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4:40 PM ET, May 13, 2019

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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans Call Tlaib Anti-Semitic for Saying Something Nice About Israel  —  The Republican Party, which has a hair-trigger sensitivity to left-wing anti-Semitism as censorious as any social justice warrior, has whipped itself into its latest frenzy over comments by Representative Rashida Tlaib.
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David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Rashida Tlaib's Lies Remind Us Why Israel Must Exist
Discussion: Washington Post
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Trump Seeks New $15 Billion Subsidy To Protect Farmers From His Own Trade War  —  The president falsely claims that tariffs are paid “directly” to the U.S. Treasury by China and indicates these nonexistent Chinese funds will cover the subsidy cost.  —  President Donald Trump is seeking …
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
China to retaliate on $60B in U.S. goods, defying Trump's warning  —  China is set to fire the next salvo in the escalating trade conflict with the United States, announcing on Monday it will raise tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods at the start of next month.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is staking reelection on one of his biggest lies  —  President Trump has spent the past 24 hours tweeting manically about trade, repeating the absurd falsehood that China is paying us billions in tariffs.  We keep hearing that this shows Trump “doesn't understand” how tariffs work.
Discussion: Bloomberg, ABC News, Fortune and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump's trade approach under attack as China readies retaliation; markets poised for big sell-off
Discussion: CNN, Daily Kos and Mercury News
Gregory Meyer / Financial Times:   Trump tariffs on China intensify pain for US soyabean farmers
New York Daily News:
Mayor de Blasio's NYPD vehicle was driving wrong way when it crashed with truck, sparking cover-up  —  Mayor de Blasio's NYPD SUV was cruising the wrong way with lights and sirens blaring when it got into a car crash, sparking a frantic cover-up by his security detail, a new accident report obtained by the Daily News shows.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Fox News
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Associated Press:   NYC mayor says he'll decide this week on presidential run
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
What's the Real Reason Trump Is Stonewalling Congress?  —  Maybe he wants to avoid more bad publicity.  Or maybe it's something worse.  —  If President Donald Trump thinks he's been totally exonerated, as he says, why is he stonewalling Congress?  Why wouldn't he want special counsel Robert Mueller …
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Angry That the FBI Won't Endorse His Theory of Victimhood  —  On March 24, Attorney General William Barr released a summary of the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report that stressed positive news for President Donald Trump.  The redacted text of the report …
Roger Kimball / Spectator USA:
The doggedness of William Barr
Discussion: The New Neo
Anna Flagg / New York Times:
Is There a Connection Between Undocumented Immigrants and Crime?  —  It's a widely held perception, but a new analysis finds no evidence to support it.  —  A lot of research has shown that there's no causal connection between immigration and crime in the United States.
CNN:
How Donald Trump Jr. and Richard Burr hit an impasse  —  Erin Burnett: Why is Trump afraid of Don Jr. subpoena?  —  (CNN)Donald Trump Jr. is balking at answering more questions about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting and the pursuit of a Trump Tower Moscow project, two sources familiar …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Gillian Edevane / Newsweek:   Senator Lindsey Graham advises Donald Trump Jr. to Avoid Testifying Over Russia Deal: “Call it a Day”
Hugh Hewitt / Washington Post:   The Senate has important work to do. Why waste time subpoenaing Donald Trump Jr.?
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
How Does Donald Trump Keep Getting Away With It?  —  Hint: From Congress to the courts, people keep treating Trump like a “normal” president.  It's time to stop.  —  Every day, President Donald Trump or his minions say something stupid, wrong, or demonstrably false.
Jessica Sidman / Washingtonian:
Inside the Pampered and Personalized World of DC's VIP Diners  —  The big restaurant lie: Everyone is treated the same.  —  Sometimes maître d' Michael Arnaud has to play bad cop.  Granted, he wears a wide smile above his green bow tie and greets every customer of Joe's Seafood …
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Many Democrats fear Trump is laying an impeachment trap  —  (CNN)It seems a crazy idea that any president would actually want to be impeached.  —  But Donald Trump has so subverted Washington logic with his wild, norm-crushing presidency that there is now a serious conversation …
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Heather Digby Parton / Salon:
Impeaching Donald Trump is risky: But not impeaching him might be even riskier
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Peter Schweizer, Who Smeared Hillary Clinton, Is Back for Joe Biden.  Don't Buy It.  —  Real journalists want to report the truth, wherever it takes them.  Peter Schweizer wants to reelect Donald Trump.  —  Michael Tomasky  —  Are we really going to do this again, Fourth Estate?
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:   Joe Biden's surprisingly controversial claim that Trump is an aberration, explained
Popular Information:
EXCLUSIVE: How money flows from Amazon to 8chan  —  Follow the money from the world's most valuable company to a racist troll haven  —  You may or may not know about the 8chan website—but you are familiar with its work.  The rudimentary message board is a wellspring of racism, violence …
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
‘The epitome of privilege’: Booker supporters seethe over Buttigieg mania  —  One of the Democrats running for president is a youthful former Rhodes Scholar who speaks more than one language and cut his teeth as a two-term mayor.  The other is Pete Buttigieg.
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Supreme Court rules against Apple, allowing lawsuit targeting App Store to proceed  —  Apple suffered a significant defeat at the Supreme Court on Monday, when the justices ruled that consumers could forge ahead with a lawsuit against the iPhone giant over the way it manages its App Store.
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Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Supreme Court clears way for iPhone users to sue Apple over App Store prices
Discussion: Politico
The Daily Beast:
One-Time #Resistance Hero Rod Rosenstein Was Trump's Leak-Hunter-in-Chief  —  The Trump administration is on pace for a record number of leak prosecutions—thanks in part to a man hailed by the president's fiercest critics.  —  Rod Rosenstein was a #Resistance hero—and one of Donald Trump's …
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
An Oral History of Trump's Bigotry  —  The first quotation from Donald Trump ever to appear in The New York Times came on October 16, 1973.  Trump was responding to charges filed by the Justice Department alleging racial bias at his family's real-estate company.  “They are absolutely ridiculous,” Trump said of the charges.
Discussion: Raw Story
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Inside Jared Kushner's two missions impossible  —  As President Donald Trump launches his re-election bid, his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, is waging dual campaigns of his own, preparing to sell ambitious fixes to two of the most stubborn problems of the past 50 years.
Discussion: NBC News and Raw Story
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Brewster's Millions at the NRA  —  How do you spend $1,100 in an airport with nothing to show for it?  —  1. Fancy Pants  —  Let's talk about the big NRA story from the weekend.  —  Somebody on the internet whose name almost certainly does not rhyme with Noliver Torth released …
Discussion: Raw Story
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
Omarosa Accuses Trump of Pay Discrimination: 'The Numbers Don't Lie'  —  The ex-Trump aide claims she was paid substantially less per month than her male counterpart for the same work.  —  Omarosa Manigault-Newman, the former Apprentice star who campaigned for President Trump and then followed …
Akane Otani / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Stocks Close Sharply Lower on Renewed Trade Anxiety  —  Dow drops more than 600 after China says it will raise tariffs on some U.S. imports  —  U.S. stocks slid Monday, heading for one of their worst days of the year, after officials in Beijing and the White House exchanged fresh threats …
 
 
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Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Trump captures Biden's blue-collar, older voter base
Discussion: Breitbart
Bloomberg:
EU Is Ready to Retaliate as Trump Auto-Tariff Deadline Nears
Christina Goldbaum / New York Times:
Luring Refugees: N.Y. Cities Desperate for People Try a New Strategy
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
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Discussion: New York Times
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Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
Mike Pence's advice to Christian college grads: Prepare to be 'shunned or ridiculed for defending …
Discussion: Vox, Raw Story and RedState
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
One of the Most Effective Anti-Trump Groups in the Country Is Now Tackling Voter Suppression in the States
Discussion: Raw Story
Liz Sly / Washington Post:
Two Saudi oil tankers attacked in the Persian Gulf amid rising Iran tensions
Discussion: Daily Wire
Paul P. Murphy / CNN:
American Nazis protested a Holocaust remembrance event.  A university's scholarship is part of the reason why.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Iowa Trump voters want Elizabeth Warren's ideas, focus group shows
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
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