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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“They're Squeezing Don Jr. Right Now”: As the Mueller Siege Tightens, Trump's Twitter Rage Crests  —  White House counsel Don McGahn's interviews with Mueller have rattled Trump to his core.  “Total meltdown,” one outside adviser said of his mood, while a Republican ally described him as “extremely frustrated.”
Associated Press:
Watergate wisdom? Cohen lawyer turns to Nixon turncoat
New York Times:
New Russian Hacking Targeted Republican Groups, Microsoft Says  —  BOSTON — The Russian military intelligence unit that sought to influence the 2016 election appears to have a new target: conservative American think tanks that have broken with President Trump and are seeking continued sanctions …
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Luke Harding / The Guardian:
Author of Trump-Russia dossier wins libel case in US court  —  Suit against Christopher Steele by three Russian oligarchs thrown out by judge  —  The former MI6 officer Christopher Steele has won a legal battle in the United States against three Russian oligarchs who sued him over allegations …
Discussion: Raw Story and Vox
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Microsoft says it has found a Russian operation targeting U.S. political institutions  —  SAN FRANCISCO — A group affiliated with the Russian government created phony versions of six websites — including some related to public policy and to the U.S. Senate — with the apparent goal of hacking …
Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues:
We are taking new steps against broadening threats to democracy  —  It's clear that democracies around the world are under attack.  Foreign entities are launching cyber strikes to disrupt elections and sow discord.  Unfortunately, the internet has become an avenue for some governments …
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Rand Paul, Russian Stooge
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
E.P.A.'s New Coal Pollution Rules Will Lead to More Deaths, Agency's Numbers Show  —  Want climate news in your inbox?  Sign up for our Climate Fwd: newsletter.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday made public the details of its new pollution rules governing coal-burning power plants …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Promised to Bring Back Coal. It's Declining Again
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Kate Mishkin / Charleston Gazette-Mail:   Experts: Coal's decline imminent, with or without Trump's regulatory changes
Mitchell P. Brook / USA Today:
Donald Trump should sue John Brennan to bring civility back to our politics  —  Believe it or not, a libel lawsuit against John Brennan could force political commentators back into the realm of fact and reality.  —  CONNECT  —  Now that President Donald Trump revoked ex-CIA Director John …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump denies report that he considered restricting Obama's intelligence briefings  —  President Trump on Tuesday denied a report that he had considered restricting former president Barack Obama's access to intelligence briefings, calling that an extraordinary step that he “never discussed or thought of.”
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:   Treason, Trust—and Trump
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Trump is treating security clearances like reality TV
Discussion: RedState, ThinkProgress and Breitbart
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has begun to assign its users a reputation score, predicting their trustworthiness on a scale from zero to one.  —  The previously unreported ratings system, which Facebook has developed …
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Sean Keach / The Sun:
SOCIAL SCORE Facebook has TRUST ratings for users - but it won't tell you your score
Discussion: Louder With Crowder
Katherine Lam / Fox News:
Mollie Tibbetts, missing Iowa student, found dead, her father says  —  Two sources tell Fox News that the body of the missing Iowa student has been found; Matt Finn reports.  —  The body of missing college student Mollie Tibbetts was found Tuesday, her father and two sources told Fox News …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's new reform bill would ban members of Congress from owning individual stocks  — Sen. Elizabeth Warren proposes a new bill that would ban members of Congress and the White House staff from owning individual stocks.  — As an apparent alternative, the legislation would create …
Discussion: Political Wire and Daily Kos
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Zachary Warmbrodt / Politico:
Warren proposes sweeping crackdown on lobbying
Discussion: Axios and The Daily Beast
Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
Nazi death camp guard arrested by ICE, deported to Germany: Authorities  —  A man who authorities believe is the last known Nazi collaborator living in the U.S. has been arrested and deported to Germany.  —  At the order of President Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents …
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Associated Press:
US deports former Nazi camp guard, 95, to Germany
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
GOP candidate jokes: ‘The Russians are going to help me’ win in November  —  A Republican candidate running for governor in Pennsylvania joked that the Russian government will help him win in November.  —  Scott Wagner, who is running to unseat incumbent Gov. Tom Wolf (D) …
Discussion: Shareblue Media
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Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / Oregonian:
He brought an American flag to protest fascism in Portland.  Then antifa attacked him  —  Portland antifa attack fellow counter-protester carrying American flag  —  Warning: This story contains graphic content  —  Paul Welch came to the downtown protest Aug. 4 to let his political leanings be known.
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump is worried that Mueller interview could be a ‘perjury trap’  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he was worried that any statements under oath he provides to Special Counsel Robert Mueller could be used to bring perjury charges against him as part …
New York Times:
Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests  —  ALTENA, Germany — When you ask locals why Dirk Denkhaus, a young firefighter trainee who had been considered neither dangerous nor political, broke into the attic of a refugee group house and tried to set it on fire, they will list the familiar issues.
Michael Wilson / New York Times:
A New Wife, a Secret Past and a Trail of Loss and Blood  —  A widower met a younger woman on the street in 2013.  They married soon after.  Then he got to know her.  —  FORT LEE, N.J. — A young man wearing a baseball cap sat alone in his convertible at the drive-through lane of a Dunkin' Donuts here …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Hypocritical politically motivated feminism is killing #MeToo.  Just ask Keith Ellison.  —  Feminism died in 1998 when Democrats attacked Bill Clinton's accusers, and the campaign against sexual harassment is again suffering the same fate.  —  CONNECT  —  Feminism, Maureen Dowd once explained, died in 1998.
Discussion: New Republic and Weekly Standard
Kelly Marie Tran / New York Times:
I Won't Be Marginalized by Online Harassment  —  Editor's note: The actress deleted her Instagram posts this summer in response to online harassment.  Here she speaks out for the first time.  —  It wasn't their words, it's that I started to believe them.  —  Their words seemed to confirm …
Discussion: Mashable, IndieWire, Vox and Jezebel
Charlie Kirk / The Hill:
President Trump is making diplomacy great again  —  Russia hysteria has reached such a fever pitch in “the swamp” that one must wonder if we'll soon have to scrub our bars of Vodka, lest we be accused of colluding with Russia.  —  Congratulations if you consider that an absurd notion …
John Tibbetts / Washington Post:
Sea level rise is eroding home value, and owners might not even know it  —  CHARLESTON, S.C. — Elizabeth Boineau's 1939 Colonial sits a block and a half from the Ashley River in a sought-after neighborhood of ancient live oaks, charming gardens and historic homes.
Pratheek Rebala / TIME:
The State Department Hired Cambridge Analytica's Parent Company to Target Terrorist Propaganda  —  Newly unearthed documents describing the relationship between SCL Group, parent company of embattled data firm Cambridge Analytica, and the State Department provide a rare glimpse into the nation's effort to counter terrorist propaganda.
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook Is Removing More Than 5,000 Ad Targeting Options To Prevent Discrimination  —  Facebook is planning to remove more than 5,000 ad targeting options in an effort to prevent discriminatory advertising.  —  The bulk of the 5,000 targeting options, slated for removal by this fall …
Emily Badger / New York Times:
The Bipartisan Cry of ‘Not in My Backyard’  —  The housing secretary wants to encourage mixed-income, multifamily development as a way of making housing more affordable.  But it's a notion homeowners of all political leanings tend to oppose.  —  Ben Carson, the secretary of the Department …
Discussion: CityLab
emptywheel:
It Is False to Claim There Was No Follow-Up to the June 9 Meeting  —  On July 15, 2017 — a week after the June 9 meeting was reported in a NYT story publishing the first of numerous White House statements attempting to explain the meeting — Rhona Graff sent Rob Goldstone an email (PDF 44).
Discussion: The Week
The Guardian:
Arctic's strongest sea ice breaks up for first time on record  —  Usually frozen waters open up twice this year in phenomenon scientists described as scary  —  The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up, opening waters north of Greenland that are normally frozen, even in summer.
Micah Mattix / Weekly Standard:
Prufrock: Joseph Epstein on Charm, the Problem with Efficiency, and Wasp-Eating Vines  —  Also: A lesson from Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, in defense of nationalism, and more.  —  S ometimes reading younger writers on Twitter makes me feel like Nikolai Petrovitch in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons.
Heather Kelly / CNNMoney:
Google's data collection is hard to escape, study claims  —  5 stunning stats about Google  —  Short of chucking your phone into the river, shunning the internet, and learning to read paper maps again, there's not much you can do to keep Google from collecting data about you.
Discussion: Ars Technica, Gizmodo and Mashable
Karen K. Ho / Columbia Journalism Review:
Women and minorities are paid the least in newsrooms: report  —  Voices fellows Annie Ma (left) and Elaine Chen work together at the AAJA national convention in Houston to produce their report on pay disparities in newsrooms.  Photo by Cecilia Lei/AAJA Voices.
 
 
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USA Today:
Prisoners nationwide go on strike to protest ‘modern-day slavery’
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David Bossie / Fox News:
Bruce Ohr and the anti-Trump activities of Obama officials — what will his testimony reveal?
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The Mueller investigation is showing how badly we've failed to prosecute white-collar crime
Bloomberg:
Europe Should Stop Trying to Save the Iran Deal
Kirsti Knolle / Reuters:
No indication North Korean nuclear activities stopped: IAEA
Toni Airaksinen / Campus Reform:
At UCLA, 20 paid diversity advocates isn't enough
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
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Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Daily Wire
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone:
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Once-safe GOP seats threatened by blue wave
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
How voting for Kavanaugh could hurt Susan Collins' re-election bid
Discussion: Vox, Political Wire and Daily Kos
Kashmir Hill / Jezebel:
How a Woman Disappears from the History Books
Jane Stancill / Raleigh News & Observer:
Protesters topple Silent Sam Confederate statue at UNC