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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.
Bobby Lewis / Media Matters for America:
Fox reporter John Roberts: “The president may have a legitimate argument” that he and his son are being censored by Twitter  —  Roberts sanitized Donald Trump Jr.'s spread of dangerous coronavirus lies to reinforce the zombie claim that social media censors conservatives
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 …
CNN:
Social media giants remove viral video with false coronavirus claims that Trump retweeted  —  (CNN Business)A video featuring a group of doctors making false and dubious claims related to the coronavirus was removed by Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube after going viral online Monday.
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
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 …
Discussion: The Hill
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: CNN and Raw Story
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:   Attorney General William Barr testifies before House Judiciary Committee - watch live
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.
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:   Democrats assail Perdue over ‘hateful’ ad that made Ossoff's nose look bigger
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, ABC News and The Hill
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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
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Three Tests for the Future of the Republican Party  —  The least we can expect from a responsible political party and political movement.  —  Life is a learning experience.  Even the three months before a presidential election.  So it might make sense to ask a question:
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Daily News
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Andrew Solender / Forbes:
Gallup Poll: Fewer Americans Identifying As Conservatives, More As Liberals Since Outbreak Began
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
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 …
Associated Press:
Trump administration to resume processing DACA renewals  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will begin allowing so-called “Dreamer” immigrants to renew their permits to remain and work in the U.S. for a year while it reviews a Supreme Court ruling and the underlying legality …
Discussion: NBC News
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Jeremy B. White / Politico:   California sues Trump to ensure undocumented immigrants are counted
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:
Coronavirus Live Updates: National Teachers' Union Authorizes Strikes if Safety Measures Fall Short  —  Leaders of hard-hit states are considering new limits on businesses.  Germany is dealing with a surge.  President Trump shared a video with misleading coronavirus claims.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Juan Perez Jr / Politico:
AFT threatens ‘safety strikes’ in school reopening talks
Discussion: ABC News
Serena Smith / VICE:
Have You Been ‘Wokefished’ While Dating?  Here's How to Tell  —  If a dude describes himself on Hinge as a “feminist”, pay close attention to how he actually treats women.  —  SS  —  When I was about 17, I decided to go vegan (I was trying a lot of things at the time …
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite
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, UPI and The Hill
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
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.
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 …
Department of Homeland Security:
Department of Homeland Security Will Reject Initial Requests for DACA As It Weighs Future of the Program  —  Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad F. Wolf announced that in response to the Supreme Court's decision, the Department of Homeland Security will take action to thoughtfully consider …
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump Still Prefers Fox News Over Expert Advice  —  The president's penchant for snake oil and conspiracies shows just how much sway the partisan press now has.  —  I highly recommend Greg Sargent's detailed look at how Fox News is damaging Donald Trump — because the president keeps watching it and believing what he sees.
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
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
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 …
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Sanders unveils bill to provide masks to all Americans, says it's ‘a no-brainer’  —  Sanders stresses that ‘Masks save lives, period’  —  First came “Medicare-for-all.”  Now, it's masks for all.  —  Declaring that “Masks save lives, period,” Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday introduced …
Discussion: The Hill
 
 
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Geoffrey Skelley / FiveThirtyEight:
Voters Are Starting To Doubt Trump's Reelection Chances
Discussion: Washington Post
Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
The Republicans Have Written a Pro-Virus Bill
Michael Weiss / The Daily Beast:
Revealed: A Former FBI Director's Double Game With Stolen Russian Money
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Anthony Adragna / Politico:
Park Police head defends clearing BLM protesters near White House
Discussion: The Hill
Washington Post:
GOP coronavirus bill replaces money for Pentagon projects Trump raided for border wall
Discussion: COURIER
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Joe Biden debates how big to go on the presidential battlefield
Jennifer Maloney / Wall Street Journal:
Cigarette Smoking Makes Comeback During Coronavirus Pandemic
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
Here's how Trump's opposition to mail voting hurts the GOP
Spectrum News NY1:
Mike Bloomberg Promised to Spend Big Against Trump. What Happened?
Discussion: Political Wire
CNN:
EXCLUSIVE: Anger, leaks and tensions at the Supreme Court during the LGBTQ rights case
Discussion: SCOTUSblog and Raw Story
USA Today:
The unethical William Barr: 27 lawyers, 4 powerful allegations of dishonesty and deceit
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
ABC News:
As coronavirus threatened invasion, a new ‘Red Dawn’ team tried to save America
Discussion: Raw Story
Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
The Revenge of the Never Trumpers
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
New York Times:
Like Father, Like Son: President Trump Lets Others Mourn