Big Business
A Week of Reckoning for Big Tech, The American Prospect
Congress
Minnesotans split along party lines in condemning Trump, Star Tribune
House condemns Trump ‘racist’ tweets in extraordinary rebuke, MPR
Congress grills Big Tech over competition, money and power, Star Tribune
Economy
Bank of America rakes in record profit driven by strength from US households, CNN
Environment
The Coal Industry Is Not a Major Employer, Beat the Press
Fact check: Trump misleads on tackling lead in drinking water, NBC News
GOP
Backlash Ensues as RNC’s WinRed Fundraising Hammer Falls, Real Clear Politics
GOP senators dodge CNN reporter when asked about Trump, Grand Rapids Herald Review
Second GOP Mississippi gubernatorial candidate says he will not be alone with a woman who is not his wife, CNN
Governor Tim Walz
The Latest: Walz: Lourey didn’t think he had right skills, Star Tribune
Health Care
Hospitals blast Minnesota insurer, Grand Forks Herald
Minnesota hospitals ask for investigation of Blue Cross Blue Shield, Mpls/St. Paul Business Journal
The New York Times Can’t Even Talk About Publicly Funded Drug Research, Beat the Press
Drug makers flooded US with billions of opioid pills as epidemic surged, data shows, The Guardian
Labor News
Amazon strike highlights strikingly different takes on working conditions inside Shakopee facility, MinnPost
‘We’re Human not Robots’, Workday Minnesota
LGBTQ
The LGBTQ civil rights fight is far from over, Vox
Minnesota DFL News
‘Unacceptable’: Democratic Lawmakers Denounce Trump’s Racist Tweets, WCCO
Minnesota DFL Issues Statement: ‘We deserve so much better from our President’, KIMT
‘Deeply Disturbing’: Minnesota DFL Chair Responds To Trump’s Racist Tweets, WCCO
LINK TO DFL SUMMER FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Minnesota Legislature
First-term lawmaker Rep. Patty Acomb reflects on the legislative session, SW News MediaLegislators hear Duluth schools’ needs, Duluth News Tribune
Minnesota News
In Minneapolis’ tight housing market, does tenant screening go too far?, MPR
DNR seeks input on managing Mille Lacs fishery, MPR
Minnesota native, diplomat held hostage in Iran’s revolution, dies, MPR
News of the World
Drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman sentenced to life in prison, Star Tribune
Men of God and the Genesis of the U.S.-Saudi Relationship, The New Republic
Representative Collin Peterson (CD7)
Peterson cosponsoring legislation to end robocalls, Crookston Times
Representative Ilhan Omar (CD5)
How Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Constituents Are Reacting To Trump’s Racist Comments, NPR
Representative Jim Hagedorn (CD1)
Our View: Trump’s racist attacks on congresswomen must be condemned, Mankato Free Press
Hagedorn [to hold] town hall in Owatonna, Fairbault.com
Representative Pete Stauber (CD8)
Minn. Congressman Pete Stauber won’t condemn Trump, calls controversy over Twitter remarks a ‘distraction’, Pioneer Press
Stauber won’t satisfy DFL call to condemn Trump, calling controversy a ‘distraction’, Duluth News Tribune
Trump’s Racism
Trump taps the tool kit of racism once again, Star Tribune
Trump might finally have broken Washington, CNN
Trump signals he’ll talk about minority congresswomen at Wednesday rally, The Hill
Tape shows Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein discussing women at 1992 party, NBC News
Reporter presses McConnell on if it’s racist to tell his immigrant wife to ‘go back to her country’, The Hill
Trump and His Deplorables, The New Republic
Trump’s Trade Wars
Trade worries are back and markets are struggling for direction, CNN
WTO rules against US in tariff dispute with China, The Financial Times
Trump renews threats to slap tariffs on more than $300 billion worth of Chinese products, Business Insider
U.S. News
Pentagon Ordered to Tell Congress If It Weaponized Ticks And Released Them Into the Public, Gizmodo
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens dies at 99, Pioneer Press
One of John Paul Stevens’s last big ideas: repealing the 2nd Amendment, Vox
Wisconsin
Blacks arrested for pot possession at four times the rate of whites in Wisconsin, Minnpost
Immigration
Upcoming Supreme Court decision creates more uncertainty for DACA students, Minnesota Daily
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