| | | | | Protesters demonstrate in Freedom Plaza against family detentions and to demand the end of criminalizing efforts of asylum seekers and immigrants Thursday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images | | | "Where Are the Children?": Hundreds arrested at Capitol protest, including one lawmaker
Capital Gazette's Heartbreaking A1: What America is Talking About
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a Washington Dem, was among the hundreds of women arrested in the Hart Senate Office Building for protesting the Trump administration's immigration policies Thursday, and Rep. Maxine Waters, a California Dem, said she's canceled two events over threats. Congress is out for the Fourth of July recess and will return in two weeks.
What America is Talking About:
Five employees of the Annapolis, Maryland, newspaper, the Capital Gazette, were killed in a shooting Thursday. The suspect was arrested, and authorities said it was a targeted attack over a longstanding grudge. The Gazette published obituaries for the employees -- Rob Hiaasen, Gerald Fischman, John McNamara, Wendi Winters and Rebecca Smith. Reporter Chase Cook tweeted defiantly, "I can tell you this: We are putting out a damn paper tomorrow." And they did. This is their front page today: | | Credit: The Capital Gazette
A GoFundMe has been set up for the newsroom and their journalists by Bloomberg Government reporter Madi Alexander. It has so far raised about $100,000.
Hundreds Arrested at Capitol Protest:
About 575 people, including Jayapal and Susan Sarandon, were arrested Thursday at a women's protest against the Trump administration's immigration policies. Demonstrators sat on the floor of the Hart Senate Office Building and wrapped themselves in emergency blankets similar to the ones used by detained undocumented immigrants. Multiple Dem lawmakers attended the protest, including Sens. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, who brought her baby daughter.
FLOTUS Visits Her Second Detention Center:
First lady Melania Trump on Thursday visited another detention center, this one for detained undocumented immigrants in Phoenix, and she stopped at a border patrol facility in Tucson, Arizona. Kate traveled with Melania to Arizona, where she met with children and held a round-table with immigration officials. The first lady's spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham told Kate, "She recognizes it's a complex issue. She definitely believes in strong border laws. She wants to make sure the kids are well taken care of." Melania wore no messages on her clothes that caused any controversy this time. | | Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
Gowdy Would Like the Russia Investigation to Wrap Up:
Rep. Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Repub who headed the House Benghazi Select Committee which lasted two years, said Thursday during a hearing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray that Robert Mueller's Russia investigation should finish "the hell up, because this country is being torn apart." The Benghazi committee had no indictments. Mueller's investigation has brought charges against 19 people and three companies in its first year. | | Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Obama Told Trump to Rename Obamacare and Take Credit for It:
Former President Obama told a group of Dem donors in Los Angeles Thursday, "I said to the incoming president, 'Just change the name and claim that you made these wonderful changes' and I would be like, 'You go,' because I didn't have pride of authorship, I just wanted people to have health care."
The Future of Millennial Politics Could be a Little Bit Socialist:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's upset win in Tuesday's Dem primary for New York's 14th District was noteworthy for her age -- at 28, she could be one of just a handful of Millennial lawmakers in Congress -- and her political identity as a Democratic socialist. For many Millennials, socialism isn't a bad thing. Like Bernie Sanders' 2016 campaign, Ocasio-Cortez represents a mainstreaming of an ideology. A 2016 Gallup poll found 55% of those then-aged 18-29 had a positive view of socialism. I wrote here about how we could see more Democratic socialists in politics in the years ahead. Maybe even as POTUS? Ocasio-Cortez wants to run for president, her mom told the New York Post. She'd have a few years to get ready for a run, though, since she's not yet constitutionally eligible to be a senator (minimum age is 30) or president (35). | | Credit: Scott Heins/Getty Images
Katie Ledecky Covers Nat Geo:
The five-time gold-medal winner from Bethesda, Maryland, is believed to the first Olympian to make the cover of National Geographic. Ledecky told the Washington Post she's been a subscriber to the magazine since she was a kid and making the cover was "such an honor." Amazing. | | Credit: National Geographic
Street Art Sighting:
This inflatable Trump wearing a KKK robe was spotted at a protest outside the Health and Human Services Southwest Key Campbell children's shelter in Phoenix when Melania visited yesterday, by Mandel Ngan. | | Credit: Mandel Ngan/Getty Images
And in Washington, this "Who Would Jesus Deport?" poster was spotted on 16th and U Streets by Jordan Frasier. | | Credit: Jordan Frasier
If you spot political street art, tweet me @hunterschwarz, tag me on Instagram @hunterschwarz, or email me at coverlinehunter@cnn.com with your sighting so I can feature it in COVER/LINE.
P.S.:
We have new music today by Florence and the Machine, who released High As Hope, and Drake, who admitted he has a child on his new album Scorpion. And Rolling Stone released a list of the best songs of this century so far. Beyoncé's "Crazy In Love" feat. Jay-Z is No. 1. Britney Spears' "Toxic" is No. 14. 🙏 | | | | | | |
