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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
It's Different When Ron DeSantis Does It: CNN Edition  —  There's some choice DeSantis Derangement Syndrome on CNN this morning.  Check out this headline: … Gosh!  A “civilian military force in Florida that he would control”!  That sounds terrifying — especially when paired with the piece's artwork …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo, Twitchy and CNN
Axios:
McConnell: No legislative agenda for 2022 midterms  —  Mitch McConnell has told colleagues and donors Senate Republicans won't release a legislative agenda before next year's midterms, according to people who've attended private meetings with the minority leader.
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Irin Carmon / New York Magazine:
Amy Coney Barrett's Adoption Myths  —  “They're co-opting our lives and our stories.”  —  Twice in oral arguments this week for the abortion case that could overturn Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett asked pro-choice advocates: Would banning abortion be so bad if women …
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Elizabeth Spiers / New York Times:
Amy Coney Barrett Doesn't Understand the Trauma of Adoption
Discussion: Men Yell at Me
Merritt Tierce / New York Times:   The Abortion I Didn't Have  —  I never thought about ending my pregnancy.
CNN:
Russia positions more forces, supply lines as fears rise of potential Ukraine invasion  —  Analysis: Would Putin get away with invading Ukraine again?  —  (CNN)Russian forces have capabilities in place along the Ukraine border to carry out a swift and immediate invasion …
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Washington Post:
Amid heightened tensions, Russia and U.S. make quiet breakthrough on staffing at Moscow embassy
Discussion: TASS
UnHerd:
Video15:08 Inside Australia's Covid internment camp  —  Freddie Sayers spoke to Hayley Hodgson, who has returned from a 14-day detention  —  Hayley Hodgson, 26, moved to Darwin from Melbourne to escape the never-ending lockdowns — only to find herself locked up in a Covid Internment Camp without even having the virus.
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Job growth disappoints in November, with a gain of just 210,000, despite high hopes  —  November job growth falls far short of expectations, unemployment rate hits 4.2%  —  The U.S. economy created far fewer jobs than expected in November, before a new Covid threat created a scare that growth …
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David Harrison / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Added Just 210,000 Jobs in November
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Eastman takes the Fifth with Jan. 6 committee  —  The attorney, who helped former President Donald Trump contest the 2020 election, asserted his right against self-incrimination in a Dec. 1 letter to the Capitol riot panel.  —  John Eastman, the attorney who helped former President Donald Trump pressure …
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Raheem J. Kassam / The National Pulse:
John Eastman's Lawyers Just Destroyed the Jan 6 Committee and Its ‘Subpoenas’.
Discussion: Rolling Stone and Washington Post
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Murray Waas / The Guardian:
Sidney Powell filed false incorporation papers for non-profit, grand jury finds  —  Trump's lawyer falsely claimed two men as fellow directors of Defending the Republic in an apparent effort to attract donors  —  A federal grand jury investigating Donald Trump's former attorney Sidney Powell …
Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
Alec Baldwin on ‘Rust’ shooting: 'Someone is responsible ... but I know it's not me'  —  Actor spoke with George Stephanopoulos for an exclusive interview on ABC, Hulu.  —  On the morning of Oct. 21, Alec Baldwin had an epiphany.  —  Sitting in a church pew on the set of “Rust,” …
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Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware … Apple Inc iPhones of at least nine U.S. State Department employees were hacked by an unknown assailant using sophisticated spyware developed by the Israel-based NSO Group, according to four people familiar with the matter.
Jenny Jarvie / Los Angeles Times:
A drama professor told students they got their feelings hurt too easily.  They decided to fight back  —  It all started with a misunderstanding.  —  A Black theater student at Coastal Carolina University told a visiting drama teacher she wanted to connect with nonwhite students …
Discussion: Althouse
American Greatness:
Why I Can't Support Trump, the GOP, or Conservatism, Inc. Anymore  —  How many disappointments, betrayals, and failed promises do people need to endure before they say, “Never again?”  —  That the “woke” are anything but awake is a fact that needs no underscoring for readers of this website.
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
The Supreme Court's End Game on Abortion  —  There are many reasons for dismay over the Supreme Court argument in the Mississippi abortion case, but it was the nonstop gaslighting that really got to me.  —  First there was Justice Clarence Thomas, pretending by his questions actually …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds could release ‘alternative’ Mueller report soon  —  An unpublished investigative compilation sometimes referred to as the “Alternative Mueller Report” has been located in Justice Department files and could be released soon, according to a letter filed in federal court Thursday.
American Prospect:
As Buttigieg Eyes a Presidential Run, His DOT Is Floundering  —  The transportation secretary has a major role to play in easing the supply chain crisis.  Pete Buttigieg isn't doing the job.  —  The transportation secretary has had very little to say about actual transportation policy during this crisis.
Discussion: Eschaton
Axios:
Burnout, money, concern drive Harris turnover  —  Burnout, better opportunities and concern about being permanently branded a “Harris person” is driving some of the turnover in Vice President Kamala Harris's office, people familiar with the situation tell Axios.
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Biden administration to ship 11 million vaccine doses abroad  —  The Biden administration is shipping 9 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Africa and 2 million to other regions, the White House is announcing Friday.  —  White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients will announce plans …
Discussion: NBC News and POLITICUSUSA
Ruy Teixeira / The Liberal Patriot:
Democrats, Not Republicans, Need to Defuse the Culture Wars  —  It's not exactly a secret the Republicans are running hard against the Democrats on sociocultural issues like crime, immigration, ideology in the schools and cancel culture.  Their strategy is to combine attacks …
Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Raspy-voiced Biden says cough is due to grandson's cold, not the coronavirus  —  President Biden explained Friday that his cough and raspy voice is due to a grandson who had a cold and not the coronavirus.  He is tested for the virus every day and recent results were negative, he said.
American Greatness:
How the FBI Downplays Leftist Terror Activity  —  The investigation into the 2019 Dayton, Ohio mass shooting shows the Bureau cannot be trusted to identify left-wing violence.  —  Pro-Antifa social media accounts are taking a victory lap this week following the announcement that the FBI …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The U.S. has added nearly 1 million more jobs in 2021 than initially reported  —  The economic news that came first thing Friday morning was not what President Biden had hoped: the country added only 210,000 jobs in November, well below expectations and below the pace needed to replace the jobs lost since the start of the pandemic.
Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
North Dakota school superintendent slams critical race theory, calls to teach ‘Christian heritage’  —  A North Dakota school district superintendent sent an email that says racial injustice is being pushed by a “political ideology,” called for a “Christ centered Republic” and deemed critical race theory …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
More Democratic senators are willing to weigh changes to Supreme Court  —  This week's Supreme Court argument on abortion has accelerated an urgency among Senate Democrats to fundamentally alter how the court operates, fueled in part by lingering anger over Republican confirmation maneuvers …
New York Times:
Thefts, Always an Issue for Retailers, Become More Brazen  —  In recent months, robberies have been more visible, with several involving large groups rushing into stores and coming out with armloads of goods.  —  “Flash mobs” swarm through a Nordstrom in Northern California and two Best Buy stores …
Washington Post:
December launches with exceptional warmth over large parts of Lower 48 states  —  Temperatures will be more than 30 degrees above average in some locations  —  Winter, by the meteorological definition (Dec. 1 to Feb. 28), began Wednesday morning, but the weather is feeling more like mid-fall …
Discussion: Twitchy
Ilya Shapiro / Washington Examiner:
What happened when I ran for school board in Virginia  —  About a year ago, when schools were still closed in northern Virginia and parents were fretting about learning loss, the school board in my small town of Falls Church voted to change the names of Thomas Jefferson Elementary and George Mason High.
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Trump Conspiracy Is Hiding in Plain Sight  —  Antebellum pro-slavery radicals spoke freely of secession and violence; Democratic Party paramilitaries planned their attacks on Reconstruction governments in public view; and the men who codified segregation into Jim Crow did so in the open.
 
 
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Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
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JONATHAN TURLEY:
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The Guardian:
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Maeve Reston / CNN:
Republicans pull back from the Covid brink — for now
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Washington Post:
House Republicans express concern over party infighting, but not the Islamophobic rhetoric that set it off
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Raw Story
NBC News:
Avoiding shutdown, Congress approves bill to fund government through Feb. 18
General Michael Hayden / The Cipher Brief:
My Worry for America  —  OPINION — I was a Brigadier General 30 years ago, assigned in Europe as the head of intelligence.