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Gabriella Muñoz / Washington Times:
Trump: ‘Be careful what you wish for Max!’  —  President Trump slammed Rep. Maxine Waters on Monday afternoon, after her speech calling for supporters to heckle members of the Trump administration went viral over the weekend.  —  Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person …
Discussion: Axios, Mother Jones, Mediaite and Politico
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
Shame the Trumpers  —  If you spend too much time online, you probably know about the white woman in San Francisco who called the police on a young girl of color last week for selling bottled water on the street without a permit.  Video footage of that woman trying to hide from a cell phone camera …
Jamie Ehrlich / CNN:
Democratic congresswoman encourages supporters to harass Trump administration officials
NBC News:
Mattis is out of the loop and Trump doesn't listen to him, say officials  —  On Iran, North Korea and other major issues, the defense secretary has been out of the loop  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary James Mattis learned in May from a colleague that President Donald Trump had made the decision …
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Elise Labott / CNN:
Exclusive: Pompeo says no timeline on North Korea negotiations  —  Pompeo: US can dismantle N. Korea's weapons  —  Washington (CNN)Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told CNN he would not put a timeline on negotiations with North Korea, but said the Trump administration will regularly assess …
Associated Press:
Harley, stung by tariffs, shifts some production overseas  —  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Harley-Davidson, up against spiraling costs from tariffs, will begin shifting the production of motorcycles headed for Europe from the U.S. to factories overseas.  —  The European Union on Friday began rolling …
Discussion: The Hill, The Resurgent and Daily Kos
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Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Javier Solana, Ex-Chief of NATO, Is Denied Permission to Travel to U.S.
Discussion: Washington Post
Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Trump's Trade War Could Shut Cheesemakers Out of Foreign Markets
Discussion: Raw Story
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Suppression of Minority Voting Rights Is About to Get Way Worse  —  On Monday, five years to the day that the Supreme Court decided Shelby County v. Holder, a case in which the court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act with assurances that other parts of the act …
Discussion: electionlawblog.org
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court sends back N.C. gerrymandering case, mostly rejects Texas map challenge
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:   Neil Gorsuch Declares War on the Voting Rights Act
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
The Civility Debate Has Reached Peak Stupidity  —  HEN: WHO WILL EAT THE BREAD?  —  NARRATOR: SHE ASKED OF THE PIG, THE DUCK, AND THE CAT.  —  PIG: I WILL!  NARRATOR: SAID THE PIG.  —  DUCK: I WILL!  NARRATOR: SAID THE DUCK.  —  CAT: I WILL!  NARRATOR: SAID THE CAT.
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Jessica Sidman / Washingtonian:
Read the Messages and Threats Sent to the Wrong Red Hen
James Gordon Meek / ABC News:
Special counsel obtains Trump ally Erik Prince's phones, computer  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller is digging deeper into Trump ally and Blackwater founder Erik Prince, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter.  —  Prince, America's most famous private military contractor …
Associated Press:
The Latest: US officials order send to sit-in at ICE office  —  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Latest on the separation of immigrant children from their parents (all times local):  —  Federal officials Monday ordered protesters to end their round-the-clock occupation of property outside …
Discussion: National Review and Axios
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
At a Toast to Trump, the North Korean Anthem Has a Starring Role  —  WASHINGTON — The North Korean national anthem got plenty of fanfare at the Virginia Women for Trump's birthday party for the president on Sunday.  Corey Stewart, the Republican Senate candidate from Virginia, got the hook.
Matt Phillips / New York Times:
What's the Yield Curve?  ‘A Powerful Signal of Recessions’ Has Wall Street's Attention  —  You can try and play down a trade war with China.  You can brush off the impact of rising oil prices on corporate earnings.  —  But if you're in the business of making economic predictions …
Discussion: TheBlaze and Mother Jones
Associated Press:
Colleague cracks Sen. McCaskill's rib with Heimlich maneuver  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin has cracked a rib of U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill while performing the Heimlich maneuver on the fellow Democrat when she began choking.  —  A spokesman for Manchin tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch …
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
White Extinction Anxiety  —  Last week Pat Buchanan was on “The Laura Ingraham Show” to discuss the humanitarian crisis Donald Trump has created at the border by ripping children away from their parents.  —  He was not particularly sympathetic to these families' plights …
Hannah Dreier / ProPublica:
I've Been Reporting on MS-13 for a Year.  Here Are the 5 Things Trump Gets Most Wrong.  —  The gang is not invading the country.  They're not posing as fake families.  They're not growing.  To stop them, the government needs to understand them.  —  There's one thing everyone can agree …
New York Times:
How an Affair Between a Reporter and a Security Aide Has Rattled Washington Media  —  The pearl bracelet arrived in May 2014, in the spring of Ali Watkins's senior year in college, a graduation gift from a man many years her senior.  It was the sort of bauble that might imply something …
Politico:
The left loses its cool  —  'When you're violent and cursing and screaming and blocking me from walking into a movie, there's something wrong,' said one top GOP official.  —  Two senior Trump administration officials were heckled at restaurants.  A third was denied service.
Hamilton Nolan / Splinter:
This Is Just the Beginning  —  Do you think that being asked to leave a restaurant, or having your meal interrupted, or being called by the public is bad?  My fascism-enabling friends, this is only the beginning.  —  One thing that people who wield great power often fail to viscerally understand …
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Sarah Sanders and the failure of “civility”  —  A little impoliteness could be what America really needs.  —  After White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced that she had been denied service at a Virginia restaurant this past weekend, prominent figures from across the political spectrum expressed their indignation.
WTOP:
Increasing threats to Homeland Security include burned animal carcass left on staffer's porch  —  (WASHINGTON) — Department of Homeland Security employees are seeing violent threats with greater frequency because of the president's immigration policy, according to an official with knowledge of a recent threat assessment.
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
The Power of Nancy Pelosi  —  Can the Democrats' polarizing leader chart a path to victory in the 2018 midterm elections?  —  Nancy Pelosi sits in a black-leather booth at Americana, a burger bistro in downtown Des Moines, radiating optimism.  “We're in a very good place,” she says of Democrats' odds in November.
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Why We Are Leaving the G.O.P.  —  When the obituary for the Republican Party is written, the year 1980 will be cited as the beginning of the end.  Reaganism was in full flower, but the big tent was already folding.  Republican leaders endorsed a constitutional ban on abortion at the convention that summer …
Drew Van Voorhis / The College Fix:
Professor asks men to send her pictures of their penises to help measure self esteem  —  Does a larger penis mean more self esteem?  One Missouri State University sociology professor is working to find that out and more, and in the name of science is asking men across America to send her pictures of their genitalia.
The Intercept:
The NSA's Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities  —  The secrets are hidden behind fortified walls in cities across the United States, inside towering, windowless skyscrapers and fortress-like concrete structures that were built to withstand earthquakes and even nuclear attack.
Steve Vockrodt / Kansas City Star:
Kander confirms bid for Kansas City mayor in a move already shaking up the ballot  —  Jason Kander, the former Missouri secretary of state whose growing nationwide profile as a Democrat led to speculation about his presidential ambitions, confirmed on Sunday his unexpected decision to run for mayor of Kansas City.
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Beast
Mike Rosenberg / The Seattle Times:
Seattle renters score big as landlords dangle freebies to fill empty apartments  —  As new apartments open across the city in record numbers, vacancy rates have grown, rents have stopped rising and landlords are offering an increasing number of freebies to get tenants in the door.
David Voreacos / Bloomberg:
Manafort Appeals Washington Judge's Order Revoking His Bail  — Judge sent Manafort to jail for alleged witness tampering  — Trump's ex-chairman preparing for two trials behind bars  —  Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is appealing a judge's order revoking …
Discussion: Law & Crime
Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Majority of Americans approve of Trump's handling of the economy for the first time: CNBC survey  — Trump's economic approval rating surged 6 points to 51 percent, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey.  — Fifty-four percent say the economy is good or excellent …
Bridget Read / Vogue:
28-Year-Old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Might Just Be the Future of the Democratic Party  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already made history with her campaign to challenge Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley for his seat in congress: the 28-year-old Bronx-born woman is the first person to face off …
Discussion: Roll Call
Lori Hinnant / Associated Press:
Women were lying dead, men... Migrants expelled in Sahara  —  ASSAMAKA, Niger (AP) — From this isolated frontier post deep in the sands of the Sahara, the expelled migrants can be seen coming over the horizon by the hundreds.  They look like specks in the distance, trudging miserably across …
Michelle Rindels / The Nevada Independent:
Cortez Masto visits the border, denied entry at facility  —  BROWNSVILLE, Texas — In the wake of national uproar over the Trump administration's practice of separating immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border, Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is getting a firsthand look at some of the facilities …
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
GOP candidate Katie Arrington to continue campaign after car wreck, doctors optimistic  —  Republican congressional candidate Katie Arrington plans to stay in the race to represent South Carolina's 1st District after sustaining severe injuries in a car crash over the weekend that left her in critical condition.
Discussion: Townhall and Axios
 
 
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Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Impeach Trump?  Even Democrats who despise the president can't agree on a strategy for the midterm election
Discussion: Breitbart
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
The Government Was Holding 100 More Separated Children Than The Public Knew About
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