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7:00 PM ET, May 13, 2019

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Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump's China grudge match may be spinning out of control  —  NEW YORK — Donald Trump the Dow Man and Donald Trump the Tariff Man found themselves back on a collision course Monday as U.S. markets tanked and fear of a full-scale trade war between the world's two largest economies reemerged with a vengeance.
Discussion: Fortune, Raw Story and Marketplace
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is staking reelection on one of his biggest lies  —  President Trump has spent the past 24 hours tweeting manically about trade, repeating the absurd falsehood that China is paying us billions in tariffs.  We keep hearing that this shows Trump “doesn't understand” how tariffs work.
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Trump Seeks New $15 Billion Subsidy To Protect Farmers From His Own Trade War  —  The president falsely claims that tariffs are paid “directly” to the U.S. Treasury by China and indicates these nonexistent Chinese funds will cover the subsidy cost.  —  President Donald Trump is seeking …
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
China to retaliate on $60B in U.S. goods, defying Trump's warning  —  China is set to fire the next salvo in the escalating trade conflict with the United States, announcing on Monday it will raise tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods at the start of next month.
Washington Post:
Trump's trade approach under attack as China readies retaliation; markets poised for big sell-off
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans Call Tlaib Anti-Semitic for Saying Something Nice About Israel  —  The Republican Party, which has a hair-trigger sensitivity to left-wing anti-Semitism as censorious as any social justice warrior, has whipped itself into its latest frenzy over comments by Representative Rashida Tlaib.
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David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Rashida Tlaib's Lies Remind Us Why Israel Must Exist
Discussion: Yahoo News and Washington Post
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News:
YouTube's Newest Far-Right, Foul-Mouthed, Red-Pilling Star Is A 14-Year-Old Girl  —  “Soph” has nearly a million followers on the giant video platform.  Its executives only have themselves to blame.  —  What does a 14-year-old girl dressed in a chador have to say on YouTube to amass more than 800,000 followers?
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Angry That the FBI Won't Endorse His Theory of Victimhood  —  On March 24, Attorney General William Barr released a summary of the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report that stressed positive news for President Donald Trump.  The redacted text of the report …
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
What's the Real Reason Trump Is Stonewalling Congress?  —  Maybe he wants to avoid more bad publicity.  Or maybe it's something worse.  —  If President Donald Trump thinks he's been totally exonerated, as he says, why is he stonewalling Congress?  Why wouldn't he want special counsel Robert Mueller …
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Gates may testify in Roger Stone, Greg Craig trials
Discussion: Axios
Hunter Woodall / Associated Press:
2020 hopeful Biden says he's open to breaking up Facebook  —  HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — Joe Biden said Monday that he would be open to breaking up Facebook, a sign of the deep skepticism among many Democratic presidential contenders about the power of massive technology firms.
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Biden slams Trump over escalating trade war with China
Discussion: Politico, Los Angeles Times and Slate
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Trump captures Biden's blue-collar, older voter base
Discussion: Breitbart and WPAiWPAi
New York Daily News:
Mayor de Blasio's NYPD vehicle was driving wrong way when it crashed with truck, sparking cover-up  —  Mayor de Blasio's NYPD SUV was cruising the wrong way with lights and sirens blaring when it got into a car crash, sparking a frantic cover-up by his security detail, a new accident report obtained by the Daily News shows.
Anna Flagg / New York Times:
Is There a Connection Between Undocumented Immigrants and Crime?  —  It's a widely held perception, but a new analysis finds no evidence to support it.  —  A lot of research has shown that there's no causal connection between immigration and crime in the United States.
Jessica Sidman / Washingtonian:
Inside the Pampered and Personalized World of DC's VIP Diners  —  The big restaurant lie: Everyone is treated the same.  —  Sometimes maître d' Michael Arnaud has to play bad cop.  Granted, he wears a wide smile above his green bow tie and greets every customer of Joe's Seafood …
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Marisa Fernandez / Axios:   Elizabeth Warren: “Betsy DeVos is the worst secretary of education we've seen”
CNN:
How Donald Trump Jr. and Richard Burr hit an impasse  —  Erin Burnett: Why is Trump afraid of Don Jr. subpoena?  —  (CNN)Donald Trump Jr. is balking at answering more questions about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting and the pursuit of a Trump Tower Moscow project, two sources familiar …
Discussion: Contemptor, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Gillian Edevane / Newsweek:   Senator Lindsey Graham advises Donald Trump Jr. to Avoid Testifying Over Russia Deal: “Call it a Day”
Bloomberg:
Pompeo Fails to Sway Allies on Iran in Awkward Surprise Visit  — Cites intel threats in meeting U.K., French, German envoys  — Defying Trump, Europeans say Iran nuclear deal must stand  —  U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo made scant progress persuading European Union counterparts …
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Liz Sly / Washington Post:
Two Saudi oil tankers attacked in the Persian Gulf amid rising Iran tensions
Discussion: Daily Wire
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
How Does Donald Trump Keep Getting Away With It?  —  Hint: From Congress to the courts, people keep treating Trump like a “normal” president.  It's time to stop.  —  Every day, President Donald Trump or his minions say something stupid, wrong, or demonstrably false.
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump welcomes Hungary's far-right nationalist prime minister after past presidents shunned him  —  Why Hungary is looking more and more like Russia  —  Washington (CNN)He's rolled back democratic checks on his power, mused about creating a European ethnostate and erected a razor-wire fence …
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump praises authoritarian Hungarian prime minister as “highly respected”
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Many Democrats fear Trump is laying an impeachment trap  —  (CNN)It seems a crazy idea that any president would actually want to be impeached.  —  But Donald Trump has so subverted Washington logic with his wild, norm-crushing presidency that there is now a serious conversation …
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Heather Digby Parton / Salon:
Impeaching Donald Trump is risky: But not impeaching him might be even riskier
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Irin Carmon / The Cut:
We Have No Idea How Scary Our Abortion Future Will Get  —  No one used to take Janet Porter seriously.  The Ohio activist who pioneered so-called “heartbeat” six-week abortion bans was mostly known for the gags — a YouTube video with a tinny voice singing “Have a heart …
Popular Information:
EXCLUSIVE: How money flows from Amazon to 8chan  —  Follow the money from the world's most valuable company to a racist troll haven  —  You may or may not know about the 8chan website—but you are familiar with its work.  The rudimentary message board is a wellspring of racism, violence …
Akane Otani / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Stocks Close Sharply Lower on Renewed Trade Anxiety  —  Dow drops more than 600 after China says it will raise tariffs on some U.S. imports  —  U.S. stocks slid Monday, heading for one of their worst days of the year, after officials in Beijing and the White House exchanged fresh threats …
Lynh Bui / Washington Post:
Coast Guard officer accused of plotting terrorist attack to remain jailed, judge says  —  A federal judge ordered a U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant accused of plotting a widespread terrorist attack to remain in jail pending trial, overturning an earlier magistrate judge's decision to release Christopher Paul Hasson on home arrest.
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
One of the Most Effective Anti-Trump Groups in the Country Is Now Tackling Voter Suppression in the States  —  American Oversight uncovered Ivanka's private emails and Pruitt's calendars.  Now it wants to use its investigative methods to unearth the motivations behind voter suppression laws.
Discussion: Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
One-Time #Resistance Hero Rod Rosenstein Was Trump's Leak-Hunter-in-Chief  —  The Trump administration is on pace for a record number of leak prosecutions—thanks in part to a man hailed by the president's fiercest critics.  —  Rod Rosenstein was a #Resistance hero—and one of Donald Trump's …
 
 
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Bloomberg:
Ukraine Prosecutor Made Up Biden Claim, Kiev Lawmaker Says
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Conservatism has become a racket, and Trump is the grifter in chief
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin Republican Party maxed out credit card, racked up $600 in monthly interest as it tried to save Scott Walker
Discussion: Raw Story
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
In Japan, a new award for the grand sumo champion: The ‘Trump Cup’
Discussion: The Asahi Shimbun
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
What we don't know about how a uterus works is going to hurt us all
Associated Press:
NYC mayor says he'll decide this week on presidential run
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Brewster's Millions at the NRA
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Roger Kimball / Spectator USA:
The doggedness of William Barr
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
‘The epitome of privilege’: Booker supporters seethe over Buttigieg mania
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Democrat Steve Bullock Won a Red State in 2016. Can He Beat Trump in 2020?
Discussion: Splinter
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Peter Schweizer, Who Smeared Hillary Clinton, Is Back for Joe Biden. Don't Buy It.
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
An Oral History of Trump's Bigotry
Discussion: Raw Story
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