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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Pelosi tells Dems she wants to see Trump ‘in prison’  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi told senior Democrats that she'd like to see President Donald Trump “in prison” as she clashed with House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler in a meeting on Tuesday night over whether to launch impeachment proceedings.
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Robert Mueller could be subpoenaed in the next two weeks  —  House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler told Democratic leaders at a closed-door meeting this week that he could issue a subpoena to Robert Mueller within two weeks if he is unable to reach an agreement to secure the former special …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
On Trump and impeachment, some Democrats fear a nightmare scenario
Will Bunch / Inquirer.com:
Dems, media try 1973 tactics to fight Trump's 2019 ‘cancer on the presidency.’ It won't work
Discussion: Mediaite and emptywheel
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
U.S. commander says American forces face ‘imminent’ threat from Iran  —  Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie says he believes the Iranians or their proxies may orchestrate an attack at any moment.  —  BAGHDAD — The top commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East says he believes the Iranians …
Discussion: Political Wire and Sean Hannity
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
House Democrats To Make It Easier To Find Trump Aides In Contempt, Bring Them To Court  —  The House will also more forward with enforcing subpoenas against Attorney General William Barr and ex-White House counsel Don McGahn.  —  WASHINGTON — House Democrats are set to vote next week …
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Los Angeles Times:   House Democrats don't have a majority for impeachment, but support is growing
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
House Dem leaders to give chairmen broad power to enforce subpoenas
Discussion: Fox News and The Week
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
A Dutch Teenager's Death Was Wrongly Reported As “Legal Euthanasia” Across International Media.  Here's How They All Got It Wrong.  —  Inaccurate stories claiming the 17-year-old had been “legally euthanised” travelled so widely across the internet that even the pope appeared to tweet about it.
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Democrats Learned the Wrong Lesson From Clinton's Impeachment  —  Democrats debating whether to impeach Donald Trump may be misreading the evidence from the last time the House tried to remove a president.  —  It's become conventional wisdom—not only among Democrats but also among many political analysts …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Walter Shapiro / New Republic:
1998 Was a Seinfeld Election—Not an Impeachment Referendum  —  From Henry Ford to Donald Trump, America has lionized business leaders (and shameless bankrupts) who disdain history.  But almost as insidious are those politicians and pundits who oversimplify history.
New York Times:
Police Commissioner Apologizes for Officers' Actions in Stonewall Rebellion  —  New York's police commissioner, James P. O'Neill, apologized on Thursday on behalf of the Police Department for officers' actions during the Stonewall riot, a seminal 1969 clash outside a Greenwich Village club …
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
Deceased Strategist's Files Detail Republican Gerrymandering in North Carolina, Advocates Say  —  When the hard drives of a deceased Republican strategist revealed new evidence last week about the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census …
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
New Files From GOP Operative's Hard Drive Suggest N.C. Republicans Lied in Court to Maintain Racial Gerrymander
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
Trump's catastrophic fashion choices in England were not just a sign of bad taste  —  The president and first lady have landed in Ireland.  They have left the pomp and pageantry of England.  Melania Trump has removed her Phillip Treacy hat.  The president is once again in a business suit and his too-long ties.
Christian Schneider / The Bulwark:
Just Because You CAN Defend Steven Crowder Doesn't Mean You HAVE To  —  It's easy to stick up for someone's right to say something, anything.  But free speech is about more than owning the libs.  —  It may surprise you to learn that there is very little record of the Founding Fathers' debates …
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Who's in — and out — of the first Democratic debates  —  Barring a last-minute change, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock will not make the stage.  —  A prominent governor running in the Democratic primary is at serious risk of getting shut out of the party's first presidential debates …
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and ABC News
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Promoting based on potential: How The Atlantic is putting a lot more women in charge  —  It's not a shocker that a lot has changed at The Atlantic since it was founded all the way back in 1857.  Perhaps more surprising, though, is how much has changed there in just the last two and a half years.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Michael Flynn fires legal team with sentencing looming on federal charges  —  Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn fired his legal team as he awaits sentencing for lying to the FBI about his conversations with a top Russian official, according to a new filing Thursday from his long-time attorneys.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Barack and Michelle Obama Sign Spotify Deal to Produce Exclusive Podcasts  —  NY Digital Editor @https://twitter.com/xpangler FOLLOW  — YouTube Says It's Reviewing Harassment Policies, After It Condoned Sustained Attacks on Gay Latino Journalist  —  President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama …
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
The Obamas Ink Deal With Spotify to Produce, Host Podcasts
Washington Post:
Mexico aims to avoid tariffs with potential deal limiting migrants going north, allowing U.S. to deport Central American asylum seekers  —  U.S. and Mexican officials are discussing the outlines of a deal that would dramatically increase Mexico's immigration enforcement efforts and give …
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Hails Elizabeth Warren's ‘Economic Patriotism’ Plan: ‘She Sounds Like Donald Trump at His Best’  —  Tucker Carlson is... Team Warren?  —  In a stunner of a monologue Wednesday night, the Fox News host praised Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) — yes, Elizabeth Warren — for her newly-released economic proposal.
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Trump Delays D-Day Commemoration Start With Laura Ingraham Interview
Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed News:
The GoFundMe Border Wall Is Finished.  It's Not Stopping Migrants From Coming In.  —  “Regardless of what they build, they're still coming in,” one resident said.  “This is just political crap.”  —  Reporting From  —  Sunland Park, New Mexico  —  SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico …
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Laurence H. Tribe / Washington Post:
Impeach Trump.  But don't necessarily try him in the Senate.  —  Laurence H. Tribe is the University Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard and the coauthor, most recently, of “To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment.”  —  It is possible to argue that impeaching President Trump …
Discussion: Bookworm Room and Balloon Juice
David Enrich / New York Times:
Senators Ask Federal Reserve to Review Trump's Deutsche Bank Transactions  —  A group of Democratic senators want top officials at the Federal Reserve to examine whether Deutsche Bank complied with anti-money-laundering and other laws after bank employees flagged transactions tied to President Trump as potentially suspicious.
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
‘These boys were on a holiday’: Trump family members promote themselves, and businesses, on European trip  —  As parties go, it's hard to top a state dinner with the queen of England, but President Trump's sons — Donald Jr. and Eric — tried to keep the revelry going during an impromptu pub crawl in Doonbeg …
Discussion: The Guardian
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Who Cares About the Supreme Court's ‘Legitimacy’?  —  Conservatives seem to assume that only the chief justice is moved by fears that he and his colleagues will end up looking like politicians in robes.  —  In a rational world, the Supreme Court would hit the pause button on the pending census case …
Washington Post:
A wealthy Iraqi sheikh who urges a hard-line U.S. approach to Iran spent 26 nights at Trump's D.C. hotel  —  In July, a wealthy Iraqi sheikh named Nahro al-Kasnazan wrote letters to national security adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging them to forge closer ties …
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Measure Of Public Mood Is ‘Most Liberal Ever Recorded,’ Political Scientist Says  —  The U.S. public's vision for the government's size and scope is “the most liberal ever recorded” in the 68-year history of what's known as the Public Policy Mood estimate, the estimate's creator James Stimson announced Wednesday.
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Trumpworld Lobbyists Cut Check to Giuliani's Ukraine ‘Investigator’  —  A payment to Global Energy Producers' Lev Parnas was revealed in federal court proceedings, in which a former partner is attempting to recoup money over a movie deal gone bad.  —  BEAST INSIDE
Anthony Adragna / Politico:
Democrats urge Trump to rethink July 4 plans  —  Three senior House Democrats are urging President Donald Trump to reconsider his plans to speak at the Fourth of July celebration on the National Mall.  —  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Natural Resources Chairman Raúl Grijalva …
Discussion: Political Wire
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Michael Cohen's life behind bars  —  What prison life could be like for Cohen  —  (CNN)Michael Cohen was nervous about his new life behind bars.  President Donald Trump's former fixer turned star government witness was worried that inmates who supported Trump might bring trouble when he arrived …
Discussion: Political Wire
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
William Barr is asking questions the media don't want asked  —  “I'm amused,” Attorney General William Barr told CBS News' Jan Crawford, “by these people who make a living disclosing classified information, including the names of intelligence operatives, wringing their hands about whether …
Discussion: twitchy.com and American Greatness
Ken Schwencke / ProPublica:
New: You Can Now Search the Full Text of 3 Million Nonprofit Tax Records for Free  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom based in New York.  Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.
 
 
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The women of MSNBC are reshaping the television landscape
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
White House invites key Trump business allies to Bahrain forum in search for a Middle East ‘deal of the century’
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Drag Queen Story Time Continues Its Reign at Libraries, Despite Backlash
Discussion: The Federalist and Gothamist
Jonathan Kozol / The Nation:
Joe Biden Once Made Common Cause With School Segregationists
Discussion: Observer and Mother Jones
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Zach Goldberg / Tablet Magazine:
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Andrew Witherspoon / Axios:
Trump's empty Cabinet positions have exceeded any recent president, and it's not even close
Anand Giridharadas / TIME:
Bernie Sanders Wants to Change America. But He May Have to Change Himself First.
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