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Barack Obama / The Atlantic:
I'm Not Yet Ready to Abandon the Possibility of America  —  The Atlantic is pleased to offer, below, an adapted and updated excerpt from former President Barack Obama's new memoir, A Promised Land, which will be published on Tuesday by Crown.  Yesterday, The Atlantic's editor in chief …
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / New York Times:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama's ‘A Promised Land’  —  A PROMISED LAND  —  Barack Obama is as fine a writer as they come.  It is not merely that this book avoids being ponderous, as might be expected, even forgiven, of a hefty memoir, but that it is nearly always pleasurable to read …
Discussion: Twitchy
CNN:
Obama memoir confronts role his presidency played in Republican obstructionism and Trump's rise  —  Photos:  —  Barack Obama's presidency  —  U.S. President Barack Obama attends the Nuclear Security Summit in the Hague, Netherlands, in March 2014.  As Obama's second term nears its close …
CNN:
Senior Republican senators say Biden should have access to classified briefings  —  GOP senator says he will ‘step in’ if Biden doesn't get intelligence briefing  —  (CNN)Two top GOP senators told CNN on Thursday that Joe Biden should have access to classified briefings …
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Kylie Atwood / CNN:
State Department is preventing Biden from accessing messages from foreign leaders  —  Washington (CNN)A stack of messages from foreign leaders to President-elect Joe Biden are sitting at the State Department but the Trump administration is preventing him from accessing them …
CNN:
Republican senator says he will step in if Biden doesn't have access to intelligence briefings by Friday
Russell Mills / 102.3 KRMG:
Lankford guarantees “peaceful transition,” talks about COVID vaccine prospects
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump eyes digital media empire to take on Fox News  —  President Trump has told friends he wants to start a digital media company to clobber Fox News and undermine the conservative-friendly network, sources tell Axios.  —  The state of play: Some Trump advisers think Fox News …
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Associated Press:
NYT's Maggie Haberman has deal for Trump book
Discussion: Washington Examiner
New York Times:
Biden Names Ron Klain as White House Chief of Staff
Joshua Nelson / Fox News:
Graham to counter ‘tsunami of liberal money’ by donating $1M to help Georgia Senate candidates
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
This Election Result Won't Be Overturned  —  Recounts occasionally change margins in the hundreds, never in the tens of thousands.  —  It has been an eventful, unsettling year: A deadly virus struck without warning and claimed almost a quarter-million American lives; a lockdown demolished personal routines …
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Justin Price / Arizona Republic:
Biden's lead in Arizona keeps shrinking, but not enough for Trump to overtake him
Discussion: Breitbart, Althouse and Townhall
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Uline founders Liz and Dick Uihlein test positive for COVID-19.  She has criticized coronavirus restrictions.  —  Mary Spicuzza Daniel Bice Molly BeckMilwaukee Journal Sentinel  —  Liz and Dick Uihlein, founders of the shipping supply giant Uline and major donors to President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jonah Meadows / Lake Forest-Lake Bluff, IL Patch:
Trump Megadonors Contract Coronavirus, Joining Fellow Billionaire
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Notes on the State of the 2020 Election  —  Dear Readers: Check out our YouTube channel, UVACFP, later today for our latest Crystal Ball webinar.  It will feature the 22nd annual American Democracy Conference: We'll be hearing from New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie; CNN commentator Tara Setmayer …
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Natasha Turak / CNBC:
What if Trump never concedes?  The Constitution will end his term, conservative lawyer John Yoo says  — Trump “has the right to mount legal challenges, but we should be clear that these are ‘Hail Mary’ passes,” said John Yoo, a former legal advisor to the George W. Bush administration.
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump criticizes Fox: ‘They forgot the Golden Goose’  —  President Trump on Thursday unleashed on Fox News, retweeting a dozen messages attacking the network and sharing one himself lamenting that Fox “forgot the Golden Goose” that made them successful.  —  “.@FoxNews daytime ratings have completely collapsed.
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Glenna Milberg / WPLG-TV:
Evidence suggests several state Senate candidates were plants funded by dark money  —  MIAMI - Why would candidates for Florida Senate seats do no campaigning, no fundraising, have no issue platforms, nor make any effort to get votes?  —  Local 10 News has found evidence to suggest three …
Discussion: Raw Story
Dave Boyer / Washington Times:
Nevada's biggest newspaper tells Trump to give up  —  Nevada's largest newspaper, owned by Trump megadonor and casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, told the president Thursday that he lost the election.  —  The Las Vegas Journal-Review, which was purchased by Mr. Adelson in 2015 …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
How to cover a coup — or whatever it is Trump is attempting  —  President Trump lost.  The nation knows it.  The world knows it.  And, although he won't admit it, he certainly knows it, too.  —  But because he is claiming otherwise — with his Republican enablers joining the chorus …
NBC News:
Justice Department probe ends with no action against prosecutors who oversaw Epstein deal  —  A Justice Department investigation found that federal prosecutors who oversaw a controversial non-prosecution deal with Jeffrey Epstein in 2008 exercised “poor judgment” but did not break the law, Sen. Ben Sasse said Thursday.
Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Appeals court rules in favor of Harvard in affirmative action case, paving way for Supreme Court challenge  —  A federal appeals court on Thursday agreed with a lower court ruling that Harvard University does not intentionally discriminate against prospective Asian American students.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Biden Can Pass His Agenda If He Gives Republicans What They Want Most  —  The Democrats won the presidency, but they don't have what a parliamentary system would call a “government.”  Even if they win both Georgia Senate seats in the runoffs, they'll have just 50 Senate seats and will need …
Andrew Wolfson / Courier-Journal:
Louisville police, county attorney's office hide 738,000 records in Explorer sex abuse case  —  Louisville Metro Police concealed at least 738,000 records documenting the sexual abuse of Explorer Scouts by two officers — then lied to keep the files from the public, records show.
Discussion: Law & Crime
Eliza Shapiro / New York Times:
N.Y.C. Schools May Close Again, a Grim Sign of a Global Dilemma  —  The school system, the nation's largest, has had strikingly few virus cases.  Even so, the mayor may end in-person classes because the city's overall rate is surging.  —  New York City has more students in classrooms …
Discussion: Twitchy
Paul Seamus Ryan / USA Today:
Trump wants to make money off the fake ‘stolen election’ crisis he created.  Don't let him.  —  Republican donors beware!  Trump says he needs your money for legal challenges to the election, but the fine print says it won't be used that way.  —  For days, President Donald Trump has been blasting …
Discussion: The Intellectualist
People.com:
Passenger Aboard First Cruise Ship to Return to Sailing in Caribbean Tests Positive for COVID-19  —  Passengers and non-essential crew are now isolating in their cabins as the ship heads back toward its departure point in Barbados  —  The first cruise ship to set sail in the Caribbean since …
Washington Post:
'We're the ones who won': McCarthy guarantees 2022 House majority after GOP stymies Democrats in suburbs  —  Democrats have spent years wooing suburban voters, seeking to build a durable House majority on a foundation of affluent, well-educated voters repelled by President Trump and a hard-right GOP.
Discussion: Roll Call, Politico and Vox
David Thomas / Reuters:
Snell & Wilmer withdraws from election lawsuit as Trump contests Arizona results  —  The largest law firm representing the Trump campaign or its allies in post-election litigation challenging votes in key states has withdrawn from an election lawsuit in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Karin Brulliard / Washington Post:
At dinner parties and game nights, casual American life is fueling the coronavirus surge  —  A record-breaking surge in U.S. coronavirus cases is being driven to a significant degree by casual occasions that may feel deceptively safe, officials and scientists warn — dinner parties, game nights, sleepovers and carpools.
Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
Trump's Post-Election Tactics Put Him in Unsavory Company  —  Denying defeat, claiming fraud and using government machinery to reverse election results are the time-honored tools of dictators.  —  MOSCOW — When the strongman ruler of Belarus declared an implausible landslide victory …
Discussion: Alternet.org
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
A Careful Voter-Fraud Review  —  On the menu today: a careful review of recent voter-fraud cases, and how this dispels the trite, inaccurate claims that “voter fraud doesn't exist”; perspective on what recent voter-fraud cases have proven and the scale of the problem; and something …
CNN:
‘Dejected’ Trump continues to waffle over waging baseless election fight  —  (CNN)How much longer President Donald Trump continues waging battle over an election he lost remained in question Thursday as more of his advisers voiced doubt his gambit to contest the results would succeed.
Associated Press:
Grief, anger, disbelief: Trump voters face Biden's victory  —  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — When Joan Martin heard that Joe Biden had been declared the winner of the presidential election, the retired nurse and avowed supporter of President Donald Trump was deeply unsettled.
Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop:
Senior DHS cybersecurity official Bryan Ware to step down  —  Bryan S. Ware, who took the reins as the senior most Department of Homeland Security official focused exclusively on cybersecurity in January, is stepping down from his post and heading to the private sector.
Discussion: Reuters
 
 
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Ksenia Galouchko / Bloomberg:
The Argument to Tax Work-From-Home Benefits
Discussion: Louder With Crowder
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Megyn Kelly Bashes Former Fox Colleague Neil Cavuto for Cutting Off Trump Campaign Presser: He's ‘Not My Daddy’
Peter Alexander / NBC News:
Corey Lewandowski the latest member of Trump circle to test positive for Covid-19
Discussion: Politico, MSNBC and Alternet.org
Mary Robinson democracy elections / The Elders:
The Elders express deep concern at failure to respect US democratic transition of power
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Big League Censorship? Michigan Attorney General Threatens Criminal Prosecution Over Posting Of Video Alleging Voter Fraud
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Jonathan Guyer / American Prospect:
Biden Cabinet Hopefuls' Unusual Lease: Break in Case of Appointment
Tucker Carlson / Fox News:
Yes, dead people voted in this election and Democrats helped make it happen
Ben Jordan / TMJ4:
51 of 72 Wisconsin counties complete canvasses resulting in minor vote shift
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
No, Dominion voting machines did not cause widespread voting problems.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite