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The Daily Beast:
‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams Tries to Sell Interviews With Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting Survivors  —  After the mass shooting, he advertised his new app that would somehow let people set a price for their stories—and give him a 20 percent cut.  —  As police in Gilroy, California …
Discussion: Associated Press
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New York Times:
Gilroy Festival Shooting in California Kills at Least 3  —  At least three people were killed and 12 more were injured in a shooting at a garlic festival in Gilroy, Calif., on Sunday, the authorities said.  —  A suspect carrying an assault-style rifle was fatally shot by the Gilroy police …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting: 3 killed, 15 wounded, gunman dead  —  A gunman with an assault-type rifle opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on Sunday evening, killing three and wounding 15 others, some critically, before being killed by police, Gilroy police said.  A 6-year-old boy was among the dead.
Washington Post:
House Republicans plan yearly retreat in Baltimore despite Trump's attacks  —  President Trump on Saturday called Baltimore a “very dangerous & filthy place” and suggested that Democratic politicians, including Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, had made the city all but uninhabitable.
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Racism Infests the Republican Party  —  As his latest foray into bigotry shows, the president is feeling empowered by the lack of opposition from within the GOP.  —  Back in February, Representative Elijah Cummings, a black Democrat, stood up for his friend, Representative Mark Meadows, a white Republican.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's new racist tweetstorm is actually a sign of weakness  —  Whenever President Trump unleashes one of his racist attacks, the political world tends to go through a now-predictable cycle.  We are first told Republicans think Trump's latest racist display is brilliant politics, a view often pushed by Trump himself.
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump's Twitter Attacks Are Backfiring  —  If former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's testimony to the House last week wasn't the clear victory that many Democrats had hoped it would be, there are indications it didn't go as well for President Donald Trump as he and his allies have claimed either.
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
32,000 Jews live in Baltimore district, Trump: ‘No human’ wants to
Discussion: Jewish Insider
Kamala Harris / Medium:
My Plan For Medicare For All  —  There is perhaps no more complicated or more personal issue for Americans than health care.  I know this from my own personal life, caring for my mother as she battled colon cancer.  And I also know it from talking to so many Americans in this campaign …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: NYT tackles the Biden age question  —  PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP this morning condemned the mass shooting in California as a “wicked murder” and said “we're praying for those who are recovering right now in the hospital. ...  We will continue to work together as communities …
Rahm Emanuel / gen.medium.com:
A Memo to Our Democratic Presidential Candidates
Discussion: Axios and BizPac Review
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Top DCCC staffer out amid diversity uproar  —  The executive director of House Democrats' campaign arm is stepping down amid an outcry from Democratic lawmakers over the lack of diversity in the committee's senior ranks.  —  Executive Director Allison Jaslow, a close confidante …
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
DCCC in ‘complete chaos’ as uproar over diversity intensifies  —  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is in full-blown turmoil.  —  Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairwoman Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) was set to make an unplanned trip to Washington from her district Monday amid …
Connie Bruck / New Yorker:
Alan Dershowitz, Devil's Advocate  —  The noted lawyer's long, controversial career—and the accusations against him.  —  “A lie is a lie is a lie,” Whoopi Goldberg said.  It was May 2nd, and she was on the set of “The View,” the daytime talk show that she co-hosts.
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
‘He realizes now that he screwed up’: Biden scrambles to recover from debate flop  —  Not long after his anemic performance in the first presidential debate, as his poll numbers began to slide, Joe Biden had conversations with nervous donors and personally assured them his campaign was on track.
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New York Times:
Why Joe Biden's Age Worries Some Democratic Allies and Voters
Discussion: National Review and VodkaPundit
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
The school busing debate between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
Discussion: National Review
Adam Behsudi / Politico:
Warren moves to outflank Trump on trade  —  Elizabeth Warren released a trade plan Monday that's closer to Donald Trump's agenda than Barack Obama's.  —  The sweeping trade agenda, posted on Medium ahead of a town hall in Toledo, Ohio, on Monday evening, channels many of the critiques …
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Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Warren announces plan to negotiate trade deals more openly
Discussion: Axios
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Trump Strain in American History  —  White supremacy has its own peculiar logic, to which the president is peculiarly attuned.  —  President Trump has done nothing for his white working-class voters.  His signature tax cut was a giveaway to powerful business interests and wealthy heirs.
Discussion: VICE and The Daily Beast
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Inside Donald Trump's ‘brilliant and sinister’ merchandising operation  —  Brad Parscale had just boarded a Jet Blue flight earlier this month when the paper straw he was using ripped in half.  —  As he tried to keep his iced tea from spilling onto his suit, the annoyed Trump campaign manager tweeted …
QU Poll:
Release Detail  —  July 29, 2019 - Biden Bounces Back As Harris Slumps Among U.S. Dems, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 54 Percent Of All U.S. Voters Say Never Trump  —  Former Vice President Joseph Biden reverses his slump following the first Democratic presidential debate …
Discussion: Political Wire
VICE:
Michigan's White, Blue-Collar Voters Helped Give Trump the White House.  Will They Turn on Him in 2020?  —  WARREN, Michigan — Ryan Hartung has worked at General Motors' Warren transmission plant for 13 years, a short stretch compared to his dad and many others who put in decades at the plant.
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Texas Made An Example Out Of Crystal Mason — For Trying To Vote  —  She's appealing a five-year prison sentence and fighting to save her home, all so the state can prop up the myth of “voter fraud.”  There are serious questions about the case against her.  —  RENDON, Texas ― …
Discussion: electionlawblog.org
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Don't get complacent.  Things really are that bad under Trump.  —  The economy is humming.  We're not at war (much).  So he can't be that bad, right?  —  Steadfast NeverTrumpers may find it hard to believe, but I'm hearing that argument more and more lately, as people try to come to terms …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
The print reader in chief: Inside Trump's retro media diet  —  He slams the mainstream media as dishonest liars.  He calls journalists the “enemy of the people.”  He rages at the television hosts he watches during his “Executive Time.”  He hasn't held a traditional White House news conference …
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Trump directed aides to reduce U.S. troops in Afghanistan by 2020 election, Pompeo says  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that President Trump ordered him to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan by the 2020 election, in some of the clearest comments to date …
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Democrats sound alarm on “massive” GOP Senate advantage in 2020  —  In 2016, every single Senate race went to the candidate of the same party that those states voted for in the presidential election, according to a new analysis by the Democratic group One Country Project, provided exclusively to Axios.
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
In early fundraising surge, vulnerable House Dems bank cash  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican pathway for recapturing House control in next year's election charges straight through the districts of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents, especially freshmen.
CNN:
GOP senators give tepid response to Trump's pick for spy chief  —  Trump nominates Rep. John Ratcliffe as new intel chief  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's choice of Rep. John Ratcliffe to replace respected former Sen. Dan Coats as Director of National Intelligence in one of the most powerful …
 
 
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Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
Trump signs 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund bill for first responders
Kat Tenbarge / Business Insider:
Democrats are suggesting people flip the script in response to Trump's racially-charged tweets — unfollow and ignore
Axios:
New York decriminalizes marijuana use
John Wagner / Washington Post:
‘I would fix it fast!’: In 2015, Trump criticized Obama for not doing enough to help Baltimore
Discussion: Political Wire
Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
The Covington Catholic Teen Lost His First Court Battle, But Will Probably Win His Next
Discussion: Above the Law
Issues & Insights:
Trump's Attack on Baltimore Doesn't Go Far Enough
Discussion: RedState, Breitbart and Daily Wire
Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
7 Times Robert Mueller Played Dumb Before Congress For Partisan Advantage
 Earlier Items: 
Suzy Khimm / NBC News:
Trump plan failed to note that it could jeopardize free school lunches for 500,000 children, Democrats say
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Rot You Smell Is a Racist Potus
Discussion: Politico and CityLab
Annabelle Dickson / Politico:
Boris Johnson won't start Brexit talks unless EU moves on backstop
Washington Post:
Trump thinks racist rhetoric will help him in 2020. The data suggest otherwise.
Discussion: The Guardian and Daily Kos
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Seven 2020 Democrats Pledge to Focus First Bill on Fighting Corruption
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
Facebook Connected Her to a Tattooed Soldier in Iraq. Or So She Thought.
Patrick Reevell / ABC News:
Vladimir Putin critic Alexey Navalny hospitalized with suspected poisoning, doctor says
Kevin M. Kruse / New York Times:
The Real Problem With Trump's Rallies
 

 
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