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Washington Post:
House censures Rep. Gosar, ejects him from committees over violent video depicting slaying of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez  —  The House on Wednesday voted to censure Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) for tweeting an altered animated video that depicted him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and swinging two swords at President Biden.
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Jean Guerrero / Los Angeles Times:
Paul Gosar's anime video of killing AOC is not a joke.  It displays the new GOP's violent extremist turn  —  Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona has spent more than a week defending an anime video he tweeted that depicts him killing New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
New York Times:
House, Mostly Along Party Lines, Censures Gosar for Violent Video
New York Times:
2 Men Convicted of Killing Malcolm X Will Be Exonerated Decades Later  —  The 1966 convictions of the men are expected to be thrown out after a lengthy investigation, validating long-held doubts about who killed the civil rights leader.  —  Follow our live coverage of reactions to the exonerations …
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Democrats Shouldn't Panic.  They Should Go Into Shock.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  The rise of inflation, supply chain shortages, a surge in illegal border crossings, the persistence of Covid …
Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Rating agencies say Biden's spending plans will not add to inflationary pressure  —  U.S. President Joe Biden's infrastructure and social spending legislation will not add to inflationary pressures in the U.S. economy, economists and analysts in leading rating agencies told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Timothy B Lee / Full Stack Economics:
No, the real inflation rate isn't 15 percent
Discussion: Washington Post
Politico:
Sinema speaks up — and shakes off her critics  —  Watch the Senate floor enough and you'll notice Sen. Kyrsten Sinema regularly chatting with Mitch McConnell and his top deputy John Thune.  Republicans have even tried to recruit her to their conference, and throw the Senate to the GOP.
Washington Post:
100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 12 months during the pandemic  —  The U.S. drug epidemic reached another terrible milestone Wednesday when the government announced that more than 100,000 people had died of overdoses between April 2020 and April 2021.
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Bridget Read / The Cut:
What Happened at Carmine's  —  A confrontation between a host and dining patrons slid neatly into every outrage narrative of 2021.  Maybe a bit too neatly.  —  A few hours before his workplace went viral, Matt, a server at Carmine's on the Upper West Side, was sitting in a pre-shift meeting, taking notes on the dinner specials.
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Man who raped four teenagers gets no jail time, judge says: 'Incarceration isn't appropriate'  —  A New York man who pleaded guilty to rape and sexual abuse for assaulting four teenage girls during parties at his parents' home will not face jail time after a judge Tuesday sentenced him to eight years probation.
Discussion: TheBlaze and Raw Story
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Poll: Voters' doubts rising about Biden's health, mental fitness  —  Voters have increasing doubts about the health and mental fitness of President Joe Biden, the oldest man ever sworn into the White House, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.  —  Only 40 percent of voters surveyed agreed …
Dana Loesch / Dana Loesch's Chapter and Verse:
Kyle Rittenhouse Isn't a Villain and There Is Nothing Wrong with Open Carry  —  I've known David French for a few years and there are things we agree on and things we do not agree on and this is most definitely the latter.  I feel compelled to respond to this. … Open carry is “menacing?”
Discussion: Breitbart, The Dispatch and RedState
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The Collapse of Kamala Harris  —  You hate to see it.  —  ast week, a poll by Suffolk University revealed that just 28 percent of American voters approve of the job Vice President Harris is doing.  That result is shocking . . . ly high.  —  That America's voters disdain Harris …
FOX13 News Memphis:
Rapper Young Dolph shot and killed in Memphis, law enforcement sources confirm  —  MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Three independent law enforcement sources confirmed to FOX13 that rapper Young Dolph was shot and killed in Memphis Wednesday afternoon.  —  Maurice Hill, the owner of the shop where the shooting happened …
Chalkbeat Detroit:
Detroit school district moving to remote learning on Fridays in December as COVID cases rise  —  This story is part of a group of stories called  —  The Detroit school district is moving to remote instruction for three Fridays in December, a decision district officials attributed to concerns …
Discussion: Twitchy
Amanda Holpuch / New York Times:
Idaho Lawmaker Is Censured for Doxxing Intern Who Reported Rape  —  Priscilla Giddings, an Idaho state representative, shared a student intern's personal information after the teenager accused another lawmaker of rape.  —  An Idaho lawmaker who shared the personal information …
Adam Clark Estes / Vox:
Facebook's freaky new glove  —  Reality Labs is working on clothing that helps you feel things in the metaverse.  —  On Tuesday afternoon, Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, made a supposedly exciting announcement: a glove.  But not just any glove.
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Sherrilyn Ifill stepping down from NAACP Legal Defense Fund  —  Longtime second-in-command Janai Nelson will take over one of the country's top civil rights groups this spring, but no official transition date has been set  —  Sherrilyn Ifill was 10 years old when a New York City police officer shot …
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Wall Street Journal:
In Arbery Murder Trial, Defendant Travis McMichael Takes the Stand  —  Defendant tells jury his Georgia neighborhood had seen a rise in thefts  —  Travis McMichael, one of the men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery, took the stand in his defense Wednesday, stating his neighborhood had seen …
Wall Street Journal:
Catholic Bishops Drop Effort to Ban Communion for Politicians Who Support Abortion Rights  —  The vote was the culmination of a debate that has exposed deep ideological divisions between U.S. bishops and Rome  —  BALTIMORE—The Catholic bishops of the U.S. ended a nearly yearlong debate Wednesday …
Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and ABC News
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Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
Conference of Catholic Bishops approves Communion document without singling out politicians who back abortion rights
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
DeSantis Spokesperson Blames Vaccine Passport on the Rothschilds … The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a forgery written by the czarist secret police more than a century ago, purporting to reveal a lurid international Jewish plot.  The Rothschild family played an outsize role in the imagined conspiracy …
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley, A Capitol Riot ‘Flag-Bearer,’ Sentenced To Prison  —  Jacob Chansley, whom prosecutors called “the public face of the Capitol riot,” received one of the harshest sentences of any Jan. 6 defendant to date.  —  Jacob Chansley, the man federal prosecutors called …
Scott Alexander / Astral Codex Ten:
Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know  —  I know I'm two months late here.  Everyone's already made up their mind and moved on to other things.  —  But here's my pitch: this is one of the most carefully-pored-over scientific issues of our time.  Dozens of teams published studies saying ivermectin definitely worked.
Discussion: HotAir
Christian Berthelsen / Bloomberg:
Miami Condo Collapse Victims Sue Next-Door Luxury Development  — Families of deceased say outsized project destabilized land  — Excavation, water damage corroded structural support of towers  —  The catastrophic structural failure that led to the collapse of the Champlain Towers …
Discussion: ABC News and Joe.My.God.
Charles Gaba / ACA Signups:
RED SHIFT: How Trump's attempt to let COVID-19 destroy Blue America reversed itself, animated  —  Back in July 2020, Vanity Fair reporter Katherine Eban wrote a shocking expose which exposed the depths of callousness and cold-hearted political calculation which the Trump Administration used …
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Trump-backed House candidate has history of conspiratorial tweets and defended anti-Semitic Twitter account  —  (CNN)John Gibbs, the former Trump administration official backed by the ex-President in his bid to unseat a Republican congressman who voted for impeachment, has a history …
Grant Stern / Occupy Democrats:
Fox News proved a #MeToo lawsuit against them had “seemingly undisputed” allegations of sexual harassment  —  A #MeToo lawsuit against Fox News targeting its most popular nighttime opinion hosts, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, was just dismissed with prejudice over legal technicalities.
Laura Collins / Daily Mail:
Prosecutors in the Kenosha shooter trial withheld evidence from the defense that was ‘at the center of their case,’ only sharing the high-definition drone video footage (pictured) on which they have hung their prosecution after the trial had concluded  —  Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger played …
Ernest Luning / Colorado Politics:
FBI raids home of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters in election data breach investigation  —  Federal, state and local authorities searched the homes of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and three of her associates on Tuesday as part of an investigation into accusations the elected official was involved …
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Stricter Gun Laws Less Popular in U.S.  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' support for stricter gun control has fallen five percentage points to 52%, the lowest reading since 2014.  At the same time, 35% of U.S. adults think laws covering the sale of firearms should be kept as they are now and 11% favor less strict laws.
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Republicans are becoming more diverse.  That's a great thing.  —  Political observers have spent considerable energy discussing the many legislative seats that Republicans flipped in the Virginia and New Jersey elections this month.  But few have remarked that women and minorities led the charge …
Sean Golonka / The Nevada Independent:
Clark County man pleads guilty to voting more than once in 2020 election  —  A Clark County man prominently featured by local and national Republicans as having evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election pleaded guilty on Tuesday to voting more than once during the same election …
Discussion: Twitchy and Raw Story
 
 
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Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
Lauren Boebert calls Ilhan Omar a ‘jihad-squad member’
Phil Mattingly / CNN:
Biden announces two new circuit court selections in first-year sprint to fill judicial openings
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
A plurality of Republicans think they're more moderate than their party
Discussion: Politico
Santi Ruiz / Washington Free Beacon:
Conservative Cable Network Gets Behind Biden's FCC Nominee
Discussion: The Verge and RedState
New York Times:
How Americans' Appetite for Leather in Luxury SUVs Worsens Amazon Deforestation
New York Times:
He's Remaking Criminal Justice in L.A. But How Far Is Too Far?
Mark Thompson / CNN:
UK inflation at 10-year high sets stage for interest rate rise within weeks
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: U.S. floats interim Iran nuclear deal
Rainesford Stauffer / InStyle:
Hallie Jackson Opens Up About Mental Health and Burnout in Her New Show
Michael Warren / CNN:
Trump's thirst for revenge is causing chaos in the Georgia governor's race
Discussion: The Hill
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The right-wing culture war just got worse. Liberals need a better response.
John Bowden / Yahoo News:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump had a dinner party the day after the Capitol riot, book claims
Discussion: Vanity Fair and Joe.My.God.
Scott Bland / Politico:
Liberal ‘dark-money’ behemoth funneled more than $400M in 2020
Discussion: Just The News
Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
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