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Randall Lane / Forbes:
Kanye West Says He's Done With Trump—Opens Up About White House Bid, Damaging Biden And Everything In Between  —  Kanye West's Fourth of July declaration, via Tweet, that he was running for president lit the internet on fire, even as pundits were trying to discern how serious he was.
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Jim Sciutto / CNN:
Exclusive: Vindman to retire from military.  His lawyer blames White House ‘campaign of bullying, intimidation and retaliation’  —  (CNN)Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key witness in President Donald Trump's impeachment inquiry, is retiring from the US Army after more than 21 years …
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Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Trump Pushed CIA to Give Intelligence to Kremlin, While Taking No Action Against Russia Arming Taliban  —  Why would the Russian government think it could get away with paying bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers?  One answer to that question may be the extraordinary response …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Intellectualist
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
New July 2020 Electoral College Ratings  —  This election is looking more like a Democratic tsunami than simply a Blue wave.  President Trump, mired in some of the lowest job approval ratings of his presidency, is trailing Biden by significant margins in key battleground states like Pennsylvania …
Pete Williams / NBC News:
In win for Trump, Supreme Court allows plan for religious limits to Obamacare contraceptive coverage  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to give the nation's employers more leeway in refusing to provide free birth control for their workers under the Affordable Care Act.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:   Supreme Court ruling on Trump's tax returns, financial records to come Thursday
Ed Whelan / National Review:
Two Big Victories for Religious Liberty
Discussion: Power Line
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Lets Employers Opt Out of Birth Control Coverage
Discussion: The Week
Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court rules for Little Sisters of the Poor in long-running dispute over birth control mandate
Discussion: National Review and Disrn
Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Jack Posobiec's Rise Tied to White Supremacist Movement  —  Jack Posobiec, a correspondent for One America News Network (OANN) whose work has been embraced by President Trump, collaborated for years with white supremacists, neo-fascists and antisemites, a Hatewatch investigation has determined.
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Southern Poverty Law Center:
SPLC Investigation: Far-right OANN Anchor Jack Posobiec's Rise Tied to White Supremacist Movement  —  Far-right commentator Jack Posobiec is a current host on One America News Network (OANN), an information network widely known to distort facts and which has been embraced by President Trump.
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Lara Trump-RNC robocall called mail-in voting safe and secure while President railed against it  —  (CNN)While President Donald Trump has continuously railed against voting by mail, a Republican National Committee robocall in April voiced by his daughter-in-law Lara Trump said voting by mail could be done “safely and securely.”
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Trump threatens to cut funding for schools, slams CDC reopening guidelines as too tough and expensive  — Trump tweets that he may withhold federal funding from schools that do not resume in-person classes this fall.  — Moments later Trump says his own CDC's guidelines for safely reopening schools …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump rips CDC, threatens school funding
Discussion: Politico, Twitchy and Fox News
Ian Sample / The Guardian:
Warning of serious brain disorders in people with mild coronavirus symptoms  —  UK neurologists publish details of mildly affected or recovering Covid-19 patients with serious or potentially fatal brain conditions  —  Doctors may be missing signs of serious and potentially fatal brain disorders triggered …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
US coronavirus mortality rate not lowest in world, despite Trump claim: FACT CHECK  —  The president has made false statements about the virus's mortality rate.  —  President Donald Trump and his White House have repeatedly claimed this week, falsely, that the United States has the lowest novel coronavirus mortality rate in the world.
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CNBC:   U.S. reports record single-day spike of 60,000 new coronavirus cases
David Hall / Wall Street Journal:
New Coronavirus Cases Hit Daily Record in U.S., With 60,000
Discussion: Defense One
Peter Nicholas / The Atlantic:
Mike Pence's Plan to Save Trump—And Himself  —  In private moments, Donald Trump has told aides that he rescued Mike Pence from a potentially embarrassing defeat by pulling him out of a tough reelection bid in the 2016 Indiana governor's race and putting him on the ticket, a former White House official told me.
Discussion: The Intellectualist, Raw Story and CNN
New York Times:
Churches Were Eager to Reopen.  Now They Are a Major Source of Coronavirus Cases.  —  The virus has infiltrated Sunday services, church meetings and youth camps.  More than 650 cases have been linked to reopened religious facilities.  —  PENDLETON, Ore. — Weeks after President Trump demanded …
Discussion: The Week and Daily Kos
River Davis / Wall Street Journal:
Reopened Theme Parks Ban Screaming on Roller Coasters.  Riders Are Howling.  —  Japan's park recommendations aim to prevent the spread of Covid-19, but thrill seekers find keeping quiet isn't easy  —  TOKYO—At the Fuji-Q Highland amusement park recently, the chief executive …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
How United Are Democrats?  A 96-0 Data Point Offers a Hint  —  Polling shows Biden is not facing any serious defections from his left flank.  —  Joe Biden has emerged from a contested Democratic primary with surprising party unity and without any serious threat on his left flank …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Lauren Hirsch / CNBC:
Storied apparel brand Brooks Brothers files for bankruptcy as it seeks a buyer and closes dozens of stores  — Brooks Brothers, founded in 1818, filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday.  — The retailer, which generated more than $991 million in sales last year, has more than 200 stores in North America and 500 worldwide.
New York Times:
The Inside Story of Why Mary Trump Wrote a Tell-All Memoir  —  President Trump's niece was a family outcast.  Her new book casts a cold light on the relatives she describes as dysfunctional.  —  For most of her life, Mary L. Trump was shunted aside by her own family.
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:   A Guided Tour Into the Troubled Mind of Donald Trump
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Biden Should Not Debate Trump Unless ...  Here are two conditions the Democrat should set.  —  I worry about Joe Biden debating Donald Trump.  He should do it only under two conditions.  Otherwise, he's giving Trump unfair advantages.  —  First, Biden should declare that he will take part …
Discussion: The Federalist, Breitbart and Althouse
New York Times:
Artists and Writers Warn of an ‘Intolerant Climate.’ Reaction Is Swift.  —  An open letter published by Harper's, signed by luminaries including Margaret Atwood and Wynton Marsalis, argued for openness to “opposing views.”  The debate began immediately.  —  The killing of George Floyd …
ABC News:
Trump campaign considers displaying statues at future rallies: Sources  —  The president criticized those calling for removal of controversial monuments.  —  A potential new addition to President Trump's future rallies: statues.  —  The idea has been discussed by White House and Trump campaign aides …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Rasmussen Reports:
White House Watch  —  Biden Has Comfortable Lead  —  President Trump trails likely Democratic nominee Joe Biden by ten points in Rasmussen Reports' first weekly White House Watch survey for 2020.  —  The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds Biden earning 50% …
Discussion: Raw Story
Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
Tech CEO apologizes for racist tirade against Asian American family caught on video  —  For a few moments after the camera began recording, the white man smirked silently in his seat at an upscale California restaurant.  Then, he gave the family at the next table the middle finger and unleashed an anti-Asian tirade.
NBC News:
‘Sickening’: Biden defends Duckworth after Trump camp, Tucker Carlson question her patriotism  —  WASHINGTON — Joe Biden criticized President Donald Trump on Tuesday for attacking Sen. Tammy Duckworth — a Purple Heart recipient who lost both of her legs while serving in Iraq — as unpatriotic.
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
GOP State Lawmaker Demands Americans ‘STOP GETTING TESTED’ For Coronavirus  —  Nino Vitale railed against wearing masks and ranted about “living in a dictatorship” in a Facebook post.  —  A GOP state lawmaker in Ohio ― one of several states currently seeing a spike …
Tim Stelloh / NBC News:
Mary Kay Letourneau, teacher jailed for raping student she later married, dies at 58  —  Mary Kay Letourneau, the former Seattle-area teacher who married a man she was convicted of raping when he was in sixth grade, has died of cancer, her lawyer said Tuesday.  She was 58.
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Chief Justice John Roberts was hospitalized last month after injuring his head in a fall  —  Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. suffered a fall at a Maryland country club last month that required an overnight stay in the hospital, a Supreme Court spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday night.
Matthew Herper / STAT:
A flawed Covid-19 study gets the White House's attention — and the FDA may pay the price  —  Studies in thousands of people on multiple continents now show the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine does not help patients hospitalized with Covid-19 live longer.  But on Tuesday the White House …
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
QAnon-Curious House Candidate Gave Her Customers Diarrhea  —  Lauren Boebert made her food business a centerpiece of her surprise win in the GOP primary in Colorado.  But the cooking hasn't always been a net plus.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  In 2017, a Colorado restaurant's tainted pork sliders poisoned dozens …
CNN:
Robert Redford: This is who gets my vote in 2020  —  Robert Redford is an actor, director, producer and trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council, an advocacy group.  —  The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author.  View more opinion articles on CNN.
Discussion: Deseret News and Deadline
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Partisanship Drives Latest Shift in Race Relations Attitudes  —  Majority hopeful that movement will have a positive impact  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Republicans have turned negative while non-Republicans have held firm in their support of the movement sparked by the death of George Floyd and other incidents involving racial justice.
Discussion: Washington Post
John Bickley / The Daily Wire:
The New York Times Dropped Millions On Facebook To Advertise The 1619 Project...While Trying To Bully Facebook Into Censoring Others  —  The New York Times' massive campaign to pressure social media giants into restricting freedom of information — particularly dissemination from sources …
 
 
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Stop saying Trump is ‘in denial.’ The truth is much worse.
Discussion: Raw Story
Donté Stallworth / New York Times:
I Played in the N.F.L. It Needs Way More Than a Black Anthem.
Patrick J. Deneen / The American Conservative:
Why Conservatism is the Natural Home for Working-Class Americans
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Most Americans believe Russia targeted U.S. soldiers, want sanctions in response, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows
Discussion: Washington Times
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Snowden Faces Possible Sanctions in Suit Over Tell-All Book
 Earlier Items: 
Allyson Waller / New York Times:
Woman Says She Was Fired Because Her Children Disrupted Her Work Calls
Madeline Charbonneau / The Daily Beast:
Conservative Sites Pull Articles, Twitter Suspends Accounts After Daily Beast Investigation
Discussion: Mediaite
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
D.C. is a 68-square-mile monument to Columbus. Here's what we could rename it.
Discussion: CNN
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Trump wants tax breaks to lure baseball fans back, but incentive could misfire with attendance still barred
Discussion: Raw Story
Kyle Kashuv / The American Mind:
Buy Guns and Ammo