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4:20 PM ET, July 29, 2019

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The Daily Beast:
Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting Suspect Posted About Far-Right Book Moments Before Shooting  —  Santino Legan allegedly told an eyewitness he was “really angry” and ranted in white supremacist fashion on Instagram from the event.  —  The gunman who murdered three people at a food festival …
Discussion: Associated Press and VICE
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The Daily Beast:
‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams Tries to Sell Interviews With Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting Survivors  —  After the mass shooting, he advertised his new app that would somehow let people set a price for their stories—and give him a 20 percent cut.  —  As police in Gilroy, California …
Ellyn Santiago / Heavy.com:
Santino William Legan: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know  —  Santino William Legan has been identified as the 19-year-old suspect accused of killing three people and wounding several others in a mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California, according to CBS News.
San Francisco Chronicle:
Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting: 3 killed, 15 wounded, gunman dead
Washington Post:
House Republicans plan yearly retreat in Baltimore despite Trump's attacks  —  President Trump on Saturday called Baltimore a “very dangerous & filthy place” and suggested that Democratic politicians, including Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, had made the city all but uninhabitable.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's new racist tweetstorm is actually a sign of weakness  —  Whenever President Trump unleashes one of his racist attacks, the political world tends to go through a now-predictable cycle.  We are first told Republicans think Trump's latest racist display is brilliant politics, a view often pushed by Trump himself.
A.B. Stoddard / The Bulwark:
Republicans Can Defend Elijah Cummings Any Time Now  —  I know I'm not alone, but I spent most of my weekend waiting on Mark Meadows.  Meadows has been mute since President Trump attacked one of his dear friends on Saturday—Elijah Cummings.  —  You may remember that back in February, Rashida Tlaib accused Meadows of “a racist act.”
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Racism Infests the Republican Party  —  As his latest foray into bigotry shows, the president is feeling empowered by the lack of opposition from within the GOP.  —  Back in February, Representative Elijah Cummings, a black Democrat, stood up for his friend, Representative Mark Meadows, a white Republican.
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump's Twitter Attacks Are Backfiring
Discussion: Politico, ThinkProgress and Breitbart
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Top DCCC staffer out amid diversity uproar  —  The executive director of the House Democrats' campaign arm is stepping down amid an outcry from Democratic lawmakers over the lack of diversity in the committee's senior ranks.  —  Executive Director Allison Jaslow, a close confidante …
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
DCCC in ‘complete chaos’ as uproar over diversity intensifies  —  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is in full-blown turmoil.  —  Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairwoman Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) was set to make an unplanned trip to Washington from her district Monday amid …
NBC News:
Executive director of House Democrats' campaign arm resigns
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Kamala Harris / Medium:
My Plan For Medicare For All  —  There is perhaps no more complicated or more personal issue for Americans than health care.  I know this from my own personal life, caring for my mother as she battled colon cancer.  And I also know it from talking to so many Americans in this campaign …
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Rahm Emanuel / gen.medium.com:
A Memo to Our Democratic Presidential Candidates
Discussion: Axios and BizPac Review
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: NYT tackles the Biden age question
Discussion: Hot Air, Fox News and Washington Post
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Intelligence chief pick Ratcliffe made his name during the Trump inquiries by backing the president  —  Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Tex.), President Trump's pick to serve as the next director of national intelligence, has made his name in Congress as one of the GOP's most dogged critics …
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CNN:
GOP senators give tepid response to Trump's pick for spy chief
Connie Bruck / New Yorker:
Alan Dershowitz, Devil's Advocate  —  The noted lawyer's long, controversial career—and the accusations against him.  —  “A lie is a lie is a lie,” Whoopi Goldberg said.  It was May 2nd, and she was on the set of “The View,” the daytime talk show that she co-hosts.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
QU Poll:
Release Detail  —  July 29, 2019 - Biden Bounces Back As Harris Slumps Among U.S. Dems, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 54 Percent Of All U.S. Voters Say Never Trump  —  Former Vice President Joseph Biden reverses his slump following the first Democratic presidential debate …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Inside Donald Trump's ‘brilliant and sinister’ merchandising operation  —  Brad Parscale had just boarded a Jet Blue flight earlier this month when the paper straw he was using ripped in half.  —  As he tried to keep his iced tea from spilling onto his suit, the annoyed Trump campaign manager tweeted …
VICE:
Michigan's White, Blue-Collar Voters Helped Give Trump the White House.  Will They Turn on Him in 2020?  —  WARREN, Michigan — Ryan Hartung has worked at General Motors' Warren transmission plant for 13 years, a short stretch compared to his dad and many others who put in decades at the plant.
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
‘He realizes now that he screwed up’: Biden scrambles to recover from debate flop  —  Not long after his anemic performance in the first presidential debate, as his poll numbers began to slide, Joe Biden had conversations with nervous donors and personally assured them his campaign was on track.
Discussion: NBC News, The Daily Caller and The Week
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Congressman Emanuel Cleaver:
Congressman Cleaver Calls For Impeachment Inquiry  —  (Kansas City, MO) - Today, United States Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) called for an impeachment inquiry and released the following statement: … Emanuel Cleaver, II is the U.S. Representative for Missouri's Fifth Congressional District …
Adam Behsudi / Politico:
Warren moves to outflank Trump on trade  —  Elizabeth Warren released a trade plan Monday that's closer to Donald Trump's agenda than Barack Obama's.  —  The sweeping trade agenda, posted on Medium ahead of a town hall in Toledo, Ohio, on Monday evening, channels many of the critiques …
Discussion: Washington Post, Axios and Reason
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Trump Strain in American History  —  White supremacy has its own peculiar logic, to which the president is peculiarly attuned.  —  President Trump has done nothing for his white working-class voters.  His signature tax cut was a giveaway to powerful business interests and wealthy heirs.
Discussion: VICE and The Daily Beast
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Texas Made An Example Out Of Crystal Mason — For Trying To Vote  —  She's appealing a five-year prison sentence and fighting to save her home, all so the state can prop up the myth of “voter fraud.”  There are serious questions about the case against her.  —  RENDON, Texas ― …
Discussion: electionlawblog.org
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Don't get complacent.  Things really are that bad under Trump.  —  The economy is humming.  We're not at war (much).  So he can't be that bad, right?  —  Steadfast NeverTrumpers may find it hard to believe, but I'm hearing that argument more and more lately, as people try to come to terms …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Democrats sound alarm on “massive” GOP Senate advantage in 2020  —  In 2016, every single Senate race went to the candidate of the same party that those states voted for in the presidential election, according to a new analysis by the Democratic group One Country Project, provided exclusively to Axios.
Ayman M. Mohyeldin / Vanity Fair:
No One Is Safe: How Saudi Arabia Makes Dissidents Disappear  —  The assassination of Jamal Khashoggi was no aberration.  A Vanity Fair investigation reveals how Saudi Arabia attempts to abduct, repatriate—and sometimes murder—citizens it regards as enemies of the state.  —  DÜSSELDORF
Discussion: Washington Post and New York Times
 
 
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Tom Scocca / Slate:
Who Are Your Chrises?  —  I was trying to figure out whether …
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
You'll never believe what Donald Trump just said about 9/11
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
Associated Press:
Unmarked buildings, quiet legal help for accused priests
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Phillip M. Bailey / Courier-Journal:
Rand Paul offers to buy Ilhan Omar a ticket back to Somalia to ‘appreciate America more’
Brandon Morse / RedState:
Rush Limbaugh Backs Trump and Speaks Hard Truths About Democrat Run Cities
Discussion: The Daily Caller and BizPac Review
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Trump directed aides to reduce U.S. troops in Afghanistan by 2020 election, Pompeo says
Kat Tenbarge / Business Insider:
Democrats are suggesting people flip the script in response to Trump's racially-charged tweets — unfollow and ignore
Axios:
New York decriminalizes marijuana use
 Earlier Items: 
Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
The Covington Catholic Teen Lost His First Court Battle, But Will Probably Win His Next
Discussion: Above the Law and Instapundit
Issues & Insights:
Trump's Attack on Baltimore Doesn't Go Far Enough
Discussion: Breitbart, Daily Wire and RedState
Suzy Khimm / NBC News:
Trump plan failed to note that it could jeopardize free school lunches for 500,000 children, Democrats say
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Annabelle Dickson / Politico:
Boris Johnson won't start Brexit talks unless EU moves on backstop
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
The print reader in chief: Inside Trump's retro media diet
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
Facebook Connected Her to a Tattooed Soldier in Iraq. Or So She Thought.
Patrick Reevell / ABC News:
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