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BuzzFeed News:
The Kenosha Shooting Suspect Was In The Front Row Of A Trump Rally In January  —  The law-enforcement obsessed 17-year-old who was charged with shooting and killing two people and injuring another in Kenosha during protests for Jacob Blake appeared in the front row at a Donald Trump rally in January.
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New York Times:
Tracking the Suspect in the Fatal Kenosha Shootings  —  Footage appears to show a teenager shooting three people during protests in Wisconsin.  We tracked his movements that night.  —  A teenager who walked among protesters in Kenosha, Wis., carrying a military-style semi-automatic rifle …
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says  —  A former FBI agent has documented links between serving officers and racist militant activities in more than a dozen states  —  White supremacist groups have infiltrated US law enforcement agencies in every region …
Arizona Republic:
Weekly Gilbert pro-police rallies escalate to violence as attendees look for ‘antifa’
Discussion: Raw Story
Dan Mihalopoulos / NPR:
Kenosha Shooting Suspect Fervently Supported ‘Blue Lives,’ Joined Local Militia
Discussion: Raw Story, ABC News and Mashable
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump set to skewer Biden in convention address  —  President Donald Trump will unload on Joe Biden in a blistering convention speech Thursday night, according to two people familiar with the address.  —  Trump is expected to go after the former vice president on everything from the economy to trade.
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Over 100 Ex-Staff Members for John McCain Endorse Joe Biden  —  The group endorsement of Mr. Biden is the latest effort from anti-Trump Republicans to lure conservatives and moderates away from the president, who often clashed with the former Arizona senator.
Mark Salter / Washington Post:
Why dozens of John McCain aides, including me, are endorsing Joe Biden  —  Mark Salter served as a staff aide and speechwriter for Sen. John McCain.  —  This week, I joined more than 100 aides of the late Sen. John McCain, including former chiefs of staff, senior legislative and campaign workers …
Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Pelosi says Biden shouldn't debate Trump: 'I wouldn't legitimize a conversation with him'
Adam Forrest / The Independent:
Trump had public meltdown over missed phone call from Putin, former No 10 aide says  —  ‘If Putin wants a call with me you just put him through,’ US president yelled according to Theresa May's former chief of staff  —  Donald Trump exploded with anger at one of his most senior aides …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: More than 100 Bush-McCain-Romney alums go for Biden  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  IT'S THURSDAY, and President DONALD TRUMP will close the Republican convention this evening from the White House.  And, as the GOP seeks to rally around TRUMP 68 DAYS before Election Day, here's what the world looks like:
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New York Times:
How Chaos in Kenosha Is Already Swaying Some Voters in Wisconsin  —  As residents see fires and looting, some worry that local Democratic leaders are failing to keep control of the situation.  —  John Geraghty, a 41-year-old worker in a tractor factory, has barely paid attention to the presidential race or the conventions.
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Stop Downplaying the Violence in Our Cities
Discussion: Townhall, Breitbart and Mediaite
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
'It's playing into Trump's hands': Dems fear swing-state damage from Kenosha unrest
Discussion: National Review and Fox News
Justine Coleman / The Hill:
Kushner: NBA players are ‘fortunate’ to have wealth to take night off  —  Jared Kushner on Thursday commented on NBA players boycotting playoff games the night before, saying they are “fortunate” to have enough wealth to “take a night off from work” while saying he wants “actual action” in the racial justice movement.
Discussion: ESPN, Forbes, CNBC and POLITICUSUSA
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Associated Press:
Pence aide: NBA protest over Kenosha are ‘absurd and silly’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff said Thursday that NBA protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, are “absurd and silly.”  —  “If they want to protest, I don't think we care,” Marc Short told CNN's “New Day.”
CNN:
Pence reinvents Trump's presidency on a disorienting night of crises
Discussion: Fox News, МИА and Politico
Washington Post:
Room rentals, resort fees and furniture removal: How Trump's company charged the U.S. government more than $900,000  —  The Secret Service had asked for a room close to the president.  But Mar-a-Lago said it was too late.  The room was booked.  Would agents like a room across the street from the president, instead?
Discussion: Washingtonian, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Reuters:
White House's Meadows to discuss COVID-19 aid with Pelosi on Thursday
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
A look at the legislative graveyard
Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed News:
China Secretly Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Muslims  —  China rounded up so many Muslims in Xinjiang that there wasn't enough space to hold them.  Then the government started building.  —  Copy … China has secretly built scores of massive new prison and internment camps …
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BuzzFeed News:   Blanked-Out Spots On China's Maps Helped Us Uncover Xinjiang's Camps
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
We Need to Talk About the GOP's ‘Black Friends’  —  The Republican National Convention has been all about using Black people to convince white people it's OK to vote for a bigot.  —  In between the lies and the fear mongering and the stories about having intimate conversations with Jesus …
Discussion: New York Times, New Republic and Vox
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Wall Street Journal:
Immigrants in Trump-Led Ceremony Didn't Know They Would Appear at RNC
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
6 Quick Takeaways From Third Night Of Republican National Convention  —  Because of the media being so hysterically anti-Trump, this convention is the first time in about four years that non-leftist Americans have seen other Americans reflecting their positive views about President Trump.
Discussion: Instapundit
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New York Times:
Republicans Insist Only Trump Can Stop This Chaos. But He's in Charge Now.
Discussion: The American Independent and IJR
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Turmoil consumes Chamber of Commerce as it backs Democrats  —  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is poised to endorse nearly two dozen freshmen House Democrats for reelection, triggering a revolt within the right-leaning organization and drawing fierce pushback from the group's powerful GOP donors.
Discussion: Raw Story
David Corn / Mother Jones:
New Hot-Mic Video: What Trump Told His Lawyer When He Didn't Know a Camera Was Rolling  —  For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones' newsletters.  —  On December 10, 2015, Donald Trump took time off from campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination …
Discussion: Raw Story
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“QAnon Is Batshit Crazy”: Lindsey Graham Talks TikTok, Online Conspiracies, and Why He's Sticking With Trump  —  The South Carolina senator, facing a tough reelection fight, recalls warning Trump not to shut down TikTok after getting calls from Hannity, Petraeus, and his niece …
Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
Is Kenosha a Warning for the Biden Campaign?  —  Listening to swing state voters in Arizona and North Carolina.  —  On Wednesday night I remotely conducted two focus groups, one in North Carolina and one in Arizona.  —  The demographics of the groups were the same.  Both consisted of 2016 Trump voters.
Discussion: The Bulwark Podcast
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Why This Pro-Life Conservative Is Voting for Biden  —  Since I announced publicly that I will be voting for Joe Biden in November, I've received a few communications from puzzled readers.  “How can you, a supposedly pro-life woman, support someone who believes in killing babies?”
Des Moines Register:
Iowa counties can't set up drop box systems for absentee ballots, secretary of state says  —  The Iowa Secretary of State's Office says county auditors cannot set up drop boxes to accept absentee ballots this fall — something several auditors say they did during this year's primary election.
Discussion: Lawfare
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump says election workers, not USPS, could lead to 2020 miscount  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is shifting his focus from the U.S. Postal Service in his concerns about potential fraud in mail-in voting, claiming problems with mailed ballots lie with local elections officials who are “going to count them wrong.”
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff / New York Magazine:
Melania Trump's Ex-BFF Tells (Almost) All An insider's account of falling out with the First Lady.  —  Excerpted from Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady, by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff  —  I'd heard Melania Trump speak before.  But I'd never heard her sound like this.
 
 
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Theresa Vargas / Washington Post:
Ivanka Trump shared a video of her meeting a homeless D.C. woman. That woman says she's still waiting for her to keep a promise.
Discussion: Raw Story
Sarah Jones / The Cut:
The Progressive New Face of ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ Aaron Coleman committed revenge porn at age 12. Now he's 19, and wants a second chance.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jordan Moreau / Variety:
‘Fire Tucker Carlson’: Fox News Host Condemned for Comments on Deadly Shooting of Kenosha Protesters
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
2 George W. Bush Cabinet secretaries endorse Biden
Washington Post:
Fact-checking the third night of the 2020 Republican National Convention
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Covid Gag Rules at U.S. Companies Are Putting Everyone at Risk
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
States of Play: North Carolina
 Earlier Items: 
James Arkin / Politico:
‘Still a fresh wound’: 2016 loss fuels Senate Democrats' 2020 takeover strategy
Discussion: Earther
Victor Davis Hanson / Townhall:
What Is the Violence in American Cities All About?
Osita Nwanevu / New Republic:
Democrats Have Failed Urban Black Americans
Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
More than 1 million Americans file for unemployment, again
Discussion: Denver Post and ABC30
Kathleen Gray / New York Times:
In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Some Cracks Emerge in the Pro-Trump Wall
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Trump's big night: Expect talk of GOP progress, Dem anarchy
Discussion: Politico
Politico:
Why Trump is giving Rudy a prime slot at the convention
Discussion: MyNorthwest.com
Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed News:
RNC Video Showing Rioters In “Biden's America” Is Actually Spain
Discussion: Reason and Talking Points Memo
 

 
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