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10:50 PM ET, December 17, 2018

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Washington Post:
Russian disinformation teams targeted Robert S. Mueller III, says report prepared for Senate  —  Months after President Trump took office, Russia's disinformation teams trained their sites on a new target: special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.  Having worked to help get Trump into the White House …
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New York Times:
Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans  —  The Russian influence campaign on social media in the 2016 election made an extraordinary effort to target African-Americans, used an array of tactics to try to suppress turnout among Democratic voters and unleashed a blizzard …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
It's high time for media to enter the No Kellyanne Zone — and stay there  —  Lies are coming at the American public in torrents — raining down on them everywhere they turn.  —  A report prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee, and obtained by The Washington Post, made that breathtakingly clear over the weekend.
Washington Post:
Russia's support for Trump's election is no longer disputable  —  TWO REPORTS prepared for the Senate on Russian disinformation unfold a now-indisputable narrative: The Kremlin engaged in a coordinated campaign to elevate Donald Trump to the presidency, and this country's technology companies were central to its strategy.
Wall Street Journal:
Roger Stone Admits Spreading Lies on InfoWars  —  Trump adviser made the admission in settling a defamation suit brought against him by an exiled Chinese businessman  —  As questions swirl about his credibility, former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone settled a defamation suit seeking $100 million …
Gary Baum / Hollywood Reporter:
Woody Allen's Secret Teen Lover Speaks: Sex, Power and a Conflicted Muse Who Inspired ‘Manhattan’  —  In 1976, 16-year-old model Babi Christina Engelhardt embarked on a hidden eight-year affair with the 41-year-old filmmaker that mirrors one of his most famous movies.
Ed Krassenstein / Hill Reporter:
As Tucker Carlson Insults Immigrants, Here's a List of His Advertisers  —  Last week, Tucker Carlson made a statement on his Fox News show which has led one advertiser to head for the doors. … Carlson then proceeded to refer to members of the Central American caravan as “cynical shakedown artists”.
Discussion: Breitbart, Salon and IJR
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson wants his advertisers to know: ‘I like immigrants’
Discussion: Vox and Talking Points Memo
emptywheel:
Mike Flynn Steps in It: In a Bid to Feed the Frothy Right, He Leads to Release of Damning New Details Showing He Lied to Protect Trump  —  Last week, I suggested that Mike Flynn's cute trick of publicly releasing information from Andy McCabe's memo and Peter Strzok's 302 might backfire.
Discussion: CNN, Hullabaloo and Salon
Yair Rosenberg / Tablet Magazine:
‘The New York Times’ Just Published an Unqualified Recommendation for an Insanely Anti-Semitic Book  —  The book, recommended by author Alice Walker, repeatedly cites the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion,’ dubs the Talmud ‘among the most appallingly racist documents on the planet,’ and says Jews funded the Holocaust and control the KKK
Lawrence S. Robbins / Politico:
How Trump Could Get Away With It  —  This weekend, President Donald Trump raged against Michael Cohen, calling his former lawyer and accuser a “rat” for cooperating with federal prosecutors.  Cohen has accused Trump of directing him to make secret hush-money payments to two women …
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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Comey bashes GOP after latest closed-door hearing on Capitol Hill
Discussion: Townhall, Daily Wire and Mediaite
Alexis Levinson / BuzzFeed News:
Tulsi Gabbard Is Moving Toward An Unconventional Presidential Campaign.  Her Fans See “Bernie 2.0.”  —  Tulsi Gabbard, a Democratic member of Congress from Hawaii, is known — insofar as she is known — for bucking her party.  She criticized President Barack Obama's handling of ISIS.
Discussion: New York Times
Natalie Delgadillo / DCist:
After Bloodbath, The National Zoo's Naked Mole-Rats Finally Choose Their Queen  —  At last, we've reached the conclusion of this scintillating drama: the National Zoo's naked mole-rat colony has chosen its queen.  —  In case you've been living under a rock, let us catch you up …
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Michael Flynn's business partner charged with illegally lobbying for Turkey  —  A business partner of Michael Flynn is being charged with acting as an agent of a foreign government and conspiracy for attempting to get Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen extradited from the United States.
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Mick Mulvaney in October 2016: Trump would be disqualified from office in an ‘ordinary universe’  —  (CNN)Incoming White House acting-chief of staff Mick Mulvaney once said Donald Trump's past words and actions would disqualify him from becoming president in an “ordinary universe.”
Discussion: Contemptor and Mediaite
Evgenia Peretz / Vanity Fair:
“Men for Others, My Ass”: After Kavanaugh, Inside Georgetown Prep's Culture of Omertà  —  For generations, the renowned Jesuit prep school groomed its students to live up to the mantra “men for others.”  But after Christine Blasey Ford's testimony, the school and its alumni are contending with other demons.
United States Senator Lamar Alexander:
Alexander Statement on 2020 Senate Election  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn., December 17, 2018 - United States Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement:  —  “I will not be a candidate for re-election to the United States Senate in 2020.
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Joel Ebert / The Tennessean:
Tennessee US Sen. Lamar Alexander will not seek re-election in 2020
Todd May / New York Times:
Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?  —  Our species possesses inherent value, but we are devastating the earth and causing unimaginable animal suffering.  —  Mr. May is a professor of philosophy at Clemson University.  —  There are stirrings of discussion these days in philosophical circles about the prospect of human extinction.
New York Times:
CBS Says Les Moonves Will Not Receive $120 Million Severance  — The company announced that Mr. Moonves, who was forced out in September after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, had breached his employment contract.  — He will be fired for cause and, as a result, not receive his exit payout.
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
A Texas Elementary School Speech Pathologist Refused to Sign a Pro-Israel Oath, Now Mandatory in Many States — so She Lost Her Job  —  A children's speech pathologist who has worked for the last nine years with developmentally disabled, autistic, and speech-impaired elementary school students in Austin …
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Hit & Run and Splinter
Michael Sheetz / CNBC:
The stock market is on pace for its worst December since the Great Depression  —  Two benchmark U.S. stock indexes are careening toward a historically bad December.  —  Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 are on pace for their worst December performance since 1931 …
Discussion: The Week
Tosten Burks / SPIN:
It Sounds Like Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Really Mailed His Beard Hair to Azealia Banks  —  Vanity Fair's Nick Bilton dropped a parenthetical bombshell in his report today on how little Twitter's board of directors reportedly cares about CEO Jack Dorsey's public antics and college-stoner management style.
Luciano Guerra / Washington Post:
I voted for Trump.  Now his wall may destroy my butterfly paradise.  —  The Republican party is abandoning the conservative principles I treasured.  —  Right now, in Mission, Tex., we don't worry about immigrants who crossed the border illegally or drug smugglers.
Discussion: Balloon Juice, Splinter and Raw Story
Associated Press:
US sportswear traced to factory in China's internment camps  —  HOTAN, China (AP) — Barbed wire and hundreds of cameras ring a massive compound of more than 30 dormitories, schools, warehouses and workshops in China's far west.  Dozens of armed officers and a growling Doberman stand guard outside.
Discussion: New York Times
NBC News:
New White House legal team gears up for House investigations  —  A team of four deputies will help White House Counsel Pat Cipollone navigate congressional inquiries into the administration.  —  WASHINGTON — A White House already sidetracked by special counsel Robert Mueller's probe …
Cheryl Wischhover / Vox:
How spray-on hair does (and doesn't) work  —  In case Stephen Miller has you wondering.  —  On Sunday, White House senior adviser Stephen Miller appeared on Face the Nation.  His contentious interview included the assertion that President Donald Trump was quite willing to shut down the government …
Tom O'Connor / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Awarded ‘Golden Idiot’ Prize by German TV Show as Much of the World Laughs at U.S. President  —  President Donald Trump has publicly called for authorities to investigate primetime comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live over its humorous depictions of his presidency …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
Bryan Lowry / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
‘Purple’ Kansas?  Former federal prosecutor mulls Senate run against Pat Roberts  —  Former U.S. Attorney for Kansas Barry Grissom  —  Sen. Pat Roberts looks vulnerable to Democrats — and some Republicans, and that's a big reason the 2020 race has quickly drawn a prominent potential challenger …
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Trump Officials Plan to Rescind Obama-Era School Discipline Policies  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is planning to roll back Obama-era policies aimed at ensuring that minority children are not unfairly disciplined, arguing that the efforts have eased up on punishment and contributed …
Discussion: Raw Story
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Fox & Friends segment calls on Trump voters to each give $80 to fund the wall: 'It could be a people's wall'  —  A Fox & Friends segment on Monday suggested that each Trump voter should give $80 to fund the president's border wall even though he has promised Mexico would pay for it.
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Napolitano Corrects Wall Street Journal on Fox Business: FBI Agents Did Not Entrap Mike Flynn  —  Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano dismissed claims that FBI agents “entrapped” former national security adviser Michael Flynn when they interviewed him at the start of the Trump administration.
Discussion: Washington Post, CNN and Raw Story
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Giuliani stumbles into admitting Trump's hush money payments were probably illegal  —  One comment Rudolph W. Giuliani made Sunday has been getting short shrift.  In one fell swoop, he offered a false legal argument that both watered down the Trump team's previous denials and — most important …
Discussion: AOL
Alan Dershowitz / The Hill:
Did Michael Flynn lie?  Or did the FBI act improperly?  —  The media is asking the wrong question about the Michael Flynn case.  They are asking whether Flynn lied or the FBI acted improperly, as if the answers to those two questions are mutually exclusive.
Alex Kotch / Sludge:
Democrats on Key Energy Subcommittees Have Financial Stakes in Oil and Gas Companies  —  Seven Democratic members of the House Energy Committee's Energy and Environment subcommittees collectively own at least $2.3 million worth of stock in the oil and gas industry.  —  EDITED BY
Associated Press:
Trump plans to create unified US Space Command  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order before the end of the year creating a U.S. Space Command as a major military command.  —  Vice President Mike Pence will make the announcement Tuesday at the Kennedy Space Center …
Discussion: The Hill, Breitbart, CNN and Raw Story
 
 
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Steve Denning / Forbes:
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Alahna Kindred / The Sun:
CROSSED THE LINE Controversial Playboy model Marisa Papen is arrested for nude photos …
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