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2:45 PM ET, September 17, 2017

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Alicia Melville-Smith / BuzzFeed:
Trump Retweeted A Video From An Anti-Semitic Account Showing Him Hitting Hillary Clinton With A Golf Ball  —  President Trump on Sunday morning retweeted a doctored video showing him hitting HIllary Clinton with a golf ball — from an account that makes racial, anti-semitic, and anti-LGBT comments.
Discussion: Axios, The Guardian and Daily Kos
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue:
Trump starts his Sunday by promoting obsessive violence against Hillary Clinton  —  Humiliated by the small number of supporters that turned out for Saturday's supposed “Mother of All Rallies” in Washington D.C., Donald Trump started his Sunday by obsessively tweeting about the woman who beat him by 3 million votes in November.
Caroline Orr / Shareblue:
“He gets emotional”: Nikki Haley gives awkward defense of Trump's reckless terror tweets  —  Perhaps Donald Trump is too “emotional” to be president.  —  In an interview on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday morning, United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley defended Donald Trump's reckless tweeting …
Discussion: Politico, The Guardian, Daily Wire and IJR
Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
Bernie Sanders on Some Supporters Not Voting for Clinton: ‘No Kidding!’  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday chalked up the fact that some of his supporters during 2016's Democratic primaries eventually voted for Donald Trump in the general election to “the nature of politics.”
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump retweets GIF of him hitting Clinton with golf ball  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump retweeted an edited video Sunday morning that showed him swinging a golf club and appearing to hit his former presidential campaign rival Hillary Clinton with a golf ball.
Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
Sanders scoffs at Clinton's claim he didn't do enough to help her  —  Bernie Sanders scoffed at Hillary Clinton's claim that he didn't do as much to mobilize his supporters on her behalf as she did for Barack Obama in 2008.  —  “I worked as hard as I could to see that Hillary Clinton …
Discussion: Axios
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Single-Payer Movement Shows: Life After Trump May Not Suck
Discussion: CNBC and Washington Monthly
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
McMaster says no redo on Paris climate deal decision  —  National security adviser H.R. McMaster denied Sunday that President Trump is reconsidering his decision to pull out of the Paris climate change accord but said the door remains open to a better agreement down the road.
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Nicki Zink / ABC News:
British prime minister Theresa May opens up about her relationship with Trump  —  British Prime Minister Theresa May opened up about her relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump, saying they “work very well together.”  —  “I do get on with him ... President Trump has actually ... an affection for the United Kingdom.
Discussion: NBC News
Emre Peker / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Won't Withdraw from Paris Climate Deal
Trevor Hughes / USA Today:
White House says no change in position on Paris climate agreement
Discussion: Common Dreams, TheBlaze and Raw Story
Philippe Sotto / Associated Press:
Official: 4 US tourists attacked with acid in Marseille  —  https://apnews.com/2d7c9f40efc24ab58003 657b6ed892c4  —  Link copied!  —  PARIS (AP) — Four young female U.S. tourists were attacked with acid Sunday in the French city of Marseille by a woman who has been arrested, the Marseille prosecutor's office said.
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Don't Look Now, But Full Obamacare Repeal Is Back On The Table  —  A bill nobody took seriously suddenly sounds serious.  —  Repeal of the Affordable Care Act is back on the agenda, with Republicans suddenly talking about passing a bill that, until recently, few people in either party had taken all that seriously.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Trumpcare's back, and now it will let insurers jack up premiums as soon as you get sick
Discussion: Hullabaloo and CNBC
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Watch: Stores damaged in Loop protests  —  As the chaos escalated, scores of police officers in riot gear pushed forward against the demonstrators just after 11 p.m. — about two hours after daytime protest organizers had congratulated their followers on keeping their demonstrations peaceful.
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Fox News Insider:
MO Governor on St. Louis Protests: Only Safe Space for Looters Is a Jail Cell
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Haley: If diplomacy doesn't work, Mattis will ‘take care of’ North Korea  —  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley  —  said that if diplomatic measures with North Korea continue to fail, Defense Secretary James Mattis  —  is ready to “take care” of the situation.
Discussion: IJR
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Associated Press:
The Latest: UN envoy slams North Korea's ‘reckless’ behavior
Discussion: Axios and ABC News
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
Normalizing Trump: An incredibly brief explainer  —  Most every journalist who covers Trump knows of these things:  —  1. He isn't good at anything a president has to do.  From the simplest, like pretending to help out in flood relief, to the hardest: making the call when all alternatives are bad.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
New York Times:
How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food  —  As growth slows in wealthy countries, Western food companies are aggressively expanding in developing nations, contributing to obesity and health problems.  —  FORTALEZA, Brazil — Children's squeals rang through the muggy morning air …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Former Trump aide liquidated children's college fund to pay for Russia defense: report  —  A former campaign adviser to President Trump said the ongoing federal probe into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia has taken such a financial toll on him that he's had to liquidate …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Sarah Westwood / Washington Examiner:   Russia probes leave Trump associates struggling with huge legal bills
Associated Press:
FEMA auctioned disaster trailers before Harvey made landfall  —  https://apnews.com/4e13c0c4b8444dd3a395 d4bc1e4aa0bb  —  Link copied!  —  The federal government auctioned off disaster-response trailers at fire-sale prices just before Harvey devastated southeast Texas …
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John Bowden / The Hill:
FEMA auctioned off disaster-response trailers days before Harvey's landfall
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Joseph Morton / Omaha World-Herald:
Sen. Joni Ernst takes new swing at taxpayer-subsidized perks of former presidents
Discussion: Political Wire
Emily Shugerman / The Independent:
Pro-Trump rally that sought to bring one million supporters to Washington musters little over a thousand
Discussion: Democrats.com and RT
Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
In message of defiance to Trump, lawmakers vote to make California a sanctuary state
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
To make their tax plan work, Republicans eye a favorite blue-state break
Discussion: Booman Tribune
NY1 News:
Sources: Michael Grimm to run for old seat in Congress
Discussion: Gothamist and Political Wire
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
How Democrats Can Wage War on Monopolies—and Win
Discussion: Politico
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
On Criminal Justice, Sessions Is Returning DOJ to the Rule of Law
Discussion: Power Line
American Greatness:
Gorka on DACA and Trump's War with the GOP Establishment
Discussion: Vox Popoli
 Earlier Items: 
Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
‘Blood flowed in the streets’: Refugees from one Rohingya hamlet recount days of horror
Eric Cantor / New York Times:
How to End the Immigration Wars
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
NJ police release body-cam video of GOP lawmaker calling them ‘f*cking assh*les’ during DWI bust
Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
Hold the Egg Sandwich: Egyptian TV Is Calling
Florida Governor Rick Scott:
GOV. SCOTT: I AM AGGRESSIVELY FIGHTING TO KEEP VULNERABLE FLORIDIANS SAFE DURING EMERGENCIES
Discussion: New York Times and NBC News
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Establishment gears up for Steve Bannon's war on the GOP leadership
Discussion: RedState
Brandon Conradis / The Hill:
Trump endorses Michigan attorney general for governor
Discussion: Washington Post, IJR and Politico