memeorandum: The Willful Blindness of Reactionary Liberalism (Osita Nwanevu/New Republic)

Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:

Senator Duckworth and Most of the Press Are Lying about Trump's Speech — Senator Tammy Duckworth says that, during his address at Mount Rushmore on Friday, President Trump “spent all his time talking about dead traitors.” — This is a flat-out lie. It is entirely untrue. It is invented from whole cloth.

Discussion: The Hill

Associated Press:

Trump at Mount Rushmore — Progressives deride his defense of America's founding principles. — By The Editorial Board — At Mt. Rushmore, Trump uses Fourth of July celebration to stoke a culture war —Los Angeles Times — Trump Uses Mount Rushmore Speech to Deliver Divisive Culture War Message

Discussion: Power Line

Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
‘Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil’

Discussion: The Federalist, The Nation, New York Sun and Washington Post

Jonathan Swan / Axios:
How Tucker Carlson monologues predict what Trump will say next

Discussion: Samizdata, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Bulwark, The Unz Review, Raw Story and Vanity Fair

WGCL-TV:

Reward for info on shooting death of 8-year-old during violent night in Atlanta — ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) — An 8-year-old girl died after she was shot during a night of violence across metro Atlanta. — The shooting occurred just before 10 p.m. on University Avenue near I-75/85.

Discussion: WSB-TV, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Redstate, Twitchy and Power Line

WSB-TV:
Police search for shooter who killed 8-year-old girl near burned Wendy's

Discussion: Townhall, National Review, Fox News, Louder With Crowder, IJR, The Gateway Pundit and The Sun

Jordan Lancaster / The Daily Caller:
'It's Over': Atlanta Mayor Says Protesters Should Clear Out After 8-Year-Old Girl Shot And Killed

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and WGCL-TV

Allan Smith / NBC News:

How Lincoln Project anti-Trump Republicans got into his head. Spoiler: It was easy. … Seeking to defend President Donald Trump from questions over whether he actually reads his daily intelligence briefing, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters last week …

Discussion: Raw Story

Mark Sherman / Associated Press:

Justices rule states can bind presidential electors' votes — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that states can require presidential electors to back their states' popular vote winner in the Electoral College. — The ruling, just under four months before the 2020 election …

Discussion: Washington Post and Axios

Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:

Trump's Job Approval Rating Steady at Lower Level — WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's approval rating is holding steady at a lower level after a sharp drop in late May and early June, with 38% of Americans currently approving of the job he is doing.

Discussion: Raw Story

Osita Nwanevu / New Republic:

The Willful Blindness of Reactionary Liberalism — It was always a given that 2020 would be a year to remember. Even so, it continues to surprise. It seems likely that June will go down as one of the pivotal months of our political era, a period when our streets, our press …

democratandchronicle:

Frederick Douglass statue vandalized on anniversary of his famous Fourth of July Rochester speech — On the same weekend in which famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass 168 years ago delivered one of his most historically resonant speeches, a statue of Douglass was toppled from its base and left near the Genesee River gorge.

Discussion: RochesterFirst, Associated Press, The Daily Beast, Breitbart, The Guardian, New York Post, The Hill and Law & Crime

Bloomberg:

Trump's Support Is Withering in Areas Where Virus Cases Are Rising — Sunbelt and other Republican areas are now getting hit hard — Older voters most vulnerable are no longer supporting Trump — Coronavirus is skyrocketing in Republican-leaning Sunbelt and interior states …

Discussion: Raw Story

Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:

Trump-connected lobbyists reap windfall in COVID-19 boom — WASHINGTON (AP) — Forty lobbyists with ties to President Donald Trump helped clients secure more than $10 billion in federal coronavirus aid, among them five former administration officials whose work potentially violates Trump's own ethics policy, according to a report.

Discussion: Political Wire

New York Times:

The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus — Coronavirus cases per 10,000 people — Teresa and Marvin Bradley can't say for sure how they got the coronavirus. Maybe Ms. Bradley, a Michigan nurse, brought it from her hospital. Maybe it came from a visiting relative.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Blue Virginia and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Washington Post:

Trump and Biden campaigns shift focus to coronavirus as pandemic surges — The Trump and Biden presidential campaigns now see the coronavirus response as the preeminent force shaping the results of November's election, prompting both camps to try to refocus their campaigns more heavily on the pandemic …

Discussion: Raw Story

Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:

Trump doesn't have a clue what America is about — President Trump is single-minded in his devotion to fighting the culture wars. The “culture” he fights for is authoritarian, reactionary, anti-intellectual and un-American. If he would stop venerating marble and traitorous white nationalists …

Aris Folley / The Hill:

7 men arrested after allegedly harassing Black family on Oregon beach — © Lincoln City Police Department/ Facebook — Police in Lincoln City, Ore., said this weekend that they arrested 7 men on various charges after a group of white people they were a part of allegedly harassed …

Al Goodman / CNN:

Spain's coronavirus antibodies study adds evidence against herd immunity — Madrid (CNN)Spain's large-scale study on the coronavirus indicates just 5% of its population has developed antibodies, strengthening evidence that a so-called herd immunity to Covid-19 is “unachievable,” the medical journal the Lancet reported on Monday.

Discussion: Scripting News

New York Times:

Iran Admits Serious Damage to Natanz Nuclear Site, Setting Back Program — A Middle Eastern intelligence official said Israel planted a bomb in a building where advanced centrifuges were being developed. — A fire at Iran's main nuclear fuel enrichment site caused significant damage …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and TASS

Sara Nathan / Page Six:

Alan Dershowitz hasn't been seen at his favorite nude beach in months — Residents of Martha's Vineyard will be seeing a lot less of Alan Dershowitz this summer — in more ways than one. — The lawyer famously enjoys letting it all hang out on one of the island's nude beaches, Lucy Vincent Beach.

Bloomberg Law:

Dakota Access Oil Line to Be Shut by Court in Blow for Trump — Listen — The Dakota Access pipeline must shut down by Aug. 5, a district court ruled Monday in a stunning defeat for the Trump administration and the oil industry. — The decision is a momentous win for American Indian tribes …

Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios:

Trump demands apology from Bubba Wallace — President Trump demanded Monday an apology from Bubba Wallace, NASCAR's only Black driver, after the FBI determined last month that he was not a target of a hate crime when a noose was found in his garage stall before a race.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Bloomberg, The Guardian and One America News Network

Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:

Duckworth emerging as a contender to be Biden's running mate — As Joe Biden pushes ahead with his search for a running mate, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) has quietly emerged as a serious contender, according to three people with knowledge of the selection process, one of several developing dynamics …

Discussion: National Review, The Federalist, Talking Points Memo, The Hill and Political Wire

Courier-Journal:

Breonna Taylor warrant connected to Louisville gentrification plan, lawyers say — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Breonna Taylor's shooting was the result of a Louisville police department operation to clear out a block in western Louisville that was part of a major gentrification makeover …

Discussion: Raw Story

Ken Meyer / Mediaite:

Fox News Crops Trump Out of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell Photo — Fox News apparently cropped President Donald Trump out of a photograph with Jeffrey Epstein on Sunday, during the network's coverage of the arrest of Ghislane Maxwell. — The edited photo aired on America's News Headquarters …

Tami Luhby / CNN:

These charts show how economic progress has stalled for Black Americans since the Civil Rights era — (CNN)The typical Black American family is virtually no closer to equal footing with its White peers in terms of income and wealth than it was 50 years ago, when Civil Rights-era reforms …

Just Security:

Unpacking the National Intelligence Council's Memo on Russian Bounty Operation — Over the July 4 weekend, the New York Times reported that Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe has produced a memorandum that, on the one hand, acknowledges the assessment by the CIA …

Associated Press:

Trump's bluster doesn't beat a virus, calm a restive nation — WASHINGTON (AP) — Not long after noon on Feb. 6, President Donald Trump strode into the elegant East Room of the White House. The night before, his impeachment trial had ended with acquittal in the Republican-controlled Senate.

Discussion: Raw Story

DeNeen L. Brown / Washington Post:

Depicted kneeling before Lincoln, this enslaved man broke his own chains in pursuit of freedom — Decades before he was depicted in bronze kneeling before President Abraham Lincoln, Archer Alexander longed for freedom. — “Go for your freedom ef you dies for it,” said Alexander …

Politico:

Democrats smell a rout — and the chance to control redistricting in 2021 — Donald Trump's collapsing poll numbers have Democrats thinking bigger than just winning the White House and seizing the Senate — they're imagining a rout that extends all the way down the ballot.

USA Today:

Don't gorge on polls that show Biden ahead. COVID and voter suppression boost Trump's odds. — Soon many Americans will begin wearing out the refresh buttons on their browsers, hoping that an overdose of polls, voter data and the mystical models that interpret them will grant us some certainty …

Michael Powell / New York Times:

Are Protests Unsafe? What Experts Say May Depend on Who's Protesting What — Public health experts decried the anti-lockdown protests last spring as dangerous gatherings in a pandemic. Health experts seem less comfortable doing so now that the marches are against racism.

Discussion: Instapundit