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11:10 PM ET, July 18, 2022

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Wall Street Journal:
Former GOP Donors Charged in Investment Fraud Scheme Involving Illegal Contributions  —  Two are accused of using foreign nationals' money to make political donations to gain access to then-President Trump and others  —  The Justice Department charged on Monday two former top Republican donors …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Feds say 2 NY residents used Trump fundraiser, photo in $27 million investment scam
Discussion: MyNorthwest.com
Julianna Goldman / Bloomberg:
Good News for Democrats: Even Republicans Are Tiring of Trump  —  Democrats are worried that President Joe Biden is old, but the Jan. 6 hearings are showing that former president Donald Trump is stale.  —  And in a sea of negativity for Democrats, that's a potential bright spot ahead of November's midterm elections.
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FiveThirtyEight:
At Least 120 Republican Nominees Deny The Results Of The 2020 Election
Discussion: New York Magazine and ABC News
Jerry Zremski / Buffalo News:
Saying Trump ‘lost his mind,’ Jacobs urges GOP to choose another nominee in 2024
Discussion: Insider
Tatiana Siegel / Rolling Stone:
Exclusive: Fake Accounts Fueled the ‘Snyder Cut’ Online Army  —  A WarnerMedia report reveals that bots and other inauthentic users bolstered the fan-led campaign for director Zack Snyder's Justice League do-over  —  Zack Snyder was becoming increasingly agitated.
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
How media coverage drove Biden's political plunge  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  The mainstream media has played a huge, underappreciated role in President Biden's declining support over the past year.  Its flawed coverage model of politics and government is bad for more than just Biden …
Discussion: Politico, HotAir and National Review
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A clever plan to foil a 2024 coup attempt quietly advances  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  It may seem improbable, given adamant Republican opposition to legislation protecting voting rights, but a bipartisan group of senators is close to agreement on a separate, crucial way to protect our democracy …
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Ned Foley / Election Law Blog:
“A clever plan to foil a 2024 coup attempt quietly advances”  —  Greg Sargent of the Washington Post praises what he hopes and expects, based on he hears from two sources, will be in the Senate's bipartisan Electoral Count Act reform bill.  Assuming he's correct about the bill's content …
Ariana Garcia / Houston Chronicle:
Gov. Greg Abbott did not attend funerals for any of the Uvalde shooting victims  —  Gov. Greg Abbott did not attend a single funeral for any of the 19 children or two teachers killed mass shooting at Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, according to his schedule …
Discussion: The Hill
Kelly Laco / Fox News:
Nikki Haley: Biden's push for new Iran Deal will ‘come back to bite’ the US, Israel if not faced with strength  —  Former Ambassador Nikki Haley said that Biden must show strength to combat Iran's aggression toward the US  —  Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley is warning …
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Kelly Laco / Fox News:
Winsome Sears to Biden: ‘stop gaslighting’ Americans on gas prices, ‘begging’ Saudis for oil
Discussion: ABC News
Washington Post:
Three journalist deaths fit uneasily in Biden's human rights push
Discussion: The Hill
Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
FiveThirtyEight's anti-trans smear  —  A piece published last week relying on extraordinarily flimsy polling evidence serves a single, obvious purpose: to push Democrats to be more anti-trans.  —  Last week, Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight website published a piece from Natalie Jackson …
CNN:
CNN Poll: Most Americans are discontented with Biden, the economy and the state of the country  —  (CNN)The summer of 2022 is a season of deepening and widespread discontent, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.  The survey finds the public's outlook on the state of the country …
Discussion: The Hill, Mediaite and HotAir
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Carolyn Maloney Uses Personal Fortune in Primary Against Jerrold Nadler  —  The New York congresswoman lent her campaign $900,000, according to new filings released late Friday.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Representative Carolyn Maloney of New York holds …
United States Capitol Police:
The USCP's Unlawful Entry Arrest on June 16, 2022  —  The United States Capitol Police (USCP) has been working with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia on the June 16, 2022, Unlawful Entry case that involved a group of nine people associated with The Late Show.
Wesley Yang / Year Zero:
Yes, Things Are Really As Bad As You've Heard  —  A Leftist Schoolteacher Struggles To Say Aloud the Things He Regularly Witnesses That Are So Outlandish They Sound Made Up By Right-Wing Provocateurs … The summer program where I'm currently teaching enrolls about seventy students between the ages of six and twelve.
Discussion: HotAir, diddly links and Instapundit
Heather Saunders / KFF:
Do States with Easier Access to Guns have More Suicide Deaths by Firearm?  —  Nearly half a million lives (480,622) were lost to suicide from 2010 to 2020.  During the same period, the suicide death rate increased by 12%, and as of 2009, the number of suicides outnumbered those caused by motor vehicle accidents.
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Roman Polanski's Lawyer Will Renew Effort to Resolve 45-Year-Old Rape Case … But the path to resolving the case is not at all straightforward.  Harland Braun, Polanski's lawyer, said in an interview that he first wants to get a new judge to handle it.  Braun stated that the current judge …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Rand Paul lights into McConnell over ‘secret’ judicial deal  —  All is not well in Kentucky's Senate delegation.  —  Sen. Rand Paul unloaded on fellow Republican Mitch McConnell for the Senate GOP leader's handling of an anti-abortion judicial nomination, criticizing McConnell for refusing …
New York Times:
C.I.A. Director Issues Warning After Possible Noose Is Found Near Facility  —  An object was discovered near a secret location in Virginia, in a building that houses businesses and other organizations.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  The C.I.A. director, William J. Burns …
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Fox News Posts Stunning Three Minute Montage of Trump Voters Ready to Ditch Him for DeSantis: He's ‘Too Polarizing’  —  Ahead of the rally former President Donald Trump was scheduled to have in Arizona (later postponed due to the death of Ivana Trump), the Fox News website posted …
Discussion: HotAir
CREW:
Secret Service likely broke the law by deleting texts  —  The United States Secret Service appears to have violated federal criminal law by destroying text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 after receiving a request for records related to the attack on the Capitol from the Department …
Discussion: Raw Story
Anna Merlan / VICE:
Psychics and Tarot Readers Are Under Siege By Instagram Scammers and Online Fatigue  —  An already beleaguered workforce confronts a legion of impersonators and a platform they say isn't doing enough to stop them.  —  Anna Merlan  —  On a recent evening, the author, podcast host …
Daniel Boguslaw / The Intercept:
Sen. Joe Manchin and His Wife Directed Millions to the Wildlife Area Surrounding Vacation Condo … On Thursday, after months of negotiations, Sen. Joe Manchin said he would not support even a stripped-down version of the reconciliation package to invest billions of dollars in federal funds …
Discussion: Raw Story
Lowkell / Blue Virginia:
Audio: Gov. Youngkin's New Appointee to the VA Board of Historic Resources Says Robert E. Lee Was a “Morally Fine Human Being”; “Secession Was NOT Treason”; the North's “Invasion” of the South Was “just like we see Russia invading Ukraine”; etc.  —  The other day, I wrote about Gov. Glenn Youngkin's new …
Julia Payne / Reuters:
Exclusive: Russia's Gazprom tells Europe gas halt beyond its control  —  Russia's Gazprom has told customers in Europe it cannot guarantee gas supplies because of ‘extraordinary’ circumstances, according to a letter seen by Reuters, upping the ante in an economic tit-for-tat with the West over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
William Bender / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Doug Mastriano is deleting his videos from Facebook as he runs for Pa. governor  —  In early April, Doug Mastriano was recording a Facebook Live video on his phone after a legislative session in Harrisburg when he segued into his thoughts on global warming.The state senator from south-central Pennsylvania …
Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
The Haves and the Have-Yachts  —  Luxury ships attract outrage and political scrutiny.  The ultra-rich are buying them in record numbers.  —  The yachting life style awes even the wealthy.  “Boats are the last place that I think you can get away with it,” an owner said.
Discussion: Substack
Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
Jordan Peterson's Pro-Putin Punditry  —  The Canadian pop-psychologist's descent into tired and predictable right-wing rhetoric continues apace.  —  Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist and “anti-woke” crusader who has stirred controversy and garnered praise, opprobrium …
Discussion: Overtime
Peter Yankowski / New Haven Register:
Man drew gun after women didn't thank him for holding door in Hamden, police say  —  HAMDEN — Police arrested a New Haven man after they say he was reported to have drawn a gun Saturday over two women not thanking him for holding a door open for them.  —  Hamden police said 25-year-old Joshua Murray …
Discussion: New York Post
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Media Confidence Ratings at Record Lows  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' confidence in two facets of the news media — newspapers and television news — has fallen to all-time low points.  Just 16% of U.S. adults now say they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers and 11% in television news.
Matthew Goldstein / New York Times:
Word of Trump Media Deal Is Said to Have Leaked Months in Advance  —  Federal authorities are investigating a surge in trading that preceded the announcement of a $300 million deal with the former president's media company.  —  Months before former President Donald J. Trump's social media company unveiled …
Discussion: Bloomberg
 
 
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Amanda Seitz / Associated Press:
Report: Conservative Newsmax peddles Jan. 6 misinformation
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
How to prevent Republicans from worming out of questions about Trump
Discussion: DCReport.org, America, America and CNN
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Democrats Navigate Nuanced Views on Abortion Among Black Voters
Discussion: HotAir
Finbarr Bermingham / South China Morning Post:
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Ashley Parker named senior national political correspondent
Politico:
Republicans ready grenades against Democrats' dwindling dream bill
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Harris, Newsom engage with donors as possible 2024 bids loom if Biden doesn't run
Ashley Mackin-Solomon / La Jolla Light:
Lawsuit alleges racial discrimination in incident at Fleming's steakhouse in La Jolla
Discussion: Raw Story
Tess Owen / VICE:
Christian Nationalism Drove These People Out of Their Churches
Discussion: Raw Story