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8:55 AM ET, December 1, 2020

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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Trump Lawyer: Former DHS Senior Official Should Be Executed  —  On Monday President Trump's campaign lawyer and former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova said that fired Trump cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs should be executed for saying that the election was the “most secure in United States history.”
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New York Times:
Trump Raises $170 Million as He Denies His Loss and Eyes the Future  —  The president's campaign has ratcheted up its appeals for cash, but the first 75 percent of every contribution is going to a new political action committee that could fund his next political move.
Discussion: Washington Post
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Washington Post:
Trump raises more than $150 million appealing to false election claims  —  President Trump's political operation has raised more than $150 million since Election Day, using a blizzard of misleading appeals about the election to shatter fundraising records set during the campaign, according to people with knowledge of the contributions.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump's making a list, checking it twice
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Dr. Scott Atlas resigns as special adviser to Trump on coronavirus  —  Atlas was considered a Special Government Employee (SGE) serving a 130-day detail, which expires this week  —  Dr. Scott Atlas slams Dr. Anthony Fauci over newfound COVID optimism  —  EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Scott Atlas …
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Dan Diamond / Politico:
Scott Atlas resigns as Trump's coronavirus adviser  —  Scott Atlas, the controversial physician who became President Donald Trump's hand-picked coronavirus adviser, resigned from the White House on Monday.  —  “I always relied on the latest science and evidence, without any political consideration …
Yashar Ali / Yashar's Newsletter:
Scoop: Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to Name Tina Flournoy as Chief of Staff  —  Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is set to name Tina Flournoy, who currently serves as chief of staff to former President Bill Clinton, as her chief of staff, according to two sources involved in transition planning.
Discussion: Axios
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CNN:
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris picks Tina Flournoy as her chief of staff
Discussion: The Hill and Daily Kos
CNN:
Trump sees ‘the writing on the wall’ despite what he maintains publicly about the election, advisers say  —  (CNN)Despite what President Donald Trump is tweeting and saying publicly in the wake of Arizona and Wisconsin certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory Monday …
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Politico:
Republicans to Trump: Georgia fraud claims could cost us the Senate
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: FDA chief called to West Wing  —  White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has summoned FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn to the West Wing for a 9:30am meeting Tuesday to explain why he hasn't moved faster to approve the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, two senior administration officials told Axios.
Discussion: CNN, Foreign Policy and Political Wire
Betsy McKay / Wall Street Journal:
Covid-19 Likely in U.S. in Mid-December 2019, CDC Scientists Report  —  New analysis of blood donations finds virus was present on West Coast earlier than previously believed  —  The new coronavirus infected people in the U.S. in mid-December 2019, a few weeks before it was officially identified …
Discussion: Bloomberg and NPR
Teo Armus / Washington Post:
Ohio GOP lawmakers are trying to impeach Gov. Mike DeWine over his covid-19 rules.  He says it's a ‘fantasy.’  —  While trying to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) has faced throngs of armed protesters at the statehouse and crowds outside his own home.
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Jordan Pascale / DCist:
WMATA Proposes Reducing Service, Cutting Weekend Trains In 2021  —  Facing the grimmest budget projections in its 50-year history, Metro is proposing the complete elimination of weekend service.  —  It is one of a series of staggering cuts the transit agency may need to make in the next fiscal year …
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Justin George / Washington Post:
Metro budget cuts weekend service, half of bus routes and closes 19 stations amid dire financial forecast
Discussion: HillFaith
Washington Post:
Bipartisan group of Senators prepares $908 billion stimulus plan, aiming to break partisan logjam  —  Package comes amid signs economy is weakening but so far does not have buy in from White House, congressional leaders  —  A bipartisan group of senators is expected to unveil …
Nick Paton Walsh / CNN:
The Wuhan files  —  London — A group of frontline medical workers, likely exhausted, stand huddled together on a video-conference call as China's most powerful man raises his hand in greeting.  It is February 10 in Beijing and President Xi Jinping, who for weeks has been absent from public view …
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Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
Vaccines Are Coming, but Pandemic Experts Expect a ‘Horrible’ Winter  —  With vaccines and a new administration, the pandemic will be tamed.  But experts say the coming months “are going to be just horrible.”  —  Each week, good news about vaccines or antibody treatments surfaces, offering hope that an end to the pandemic is at hand.
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
Everything we needed to know about Melania Trump is in those bewildering Christmas decorations  —  It's our final Christmas with Melania Trump, and we shall celebrate in the usual way: by accompanying FLOTUS on an annual tour of her White House decor, a one-minute video that also appears …
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:   White House planning a packed season of holiday parties
Politico:
‘Any and all possible offenses’: Trump pardon grants Flynn a sweeping reprieve  —  President Donald Trump's pardon of his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, includes an extremely broad reprieve from any possible crimes he might have committed connected to special counsel Robert Mueller's …
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Jonathan H. Adler / Reason:   The Pardon Power May Be Broad, But that Does Not Mean a Self-Pardon Would Be Legit
Barnini Chakraborty / Washington Examiner:
Georgia ordered to file brief in voting machine rigging lawsuit  —  Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and the state's elections chief were ordered in a late-night Sunday ruling to explain why they were opposed to the Trump campaign's request to inspect voting machines the president has claimed “switched” votes in favor of Joe Biden.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: : One measure of Trump fatigue in Georgia — among Republicans
Graeme Massie / The Independent:
Ivanka Trump ‘Not Wanted’ posters appear across New York City  —  Frontier-style placards appear weeks before president leaves White House  —  Ivanka Trump should not expect a warm welcome back in New York after a string of “Not Wanted” posters appeared across Manhattan.
Noa Shpigel / Haaretz:
'It's a Jewish City': Court Rejects Lawsuit by Arab Students, Citing Israel's Nation-state Law  —  Schoolkids asked to be reimbursed for travel outside of the city of Carmiel - because it has no Arabic-language schools; controversial 2018 law asserts self-determination in Israel is ‘unique to the Jewish people’
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Josh Hawley's Populist Shtick Is Undermined By One Glaring Weakness  —  Josh Hawley has had a pretty good year.  The Republican senator from Missouri has carved out a national profile with his smooth blend of theocratic quasi-authoritarianism combined with populist-inflected rhetoric that's …
Washington Post:
Biden's pick to lead White House budget office emerges as lightning rod for GOP  —  Neera Tanden, who served in both the Clinton and Obama administrations, would face Senate confirmation early next year  —  President-Elect Joe Biden's pick to lead the powerful White House budget office …
Michael Tomasky / New York Times:
How Dinkins and Giuliani Foretold the Future of American Politics  —  Mayoral elections in New York City helped blaze an unhappy trail to our national state of two warring camps.  —  I remember being at the hotel on election night in 1993 where Mayor David Dinkins and his supporters …
Rebecca Ratcliffe / The Guardian:
Facebook and YouTube accused of complicity in Vietnam repression  —  Amnesty report accuses sites of openly signalling they will bow to authoritarian regimes  —  Facebook and YouTube are complicit in “censorship and repression on an industrial scale” in Vietnam, according to a report …
American Greatness:
Gearing Up for Round 3 of the Great Trump War  —  Six months of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will generate vertiginous nostalgia for Donald Trump.  Then will come the third and final round of the Great Trump War.  —  The halftime scorecard in the Great Trump War is much more ambiguous …
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
GOP silence on Trump's false election claims recalls McCarthy era  —  (CNN)The silence of congressional Republican leaders as President Donald Trump's unfounded claims of election fraud grow wilder and more venomous increasingly resembles the party's deference to Sen. Joe McCarthy during …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Carter Page Says FBI Agent Used Fake Name During Interviews  — Carter Page alleged in a lawsuit filed last week that an FBI counterintelligence agent used an alias during interviews with him in 2017.  — A retired FBI official who has worked in undercover operations says that an agent using …
 
 
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
A Question for Donald Trump: What Do You Call Someone Who Loses to ‘a Loser’?
Discussion: Raw Story and National Review
Politico:
The quiet frontrunner: How Biden landed on Yellen for Treasury secretary
David Armstrong / ProPublica:
States With Few Coronavirus Restrictions Are Spreading the Virus Beyond Their Borders
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
The MAGA Coalition Rallying Behind Trump's Post-Election Mischief Is Already Cracking
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
Kristi Noem's Grandmother Died in Nursing Home Ravaged by COVID
Discussion: Raw Story
Amberin Zaman / Al-Monitor:
Turkey opens secret channel to fix ties with Israel
Discussion: Al Jazeera
 Earlier Items: 
Charles Piller / Science:
Federal system for tracking hospital beds and COVID-19 patients provides questionable data
Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
No game days. No bars. The pandemic is forcing some men to realize they need deeper friendships.
Harriet Alexander / Yahoo Finance:
Trump was 'muttering, I won, I won, like ‘Mad King George’ after election defeat, report says
Jasper Scherer / Houston Chronicle:
Harris County GOP chair Keith Nielsen resigns after racist post, fundraising struggles
Discussion: Raw Story and The Texas Tribune
Michelangelo Signorile / The Signorile Report:
Elite G0P senators try to emulate Trump in criticizing Biden's Cabinet—but fail miserably
Matt Egan / CNN:
Trump said the stock market would crash if Biden won. The Dow just had its best month since 1987.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, The Week and CNBC
Mark Judge / The Stream:
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