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8:40 AM ET, July 3, 2018

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Washington Post:
Pruitt aides reveal new details of his spending and management at EPA  —  Two of Scott Pruitt's top aides provided fresh details to congressional investigators in recent days about some of his most controversial spending and management decisions, including his push to find a six-figure job …
Discussion: Splinter, New York Times, Axios and The Week
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Jessica Sidman / Washingtonian:
Mother With Her 2-Year-Old Confronts Scott Pruitt at a DC Restaurant  —  “I would urge you to resign before your scandals push you out,” Kristin Mink told the EPA chief at Teaism.  —  Kristin Mink saw protesters confront Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a DC Mexican restaurant.
Discussion: twitchy.com
CNN:   Whistleblower: EPA's Pruitt kept secret calendar to hide meetings
BuzzFeed:
Here Are The Documents Recovered From Michael Cohen's Shredder  —  “NEVER MET: Donald Trump, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg, Michael Jackson, The Jackson's family, Sony.”  —  When the Department of Justice announced this month that investigators had pieced together records found …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump: ‘If not for me,’ United States would be at war with North Korea  —  President Trump said Tuesday that the United States would be at war with North Korea without his efforts and that conversations with the nation's leaders are “going well” — an assessment at odds with recent reports …
Danielle Ohl / Baltimore Sun:
Trump declines request to lower flags in memory of Capital Gazette shooting victims  —  Mourners gathered in Annapolis to honor the five employees who were killed Thursday in a shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom.  Their names are Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters.
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Warns NATO Allies to Spend More on Defense, or Else  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump has written sharply worded letters to the leaders of several NATO allies — including Germany, Belgium, Norway and Canada — taking them to task for spending too little on their own defense and warning …
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New York Times:
Merkel, to Survive, Agrees to Border Camps for Migrants
Discussion: The Week and Joe.My.God.
The White House:
Remarks by President Trump and Prime Minister Rutte of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Before Bilateral Meeting
Discussion: Mother Jones and HuffPost
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
How Amy Coney Barrett vaulted onto Trump's Supreme Court shortlist  —  A testy exchange with Dianne Feinstein helped make this former Notre Dame law professor a favorite of conservatives.  —  If nominated to replace Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett may have Sen. Dianne Feinstein to thank.
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Osita Nwanevu / Slate:
Why Did the Rhode Island Democratic Party Endorse an Alt-Right Supporter Over a Progressive Incumbent?  —  Moira Jayne Walsh, a 27-year-old former waitress and labor organizer, captured a bit of national attention after she won a seat in the Rhode Island House in 2016.
Discussion: Uprise RI and Splinter
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Bob Plain / RI Future:
RI Dem Party doesn't endorse three progressive female legislators
Discussion: Uprise RI
Amy Graff / San Francisco Chronicle:
‘20 pounds of human waste’ dropped on San Francisco street corner  —  A foul odor permeated from a massive bag of human excrement sludge left on a street corner in San Francisco's Tenderloin district Saturday.  —  The horrendous smell and sight quickly gained notoriety when a Reddit user posted …
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Kate Irby / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Congressman denied entry to California detention facility for children under age 14  —  PLEASANT HILL  —  The cry of a child could be heard just inside the nondescript, brown detention facility in Pleasant Hill, California, a San Francisco suburb, and Rep. Jeff Denham wanted to see for himself what was inside.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
'I'd like to kill ‘em’: GOP takes on Trump tariffs  —  Republican lawmakers are losing their patience with the president's trade war, saying it's hurting their states and the party's chances in the midterms.  —  Republican senators are at their breaking point with Donald Trump's protectionist trade blitz.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Washington Post:
How Trump is changing the face of legal immigration  —  As the national immigration debate swirls around the effort to discourage illegal immigration by separating families at the border, the Trump administration is making inroads into another longtime priority: reducing legal immigration.
Discussion: Political Wire
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Nailed It  —  Speaking of conspiracy theories, I love this tweet from Dan Rather:  —  We know LeBron James has been outspoken about Trump.  So it makes sense to head to California, the heartland of the #resistance.  The fact that he will be trying to resist the dominance of the Warriors is an added plot twist.
Discussion: Power Line
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Another Lazy ‘Never Trump’ Screed  —  Emerald Robinson's ‘Never Trump’ analysis is equally deficient in fact and seriousness.  —  There's always a trade-off in calling attention to trollish, attention-seeking writers who don't deserve a response on the merits.
NBC News:
News media paid Melania Trump thousands for use of photos in ‘positive stories only’  —  The First Lady earned six figures from an agreement with Getty Images that paid royalties to the Trumps and mandated photos be used in positive coverage.  —  Since her husband took office Melania Trump …
Alyssa Fisher / The Forward:
Alan Dershowitz ‘Shunned’ By Friends In Martha's Vineyard For Defending Trump  —  Lawyer Alan Dershowitz is afraid that America is growing increasingly intolerant toward opposing views.  His proof, according to his recent op-ed in The Hill: Friends are ostracizing him in Martha's Vineyard.
Discussion: BostonGlobe.com, alicublog and The Root
Associated Press:
Russian charged with Trump's ex-campaign chief is key figure  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — During the special counsel's Russia investigation, Konstantin Kilimnik has been described as a fixer, translator or office manager to President Donald Trump's ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Press
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
In U.S., Record-Low 47% Extremely Proud to Be Americans  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — This Fourth of July marks a low point in U.S. patriotism.  For the first time in Gallup's 18-year history asking U.S. adults how proud they are to be Americans, fewer than a majority say they are “extremely proud.”
Courier-Journal:
Man allegedly threatens to chop up Rand Paul and his family with an ax  —  Matt Stone/Louisville Courier Journal  —  A man is accused of threatening to chop up U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and his family with an ax.  —  The man has been arrested.  He allegedly called in the threats to Paul's Bowling Green office.
Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
‘Tormented and traumatized’: Rage toward women fuels mass shooters  —  The alleged mass shooter's rage began — as it has so often before — with a woman.  —  Years before Jarrod Ramos sued the Capital Gazette for defamation, before he targeted a specific columnist at the Capital …
Discussion: New York Times and NBC News
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Women Might Save America Yet  —  Erin Gabriel was already pretty busy before Donald Trump was elected president.  All three of her children are autistic, and her youngest, an 8-year-old girl named Abby, is also deaf, blind and nonverbal, and suffers from seizures.  “She has like 17 specialists,” Gabriel, 39, told me.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge's order could undercut Trump's immigrant detention plan  —  An order a federal judge issued Monday requiring individualized decisions on whether some asylum-seekers can be released into the U.S. poses a new legal threat to President Donald Trump's effort to crack down on migrants crossing the border from Mexico.
Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
Ron Paul Becomes Latest Republican to Post Literal Nazi Content  —  Monday morning, former Republican congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul posted a tweet about “cultural Marxism.”  Cultural Marxism is not an unusual topic in right-wing circles, but the illustration that went with the tweet was …
Discussion: HuffPost, CBS Los Angeles and Mediaite
New York Times:
What if Trump's Nativism Actually Hurts Him?  —  President Trump's short-lived family separation policy extended the hard line on immigration he promoted during his presidential campaign.  Many analysts believe that this strategy helped him win the election by politicizing latent nativist sentiment among white Americans.
Discussion: Splinter
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trump's Taking Us From Temper Tantrum to Trade War  —  In one way, Donald Trump's attack on our foreign trade partners resembles his attack on immigrants: in each case, the attack is framed as a response to evildoing that exists only in his imagination.  No, there isn't a wave of violent crime …
Discussion: Raw Story, The Week, Breitbart and Vox
Dan Zak / Washington Post:
‘This is not a normal time’: A mad hot summer in the capital of the resistance  —  Her Mexican father had raised her to abide by the law.  Her Guatemalan mother told her that she was crazy to go.  But there was Maritza Solano, sitting on the cool marble floor of the Hart Senate Office Building …
 
 
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HuffPost:
Abolishing ICE Isn't Very Popular (Yet)
ABC News:
US-China tariffs: What's behind them, who stands to be hurt?
Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
Trump Judicial Pick Who Blogged Favorably About the KKK Had to Withdraw.  Now He's at the Justice Department.
Discussion: Splinter and Daily Kos
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Sad Delusion of Anthony Kennedy Conspiracy Theories
Discussion: National Review, Salon and POLITICUSUSA
British Vogue:
Oprah Winfrey Covers August Vogue
Martin E. Comas / Orlando Sentinel:
Lake deputy shoots gator with AR-15, freeing girl trapped in tree — ‘please hurry!’ mom pleads to 911 operator
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge sets hearing in Flynn case
Discussion: Raw Story
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NBC News:
Trump White House sets turnover records, analysis shows
Discussion: Axios and Splinter
Politico:
The top Democratic Senate recruit who's ditching Chuck Schumer
Kavitha Surana / ProPublica:
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Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
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Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
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