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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 …
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Fortune, Associated Press, Splinter and New York Times
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Washington Post:
Trump's trade approach under attack as China readies retaliation; markets poised for big sell-off — Beijing plans steep tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods in response to White House action … President Trump's efforts to calm investors while he launches a full-scale trade war …
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Daily Kos, CNN and Mercury News
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.
Bloomberg:
China Announces Tariff Retaliation to Take Effect on June 1
China Announces Tariff Retaliation to Take Effect on June 1
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CNBC, Quartz, Slate, Boston Magazine, shanghaiist and Politico
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
China to retaliate on $60B in U.S. goods, defying Trump's warning
China to retaliate on $60B in U.S. goods, defying Trump's warning
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Washington Post, Bloomberg and Breitbart
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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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
House Republicans criticize Rep. Tlaib over remarks on Holocaust, Israel
House Republicans criticize Rep. Tlaib over remarks on Holocaust, Israel
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The Hill, Talking Points Memo, Politico, The Federalist, Common Dreams, NB Blog, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, twitchy.com, Fox News, IJR, Splinter, Yeshiva World News, Breitbart, Washington Examiner, RedState and Haaretz
Jerusalem Post:
Rashida Tlaib says Palestinians created ‘safe haven’ for Jews after Holocaust
Rashida Tlaib says Palestinians created ‘safe haven’ for Jews after Holocaust
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CNN, Axios, Fox News, Roll Call, Human Events and twitchy.com
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Rashida Tlaib's Lies Remind Us Why Israel Must Exist
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.
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Fox News and The Gateway Pundit
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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The Resurgent, Outside the Beltway and Front Page Magazine
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Gillian Edevane / Newsweek:
Senator Lindsey Graham advises Donald Trump Jr. to Avoid Testifying Over Russia Deal: “Call it a Day”
Heather Digby Parton / Salon:
Impeaching Donald Trump is risky: But not impeaching him might be even riskier
Impeaching Donald Trump is risky: But not impeaching him might be even riskier
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Hullabaloo
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.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Peter Schweizer, Who Smeared Hillary Clinton, Is Back for Joe Biden. Don't Buy It. — Real journalists want to report the truth, wherever it takes them. Peter Schweizer wants to reelect Donald Trump. — Michael Tomasky — Are we really going to do this again, Fourth Estate?
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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.
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ImmigrationProf Blog, Splinter and twitchy.com
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 …
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New York Times, Raw Story, The Moderate Voice and Los Angeles Times
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 …
Bloomberg:
EU Is Ready to Retaliate as Trump Auto-Tariff Deadline Nears — Trump expected to announce decision on car duties on May 18 — The EU would retaliate against $23 billion of U.S. goods — Go inside the global economy with Stephanie Flanders in her new podcast, Stephanomics.
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Wall Street Journal and Politico, more at Mediagazer »
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Supreme Court rules against Apple, allowing lawsuit targeting App Store to proceed — Apple suffered a significant defeat at the Supreme Court on Monday, when the justices ruled that consumers could forge ahead with a lawsuit against the iPhone giant over the way it manages its App Store.
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Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Supreme Court clears way for iPhone users to sue Apple over App Store prices
Supreme Court clears way for iPhone users to sue Apple over App Store prices
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Politico
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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Raw Story and Columbia Journalism Review
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
‘The epitome of privilege’: Booker supporters seethe over Buttigieg mania — One of the Democrats running for president is a youthful former Rhodes Scholar who speaks more than one language and cut his teeth as a two-term mayor. The other is Pete Buttigieg.
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Front Page Magazine, Big League Politics and NBC News
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
Omarosa Accuses Trump of Pay Discrimination: 'The Numbers Don't Lie' — The ex-Trump aide claims she was paid substantially less per month than her male counterpart for the same work. — Omarosa Manigault-Newman, the former Apprentice star who campaigned for President Trump and then followed …
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Raw Story
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
What Joe Biden Is Teaching Democrats About Democrats — Over the past five years, the Democratic Party has seemed to race leftward so fast that its recent standard-bearers are considered no longer qualified to lead it. Bill Clinton? An embarrassment not welcome on the campaign trail. Barack Obama?
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Los Angeles Times, Talking Points Memo, Breitbart, Washington Times and Post and Courier
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Inside Jared Kushner's two missions impossible — As President Donald Trump launches his re-election bid, his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, is waging dual campaigns of his own, preparing to sell ambitious fixes to two of the most stubborn problems of the past 50 years.
James Kirchick / NBC News:
Trump should be isolating Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orban, not feting him at the White House — European Parliament elections are right around the corner, and this visit will only elevate the illiberal forces that Orban and his party represent. — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban …
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The Week
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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Axios, Vanity Fair and The Daily Beast
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
An Oral History of Trump's Bigotry — The first quotation from Donald Trump ever to appear in The New York Times came on October 16, 1973. Trump was responding to charges filed by the Justice Department alleging racial bias at his family's real-estate company. “They are absolutely ridiculous,” Trump said of the charges.
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Angry That the FBI Won't Endorse His Theory of Victimhood — The president has already fired an FBI director and an acting director. Now he's gunning for the present director, Chris Wray. — Staff writer at The Atlantic — On March 24, Attorney General William Barr released …
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
Mike Pence's advice to Christian college grads: Prepare to be ‘shunned or ridiculed for defending the teachings of the Bible’ — Vice President Pence had a message for Liberty University's graduating class of 2019: “Be ready.” — But as Pence looked out over the sea of people dressed …
Brielle Insler / Julián 2020:
People First Education — Our Smartest Investment — Education is at the core of the American Dream. It is the foundation by which we fulfill our collective promise to every student that if they work hard, they have a shot at reaching their dreams. Quality education powers economic mobility …
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Politico, Politics K-12, The Texas Tribune and The Week
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Brewster's Millions at the NRA — How do you spend $1,100 in an airport with nothing to show for it? — 1. Fancy Pants — Let's talk about the big NRA story from the weekend. — Somebody on the internet whose name almost certainly does not rhyme with Noliver Torth released …
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