memeorandum: Caught in a political echo chamber? Listening to the opposition can make partisanship even worse (Karen Kaplan/Los Angeles Times)

11:05 AM ET, September 2, 2018

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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:

John McCain's Funeral Was the Biggest Resistance Meeting Yet — Two ex-Presidents and one eloquent daughter team up to rebuke the pointedly uninvited Donald Trump. — Donald Trump's name was never mentioned. It didn't have to be. The funeral service for John Sidney McCain III …

Discussion: Power Line and Hullabaloo

Annie Karni / Politico:

Trump allies fume at McCain memorial addresses, urge counterattack — President Donald Trump's allies went on the counterattack Saturday after tributes to the late Sen. John McCain took pointed aim at the president. — As Washington mourned McCain, Trump's people grew angry.

Discussion: Raw Story, ABC News, Breitbart, Axios and Vox

Mike Allen / Axios:

D.C. dreams of saner times — Amid the Trump-shaming at the emotional Washington National Cathedral sendoff for Sen. John McCain, the televised eulogies and private conversations reflected a broader dream that the United States is still capable of a saner politics.

Discussion: Politico

Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Trump fans accuse grieving Meghan McCain of being ‘trashy’ for ‘America was always great’ eulogy comment

Discussion: LifeZette, The Gateway Pundit and Sputnik International

Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
John McCain's Funeral Was a Council of War—Just as He Meant It to Be

Discussion: CNN, Hullabaloo, Daily Wire and Townhall

Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Washington Mourned John McCain. President Trump Went Golfing.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, HuffPost, The Daily Beast, Washington Post and Refinery29

Washington Post: McCain's funeral was a melancholy last hurrah for what's been lost in Trump era

Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
McCain tributes echo with criticism of Trump

Discussion: Chicago Sun-Times

Peter Baker / New York Times:
Two Presidents Offer a Tribute to McCain, and a Contrast to Trump

Discussion: USA Today, CANNONFIRE, The Moderate Voice, Outside the Beltway and Vox

Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
WATCH: Obama, Bush, Meghan McCain Swipe at Trump During John McCain Funeral Service

Discussion: IJR and Breitbart

Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:

Ethnicity not a factor in Elizabeth Warren's rise in law — CAMBRIDGE — The 60-plus Harvard Law School professors who filed into an auditorium-style room on the first floor of Pound Hall on that February 1993 afternoon had a significant question to answer: Should they offer a job to Elizabeth Warren?

Rob Tibbetts / Des Moines Register:

From Mollie Tibbetts' father: Don't distort her death to advance racist views — Mollie was nobody's victim. Nor is she a pawn in others' debate — CONNECT — Ten days ago, we learned that Mollie would not be coming home. Shattered, my family set out to celebrate Mollie's extraordinary life …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, CNN, HuffPost, The Week, ImmigrationProf Blog, POLITICUSUSA, Mediaite and New York Post

Associated Press:

Kansas high court rules grand jury must be convened to investigate Kris Kobach … A grand jury must be convened to investigate whether Republican gubernatorial candidate and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach intentionally failed to register voters in 2016, the Kansas Supreme Court has ruled.

Peter Hancock / The Lawrence Journal-World:
Kansas Supreme Court agrees Douglas County must summon grand jury to investigate Kobach

Discussion: Law & Crime, POLITICUSUSA and Talking Points Memo

Anna Sanders / New York Post:

AMI employees donated thousands of dollars to Cuomo campaigns … National Enquirer boss David Pecker isn't just Donald Trump's longtime pal and campaign confidant — he's quietly lavished tens of thousands of dollars on Gov. Cuomo. — Pecker's American Media Inc., company executives …

Karen Kaplan / Los Angeles Times:

Caught in a political echo chamber? Listening to the opposition can make partisanship even worse — Dwelling in a political echo chamber — where you only encounter people who agree with you — is hardly conducive to a healthy democracy. — But it turns out that broadening your horizons …

New York Post:

Suspected MS-13 member broke into sleeping girl's bedroom, raped her: cops — A purported member of the MS-13 gang broke into the bedroom of a sleeping 11-year-old Brooklyn girl and raped her in her bed, cops said Saturday as the suspect was taken into custody.

Martin Cizmar / Raw Story:

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro brutally shames Jeff Sessions for refusing to quit: 'Where is your dignity? You're not wanted' — Fox News host Jeanine Pirro delivered a rant addressed to Jeff Sessions to open her show on Saturday night. — In her customary format of addressing herself directly …

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA

Steven Kurutz / New York Times:

How to Retire in Your 30s With $1 Million in the Bank — Fed up with their high-pressure jobs, some millennials are quitting and embracing the FIRE movement. (It stands for financial independence, retire early). — Carl Jensen experienced what he calls “the awakening” sometime around 2012.

Discussion: Althouse

Theresa May / Telegraph:

There will be no second referendum on Brexit - it would be a gross betrayal of our democracy — Follow the author of this article Follow the topics within this article … The coming months will be critical in shaping the future of our country and I am clear about my mission.

Discussion: The Guardian, France 24 and Politico

Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:

White House Cites Executive Privilege to Withhold 100,000 Pages of Kavanaugh Records — WASHINGTON — The Trump White House, citing executive privilege, is withholding from the Senate more than 100,000 pages of records from Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh's time as a lawyer in the administration of former President George W. Bush.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Gateway Pundit, The Week and CNN

Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Kavanaugh's Kozinski Test

Discussion: Balkinization and Washington Post

New York Times:

A Complex Web: The F.B.I., Russian Oligarchs, Bruce Ohr and the Trump Campaign — WASHINGTON — In the estimation of American officials, Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with close ties to the Kremlin, has faced credible accusations of extortion, bribery and even murder.

Discussion: CNN, The Gateway Pundit, The Last Refuge, Booman Tribune and Raw Story

Wall Street Journal:
Anatomy of a Fusion Smear

Discussion: Power Line and The Last Refuge

John Bowden / The Hill:

DeSantis: Gillum wants to turn Florida ‘into Venezuela’ — is going after his Florida Democratic gubernatorial rival Andrew Gillum as the GOP congressman seeks to move on from controversy surrounding a racially-charged remark made last week. — DeSantis told host John Catsimatidis …

Discussion: Political Wire