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10:05 PM ET, July 15, 2019

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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
We need someone who can lift us up again.  Enter President Obama.  —  An open letter to Barack Obama:  —  Mr. President, it is time.  You must speak.  Your country needs you.  —  Eleven summers ago, as you accepted the Democratic nomination for president, you announced: “Tonight …
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Gabby Orr / Politico:
How Trump aides rushed to repackage the ‘go back’ tweets  —  Within hours of President Donald Trump's radioactive tweets on Sunday urging several minority Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to other countries, his campaign was scrambling to repackage the attack into a broader patriotic message.
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
How Trump flipped the script on Pelosi and The Squad  —  Analysis: Trump wants the Democratic Party stuck to its progressive fringe.  Thanks to him, now they are.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump clearly didn't like the way Speaker Nancy Pelosi's fight with “The Squad” was playing out for him.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
‘Racist’ tweets?  News media grapple with how to label Trump's latest attacks  —  When is it time to call a statement “racist,” and when is it time to let others characterize it that way?  —  News organizations wrestled with that question Sunday and Monday after President Trump tweeted …
Discussion: Associated Press
Heather Caygle / Politico:
‘Bile of garbage’: Progressive squad tears into Trump  —  The four progressive congresswomen at the center of President Donald Trump's racist tweet controversy tore into the president on Monday, ripping him on everything from his “inhumane” policies at the border to his “weak” mind and the “bile of garbage” that comes from his mouth.
Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed News:
Trump Said His Racist Tweets Are Fine Because “Many People” Agree With Him
Discussion: Washington Press
Associated Press:   The Latest: Romney calls Trump's tweets ‘destructive’
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Twitter says Trump's racist tweets don't break its rules
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Biden slams Trump for ‘racist attack’
Discussion: Political Wire, The Week and Axios
Toluse Olorunnipa / Washington Post:
Trump's incendiary rhetoric is met with fading resistance from Republican and corporate leaders
Benjamin Swasey / WBUR:
GOP Gov. Baker Calls Trump's Tweet Attacks On Dem Congresswomen ‘Shameful, Racist’
Discussion: WBUR News
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Rep. Al Green to force impeachment vote against Trump
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Meghan McCain knocks Lindsey Graham for defending Trump's tweets: ‘This is not the person I used to know’
Discussion: ABC News, Political Wire and Breitbart
George T. Conway III / Washington Post:
George Conway: Trump is a racist president  —  George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York.  —  To this day, I can remember almost the precise spot where it happened: a supermarket parking lot in eastern Massachusetts.  It was the mid-1970s; I was not yet a teenager, or barely one.
Discussion: Mediaite
New York Times:
After 2016 Bible Slip, Trump Lashed Out at ‘So-Called Christians,’ Book Says  —  Furious after he was criticized by evangelicals for stumbling in his reference to a book of the Bible during the 2016 campaign, Donald J. Trump lashed out at “so-called Christians” and used an epithet in describing …
Discussion: Mediaite
Washington Post:
Pelosi torpedoes White House debt limit plan, throwing budget talks into chaos  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi late Monday said the House of Representatives would not raise the debt ceiling unless it is part of a broader budget deal, putting extreme pressure on the White House and congressional leaders to cut a deal within days.
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
CNN:
Exclusive: Security reports reveal how Assange turned an embassy into a command post for election meddling  —  Watch this story on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer at 6 p.m. ET and on Anderson Cooper 360 at 8 p.m. ET.  —  Atlanta (CNN)New documents obtained exclusively by CNN reveal …
The Daily Beast:
Jeffrey Epstein Had ‘Piles of Cash,’ Diamonds, Foreign Passport in Safe  —  Prosecutors are arguing he should be held without bail until trial because he's a flight risk.  —  FBI agents found “piles of cash,” dozens of diamonds and a expired foreign passport in Jeffrey Epstein's safe …
Discussion: Politico and The Week
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Miami Herald:
Epstein accusers finally face him in court; safe held passport with his photo, fake name
Discussion: New York Magazine
CNBC:
Jeffrey Epstein willing to post $100 million bail …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and UPI
Washington Post:
Low-polling Democratic presidential candidates spent almost all the money they raised in the second quarter  —  Low-polling Democratic presidential hopefuls drew in far less cash in the past three months than their more prominent rivals and spent almost all the money they raised trying …
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David Siders / Politico:
Beto O'Rourke fundraising fell to $3.6 million in second quarter
Discussion: Political Wire
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Kellyanne Conway defies subpoena, skips Oversight hearing  —  White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway on Monday defied a congressional subpoena, refusing to show up for testimony to the House Oversight and Reform Committee about her violations of the Hatch Act and prompting House Democrats to threaten to hold her in contempt of Congress.
Robert Moore / NPR:
3-Year-Old Asked To Pick Parent In Attempted Family Separation, Her Parents Say  —  Toggle more options  —  At a Border Patrol holding facility in El Paso, Texas, an agent told a Honduran family that one parent would be sent to Mexico while the other parent and their three children could stay …
Discussion: Splinter
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Harris blasts, and takes money from, Epstein's law firm  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris bemoaned the influence of the powerful and connected elite last Tuesday when she called on top Justice Department officials to recuse themselves from any matter related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Discussion: Townhall, twitchy.com and New York Post
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
BBC Accepts Iran's Demand Of Blackout On Its Persian Sites Amid Regime's Attacks On Press  —  A deal to not share reporting from Iran on BBC Persian has angered staffers who see it as complicity with a government that imprisons, tortures and kills journalists.
John DiStaso / WMUR:
Kamala Harris rises into second place in new Saint Anselm College poll of NH primary voters  —  California senator 3 percentage points behind Biden; Sanders drops to fifth place  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. —  Sen. Kamala Harris has moved into second place among Democratic presidential contenders …
Discussion: Political Wire and Bloomberg
CNN:
Fact check: Trump falsely accuses Ilhan Omar of praising al Qaeda  —  Trump defends racist attacks on congresswomen  —  Washington (CNN)In a series of racist tweets on Sunday, President Donald Trump told a group of four Democratic congresswomen, all of whom are people of color, to “go back” …
Discussion: New York Times, NBC News and Slate
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's prepared notes: Democrats he criticized are ‘DANGEROUS’ and may ‘hate America’
Discussion: CNN, Vanity Fair and The Week
John M. Donnelly / Roll Call:
House orders Pentagon to say if it weaponized ticks and released them  —  The House quietly voted last week to require the Pentagon inspector general to tell Congress whether the department experimented with weaponizing disease-carrying insects and whether they were released into the public realm — either accidentally or on purpose.
Discussion: Gizmodo
Rich Juzwiak / Jezebel:
Define ‘Homophobic’  —  Imagine my surprise when late last week, I, an out gay man, found myself enrolled in an online course on homophobia that was attempting to teach me something I didn't know.  I thought I'd seen it all: the withering glances, the systemic discrimination …
Discussion: Queerty, Spectator USA, Axios, HuffPost and Slate
Niv Elis / The Hill:
WH projects $1 trillion deficit for 2019  —  The White House projects that the federal deficit will surpass $1 trillion this year, the only time in the nation's history the deficit has exceeded that level, excluding the four-year period following the Great Recession.
Discussion: Axios
Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed News:
A Neo-Nazi Blogger Was Ordered To Pay $14 Million To A Woman Who Was Targeted In A Racist “Troll Storm”  —  A federal judge awarded more than $14 million to a woman who was barraged with anti-Semitic and threatening messages online after a neo-Nazi blogger instructed his followers to target her and her family with a “troll storm.”
Robert A. George / New York Daily News:
None dare call it racism: Afraid of the r-word, Republicans?  Here's a better one to describe this president  —  The canary in the coal mine for our current moment was Judge Gonzalo Curiel.  An Indiana-born jurist who had the misfortune to catch the Trump University fraud lawsuit.
Colleen Long / Associated Press:
Trump moves to end asylum protections for Central Americans  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday moved to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants in a major escalation of the president's battle to tamp down the number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
Law Profs Weigh In: What Is The Appropriate Response When A White Student Wears A MAGA Hat In Class?  —  Following up on my previous post, What Should A Black Law Professor Do When A White Student Wears A MAGA Hat In Class?:  —  Jacob H. Rooksby (Dean, Gonzaga), Statement:
Discussion: RedState and Althouse
Scott Duke Kominers / Bloomberg:
People Make It So Hard to Ditch Plastic Straws  —  Bars and restaurants that switched to reusable metal ones learned about the downsides.  —  Rarely has a minor consumer product received more vilification than the plastic straw.  As a symbol of human wastefulness and our careless disregard …
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Instacart Hounds Workers to Take Jobs That Aren't Worth It  —  When Instacart's eponymous grocery delivery app gets a new order in, it typically alerts a nearby “full-service shopper,” its term for the worker who gathers and delivers the groceries, by sending the order to the worker's phone …
Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
Ousted UK ambassador leaked US intelligence  —  Leaked U.K. diplomatic cables critical of President Trump have led Britain's ambassador, Sir Kim Darroch, to announce his departure from Washington earlier than expected.  But the story is not yet concluded.  —  According to one current …
 
 
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BuzzFeed News:
Trump's Favorite Meme-Maker Adopted A Fake Name To Go On Trump's Favorite TV Network
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Twitter exec: ‘Jail,’ ‘impeachment’ for Trump, calls social media chief ‘racist d—k’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Stephen Gruber-Miller / Des Moines Register:
Jury decides Terry Branstad discriminated against gay employee as governor, awards employee $1.5 million
Discussion: Political Wire
Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
The deadly race riot ‘aided and abetted’ by The Washington Post a century ago
Colleen Long / Associated Press:
62 border employees under internal investigation amid posts
Discussion: Townhall
Janelle Griffith / NBC News:
Founder of African American museum in Louisiana found dead in car trunk
Discussion: New York Times, NPR and Hyperallergic
Meera Subramanian / New York Times:
India's Terrifying Water Crisis
 Earlier Items: 
Charles Riley / CNN:
Alan Turing, World War II code-breaker castrated for being gay, is the face of Britain's £50 note
Discussion: Big Think
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Focus group: Some swing Michigan voters like how Trump is handling immigration
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed News:
Elizabeth Warren's Campaign Turned To A Big Donor To Pay For The DNC Voter Database, Despite Her Fundraising Pledge
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Tiptoeing around Trump's racism is a betrayal of journalistic truth-telling
Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
How Matt Gaetz Used Daddy's Money to Become Trump's Favorite Congressman
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Obama officials say Trump administration hasn't delayed new $20 bill, despite Harriet Tubman firestorm
Lizzie Presser / ProPublica:
The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It.
Discussion: Boing Boing