Oh how boring: Trump: Will ‘Fake News Media’ report stock market high? President Trump took to Twitter on Monday to ask whether “Fake News Media” will report on recent stock market highs. The Dow Jones industrial average hit a record high during trading Monday, closing nearly 130 points higher than it had started at in the morning. Really great numbers …

The Los Angeles Times reports: Amid a probe of sexual harassment at Fox Sports, the company announced Monday that it had fired its controversial head of sports programming, Jamie Horowitz. Horowitz’s dismissal came less than a week after 21st Century Fox began investigating allegations of sexual harassment in the workplace at Fox Sports. The company hired a law firm, which …

Raw Story reports: The reporter who revealed the “obviously racist” and antisemitic Reddit user who created the animated image of President Donald Trump body-slamming CNN has been deluged with death threats. Jared Yates Sexton, a journalist who teaches writing and linguistics at Georgia Southern University, reported Sunday that the president had shared an internet meme created by a Reddit user …

Axios reports: Steve Bannon is causing a stir inside the administration by pushing an idea that’s anathema to most Republicans: raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans to pay for steep middle and working-class tax cuts. (Some officials who’ve heard Bannon’s idea think it’s crazy, but the President’s chief strategist believes it’s a potent populist idea.) Bannon has told colleagues he …

The Miami Herald reports: Florida’s updated “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law is unconstitutional, a Miami judge ruled on Monday. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Milton Hirsch ruled that lawmakers overstepped their authority in modifying the law this year to force prosecutors to disprove a defendant’s self-defense claim at a pre-trial hearing. The judge ruled that under Florida’s constitution, that change should have …

Unshocking: About three-quarters of respondents in a poll from the Drudge Report say President Trump should continue to use social media. The poll on the right-leaning site asks readers whether Trump should “use socials.” The poll found that 77.7 percent of respondents think Trump should continue to tweet, compared to just 22.3 percent who think Trump should “delete” his social …

Politico reports: The U.K. government said it was “not aware” of any plans for Donald Trump to visit the country in the next few weeks amid reports that the U.S. president could drop in to see the British prime minister while he is in Europe. Trump might want to see Theresa May while on an unscheduled stop to one of …

Mediaite reports: When July 3rd falls on a Monday between the weekend and the July 4th holiday, cable news brings out its back-ups. So Fox & Friends featured the weekend hosts and trotted out old reliable Governor Mike Huckabee to opine on yesterday’s controversial tweet showing President Trump “body slamming’ CNN. Shocker: Huckabee took the president’s side and railed on …

Via press release: The Foundation for Moral Law applauded the Texas Supreme Court’s decision in Pidgeon v. Turner, which declined to extend benefits afforded to heterosexual married couples to same-sex pairings contrary to Texas law. The legal issue in Pidgeon was whether the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges should be applied narrowly—limited to the issue of …

The Daily Beast reports: Of the three senior Trump administration officials contacted on Sunday by The Daily Beast, all said that the tweet was both justified and amusing. Officials spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to speak freely. “I thought it was funny,” one White House official said. “Glad [Dan] Scavino and the president did that.” Scavino is …

What’s On Weibo reports: Over the past few days, discussions about homosexuality are all over Chinese social media. On Friday, the China Netcasting Services Association issued new criteria to strengthen regulations over online audio-visual content on Chinese platforms. One of the new regulations regarded the removal of online content that “displays homosexuality”, grouping homosexuality together with incest and sexual perversity …

The Hill reports: Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) on Monday compared President Trump’s attacks on the media to a dictatorship, asking whether Trump has any understanding of the importance of a free press. “Pretty much every president before this one has understood that the media is absolutely essential to our liberty,” Himes said on CNN’s “New Day.” “Dictators attack the media.” …

Raw Story reports: Just a day after Trump tweeted a doctored video of him body slamming and beating a mock CNN reporter, Conway appeared on Fox News to complain about the media coverage. “The media have now moved on from Russia to cover themselves,” she opined. “The American people see that they’re trying to interfere with the president communicating directly …

The AV Club reports: For those appalled at the right-wing hellscape the Donald Trump era has unleashed upon the land, the idea of going local is seen as an effective strategy to fight back against a federal government infested with conservative idealogues at the highest levels. Unfortunately, according to Last Week Tonight host and guy whose astutely angry British-ness can …

The New York Times reports: Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey provoked widespread ridicule as pictures emerged of him and his family sunning themselves on an empty beach that had been closed during the holiday weekend because of a state government shutdown. Mr. Christie was shown in aerial photographs relaxing in a beach chair on Sunday at the governor’s official …

Remember the screaming headlines on Breitbart that time a group of kids sang a song about Obama? The Hill reports: A Southern Baptist church choir sang a “Make America Great Again” ode at a rally President Trump spoke at on Saturday. The song, called “Make America Great Again,” was based off Trump’s popular campaign motto that he has continued to …

Critica Panama reports: The music, dances, flags, flashy costumes and slogans of equality of rights and against discrimination were the elements that accompanied thousands of people who participated in gay pride march this Saturday, July 1. The event began at 4:00 pm, led by First Lady Lorena Castillo de Varela, United States Ambassador to Panama John Feeley, Mayor of the …

Fox News radio host Todd Starnes writes: President Trump dropped the Mother of All Tweets on CNN Sunday morning — leaving shellshocked staffers drooling uncontrollably in their designated safe spaces. The Mainstream Media suffered a mental breakdown. CNN commentator and “Faux Republican” Ana Navarro was beyond horrified — telling ABC News the “President of the United States is inciting violence …

Politico Europe reports: Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is looking to stop gay marriage in court, the far-right party’s vice chair Alexander Gauland told the country’s largest circulation newspaper. “We are currently studying a challenge at the constitutional court,” Gauland said in an interview with Bild Zeitung, days after parliament legalized same-sex marriage. AfD’s internet site features on its front …

CNBC reports: President Donald Trump escalated his war of words with the media, sending out an early morning tweet on Sunday that appeared to show him attacking CNN—a frequent target of the president’s ire—in a wrestling-style move. Some journalists and political observers immediately seized on the tweet as evidence that Trump was encouraging violence against the media—an accusation that Deputy …