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1:40 AM ET, June 23, 2018

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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 …
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 …
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Washington Post:
Arguments, confusion, second-guessing: Inside Trump's reversal on separating migrant families  —  The White House's hastily crafted executive order to end child separations spurred confusion and fights within the federal government, and second-guessing from the president who had demanded the order in the first place.
Brad Heath / USA Today:
DOJ: Trump's immigration crackdown ‘diverting’ resources from drug cases  —  Federal prosecutors warned they were diverting resources from drug-smuggling cases in southern California to handle the flood of immigration charges brought on by the Trump administration's border crackdown, records obtained by USA TODAY show.
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
An utterly disastrous week for Donald Trump  —  Washington (CNN)Fresh off one of the best — or, at the very least, most consequential — weeks of his presidency, Donald Trump just experienced one of his worst weeks in the White House.  —  The week was totally defined by the botched handling …
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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.
Eliza Relman / Business Insider:
Young Trump staffers are complaining they can't date in DC because everyone hates them  — Young Trump administration staffers are having a hard time dating in Washington, one of the most Democratic cities in the country.  — Even after leaving their administration jobs …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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 …
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Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
More Americans Blame Undocumented Parents Than Trump For Family Separations  —  The White House has managed to dodge a lot of blame for a deeply unpopular policy.  —  The Trump administration's contradictory responses to the outrage over its family separation policy may have clouded public opinion …
Discussion: New York Times
New York Times:
Why Are Parents Bringing Their Children on Treacherous Treks to the U.S. Border?  —  President Trump hopes to deter the flow of migrants into the United States, but near the busy border crossing in Arizona, some said that the threat of separation from their children would not deter them.
Discussion: Mashable
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Clark Mindock / The Independent:   UN says Trump separation of migrant children with parents ‘may amount to torture’, in damning condemnation
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Mueller signals outside prosecutors may eventually take over Russian trolls case  —  A handful of new federal prosecutors have joined one of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's cases — an indication that he is preparing to hand off at least one prosecution to others when his office completes …
Discussion: emptywheel
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mention of Trump campaign may be off the table at Manafort trial
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller seeks September sentencing for Papadopoulos
Discussion: Raw Story
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Can the Border Patrol ask for your papers?  This tool shows if you're in the ‘border zone.’  —  The government's crackdown on illegal immigration came to an unexpected place on Wednesday: central Maine — about as far from the border with Mexico as it is possible to get.
Discussion: Hit & Run
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CBS News:
Viral photo of crying girl: Border Patrol agent involved says there's more to the story
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Trump's false portrayal of his Sanford insult goes largely unchallenged by House Republicans: 'It wasn't a big deal'  —  After President Trump insulted one of their own as a “nasty guy,” many House Republicans dodged and weaved when questioned this week about the president's takedown of South Carolina Rep. Mark Sanford.
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Hit & Run
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Mark Sanford / Washington Post:   I lost because I wasn't Trump enough. All Republicans should worry.
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
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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Peter Stone / McClatchy Washington Bureau:   Inside the Ukraine peace plan in Mueller probe: More authors, earlier drafting than believed
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.
Discussion: twitchy.com
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
The four times Trump signed tax returns for his foundation that contained incorrect information  —  For years, President Trump personally signed the tax returns for his charitable foundation, scrawling his signature just below a stern warning from the IRS: Providing false information could lead to “penalties of perjury.”
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 …
The Daily Beast:
Trump Reaffirms North Korean Nuclear Threat After Saying It Was Gone  —  President Donald Trump told Congress in a letter on Friday that North Korea's “provocative, destabilizing, and repressive actions...continue to constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the United States.
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans' Certainty About Voting This Year Starting Off Low  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fifty-six percent of U.S. adults are currently “absolutely certain” they will vote in the November elections for Congress.  That's on the low side in Gallup's trend of final pre-election midterm polls since 1954 …
Eric Russell / Press Herald:
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from Maine arrested at Texas child detention center  —  Zak Ringelstein, who is challenging U.S. Sen. Angus King, had traveled to McAllen, Texas, with supplies he said he wanted to deliver to children separated from their parents.
Discussion: Law & Crime and Daily Wire
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.
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
Elizabeth Hewitt / VTDigger:
For second year, Sanders earns more than $1M  —  WASHINGTON — For the second year in a row, Sen. Bernie Sanders' income topped seven figures.  —  A recent financial disclosure report shows the junior Vermont senator made nearly $1.06 million in 2017.  Most of his income — $885,767 …
Dan Diamond / Politico:
HHS creates task force to reunify migrant families  —  HHS on Friday created an “unaccompanied children reunification task force,” a first step toward reunifying thousands of migrant children in the agency's custody with their families, according to an internal document obtained by POLITICO.
Discussion: Axios
Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Man charged in bike path killings speaks in court of ‘Allah’  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The man charged with murdering eight people on a New York City bike path and injuring many more spoke out in court Friday over a prosecutor's objection, invoking “Allah” and defending the Islamic State.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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
Associated Press:
Trump pushes back against border separation uproar  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump tried to cast doubt Friday on wrenching tales of migrant children separated from their families at the border, dismissing “phony stories of sadness and grief” while asserting the real victims …
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: CNN and Mediaite
Orin Kerr / Reason:
First Thoughts on Carpenter v. United States  —  A big case.  Here's an ongoing Q&A, which I will add to through the day.  —  The Supreme Court has handed down its long-awaited decision in Carpenter v. United States.  The opinion is only an hour old as I start to write this …
Ryan Park / New York Times:
The Last of the Tiger Parents  —  In first grade, I arrived at my suburban elementary school as a sort of academic vaudeville trickster.  My classmates stood speechless as I absorbed thick tomes on medieval history, wrote and presented research reports, and breezed through fifth-grade math problems like a bored teenager.
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.
 
 
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Voting machine vendor treated election officials to trips to Vegas, elsewhere
Discussion: Reuters
Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed:
500 Children Separated From Their Parents Under Trump's “Zero Tolerance” Policy Have Been Reunited
Discussion: CNN and Mother Jones
Raina Lipsitz / The Nation:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fights the Power
Emily Alpert Reyes / Los Angeles Times:
Garcetti says L.A. can resume disputed ban on overnight sidewalk sleeping
Michael Wear / TIME:
Don't Quit the Republican Party. Stay and Fight
Discussion: Slate
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Facebook Built A New Team To Spot Problems Before They Arise
 Earlier Items: 
CNN:
GOP nominee who railed against diversity also called Kwanzaa ‘phony,’ made anti-Muslim comments
Discussion: Raw Story
Julie Turkewitz / New York Times:
In the Race for Governor, How Far Left Is Colorado Willing to Go?
Hannah Rappleye / NBC News:
Migrant mother separated from son on his sixth birthday bares agony
Tim Reid / Reuters:
In age of Trump, evangelicals back self-styled top U.S. pimp
Discussion: The Daily Caller and New Republic
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump's Cynical Immigration Strategy Might Work for Him—Again
Discussion: Hullabaloo