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8:05 PM ET, September 3, 2019

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Bloomberg Law:
Trump Labor Aide Quits After Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts Surface  —  A recently appointed Trump Labor Department official with a history of advancing controversial conservative and faith-based causes in court has resigned after revelations that he wrote a 2016 Facebook post suggesting the Jewish-controlled media “protects their own.”
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Shameful: Trump Labor appointee forced to resign after Bloomberg portrays sarcastic Facebook post as anti-Semitic  —  In one of the most shameful, egregious, media failures of the year, a Trump appointee to the Department of Labor was forced to resign after a Bloomberg reporter started asking officials …
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
How mocking anti-Semitism got a Trump official falsely accused of actual anti-Semitism
BBC:
Brexit: Tory MP defects ahead of crucial no deal vote  —  Conservative MP Phillip Lee has defected to the Liberal Democrats ahead of a showdown between Boris Johnson and Tory rebels over Brexit.  —  Dr Lee, the MP for Bracknell, took his seat on the opposition benches as the PM addressed the Commons.
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BBC:
LIVEBrexit: Government loses Commons majority ahead of key vote  —  Read our main story Tory MP defects ahead of crucial no-deal vote |  Who are Tory rebels set to defy Boris Johnson?  Leo Varadkar says Ireland must stand its ground |  Could there be an early general election?  Can a no-deal Brexit be stopped?
Discussion: The Guardian, ABC News, Axios and BBC
Stephen Castle / New York Times:
Brexit Vote Goes Against Boris Johnson, and He Calls for an Election  —  LONDON — British lawmakers on Tuesday rose up against Prime Minister Boris Johnson, moving to prevent him from taking the country out of the European Union without a formal agreement.  The epic showdown has Britain on the verge of a snap general election.
Discussion: Hot Air, Political Wire, Slate and The Week
Washington Post:
Britain may face snap elections after Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffers major loss in Parliament
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:   Britain is on the verge of a constitutional crisis
Ned Simons / HuffPost:   Boris Johnson's Party Loses Parliamentary Majority As MP Defects Right In Front Of Him
Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill:
Boris Johnson loses parliamentary majority in UK
Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN:
Walmart ends all handgun ammunition sales and asks customers not to carry guns into stores  —  New York (CNN Business)Walmart on Tuesday announced it will reduce its gun and ammunition sales, one month after more than 20 people were killed in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
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Walmart Inc.:
McMillon to Associates: Our Next Steps in Response to the Tragedies in El Paso and Southaven
Hayley Peterson / Business Insider:
Walmart will bar shoppers from openly carrying guns in its stores and stop selling some ammunition …
Discussion: Jezebel, Daily Wire and BizPac Review
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump made ‘suggestion’ Pence stay at president's Irish golf club, VP's chief of staff says  —  “I don't think it was a request, like a command,” Pence's chief of staff Marc Short told reporters Tuesday.  “I think that it was a suggestion.”  —  President Donald Trump suggested …
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CNN:
Elizabeth Warren embraces Jay Inslee's climate change platform  —  Warren to audience member: You may want to sit for this  —  (CNN)Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday announced she would adopt Washington Gov. Jay Inslee's 10-year climate plan, while also expanding on his blueprint with a series …
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Gavin Bade / Politico:   How Julián Castro would address climate change
Associated Press:
Conversion therapy crusader has something to say: He's gay  —  “Conversion therapy is not just a lie, but it's very harmful,” said McKrae Game, a South Carolinian who founded one of the nation's biggest ex-gay ministries.  —  SPARTANBURG, S.C. - A South Carolina man who founded …
Washington Post:
North Carolina court rules partisan state legislative districts unconstitutional  —  A North Carolina court ruled Tuesday that the state's legislative districts are unconstitutional, in a unanimous decision that won praise from voting-rights advocates and opens a new front in the national battle over partisan gerrymanders.
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Sam Levine / HuffPost:   North Carolina Court Says The State's Districts Are Illegal Partisan Gerrymanders
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's favorite rage-attack on Democrats is facing a big test
Discussion: The Hill
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Trump administration prepares to raid military projects for border wall  —  The Trump administration is executing its plan this week to suck $3.6 billion from military construction projects to build the border wall, calling lawmakers whose districts will take a hit, according to multiple House aides.
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Paul Sonne / Washington Post:
Pentagon approves diversion of military construction funds for Trump's wall  —  Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper agreed on Tuesday to free up $3.6 billion from the Pentagon budget for President Trump's border wall by effectively defunding 127 military construction projects using emergency authorities.
Associated Press:
AP source: Texas shooter purchased AK rifle at private sale  —  ODESSA, Texas (AP) — The gunman in a West Texas rampage that left seven dead obtained his AR-style rifle through a private sale, allowing him to evade a federal background check that previously blocked him from getting a gun …
Will Doran / Raleigh News & Observer:
Judges strike down NC state legislature lines as unconstitutional gerrymandering  —  North Carolina's political maps for the state legislature are unconstitutional and must be redrawn before the 2020 elections, lawyers for the winning side said Tuesday.  —  The ruling hasn't been posted online yet …
Reade Pickert / Bloomberg:
U.S. Manufacturing Contracts for First Time in Three Years  —  U.S. factory activity unexpectedly contracted in August for the first time in three years as shrinking orders, production and hiring pushed a widely followed measure of manufacturing to its lowest level since January 2016.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump's Wacky, Angry, and Extreme August  —  President Trump ended August as he began it, with a blast of angry tweets, ad-hominem insults, and bizarre fulminations that have become so standard that they no longer receive the attention they deserve—emanating, as they do, from the world's most powerful leader.
Discussion: Raw Story
Justin Wise / The Hill:
McConnell: ‘Over-the-top’ Moscow Mitch nickname effort to ‘smear’ me  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday vehemently denounced political opponents who have dubbed him “Moscow Mitch,” calling the nickname an “over-the-top” effort to “smear” him.
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump's 2020 pitch: A powerless presidency  —  Analysis: The most powerful man in the world would like voters to know he is beset on all sides by sinister forces that deprive him of the authority he needs to deliver on his vision for America.  —  WASHINGTON — The most powerful man in the world prefers to portray himself as a martyr.
Brandon Conradis / The Hill:
Judge orders White House to restore Playboy reporter's press pass  —  A U.S. district judge on Tuesday ordered the White House to restore Playboy correspondent Brian Karem's press credentials after the administration said last month it was revoking his hard pass.
Ruth Graham / Slate:
The Disgraced Cardinal and the Small Town Where He Was Sent to Disappear  —  VICTORIA, Kansas—On a cloudy Sunday morning in August, Father John Schmeidler delivered a brisk homily at St. Fidelis Catholic Church on the virtue of trusting that God always has a plan.
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
New Yorker Fact-Checkers Win Employee Status After Union Push  — Condé Nast says it regularly reviews contingent worker roles  — Magazine's editorial workers unionized with NewsGuild in 2018  —  Condé Nast's New Yorker magazine will hire its subcontracted fact-checkers …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump allies raise money to target reporters  —  President Trump's political allies are trying to raise at least $2 million to investigate reporters and editors of The New York Times, The Washington Post and other outlets, according to a three-page fundraising pitch reviewed by Axios.
Justin Wingerter / Denver Post:
Mike Johnston ends his U.S. Senate campaign against Cory Gardner  —  U.S. Senate candidate Mike Johnston said Tuesday he is suspending his campaign.  —  Johnston, a 44-year-old former state senator, led the crowded Democratic field this year in fundraising and was a top-tier candidate in the polls.
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Book: Kavanaugh accuser's attack ‘motivated’ by defending Roe v. Wade  —  Christine Blasey Ford and her feminist attorney were “motivated” in their attack on then-federal judge Brett Kavanaugh by their passion to protect abortion rights, not just their “civic duty” to provide information …
Tom Scocca / Slate:
Governing by Owning the Libs  —  Fine: Donald Trump wanted to buy Greenland, or at least wanted to talk about wanting to buy Greenland.  Presidents are allowed to be silly and imperialist; taking over Greenland is mild stuff compared with, say, planting a flag on the moon.
Discussion: American Thinker
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Ilhan Omar feels the heat  —  Of all the scandals in which Ilhan Omar is enmeshed, one might think the Daily Mail's revelation this past July of her affair with political consultant Tim Mynett would be the least of them.  The news last week of Beth Mynett's divorce filing, however …
Clay Masters / NPR:
‘Details Are Irrelevant’: Biden Says Verbal Slip-Ups Don't Undermine His Judgment  —  Toggle more options  —  Joe Biden wants voters to look at the big picture.  —  His campaign is focused on a mission to “restore the soul of this nation.”  —  That's also why the former vice president does …
 
 
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Foreign Policy:
State Department Failed to Shield Its Diplomats From Political Reprisals, Officials Concede
The Daily Beast:
The Taliban Scoff at Trump's Afghan Peace Talks Bluff
Discussion: Axios and TOLOnews
Shamlet / RRH Elections:
RRH Elections NC-9 Poll: Bishop (R) Leads McCready (D) 46-45
Discussion: RedState
The Intercept:
Here's How Much the Democratic Party Charges to Be on Each House Committee
Axios:
Andrew Yang gets media cold shoulder
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump's attacks on the news media are accelerating. You can expect three results.
Discussion: twitchy.com and Raw Story
Thomas Franck / CNBC:
On days when President Trump tweets a lot, the stock market falls, investment bank finds
Discussion: New York Times, CANNONFIRE and Splinter
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Activists Call Upon U.S. Treasury Department to Probe Department Coziness With Fox Business Network
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Justin Amash was part of the conservative in-crowd.  Now he's trying to figure out who his real friends are.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Politico
Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
The Gospel According to Marianne Williamson
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week
Brian Feldman / New York Magazine:
'I've Never Seen a Cast of Characters That Willing to Kill Each Other': Mike Isaac on Chaos at Uber
Alicia Parlapiano / New York Times:
Why More Dogs and Cats Are Making It Out of Shelters Alive
Discussion: Daily Kos
Pat Eaton-robb / Associated Press:
Former Navy SEAL enters Yale as a 52-year-old freshman