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Chemistry - How does this brominated intermediate lose its methyl group?

A methyl cation definitely won’t leave by itself. However, you can consider bromide ions floating around in solution. These bromide, being nucleophilic can attack the methyl group in an $\mathrm{S_N2}$ manner, because any positively charged oxygen is a good leaving group. Therefore, the side product would be bromomethane.

Other than that, your mechanism is looking good.

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