Thursday's Express: "#Brexit: The die is cast" (via @hendopolis) #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/msIG5zxIPP
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) August 28, 2019
The @TheNewEuropean continues to produce some cracking frontpages: 'Brexit’s tinpot despot'. #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/U2gPECslPl
— Gordon MacMillan (@gordonmacmillan) August 28, 2019
Must read thread on UK politics https://t.co/dUG7BRMPQO
— Brigid Laffan (@BrigidLaffan) August 28, 2019
In the UK, a move to suspend Parliament by Prime Minister Boris Johnson (the "British Trump")–in an attempt to facilitate Brexit–triggers massive spontaneous protests. Chants of #StopTheCoup. https://t.co/tEE9fHDgQx
— Jennifer Cohn (@jennycohn1) August 28, 2019
So…it got a little busy outside Parliament and Downing Street this eve. #StopTheCoup protesters made their voices heard. Pics at Alamy Live News, link to more images https://t.co/P2lhpZyO4L #stopboris #ParliamentSquare #DowningStreet #Prorogation pic.twitter.com/kErRJ6v9Se
— Chris (@imageplotter) August 28, 2019
— David Beard (@dabeard) August 28, 2019
SNAP POLL: By 47% to 27% Brits say it is unacceptable for the government to suspend Parliament in the run up to Brexit https://t.co/R3fi0E2VDi pic.twitter.com/L1BYkBua4M
— YouGov (@YouGov) August 28, 2019
Gina Miller has issued proceedings to challenge prorogation. Mishcon de Reya, Lord Pannick QC, Warren Fitt and me acting. Hence my Twitter silence today. https://t.co/kpOWCwDr8K
— Tom Hickman (@TomRHickman) August 28, 2019
Government in bringing Queens Speech at this moment has avoided opportunity for MPs to cancel conference recess in order to pass legislation.. BUT will have to carry out simultaneous negotiation with Brussels on Brexit and DUP on confidence just ahead of effective confidence vote
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) August 28, 2019
“Look Betty, Scotland has to look after Scotland so we’re aff doll.” #indyref2 #Brexit #SNP pic.twitter.com/YRP1dcsbnU
— Keith Sinclair (@KeithSinclair5) August 28, 2019
Four #frontpages from Scotland tonight. #brexit #indyref #indyref2 #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/OzwJZfNCMv
— Darran Marshall (@DarranMarshall) August 28, 2019
DUP branded 'embarrassing' for not joining bid to stop no-deal Brexit https://t.co/rfU7J5oxJY
— The Irish News (@irish_news) August 28, 2019
On the upside, majority might afford him the opportunity to ditch the DUP, revert to the original backstop, border down the Irish sea, and pass WA4, there or thereabouts. Tory Party probably happy to jettison both DUP and Ireland in general anyway.
— Olan McGowan (@OlanMcGowan) August 28, 2019
Tomorrow's @independent front page #tomorrowspaperstoday To subscribe to the Daily Edition https://t.co/XF8VnDpHYF pic.twitter.com/gApRM0lIit
— The Independent (@Independent) August 28, 2019
Weep for Britain. A sick, cynical brutal and horribly dangerous coup d’état. Children playing with matches, but spitefully not accidentally: gleefully torching an ancient democracy and any tattered shreds of reputation or standing our poor country had left.
— Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) August 28, 2019
Whatever you think about Brexit, we are living though history. We will be telling our grandchildren about today. Around the tribal fire, as we plan tomorrow’s cattle raid on a rival clan.
— Declan Lawn (@DecLawn) August 28, 2019
Before you go to bed, let's get the "DO NOT PROROGUE" petition to 1 million signatures! Send the link to all your friends + RT this! 980,000+ and counting! https://t.co/8aDVAydop1 pic.twitter.com/ElqbZ8mB3P
— Our Future, Our Choice (@OFOCBrexit) August 28, 2019
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TRUMPWORLD
New reporting from @kaitlancollins, @Kevinliptakcnn, @JDiamond1, @DanaBashCNN: "Trump has become increasingly rattled over the potential of an economic downturn and is spinning to find victories to sell to voters…" https://t.co/qMQu4C33QK
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 28, 2019
Hence..
"If Trump's border-wall gambit works, it will reinforce the idea that lawbreaking is an effective campaign tactic, and that politics comes before fidelity to the Constitution," argues @GrahamDavidA: https://t.co/gwftXPP8uZ
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) August 28, 2019
This can’t be true. This can’t stand. https://t.co/DdsriUodZ6
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) August 28, 2019
Oh, God. Are we still pretending that the Tea Party was about small government and concern about budget deficits? It was always, from the beginning, about racial anger; opposition to big government only to the extent that it helps Those People 1/ https://t.co/TI90hLoMsQ
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 28, 2019
Mnuchin says ultra-long bonds are being considered by the Trump administration https://t.co/07PG9pCygx
— CNBC (@CNBC) August 28, 2019
BREAKING: Trump has asked his national security team to review funding for Ukraine, to ensure the money is being used “in the best interests” of the US. The funding has been put on hold.
News comes days after Trump advocated for reinstating Russia to G7. https://t.co/Y23IAeQeGf— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 28, 2019
BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has announced they will investigate Donald Trump's push to host next year's G-7 summit at his own Doral resort in Florida, saying "the President's personal financial interests are clearly shaping decisions" about "government activities." pic.twitter.com/DzxCzqKTLP
— TheBeat w/Ari Melber (@TheBeatWithAri) August 28, 2019
How unhinged can you become? Does anyone ever proofread this garbage? @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/TzztDwLQJc
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) August 28, 2019
William Barr is paying his boss $30,000 for a holiday party https://t.co/xkKKxs0CjK
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) August 28, 2019
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WORLD
Powerful wind and rain battered St. John as Dorian passed over the U.S. Virgin Islands, having now strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane with winds up to 80 mph.
FULL FORECAST: https://t.co/QAjrn7znE7 pic.twitter.com/FeL0Y5w1ar
— ABC News (@ABC) August 28, 2019
2 years after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, residents are bracing for the worst as Hurricane Dorian approaches pic.twitter.com/GeSInvLBAR
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) August 28, 2019
The pact between Italy's populist Five Star Movement and the center-left Democratic Party, engineered to keep Matteo Salvini from power, may have its days numbered, @RachelDonadio reports: https://t.co/PZHkxOktWC
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) August 28, 2019
But maybe there’s hope…
Manhattan! pic.twitter.com/8SxPYk2WRk
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) August 28, 2019
Greta Thunberg: "The climate and ecological crisis is a global crisis — the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced. And if we don't manage … to work together, despite our differences, then we will fail. So we need to stand together and support each other and take action." pic.twitter.com/MPgE6UV2zM
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 28, 2019
Climate change melts billions of tons of ice in Greenland fifty years earlier than predicted https://t.co/Q05v29Re0r
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) August 28, 2019
My new column on Greenland—but also North Korea, Singapore and Luxembourg—for @NewStatesman https://t.co/WlUyXMZuzn
— Atossa Araxia Abrahamian (@atossaaraxia) August 28, 2019
and
Hope. https://t.co/ndTKxJzVKg
— JOHN NICOLSON (@MrJohnNicolson) August 28, 2019
The Overnight Note 