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6:35 PM ET, December 4, 2020

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Politico:
White House fires Pentagon advisory board members, installs loyalists  —  The White House removed nine members of the Pentagon's Defense Business Board on Friday and installed people loyal to President Donald Trump in their place, including presidential allies Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie.
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CNN:
Trump Pentagon nominee spreads debunked conspiracies and tweets suggesting Trump declare martial law  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's nominee to become a senior Pentagon official spread debunked conspiracies on Twitter that called Trump's election loss to Joe Biden a “coup” …
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House votes to decriminalize marijuana as GOP resists national shift on pot  —  The House endorsed a landmark retreat in the nation's decades-long war on drugs Friday, voting to remove marijuana from the federal schedule of controlled substances and provide for the regulation and taxation of legal cannabis sales.
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John Parkinson / ABC News:
Congress' vote to decriminalize marijuana, explained
Discussion: Mother Jones, Mic, The Daily Caller and UPI
Kim Lyons / The Verge:
Meet the lieutenant governor pushing Democrats to get serious about weed
Discussion: Vox, The Lid and Balloon Juice
Tanni Deb / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: Loeffler cancels rally plans after campaign staffer dies  —  One of Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler's campaign staffers died Friday, forcing her to cancel her plans to join Vice President Mike Pence in Savannah for a rally.Loeffler's communications director issued the following statement …
Discussion: NBC News
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CNN:
Trump's criticism of GOP Senate candidates has Republicans worried ahead of rally  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump heads to Georgia on Saturday to campaign for two Republican senators one month ahead of a critical runoff that will determine which party controls the Senate.
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
They're Fine With It  —  Republicans have no qualms with Trump's dangerous conspiracies—until they get tangled up in them themselves.  —  Why aren't more Republicans standing up and speaking out about Donald Trump's reprehensible acts?  It's the eternal question of the Trump era and one that's …
Hallie Golden / Lead Stories:
Fact Check: Video From Georgia Does NOT Show Suitcases Filled With Ballots Suspiciously Pulled From Under A Table; Poll Watchers Were NOT Told To Leave  —  Fact Check  —  Does security camera video show a Fulton County, Georgia, election supervisor suspiciously pulling suitcases filled …
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Media Matters for America:
Touting efforts to subvert the election, Rush Limbaugh bemoans that Trump supporters are coming across as “kooks”
Discussion: HotAir
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Trump Orders All American Troops Out of Somalia  —  While the number of troops — about 700 — is small, it is a continuation of President Trump's efforts to withdraw the United States from what he has described as endless wars.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump, continuing his end …
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Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
How Do You Solve a Problem Like John Durham?  —  How should the next attorney general, whoever he or she turns out to be, handle the John Durham probe?  —  The more I study what Attorney General Bill Barr did in his secret October order naming the Connecticut U.S. attorney as a special counsel …
Discussion: HotAir and New York Times
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
DHS Must Post Online Notice Welcoming Dreamers, Judge Rules in Rescinding Unlawful Chad Wolf Memo  —  Formally rescinding acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf's memo on the grounds that he was illegally appointed, a federal judge on Friday ordered the DHS to unfurl the welcome mat …
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Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Federal judge restores DACA, orders DHS to accept first-time applications from immigrants
Discussion: CNN and CBS News
Errin Haines / The 19th:
Kellyanne Conway acknowledges ‘it looks like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will prevail’  —  The former adviser to President Donald Trump reflects on his presidency, women voters and her own historic role in the campaign.  —  Editor-at-large  —  Kellyanne Conway said President Donald Trump has …
Washington Post:
Coronavirus live updates: CDC advises people to wear masks indoors at all times, except at home  —  The Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free.  For more free coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, sign up for our Coronavirus Updates newsletter where all stories are free to read.
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Politico:
Becerra among new candidates for Biden's health secretary  —  President-elect Joe Biden is eyeing three new candidates for health secretary after previous front-runners fell out of contention for the job this week, according to people familiar with the discussions.
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CNN:
The top contenders to lead Biden's Justice Department
Jacqueline Thomsen / LAW.com:
Judge Questions Whether Trump's Pardon of Michael Flynn Is ‘Too Broad’  —  U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said his colleague Emmet Sullivan could find that “the wording of the pardon is too broad, in that it provides protections beyond the date of the pardon.”
Discussion: emptywheel and Raw Story
Sunny Oh / MarketWatch:
Wall Street and finance workers could get COVID vaccines before most Americans  —  Financial industry workers could be second in line after healthcare workers and nursing home residents  —  Wall Street could get a shot in the arm in the coming months, while much of Main Street waits months for their COVID inoculations.
Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
RNC's highest-paid vendor of the 2020 election: A mystery company formed nine months ago  —  Digital Consulting Group made $42 million in eight months for media and marketing services.  But who's behind it?  —  In August, Salon reported that the Republican National Committee (RNC) …
Discussion: The Intellectualist
Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Stevie Nicks Sells Stake in Songwriting Catalog  —  Music publisher Primary Wave takes 80% interest in Fleetwood Mac star's catalog  —  Stevie Nicks closed a deal to sell a majority stake in her publishing catalog late last month, on the heels of Fleetwood Mac's “Dreams” hitting the Billboard charts for the first time since 1977.
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
The Children of Pornhub  —  Why does Canada allow this company to profit off videos of exploitation and assault?  —  Pornhub prides itself on being the cheery, winking face of naughty, the website that buys a billboard in Times Square and provides snow plows to clear Boston streets.
Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
Gripped by surging pandemic, US employers cut back on hiring  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — With the viral pandemic accelerating across the country, America's employers sharply scaled back their hiring last month, adding 245,000 jobs, the fewest since April and the fifth straight monthly slowdown.
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Stop Lin Wood and Sidney Powell Now, or They Will Control the GOP's Destiny  —  If significant numbers of Republican voters choose to not participate in the January 5 runoff elections for both Senate seats, and that leads to victories by Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, that will do nothing for Donald Trump …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and HotAir
New York Times:
How 700 Epidemiologists Are Living Now, and What They Think Is Next  —  They are going to the grocery store again, but don't see vaccines making life normal right away.  —  Even with coronavirus vaccines on the way, many epidemiologists do not expect their lives to return to pre-pandemic normal until most Americans are vaccinated.
Discussion: Reason
Jonah Goldberg / The Dispatch:
Conspiracy Theories Are Incompatible With Conservatism  —  It's supposed to be a worldview grounded in realism.  —  11 hr ago  —  You aren't a conservative if you believe in conspiracy theories.  —  Before I defend this statement, I should say that as a general rule …
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
The RNC Shelled Out $300K for Don Jr.'s New Book  —  The huge sum that the GOP paid to give signed copies of the book to its donors appears to be its largest-ever payment for “donor mementos.”  —  The Republican National Committee paid more than $300,000 in October to a company owned …
Washington Post:
Sanders announces opposition to $908 billion coronavirus relief package as lawmakers scramble for deal  —  Opposition from former presidential candidate shows that not all liberals will embrace the targeted package.  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday announced his opposition …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The GOP Is Fighting to Block Red-State Bailouts  —  For eight months now, Mitch McConnell has been preventing the federal government from providing fiscal aid to America's state and municipal governments.  The Senate Majority Leader and his far-right colleagues have obstructed such aid even though:
Brian Karem / The Bulwark:
Michael Cohen on What Trump Wants Now  —  The president's longtime lawyer, still serving out his federal sentence, explains his former boss's post-election maneuvering.  —  Donald Trump is Captain Chaos.  —  Michael Cohen, Trump's former fixer, pinned that label on him and it has stuck.
Discussion: Raw Story
Susannah Luthi / Politico:
Supreme Court to review rulings against Trump's Medicaid work rules  —  The Supreme Court on Friday said it would consider the Trump administration's request to reinstate work rules for some Medicaid enrollees, even as President-elect Joe Biden will look to wind down his predecessor's conservative remake …
Discussion: Washington Post, CNN, USA Today and RedState
Washington Post:
Trump campaign committees spent $1.1 million at Trump properties in the last days of his losing campaign  —  President Trump's campaign and its affiliated committees spent more than $1.1 million at Trump's own properties in the last weeks of the 2020 campaign — continuing a pattern …
Discussion: Raw Story
Eric Umansky / ProPublica:
It Wasn't the First Time the NYPD Killed Someone in Crisis.  For Kawaski Trawick, It Only Took 112 Seconds.  —  Trawick was alone in his apartment when an officer pushed open the door.  He was holding a bread knife and a stick.  “Why are you in my home?” he asked.  He never got an answer.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
274,000 Dead, and Trump Obsesses Over Election Conspiracy Theories. Where's the Outrage?
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Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
It's (Past) Time For Fox to Pull Lou Dobbs Off the Air