memeorandum: Boris Johnson resigns as foreign secretary (Heather Stewart/The Guardian)

11:25 AM ET, July 9, 2018

Top Items:

‘Viciousness’: Trump aides endure public fury toward president's policies — Just after arriving in Washington to work for President Trump, Kellyanne Conway found herself in a downtown supermarket, where a man rushing by with his shopping cart sneered, “You ought to be ashamed of yourself!

Discussion: CNN, Townhall, Talking Points Memo, Joe.My.God., Eater, Fox News, Daily Wire, The Gateway Pundit, IJR, CBS Los Angeles, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, AOL, Splinter, Washington Times, RT, Instapundit and The Hill

BBC:

Boris Johnson quits to add to pressure on May over Brexit — Boris Johnson has resigned as Foreign Secretary amid a growing political crisis over the UK's Brexit strategy. — He is the second senior cabinet minister to quit within hours following Brexit Secretary David Davis's exit.

Discussion: The Right Scoop, The Gateway Pundit and BloombergQuint

Heather Stewart / The Guardian:

Boris Johnson resigns as foreign secretary — Senior Conservative becomes third minister to walk out over Theresa May's Brexit plan — Boris Johnson has resigned as foreign secretary, becoming the third minister in 24 hours to walk out of the government rather than back Theresa May's plans for a soft Brexit.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Bustle, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Joe.My.God.

Politico: Boris Johnson resigns, escalating London conflict over Brexit

New York Times:
Boris Johnson, U.K. Foreign Secretary, Resigns Over Brexit Discord

Discussion: Political Wire and Reuters

Politico:
David Davis resigns as UK's Brexit secretary

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Sky News, One America News Network and Telegraph

BBC:
Brexit Secretary David Davis resigns

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Telegraph, NPR, Bloomberg and Al Jazeera English

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler? — On June 14, 2016, the Washington Post reported that Russian hackers had broken into the Democratic National Committee's files and gained access to its research on Donald Trump. A political world already numbed by Trump's astonishing rise barely took notice.

Discussion: twitchy.com, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Raw Story

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:

Sasse tempts Trump's wrath by refusing to bow — The Republican senator and persistent Trump critic stokes speculation about his intentions with a soon-to-publish book and new nonprofit. — Ben Sasse has so far been spared the public floggings that Donald Trump inflicted …

Alexandra Topping / The Guardian:

Donald Trump to face ‘carnival of resistance’ — Dozens of groups and thousands of individuals will try to make US president's visit uncomfortable — The organisers of anti-Donald Trump protests have promised a “carnival of resistance” that will begin as soon as the US president lands in the UK on Thursday.

The Independent: Trump supporters enraged by ‘angry baby’ balloon to fly over London during president's UK trip

Katie Kindelan / ABC News:

‘Self-induced abortion’ searches on Google reflect a dark reality for many women — The battle over abortion rights may be at a turning point. — President Trump is expected today to announce his pick for the U.S. Supreme Court. — The new justice could potentially tip the court …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Dylan Scott / Vox:
John Roberts is the Supreme Court's new swing vote. Is he going to overturn Roe v. Wade?

Discussion: Politico

Paul Waldman / American Prospect:

The Liberal Backlash Is Coming — Demonstrators protest against the Trump administration's immigration policies on June 30, 2018, in New York. — Among the many privileges certain Americans enjoy—along with the presumption of competence and driving without being pulled over unless …

Matthew Dessem / Slate:

Michelle Wolf Gets Patriotic For a Red, White, and Blue Salute to Abortion — With the country more polarized than ever, it's been hard for Americans to find common ground this Fourth of July. As columnist Megan McArdle recently argued in the Washington Post, to find our way back, we'll need …

Discussion: NewsBusters, Hill Reporter, The Daily Beast and Althouse

Tamar Auber / Mediaite:
Michelle Wolf's 4th of July Week Salute: ‘God Bless Abortions and God Bless America’

Discussion: Daily Wire

Ben Schreckinger / Politico:

Beto-mania Sweeps Texas — Ted Cruz's long-shot challenger is drawing riotous crowds. Is it enough? — FORT WORTH, Texas — Beto O'Rourke is running to replace Ted Cruz. Literally. Sweat pours off his lean, 6' 4"-frame as the El Paso Democrat jogs along the southern bank …

Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:

The Secrets of Leonard Leo, the Man Behind Trump's Supreme Court Pick … When President Donald Trump nominates a justice to the Supreme Court on Monday night, he will be carrying out the agenda of a small, secretive network of extremely conservative Catholic activists already responsible …

Discussion: New Republic

Karol Markowicz / New York Post:

San Francisco's crisis looks like New York's future — “A major medical association is pulling its annual convention out of the city — saying its members no longer feel safe,” reports the San Francisco Chronicle. It's a loss of approximately $40 million dollars for the city and a warning …

Discussion: Breitbart and Instapundit

Rachel Frazin / The Daily Beast:

Journalist Held by ICE Speaks: ‘Without a Doubt’ I Was Targeted for My Work … What started out as a “just another day” in Memphis-based journalist Manuel Duran's life ended in his arrest by local police and transfer to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. — The arrest, Duran claims …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Shakesville and Raw Story

Washington Post:

Myanmar judge charges two Reuters journalists with violating colonial-era secrets act — MAE SAI, Thailand — A Myanmar judge on Monday charged two Reuters journalists with violating the country's colonial-era secrets act over their coverage of the Rohingya crisis.

Richard Fausset / New York Times:

Scott Pruitt, Fallen E.P.A. Chief, May Rise Again in Oklahoma — BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — Scott Pruitt's brief, tumultuous tenure as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency has left him disgraced in the eyes of many in Washington and across the country. But it may not have done him much harm in his home state.

Discussion: Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Politico and Mother Jones

Mark Moore / New York Post:

De Blasio spends weekend at Bernie Sanders' summer home — Well at least it didn't involve a dead guy. — Mayor de Blasio, his wife, Chirlane, and their two kids spent a couple of days at Sen. Bernie Sanders' summer home on Lake Champlain in Vermont. — Photos show the progressive pols …

Discussion: Front Page Magazine

David Byler / Weekly Standard:

We Got Polling Data on 3,000 Trump Tweets. Here's What We Found. — Nearly every news cycle in the Trump Era contains at least one predictable part—the Trump Tweet. Whether the news cycle is about a policy debate, a political scandal, a cultural fight between Trump and a celebrity …

Bloomberg:

Trump Making Supreme Court Pick to Cement Conservative Majority — Prime-time event to announce president's ‘exceptional’ choice — Hardiman said to be in play after Kavanaugh had inside track — Donald Trump is poised to continue his remake of the U.S. Supreme Court …

Discussion: BloombergQuint

Aileen Graef / CNN:

Giuliani seems to say Trump asked Comey to give Michael Flynn ‘a break’ — (CNN)Rudy Giuliani seemed to confirm on ABC's “This Week” Sunday that President Donald Trump actually did ask former FBI Director James Comey to drop the probe into ex-White House national security adviser Michael …

Discussion: Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, MSNBC and Raw Story

Joshua Green / Bloomberg:

The Progressive Populist Who Wants to Help Democrats Win Back the Rust Belt — In early May, Richard Cordray was wrapping up a two-day campaign sprint during which he spoke to crowds of plumbers, pipefitters, ironworkers, teachers, firefighters, furniture workers, and now …

Evan Kraft / The Hill:

People returning to labor force in droves — a key step for the economy — The latest jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics paints a decidedly positive picture of the U.S. labor market. — Nine years after the end of the Great Recession, the U.S. economy has achieved …

Discussion: Instapundit

Danielle Wiener-Bronner / CNNMoney:

Starbucks is eliminating plastic straws from all stores — Starbucks is going strawless. — The coffee company announced Monday that it will phase out plastic straws from all of its stores by 2020. — The changes will help Starbucks (SBUX) eliminate more than 1 billion plastic straws per year, the company said.

Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:

Dem congressman reveals ‘rogue’ Devin Nunes has refused to even speak to the House Intelligence Committee for months — Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is demanding that special counselor Robert Mueller release all of his information to the House Intelligence Committee, but according to one colleague he's …

Selcan Hacaoglu / BloombergQuint:

Turkey to Be Transformed as Erdogan Sworn in With Vastly Expanded Powers — (Bloomberg) — Recep Tayyip Erdogan will cap his years-long drive to transform Turkey's government on Monday as he's sworn in as an executive president with vastly expanded powers. — Erdogan, modern Turkey's …

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

A journalist's conscience leads her to reveal her source to the FBI. Here's why. — It's pretty much an inviolable rule of journalism: Protect your sources. — Reporters have gone to jail to keep that covenant. — But Marcy Wheeler, who writes a well-regarded national security blog …

Discussion: Hullabaloo and NewsWars, more at Mediagazer »