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10:45 AM ET, December 18, 2018

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Washington Post:
On Twitter, Trump comes out swinging in many directions  —  President Trump lashed out Tuesday morning at threats from many directions, taking aim at the special counsel's Russia inquiry, the Federal Reserve, social media companies and undocumented immigrants in tweets that spanned more than two hours.
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Michael Flynn Is Owed an Apology  —  One year after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, there is still no evidence that he is a traitor.  —  Remember when Michael Flynn was a traitor?  It was early 2017.  Democrats were still stinging from their defeat at the hands of Donald Trump.
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: Raw Story, Hullabaloo and Salon
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Mueller releases memo summarizing FBI's interview with Michael Flynn
Discussion: KXLF-TV
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
A Surge in Foreign-Influence Prosecutions
Discussion: Mediaite
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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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.
Discussion: HuffPost and NewsBusters
Sohrab Ahmari / New York Post:   Why Western elites now can't resist conspiracy theories
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Mueller Ready to Pounce on Trumpworld Concessions to Moscow  —  New court filings by Mueller's office could answer a central question of the Russia investigation: What did the Kremlin hope to get from its political machinations?  —  For more than a year, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office …
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Steve Denning / Forbes:   Mueller Exposes Putin's Hold Over Trump
Arizona Republic:
Martha McSally will be appointed to John McCain's Senate seat  —  Republican U.S. Rep. Martha McSally will replace retiring U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl to fill for the next two years the Senate seat long held by the late U.S. Sen. John McCain.  —  Gov. Doug Ducey's decision to appoint McSally …
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Arizona governor taps Martha McSally to fill Senate seat once held by McCain  —  Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has appointed fellow Republican Rep. Martha McSally to the Senate, he announced Tuesday, picking a favorite of GOP leaders to fill the seat John McCain held for decades.
Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Ocasio-Cortez weighs a new primary target: Hakeem Jeffries  —  Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is eyeing a new member of House Democratic leadership as a 2020 primary target: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).  —  Ocasio-Cortez, who ousted House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley earlier …
Discussion: Washington Times
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Karl Evers-Hillstrom / OpenSecrets.org:   Ocasio-Cortez enters the House with highest portion of small contributions
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: No deal in sight ... yet
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
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 …
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump Hates Christmas Parties  —  On Monday and Wednesday this week, Donald Trump will leave the Oval Office in the West Wing in the late afternoon and walk eastward to the White House residence, where he will meet Melania Trump.  Together, they will head downstairs at 5:15 to the Grand Foyer …
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: Washington Post and The Week
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New York Times:
Wall Street Hits New 2018 Lows as Fed Decision Looms Over Markets
Discussion: The Week and CNBC
Jessica Menton / Wall Street Journal:   Dow Industrials Fall 508 Points as Investors Fret Over Growth
Washington Post:
Top Republicans struggle to persuade Trump not to shut down the government  —  Congressional Republicans struggled Monday to find a way to persuade President Trump to back off a public threat to shut down the government over border wall money, staying largely in the dark over the impasse …
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CNN:
Senate Republicans in the dark on Trump's plan to avert a partial government shutdown
HuffPost:
White House Nightmare: Trump Golfs While His Secret Service Agents Work Without Pay
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Michelle Hackman / Wall Street Journal:
Trump School-Safety Panel Targets Obama Policy on Race and Discipline  —  Commission urges end of guideline seeking fairness in student punishments, avoids gun-control issue  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump's commission on school safety has recommended revoking a federal guideline directing schools …
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New York Times:
Trump Officials Plan to Rescind Obama-Era School Discipline Policies
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump launches unprecedented reelection machine  —  President Donald Trump is planning to roll out an unprecedented structure for his 2020 reelection, a streamlined organization that incorporates the Republican National Committee and the president's campaign into a single entity.
Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:
Death of The Weekly Standard Signals Rebirth of the Right  —  Neoconservatism is dead, long live American conservatism.  That's what I thought when I learned The Weekly Standard would be shuttered by longtime owner Clarity Media.  The Standard was a creature of a particular time and place …
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Advertisers Ditch Fox News' Tucker Carlson for Saying Immigration Makes U.S. ‘Dirtier’  —  Four advertisers, including Indeed and Pacific Life, say they have no plans to advertise on the Fox News host's show in the future.  —  Several advertisers have dropped Tucker Carlson's show …
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Ed Krassenstein / Hill Reporter:
As Tucker Carlson Insults Immigrants, Here's a List of His Advertisers
Discussion: ThinkProgress, IJR and Breitbart
Mark Rober / YouTube:
Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Trap … This might be my Magnum Opus.  Go to https://NordVPN.com/MarkRober and use code MARKROBER to get 75% off a 3 year plan and an extra month for free.  —  My buddy Sean posted a video with more details of the build: https://youtu.be/IpMxOmUcfOI
Discussion: Engadget and The Verge
Benjamin Hardy / Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times:
Work requirement ends Medicaid coverage for 4,600 more Arkansans in December  —  Almost 17,000 Arkansans have now lost their health insurance due to the state's experimental work requirement for certain low-income adult Medicaid beneficiaries, according to a monthly report released by the state Department of Human Services on Monday.
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.
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Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:   Clemson Philosopher In NYT: Maybe We Should All Kill Ourselves, Or At Least Abort All Future Children To Save The Planet
Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost:
The Bible-Thumping Tech CEO Who's Proud Of Keeping Neo-Nazis Online  —  Rob Monster claims he helped resurrect Gab because of his commitment to free speech.  He also has a lot to say about Jews.  —  Most tech CEOs who provide safe spaces for neo-Nazis to organize, propagandize, and terrorize do so as quietly as possible.
Elizabeth Warren / Washington Post:
It's time to let the government manufacture generic drugs  —  Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, represents Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate.  —  Forty-seven states and the Justice Department are investigating a price-fixing conspiracy that's driving up the cost of generic drugs in the United States.
Seth J. Frantzman / Jerusalem Post:
How totalitarian regimes will take over social media and destroy the West  —  Porous borders and radio waves and other methods enabled people to learn what was happening outside of various police states, such as the Soviet empire.  —  Totalitarian regimes are increasingly turning to the Internet …
Patti Davis / Washington Post:
A child occupies the White House — and the world knows it  —  Patti Davis is the author, most recently, of the novel “The Earth Breaks in Colors” and the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.  —  Lately, I've been looking at home movies and photographs of my childhood years …
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Different kind of Blue Dog Coalition intent on being a force in House  —  Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) is living proof that the Blue Dog Coalition has morphed into something its founders would struggle to recognize.  —  “This is not your father's Blue Dog caucus anymore,” Murphy, 40, said in a recent interview.
Elliot Ackerman / New York Times:
Even a War Hero Is Not Above the Law  —  On the battlefield, listening to a small voice that says, ‘This is not normal.’  —  Mr. Ackerman is a former Marine and recipient of the Silver Star.  —  Last Thursday, Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, an Army Special Forces officer, was charged with the murder …
 
 
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Mike Allen / Axios:
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Discussion: Washington Post, Wonkette and Fox News
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Alexis Levinson / BuzzFeed News:
Tulsi Gabbard Is Moving Toward An Unconventional Presidential Campaign. Her Fans See “Bernie 2.0.”
Discussion: Jewish Insider and New York Times