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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Donald Trump Jr. aides launch super PAC as Georgia worries mount  —  Advisers to Donald Trump Jr. are launching a super PAC to prod the president's supporters to vote in the upcoming Georgia Senate runoffs, as Republicans grow concerned that Trump's backers will boycott the elections.
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kemp to Trump: Georgia law blocks him from ‘interfering’ with elections  —  Gov. Brian Kemp's office responded Monday to President Donald Trump's demands to help him overturn Georgia's election results with a reminder that state law “prohibits the governor from interfering in the election.”
Ella Nilsen / Vox:
Georgia Senate runoffs: The final battles for control of the US Senate
National Review:
Trump's Disgraceful Endgame  —  The Supreme Court Got Church Restrictions Right  —  Biden's Cabinet: What a Hillary Clinton Administration Would Have Looked Like  —  You Have a National Adoption Month Date on Monday Morning  —  President Trump said the other day that he'd leave office …
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Live updates: Arizona certifies Biden's win; president-elect names inauguration planning committee  —  The Washington Post is providing this important election information free to all readers.  Get election results and other major news delivered to your inbox by signing up for breaking news email alerts.
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Jonathan J. Cooper / Associated Press:
Arizona certifies Biden's narrow victory over Trump  —  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona officials certified the state's election results Monday, formalizing Democrat Joe Biden's narrow victory over Donald Trump even as the Republican president's attorneys continued making baseless claims of fraud in the state's vote count.
Tom Jones / Poynter:
President Trump's interview is an embarrassing low mark for him, Fox News and, especially, interviewer Maria Bartiromo  —  Once a respected journalist and top business reporter, Bartiromo has seemingly sold her journalistic soul to become a sycophant for President Trump.
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Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Fox News Anchor Maria Bartiromo's Farcical Interview With Trump Marks the End of Her Days as a Journalist  —  Do you believe in magic?  —  Maria Bartiromo seems to.  During her interview with President Donald Trump on Sunday, the Fox News and Fox Business anchor promoted a Federalist article titled …
Discussion: Washington Post, HotAir and Vox
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Fox News needs to reinvent itself for the post-Trump era.  Here's one radical idea.  —  For a long time, Fox News has ruled the cable-news roost.  With its rabidly right-wing prime-time hosts and news shows that too often gave a showcase to crackpot ideas, it had a formula that worked beautifully …
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
The GOP Is a Propaganda Party  —  Media parasites have taken control of the host.  —  Cymothoa exigua is a terrifying creature.  —  The parasite enters a fish through its gills, attaches to its tongue, consumes the tongue, and then becomes a sort of new tongue.
Discussion: Raw Story, Washington Post and CNN
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Helen Branswell / STAT:
Divisions emerge among U.S. officials over when first Covid-19 vaccine doses will be available — and for whom  —  Divisions are emerging among top U.S. officials over when the country's first Covid-19 vaccine will be authorized — and who should be at the front of the line to get vaccinated.
Discussion: The Verge
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Jon Cohen / Science:
‘Absolutely remarkable’: No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe COVID-19
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
The Health 202: Obese Americans could be prioritized for coronavirus vaccine
Discussion: Vanity Fair and National Review
John Poulos / Wall Street Journal:
Fake Claims About Dominion Voting Systems Do Real Damage  —  Our machines have no secret ‘vote flipping’ algorithm.  We have no ties to dictator Hugo Chávez.  —  Accurate, transparent and accessible elections—this is the objective that motivated me to create Dominion Voting Systems 18 years ago in Canada.
Discussion: Axios and HotAir
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Marie Albiges / Spotlight PA:
Pa. counties reported no major issues with Dominion voting machines, a target of Trump and his campaign
Discussion: Breitbart, WXIA-TV and TheBlaze
Nonzero.org:
Grading candidates for Biden's foreign policy team: Michèle Flournoy  —  Background: Flournoy, a candidate for secretary of defense, was an undersecretary of defense in the Obama administration, where she played a big role in designing the Afghanistan “surge.”
Discussion: Common Dreams and IJR
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Associated Press:
Iran says Israel killed military nuclear scientist remotely
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
The Mastermind Behind Biden's No-Drama Approach to Trump  —  When Julián Castro wasn't given a speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention in August, he complained that Joe Biden's campaign wasn't showing proper respect to Latino voters.  The real explanation for the snub is much simpler …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Kayleigh McEnany's peculiar complaint about coverage of Biden's all-female press team  —  From literally the day after President Trump was inaugurated, his White House press operation has been anything but a model of honesty and good faith.  —  And now it appears ready to go out just as it came in.
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
MEDIA SAY BIDEN'S FEMALE-LED COMMS TEAM IS A FIRST. IT'S WHAT TRUMP HAS NOW
Glenn Greenwald:
Biden Appointee Neera Tanden Spread the Conspiracy That Russian Hackers Changed Hillary's 2016 Votes to Trump  —  How can Democrats and allied media outlets credibly oppose unhinged conspiracy theories and attacks on U.S. election legitimacy while empowering its worst purveyors?  —  1 hr ago
Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on January 20  — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will step down from his post on January 20, the day President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated, he announced Monday.  — The announcement means that the FCC could reach …
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John Hendel / Politico:   Trump's FCC chief leaves legacy of deregulation and 5G fights
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Federal Judge Advances Lawsuit Accusing Felix Sater of Laundering Loot Through Trump Properties  —  A federal judge on Monday partially advanced a lawsuit accusing Russian mafia-tied businessman Felix Sater of laundering millions stolen from Kazakhstan's BTA Bank through Trump Organization properties.
Discussion: Raw Story
Brian Klaas / Washington Post:
How to protect our democracy from a future Donald Trump  —  American democracy has spent the past four years under attack — from the White House itself.  President Trump's authoritarian populism has damaged the foundations of the republic.  —  Yet Trump's efforts to undermine the system have an unintended benefit.
Discussion: Raw Story
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Hannah Knowles and By Hannah Knowles  —  National reporter covering law enforcement and criminal justice  —  Samuel Little guided his car to a stop in a secluded area off Route 27 near Miami and cut the engine.  Before long, Mary Brosley had straddled his lap.  He started playing with her necklace.
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Liberal Hyperbole About Trump's Authoritarianism Was Never the Problem  —  As Donald Trump started shambling toward the exit of the U.S. presidency last week, the U.S. left confronted the pivotal question hanging over our newfound interregnum: Who gets to say, I told you so?
Discussion: Power Line
Data For Progress:
Voters Reject the Politics of Austerity  —  This blog is the third in a series of posts that explore likely voters' attitudes towards the national debt and deficit-financed spending.  In our first post, we discussed the results of an October survey where we found that likely voters support deficit-spending …
Jochen Bittner / New York Times:
1918 Germany Has a Warning for America  —  Donald Trump's “Stop the Steal” campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century.  —  HAMBURG, Germany — It may well be that Germans have a special inclination to panic at specters from the past, and I admit that this alarmism annoys me at times.
Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
Trouble at Treasury  —  Will Wall Street control the key subcabinet jobs?  The early signs are not encouraging.  —  Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen in a Financial Stability Oversight Council meeting, May 2015  —  Progressives rejoiced when former Fed chair Janet Yellen was named to be President-elect Biden's Treasury secretary.
Mike Dunford / The Bulwark:
The ‘Kraken’ Lawsuit Was Released And It's Way Dumber Than You Realize  —  Every time you think you have a grasp of how preposterous the Trump team's election lawsuits are, another one comes out, dumber and more conspiracy-filled than the last.  —  The Pennsylvania monstrosity that was submitted …
Discussion: Alternet.org
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Cuomo orders emergency hospital protocols as COVID capacity dwindles  —  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Monday that struggling state hospital systems must transfer patients to sites that are not nearing capacity, as rising coronavirus cases and hospitalizations strain medical resources.
 
 
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Francesca Mari / New Yorker:
Using the Homeless to Guard Empty Houses
Julia Azari / FiveThirtyEight:
What Makes A One-Term President?
Tom Benning / Dallas Morning News:
Former Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Trump's NATO ambassador, pledges ‘smooth’ transition to Biden administration
Matthew Walther / The Week:
How camp explains Trump
Discussion: Foreign Policy
Stephen Gruber-Miller / Des Moines Register:
Chuck Grassley cleared by doctors to return to work following COVID-19 diagnosis
Discussion: Forbes
Wall Street Journal:
Labor Department Published ‘Flawed Estimates’ of Weekly Jobless Claims, Watchdog Says
Discussion: Washington Examiner
 Earlier Items: 
Tyler Van Dyke / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court hears arguments on Trump attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from census
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
The Electoral College is only getting worse
Discussion: Fortune, IJR and National Review
Sally Goldenberg / Politico:
Andrew Yang, said to be considering mayoral bid, tested in new online poll
Discussion: Business Insider and Forbes
Charles Fain Lehman / Washington Free Beacon:
American High Schools Go Woke
Scott Pelley / CBS News:
Fired director of U.S. cyber agency Chris Krebs explains why President Trump's claims of election interference are false