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10:00 AM ET, August 31, 2020

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Washington Post:
New Trump pandemic adviser pushes controversial ‘herd immunity’ strategy, worrying public health officials  —  One of President Trump's top medical advisers is urging the White House to embrace a controversial “herd immunity” strategy to combat the pandemic, which would entail allowing …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump mulled “settling” with Mueller amid Russia investigation  —  One of the crazy nuggets in a deeply reported book by the N.Y. Times' Michael Schmidt — “Donald Trump v. the United States,” out tomorrow — is that President Trump mulled the idea of “settling” with special counsel Robert Mueller.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump offered FBI director job to John Kelly, asked for loyalty  —  The day after President Trump fired FBI boss James Comey, the president phoned John Kelly, who was then secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, and offered him Comey's job, the New York Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and CANNONFIRE
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Leaked McGahn memo reveals alarms about Kushner's top-secret security clearance  —  Trump ultimately intervened to ensure Kushner got his top-secret security clearance.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
NBC News:
Poll: Third party voters from 2016 are backing Biden 2-to-1
Discussion: Slate, The Hill and The Moderate Voice
Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
Man under investigation in fatal shooting after pro-Trump rally allegedly took loaded gun to earlier Portland protest  —  A 48-year-old man who was accused of carrying a loaded gun at an earlier downtown Portland protest is under investigation in the fatal shooting Saturday night of a right-wing demonstrator after a pro-Trump rally.
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Andy Ngo / The Post Millennial:
‘I am 100% Antifa’: Alleged Portland shooter was previously arrested—and released—for bringing illegal loaded gun to a riot  —  The man being investigated by police in the fatal shooting of a Trump supporter in Portland identifies as Antifa and is an ardent Black Lives Matter supporter.
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
BLM ‘activists’ celebrated as Trump supporter was killed
Discussion: Associated Press and Raw Story
Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
Portland mayor responds to Trump: “Support us or stay the hell out of the way”
New York Times:
Portland Shooting Amplifies Tensions in Presidential Race
Ben Smith / New York Times:
I'm Still Reading Andrew Sullivan.  But I Can't Defend Him.  —  He's one of the most influential journalists of the last three decades, but he's shadowed by a 1994 magazine cover story that claimed to show a link between race and I.Q.  —  PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — The only restaurant open late …
Jack Davis / The Western Journal:
CDC Now Says 94% of COVID Deaths Had an Underlying Condition  —  Share on Facebook(100k) Tweet P Share Email Print  —  A new report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that in 94 percent of the cases of those who died from COVID-19, another disease was also at work on the victim.
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CNN:
Twitter removes QAnon supporter's false claim about coronavirus death statistics that Trump had retweeted  —  Optimism grows for emergency coronavirus vaccine use in 2020  —  (CNN)Twitter on Sunday took down a tweet containing a false claim about coronavirus death statistics …
Leo Shane III / Military Times:
As Trump's popularity slips in latest Military Times poll, more troops say they'll vote for Biden  —  The latest Military Times poll shows a continued decline in active-duty service members' views of President Donald Trump and a slight but significant preference for former Vice President Joe Biden …
Paige Austin / Los Angeles, CA Patch:
Shooting At Pro-Trump Rally Leads To Standoff On Ventura Blvd.  —  A Los Angeles Police Department SWAT Team has surrounded three suspects in a shooting at a pro-Trump caravan in Woodland Hills. … WOODLAND HILLS, CA — The Los Angeles Police Department SWAT Team has surrounded three suspects holed …
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Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
Why Kenosha Police Officers' Use Of Force On Jacob Blake Was Justified  —  Most people have no understanding of what constitutes ‘reasonable force’ for police.  Yes, it sometimes includes shooting a man, in broad daylight, in the back seven times.  —  A week ago Sunday …
Discussion: NBC Chicago, The Nation and Fox News
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Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
White House says Trump still planning to visit Kenosha after governor urges him to reconsider
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Swift Boat mastermind to launch massive super PAC to boost Trump  —  Senior Republicans are launching a massive new super PAC this week to bolster Donald Trump's reelection in the final stretch of the campaign — a move that comes as the president has been pummeled by Joe Biden on TV.
Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
Washburn Law School Removes Statues Of Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson  —  U.S. News & World Report, Statues Of Jefferson, Franklin Removed From Washburn Campus:  —  Statues of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin have been removed from the Washburn University campus after protests …
Jane Calderwood / Portsmouth Herald:
OPINION/GUEST VIEW: I can no longer support Sen. Susan Collins  —  I was raised to believe I should cast my vote for the person with the best ideas, regardless of their party.  My father took me down to Bangor City Hall when I turned 18 to get me registered to vote.
Ben White / Politico:
Trump tries to dance around a devastating backdrop  —  In the nine weeks left in the 2020 campaign, President Donald Trump has an especially daunting task: Convince a skeptical American public that the coronavirus-ravaged U.S. economy is actually roaring back and will soon return to the status …
Discussion: CounterPunch
New York Times:
Big Oil Is in Trouble.  Its Plan: Flood Africa With Plastic.  —  Faced with plunging profits and a climate crisis that threatens fossil fuels, the industry is demanding a trade deal that weakens Kenya's rules on plastics and on imports of American trash.  —  Confronting a climate crisis …
Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Wisconsin Man Who Says He Marched With Rittenhouse in Kenosha Was Immersed in White Supremacist Propaganda  —  Ryan Balch, a 31-year-old Wisconsin man who joined Kyle Rittenhouse and a contingent of militia conducting armed patrols in Kenosha, used his social media accounts to link to a Nazi propaganda video …
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
In Trump, much of the world sees an act that's wearing thin  —  Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter.  —  Last week's Republican National Convention saw a blizzard of misinformation.  President Trump's acceptance speech Thursday was itself “a tidal wave of tall tales …
Discussion: NBC News, ABC News, Raw Story and Daily Kos
Wall Street Journal:
New York Trump Investigations Appear to Be at Critical Junctures  —  Criminal, civil probes push forward with evidentiary disputes; Trump and his company claim investigations are political  —  New York prosecutors and lawyers for President Trump are set to argue before a federal appeals court Tuesday …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The Chaos President Has America in Chaos  —  Before he fancied himself the LAW & ORDER president, Donald Trump was the chaos candidate.  The guy who didn't care about norms.  The guy who was going to break a bunch of stuff on purpose and even more stuff on accident.
Discussion: Raw Story, CNN, NBC News and Washington Post
Elizabeth Ralph / Politico:
What Happens If China Gets the Covid-19 Vaccine First?  —  David Fidler has a nightmare scenario: In three months, China announces one of its Covid-19 vaccines has successfully completed Phase III trials.  The World Health Organization is enthusiastic.  Beijing doles out doses to countries …
Discussion: The National Interest and Jacobin
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
House Democrats' super PAC adds $11M in fall ad buys  —  House Majority PAC placed seven-figure buys in several offensive Midwest targets.  —  This undated photo provided by the Christy Smith For Congress campaign shows candidate Christy Smith.  A swing House district north of Los Angeles …
Martin Hutchinson / National Review:
The American Economy Is Already Too Far Left for Comfort — or Prosperity  —  Americans already are living in a socialist society.  —  It was inevitable that Karl Marx would become a Marxist — at least according to the precepts of that ideology.  He was brought up in an environment …
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Mike Pompeo is the worst secretary of state in history  —  As secretary of state, Mike Pompeo has presided over the collapse of negotiations with North Korea, the failure of a pressure campaign against Iran and an abortive attempt to oust Venezuela's authoritarian regime.
Mike Levine / ABC News:
Melania's ex-friend: Trump family tainted by ‘deceit, deception’  —  “It was amateur hour then, and it's amateur hour now.”  —  A former adviser and close friend of first lady Melania Trump's is now blasting the entire Trump family as a callous clan tainted by “deceit” and “deception,” …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside Biden's edge  —  The Cook Political Report's Amy Walter shows, in a piece that's well worth your time, that President Trump is trailing “not because he's losing his 2016 base, but because he has never expanded beyond it.”  —  By the numbers: Walter dug into the most recent national poll …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Beast
 
 
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Umair Haque / Eudaimonia and Co:
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David Atkins / Washington Monthly:
White Supremacists Are Invading American Cities To Incite a Civil War
Discussion: IJR
Chemi Shalev / Haaretz:
Donald Trump looks on after delivering his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on August 27, 2020. Credit: Brendan Smialowski / AFP
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
New Yorkers Are Fleeing to the Suburbs: ‘The Demand Is Insane’
Discussion: New York Post
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Janelle Irwin Taylor / Florida Politics:
Poll: Charlie Crist begins General Election campaign vs. Anna Paulina Luna with16-point lead
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
GOP's Ron Johnson refuses to condemn Kenosha shooter in manic interview with CNN's Bash
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:
How Angela Merkel's great migrant gamble paid off
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Called Kimberly Guilfoyle After Her Roaring RNC Speech, Compared Her to Eva Perón
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