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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Local TV stations across the country set to air discredited ‘Plandemic’ researcher's conspiracy theory about Fauci  —  New York (CNN Business)Local television stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group are set to air a conspiracy theory over the weekend that suggests Dr. Anthony Fauci …
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
A Judge Won't Force Federal Officers In Portland To Identify Themselves When Making Arrests  —  WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday denied a request by the Oregon attorney general's office for an order that would require federal law enforcement officers in Portland to identify themselves …
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Washington Post:
Operation Diligent Valor: Trump showcased federal power in Portland, making a culture war campaign pitch  —  PORTLAND, Ore. — As statues of Confederate generals, enslavers and other icons tumbled from their pedestals amid protests last month, President Trump issued an executive order meant to break the cascade.
Andrew Crespo / Washington Post:
The federal police in Portland don't even understand what ‘arrests’ are  —  The government cannot lawfully exercise its power of arrest if it doesn't realize it is, in fact, arresting people in the first place.  —  This past week, the Department of Homeland Security held a news conference …
Discussion: Breitbart
New York Times:
Videos Show How Federal Officers Escalated Violence in Portland  —  Peaceful protests were already happening for weeks when federal officers arrived on July 4.  Our video shows how President Trump's deployment ignited chaos.  —  Federal officers in military gear ... ... clouds of tear gas ... ... crowd control munitions ...
Wall Street Journal:   Oregon Loses Request for Injunction Against Federal Agents in Portland
Bloomberg:
Oregon Loses Fight With Trump on U.S. Policing of Portland
Discussion: Twitchy
KOIN-TV:
Judge denies restraining order against feds in Portland
New York Times:
Inside Trump's About-Face on the Republican Convention in Jacksonville  —  Faced with a surging pandemic, resistance from local officials in Florida and deadlines for items like hotel payments, Mr. Trump chose to cancel the convention in an effort to cast himself as putting safety first.
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NBC News:
Trump's convention cancellation is costing GOP donors millions  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's whipsaw decisions to first move the Republican National Convention's main events, then to cancel them, are costing GOP donors millions of dollars, according to multiple Republicans familiar with the finances.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump's week of retreat: The president reverses course as the coronavirus surges out of control
Discussion: New York Times
Peter Baker / New York Times:
‘Mugged by Reality,’ Trump Finds Denial Won't Stop the Pandemic  —  A president who once claimed that “the worst days of the pandemic are behind us” now acknowledges that it has surged through much of the country and will “get worse before it gets better.”  —  WASHINGTON — He insisted …
Lauren Leatherby / New York Times:
How the U.S. Compares With the World's Worst Coronavirus Hot Spots  —  This chart shows the countries with the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world right now.  With its cases surging since mid-June, the United States is squarely in the top 10.  —  Leading the outbreak now are countries …
David Siders / Politico:
Donald Trump's suburban horror show  —  Donald Trump says Joe Biden wants to abolish the suburbs.  But polls show a different truth: The suburbs want to abolish Donald Trump.  —  If current numbers hold, the Republican Party will suffer its worst defeat in the suburbs in decades — with implications reaching far beyond November.
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox News
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump again tells story about being booed at 2015 event he didn't attend  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump boasted on Wednesday about his cognitive abilities, including the memory he has previously called “one of the great memories of all time.”
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Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
The Poison of Male Incivility When a woman dares respond to it, she's seen as “disruptive.”  —  Yesterday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stood up and gave one of the finest speeches recently heard on the House floor, calling out not just Florida representative Ted Yoho for having called her …
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USA Today:   'I am someone's daughter too.' Read Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's full speech responding to Rep. Ted Yoho
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
The New York Times has a misogyny problem, too
New York Times:
The F.B.I. Pledged to Keep a Source Anonymous.  Trump Allies Aided His Unmasking.  —  After a Russia expert who had collected research on Donald Trump for a disputed dossier agreed to tell the F.B.I. what he knew about it, law enforcement officials declassified a road map to identifying him.
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Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Meet the Steele Dossier's ‘Primary Subsource’: Fabulist Russian at Democrat Think Tank Whose Boozy Past the FBI Ignored
Discussion: Breitbart and American Greatness
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Media coverage of the 2016 campaign was disastrous.  Now's the last chance to get 2020 right.  —  How did the news media mess up in the 100 days leading up to the 2016 presidential election?  Let me count the ways.  —  Journalists relied too much on what opinion polls were saying …
Discussion: Raw Story and Politico
Charles Fain Lehman / Washington Free Beacon:
The Wages of Woke  —  How Robin DiAngelo got rich peddling ‘white fragility’  —  Dr. Robin DiAngelo, the bestselling author of White Fragility, claims to believe in accountability.  DiAngelo used to list the “racial justice” organizations she donates to as part of her extensive …
Ken Coleman / Michigan Advance:
He spent $10M of his own money running for governor in '18.  So why does Shri Thanedar want to join the Legislature next year?  —  It's a 92-degree July afternoon and with Election Day approaching, Shri Thanedar is stumping for votes in Northeast Detroit.  Armed with a bull horn, a lawn sign …
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
American Catastrophe Through German Eyes  —  Trump says he wants to protect law-abiding citizens.  In 1933, Hitler issued his ‘Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State.’  —  PARIS — No people has found the American lurch toward authoritarianism under President Trump more alarming than the Germans.
Erika Edwards / NBC News:
CDC: One-third of COVID-19 patients who aren't hospitalized have long-term illness  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged Friday that a significant number of COVID-19 patients do not recover quickly, and instead experience ongoing symptoms, such as fatigue and cough.
Washington Post:
House GOP's pleas to Republican National Committee for financial help go unanswered  —  Senior House Republicans are pleading with the deep-pocketed Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign to provide financial help as Democrats vastly outraise the GOP, but top campaign officials are so far declining to commit.
Discussion: Political Wire
Julie Satow / New York Times:
Turning a Second Home Into a Primary Home  —  Those who are lucky enough to have a weekend house have discovered that living there full-time can require some adjustment.  —  20 PhotosView Slide Show  —  ›  —  When the pandemic slammed into New York City in March, Sally Fischer …
Washington Post:
Spin, deride, attack: How Trump's handling of Trump University presaged his presidency  —  The judge was out to get him, he said.  So was that prosecutor in New York, whom he called a dopey loser on a witch hunt.  So were his critics, who he said were all liars.
Edmund Lee / New York Times:
At Wall Street Journal, News Staff and Opinion Side Clash  —  A heated dispute between the newsroom and the opinion section of one of the country's most respected news organizations has spilled into public view.  —  In a rare display of internal strife, the opinion department …
Discussion: Washington Post, Fox News and Townhall
CNN:
Why the Obama-Biden ad may persuade key US voters  —  Obama and Biden jab Trump coronavirus response in new video  —  Arick Wierson regularly writes for CNN and is a six-time Emmy Award-winning television producer.  He is a former senior media adviser to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg …
Discussion: Washington Post
Shariq Khan / Reuters:
Chevron diversity ratio to improve as layoffs progress  —  (Reuters) - Oil major Chevron Corp (CVX.N) expects to reduce the dominance of white males in company management during cost-cutting this year, upping the share of senior level jobs held by women and ethnic minorities to 44% from 38% last year, the company said in a statement.
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“Trump Could Not Be More on the Wrong Side”: New Poll Shows Trump's Black Lives Matter Protest Response Could Cost Him 2020  —  Exclusive polling suggests the protests changed Americans' minds so quickly, and so profoundly, that Trump planted himself even further on the wrong side of public opinion than previously understood.
Discussion: The Bulwark and Althouse
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Split 5 to 4, Supreme Court Rejects Nevada Church's Challenge to Shutdown Restrictions  —  The church said it was subject to more severe limits than casinos and restaurants.  —  The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request from a church in Nevada to block enforcement of state restrictions on attendance at religious services.
 
 
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
'It's Bleak': Trump's Great American Comeback Is a Dumpster Fire
Discussion: Raw Story
Katherine J. Wu / New York Times:
'It's Like Groundhog Day': Coronavirus Testing Labs Again Lack Key Supplies
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
Rodneyse Bichotte / BKLYNER:
The Jonah Bichotte Cowan Law To Protect & Care For Pregnant Women Passes State Legislature
Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
A Saudi Spy Chief Hid Abroad. With Appeals and Threats, M.B.S. Tried to Bring Him Back
New York Times:
Woody Johnson Was a Loyal Trump Supporter in 2016. As an Ambassador, He May Be Too Loyal.
Discussion: Raw Story and 1A
Daniel Nichanian / The Appeal:
Honolulu's Prosecutor Race Could Flip Hawaii's Punitive Culture
 Earlier Items: 
Max MarinNina Feldman / WHYY:
Philly NAACP president shares anti-Semitic meme with misattributed neo-Nazi quote
Discussion: Daily Kos
New York Times:
Kimberly Guilfoyle's Fund-Raising for Trump Draws Scrutiny
Discussion: Raw Story
Jasper Scherer / Houston Chronicle:
His approval faltering, Republicans in battleground Houston districts start to distance from Trump
Associated Press:
Virginia evicts Confederate monuments from its state Capitol
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
Dr. Anthony Fauci Explains Why His First Pitch Was Just a Bit Outside
Discussion: IJR, The Federalist, The Hill and Breitbart
Jay Willis / The Appeal:
Conservatives Are Winning The Supreme Court's Most Important Fight: Suppressing The Vote
Arizona Republic:
Arson suspected in overnight fire at Arizona Democratic Party headquarters in Phoenix
Discussion: The Hill