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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution  —  James Mattis, the esteemed Marine general who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 to protest Donald Trump's Syria policy, has, ever since, kept studiously silent about Trump's performance as president.
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
James Mattis condemns Trump as a threat to the Constitution  —  Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis condemned President Trump for making a “mockery of our Constitution” in a statement to The Atlantic on Wednesday, saying he was “appalled” at the president's response to mass protests in the wake of George Floyd's killing.
Discussion: The Atlantic, Mediaite and The Guardian
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Jim Mattis blasts Trump in message that defends protesters, says president ‘tries to divide us’  —  Former defense secretary Jim Mattis excoriated President Trump on Wednesday, accusing the nation's chief executive of deliberately trying to divide Americans, taking exception to his threats …
Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
Ex-defense chief Mattis rips Trump for dividing Americans
Discussion: Fox News
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
America's Generals Must Stand Up to Trump
Tom Cotton / New York Times:
Send In the Troops  —  The nation must restore order.  The military stands ready.  —  Mr. Cotton, a Republican, is a United States senator from Arkansas.  —  This week, rioters have plunged many American cities into anarchy, recalling the widespread violence of the 1960s.
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Active-duty troops deployed to DC region start to leave  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Active-duty troops brought in to help if needed with the civil unrest in the nation's capitol are beginning to return to their home base, after two days of more peaceful demonstrations in Washington, D.C. …
Ursula Perano / Axios:
White House physician releases memo from Trump's latest physical  —  The White House physician released a memo on Wednesday summarizing data from President Trump's latest physical exam, conducted between November 2019 and April 2020 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the White House.
The Hill:
Un-identified military personnel extend perimeter around the White House
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Kos
Jay Caruso / Washington Examiner:   Details don't change reality: Trump's walk to St. John's Church was a cheap stunt
Candice Bernd / Truthout:
As Trump Threatens to Send Military Into Cities, Some GIs Refuse to Comply
Zachary Cohen / CNN:
Defense chief breaks with Trump on response to protests
New York Times:
Trump Campaign Looks at Electoral Map and Doesn't Like What It Sees  —  As polls show President Trump significantly trailing his rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr., his campaign is spending heavily in states, like Ohio, that it had hoped would not be competitive at all this year.
Discussion: Raw Story, KTVZ-TV and Washington Post
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
More Voters Trust Biden on Race Relations  —  Increase in views that outbreak is hurting Trump  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden currently holds an 11-point lead over Donald Trump in the presidential race as more voters say they trust the challenger to handle race relations in the country.
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden ahead in Arizona, Kelly trouncing McSally in Senate race  —  Republicans are rightly concerned about Arizona.  —  A new Fox News Poll finds the state shading blue — especially in the race for the U.S. Senate, where Democrat Mark Kelly bests incumbent Republican …
Discussion: The Hill and Bloomberg
Dana Blanton / Fox News:   Fox News Poll: Biden leads Trump in Wisconsin
Dana Blanton / Fox News:   Fox News Poll: Biden-Trump tossup in Ohio, 82 percent approve of DeWine
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
President Trump tried to register to vote in Florida using an out-of-state address  —  President Trump originally tried to register to vote in Florida while claiming his “legal residence” was in another part of the country — Washington, D.C. — according to Florida elections records.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
All four living ex-presidents draw a sharp contrast with Trump on systemic racism  —  Four U.S. presidents spoke this week about systemic racism and injustice.  They used their platforms to illuminate the humanity in all Americans and to decry the dehumanization of some.
Discussion: ABC News, Breitbart, The Root and UPI
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Stephen Montemayor / Star Tribune:
Attorney General Keith Ellison to elevate charges against officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck; also charging other 3 involved  —  Ellison took over case on Sunday.  —  TEXT SIZE  —  Attorney General Keith Ellison plans to elevate charges against the former Minneapolis police officer …
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Associated Press:
Virginia governor to announce removal of Lee statue  —  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is expected to announce plans Thursday for the removal of an iconic statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Richmond's prominent Monument Avenue, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.
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Washington Post:   Northam to announce plans to remove Richmond's iconic statue of Robert E. Lee
Associated Press:
Prosecutors: 3 men plotted to terrorize Vegas protests  —  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Three Nevada men with ties to a loose movement of right-wing extremists advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government have been arrested on terrorism-related charges in what authorities say was a conspiracy …
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Beast
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U.S. Department of Justice:   Joint Terrorism Task Force Charges Three Men Who Allegedly Sought To Exploit Protests In Las Vegas And Incite Violence
Associated Press:
Police shove, make AP journalists stop covering protest  —  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police officers surrounded, shoved and yelled expletives at two Associated Press journalists covering protests Tuesday in the latest aggression against members of the media during a week of unrest around the country.
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Protesters' breach of temporary fences near White House complex prompted Secret Service to move Trump to secure bunker  —  President Trump was rushed to a secure bunker in the White House on Friday evening after a group of protesters hopped over temporary barricades set up near …
Washington Post:
Sen. Paul acknowledges holding up anti-lynching bill, says he fears it would be wrongly applied  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) acknowledged Wednesday that he is holding up a bill with broad bipartisan support that would make lynching a federal hate crime, saying he fears it could allow enhanced penalties …
Discussion: The Hill, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
Trump Had Kushner Push the National Enquirer to Probe Scarborough Murder Conspiracy  —  OBSESSION  —  Trump is so hellbent on smearing the MSNBC host that he had Jared push the Enquirer to publish the lies, sources told The Daily Beast.  Even the tabloid rag wouldn't sink that low.
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
People Say Pallets Of Bricks Are Showing Up Near Protests All Over The US.  The Truth Is More Complicated.  —  A wave of social media posts and images have claimed that pallets of bricks have been appearing near the locations of protests in cities all over the United States.
Lee Brown / New York Post:
Mexican senator accidentally goes topless on Zoom meeting  —  A Mexican lawmakers accidentally showed up topless in a government Zoom meeting — but later insisted she was “not ashamed” of having shown her body.  —  Senator Martha Lucía Mícher Camarena, 66 …
The Guardian:
Governments and WHO changed Covid-19 policy based on suspect data from tiny US company  —  Surgisphere, whose employees appear to include a sci-fi writer and adult content model, provided database behind Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine hydroxychloroquine studies
Washington Post:
Hydroxychloroquine, a drug promoted by Trump, failed to prevent healthy people from getting covid-19 in trial  —  The University of Minnesota enrolled health-care workers and others exposed to the disease in the first randomized prevention study of the drug  —  Hydroxychloroquine …
Discussion: CNBC, National Review and MinnPost
Patrick Skinner / Washington Post:
I'm a cop.  I won't fight a ‘war’ on crime the way I fought the war on terror.  —  The failed strategy I participated in for years as a CIA officer is not how to police people I consider my neighbors.  It's not how to police at all.  —  When I left the CIA, I no longer wanted to fight our “war on terror.”
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump lacks the consent of the governed  —  WASHINGTON — It is ironic that President Donald Trump used Lafayette Square as the staging ground to intimidate peacefully protesting citizens with a force of soldiers and federal agents.  —  After all, the Marquis de Lafayette was a young nobleman drawn …
Discussion: Politico, MSNBC and Washington Post
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
New York Times Staffers in Open Revolt Over Tom Cotton's ‘Send in the Troops’ Column  —  “Running this puts Black @NYTimes staff in danger,” dozens of Times employees tweeted in solidarity on Wednesday evening.  —  Staffers at The New York Times are in open revolt Wednesday …
CNN:
Gun-toting members of the Boogaloo movement are showing up at protests  —  (CNN)Benjamin Ryan Teeter was at his home in Hampstead, N.C., when the call to action came.  It was an alert from the heart of the raging protests in Minneapolis, posted on an online forum by a fellow member of the Boogaloo movement …
Rafaela Lindeberg / Bloomberg:
Man Behind Sweden's Controversial Virus Strategy Admits Mistakes  —  Sweden's top epidemiologist has admitted his strategy to fight Covid-19 resulted in too many deaths, after persuading his country to avoid a strict lockdown.  —  “If we were to encounter the same illness with the same knowledge …
 
 
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Will Swaim / National Review:
Obama's Blind Spot on Police Unions and Police Abuse
New York Times:
Protests Draw Shoulder-to-Shoulder Crowds After Months of Virus Isolation
Discussion: Althouse
James Stavridis / TIME:
I Spent My Career in the U.S. Navy. The U.S. Military Must Stand up for Its Soul in This Moment
Discussion: Task & Purpose
Shant Shahrigian / New York Daily News:
De Blasio staffers demand ‘radical change from mayor’ in open letter: read full text
Wall Street Journal:
Chicken Industry Executives, Including Pilgrim's Pride CEO, Indicted on Price-Fixing Charges
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Hill
Philip Kennicott / Washington Post:
The dystopian Lincoln Memorial photo raises a grim question: Will they protect us, or will they shoot us?
 Earlier Items: 
CBS Denver:
Vic Fangio Apologizes After Saying He 'Doesn't See Racism At All In The NFL'
Chris Arnold / NPR:
Millions Of Americans Skip Payments As Tidal Wave Of Defaults And Evictions Looms
Angel Jennings / Los Angeles Times:
South L.A. is largely untouched by unrest. That is by design
Discussion: Fox News and Gothamist
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Biden blows past Trump in betting markets as protests over police brutality continue
Discussion: Fox News and The Hill
Telegraph:
Boris Johnson says 3m people in Hong Kong will get path to British citizenship
Discussion: The Daily Caller
George Joseph / Gothamist:
The Mount Vernon Police Tapes: In Secretly Recorded Phone Calls, Officers Say Innocent People Were Framed
Washington Post:
'This can't be happening': An oral history of 48 surreal, violent, biblical minutes in Washington
Discussion: The Mahablog