memeorandum: Team Biden on Klobuchar: ‘We Need to Avoid Her’ (The Daily Beast)

2:30 AM ET, May 30, 2020

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Team Biden on Klobuchar: ‘We Need to Avoid Her’ — Klobuchar has been on the short list for Biden's veep spot since she led the Democratic field in endorsing his candidacy after his South Carolina win. That all changed this week. — In recent weeks, Sen. Amy Klobuchar has positioned herself …

Discussion: NBC News, New York Times, Star Tribune, Los Angeles Times and Associated Press

WCCO | CBS Minnesota:

Lawyer: Wife Of Charged Ex-MPD Officer Derek Chauvin Files For Divorce — MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A lawyer has issued a statement from the wife of the now-arrested and charged former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, and she said she has filed for divorce. — “This evening, I spoke with Kellie Chauvin and her family.

Discussion: Breitbart, The Sun, Sputnik News, Rolling Stone, Talking Points Memo and Associated Press

Sudhin Thanawala / Associated Press:

Protests, some violent, spread in wake of George Floyd death — ATLANTA (AP) — Demonstrators marched, stopped traffic and in some cases lashed out violently at police as protests erupted Friday in dozens of U.S. cities following the killing of George Floyd after a white officer pressed …

Discussion: New York Post, The Daily Caller, WGN-TV, WPRI-TV, KTLA and ABC7

Jason Koebler / VICE:
NYC Bus Drivers Union Refuses to Transport Protesters for the NYPD

Discussion: Payday Report and NBC News

WCCO | CBS Minnesota:
Former MPD Officer Derek Chauvin In Custody, Charged With Murder In George Floyd's Death

Barbara Sprunt / NPR:
The History Behind ‘When The Looting Starts, The Shooting Starts’

Discussion: New York Times, Politico, CBS Philly, Washington Post, WGN-TV, Spectator USA, Vox, Raw Story, RealClearPolitics, The Daily Beast, Slate, The Week, Mediaite, New York Post and The Intercept, more at Techmeme »

WCMH-TV:
Protest in downtown Columbus broken up after demonstrators breach Ohio Statehouse

Discussion: Associated Press, Washington Post, CBS Denver, The Columbus Dispatch, KRQE-TV, fox8.com, Arizona Republic, Big League Politics, The Root, The Gateway Pundit and Reason

Amelia Nierenberg / New York Times:
Their Minneapolis Restaurant Burned, but They Back the Protest

Discussion: Innocence Project, Daily Kos and Nieman Lab, more at Mediagazer »

Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Minn. mayor gives masks to crowding rioters after warning in-person worship would be ‘public health disaster’

Discussion: Breitbart, Financial Times and The Guardian

Emily Haavik / KARE-TV:
Former Minneapolis police officer arrested in George Floyd death

Discussion: NBC News, Breitbart, The American Independent, New York Times and Patterico's Pontifications

Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE:
Minneapolis Bus Drivers Refuse to Transport George Floyd Protesters to Jail

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, NBC News, labornotes.org and Common Dreams

Karra Small / FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV:

Partygoer at Lake of the Ozarks pool party tests positive for COVID-19, potentially exposing hundreds — CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. — A positive COVID-19 case has been confirmed in a Boone County resident who attended a crowded pool party in the Lake of the Ozarks last weekend.

Discussion: KRQE-TV

news-leader:

Boone County resident positive for COVID-19 after visiting Lake of the Ozarks pool party venue — A week after images of Memorial Day weekend revelers jammed into a Lake of the Ozarks pool party at Backwater Jack's Bar & Grill in Osage Beach made international headlines …

Andrew Havranek / KYTV-TV: A positive COVID-19 case from out of the area visited the Lake of the Ozarks pool bars on Memorial Day Weekend

Politico:

Flynn urged Russian ambassador to take ‘reciprocal’ actions, transcripts show — Incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn told Russia's ambassador to Washington in late 2016 to take “reciprocal” actions in response to Obama administration sanctions for election interference …

Discussion: The Sun, The New Civil Rights Movement, WND, National Review and Axios

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

New Transcript Shows Trump Adviser Michael Flynn Colluding With Russia in 2016 — Michael Flynn, the former Trump national security adviser, pleaded guilty in federal court to the charge of lying to FBI officials about a conversation he had with the Russian ambassador.

New York Times:
Flynn Discussed Sanctions at Length With Russian Diplomat, Transcripts Show

Discussion: LewRockwell, Mediaite, American Greatness and Twitchy

CNN:
New documents show Flynn told Russian ambassador not to escalate on sanctions

Discussion: РБК and KDFX-TV

The Daily Beast: Flynn Asked Russian for Alliance Against ‘Radical Islamists’ on Infamous Phone Call

CNBC: Michael Flynn transcripts released, calls with Russian diplomat detailed

James Laporta / Associated Press:

Pentagon puts military police on alert to go to Minneapolis — DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — As unrest spread across dozens of American cities on Friday, the Pentagon took the rare step of ordering the Army to put several active-duty U.S. military police units on the ready to deploy to Minneapolis …

Discussion: Raw Story, Las Vegas Review-Journal, fox5sandiego.com and Politico

Julie Pace / Associated Press:

Analysis: Trump fuels new tensions in moment of crisis — WASHINGTON (AP) — Over 48 hours in America, the official death toll from the coronavirus pandemic topped 100,000, the number of people who filed for unemployment during the crisis soared past 40 million, and the streets of a major city erupted …

Discussion: One America News Network, Breitbart, The Hill, The American Independent and Talking Points Memo

Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump said not a word to soothe a smoldering country. It's time for Biden to step up.

Discussion: COURIER and Mother Jones

Val Demings / Washington Post:
My fellow brothers and sisters in blue, what the hell are you doing?

Discussion: New York Times, NBC News, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The North Star, MSNBC, National Review, Politico, Fox News, The Nation, The Hill, Breitbart, Twitchy, Florida Politics, Balloon Juice and Althouse

Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Watch Joe Biden's Remarks on the Death of George Floyd

Discussion: Politico, POLITICUSUSA, FiveThirtyEight and The Mahablog

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Leaked posts show Facebook employees asking the company to remove Trump's threat of violence — “If we fail the test case here, history will not judge us kindly” — Facebook's decision not to take action against recent posts about mail-in ballots and the Minnesota protests by President Trump …

Discussion: Adweek, more at Techmeme »

Mark Zuckerberg:

This has been an incredibly tough week after a string of tough weeks. The killing of George Floyd showed yet again that for Black people in America, just existing means risking your life. This comes weeks after the killing of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, and in the midst of Covid having …

Discussion: BuzzFeed News, NBC News, Sputnik News, Vox, Politico, Axios, CNN and KDFX-TV, more at Techmeme »

Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Mark Zuckerberg silent as Trump uses Facebook and Instagram to threaten ‘looting’ will lead to ‘shooting’

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Washington Post:

Gripped by disease, unemployment and outrage at the police, America plunges into crisis — A global pandemic has now killed more than 100,000 Americans and left 40 million unemployed in its wake. Protests — some of them violent — have once again erupted in spots across the country over police killings of black Americans.

Discussion: Mediaite, Common Dreams, TheGrio, New Republic, Sputnik News, NBC News, KDFX-TV, Breitbart and TheBlaze

Politico:

Merkel rebuffs Trump invitation to G7 summit — BERLIN — Angela Merkel has rebuffed Donald Trump's invitation to attend a G7 summit, which the U.S. president is keen to portray as a symbol of a return to normality from the upheaval of the coronavirus crisis.

Discussion: Sputnik News, One America News Network and РБК

CNN:

North Carolina governor: Trump insisted on full convention with no face masks or social distancing — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump called Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday and insisted on a full Republican convention this summer with no face masks or social distancing …

Discussion: Washington Post and The Daily Caller

Adam Liptak / New York Times:

Supreme Court, in 5-4 Decision, Rejects Church's Challenge to Shutdown Order — A California church argued that restrictions on public gatherings treated houses of worship worse than many businesses. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday turned away a request from a church in California …

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Roberts joins court's liberals to deny California church's lockdown challenge

Discussion: Associated Press and The Hill

Karen Attiah / Washington Post:

How Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country — If we talked about what is happening in Minneapolis the same way we talk about events in a foreign country, here's how the Western media would cover it. The quotes and those “quoted” in the piece below are fictional.

Erica L. Green / New York Times:

Over Veterans' Protests, Trump Vetoes Measure to Block Student Loan Rules — President Trump sided with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over veterans groups, vetoing a measure that would have blocked new regulations that tighten access to student loan forgiveness.

Discussion: Axios

Michael Stratford / Politico: Trump backs DeVos plan to limit student debt relief

Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:

Fox News Star Geraldo Rivera Unloads on Trump: ‘What Is This, 6th Grade?!’ — During an appearance on Fox News, Geraldo Rivera called on the president to “self-censor” himself over his “looting, shooting” tweets. — Geraldo Rivera delivered one of the harshest condemnations …

Discussion: Vox, POLITICUSUSA, Breitbart and Deadline

Keith Cowing / NASA Watch:

Eric Trump's Brother-In-Law Is The New Deputy NASA Chief Of Staff. Seriously. — Kyle Yunaska Named Deputy Chief of Staff At NASA Headquarters … Eric Trump's brother-in-law gets promoted. E&E News (2017) … Meet The Hottest Bachelors Of Washington D.C., Inside Edition

Jake Zuckerman / Ohio Capital Journal:

Police say suspect threatened to kill father of ranking house Dem unless she resigned — Democratic House Minority Leader Emilia Sykes received a call from an unknown man on May 23 calling from her father's phone number, threatening to kill him if she didn't “step aside” politically, according to a police report released Friday.

Discussion: Raw Story