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10:45 AM ET, June 24, 2019

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Axios:
Exclusive: Massive leak of Trump transition vetting documents shows “red flags” for top officials  —  Nearly 100 internal Trump transition vetting documents leaked to “Axios on HBO” identify a host of “red flags” about officials who went on to get some of the most powerful jobs in the U.S. government.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Behind the scenes: How Trump's team staffed the U.S. government
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
Tawnell D. Hobbs / Wall Street Journal:
Don't Want Your School to Be Named for a Confederate General?  Find Someone Else Named Lee  —  Schools honor others with surname to avoid costs of repainting or new signs  —  The North East Independent School District in Texas was facing pressure to change the name of Robert E. Lee High School …
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Sanders to propose canceling entire $1.6 trillion in U.S. student loan debt, escalating Democratic policy battle  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will propose on Monday eliminating all $1.6 trillion of student debt held in the United States, a significant escalation of the policy fight …
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Associated Press:
Sanders, progressives unveil bill to cancel student debt
Discussion: Roll Call
Tara Golshan / Vox:   Bernie Sanders's proposal to make college free and cancel all student loan debt, explained
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Black residents of South Bend unload on Mayor Pete Buttigieg … A town hall featuring Mayor Pete Buttigieg broke into near chaos Sunday afternoon as the Democratic presidential candidate tried to respond to community anger over a white police officer's killing of a black man.
Discussion: Power Line and Mother Jones
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:   Pete Buttigieg's Crash Course in Crisis
Tim Reid / Reuters:   Democratic Mayor Buttigieg faces growing fallout over police shooting in his city
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed News:
“These People Are Ready To Bolt”: Elizabeth Warren Allies Plan To Target Joe Biden Backers  —  You won't hear Elizabeth Warren say it, but allies at a national progressive group working closely with her campaign will: Joe Biden supporters “are ready to bolt.”
Discussion: The Week and Political Wire
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Theodoric Meyer / Politico:   The Ivory Tower team of wonks behind Warren's policy agenda
Saritha Prabhu / USA Today:   A civil war is coming for the Democratic Party — and it won't be pretty
Hayley Miller / HuffPost:
Sunday Morning Talk Shows Largely Ignore Trump Rape Allegation  —  The “big five” — NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and Fox — were all but silent on E. Jean Carroll's horrifying claim.  —  Acclaimed author E. Jean Carroll publicly alleged for the first time Friday that President Donald Trump raped her in a dressing room in the mid-1990s.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Allison P. Davis / The Cut:
The Wild Ride at Babe.Net The Aziz Ansari controversy was just the beginning of the trouble for the website.  —  In the spring of 2018, I visited the offices of the millennial/Gen-Z-oriented website babe.net, a sunny loft space in Williamsburg, just around the corner from Vice.
Project Veritas:
Insider Blows Whistle & Exec Reveals Google Plan to Prevent “Trump situation” in 2020 on Hidden Cam  —  Google Head of Responsible Innovation Says Elizabeth Warren “misguided” on “breaking up Google”  —  Google Exec Says Don't Break Us Up: “smaller companies don't have the resources” to “prevent next Trump situation”
Discussion: Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Associated Press:
AP-NORC Poll: Democratic voters not fully tuned in to 2020  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two dozen Democratic presidential candidates have crisscrossed the country for six months selling their vision for the United States.  But, on the eve of the first debates in the campaign …
Discussion: Political Wire
Lyman Stone / The Atlantic:
The Boomers Ruined Everything  —  The Baby Boomers ruined America.  That sounds like a hyperbolic claim, but it's one way to state what I found as I tried to solve a riddle.  American society is going through a strange set of shifts: Even as cultural values are in rapid flux, political institutions seem frozen in time.
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Dozens of documents indicate Ilhan Omar lived with Ahmed Hirsi while claiming to be married to Ahmed Elmi  —  MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Dozens of official documents suggest that Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was living with her current husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, throughout her entire legal marriage …
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Suffers a Triple Fail on Iran, Mexico and Immigration  —  The president's solo initiatives on Iran, Mexico and immigrants were all abandoned before taking effect.  Twitter bravado is a terrible way to govern.  —  LISTEN TO ARTICLE  —  4:46  —  SHARE THIS ARTICLE  —  Share  —  Tweet
Discussion: CNSNews and RedState
Andrew Stein / Wall Street Journal:
Trump-Haley in 2020  —  Putting her on the ticket may win over some moderate, suburban women.  —  I'm proud to have founded the Democrats for Trump movement in 2016.  President Trump's pro-growth policies have revived the stagnating U.S. economy, and he deserves a second term.
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump's ‘Concentration Camps’  —  The cruelty of immigrant family separations must not be tolerated.  —  I have often wondered why good people of good conscience don't respond to things like slavery or the Holocaust or human rights abuse.  —  Maybe they simply became numb to the horrific …
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
O'Rourke releases proposal that aims to improve veterans' lives  —  Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke — who heavily focused on veterans issues during his six years in the House of Representatives — released a proposal Monday morning that outlines how he would improve the lives of veterans if elected president.
Discussion: CNN, Politico and Beto For America
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court to consider whether federal government owes billions to health-care providers  —  The Supreme Court will review another controversy involving the Affordable Care Act, the justices announced Monday, this one involving health-care providers who say the federal government owes them billions of dollars.
Discussion: Politico
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
What Happens After Amazon's Domination Is Complete?  Its Bookstore Offers Clues  —  SPERRYVILLE, Va. — “The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy” is a medical handbook that recommends the right amount of the right drug for treating ailments from bacterial pneumonia to infected wounds.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Biden blasts Trump's ‘racist invective’ in immigration plan roll-out  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden criticized President Trump's “racist invective” and called for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, and a new foreign policy direction in Latin America and the Caribbean …
Discussion: Axios
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Ex-Trump adviser Flynn to appear in court with Mueller critic as his new lawyer  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's convicted former national security adviser Michael Flynn will appear in court on Monday for the first time since hiring a new lawyer who criticized Special …
Discussion: Political Wire
Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
How Hope Hicks's Testimony Again Destroyed The Trump-Russia Collusion Narrative  —  While the press portrayed Hope Hicks's silence as all-inclusive, in reality she testified at length and in detail about all aspects of Trump's presidential campaign.  —  Following the Thursday release …
Ben Geman / Axios:
Jay Inslee's plan to wean the U.S. off its reliance on coal, oil and natural gas  —  2020 Democratic White House hopeful Jay Inslee unveiled plans Monday aimed at weaning the U.S. off of reliance on coal, oil and gas.  —  Why it matters: The mix of legislative and executive proposals …
Discussion: Politico, ThinkProgress and UPI
 
 
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Jon Gabriel / Arizona Republic:
Horrors! USDA moved a few bureaucrats out of D.C. to improve service
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Stand-Ins, Push-Ups and Long Drives: How the 2020 Field Is Preparing for the Debates
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Democrats refuse to say what America should do about border crisis
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Joe Biden Says He Can Work With the Senate.  The Last Time He Tried, Mitch McConnell Picked His Pockets Badly.
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
California governor: “Xenophobic” GOP will be 3rd party
Discussion: Political Wire
Mosaic Magazine:
What Iran Is Really Up To  —  Desperate to preserve the nuclear deal …
Scott Bland / Politico:
Democratic group's poll shows Trump vulnerable with his base on health care
Discussion: Political Wire
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Eugene Kontorovich / Wall Street Journal:
Take the Palestinians' ‘No’ for an Answer  —  They've rejected every peace initiative.
Wall Street Journal:
Enough With Hamilton, Say Fans of Other Founding Fathers
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP to launch new fundraising site as Dems crush the online money game
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Serena Marshall / ABC News:
Doctor compares conditions at immigrant holding centers to ‘torture facilities’
Cindy Boren / Washington Post:
A White House visit for Raptors is a ‘hard no,’ Danny Green says
BostonGlobe.com:
For a young Elizabeth Warren, ‘a firecracker questioner,’ debate was a ticket to another life
Discussion: Washington Post
Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico:
Agriculture Department buries studies showing dangers of climate change
Discussion: Washington Post and POLITICUSUSA
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
America's Finest Economists Have Been Needlessly Undermining Growth, Study Confirms
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
 

 
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