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Ralph Reed

C-SPAN caller slams Ralph Reed

Alex Henderson - Alternet

A "political opportunist of the first order": Right-wing leader called out for defending Trump’s St. John’s visit

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) speaks during a town hall meeting at the Ericson Public Library on August 13, 2019 in Boone, Iowa. (Getty/Joshua Lott)

"Master of racism" voted out of Congress

Joseph Neese

"For Rep. Steve King, master of racism in Congress, to lose his GOP primary tonight, seems somehow fitting?"

German POW gravestone in a Texas V.A. cemetery | US Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images/The Military Religious Freedom Foundation/Salon)

VA caves, will oust swastika headstones

Roger Sollenberger

After weeks of pressure from advocacy groups and politicians, the VA agreed to take down the offensive headstones

Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Senators who pushed Jade Helm back Trump

Igor Derysh

Ted Cruz and Rand Paul once fueled the Jade Helm conspiracy theory. Now, they praise Trump's show of military force

Donald Trump Jr. (Getty Images/Twitter/Salon)

White nationalist group posed as Antifa

Igor Derysh

The president's eldest son had shared the fake account's tweets and accused leftists of domestic terrorism

Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump (Win McNamee/Drew Angerer/Getty Images/Salon)

Mitch blocks resolution condemning Trump

Matthew Chapman - Raw Story

"Democrats’ obsession with condemning President Trump is a more urgent priority than ending the riots," he says

Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks about the unrest across the country from Philadelphia City Hall on June 2, 2020, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, contrasting his leadership style with that of US President Donald Trump, and calling George Floyd's death "a wake-up call for our nation." (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden empathizes as Trump stokes divides

Roger Sollenberger

After Trump threatened to deploy the military to quash protests over brutality, Biden offered a message of empathy

Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler (NBC/Will Hart)

TV writer boasts he'd "light up" looters

Will Thorne - Variety

A writer on a new series starring Chris Meloni posted pictures of himself on Facebook boasting & brandishing a gun

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Zuck doesn't "understand" race issues

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story

Black leaders who participated in a conference call with Zuckerberg reportedly left “disappointed" and "stunned"

White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway (Getty/Mark Wilson)

Conway attacks bishop: "Not her church"

David Edwards - Raw Story

"We don’t look into other people’s hearts and souls and discern and judge what their faith is," Conway tells Fox

Meghan McCain (Getty Images)

Neighbor fact-checks Meghan McCain claim

Alex Henderson - Alternet

"Meghan, we live in the same building, and I just walked outside," McCain's neighbor responds. "It's fine"

A passenger wearing a mask prepares to board a flight departing the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Getty Images)

US coronavirus timeline was wrong: study

Matthew Rozsa

If the new study is correct, the U.S. had more time than it originally thought to contain the pandemic

Demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd hold up placards near the White House on June 1, 2020 in Washington, DC.near the White House on June 1, 2020 in Washington, DC. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

The psychology of the reactionaries

Matthew Rozsa

Psychologists tell Salon what drives protesters, and what drives others to take oppositional stances

Hope Hicks attends President Trumps cabinet meeting in the East Room of the White House (Getty Images)

Hope Hicks behind Trump photo-op: report

Igor Derysh

Hicks recently returned to work at the White House under Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner after a stint at Fox

U.S. Air And Marine Predator Drone (John Moore/Getty Images)

The new surveillance state is here

Matthew Rozsa

Experts fear a severe threat to free speech posed by drones and other novel surveillance tools

"The Infiltrators" (Oscilloscope Laboratories)

An immigrant "jail break in reverse"

Gary M. Kramer

"It's a bizarre, nightmarish reality inside these detention centers," the filmmakers tell Salon

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL (ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Rubio blows his defense of Trump's gas

Roger Sollenberger

Police backed by the National Guard also unleashed rubber bullets on protesters to clear the way for the photo-op

A military helicopter flies low pushing a strong vertical down wash of air (rotor wash) onto the crowd during a protest over the death of George Floyd on June 1, 2020. (Getty Images/ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP)

Army helicopter disperses protesters

Igor Derysh

"America is not a battleground," retired Gen. Martin Dempsey says. "Our fellow citizens are not the enemy"

Donald Trump | Protestors are tear gassed as the police disperse them near the White House on June 1, 2020 as demonstrations against George Floyd's death continue. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

This is what Trumpers voted for

Amanda Marcotte

Right-wingers were thrilled because Trump "triggers the liberals" — now that trigger has become literal

Protest on June 1 in Oakland, Calif. (Nicole Karlis)

Police crackdown after curfew in Oakland

Nicole Karlis

The protest led by high schoolers prompted a huge show of solidarity with low police presence until after curfew

Tucker Carlson Tonight (FOX News)

Tucker blames Jared for "weak" response

Igor Derysh

Fox host rips Trump for "weakness" after gas and rubber bullets were fired at protesters to clear way for photo-op

A protester holds up a sign in downtown Louisville, Ky., on June 1, 2020. (Erin Keane/Salon)

Louisville protests David McAtee killing

Ashlie D. Stevens, Erin Keane

The fifth night of protests calling for justice for Breonna Taylor stayed calm until "chaotic" scene after curfew

Still life of a face mask on red background (Getty Images)

Secret world of coronavirus mask traders

J. David McSwane - ProPublica

The federal government and states have fueled an unregulated, chaotic market for masks

Police officers pepper spray a woman next to the Colorado State Capitol as protests against the death of George Floyd continue (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

Trump's chaos and cruelty got us here

Bob Cesca

With a deranged, racist reactionary in the White House, it's almost surprising this explosion took so long

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