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5:20 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, Daily Kos 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 …
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.
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
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The Yuripzy Morgan Show
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Blue-collar white women are turning on Trump
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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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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
Discussion: Townhall, Slate and Washington Post
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 …
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
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Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Trump Pals Pushed Nuke Firm That Wanted to Undercut Protections Against a Saudi Bomb
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:   House Dems blast Trump insider in new report, allege profit motive in push for Saudi nuclear plan
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
You'll never believe what Donald Trump just said about 9/11  —  (CNN)Donald Trump has always had a bit of Walter Mitty in him.  But on Monday morning, in a speech to first responders and others impacted by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, he took his fantastical memory of himself to new and not-at-all-appropriate heights.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Fact-Checking Trump's Claim He ‘Spent a Lot of Time’ With 9/11 Responders
Discussion: Washington Post
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
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.
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
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 …
Tom Scocca / Slate:
Who Are Your Chrises?  —  I was trying to figure out whether I could make the new Twitter layout show me the latest tweets forever, instead of constantly reverting to showing me what Twitter thinks are the tweets I should see, and that sent me blundering into the Twitter preferences menus …
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
 
 
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Trump commutes prison sentences of non-violent offenders after bipartisan urging
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Amy Joi O'Donoghue / Deseret News:
Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop confirms he's leaving Congress, undecided about governor's race
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Associated Press:
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Democrats sound alarm on “massive” GOP Senate advantage in 2020
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Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Texas Made An Example Out Of Crystal Mason — For Trying To Vote
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Suzy Khimm / NBC News:
Trump plan failed to note that it could jeopardize free school lunches for 500,000 children, Democrats say
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