact-checking program; for one thing, it now covers photos and video.  —  The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to keep up with.
Tom Embury-Dennis / The Independent:
Italy's deputy PM Salvini called for ‘mass cleansing, street by street, quarter by quarter’, newly resurfaced footage reveals  —  Minister's comments recirculate after leader of far-right League party announces ‘census’ of Roma community  —  POPULAR VIDEOS
Discussion: The Guardian
Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix Fires PR Chief After Use of N-Word in Meeting (Exclusive)  —  The streaming giant is letting its top spokesperson go after six years in the role.  —  Netflix is letting go of its top communications spokesman.  —  Jonathan Friedland, who's served as the streaming giant's chief communications officer …
Discussion: Law & Crime
CNN:
GOP nominee who railed against diversity also called Kwanzaa ‘phony,’ made anti-Muslim comments  —  (CNN)The Republican nominee for a US House seat in New Jersey has said diversity leads to Muslims killing Christians and that Kwanzaa is a fake holiday made by black racists to divide America.
Discussion: Raw Story
Julie Turkewitz / New York Times:
In the Race for Governor, How Far Left Is Colorado Willing to Go?  —  DENVER — Jared Polis, a leading Democratic candidate for Colorado governor, walked into the home of a prominent marijuana entrepreneur for a campaign event recently, wearing a suit and bright blue sneakers.
VICE News:
A Michigan Republican keeps falsely accusing his Democrat opponent of ties to the Muslim Brotherhood  —  DETROIT — A Republican candidate for Michigan governor isn't backing down from unfounded claims one of his Democratic opponents has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood …
 
 
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Hannah Rappleye / NBC News:
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Wall Street Journal:
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Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
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Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
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