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Ivanka Trump is seen at a ceremony where her father received the Order of Abdulaziz al-Saud medal from Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud.(Photo: Mandel Ngan, AFP/Getty Images)

Media bubbles: everybody's got one and everybody thinks the other side's stinks. For those of you who may lean conservative and not know what's trending on your liberal brother-in-law's Facebook page, here's a look at what was hot from left-leaning media and commentators this week. And for liberals, here's what the right was reading.

Daily Kos writer Jen Hayden implied last weekend that there was a link between the massive$110 billion arms deal President Trump inked with Saudi Arabia and the$100 million contributionfrom Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to a global women's initiative championed by Trump's daughter, Ivanka. Citing a CNN report, Hayden points out that Ivanka's husband Jared Kushner may have helped secure the arms deal. Shethen lays a heavy dose of sarcasm on the denialsthat the global women's fund and the White House are linked:

The donations and the White House are not tied. Definitely not. No way!It is a total coincidence the $100 milliondonation is being made the same weekend a $110 billion arms deal is announced. And never mind that Ivanka Trump is traveling to Saudi Arabia in her official capacity as an assistant to the president of the United States.

The article does mention a Wall Street Journal story that points out that Ivanka herself does not solicit donations for the initiative, but doesn't address the fact that German ChancellorAngela Merkel is also a sponsor of the World-Bank managed fund.

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New York Magazine slammed the Trump administration for a $2 trillion "double-counting" error in its first budget proposal. The White House said its proposal would balance the budget within in 10 years,partly by assuming a $2 trillion revenue increase spurred by coming tax cuts. The problem? The budget proposal assumes the $2 trillion in added revenue will both balance the budget and offset the tax cuts, and experts are clear that you can't count the same money twice.

New York Magazine delivered this burnin response tothe White House's fuzzy math:

It seems difficult to imagine how this administration could figure out how to design and pass a tax cut that could pay for itself when Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush failed to come anywhere close to doing so. If there is a group of economic minds with the special genius to accomplish this historically unprecedented feat, it is probably not the fiscal minds who just made a $2 trillion basic arithmetic error.

President Trump was widely ridiculed on social media for a video the appears to show him shoving aside the prime minister of Montenegro during a meeting of NATO leaders in Brussels Thursday. The Huffington Post jumped on atweet fromHarry Potter author J.K. Rowling in which sheshared a GIF of the incident, along with the caption, "You tiny, tiny, tiny little man."

The Supreme Court ruled 5-3 Monday that race played an excessive role when North Carolina lawmakers drew congressional maps after the 2010 Census in favor of Republicans. To the delight of progressives, the staunchly conservativeJustice Clarence Thomas joined in the majority decision.

As Slate's Mark Jacob Stern wrote:

The broad ruling will likely have ripple effects on litigation across the country, helping plaintiffs establish that state legislatures unlawfully injected race into redistricting. And, in a welcome change, the decision did not split along familiar ideological lines: Justice Clarence Thomas joined the four liberal justices to create a majority, following his race-blind principles of equal protection to an unusually progressive result.

Republican candidate Greg Gianforte won Montana 's special election for its open House seat Thursday, despite being cited for assaulting a reporter on the eve of the election. Salon politics writer Amanda Marcotte said Gianforte's actions reflect a growing trend towardpolitical violence among conservatives.

"Whats interesting about these alt-right wannabe street brawlers is that they invariably frametheir violent impulses in terms of self-defense, arguing that they need to crack skulls and spray mace into crowds to protect themselves against violent revolutionary left-wingers," Marcotte wrote.

Alt-right street fighters are a tiny fringe right now, and the danger they pose shouldnt be needlessly exaggerated. But there are startling parallels between their rhetoric and what Gianforte and his supporters have said in seeking to defend or minimize his alleged actions.

Republican Greg Gianforte won Montana's U.S. House seat on Thursday, one day after he was charged with assaulting a reporter. Gianforte apologized to Ben Jacobs by name, saying he should not have responded the way he did, and that he's sorry. (May 26) AP

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