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Bloomberg:
Bolton Book to Relate Trump Chaos, How Re-Election Drove Policy
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:   Bolton Book Reportedly to Allege ‘Constitutionally impermissible’ Trump Misconduct
Politico:
Bolton rips Trump: ‘Getting reelected was the only thing that mattered’
Discussion: The Hill
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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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Melania Trump Delayed White House Arrival to Negotiate a Better Prenup, Says Report
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Loses More Advertisers  —  Disney, Papa John's, Poshmark and T-Mobile backed away from “Tucker Carlson Tonight” after the host's comments about Black Lives Matter protests.  —  On Monday's segment of his prime time show, the Fox News host Tucker Carlson cast doubt …
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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 …
Robert Cherry / National Review:   Which Black Lives Matter?
Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Prosecutors Move To Drop Their Own Case After Evidence Issue.  The Judge Wants Answers  —  Prosecutors wove a simple narrative: The man in their sights had engaged in shady dealings involving a foreign adversary.  But the case fell into disarray after allegations the government had cheated …
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Court hears arguments on whether to dismiss Flynn case  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court heard arguments Friday on whether it should order the dismissal of the Justice Department's prosecution of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, wading into a politically charged legal question …
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Washington Post:
Appeals court appears reluctant to order judge to immediately drop Michael Flynn's conviction
Discussion: Axios, UPI, CNBC and Raw Story
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:   Flynn Judges Express Doubt About Letting DOJ Toss Case Now
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
‘Scares me to death’: Georgia Republicans fret voting-access issue could sink Trump  —  Republican insiders in Georgia are warning after a balloting meltdown in Fulton County that Democrats could wield voting rights like a cudgel, galvanizing turnout this fall to defeat President Trump in the traditionally red state.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Sam Levine / The Guardian:
'We're going to have a catastrophe': US faces November election fiasco
Discussion: Washington Post
Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:   Top Florida House Democrat seeks action on integrity of mail-in voting
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Is There Still Room for Debate?  —  In the last couple of weeks, as the purges of alleged racists have intensified in every sphere, and as so many corporations, associations, and all manner of civic institutions have openly pledged allegiance to anti-racism, with all the workshops, books …
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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Julian Borger / The Guardian:
‘Trump thought I was a secretary’: Fiona Hill on the president, Putin and populism  —  She was the White House's top Russia expert catapulted to fame by Trump's impeachment.  She reflects on her journey from County Durham to Washington  —  In the last days before Washington was locked down …
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Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:   Fiona Hill: ‘I knew more about what was going on in the Kremlin’
Quint Forgey / Politico:
‘There is no emergency’: W.H. economic advisers shrug off feared ‘second wave’ of coronavirus  —  The White House's top economic advisers on Friday shrugged off concerns of a potential “second wave” of the coronavirus, reflecting President Donald Trump's eagerness to continue reopening broad swaths …
Discussion: BuzzFeed News, ABC News and Fox News
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Politico:
‘They had a huge opportunity’: People of color on Trump's team reckon with a backlash
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: Rolling Stone and Variety
The Daily Beast:
Will Bill Barr Go to Jail When This Is All Done?  —  In Ep. 16 of The New Abnormal, former DOJ prosecutor Glenn Kirschner takes down Bill Barr.  Plus, Rick and Molly chat election predictions, Confederate flag truthers and more.  —  Attorney General Bill Barr was in on Trump's scheme to bribe and lean on Ukraine's president.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Max Cohen / Politico:
Seattle's mayor and police chief diverge on autonomous zone
Discussion: National Review and Breitbart
CNN:
Top Pentagon policy nominee has a history of Islamophobic and offensive comments  —  (CNN)The White House's nominee for a top position at the Pentagon has a history of making Islamophobic and inflammatory remarks against prominent Democratic politicians, including falsely calling former President Barack Obama a Muslim.
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 …
New York Times:
As Public Opinion Shifts 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 …
Washington Post:
Pandemic deepens economic pain at Trump's company, already suffering from a tarnished brand  —  The head of President Trump's flagship hotel stood on Pennsylvania Avenue with face mask on and two thumbs up.  —  After three brutal months of empty hotel rooms and a skeleton staff …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Chris Persaud / Palm Beach Post:
Fired scientist Rebekah Jones builds coronavirus dashboard to rival Florida's  —  Fired scientist Rebekah Jones' site shows thousands more people with the coronavirus, and hundreds of thousands fewer who have been tested, than the site run by the Florida Health Department.
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.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Tom Cotton Op-Ed and the Cultural Revolution  —  How liberalism, and the liberal media, are changing before our eyes.  —  Acting editorial page editor Kathleen Kingsbury wrote about the decision to publish our writers' responses to the Tom Cotton Op-Ed in Friday's edition of our Opinion Today newsletter.
Discussion: CNN and New York Post
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Why Trump Has Trouble Addressing Black Lives Matter  —  The reality TV president once proposed a season of “The Apprentice” pitting white contestants against black contestants.  —  April Ryan, a veteran White House correspondent with American Urban Radio Networks and a political analyst for CNN …
New York Times:
On the Future, Americans Can Agree: It Doesn't Look Good  —  Battered by a health crisis and fury about racial injustice, voters are mourning the past, worried about the present and fearful of what comes next.  —  Brendan Hermanson, 51, a construction worker for three decades, has come through the pandemic healthy and employed.
Discussion: Althouse
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.
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 …
Los Angeles Times:
A revolt against wearing masks creates a new coronavirus danger as California reopens  —  As California rapidly reopens its economy, health officials have made clear the only way to avoid a wave of new coronavirus infections is with strict safety rules, including social distancing …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Defunding the Police Is the Only Police Reform Americans Don't Like  —  American public opinion is undergoing a transformative change in the wake of the George Floyd protests.  Three-quarters of the country supports the demonstrations.  An equal percentage believe Floyd's death is a sign …
Discussion: HuffPost
The Daily Beast:
Trump Told Rallies May Give Fans COVID But He's Still Demanding Jam-Packed Crowds  —  Aides to the president had been trying to reconcile his desire for big crowds with the realities of a pandemic.  In the end, they settled on a legal disclaimer.  —  As President Donald Trump prepared …
Discussion: Common Dreams
Brendan McQuade / The Appeal:
The Camden Police Department Is Not A Model For Policing In The Post-George Floyd Era  —  The New Jersey department received slavish media praise after it was disbanded and reoriented toward community policing.  But behind the reformist mask was an embrace of surveillance and broken windows policing.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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