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7:40 AM ET, August 23, 2019

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Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
The Justice Department Sent Immigration Judges A White Nationalist Blog Post With Anti-Semitic Attacks  —  An email sent from the Justice Department to all immigration court employees this week included a link to an article posted on a white nationalist website that “directly attacks sitting immigration judges …
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Justice Department says it mistakenly emailed link to white nationalist website
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
New York Times:
With Amazon Rain Forest Ablaze, Brazil Faces Global Backlash  —  RIO DE JANEIRO — As dozens of fires scorched large swaths of the Amazon, the Brazilian government on Thursday struggled to contain growing global outrage over its environmental policies, which have paved the way for runaway deforestation …
Discussion: The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Bloomberg
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Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Bolsonaro, Trump and the nationalists ignoring climate disaster  —  Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter.  —  President Trump and leaders of the other Group of Seven nations will meet at the seaside French town of Biarritz this weekend for a ritzy get-together that hopes to be defined by its eco-friendliness.
Discussion: NPR, Hullabaloo and POLITICUSUSA
Leah Asmelash / CNN:
The Amazon rainforest is on fire.  Here's what that means for the environment  —  Fires in Amazon rainforest rage at record rate  —  (CNN)The Amazon rainforest is an ecological marvel.  —  It's twice the size of India, according to the World Wildlife Fund, and it's the largest remaining tropical rainforest in the world.
Sherman Smith / Topeka Capital-Journal:
U.S. Rep. Steve Watkins ducks reporters amid speculation he could resign  —  Sherman Smith sherman_newsTim Carpenter TimVCarpenter  —  FORT SCOTT — Kansas Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Watkins declined to answer news reporters' questions at a campaign event Thursday amid a flurry …
Discussion: Political Wire
NBC News:
The Epoch Times begins hiding its connection to a huge pro-Trump ad buy on Facebook  —  By hiding its multimillion-dollar dark money ad spend, the organization is bypassing Facebook's political advertising transparency rules.  —  The Epoch Times, a conservative news outlet that has spent …
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The Trump presidency is not just unfolding, it is unraveling  —  Historians studying the Trump presidency will have a prodigious amount of digital material that demands examination but defies explanation.  The president's Aug. 21, half-hour, South Lawn media availability deserves to be at the top of that list.
The Daily Beast:
Trump Invited Himself to Denmark Before Canceling Trip, Danes Say  —  With a trip canceled over his proposal to buy Greenland, Danish officials tell State Dept. their leader wasn't actually being harsh when she called the idea “absurd.”  —  Speaking to reporters on the White House's South lawn in late July …
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Washington Post:
The month a shadow fell on Trump's economy  —  Top White House advisers notified President Trump earlier this month that some internal forecasts showed that the economy could slow markedly over the next year, stopping short of a recession but complicating his path to reelection in 2020.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and The Week
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Will Trump blow up the G7 summit?  —  Trump says he would like to see Russia rejoin G8  —  (CNN)The biggest question clouding this weekend's G7 summit in France is whether the President of the United States will blow it up.  —  It is a measure of the gulf between America and its allies …
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David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
5 storms (and a jungle fire) that could wreck Macron's beachfront G7
David Folkenflik / NPR:
A Dead Cat, A Lawyer's Call And A 5-Figure Donation: How Media Fell Short On Epstein  —  Toggle more options  —  Hear Part 1  —  Toggle more options  —  Hear Part 2  —  Toggle more options  —  A coterie of intimidating lawyers.  A deployment of charm.  An aura of invincibility.
Connor Mannion / Mediaite:
NYT: Trump's New Press Secretary Has Two DUI Arrests and Lost Two Jobs For Plagiarism and Cheating on Expenses  —  The New York Times reported President Donald Trump's new White House Press Secretary has two arrests for driving under the influence and lost two jobs over alleged charges of plagiarism and cheating expenses.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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HuffPost:
Democratic National Committee Votes To Reject Climate Debate  —  The vote came a day after the 2020 climate candidate Jay Inslee, who had been pushing for the debate, dropped out of the race.  —  The Democratic National Committee has rejected a proposal to host a single-issue debate on the climate crisis.
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Jimmie E. Gates / The Clarion Ledger:
Mississippi prof, who went to Georgetown Prep with Brett Kavanaugh, sues HuffPost  —  A Gulfport professor and advocate is suing the national news website HuffPost alleging defamation involving a September 2018 story on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's days at Georgetown Prep school.
New York Times:
Israeli Airstrike Hits Weapons Depot in Iraq  —  Israel has carried out an airstrike on a weapons depot in Iraq that officials said was being used by Iran to move weapons to Syria, an attack that could destabilize Iraq and thrust it deeper into the conflict between the United States and Iran.
Charles Creitz / Fox News:
Ex-Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne says he got ‘fishy’ orders from Peter Strzok; former acting AG unsure of claims  —  Overstock founder and CEO Patrick Byrne, who resigned Thursday amid ties to a government probe related to the 2016 election, claimed he received “fishy” orders from former FBI official Peter Strzok.
Discussion: Daily Wire
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Katie Schwartzmann / ACLU:
A Louisiana Parish Jailed a U.S. Citizen for Being Latinx.  We're Suing.  —  Ramon Torres had been a U.S. citizen for nearly ten years when he was detained for four days on an immigration hold - despite having a U.S. passport, a Louisiana driver's license, and a Social Security card …
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Trump Has Told Friends That Gutting Medicare Could Be a Fun “Second-Term Project”  —  Republicans want Trump to deal with the exploding deficit by gutting the social safety net, and the president is reportedly receptive to the idea.  —  When Donald Trump was running for president …
Steven Hsieh / Phoenix New Times:
Mesa College English Professor Showed QAnon Video in Class, Students Say … An English professor at Mesa Community College kicked off the fall semester by showing his classes a YouTube video spreading a far-right conspiracy theory, according to four students.
Discussion: Splinter
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Speak up, April Ryan.  Speak up, CNN.  —  Ever since she joined CNN in 2017, April Ryan has distinguished herself as a vociferous and resilient advocate for press freedom.  After the White House stripped CNN's Jim Acosta of his credentials, for example, she responded in grand terms …
Discussion: Mediaite and NB Blog
Susan Davis / NPR:
Meltdown On Main Street: Inside The Breakdown Of The GOP's Moderate Wing  —  Three weeks after Democrats took control of the U.S. House in the 2018 midterm elections, about 40 reelected and recently defeated lawmakers in the centrist Republican Main Street Caucus gathered at the Capitol Hill Club to sift through the electoral wreckage.
Discussion: Politico
John Solomon / The Hill:
The road not taken: Another FBI failure involving the Clintons surfaces  —  August in Washington can be the political equivalent of an elephant graveyard: One good rain can wash away the dirt and expose the bones of scandals past.  —  And this August did not disappoint.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Liel Leibovitz / Tablet Magazine:
Ignore It at Your Peril  —  Earlier this week, my colleague, the wise and empathetic Carly Pildis, wrote a thoughtful and powerful piece about the political future of American Jews.  In it, she argues that the Democratic Party, notwithstanding a handful of problematic and relatively …
Discussion: Elder Of Ziyon
Polls:
Potential Impeachment Impact On 2020  —  Democrats want inquiry despite little likelihood of ousting Trump  —  West Long Branch, NJ - President Donald Trump's approval rating may remain underwater, but a majority of the public continues to oppose removal by impeachment even as the House Judiciary Committee has started proceedings.
Discussion: Hot Air, The Hill, Bloomberg and Fox News
CNN:
Trump court pick denounced feminists, gay-rights groups and diversity efforts in 1990s, 2000s editorials  —  (CNN)A White House aide nominated by President Donald Trump for a federal appeals court seat has a history of denouncing women's marches against sexual assault, dismissing education …
Discussion: Breitbart
Associated Press:
Making a case to women: Trump female defenders go on offense  —  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Trump campaign has a message for its female supporters: It's time to come out of hiding.  —  “There's a lot of people that are fearful of expressing their support, and I want you ladies to know it's OK …
Discussion: National Review
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's tendency to double down on bad ideas doesn't bode well for the economy  —  There are lots of reasons to worry about how President Trump would handle a recession, should we tip into one.  There's his incompetent economic team.  Or the limited fiscal policy tools at his disposal …
Discussion: Reason
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Electoral College Members Can Defy Voters' Wishes, Court Rules  —  In a ruling that kicks at the foundation of how America chooses presidents, a federal appeals court on Tuesday said members of the Electoral College, who cast the actual votes for president, may choose whomever they please regardless of a state's popular vote.
Discussion: CNN
Jay Lowder / Washington Post:
I'm an evangelist and a Trump voter.  But Trump as the ‘second coming of God’ is blasphemous.  —  Since President Trump's election, many in the evangelical community have lauded him, grateful for his work to protect and propel some of the Christian values we hold so dear.
Libby Emmons / The Post Millennial:
Why does our culture want us to stop having babies?  —  The National Post asks “Is it immoral to have babies in the era of climate change,” and the question itself reveals the problem.  If we believe our own continuance on the planet to be a moral negative, if we believe the rock upon …
Meghan Morris / Business Insider:
We found Jeffrey Epstein's social-media accounts.  On Spotify, his tastes ranged from Louis C.K. to songs like ‘Before You Accuse Me’ and ‘Hot for Teacher.’  — Business Insider found the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's public accounts on social media and music-streaming services, including Pinterest, Twitter, and Spotify.
Discussion: Boing Boing
 
 
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New York Daily News:
Di Fara Pizza reopened after state seizure over unpaid taxes
CNN:
Ivanka and Jared publicly missing in action again amid Trump's ‘disloyal’ claim
Congressman Don Beyer:
House Democrats Demand Answers On Trump Administration's Attempts To Weaken Action On White Supremacist Extremism
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook Said It Would Give Detailed Data To Academics. They're Still Waiting.
Christine Brennan / USA Today:
Keep 2020 Olympians away from Trump until after the election
Discussion: NB Blog and Breitbart
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Former Manafort deputy Rick Gates testifies against Greg Craig
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
 Earlier Items: 
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
70 Mayors Reject Trump Food Stamp Proposal, Saying It Puts Kids At Risk
The Babylon Bee:
Reality Criticized For Not More Clearly Distinguishing Itself From Satire
Reuters:
Facing farmer anger, Trump scrambles Cabinet to brainstorm on biofuel policy: sources
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
Trump Has Returned 35,000 Asylum-Seekers To Mexico. Now The Country Is Pushing Back.
Taylor Dolven / Miami Herald:
Ex-Trump Doral golf members may wait the rest of their lives for refunds from the president
Discussion: Splinter
Washington Post:
'It's going to be tough': House Democrats appear less likely to get Trump's tax returns before 2020 election