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8:50 AM ET, November 22, 2016

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New York Post:
Donald Trump's media summit was a ‘f—ing firing squad’  —  More On:  —  President-elect Donald Trump exploded at media bigs in an off-the-record Trump Tower powow on Monday, sources told The Post.  —  “It was like a f—ing firing squad,” said one source.
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New York Times:
Donald Trump Cancels New York Times Meeting and Pursues Battles With the Press  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump woke up on Tuesday to announce on Twitter that he was canceling a planned meeting with the “failing” New York Times, but would move ahead with meetings to form his government “for the next 8 years.”
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Report: Trump meeting with media a ‘f—ing firing squad’  —  raged at anchors and executives from America's five largest television networks during an off-the-record meeting Monday, according to a new report.  —  Two sources described the hour-long meeting at New York City's Trump Tower in catastrophic terms to The New York Post.
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump is seeking to build a diverse administration, aides say
New York Times:
Trump, on YouTube, Pledges to Create Jobs
Daniel Lombroso / The Atlantic:
‘Hail Trump!’:  White Nationalists Salute the President Elect  —  “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!”  —  That's how Richard B. Spencer saluted more than 200 attendees on Saturday, gathered at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., for the annual conference …
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New York Times:
Donald Trump Rages, at the Wrong Target  —  Millions of Americans are justifiably frightened by the tide of racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia that has swept the country since the election of Donald Trump, whose campaign stoked these views and who named Stephen Bannon of Breitbart News his chief strategist in the White House.
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Pat McCrory Lost the North Carolina Governorship.  Now He's Trying to Steal It.  —  North Carolina Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, champion of the country's most notorious anti-LGBTQ law, lost his bid for re-election on Nov. 8—at last count, by 7,448 votes.  Yet nearly two weeks later, McCrory still refuses to concede.
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Colin Campbell / Raleigh News & Observer:
Legislature could revisit election laws in wake of McCrory complaints, Moore says  —  N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore said Monday that the legislature could revisit voter ID requirements and other election laws in the wake of complaints filed with help from Gov. Pat McCrory's campaign.
NBC News:
Kanye West Hospitalized After Tour Canceled: Sources  —  Kanye Cancels Tour After Trump/Race Rant 2:12  —  Kanye West was under observation at a Los Angeles area hospital late Monday after the remaining dates of his national tour were abruptly canceled, multiple authorities familiar with the case told NBC News.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Democratic presidential electors revolt against Trump  —  At least a half-dozen Democratic electors have signed onto an attempt to block Donald Trump from winning an Electoral College majority, an effort designed not only to deny Trump the presidency but also to undermine the legitimacy of the institution.
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New York Daily News:
The Hail Mary pass that could deny Donald Trump the presidency: It's up to you, electors
Discussion: Balkinization and Instapundit
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Abolish the Office of the First Lady  —  Melania Trump has done the nation a great service by deciding to maintain Trump Tower as her full-time residence and not to move to the White House any time soon.  But her resistance shouldn't stop there.  Now is as good a time as any to eliminate …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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CNN:
Poll: Looking ahead to a Trump presidency, a majority sees change  — Majorities think Trump will achieve several of the goals outlined during his campaign as top priorities  —  (CNN)Two weeks after Election Day, most Americans say President-elect Donald Trump will ultimately do a good job as president …
Thomas E. Ricks / Foreign Policy:
Mattis as defense secretary: What it means for us, for the military, and for Trump  —  I've known and admired General James Mattis (USMC, ret.) for years, and have written about him in a couple of books and in this blog.  A few years ago, after Mattis was given the bum's rush into retirement …
Discussion: AOL
Jonathan Shorman / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Kobach took plan for Department of Homeland Security into Trump meeting  —  Secretary of state photographed holding written plan for federal agency  —  A written plan for the Department of Homeland Security brought by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach into his meeting with President-elect Donald …
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Katie J.M. Baker / BuzzFeed:
College Trump Supporters: “We're The New Counterculture” … A week after Donald Trump won the presidency, many students on the University of Delaware campus were still devastated.  Professors at the blue-state public school where Vice President Joe Biden is an alumnus canceled classes …
Discussion: Raw Story
Robert Farley / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Goodbye  —  Scott has passed.
Talking Points Memo:
Cashing in BIGLY in Argentina!  —  Over the weekend, there were a flurry of stories about how Donald Trump and his family are already using the presidency to leverage his overseas businesses as well as his new DC hotel.  Well, now there's more.  This time in Argentina.  —  Here's the background.
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Trump's shadow transition team  —  A year ago, the political arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation dismissed Donald Trump as a big-government enthusiast and left-wing sympathizer.  —  Now, the Heritage Foundation has emerged as one of the most influential forces shaping President-elect …
Bjorn Lomborg / Washington Post:
Trump's climate plan might not be so bad after all  —  Bjorn Lomborg is president and founder of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School.  —  The election of Donald Trump and Republican majorities in both houses have terrified environmentalists …
New York Times:
With a Meeting, Trump Renewed a British Wind Farm Fight  —  LONDON — When President-elect Donald J. Trump met with the British politician Nigel Farage in recent days, he encouraged Mr. Farage and his entourage to oppose the kind of offshore wind farms that Mr. Trump believes will mar …
Scott W. Johnson / Weekly Standard:
The Trouble With Keith Ellison  —  He's a bad hombre.  —  In the aftermath of the election of Donald Trump and a Republican Congress, Minnesota representative Keith Ellison has emerged as a leading contender to chair the Democratic National Committee.  Ellison resides on the far-left fringe of the Democratic party.
New York Post:
Trump's toughest transition test: the Trump Organization  —  Of all the issues facing the president-elect and his brain trust, the question of how to avoid conflicts of interest with his global business may be the thorniest.  —  It's already raising real questions — over diplomats who opted …
Discussion: New York Magazine, CNN and The Week
Sue Shellenbarger / Wall Street Journal:
Most Students Don't Know When News Is Fake, Stanford Study Finds  —  Teens absorb social media news without considering the source; parents can teach research skills and skepticism  —  Preteens and teens may appear dazzlingly fluent, flitting among social-media sites, uploading selfies and texting friends.
Anatoly Kurmanaev / Wall Street Journal:
Venezuela's Nemesis Is a Hardware Salesman at a Home Depot in Alabama  —  His site tracks black-market exchange of the bolivar, swaying the price of everything  —  HOOVER, Ala.—Public Enemy No. 1 of Venezuela's revolutionary government is Gustavo Díaz, a Home Depot Inc. employee in central Alabama.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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Ana Marie Cox / New York Times:
Glenn Beck Is Sorry About All That
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Ryan Hutchins / Politico:
Christie: 'I'm serving the rest of my term'
Fox News:
O'Hare airport workers to go on strike after Thanksgiving
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
University Officials: America-Themed Parties Are ‘Harmful’ And Offensive
Discussion: EveryJoe and MILO
Adrienne Shih / CNN:
Howard Dean calls Steve Bannon ‘a Nazi’
Discussion: Jezebel and WREG-TV
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Multiple children killed in school bus crash on Talley Road
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Jeff Stein / Vox:
Bernie Sanders: “It is not good enough for someone to say, 'I'm a woman! Vote for me!'”
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
Police, citing ‘ongoing riot,’ use water cannons on Dakota Access protesters in freezing weather
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MERCY AND PEACE  —  MISERICORDIA ET MISERA is a phrase used …
 

 
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