- Nearly 70% Of Americans Want Nothing To Do With Trump’s Coronavirus Vaccine (politicususa.com)
- The middle class reached the end of their rope during Trump’s COVID-19 crisis — and the Senate still won’t do anything (rawstory.com)
- Rep. Jahana Hayes announces she has tested positive for Covid-19 (rss.cnn.com)
- What the White House coronavirus testing czar had to say about Trump rallygoers not wearing masks (rss.cnn.com)
- De Blasio’s development agenda was already faltering. Then Covid-19 struck. (politico.com)
- Trump health official says ‘biology independent of politics’ as US nears 200,000 Covid deaths (theguardian.com)
- Gottlieb “deeply concerned” about uptick in coronavirus cases heading into fall (cbsnews.com)
- U.S. approaches grim milestone of 200,000 COVID-19 deaths (cbsnews.com)
- ‘How is that not a failure?’: Trump health official called out by CNN’s Tapper over COVID-19 debacle (rawstory.com)
- Infectious disease expert: Trump’s attacks on CDC, doctors and scientists undermine a ‘pillar of pandemic control’ (alternet.org)
- Senate Democrats Plan Total War To Destroy Mitch McConnell (politicususa.com)
- Walmart and Amazon among donors to lawmaker who promoted QAnon (theguardian.com)
- Lincoln Project releases devastating new ad against vulnerable Republican Lindsey Graham (alternet.org)
- Trump-loving right-wing operatives accused of entrapping NC progressive groups to undermine their election work (alternet.org)
Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Cadet Alyssa Skorich sanitizes a voting station at the Anthony Stratton Building in Lawrenceburg, Ky., June 12, 2020. Skorich, a student at Eastern Kentucky University assigned to the 103rd Brigade Support Battalion in Harrodsburg, Ky., is part of the Kentucky Guard’s effort to assist the state’s on-going response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Trump campaign accused of illegally coordinating political ads with NRA: report (rawstory.com)
- Trump Cabinet members linked to 6 companies that got PPP loans — and watchdogs are calling for investigations (rawstory.com)
- Women in Donald Trump’s White House earn 69 cents for every $1 paid to male staffers (rawstory.com)
- Billionaire Chuck Feeney achieves goal of giving away his fortune (theguardian.com)
- ‘Idiot’ Trump is more and more ‘out of it’ as COVID-19 death toll cracks 200,000: columnist (rawstory.com)
- ‘Putin’s favorite congressman’ offered Julian Assange a pardon if he covered up Russian meddling: lawyers (alternet.org)
- ‘Intentional effort’ to sabotage election: Judge orders total reversal of Postmaster General DeJoy’s USPS changes (alternet.org)
- US bans WeChat, TikTok citing national security (nydailynews.com)
- LET ‘EM DIE ECONOMICS: Jared Kushner Reportedly Didn’t Want Federal Response to Coronavirus: “Free Markets Will Solve This” (politicususa.com)
- Giuliani associate Lev Parnas slapped with additional charges (cbsnews.com)
- Mitch McConnell rams through six Trump judges in 30 hours after blocking coronavirus aid for months (alternet.org)
Top wire stories
- ‘You don’t see any hypocrisy?’ Chris Wallace filets Tom Cotton by replaying his Merrick Garland speech (rawstory.com)
- White House preparing shortlist to replace FBI Director Wray after he testified on Russian election interference: report (alternet.org)
- ‘We ought to be mourning’: Fox News guest reprimands anchor over attack on ‘comrade’ AOC (rawstory.com)
- Ginsburg to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery alongside late husband (rawstory.com)
- Mitch McConnell is ‘immune to shame’ and charges of hypocrisy — but he has one key weakness that could impact the Supreme Court fight (alternet.org)
- QAnon conspiracists believe in a vast pedophile ring. The truth is sadder | Moira Donegan (theguardian.com)
- Charleston aims to force fossil fuel companies to pay $2bn to combat climate crisis (theguardian.com)
- Democrat Theresa Greenfield leads GOP Sen. Joni Ernst in ‘Gold Standard’ poll of Iowa (rawstory.com)
- Analysis: It might be time to rethink the Supreme Court nomination process (rss.cnn.com)
- Two people killed, 14 more wounded in shooting during massive party in Rochester backyard (nydailynews.com)
- Trump Fears Tax Fraud Charges & Prison If His Taxes Are Released, Michael Cohen Says (rdtdaily.com)
- Biden proposes 401(k) changes to give low-income savers bigger tax benefits (rss.cnn.com)
- Iran Guards vow Suleimani revenge will target only ‘those involved’ (rawstory.com)
- Racist goes berserk when Muslim asks him to keep aggressive dog on a leash (rawstory.com)
- Bill Barr Goes Full-In Right-Wing Looney (dcreport.org)
- Emails Show Tulsa Officials Considered An Event To Counter Trump’s Rally (buzzfeednews.com)
- A Republican witness gets humiliated when the author of a study he cited refutes him (rawstory.com)
- Black voters in North Carolina are seeing their mail-in ballots rejected 4 times more than white voters (rawstory.com)
- Swedish scientists are working on a radical COVID-19 blocker involving alpacas (rawstory.com)
- Donald Trump mocked for 95-minute ‘slurring’ campaign speech — before crowd ‘packed in like sardines’ in Wisconsin (alternet.org)
- Right-wing talk about ‘sedition’ and insurrection has one purpose (rawstory.com)
- Virus Pulls Down Trump, Poll Shows, and G.O.P. Senators Suffer With Him (nytimes.com)
- Scientists just discovered an ‘impossible planet’ (alternet.org)
- Here’s what Biden needs to do to ensure Trump goes down in flames (alternet.org)
- Trump rails against the ‘liberal indoctrination of America’s youth’ in latest culture war salvo (rss.cnn.com)