Border / ICE
- To build Trump’s border wall, Pentagon will divert funds from military schools and day cares by Alan Pyke (ThinkProgress)
- Trump Is Pulling Money From Hurricane Recovery and Childcare Centers to Build His Wall by Tim Marcin (VICE)
- Forget Mexico: Trump Asks Military Families to Pay for Border Wall by Eric Lutz (Vanity Fair)
- ICE Office Must Stop Keeping All Asylum Seekers Locked Up, Federal Judge Orders by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
- Another Brick in Trump’s Wall by Fred Kaplan (Slate)
Pence
- Tensions Mount Between Trump, Pence Camps Heading Into 2020 Election by Tom LoBianco (Huffington Post)
- Trump directly contradicts Pence claim he told him to stay at his golf course: ‘People like my product, what can I tell you?‘ by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)
- Mike Pence accused of humiliating hosts in Ireland: ‘He shat on the carpet’ by Edward Helmore (The Guardian)
- Iceland, the most peaceful country in the world, was shocked by Mike Pence’s arrival with military jets and bomb-sniffing dogs by Egill Bjarnason, AP (Business Insider)
- Pride flags greet Mike Pence on arrival in Iceland by Amy Walker (The Guardian)
Hurricane Dorian
- Trump doubles down on Alabama hurricane threat by Morgan Chalfant (The Hill)
- Trump Refuses to Drop False Claim That Alabama Was in Hurricane’s Path by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- Trump forced to deny personally doctoring hurricane map after sharpie spotted on his desk by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)
- Analysis: Trump’s insistence that his incorrect Alabama tweet was correct tips into the Orwellian by Philip Bump (Washington Post))
- The short arc of a Sharpie captures the long arc of Trump by Nancy Cook (Politico)
Other News
- Trump Appointee Accused of Using Political Criteria to Help DOJ Determine Who Gets Grants by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
- Now Trump Reverses Emissions-Reducing Lightbulb Energy Efficiency Standards by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders to chronicle her White House tenure in a memoir by Arren Kimbel-Sannit (Politico)
- Trump attacks actress Debra Messing after she pushed to out his donors by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
- The Trump administration plans to gut food stamps, hitting red states hardest by Alan Pyke (ThinkProgress)
- Trump national security adviser discusses Greenland economic ties with ambassador to Denmark by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
- Trump’s envoy for Middle East, architect of peace plan set to leave post by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
- Trump’s lead Middle East negotiator stepping down — peace plan still under wraps by Anne Gearan (Washington Post)
- Betsy DeVos’ Education Department rejects 99% of applications for loan forgiveness program by Igor Derysh (Salon)
- Trump prepares to pitch gun proposals few really want by Anita Kumar (Politico)
- Donald Trump Has Never Explained a Mysterious $50 Million Loan. Is It Evidence of Tax Fraud? by Russ Choma (Mother Jones)
Analysis
- Maybe Trump’s Real Estate Lawyer Wasn’t the Right Guy to Bring Peace to the Middle East by Joshua Keating (Slate)
Opinion
- ‘Nothing to lose’: how Trump has energized America’s women by Gary Young (The Guardian)
- Not just Sharpie-gate: 7 other times officials tried to fabricate Trump’s ‘truth’ by Greg Sargent (Washington Post)