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Richard Parker / New York Times:
Was Trump's El Paso Visit a Turning Point?  —  A day of racist comments left him looking small and isolated, while the city united against him.  —  Mr. Parker is the author of “Lone Star Nation: How Texas Will Transform America.”  —  EL PASO — If consoling the nation in a time of desperate need …
Discussion: CNN
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New York Times:
Trump Uses a Day of Healing to Deepen the Nation's Divisions  —  EL PASO — President Trump visited Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso on Wednesday on a day intended as a show of compassion to cities scarred by a weekend of violence, but which quickly devolved into an occasion for anger-fueled broadsides against Democrats and the news media.
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Maggie Haberman: White House Staffers Privately Admit Trump's El Paso, Dayton Visits Were a ‘Debacle’  —  New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman is quite sure the White House thinks President Donald Trump behaved disastrously on Wednesday while he was supposed to be consoling the victims of the El Paso and Dayton shootings.
Discussion: Political Wire
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Trump Criticized For Weird ‘Propaganda Video’ of Visit to El Paso and Dayton After Shooting
Bill Clinton / TIME:
President Bill Clinton: Reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban Now
Rob Crilly / Washington Examiner:   Hero of El Paso shooting says Trump showed softer side during visit
Daniel Funke / PolitiFact:   Notice … The mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton …
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:   Bill de Blasio Attacks Fox News in Wild Clash With Hannity: This is ‘Such a Charade!’
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Biden Holds Lead, Warren on the Chase  —  Most prefer public option over Medicare for All; Less than half the 2020 field seen as likely to beat Trump  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Former Vice President Joe Biden maintains a lead in the Hawkeye State, but Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren …
Discussion: Politico and CNN
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Matt Stevens / New York Times:
Andrew Yang Becomes 9th Democrat to Qualify for the Next Debate  —  Mr. Yang, an entrepreneur, earned 2 percent support in a new poll, adding him to the group of Democratic presidential candidates who will go to Houston in September.  —  The entrepreneur and former tech executive Andrew Yang became …
Discussion: Political Wire
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Warren Joins O'Rourke in Calling Trump a White Supremacist  —  COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said on Wednesday night that she believed President Trump was a white supremacist, broadly accusing him of dividing Americans along racial lines and providing direct …
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TIME:   ‘We Are Being Eaten From Within.’ Why America Is Losing the Battle Against White Nationalist Terrorism
Axios:
2020 Democrats: Trump is a white supremacist
Discussion: Breitbart, Political Wire and YouTube
James Arkin / Politico:
NRSC halts Twitter spending after McConnell account locked  —  Senate Republicans' campaign arm announced today it will stop spending money to advertise on Twitter after the social media platform locked Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's account for posting a video of violent threats against him.
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Harry Reid to Dems: Kill the Filibuster to Tackle the Climate Crisis
Discussion: Axios and Common Dreams
Courier-Journal:
McConnell's campaign suspended from Twitter for posting critic's profanity-laced video
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Iraqi man dies after Trump administration deports him  —  A 41-year-old Detroit man deported to Iraq in June died Tuesday, according to the American Civil Liberties Union and two people close to the man's family.  —  The man, Jimmy Aldaoud, spent most of his life in the U.S. …
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Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
Families “Are Scared To Death” After A Massive ICE Operation Swept Up Hundreds Of People
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Washington Post
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Suggests He's Likely to Commute Sentence of Rod Blagojevich  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Wednesday night that he was “strongly considering” commuting the 14-year prison sentence of Rod R. Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor who was convicted of trying …
Chuck Park / Washington Post:
I can no longer justify being a part of Trump's ‘Complacent State.’ So I'm resigning.  —  Chuck Park's resignation from the Foreign Service is effective Thursday.  —  I was 26, newly married and more than a little idealistic when I set off for my first diplomatic assignment almost a decade ago …
Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
U.S. State Department Official Involved in White Nationalist Movement, Hatewatch Determines  —  A U.S. State Department official oversaw the Washington, D.C.-area chapter of a white nationalist organization, hosted white nationalists at his home and published white nationalist propaganda online, Hatewatch has determined.
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UNICORN RIOT:
Exposed: State Department Official Posted in Nazi Charlottesville Chats
New York Daily News:
Ocasio-Cortez rips her ex-chief of staff for ‘divisive’ tweet about fellow Dems, but insists he left her office on good terms  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez scolded her ex-chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti on Wednesday for comparing some of her centrist colleagues to racist Dixiecrats …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
Yes, Republicans Should Worry About Texas  —  The past week brought a surge of strange news out of Texas.  First, three Republican congressmen, representing suburban San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston, decided to retire.  These retirements are from districts that all saw surprisingly strong showings …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A Divisive Voice Once Again Has Trump's Ear  —  WASHINGTON — As President Trump doubles down on a re-election approach of stoking fear of immigrants, he is once again elevating a voice of validation — and many say racism — that he discovered during his last presidential campaign.
Paul M. Krawzak / Roll Call:
Senate GOP plans to divert health, education funds to border wall  —  Senate Republicans are looking to pay for President Donald Trump's border wall in part by putting about $5 billion less in the largest domestic spending bill, several people with knowledge of the process said.
Wall Street Journal:
Banks Hand Over Documents on Russians Possibly Linked to Trump  —  Some documents are related to Russians who may have had dealings with Mr. Trump, his family or Trump Organization  —  Major Wall Street banks have given congressional committees investigating President Trump thousands of pages …
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Trump pressured his alcoholic brother about his career.  Now he has regrets.  —  President Trump remembers coming home in the mid-1960s to read reports on the cost of mops and paint as he prepared to work in the family real estate business.  He was astonished to find his older brother …
Discussion: CNN, Fox News and Talking Points Memo
Alex Love / WJTV:
Children of undocumented immigrants arrested in Mississippi rely on strangers for food and shelter  —  FOREST, Miss. (WJTV) — Following a massive undocumented immigration enforcement operation resulting in more than 650 arrests, many children of those taken into custody were left temporarily homeless.
Seaborn Larson / Billings Gazette:
Superior man believed he was acting on Trump's orders in attacking boy for wearing hat during national anthem  —  The attorney for a 39-year-old man charged with assaulting a child who didn't take his hat off for the national anthem says his client, compromised by a traumatic brain injury …
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Column: Kass: In her book on Justice Brett Kavanaugh, ‘Justice on Trial,’ Mollie Hemingway warns of things to come  —  There was a secret meeting at a sidewalk cafe near the National Gallery of Art's Sculpture Garden, a meeting that seemed coincidental, almost an accident …
Kamala Harris / YouTube:
Me, Maya, and Mom … This election is about American families and what wakes them up in the middle of the night.  My 3AM Agenda offers and delivers tangible benefits that improve Americans' daily lives; including Medicare for All, giving working and middle-class families an overdue raise, and guaranteeing women are paid equally.
Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
The Right's Continuing Glorification of Violence  —  The warning signs have been there.  We shouldn't be surprised.  —  We can't say that we weren't warned.  —  Less than a week before the 2016 election, Lawfare's Benjamin Wittes and Quinta Jurecic published a chilling prediction.
Christopher Flavelle / New York Times:
Climate Change Threatens the World's Food Supply, United Nations Warns  —  The world's land and water resources are being exploited at “unprecedented rates,” a new United Nations report warns, which combined with climate change is putting dire pressure on the ability of humanity to feed itself.
 
 
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Aris Folley / The Hill:
Trump rips MSNBC, CNN for inviting guests who ‘have no idea what I am all about’
Discussion: USA Today, CNN and Althouse
Wall Street Journal:
FBI and Facebook Potentially at Odds Over Social-Media Monitoring
Lee Ferran / ABC News:
From intel analyst to a military ‘Uber’: Inside Mayor Pete Buttigieg's Afghanistan deployment
Dino Grandoni / Washington Post:
The Energy 202: A ‘climate corps’ is core to many 2020 Democrats' environmental plans
U.S. Congressman Gerry Connolly:
Connolly Calls for Impeachment Inquiry into President Trump
Heidi Brown / Wall Street Journal:
The Truth About Gen. John Hyten
Kim Kelly / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Politics of Criticism  —  My life with heavy metal …
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap:
Breitbart's Audience Has Dropped 72% Since Trump Took Office - As Other Right-Wing Sites Have Gained
 Earlier Items: 
Barbara Ransby / New York Times:
‘The Squad’ Is the Future of the Democratic Party
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:
Everything They're Telling You About Mass Shootings Is Wrong
Discussion: Instapundit and PJ Media Home
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump's vision meets growing global chaos
Discussion: Breitbart
Rahm Emanuel / Politico:
Democrats, This Is Your Future If You Turn on Obama
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Tulsi Gabbard's daredevil act
CBS News:
Arizona police slam racial bias training: “Absolute worst training I've ever had”
Discussion: CBS New York
Washington Post:
Trump's openness to extensive background checks for gun buys draws warning from NRA
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Kimberly Breier resigns as assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere