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Jada Yuan / Washington Post:
Melania Trump was in no rush to move into the White House. That's when she renegotiated her prenup, a new book says. — When Melania Trump stayed behind in New York after her husband's presidential inauguration, she said it was because she didn't want to interrupt their then-10-year-old son Barron's school year.
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Raw Story and Political Wire
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Melania Trump Delayed White House Arrival to Negotiate a Better Prenup, Says Report
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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Exclusive: Most Americans, including Republicans, support sweeping Democratic police reform proposals - Reuters/Ipsos poll — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Most Americans, including a majority of President Donald Trump's Republican Party, support sweeping law enforcement reforms such as a ban …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's Grotesque Tulsa Trip — A racist president trolls his enemies with a rally on Juneteenth. — Most people — or, at any rate, most readers of The New York Times — remember Donald Trump's response to the white nationalist riot in Charlottesville, Va., as a particularly low point in a presidency full of them.
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Vanity Fair, The American Independent, NPR and CNN
Reuters:
Trump on Juneteenth rally: ‘Think about it as a celebration’
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POLITICUSUSA and The Hill
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump rally attendees must agree not to sue campaign over potential coronavirus exposure
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IJR, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Truthout and Patterico's Pontifications
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
How Fox News lost the Black Lives Matter debate — A nation turns its back on Murdoch … Support independent voices — Channeling his deepest white privilege fury, Tucker Carlson opened his Monday night Fox News show with an angry, 25-minute, race-baiting monologue about Black Lives Matter …
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New York Times, The Wrap and Slate
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CNN:
Trump campaign selling ‘Baby Lives Matter’ onesie on website
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The Federalist and Raw Story
John Bowden / The Hill:
Starbucks bans employees from wearing anything in support of Black Lives Matter
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Fox News, The Sun and Louder With Crowder
Charles Love / City Journal:
False Prophets … If you really want to help black America …
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The Federalist, spiked and Breitbart
NBC News:
Man charged in deputy ambush scrawled extremist ‘Boogaloo’ phrases in blood — Steven Carrillo, accused of killing a sheriff's deputy in Santa Cruz County, California, wrote the words on the hood of a car, prosecutors said — Steven Carrillo, a California man who was charged with murder …
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New York Times:
As Americans Shift on Racism, Trump Digs In — With much of the country acknowledging that protesters' frustrations are justified, the president increasingly sounds detached from many voters in the political middle and even some of his allies. — WASHINGTON — NASCAR is demanding that its fans …
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NBC News, Daily Kos, Washington Post, The Bulwark and Blue Virginia
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump Hates Losers, So Why Is He Refighting the Civil War—on the Losing Side? — A week of protest, pandemic, and political unrest in the capital. — It was a small moment in a week of craziness, but there is nothing like the rage of Donald Trump when a media outlet publishes a poll proclaiming him an almost-certain loser.
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Daily Kos and Financial Times
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Trump might go down in history as the last president of the Confederacy
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New York Times, Bloomberg, Mashable and The Guardian
NBC News:
Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley discussed resigning over role in Trump's church photo op — The Pentagon's top general discussed resigning amid criticism over his participation in President Donald Trump's controversial photo op at a Washington church, three defense officials familiar with the matter told NBC News.
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Politico, Raw Story, Task & Purpose, New York Post and New York Times
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Axios:
John Bolton's forthcoming book includes multiple allegations about Trump misconduct in office — In a memoir coming June 23 that the White House has tried to delay, former national security adviser John Bolton will offer multiple revelations about President Trump's conduct in office …
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New Book Releases …, The Hill, Mediaite and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
The Second Wave Covid Scare — The numbers are better than the headlines, and reopening is necessary. — By The Editorial Board — Stocks sold off Thursday amid investor worries that a “second wave” of coronavirus infections could cause countries and states that are reopening to lock down again.
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Wall Street Journal:
How New York's Coronavirus Response Made the Pandemic Worse — The hasty expansion of medical facilities by state, city and hospital leaders led to grave mistakes, a Wall Street Journal investigation found; ‘wartime conditions’ — New York leaders faced an unanticipated crisis …
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Gothamist
Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:
The Virus Will Win — Americans are pretending that the pandemic is over. It certainly is not. — Contributing writer at The Atlantic — A second wave of the coronavirus is on the way. When it arrives, we will lack the will to deal with it. Despite all the sacrifices of the past months …
Twitter:
Disclosing networks of state-linked information operations we've removed — Today we are disclosing 32,242 accounts to our archive of state-linked information operations — the only one of its kind in the industry. The account sets we're publishing to the archive today include three distinct operations …
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Michael Flynn / The Western Journal:
Exclusive from Gen. Flynn: Forces of Evil Want To Steal Our Freedom in the Dark of Night, But God Stands with Us — There are seminal moments in American history that test every fiber of our nation's soul. — We are facing one now. — Revolutionary forces are causing every American citizen …
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The Gateway Pundit
Politico:
‘They had a huge opportunity’: People of color on Trump's team reckon with a backlash — It's another Charlottesville moment for some aides inside the Trump administration. — President Donald Trump's handling of the nationwide anti-racism protests and the response to George Floyd's killing …
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Raw Story and Washington Post
Douglas Brinkley / New York Times:
Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind — In a rare interview, the Nobel Prize winner discusses mortality, drawing inspiration from the past, and his new album, “Rough and Rowdy Ways.” — A few years ago, sitting beneath shade trees in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., I had a two-hour discussion …
Audrey Cleo Yap / Variety:
Dave Chappelle Speaks Out on George Floyd's Death, Blasts Candace Owens in Searing Netflix Special — How Director Lynn Chen and Her Team of Asian American Actor-Artisans Created Indie ‘I Will Make You Mine’ — 'Supergirl's' Nicole Maines Wants to Evolve Trans Roles: ‘Trans Characters Can Be Less Than Perfect’
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The Guardian and UPI
NBC New York:
‘His Brain Is Injured:’ Lawyer Updates on 75-Year-Old NY Protester Shoved by Police — The confrontation during a peaceful protest in Buffalo, New York, last week was captured on video that has since gone viral — What to Know — The 75-year-old man hospitalized after he was pushed …
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The Daily Beast, The Sun, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, New York Post and CSNY
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Kelly Loeffler's Fundraising Committee Takes the Prize for Tone Deafness — The Georgia Republican is offering donors and fundraisers benefit packages to support her re-election bid. — As Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) proclaims her exoneration from allegations of insider trading …
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Raw Story
Tom Robbins / New Yorker:
Is Bill de Blasio the Loneliest Man in New York City? — On the evening of May 29th, a New York state senator named Zellnor Myrie, a mild-mannered son of Caribbean immigrants from Flatbush, went to join a protest against police abuse outside the Barclays Center, in downtown Brooklyn.
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Trump Will Give Convention Speech in Jacksonville, Capping a Dispute Over Safety — The move from Charlotte, N.C., where the Republican convention was originally planned, came after the president demanded to hold an event without social distancing rules. — WASHINGTON — It's official …
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JustOneMinute, No More Mister Nice Blog and Raw Story
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Worse than the limousine liberal: ‘Prius woke-sters’ cheer chaos at personal risk — In 1969, New York mayoral candidate Mario Procaccino went after his rival, the movie-star-good-looking incumbent John Lindsay, by deriding him and his supporters as “limousine liberals” — people who …
Shaun Boyd / CBS Denver:
Corporate Donations To Governor's Office ‘Raises All Sorts Of Red Flags’ — DENVER (CBS4)- A CBS4 investigation has uncovered millions of dollars in donations from corporations and private foundations to the governor's office. The off-the-books donations date back at least 20 years.
Ebony Bowden / New York Post:
Trump confidantes push him to drop re-election campaign manager Brad Parscale — WASHINGTON — Advisers to President Trump are pushing him to dismiss his campaign manager Brad Parscale, arguing he lacks the political instincts to lead the team to a second term in the White House.
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
The Republican congressman who could get booted for officiating a gay wedding — A small universe of Republican Party activists will drive through the parking lot of a central Virginia church on Saturday to decide the fate of Rep. Denver Riggleman. — A one-term congressman with a libertarian streak …
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Border officials spent emergency humanitarian funds on dirt bikes, dogs and enforcement programs, according to government report — U.S. Customs and Border Protection used emergency funding meant for migrant families and children to pay for dirt bikes, canine supplies, computer equipment …
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UPI
Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
Black community braces for next threat: Mass evictions — A new tremor is threatening to shake minority communities as protests over racial injustice sweep the country: A wave of evictions as a federal moratorium on kicking people out of their rental units expires.
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Axios
PNAS:
Identifying airborne transmission as the dominant route for the spread of COVID-19 — Article - Figures & SI - Info & Metrics - PDF — Significance — We have elucidated the transmission pathways of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by analyzing the trend and mitigation measures in the three epicenters.
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
Fiona Hill: ‘I knew more about what was going on in the Kremlin’ — The Russia expert on her working-class roots, studying Putin — and the turmoil of Trump's White House — Before Fiona Hill even finished addressing Congress in the impeachment investigation into Donald Trump, she had become a global talking point.
David Bernstein / Reason:
Cornell Dean Eduardo M. Peñalver on the Jacobson Controversy — Earlier today, I wrote about demands that Cornell Law School fire clinical professor William Jacobson, and noted that Jacobson reported that Dean Eduardo M. Peñalver was properly defending his academic freedom.
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JONATHAN TURLEY, Power Line, Fox News and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
'We're going to have a catastrophe': US faces November election fiasco — The chaotic scenes in Georgia's primary this week could be a foretaste as states fail to take urgent action to secure the vote — The alarm bells have been going off for months, but the election fiasco in Georgia …
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Washington Post and NBC News
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Politico debates the proper way to cover Trump — It was just one word, a six-syllable adjective. One staffer at Politico, however, thought it was a big enough deal to raise in a May 27 all-hands meeting in which staffers could submit questions anonymously.
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