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3:35 PM ET, November 14, 2016

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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Praise for Reince Priebus is another sign of how we're lowering the bar for Trump  —  The extent to which Reince Priebus's appointment as White House chief of staff has been greeted in mainstream quarters as a reassuring sign that Donald Trump is going to govern the country in a responsible way is, itself, a disturbing sign.
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CNN:
White nationalists see advocate in Steve Bannon who will hold Trump to his campaign promises  —  (CNN)White nationalist leaders are praising Donald Trump's decision to name former Breitbart executive Steve Bannon as his chief strategist, telling CNN in interviews they view Bannon as an advocate …
Kim Bellware / The Huffington Post:
A White Nationalist Is The New White House Chief Strategist  —  Steve Bannon, who stoked the flames of alt-right fury while running Breitbart News, is headed to the presidential inner circle.  —  Steve Bannon, the Breitbart News Network executive chairman known for having white nationalist views …
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
5 takeaways on Trump's first 5 days
Discussion: Associated Press
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Major newspapers normalize Trump's selection of white nationalist as chief strategist
The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon's Dream: a Worldwide Ultra-Right
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Trump faces backlash over appointing Bannon as a top aide, a choice critics say will empower white nationalists
Discussion: Mother Jones
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Gwen Ifill dead at age 61  —  Gwen Ifill, the longtime PBS news anchor who had served as a co-host of PBS's NewsHour and as moderator of “Washington Week,” has died after a battle with cancer, PBS has confirmed.  She was 61.  —  “It is with extremely heavy hearts that we must share …
Joe Concha / The Hill:
CBS News under fire for holding clip of Trump telling supporters not to attack minorities … CBS News is under fire for holding a videotaped clip from a Friday interview with President-elect Donald Trump  —  urging supporters not to attack minorities until a “60 Minutes” broadcast on Sunday night.
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Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
President-elect Trump speaks to a divided country on 60 Minutes
Fatima Hussein / Indianapolis Star:
What's Mike Pence hiding in his emails?  —  Mike Pence wants his communications limited from public access.  Experts say this sets a “dangerous precedent.”  —  Now that the presidential campaign and most of the furor over Hillary Clinton's email scandal are behind us …
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:   Pence pushes for email privacy
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Where now for the Democrats?  —  What happens to Democrats in the Trump era?  —  In the 1992 presidential election, after three straight terms of Republicans in the White House, Bill Clinton  —  successfully remade the Democrats into a party of political centrists to regain the support of so-called ‘Reagan Democrats.’
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Pulling Democrats Back to 'It's the Economy, Stupid'
Discussion: Hot Air
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
NC GOPer Denies Republicans May Try To Pack State's Highest Court  —  Democrats won a majority on the North Carolina Supreme Court on Election Day, but at least one conservative group has floated the possibility of flipping it back to GOP control by quickly expanding the court by two seats …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
The real voices that aren't heard: Jill Lawrence
Discussion: Daily Kos and Taylor Marsh
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
CNN's ‘Unprecedented’: Trump told Christie he didn't think he'd last past October 2015  — “They always had an understanding that the first one out would probably endorse the other,” the adviser said.  —  Washington (CNN)New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's February endorsement of Donald …
Susan Page / USA Today:
Sanders backs Trump protests, questions Electoral College  —  Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the surprisingly strong challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, sat down Sunday with USA TODAY's Capital Download to talk about last week's election stunner, the future of the Democratic Party …
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Clara Jeffery / Mother Jones:
Van Jones: “Hope for the Best, Expect and Prepare for the Worst”
Discussion: Raw Story
Julieta Chiquillo / Dallas Morning News:
A man got a free Veterans Day meal at Chili's in Cedar Hill, then a manager took it away  —  For his free meal on Veterans Day, Ernest Walker picked the Chili's Grill and Bar in Cedar Hill.  The 47-year-old sat at a table and ordered a burger while his service dog Barack waited by his side.
Discussion: RedState
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Soros bands with donors to resist Trump, ‘take back power’  —  George Soros and other rich liberals who spent tens of millions of dollars trying to elect Hillary Clinton are gathering in Washington for a three-day, closed door meeting to retool the big-money left to fight back against Donald Trump.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How the Loyal Opposition Will Work in Trump's America  —  What should Democrats in Congress — and Barack Obama, and you — do now?  —  When he took office in 2001, George W. Bush inherited a healthy Republican Party roughly at parity with its opposition.  When he left office eight years later …
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Ten potential Democratic candidates for 2020  —  Stunned Democrats are now forced to go back to the drawing board for the 2020 presidential election to field a candidate in a race that virtually all had assumed would be President Hillary Clinton  —  's reelection.
Bloomberg:
Mnuchin Said to Be Top Treasury Pick Among Trump's Advisers  —  Key transition members said to suggest ex-Goldman partner  —  President-elect seen making an announcement later this week  —  Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner Steven Mnuchin has been recommended by Donald Trump's transition team …
Discussion: Politico and Business Insider
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Megyn Kelly: Trump offered me gifts, hotel stays  —  Fox News host Megyn Kelly says Trump unsuccessfully tried to give her gifts during the presidential campaign in what she called his attempt to influence journalists by “work the refs.”  —  In her book, “Settle for More,” set for release on Tuesday …
Discussion: RedState and Joe.My.God.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trump Slump Coming?  —  Let's be clear: Installing Donald Trump in the White House is an epic mistake.  In the long run, its consequences may well be apocalyptic, if only because we have probably lost our last, best chance to rein in runaway climate change.  —  But will the extent of the disaster become apparent right away?
 
 
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Gary Shteyngart / New Yorker:
Aftermath: Sixteen Writers on Trump's America
Discussion: The Week
N. Turkuler Isiksel / Dissent:
Prepare For Regime Change, Not Policy Change
Discussion: Raw Story
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Defying Trump, Chicago will continue as immigrant sanctuary
Discussion: RedState and Fox News Insider
Jed Babbin / The American Spectator:
Action starts now on repealing Obamacare and replacing Justice Scalia in the face of Democrat filibustering.
Brittany M. Hughes / mrctv.org/videos:
Illegal Alien Rapes Young Woman In a Ditch As Border Apprehensions Surge
Steve Watson / Infowars:
Report: Three Million Votes in Presidential Election Cast by Illegal Aliens
Discussion: mrctv.org/videos
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President Trump and the Trump Organization are the biggest conflict of interest in US history
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