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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 …

His comments were made more than a week ago but have gained nationwide attention in recent days. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports: Let them die. That was the jarring message from Middletown City Councilman Dan Picard. A day before Middletown’s council meeting on June 20, City Manager Doug Adkins attended a local heroin summit. He told people there the city was …