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John Lewis: Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation
Though I may not be here with you, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe.
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John Lewis asked The NYT to publish this on the day of his funeral. It is necessary reading. He writes, “When you see something that is not right, you must say something ... Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part.”
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Stephen Miller's grandmother died of COVID-19. Her son blames the Trump administration.
"With the death of my mother, I'm angry and outraged at [Miller]."
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Stephen Miller's grandmother died of COVID-19. Her son and Miller's uncle blames the Trump administration. motherjones.com/politics/2020/… by @DavidCornDC
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Trump announces return of coronavirus briefings amid 'big flare-up'
With the novel coronavirus running rampant across much of the U.S., more states are facing a dilemma about whether to shut down again. In Washington, D.C., political leaders are confronting their own critical choices over a potential new round of...
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My latest for @NewsHour: With the coronavirus surging in the US, more states are facing a dilemma about whether to shut down again. In DC, political leaders are negotiating a new pandemic bill. And President Trump says his daily briefings are coming back
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Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the President
The nation’s top public-health expert tells The Atlantic that he isn’t going anywhere, despite the Trump administration’s newest attempts to undercut him.
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Dr. Fauci tells @TheAtlantic: “We’ve got to almost reset this, & say, ‘Okay, let’s stop this nonsense.’”
He described White House attacks on him as “nonsense” & “completely wrong.” He adds: “I can't explain Peter Navarro. He's in a world by himself.”
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The White House Called a News Conference. Trump Turned It Into a Meandering Monologue.
The president spoke in the Rose Garden for 63 minutes. He spent only six of those minutes answering questions from reporters.
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.@peterbakernyt for history books: “Trump drifted seemingly at random from one topic to another, often in the same run-on sentence. Even for a president who rarely sticks to the script..it was one of the most rambling performances of his presidency.”
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Anthony Fauci has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on: Peter Navarro
On COVID-19, I listen with caution to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s advice, writes trade adviser Peter Navarro, an assistant to President Donald Trump.
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The White House attack on Dr. Anthony Fauci deepens.
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro claims: "Anthony Fauci has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on."
This is not normal.
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Asked why Black Americans are killed by police, Trump responds, "So are White people"
In an interview with CBS News, the president also said he believed waving the Confederate flag was a matter of freedom of speech.
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Q: Why are "African Americans are still dying at the hands of law enforcement?"
Pres Trump tells CBS: "So are white people. So are white people. What a terrible question to ask. So are white people. More white people, by the way. More white people."
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Joy Reid Takes Nightly Anchor Slot at MSNBC
She becomes one of the few Black women to anchor a major American evening news program. The move was made by new leadership at NBC News, which runs the liberal-leaning cable network.
Man making racist comments caught on video identified as tech CEO Michael Lofthouse
Another viral video surfaced of a man spouting expletives and racist comments toward an Asian family at a restaurant in Carmel Valley, California.
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Michael Lofthouse, CEO of Solid8, LLC, a San Francisco cloud computing services company founded in 2017, can be heard shouting to an Asian family, “You f------ need to leave! You f------ Asian piece of s---!”
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Mary Trump’s Book Accuses the President of Embracing ‘Cheating as a Way of Life’
The president’s niece, Mary L. Trump, is the first to break ranks with the family and release a tell-all memoir.
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🚨Mary Trump alleges Pres Trump paid someone to take his SAT, his sister (a retired federal judge) was baffled by his support among evangelicals bc he has "no principles," & Trump has been insulated from "the real world" by "his father's money and power."
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Simon & Schuster Names Dana Canedy New Publisher
Ms. Canedy, a former journalist at The New York Times and the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, will run the flagship imprint at one of the country’s largest book publishers.
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Congrats to @DanaCanedy, who Simon & Schuster today named the executive vice president and publisher of its flagship imprint. Dana, who has been the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, now has one of the biggest jobs in book publishing. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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Frederick Douglass’ Descendants Read His Famous ‘Fourth of July’ Speech | NPR
The U.S. celebrates this Independence Day amid nationwide protests and calls for systemic reforms. In this short film, five young descendants of Frederick Do...
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Happy Fourth of July.
Necessary viewing: Five descendants of Frederick Douglass read & respond to his famous speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" which asks all of us to consider America's long history of denying rights to Black people.
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Yes, Even George Washington
Slavery was a cruel institution that can’t be excused by its era.
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By @CharlesMBlow: "On the issue of American slavery, I am an absolutist: enslavers were amoral monsters...There were also men and women of the time who found slavery morally reprehensible. The enslavers ignored all this and used anti-black dehumanization."
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Mississippi to remove state flag, the last to display the Confederate battle emblem
In 2001, voters decided two to one in a ballot measure to keep the flag as is, many arguing it was a nod to their ancestors who fought for Mississippi in the Civil War.
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The Mississippi state legislature voted on Sunday to replace its state flag, the last in the nation to display the Confederate battle emblem.
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Video of Villages man chanting ‘white power’ retweeted, then deleted, by Trump
“Thank you to the great people of The Villages,” Trump commented in his 7:39 a.m. retweet of the video. It was later removed.
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ICYMI: President Trump today retweeted a video shot in a sprawling Central Florida retirement community that shows one of his supporters yelling “White power!” while driving a golf cart and shaking a fist at the president’s critics. He later deleted it.
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1 Dead After Man Shoots Into Crowd at Breonna Taylor Protest
Video footage showed a man firing more than a dozen shots at a park in Louisville, Ky., where demonstrators were protesting Ms. Taylor’s shooting death by the police in March.
Black woman attacked by men wielding lighter fluid, racial slurs
An 18-year-old Black woman says she was attacked with lighter fluid and flame early Wednesday morning by white men yelling racial slurs. She sustained second- and third-degree burns.
Althea Bernstein works as an EMT while studying to be a...
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An 18-year-old black woman says white men yelling racial slurs set her on fire yesterday in Wisconsin.
Althea Bernstein, who works as an EMT, said rather than financial support, she wants people people to sign petitions and "support black lives."
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US attorney in Manhattan says he has not resigned, vows to continue probes
Attorney General William Barr said in a statement that Geoffrey S. Berman was stepping down. But Berman said later he was refusing to leave and his ongoing investigations would continue.
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👀US attorney in New York says he's not resigning, said he learned of resignation from 'press reports' usatoday.com/story/news/pol… via @USATODAY
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WSJ News Exclusive | Trump Talks Juneteenth, John Bolton, Economy in WSJ Interview
In an interview in the Oval Office, the president defended his handling of the dual crises currently impacting the country: the coronavirus pandemic and protests following the killing of George Floyd, a black man, in Minneapolis police custody.
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President Trump: “I did something good: I made Juneteenth very famous...It’s actually an important event, an important time. But nobody had ever heard of it.”
Reminder: Juneteeth has been celebrated since long before President Trump was born.
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Bolton Says House Should Have Investigated Trump for Potentially Impeachable Actions Beyond Ukraine
In his new book, John R. Bolton, the former national security adviser, describes episodes where the president sought to halt criminal inquiries. He also says President Trump’s loyalists mocked him behind his back.
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The NYT and @peterbakernyt have the John Bolton book.
Bolton says President Trump asked President Xi Jinping of China to buy a lot of American agricultural products to help him win farm states in this year’s election.
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