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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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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: ABC News, Fortune, Bloomberg and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump's trade approach under attack as China readies retaliation; markets poised for big sell-off  —  Beijing plans steep tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods in response to White House action … President Trump's efforts to calm investors while he launches a full-scale trade war …
Discussion: CNN, Daily Kos and Mercury News
Gregory Meyer / Financial Times:   Trump tariffs on China intensify pain for US soyabean farmers
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
China to retaliate on $60B in U.S. goods, defying Trump's warning
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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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Republicans are ignoring reality to twist Rep. Tlaib's ‘calming’ Holocaust remarks  —  Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has said some controversial things.  But despite what you hear her Republican critics say, one thing she hasn't publicly said is that the Holocaust is “calming.”
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:   Rashida Tlaib's Lies Remind Us Why Israel Must Exist
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
House Republicans criticize Rep. Tlaib over remarks on Holocaust, Israel
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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Gillian Edevane / Newsweek:   Senator Lindsey Graham advises Donald Trump Jr. to Avoid Testifying Over Russia Deal: “Call it a Day”
Heather Digby Parton / Salon:
Impeaching Donald Trump is risky: But not impeaching him might be even riskier
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Tamar Auber / Mediaite:   Lindsey Graham Offers Donald Trump Jr. Legal Advice: Ignore Senate Subpoena and ‘Call It a Day’
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
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
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Roger Kimball / Spectator USA:
The doggedness of William Barr
Discussion: The New Neo
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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
Bloomberg:
EU Is Ready to Retaliate as Trump Auto-Tariff Deadline Nears  — Trump expected to announce decision on car duties on May 18  — The EU would retaliate against $23 billion of U.S. goods  —  Go inside the global economy with Stephanie Flanders in her new podcast, Stephanomics.
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.
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
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 …
Discussion: Axios, Vanity Fair and The Daily Beast
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
What Joe Biden Is Teaching Democrats About Democrats  —  Over the past five years, the Democratic Party has seemed to race leftward so fast that its recent standard-bearers are considered no longer qualified to lead it.  Bill Clinton?  An embarrassment not welcome on the campaign trail.  Barack Obama?
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
Megan Specia / New York Times:
Sweden Reopens Rape Case Against Julian Assange  —  The Swedish authorities announced on Monday that they would reopen an investigation into rape allegations against Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, who is serving a prison term in Britain for jumping bail as the United States seeks …
 
 
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Trump captures Biden's blue-collar, older voter base
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Brewster's Millions at the NRA
Discussion: Raw Story
James Kirchick / NBC News:
Trump should be isolating Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orban, not feting him at the White House
Discussion: Brookings and The Week
Christina Goldbaum / New York Times:
Luring Refugees: N.Y. Cities Desperate for People Try a New Strategy
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
Los Angeles Fire Season Is Beginning Again.  And It Will Never End.  A bulletin from our climate future.
Discussion: New York Times
BBC:
Burkina Faso church attack: Priest among six killed
Discussion: France 24 and Daily Wire
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Democrat Steve Bullock Won a Red State in 2016. Can He Beat Trump in 2020?
Discussion: Splinter
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
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Obama White House Tracked FOIA Request For Hillary Emails That Was Improperly Denied
Discussion: twitchy.com
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
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:
How a Newspaper War in New Orleans Ended: With a Baked Alaska and Layoffs