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10:40 AM ET, June 28, 2021

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Politico:
Republicans ramp up attacks on Biden on ... everything  —  Early in Joe Biden's presidency, Republicans openly conceded how poor a target he was for them.  Their hits on the president simply weren't sticking.  —  That hasn't, however, kept Republicans from swinging away.
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Hans Nichols / Axios:   Economists unworried infrastructure will boost inflation
CNN:
Honig: Don't buy Bill Barr's latest story about the Big Lie  —  How Trump weaponized the Justice Department  —  Elie Honig is a CNN senior legal analyst and former federal and state prosecutor.  This op-ed is adapted from his book “Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code …
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Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
‘Utterly Deranged’ Trump Has Full Meltdown Over Bill Barr, Mitch McConnell  —  The former president attacked the two key figures who enabled his agenda, calling them “spineless RINOs.”  —  Donald Trump issued a lengthy and rambling statement late Sunday attacking two of his staunchest allies during his one term in office.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Statement by the Department of Defense  —  (Attributable to Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby)  —  “At President Biden's direction, U.S. military forces earlier this evening conducted defensive precision airstrikes against facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region.
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Benjamin Fearnow / Newsweek:
QAnon Supporters Express Boredom With ‘Same Old’ Trump Speech: ‘This Is Getting Ridiculous’  —  Both QAnon and longtime supporters of former President Donald Trump criticized his Saturday night speech in Wellington, Ohio, accusing him of the “same-old, same-old” grievances against Democrats …
Discussion: Insider and Washington Examiner
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Declan Garvey / The Dispatch:
Trump Returns to the Stump in Ohio  —  And Rep. Anthony Gonzalez responds to his biggest critic.  —  1 hr ago  —  After five months—long months if you liked the guy, short ones if you didn't—former President Donald Trump returned to form on Saturday, holding his first major political …
Discussion: Insider
Matt Dixon / Politico:
DeSantis ‘very wary’ of upsetting Trump
Discussion: Washington Examiner
CNN:
Republican lawmaker calls Donald Trump a ‘loser president’  —  Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) gives his thoughts on the state of the Republican Party, speaking truth, and former President Donald Trump as he hits the road again at rallies.Source: CNN  —  FOLLOW CNN POLITICS
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Kinzinger on Trump event: ‘Rally of a loser president’
Discussion: Mediaite and HuffPost
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:   Gosar's siblings press for his removal from Congress: ‘Traitor to this country’
Allan Smith / NBC News:   Gosar's siblings want their brother kicked out of Congress. They think Democrats are moving too slow.
Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Supreme Court passes on transgender bathroom challenge  —  The Supreme Court on Monday passed on a long-winding legal battle over transgender students' rights to use bathrooms that match their gender identity.  —  Gavin Grimm, a transgender man, sued his school board in 2015 over its policy …
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:   Transgender Boy Wins Bathroom Fight as Top Court Spurns Case
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.”
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Toyota is the no. 1 donor to 2020 election objectors — by far  —  The Japanese automaker gave $55,000 to 37 GOP objectors this year.
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.
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Where Jobless Benefits Were Cut, Jobs Are Still Hard to Fill  —  Missouri scrapped federal pay to the unemployed, saying it kept people out of the labor market.  But so far, workers still seem to be choosy.  —  MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. — By lunchtime, the representatives …
Discussion: Jezebel and Raw Story
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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: Raw Story
Ben Smith / New York Times:
An Accusation Blew Up a Campaign.  The Media Didn't Know What to Do.  —  Handling a delicate allegation of sexual misconduct is a lot more challenging than covering a horse race.  —  Two days after coming in fifth in the election night count of votes for New York mayor last week …
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 …
Discussion: Forbes
Michelle Fay Cortez / Bloomberg:
The Last-And Only-Foreign Scientist in the Wuhan Lab Speaks Out  —  Danielle Anderson was working in what has become the world's most notorious laboratory just weeks before the first known cases of Covid-19 emerged in central China.  Yet, the Australian virologist still wonders what she missed.
Discussion: Townhall
Sam Raskin / New York Post:
Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry ‘pissed’ national anthem was playing at Olympic trials  —  A U.S. hammer thrower turned away from the American flag as the national anthem played while she and two other athletes stood on the podium at the Olympic trials Saturday, later saying she was “pissed” …
 
 
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Val Demings / USA Today:
Voters didn't elect us to do nothing and blame the Senate filibuster. Get rid of it.
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Madison Cawthorn, self-described ‘big history buff,’ keeps getting historical facts wrong