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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
William Barr's bombshell about Trump is more revealing than it seems  —  Having gone to extraordinary lengths to help Donald Trump corrupt the presidency, William P. Barr is working overtime to launder his post-Trump reputation.  But the former attorney general's latest cleanup exercise …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump blasts McConnell over claims in book about election  —  Former President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, incensed by a forthcoming book that reports McConnell urged former Attorney General Bill Barr to push back on Trump's falsehoods after last November's elections.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell tries to derail Democratic infrastructure strategy
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Trump lawyer: Manhattan DA won't charge former president  —  Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has indicated he does not currently plan to charge the Trump Organization with crimes related to allegations of “hush money” payments and real estate value manipulations, according to a personal lawyer for Donald Trump.
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Associated Press:
Trump Org lawyers make last pitch against prosecution  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for the Trump Organization met again Monday with prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in a last bid to forestall a potential indictment stemming from a long-running investigation into the former president's company.
Discussion: Raw Story
Miami Herald:
Two days before condo collapse, a pool contractor photographed this damage in garage  —  There was nothing unusual about the lobby and pool area at Champlain Towers South condo, which looked clean and well maintained to a commercial pool contractor who visited the building last Tuesday …
Discussion: LiveScience, IJR and New York Post
Kurt Bardella / USA Today:
Republicans are terrified of Capitol attack truths and Democrats must find out why  —  Let Republicans complain that the Jan. 6 investigation is unfair.  The facts will speak for themselves.  The evidence and testimony will tell the story.  —  The last time a House speaker set …
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Michael Wolff / New York Magazine:
His Insurrection Inside the Oval Office on January 6.  —  Seems like quite a few crazies," said the president.  —  A little more than three weeks before rioters and revelers stormed the Capitol on January 6, several thousand Trump fans and fanatics gathered in Washington …
Discussion: Politico, Mediaite, Insider and Raw Story
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Democracies Don't Try to Make Everyone Agree  —  “I've read Karl Marx.  I've read Lenin.  That doesn't make me a Communist.”  — General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaking to the House Armed Services Committee last Thursday  —  “He's not just a pig—he's stupid.”
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Documents Show Ivanka Trump Didn't Testify Accurately in Inauguration Scandal Case  —  The Trump family has trouble with depositions.  In 2007 testimony, Donald Trump was repeatedly shown to be a liar.  In February, Donald Trump Jr. was deposed in the Trump inauguration scandal lawsuit …
Joe Biden / Yahoo News:
Americans can be proud of the infrastructure deal  —  I have always believed that there is nothing our nation can't do when we decide to do it together.  Last week, we began to write a new chapter in that story.  —  After weeks of negotiations, a bipartisan group of United States senators forged …
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines Likely to Produce Lasting Immunity, Study Finds  —  Immune cells are still organizing to fight the coronavirus months after inoculation, scientists reported.  —  The vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna set off a persistent immune reaction in the body …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's Situation Room shouting match  —  Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, repeatedly blew up at President Trump over how to handle last summer's racial-justice protests, The Wall Street Journal's Michael Bender writes in his forthcoming book, “Frankly, We Did Win This Election.”
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
U.S. Conservatives Are Uniquely Inclined Toward Right-Wing Authoritarianism Compared to Western Peers  —  Global Morning Consult data reveals a distinctive authoritarian bent in the American right  — A scale measuring propensity toward right-wing authoritarian tendencies found right …
Discussion: Raw Story, Insider and Political Wire
The Daily Beast:
YouTube Bans and Then Unbans Right Wing Watch, a Media Watchdog Devoted to Exposing Right-Wing Conspiracies  —  Right Wing Watch was banned while the right-wing extremists they merely exposed via the platform continue to publish misinformation on YouTube.  —  After left-wing media watchdog …
Leah Nylen / Politico:
Federal court tosses antitrust suits against Facebook, in huge blow to D.C.'s fight with tech  —  A D.C. federal court on Monday dismissed antitrust suits by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general seeking to break up Facebook's social networking monopoly …
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Leah Nylen / Politico:   White House targets corporate giants in draft executive order
Andrew Freedman / Axios:
Pacific Northwest heat wave reaches astonishing peak on Monday  —  The extraordinary heat wave that's stifling the Pacific Northwest will peak in many areas on Monday, with Seattle forecast to smash its all-time high-temperature record by about 7°F, an almost unheard-of margin for an all-time record …
Daniel Hill / News Blog, Riverfront Times:
Inside Gun-Surrendering Criminal Mark McCloskey's Very Sad St. Louis Rally  — They were at least kind enough to wear their signature outfits, which is good because no one would recognize or care about them otherwise.  —  Noted local criminal Mark McCloskey played host to a barbecue/political rally …
Andrew Jeong / Wall Street Journal:
Kim Jong Un Lost Some Weight—and North Koreans Are Alarmed  —  Pyongyang watchers don't suspect a health scare, but the implication is that the leader is belt-tightening alongside his citizens who face food shortages  —  SEOUL— Kim Jong Un has shed some weight.  Much of North Korea is now in tears.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
Revealed: neo-Confederate group includes military officers and politicians  —  Leaked data shows other high-profile members have overlapping membership in more explicitly racist or violent groups  —  Leaked membership data from the neo-Confederate Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) …
Discussion: The Root and The Crime Report
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Three in 10 Americans Think Pandemic Is Over in U.S.  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Although a record-high 89% of Americans now say the coronavirus situation is improving, most are not yet ready to declare the pandemic over in the U.S. More than twice as many think the pandemic is not yet over (71%) than think it is over (29%).
George Ramsay / CNN:
Gwen Berry turns away from flag on US Olympic trials podium, says she was ‘set up’  —  (CNN)Hammer thrower Gwen Berry says that the playing of the national anthem while she was on the podium at the US Olympic track and field trials was “set up.”  —  Berry turned away from the flag to face the stands while …
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
How, Exactly, Can One Represent America but Oppose Its Anthem and Flag?
Discussion: RedState and TheBlaze
ABC News:
Supreme Court won't revive school's transgender bathroom ban  —  The Supreme Court has rejected a Virginia school board's appeal to reinstate its transgender bathroom ban  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Virginia school board's appeal to reinstate its transgender bathroom ban.
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Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Supreme Court passes on transgender bathroom challenge
NBC News:
Clarence Thomas says federal laws against marijuana may no longer be necessary  —  Clarence Thomas, one of the Supreme Court's most conservative justices, said Monday that because of the hodgepodge of federal policies on marijuana, federal laws against its sale or cultivation may no longer make sense.
Discussion: CNBC, Townhall, Raw Story and Political Wire
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Pence faces fierce resistance from GOP's pro-Trump base  —  Former Vice President Mike Pence is facing strong resistance from members of his party's pro-Trump base over his role in certifying the Electoral College results in the 2020 election.  —  Pence has stepped up his public appearances recently …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and HotAir
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Declan Garvey / The Dispatch:
Trump Returns to the Stump in Ohio
Discussion: Washington Post and Insider
Paige Williams / New Yorker:
Kyle Rittenhouse, American Vigilante  —  After he killed two people in Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle.  —  The proliferation of digital video has exposed abuses of power that in the past often remained hidden.  It has also allowed people to watch shocking footage …
Discussion: Raw Story
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Red America's Covid Problem  —  Cases are rising, because of the Delta variant.  —  There was a strange Covid-19 pattern in the U.S. for much of this spring.  The virus was not spreading any faster in communities with low vaccination rates than in those with high vaccination rates.
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Insider:
Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville is a vocal critic of China's government. He also owned stock in a Chinese company with Communist Party ties.
New York Times:
Why Young Adults Are Among the Biggest Barriers to Mass Immunity
Discussion: HotAir
Erin Cunningham / Washington Post:
Covid-19 global updates: Spread of delta variant prompts new restrictions worldwide
Jerusalem Demsas / Vox:
Why does it cost so much to build things in America?
CNN:
Ethiopian forces withdraw from Tigray regional capital Mekelle
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Robert J. McCarthy / Buffalo News:
Brown launches write-in campaign for mayor as others eye the race
Rich Lowry / National Review:
Where's the Equity for Black Murder Victims?
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Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Ex-FBI lawyer agrees to one-year bar sanction after conviction
Brian Flood / Fox News:
CNN's ‘The Lead with Jake Tapper’ has shed 75% of its audience since January
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
Bloomberg:
Biden Wants to Dismantle Two Weapons the Richest 0.1% Use to Avoid Taxes
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Washington Isn't Used to the Left Setting the Agenda