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4:20 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 …
Yair Rosenberg / Tablet Magazine:
How A Media Outlet Turned a Trump Appointee Who Mocked Alt-Right Anti-Semites Into an Anti-Semite  —  On August 12, conservative lawyer Leif Olson began work in the Trump administration's Department of Labor.  On August 30, he resigned.  Today, Bloomberg Law published the reporting that prompted …
Sam Janney / twitchy.com:   ‘TERRIBLY unfair’: Jonathan Chait takes Ben Penn's story that made Leif Olson ‘resign’ APART in surprising thread
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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Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill:
Boris Johnson loses parliamentary majority in UK
BBC:
LIVEBrexit: Government loses Commons majority ahead of key vote
Discussion: Axios and BBC
Ned Simons / HuffPost:   Boris Johnson's Party Loses Parliamentary Majority As MP Defects Right In Front Of Him
Danica Kirka / Associated Press:   UK's Johnson weakened by party defections over Brexit
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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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Mike Pence Is Lining Trump's Pockets With Taxpayer Dollars  —  President Trump had a suggestion for Mike Pence: Rather than stay in Dublin during his meetings there with European officials, why not bring his entire family and security entourage to the Trump International Golf Club in Doonbeg, on the other side of the country?
Discussion: Vanity Fair, Raw Story and The Week
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The wild corruption of Trump's golf courses deserves more scrutiny  —  Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images  —  Mike Pence is staying three hours outside of Dublin so Trump can make money.  —  President Donald Trump canceled a planned state visit to Poland on Thursday …
Discussion: Raw Story and VICE
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: BizPac Review, Daily Wire and Jezebel
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
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.
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.
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.
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 …
Kelly Jane Torrance / Washington Examiner:
‘Catastrophic decisions’: Mattis savages Obama for ‘failure’ in foreign policy  —  Though former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis only mentions his last boss, President Trump, in the opening pages of his new book, the Washington establishment seems certain the tome on leadership is directed at him …
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Leo Shane III / Military Times:   In new book, Mattis takes shots at the president (but not that one)
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's favorite rage-attack on Democrats is facing a big test  —  There may be only one thing that gets President Trump angrier than accusations that he's a racist: the suggestion that he's failing.  Put those claims together, and Trump will explode in fury.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump's attacks on the news media are accelerating. You can expect three results.
Discussion: twitchy.com
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.
Discussion: Washington Post
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
Alicia Parlapiano / New York Times:
Why More Dogs and Cats Are Making It Out of Shelters Alive  —  A cultural transformation: Spaying and neutering are now the norm, and rescue adoption is growing in popularity.  —  DALLAS — When a lost, stray or abandoned pet entered an American city's animal shelter 10 years ago, there was a good chance it would not leave.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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 …
David Karpf / Esquire:
Bret Stephens Compared Me to a Nazi Propagandist in the New York Times.  It Proved My Point.  —  columnist Bret Stephens went searching for an online insult last Monday night.  He found a  —  Twitter joke I wrote  —  , calling him a metaphorical bedbug as a riff on the  —  actual bedbugs reported in the
Discussion: Jezebel, Techdirt, Washington Post and Salon
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Democrats' messy impeachment push hits critical phase  —  House Democrats return to Capitol Hill next week with an impeachment mess on their hands and just weeks to make a choice that could define the rest of Donald Trump's presidency.  —  Lawmakers faced frequently contentious town halls during …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump congratulates Poland on its Nazi invasion anniversary  —  And he still doesn't seem to know what FARC is.  —  President Trump is known to make the odd comment here and there about foreign nations, often because he doesn't seem particularly versed in what's happening in them.
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 …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Noreen Malone / The Cut:
The Five Millennials (Actually) Changing the World  —  So here we are, a generation munching on the last greens of its salad days, saddled with dull, decade-old complaints about our coddledness, our entitlement, our selfies, our political correctness — most blah-blah-blah of all, by the boring cliché of our avocado toast.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
The Gospel According to Marianne Williamson  —  Do spirituality and self-help have a political constituency?  —  The first problem with Marianne Williamson is what do you call her.  The other candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination lead with their impressive elected titles: “Governor,” “Senator,” “Mayor.”
Discussion: The Week and The Daily Caller
Pat Eaton-robb / Associated Press:
Former Navy SEAL enters Yale as a 52-year-old freshman  —  NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Former Navy SEAL James Hatch says heading to class as a freshman at Yale University is just about as nerve-wracking as preparing for the uncertainty of combat.  —  At 52 years old, Hatch does not fit the profile of the traditional Yale freshman.
Bloomberg:
America's Chicken Industry Accused of Conspiring to Keep Immigrant Wages Down  — Officials meet at Florida hotel to share data, case claims  — Filing follows price-fixing complaint that spurred U.S. probe  —  Companies producing more than 90% of America's chicken have conspired …
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 …
 
 
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