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1:50 PM ET, September 5, 2019

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BBC:
PM's brother quits as Tory MP and minister  —  Jo Johnson, younger brother of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, is quitting as a Conservative MP and minister, saying he is “torn between family loyalty and the national interest”.  —  The business minister and MP for Orpington, tweeted that there was an “unresolvable tension” in his role.
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BuzzFeed:
All The Ways Brexit Could Go Now, Explained For People Who Are Confused  —  We're in the endgame now.  Or maybe we're not.  —  It's quite hard to know where people are up to in The Brexit Story, but let's start here: The prime minister's brother just walked out of the government.
Rob Merrick / The Independent:
Boris Johnson's brother quits government in protest at PM's leadership
Discussion: VICE
Financial Times:   A humbled Boris Johnson has lost control of Brexit
Tom LoBianco / Yahoo News:
Tensions mount between Trump, Pence camps heading into 2020 election  —  WASHINGTON — When Vice President Mike Pence flew to Europe as the stand-in for President Trump at the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II, it appeared to be another sign that the famously fickle president trusted his vice president.
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Architect of Trump's Middle East peace plan to depart White House  —  White House special envoy for the Middle East peace process Jason Greenblatt will be leaving the Trump administration in the next several weeks to return to the private sector.  —  Why it matters: Greenblatt is a key member …
Michael Crowley / New York Times:
Jason Greenblatt, a Designer of Trump's Middle East Peace Plan, Is Leaving the Administration
Discussion: Politico
Joyce Karam / The National:   Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt to leave administration
Arren Kimbel-Sannit / Politico:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders to chronicle her White House tenure in a memoir
Discussion: Axios, The Daily Caller and Splinter
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Not just Sharpie-gate: 7 other times officials tried to fabricate Trump's ‘truth’  —  As you've heard, President Trump displayed a chart that appeared to be doctored with a Sharpie to retroactively demonstrate that he had been right when he falsely warned that Alabama was threatened by Hurricane Dorian.
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Sonam Sheth / Business Insider:
Trump may have broken federal law by altering Hurricane Dorian's path on a map to validate his false claim that it could hit Alabama  — President Donald Trump on Wednesday appeared to have altered an official graphic of Hurricane Dorian's trajectory to include part of Alabama to validate …
Discussion: WHYY, Bloomberg, Contemptor and Mother Jones
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Called out by meteorologists, Trump clings to claim Dorian could have hit Alabama
Discussion: CNN, Daily Wire and Mediaite
Washington Post:
President Trump shows doctored hurricane chart. Was it to cover up for ‘Alabama’ Twitter flub?
Tom Elliott / Grabien News:
Dems at Climate Forum: Ban Everything!  [Supercut]  —  'There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking'  —  Democrats appearing at CNN's marathon 7-hour global warming forum have a plan to solve a changing climate: Ban everything!  —  Over the course of the television extravaganza …
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New York Times:
CNN Climate Town Hall: Here's What You Need to Know
Discussion: New Republic
Bryan Pietsch / Reuters:
Pentagon pulls funds for military schools, daycare to pay for Trump's border wall  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Wednesday it would pull funding from 127 Defense Department projects, including schools and daycare centers for military families, as it diverts $3.6 billion …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Week
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Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
GOP Senators Who Backed Trump's Emergency Declaration Lose Military Funding  —  Who could have seen this coming when the president chose to divert defense money to build his border wall?  —  Republicans who supported an emergency declaration on the U.S.-Mexico border are discovering the cost …
Discussion: CNN
Benjamin Parker / The Bulwark:
What the Pentagon Is Sacrificing to Pay for the Border Wall
Discussion: Associated Press
The Daily Beast:
Trumpworld Anxiety Grows Over a Rising Elizabeth Warren  —  They once thought they'd delivered the political kill shot.  But now GOP operatives are complaining that nothing sticks to Warren.  —  Over the summer, Trumpworld operatives, Republican Party oppo researchers …
Discussion: Hot Air
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Republicans fear drubbing in next round of redistricting  —  Democrats were caught napping in the 2010 election ahead of the last round of redistricting — and it cost them control of Congress for nearly a decade.  —  Now Republicans are warning the same thing could happen to them.
Discussion: NBC News
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
How Trump's post-presidential Twitter feed could shape the future of the Republican Party  —  President Trump has remade the Republican Party in his own image, but whether the party will survive in its current form, or get remade again once he leaves office, is the source of great debate.
Discussion: Raw Story
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Sen. Ernst says lawmakers should discuss fixing Social Security ‘behind closed doors’  —  Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said at a recent town hall that lawmakers should discuss fixing Social Security “behind closed doors,” prompting a wave of criticism from liberal and advocacy groups.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Elizabeth Meyer / Iowa Starting Line:   Ernst: Need To “Sit Down Behind Closed Doors” For Social Security Fix
Cory Turner / NPR:
Congress Promised Student Borrowers A Break.  Education Dept. Rejected 99% Of Them  —  Toggle more options  —  A new report from a government watchdog, first obtained obtained by NPR, says an expanded effort by Congress to forgive the student loans of public servants is remarkably unforgiving.
Eric Felten / RealClearInvestigations:
Why Was the FBI Incurious About a Hot Collusion Tip Involving This Man?  —  Even after the 2016 presidential election, Trump-Russia dossier author Christopher Steele and company kept coming up with allegations that Donald Trump and his campaign had conspired with the Kremlin.
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Jim Mattis and the surrender of America's adults  —  The thing about grown-ups is they are supposed to say when enough is enough.  Jim Mattis had obviously had enough when he resigned as Donald Trump's secretary of defence in December.  Now the retired general — and the former leading …
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Doug Collins, Defending Trump in Impeachment Inquiry, Seeks Georgia Senate Seat  —  WASHINGTON — Representative Doug Collins, the face of President Trump's impeachment defense in the House, is quietly jockeying to convince Georgia's Republican governor to appoint him to the state's soon …
Brianna Calix / Sacramento Bee:
Devin Nunes' campaign drops lawsuit against constituents who claimed he was a fake farmer  —  The campaign for Devin Nunes on Tuesday dropped its lawsuit against the people who accused the Republican congressman of being a “fake farmer” and tried to get his ballot designation removed.
Windsor Mann / USA Today:
Trump congratulates Poland on the anniversary of Nazi invasion  —  Trump has a history of historical ignorance.  Sometimes, that ignorance results in an international embarrassment.  —  CONNECT  —  To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland, President Donald Trump did what any world leader would do.
Discussion: Washington Post
Julio Rosas / Washington Examiner:
Biden's eye fills with blood during CNN climate town hall  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden's left eye appeared to have a blood vessel burst while he was participating in CNN's town hall on climate change.  —  Biden, 76, has long been plagued by health issues.
Gerry Shih / Washington Post:
China, U.S. to resume trade talks in Washington in October  —  BEIJING — China said Thursday its trade representatives will fly to Washington in early October to resume negotiations with the United States, raising the possibility that both sides might arrest a recent deterioration …
Tim Balk / New York Daily News:
Bernie Sanders tells squealing baby to pipe down at campaign stop  —  Bernie Sanders slipped into a bit of a Larry David moment on the campaign trail Tuesday, grumbling at a squealing baby to pipe down.  —  “If we could keep that down a little bit,” the Vermont senator said in a moment captured …
Discussion: Political Wire and Splinter
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Elena Kagan's Blueprint to End Partisan Gerrymandering  —  The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 2019's Rucho v. Common Cause was a painful setback for voting rights advocates.  By a 5-4 vote, SCOTUS slammed the federal courthouse door on partisan gerrymandering claims, ruling that they cannot be brought under the U.S. Constitution.
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump attacks actress Debra Messing after she pushed to out his donors  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday amplified accusations of McCarthyism leveled at actress Debra Messing after the “Will & Grace” star made a public plea for a list of Trump donors in Hollywood and disparaged black Trump voters.
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Emily Badger / New York Times:
A Nobel-Winning Economist Goes to Burning Man  —  Amid the desert orgies, Paul Romer investigates a provocative question: Is this bacchanal a model of urban planning?  —  BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev. — It was dusk on the opening night of Burning Man, and the makers and misfits were touching up their art projects and orgy dens.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
A huge database of Facebook users' phone numbers found online
Rick Wilson / USA Today:
Policy papers are a delusion, Democrats. This is a Trump referendum and you're blowing it.
Discussion: The Root
Errin Haines / Associated Press:
Analysis: Black votes will define electability for Democrats
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Nation's failed weed war turned blacks into prisoners and whites into moguls
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Discussion: The Trace
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