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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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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
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 …
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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: Mediaite, Insider, Politico and Raw Story
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Pelosi introduces legislation that would establish select committee to probe Jan. 6 Capitol attack  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Monday introduced legislation that would create a select committee to probe the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob …
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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.”
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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.”
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%).
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
How, Exactly, Can One Represent America but Oppose Its Anthem and Flag?  —  Dan Crenshaw argues that Gwen Berry should be removed from the U.S. Olympic team: … Isn't Crenshaw self-evidently correct?  We're not talking here about the government punishing Berry for her political opinions.
Discussion: RedState and TheBlaze
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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
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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Robert J. McCarthy / Buffalo News:
Brown launches write-in campaign for mayor as others eye the race  —  Byron W. Brown on Monday launched an unprecedented write-in campaign to reclaim the mayor's office he apparently lost in the June 22 Democratic primary as an increasingly chaotic situation surrounds the victory of newcomer India B. Walton.
Brian Flood / Fox News:
CNN's ‘The Lead with Jake Tapper’ has shed 75% of its audience since January  —  Tapper's second-quarter viewership is down 49% compared to the first quarter  —  CNN's “The Lead with Jake Tapper” has shed a staggering 75% of its audience since the liberal network experienced a January spike in viewers.
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
Wilson Wong / NBC News:
Fatal shooting of 2 Black people in Massachusetts investigated as hate crime, officials say  —  Authorities are investigating a Massachusetts shooting that left two Black people dead as a hate crime after investigators found “some troubling white supremacist rhetoric” in the gunman's handwriting, officials said Sunday.
TMZ.com:
NFL Releases Powerful Video, ‘Football Is Gay’  —  NFL Releases Powerful Video ‘FOOTBALL IS GAY’ … The NFL is making it clear it stands firmly with the LGBTQ+ community ... releasing a powerful video Monday that featured the message, “Football is gay.”  —  The clip, which is 30 seconds in length, added, “Football is lesbian.
Discussion: USA Today, Mediaite, TheBlaze and Twitchy
 
 
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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
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Erin Cunningham / Washington Post:
Covid-19 global updates: Spread of delta variant prompts new restrictions worldwide
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Pence faces fierce resistance from GOP's pro-Trump base
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Jerusalem Demsas / Vox:
Why does it cost so much to build things in America?
CNN:
Ethiopian forces withdraw from Tigray regional capital Mekelle
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Rich Lowry / National Review:
Where's the Equity for Black Murder Victims?
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Chris Christie's book ‘Republican Rescue’ coming this fall
 Earlier Items: 
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Klobuchar to hold voting rights hearing in Georgia on July 19
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Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Ex-FBI lawyer agrees to one-year bar sanction after conviction
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
 

 
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