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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Trump's New Favorite COVID Doctor Believes in Alien DNA, Demon Sperm, and Hydroxychloroquine  —  A Houston doctor who praises hydroxychloroquine and says that face masks aren't necessary to stop transmission of the highly contagious coronavirus has become a star on the right-wing internet …
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Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Facebook deleted a viral video full of false coronavirus claims.  Then Trump shared it on Twitter.  —  On Monday evening, Facebook scrubbed from its site a viral video showing a group of doctors making misleading and false claims about the coronavirus pandemic after more than 14 million people had watched it.
Reed Richardson / Mediaite:
Trump Goes on Hydroxychloroquine Twitter Binge, Retweets Anti-Mask Conspiracies and False Claims That Drug Is ‘Cure’ for Covid-19  —  President Donald Trump went on a late night Twitter binge on Monday with more than a dozen posts pushing dubious claims about the drug hydroxychloroquine …
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Twitter removes tweet highlighted by Trump falsely claiming COVID ‘cure’  —  WASHINGTON — Twitter has removed a tweet that had been retweeted by President Donald Trump that falsely said that there was a cure for the coronavirus.  —  Late Monday night, Trump retweeted the tweet from an account …
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Twitter temporarily limits Donald Trump Jr.'s account
Discussion: NPR and TheBlaze, more at Techmeme »
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Twitter temporarily bars Donald Trump Jr. from tweeting over coronavirus misinformation
Aiden Pink / The Forward:
Republican senator deletes ad that made Jewish opponent's nose bigger  —  Sen. David Perdue of Georgia deleted a Facebook ad targeting his Jewish election opponent, Jon Ossoff, that appeared to have been altered to make Ossoff's nose bigger.  —  The ad called for donations to Perdue …
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NBC News:
Here are six things that could change the 2020 presidential race  —  WASHINGTON — With 98 days to go until the election, Joe Biden has a bigger and more durable lead over President Trump than Hillary Clinton ever had in 2016, particularly in the key battleground states.
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
Michelle Lee / Washington Post:
Lawsuit alleges Trump campaign, fundraising committee shielded millions in payments  —  A legal complaint filed Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission alleges that the Trump campaign and an affiliated fundraising committee have not properly reported nearly $170 million in campaign spending …
Discussion: Associated Press and ABC News
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Roger Sollenberger / Salon:   Exclusive: Trump campaign kept paying Kayleigh McEnany after White House hiring
HuffPost:
Complaint: Trump Making Illegal Secret Payments, Including To His Own Family
Discussion: Raw Story
Talmon Joseph Smith / VICE:   Trump Campaign ‘Laundering’ Campaign Finance Money, Election Watchdog Says
Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal:   Complaint Says Trump Campaign Payments Broke Rules
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
“He's Lying.”  New Book Reveals Havoc Bill Barr Wrought Inside Congress  —  On Tuesday morning, when Attorney General William Barr finally appears before the House Judiciary Committee, a book will be released covering one of Barr's most controversial and most consequential actions to date …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:   Attorney General William Barr testifies before House Judiciary Committee - watch live
Libor Jany / Star Tribune:
Police: ‘Umbrella Man’ was a white supremacist trying to incite George Floyd rioting  —  Police say the suspect has been identified, but no charges had been filed as of Tuesday afternoon.  —  TEXT SIZE  —  A masked man who was seen in a viral video smashing the windows …
Nick Laughlin / Morning Consult:
Extensive New Battleground Polling Shows Biden Gaining Ground  —  Biden has put Republican strongholds in play while extending his lead in several swing states  —  President Donald Trump faces an increasingly daunting electoral map according to new battleground state polling from Morning Consult Political Intelligence.
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:   Democrats Lead Senate Races in Arizona, Colorado, Michigan and North Carolina
Tara Subramaniam / CNN:
Trump makes false claims about his swing state polling
Discussion: WISH-TV
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
After Quitting Deadspin in Protest, They're Starting a New Site  —  The journalists who took part in a staff rebellion last year are starting Defector Media, a company with a podcast and a website dedicated to sports and culture.  —  One of the biggest staff rebellions in online media took place last year …
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Maya Wiley Is Leaving MSNBC to Weigh Run for N.Y.C. Mayor  —  Ms. Wiley, who once led the city's police oversight board, would enter a mayoral race that has been reshaped by Black Lives Matter protests.  —  Maya D. Wiley, a former top counsel for Mayor Bill de Blasio, is leaving her role …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Sarah Palin's Facebook grift  —  Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican nominee for Vice President, is not the cultural icon she was a decade ago.  In March, she appeared on “The Masked Singer,” where she sang “Baby Got Back” dressed in a pink bear costume.  So how is Palin making ends meet?
New York Times:
Trump Announced, Then Canceled, a Yankees Pitch.  Both Came as a Surprise.  —  The president's announcement that he would pitch at Yankee Stadium on Aug. 15 startled the team's officials, who had not scheduled such an event.  —  WASHINGTON — An hour before Dr. Anthony S. Fauci threw …
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
Jaime Harrison is chasing Lindsey Graham like a cheetah running down an impala  —  In American politics, some candidates give their opponents a real run for their money.  And then there are those candidates who lay chase like a cheetah running down an impala on the Serengeti.
Discussion: Althouse
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Ex-FBI agent Strzok due out with book about Trump, Russia  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, who played a key role in the Russia investigation but whose pejorative text messages about Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign made him a target of the president's wrath …
Robert P. Jones / NBC News:
Racism among white Christians is higher than among the nonreligious.  That's no coincidence.  —  Over the last several weeks, the United States has engaged in a long-overdue reckoning with the racist symbols of the past, tearing down monuments to figures complicit in slavery and removing Confederate flags from public displays.
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Joe Biden debates how big to go on the presidential battlefield  —  Contrary to the president's countless retweets last night, the FDA revoked the emergency use authorization of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in June and has deemed the anti-malarial drug as “unlikely to be effective” in treating covid-19.
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
'It's absolutely serious': Susan Rice vaults to the top of the VP heap
Discussion: Progress Pond
Jennifer Maloney / Wall Street Journal:
Cigarette Smoking Makes Comeback During Coronavirus Pandemic  —  Marlboro maker Altria says stimulus checks and e-cigarette restrictions are driving sales of traditional cigarettes  —  Americans are smoking more during the coronavirus pandemic because they are spending less on travel …
Edgar Walters / The Texas Tribune:
Texas' count of coronavirus deaths jumps 12% after officials change the way they tally COVID-19 fatalities  —  Hispanic Texans are overrepresented in the state's updated fatality count, making up 47% of deaths, but only 40% of the state's population.  —  Copy link
Bill Mahoney / Politico:
Cuomo offers every MLB team a home in New York  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo is offering every Major League Baseball team a temporary home in New York.  —  “New York state could host any Major League Baseball game that any teams want to play and they could play those games in our stadiums,” the governor said in a briefing on Tuesday.
Discussion: ESPN
Juan Perez Jr / Politico:
AFT threatens ‘safety strikes’ in school reopening talks  —  The American Federation of Teachers adopted a resolution denouncing “unsafe and unsound plans” or “the faulty implementation of plans.”  —  Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers president, speaks during a news conference.
Discussion: ABC News
New York Times:
Like Father, Like Son: President Trump Lets Others Mourn  —  Whether he is dealing with the loss of a family member or the deaths of nearly 150,000 Americans in a surging pandemic, President Trump almost never displays empathy in public.  He learned it from his father.
Andrew Solender / Forbes:
Gallup Poll: Fewer Americans Identifying As Conservatives, More As Liberals Since Outbreak Began  —  A new Gallup poll shows a significant drop in Americans identifying as conservative and a rise in those identifying as liberal since February, as President Trump and Republicans in Congress …
Tim Alberta / Politico:
Trump's Biggest Problem Isn't Wealthy Suburbanites.  It's the White Working Class.  —  Dear Washington,  —  The president is in trouble.  You know it and I know it.  —  Here we are, just under 100 days out from Election Day, and every metric we have at our disposal …
Discussion: Raw Story
Spectrum News NY1:
Mike Bloomberg Promised to Spend Big Against Trump.  What Happened?  —  When former Mayor Michael Bloomberg dropped out of the presidential race in March, he was expected to continue pouring huge sums of money into the effort to defeat President Trump.  —  Almost five months later, he's done little to support Joe Biden.
Discussion: Political Wire
USA Today:
The unethical William Barr: 27 lawyers, 4 powerful allegations of dishonesty and deceit  —  “How can you tell when a lawyer is lying?” the old joke begins.  The answer: “Whenever his lips are moving.”  —  The humor reflects the reality of how an average citizen views the legal profession.
Discussion: CNN, Washington Post and Raw Story
 
 
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Serena Smith / VICE:
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Associated Press:
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
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CNN:
EXCLUSIVE: Anger, leaks and tensions at the Supreme Court during the LGBTQ rights case
Discussion: SCOTUSblog and Raw Story
ABC News:
As coronavirus threatened invasion, a new ‘Red Dawn’ team tried to save America
Discussion: Raw Story
Robert P. George / First Things:
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Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
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Washington Post:
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Discussion: Daily Kos
Noelle Crombie / Oregonian:
Vietnam vet gets pepper-sprayed in face by fed officer during Portland protests: ‘He did not like what I was saying’
Discussion: Daily Kos and Towleroad Gay News
John Bolton / New York Daily News:
Trump's China toughness myth: John Bolton says the president is not principled but transactional
Discussion: The Bulwark
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Electoral ‘Chaos’ in Pennsylvania?
Jesse Newman / Wall Street Journal:
Agriculture Department, States Investigate Foreign Seed Packages
Discussion: The Week