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Christian Vanderbrouk / The Bulwark:
Catch-45  —  The twisted logic of Trump defenders would make a fine Joseph Heller novel.  —  There are many things you could call the professional Trump apologist: loyal, creative, unrelenting.  Logically consistent?  Not so much.  —  “Congress is too partisan to investigate the president!”
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Bruce Schlesman / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch: DOJ Documents Show Bruce Ohr Was Given a $28,000 Bonus During Russiagate Investigation Plus a Raise
Discussion: Fox News and The Gateway Pundit
Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
Why The IG Report On FISA Abuse Will Unleash Barr's Investigation Of Spygate
Discussion: Slate and NBC News
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's latest eruption at Pelosi reveals a terrible truth about this moment  —  Amazingly, after all we've seen, there's still a tendency in some quarters to treat the falsehoods regularly told by President Trump, and echoed by his media allies, as a somewhat exaggerated but basically conventional form of political dishonesty.
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
How Biden's Campaign Confronted Him on Abortion  —  Joe Biden's aides knew that the 2020 front-runner was going to get ripped apart over his support of the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for abortion procedures.  They were frustrated that the former vice president wouldn't change his stance …
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Biden's abrupt U-turn on abortion could cost him in the long run
Steve Hendrix / Washington Post:
Then he decided to kill them.  —  Scott Paul Beierle's attack on a Florida yoga studio was fueled by male supremacy, a movement with ties to other hate groups.  —  TALLAHASSEE — The first thing Kate Pierson did after unlocking the yoga studio that November afternoon was set the mood …
Sam Webb / Metro.co.uk:
Gay couple beaten up for refusing to kiss for men's entertainment  —  This horrifying picture shows a flight attendant and her girlfriend covered in blood after a gang of men attacked them when they refused to kiss for them.  —  The apparently homophobic attack happened on a London bus …
Discussion: New York Post and PinkNews
Associated Press:
UK's Brexit Party narrowly defeated in key electoral test  —  British Prime Minister Theresa May formally stepped down as Conservative Party leader on Friday, defeated by the Brexit conundrum.  —  May's three years at the helm ended not with a bang but a whimper: The party simply confirmed …
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Eli Stokols / Los Angeles Times:   For Trump, it's all personal; ideology takes second place
BBC:
Theresa May officially steps down as Tory leader
Discussion: UPI
Keith Griffith / Daily Mail:
Russia is making its own ‘correct’ version of Chernobyl that will blame AMERICA and the CIA for the nuclear disaster following the unexpected success of the new HBO show  —  Furious at the breakout success of the HBO series Chernobyl, Russia is planning to make its own series portraying …
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Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
Unhappy with HBO's ‘Chernobyl,’ Russia is planning its own series — blaming the CIA  —  HBO's recent miniseries “Chernobyl” has become another hit for the premium network, pulling in critical praise and triggering a global conversation about the dramatic 1986 nuclear disaster at a Soviet Union reactor …
Discussion: New York Post, The Playlist and Jezebel
New York Times:
Trump Allows High-Tech U.S. Bomb Parts to Be Built in Saudi Arabia  —  WASHINGTON — When the Trump administration declared an emergency last month and fast-tracked the sale of more American arms to Saudi Arabia, it did more than anger members of Congress who opposed the sale on humanitarian grounds.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Please don't be fooled by Tucker Carlson  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson played something of a trick on his audience on Wednesday night.  He read off a series of economic policy ideas to his viewers, making clear that he was quoting someone else.  “Politicians love to say they care about American jobs …
Discussion: The Week and CNN
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:   Tucker Carlson's Praise for Elizabeth Warren Should Scare Democrats
David Catanese / US News:
How the Revolution Ends  —  Some of Bernie Sanders' most ardent supporters believe 2020 could be ‘stolen’ from him by the Democratic National Committee - again.  —  WARNER, N.H. — AS Bernie Sanders plodded up a steep hill in the backyard of a Main Street bookstore in this tiny New Hampshire town, he was in no mood for selfies.
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Watching Elizabeth Warren Come Alive
Discussion: Shakesville and CNN
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Jobs creation slows dramatically with payrolls up just 75,000 in May, much worse than expected  —  KEY POINTS  — March's job count was revised lower from 189,000 to 153,000 and the April number was lowered to 224,000 from 263,000, for a total reduction of 75,000.
Discussion: JustOneMinute and The Week
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The Daily Beast:
House Dems Preparing Investigation of Rudy Giuliani for Ukraine Shenanigans  —  The president's lawyer says he welcomes the scrutiny and plans to turn it to his advantage.  —  Top congressional Democrats are actively discussing opening a probe into Rudy Giuliani for his overseas political …
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Are Voter Opinions on Trump as Stable as They Seem?  —  The great irony of the Trump presidency, one that is built on chaos and drama, is how stable it is.  By that, I mean the stability of opinions of this president.  Despite all of the twists and turns and tweets over the last three years …
John Solomon / The Hill:
Key figure that Mueller report linked to Russia was a State Department intel source  —  In a key finding of the Mueller report, Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik, who worked for Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is tied to Russian intelligence.  —  But hundreds of pages …
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Trump faces rare Republican revolt on judicial pick  —  President Donald Trump faces a growing Republican rebellion on one of his judicial nominees, throwing his confirmation into doubt.  —  Michael Bogren, who Trump nominated to serve on a federal district court, is already opposed …
Discussion: Contemptor
Charlotte Jee / MIT Technology Review:
YouTube is deleting videos on Nazi history as part of its hate speech crackdown  —  The site's torrid week shows what a challenge moderation has become for big tech firms.  —  The news: YouTube announced new rules around hate speech on Wednesday that prohibit videos promoting Nazi ideology …
Reuters:
Russian disinformation on YouTube draws ads, lacks warning labels: researchers  —  SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fourteen Russia-backed YouTube channels spreading disinformation have been generating billions of views and millions of dollars in advertising revenue, according to researchers …
Discussion: RedState and NB Blog
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Racial Reckoning Comes  —  Trump has changed our national narrative.  —  When I was a boy I was taught a certain story about America.  This was the land of opportunity.  Immigrants came to this land and found an open field and a fair chance to pursue their dreams.
Discussion: Tablet Magazine
Brady McCombs / HuffPost:
Trump Supporter Arrested After Allegedly Threatening To Kill Members of Congress  —  Scott Brian Haven of Utah is accused of making over 2,000 phone calls to the U.S. Capitol over a three-year period about Democrats threatening Trump's presidency.  —  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) …
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Poll: Majority Want To Keep Abortion Legal, But They Also Want Restrictions  —  Three-quarters of Americans say they want to keep in place the landmark Supreme Court ruling, Roe v. Wade, that made abortion legal in the United States, but a strong majority would like to see restrictions on abortion rights …
Discussion: Townhall, Washington Post and Axios
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Finding America at a back-roads gas station  —  DICKERSON, Md. — Everything happens for a reason.  —  At least that's what people tell you when your plans go south.  —  Driving from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., recently, I did as I nearly always do: I clicked the “avoid highways” …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Republicans Have Become the Except-When-Trump-Does-It Party  —  Before heading off for a break at his Trump-branded golf course in Ireland, President Trump this week attacked the mayor of London as a “stone cold loser,” called an American-born British princess “nasty” and then denied he said it …
Des Moines Register:
New Iowa Poll to test Democratic candidates' strength among likely caucus attendees  —  Results of a new Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Poll on Democratic presidential candidates will be released online at 7 p.m. CST Saturday.  —  The poll, which will be published at DesMoinesRegister.com …
YouTube:
Mayor Pete Buttigieg Gets Uptown Certified |  DESUS & MERO |  SHOWTIME … DESUS & MERO take 2020 Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg to their home turf to show him around and discuss the issues.  New Episodes on Mondays and Thursdays at 11/10c.  —  #DESUSandMERO  —  #BodegaHive
Daniel Klein / The James G. Martin Center …:
A Witch Hunt Comes for a Nonconformist Professor  —  On 30 April 2019, St. Edmunds College, University of Cambridge, rescinded a fellowship to the outstanding young researcher Noah Carl, who self-identifies as a conservative.  The rescinding was unjust, and it came after a sustained …
Discussion: National Review
CNN:
US and Russian warships nearly collide in the Pacific  —  (CNN)The United States and Russian navies are at odds over an apparent near collision in the Pacific Friday with each side blaming the other.  —  The US and Russian warships came somewhere between 50 feet and 165 feet of each other …
The Economist:
Google rewards reputable reporting more than left-wing politics  —  Our statistical study revealed no evidence of ideological bias in the search engine's news tab  —  “Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives”, tweeted Donald Trump in 2018.  “They are controlling what we can & cannot see.”
 
 
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Agence France-Presse:
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