memeorandum: Climate Mayors commit to adopt, honor and uphold Paris Climate Agreement goals (Climate Mayors/Medium)

7:15 PM ET, June 1, 2017

Top Items:

Michael D. Shear / New York Times:

Trump Will Withdraw U.S. From Paris Climate Agreement — WASHINGTON — President Trump announced Thursday that he will withdraw the United States from participation in the Paris climate accord, weakening global efforts to combat climate change and siding with conservatives who argued …

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:

Trump announces U.S. will exit Paris climate deal — President Trump announced Thursday afternoon that he is withdrawing the United States from the landmark Paris climate agreement, a move that honors a campaign promise but risks rupturing global alliances and disappointing both environmentalists and corporate titans.

Discussion: ABC News, Politico, Power Line, Axios, Mashable and Washington Free Beacon

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

Everything Conservatives Said About the Paris Climate Agreement Is Already Wrong — The Trump administration's reportedly forthcoming decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement will not end the global effort to limit the effects of climate change. In the immediate time frame …

Discussion: Vox, Financial Times, CNN and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Climate Mayors / Medium:

Climate Mayors commit to adopt, honor and uphold Paris Climate Agreement goals — STATEMENT FROM THE CLIMATE MAYORS IN RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP'S WITHDRAWAL FROM THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT — The President's denial of global warming is getting a cold reception from America's cities.

Discussion: Business Insider, Engadget, CBS New York, CBS Miami and Fast Company

CNN:

Trump on Paris accord: 'We're getting out' — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord Thursday, a major step that fulfills a campaign promise while seriously dampening global efforts to curb global warming.

Josh Dawsey / Politico:
How Bannon and Pruitt boxed in Trump on climate pact

Rebecca Leber / Mother Jones:
Trump Has No Idea What He Just Did or the Backlash That Awaits

Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Guardian, CNN, New York Magazine, Raw Story, Refinery29 and The Atlantic

Riley Beggin / ABC News:
Trump withdrawing US from Paris Climate Agreement but open to returning

Discussion: Politico, The Daily Caller and Associated Press

Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Trump Will Announce U.S. Withdrawal from Paris Accord

Discussion: Politico, The Daily Caller, IJR, Hot Air and Vox

Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
White House officials won't say if Trump believes in climate change

Discussion: Joe.My.God.

Ezra Klein / Vox: History will not judge 2016's ratio of email coverage to climate coverage kindly

Alissa Walker / Curbed:
61 mayors adopt Paris climate accord after U.S. pulls out

Discussion: The Hill, Vox, ABC News and Curbed NY - All

Philip Pullella / Reuters:
Vatican would see U.S. Paris deal exit as slap in face: official

Discussion: Raw Story, AOL and Gizmodo

Washington Post:
Transcript: President Trump's remarks on leaving the Paris climate deal, annotated

Discussion: Motherboard and Washington Free Beacon

Brian Resnick / Vox:
Trump is pulling the US out of the Paris climate agreement. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Discussion: Washington Post, Mother Jones, New York Times, USA TODAY College, USA Today, Compass, The Guardian and The Atlantic

New York Times:
The U.S. Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History. Will It Walk Away From the Paris Climate Deal?

Discussion: The Atlantic, The Guardian and Business Insider

Aaron Blake / Washington Post:

Ex-DNC aide hits back hard at Clinton, says her campaign ignored data on Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin — Hillary Clinton has found plenty of non-Hillary Clinton things to blame for her 2016 loss, including Russia, James B. Comey, debate moderators and misogyny.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, The Hill, TheBlaze and Fast Company

Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times: Has the Democratic Party Gotten Too Rich for Its Own Good?

Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Clinton's misplaced criticism of the DNC as a cause of her defeat

Discussion: Epolitics.com and The Daily Caller

Chris Cillizza / CNN:
In election blame game, it's time for Hillary Clinton to take her share

Discussion: Esquire, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Shakesville, Recode, IJR, Outside the Beltway, Betsy's Page, Vox, Joe.My.God. and The Week

Jay Caruso / RedState:
Former DNC Data Chief Slams Hillary Clinton: You're Not Throwing Me Under the Bus

Discussion: Hot Air, Conservative News Today, Heat Street, Liberal Values, twitchy.com, Scared Monkeys, IJR, The Daily Caller and Daily Wire

Holly Yan / CNN:

Resorts World Manila: Explosions, gunfire reported in Philippines — (CNN)The popular Filipino tourist site Resorts World Manila is on lockdown after reports of gunfire and explosions. — A masked gunman was on the second floor of one hotel, firing at guests, hotel employees fleeing the scene told CNN Philippines.

Discussion: Reuters, New York Daily News, Telegraph, The Guardian, New York Magazine, France 24, CBS Miami, RT, Sputnik International, CBS San Francisco, The Gateway Pundit, CBS New York and The Daily Caller

Maryse Godden / The Sun:
HOTEL UNDER ATTACK Manila hotel shooting sees ‘ISIS’ …

Discussion: The Jawa Report, TheBlaze, Hot Air and The Right Scoop

Fox News:
Resorts World Manila in Philippines on ‘lockdown’ over reports of gunfire, hotel says

Discussion: The Guardian, Breaking Christian News Source, New York Times, Bearing Arms, Conservative News Today and twitchy.com

The Guardian:

Nigel Farage is ‘person of interest’ in FBI investigation into Trump and Russia — Exclusive: FBI interested in former Ukip leader's ties with people connected to US president and WikiLeaks' Julian Assange … Nigel Farage is a “person of interest” in the US counter-intelligence investigation …

Andrew Higgins / New York Times:

Putin Hints at U.S. Election Meddling by ‘Patriotically Minded’ Russians — MOSCOW — Shifting from his previous blanket denials, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Thursday that “patriotically minded” private Russian hackers could have been involved in cyberattacks last year …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Hullabaloo, Althouse, Boing Boing, Hot Air, RedState, Daily Kos, Business Insider, Mediaite, Political Wire, The Week, Balloon Juice, Fast Company and nucleardiner.wordpress.com, more at Techmeme »

CNN:

First on CNN: Senators asked Comey to investigate AG Jeff Sessions for possible perjury — CNN previously reported congressional investigators are seeking information on whether there were any encounters between now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Russia's ambassador at a Trump campaign event

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, Common Dreams and Boing Boing

Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Did Trump, Kushner, Sessions Have An Undisclosed Meeting With Russian?

Discussion: Daily Kos, Raw Story, Politicus USA and CNN

New York Times:

White House Waivers May Have Violated Ethics Rules — The Trump administration may have skirted federal ethics rules by retroactively granting a blanket exemption that allows Stephen K. Bannon, the senior White House strategist, to communicate with editors at Breitbart News, where he was recently an executive.

Discussion: Raw Story, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine, Mediaite and The Week, more at Mediagazer »

Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Trump Exempts Entire Senior Staff From White House Ethics Rules

Discussion: Vox, Talking Points Memo, Common Dreams, The Resurgent, NPR, Reuters, Washington Post, Sunlight Foundation and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »

Hadas Gold / Politico:
White House eyes Bannon ally for top broadcasting post

more at Mediagazer »

Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:

A Pro-Trump Writer Just Sued A Fusion Reporter For Accusing Her Of Making A “White Supremacist” Gesture — A pro-Trump journalist and political activist sued a Fusion reporter in federal court in Washington, D.C. Thursday, the most serious action yet in the emerging conflict between mainstream news outlets …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, more at Mediagazer »

Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:

White House Sources: Reince Priebus's Departure is Imminent — I think many conservatives have failed to appreciate having a committed Christian in the White House Chief of Staff's Office. Reince Priebus was unappreciated as Chairman of the RNC by many on the right and often blamed for things not in his control.

Discussion: RedState, The Right Scoop, Daily Wire, Power Line and Hot Air

John Fritze / Baltimore Sun:

Lawsuit forces Maryland Democrats to acknowledge the obvious: Redistricting was motivated by politics — Gov. Martin O'Malley has acknowledged Maryland Democrats drew the state's convoluted congressional districts with an eye toward ousting a longtime Republican incumbent.

Discussion: Hot Air and The Daily Caller

Eliza Newlin Carney / American Prospect: The Maps That Kill Competition

Washington Post:

Explanations for Kushner's meeting with head of Kremlin-linked bank don't match up — ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — The White House and a Russian state-owned bank have very different explanations for why the bank's chief executive and Jared Kushner held a secret meeting during the presidential transition in December.

Discussion: Business Insider and Spiked

Doyle Rice / USA Today:

Massive crack in Antarctica ice shelf grows 11 miles in only 6 days — A massive crack in an Antarctic ice shelf grew by 11 miles in the past six days as one of the world's biggest icebergs ever is poised to break off. — Only eight miles remain until the crack in the Larsen C ice shelf cuts …

Discussion: Daily Kos, Gizmodo and Washington Post

Kyle Smith / National Review:

At the New York Times, a Public Execution — The paper fires its public editor for resisting the Resistance. — emocracy dies in darkness," declares the Washington Post, in a line that Dean Baquet, editor of the rival New York Times said, not inaccurately, “sounds like the next Batman movie.

Discussion: Instapundit

Zach Seemayer / Entertainment Tonight:

EXCLUSIVE: Jim Carrey on Kathy Griffin Controversy: Comedians Are ‘Last Line of Defense’ Against Trump — Jim Carrey has some very strong opinions about whether comedians should speak up about American politics — and he's sharing a provocative “dream” he had about President Trump with ET.

Discussion: People.com, IJR, The Guardian, Mediaite, Full Feed, TMZ.com, The Daily Caller and AOL

Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:

After Putin Visit, Tillerson Snubbed Top EU Official — Another day, another diplomatic blunder as U.S.-EU relations take a turn for the worse under Trump. — Trans-Atlantic relations hit new lows after President Donald Trump's gaffe-filled visit to Europe last week.

Discussion: Raw Story, Vox and Brookings Institution