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Kathryn Krawczyk / Yahoo News:
Amy Klobuchar didn't prosecute officer at center of George Floyd's death after previous conduct complaints  —  George Floyd's death in police custody is  —  renewing criticism of Sen. Amy Klobuchar's (D-Minn.) prosecutorial record.  —  Before she became a senator and a top contender …
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Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
Minneapolis Man: Cop Who Kneeled on George Floyd ‘Tried to Kill Me’ in 2008  —  In 2008, Derek Chauvin barged into Ira Toles' home while responding to a domestic-violence call and shot him at close range, leaving him with a permanent hole in his stomach.  —  Ira Latrell Toles …
NBC News:
Minneapolis police officer at center of George Floyd's death had history of complaints  —  Derek Chauvin had been with the Minneapolis police since 2001.  During his career, he was the subject of a dozen police conduct complaints; he was never disciplined.  —  The Minneapolis police officer …
Associated Press:
Trump tries a new response after George Floyd's death  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the kind of personal statement expected from a president in response to the disturbing video of a black man gasping for help as a white policeman pinned him to the street by the neck.
Discussion: WTRF-TV
CNN:
Prosecutors do not announce charges in George Floyd's death but say ‘justice will be served’  —  (CNN)Prosecutors looking at the death of George Floyd on Thursday asked the people of Minneapolis for patience while they investigate the case that has riled the city and the nation.
Phil Helsel / NBC News:
George Floyd protest turns violent, deadly; Minneapolis mayor requests National Guard
The White House:
Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:  —  Section 1.  Policy.  Free speech is the bedrock of American democracy.
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The Daily Beast:
Trump's Plan: Break the Internet to Suppress the Vote  —  Trump will never leave Twitter.  He loves it too much.  Now he's trying to browbeat it into helping him win re-election.  —  The internet, and Twitter in particular, is central to President Donald Trump's power.
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Twitter Has Little to Fear From Trump  —  A moment's frustration won't push the president to destroy his favorite toy.  —  Donald Trump was at the steering wheel as we drove through the rain together on a New Jersey highway in 2005.  He had recently considered taking the stage …
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Trump readies executive order targeting Facebook, Google and Twitter, sparking widespread criticism …
Eugene Volokh / Reason:
47 U.S.C. § 230 and the Publisher/Distributor/Platform Distinction
Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications and CNN
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Most Mendacious President in U.S. History  —  On Trump, his Twitter lies, and why it's getting worse.  —  On Sunday, on Tuesday, and again on Wednesday, President Donald Trump accused the TV talk-show host Joe Scarborough of murder.  On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday …
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Tony Schwartz:
The Psychopath in Chief … Among the accomplishments Trump parades …
Josh Holmes / Wall Street Journal:
The Covid Political Earthquake  —  Subsidies will soon end.  Americans will then feel the economic pain—and revolt.  —  The political press is preoccupied with the electoral implications of the virus crisis, and pundits insist the 2020 election will be about the Trump daily soap opera.
Gabrielle Fonrouge / New York Post:
Amy Cooper allegedly stalked ex-love interest, slammed him for Obama vote  —  The white dog-walker, who called 911 on a black man when he asked her to leash her cocker spaniel in Central Park, allegedly stalked a former love interest and chided him for voting for President Barack Obama, The Post has learned.
Discussion: TheGrio
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Senator Lindsey Graham On George Floyd, Supreme Court snd Circuit Vacancies, Witnesses For Obamagate Hearings, Sanctions on the CCP Over Hong Kong, Regulating Big Tech, Joe Biden and More  —  Senate Judiciary Chair Lindsay Graham joined me this AM:  —  05-28hhs-graham  —  Transcript:
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Graham urges senior judges to step aside before November election so Republicans can fill vacancies
Discussion: Daily Kos, Raw Story and Breitbart
Ursula Perano / Axios:
RNC outlines safety proposal for Charlotte convention  —  Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel and convention President and CEO Marcia Lee Kelly outlined the party's safety proposal for this summer's planned convention in Charlotte in a letter to North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday.
Discussion: The Hill
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:   Fight Over G.O.P. Convention Escalates in North Carolina
Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
Sen. Cortez Masto withdraws name from Biden VP consideration  —  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada said Thursday that she's not interested in serving as running mate to presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden.  —  Cortez Masto, who in 2016 became …
Discussion: Fox News, Washington Post and Axios
HuffPost:
Kellyanne Conway Voted By Mail — But She Thinks You Should Have To Wait In Line  —  She argued that if you'd wait an hour to buy a cupcake, you ought to be able to wait that long to vote.  Yet in 2018, she ditched the line and voted by mail.  —  WASHINGTON — White House aide Kellyanne Conway …
Washington Post:
White House and CDC remove coronavirus warnings about choirs in faith guidance  —  The Trump administration with no advance notice removed warnings contained in guidance for the reopening of houses of worship that singing in choirs can spread the coronavirus.
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
The Never Trumpers might finally be on to something  —  The quandary of the “Never Trump” Republicans has always been that although they get plenty of attention from the media, their success in persuading rank-and-file members of their party to reject this president has been negligible at best.
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Get Republicans to Vote Against Trump? This Group Will Spend $10 Million to Try
Discussion: Washington Monthly
CNN:
GOP operatives worry Trump will lose both the presidency and Senate majority  —  Washington (CNN)A little more than three months ago, as Democrats cast their ballots in the Nevada caucuses, Republicans felt confident about their chances in 2020.  The coronavirus seemed a distant, far-off threat.
Washington Post:
Administration initially dispensed scarce covid-19 drug to some hospitals that didn't need it  —  Officials describe early missteps that delayed treatment to critically ill patients.  —  The Trump administration mishandled the initial distribution of the only approved coronavirus medication …
Discussion: Raw Story and Common Dreams
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Trump says he would shut down Twitter if there was a way to do so legally  —  President Trump said in the Oval Office Thursday that he would seek to shut down Twitter if it continued to not be “honorable” in its fact-checking and if there was a legal way to do so.
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Craig Brandhorst / University of South Carolina:
1 tweet, 1 sandwich, 1 beer  —  White House reporter Josh Dawsey tells it like it is  —  Josh Dawsey is a lowlife reporter.  —  That's not us talking.  That's straight from the mouth of Donald J. Trump.  Or straight from his thumbs anyway.  Here's the original tweet …
Manu Raju / CNN:
GOP's no-mask caucus: ‘Can you smell through that mask?’  —  Trump takes jab at journalist for wearing mask  —  (CNN)Call them the no-mask caucus.  —  A contingent of House Republicans continues to defy the recommendations of public health experts and Congress' top physician to wear face coverings …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Former Romney strategist Stuart Stevens joins Lincoln Project  —  Stuart Stevens, the former chief strategist for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, said Thursday that he has joined the Lincoln Project, a super PAC launched by a group of veteran Republican operatives seeking to defeat President Trump.
Discussion: The Hill
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Lori deserves better.  So does America.  —  One is a politician so obsessed with a morning cable news show that he has sought retribution by repeatedly defaming a dead woman's memory.  —  The other is a soft-spoken Air Force engineer who has worked on projects for 32 years with the singular goal …
Discussion: New York Times and Techdirt
Evan Walker / Surveys:
Missouri Statewide General Election Survey Results  —  We Ask America, a nationally recognized polling firm, today released the first in a series of 2020 statewide public opinion polls from across the country.  The first state tested is Missouri and produced very strong approval ratings …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Biden vs. Trump on Coronavirus Testing  —  While the president has left testing responsibilities to the states, his Democratic rival would harness the power of the federal government to drive testing down to the workplace.  —  WASHINGTON — Joseph R. Biden Jr. has proposed harnessing …
 
 
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Once Investigated Trump Campaign Adviser's Ties to Egypt
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
For Trump, It's Never Been About the Economy
The Charleston Chronicle:
Rep. Moore: “We Are In The Valley”
NBC News:
How private jet owners got a subsidy from coronavirus relief funds
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
White House encourages hydroxychloroquine use for coronavirus again
USA Today:
Coronavirus postcard that featured Trump's name cost struggling Postal Service $28 million
Discussion: The Hill
 Earlier Items: 
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror
Discussion: Raw Story
Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
GOP Senate Hopeful Employs Monarchist and Anti-Semite to Manage Campaign
Discussion: Breitbart
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Tim Kaine tests positive for coronavirus antibodies
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. taxpayers' virus relief went to firms that avoided U.S. tax
Discussion: Daily Kos and Roll Call
Dana Rubinstein / New York Times:
Lights. Camera. Makeup. And a Carefully Placed 1,246-Page Book.
Discussion: Althouse
Teo Armus / Washington Post:
‘Sorry, no mask allowed’: Some businesses pledge to keep out customers who cover their faces
Discussion: Althouse
 

 
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic is profitable, has 1M subscribers, and revenue grew 10% in 2023 thanks to a 50% price hike, a harder paywall, and a shift to in-depth reporting

New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher

 
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