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David Corn / Mother Jones:
I Compared the New January 6 Texts to Mark Meadows' Book.  It's Damning.  —  Fight disinformation.  Get a daily recap of the facts that matter.  Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.  —  Mark Meadows, call your publisher.  —  It seems that Donald Trump's final White House chief …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: About those Jan. 6 texts  —  Welcome to Byron York's Daily Memo newsletter.  —  Was this email forwarded to you?  Sign up here to receive the newsletter.  —  ABOUT THOSE JAN. 6 TEXTS.  The House Jan. 6 committee has released a bunch of texts …
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
It Sure Sounds Like Trump Was Screening Don Jr.'s Calls During the Capitol Attack  —  The president's namesake texted Mark Meadows that his father needed to “condemn this s—t.”  —  On Monday night, while arguing that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows should be held …
New York Times:
Trump Fraud Inquiry's Focus: Did He Mislead His Own Accountants?  —  The investigation, by the Manhattan district attorney, is zeroing in on information the former president and his company shared about the value of his assets.  —  As prosecutors in Manhattan weigh whether to charge Donald J. Trump …
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Washington Post:
Trump's longtime accountant testifies to N.Y. grand jury in criminal probe  —  A longtime accountant for former president Donald Trump — who helped prepare Trump's taxes and the financial statements he used to woo lenders — testified recently before a New York grand jury investigating Trump's …
Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors and Raw Story
New York Post:
Eric Adams picks Keechant Sewell as the first female police commissioner of the NYPD  —  Mayor-elect Eric Adams has tapped Nassau County Chief of Detectives Keechant Sewell as the first female police commissioner of the NYPD — a stunning, close-to-home pick from a field of seasoned top women cops across …
Discussion: PIX11
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New York Times:
Keechant Sewell to Lead N.Y.P.D. as Its First Female Commissioner  —  The selection of Ms. Sewell, the Nassau County chief of detectives, was seen as one of Eric Adams's most critical appointments as incoming mayor.  —  Keechant Sewell, the Nassau County chief of detectives …
Christina A. Cassidy / Associated Press:
Far too little vote fraud to tip election to Trump, AP finds  —  ATLANTA (AP) — An Associated Press review of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by former President Donald Trump has found fewer than 475 — a number that would have made no difference in the 2020 presidential election.
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Politico:
Judge scraps Trump lawsuit to shield tax returns from Congress  —  A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump's bid to block congressional Democrats from obtaining his tax returns.  —  Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee to federal district court in Washington …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Loses Bid to Shield Tax Returns From Congress
Discussion: HuffPost
Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Three Republican Residents of The Villages Arrested for Casting Multiple 2020 Votes  —  CAUGHT OUT  —  Three Republican residents of the hedonistic Florida retirement haven The Villages have been charged with casting multiple votes in the 2020 presidential election, according to local reports.
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Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Andrew Cuomo ordered to return $5.1M pandemic book profits to state  —  New York's ethics watchdog panel ordered disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo to return the $5.1 million in profits from his pandemic book deal to the state next month.  —  The extraordinary resolution was approved …
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Grace Ashford / New York Times:
Cuomo Is Ordered to Forfeit Earnings From $5.1 Million Book Deal
Washington Post:
Omicron spreading rapidly in U.S. and could bring punishing wave as soon as January, CDC warns  —  But federal and some pharmaceutical executives signal they do not currently favor revising vaccines, saying existing regimen plus boosters are effective
Discussion: Breitbart, Bloomberg, CBS News and STAT
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Biden White House warns: COVID explosion imminent
Lesley Wroughton / Washington Post:
Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe covid, major South African study concludes
Reuters:
Nearing ‘end of the road’ to save Iran nuclear deal -France  —  The door to resuscitating the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is open for now but “we are rapidly reaching the end of the road” to revive a pact that is being gutted by Iran's nuclear advances, France's ambassador to the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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Washington Post:
D.C. attorney general sues Proud Boys, Oath Keepers over Jan. 6 attack  —  D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) on Tuesday sued the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers over the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, seeking to use a law written to cripple the Ku Klux Klan to exact stiff financial penalties …
New York Times:
How Beijing Influences the Influencers  —  We are on the outskirts of Shanghai today at the most incredible hotel we've ever stayed at.  —  It's the first in the world built inside a quarry.  —  Stick around when we show you around.  —  Catch you later.
Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Phil Waldron, backer of Jan. 6 PowerPoint, is invited to speak to Louisiana voting panel  —  A retired Army colonel who worked with then-President Donald Trump's outside legal team to claim that the 2020 election results were rigged was an invited speaker Tuesday at a state commission charged with shaping Louisiana's voting system.
Nathan Baca / wusa9.com:
Zebras on the loose since August found in Prince George's County  —  We are not horsing around: The two missing zebras have been safely found and captured.  A third was found dead in September.  —  PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. — Two zebras that have been on the loose since Aug. 22 from an Upper Marlboro farm have been caught.
Discussion: New York Times and The Hill
Chuck Ross / Washington Free Beacon:
Blumenthal Speaks at Communist Party Awards Ceremony  —  Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) spoke at an awards ceremony over the weekend hosted by a Communist Party affiliate whose leaders used the event to recruit potential members to the organization.  —  Blumenthal, one of the wealthiest members …
Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
Climate change has destabilized the Earth's poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril  —  New research shows how rising temperatures have irreversibly altered both the Arctic and Antarctic.  Ripple effects will be felt around the globe.  —  The ice shelf was cracking up.
Discussion: Substack and Common Dreams
Theodore Schleifer / Puck:
Tech's Looming Radical Chic Throwdown  —  The recall election of Chesa Boudin, San Francisco's avant-garde D.A., has turned bitter, pitting tech's billionaires against one another—and forcing the city to look at itself, and its past, in the mirror.  —  Last January, I fired up my AirPods …
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
A Real Housewife of New York Dined and Dashed at D.C.'s Sceniest Restaurant  —  Live in Washington long enough, and you'll see some naughty behavior.  This is a town that's seen three impeachments, two fake wars, one attempted coup, and too many sex scandals to count — and that's just the last four administrations.
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
This State's Rogue Sheriff Problem Somehow Just Got Worse  —  Twisted new criminal allegations of Tasing came in a state where elected law-enforcement figures love to cross the line into criminality.  —  A South Carolina sheriff is facing multiple charges after allegedly ordering a deputy …
Discussion: Raw Story, scag.gov and governor.sc.gov
Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Gorsuch writes scathing dissent after Supreme Court rejects New York vaccine mandate challenge  —  Justice Neil Gorsuch penned a scathing dissent after the Supreme Court left in place New York's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.  —  Only two other Republican-appointed justices …
Politico:
How a 100-year-old newspaper became the go-to way to influence Biden  —  Interest groups trying to influence the president of the United States will often fork over millions of dollars in order to do so.  During the Biden era, however, an old media-centric, less splashy technique has been deployed.
Sarah Mimms / BuzzFeed News:
The Pro-Trump Conspiracy Internet Is Moving From Facebook To Your Doorstep  —  The man at the door said he was just there to verify some publicly available information.  —  In the home security video, he seems nervous and out of breath as he waits at the doorway, glancing frequently at his phone.
Discussion: Raw Story
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Man who threatened to shoot Pelosi and brought guns and ammo to D.C. is sentenced to 28 months  —  Cleveland Meredith Jr. repeatedly texted family and friends saying he hoped to shoot Pelosi and assault the nation's capital  —  As Cleveland G. Meredith Jr., a devoted follower …
Discussion: wusa9.com
Politico:
Senate Dems' choice: Election reform first, or Biden's megabill?  —  Senate Democrats are desperately trying to avoid ending the year stalled on their two top priorities: elections reform and their expansive bill to address climate and the social safety net.  —  At the center of it all sits Joe Manchin.
Discussion: HuffPost and Insider
Pippa Crerar / Mirror.co.uk:
Extraordinary image shows ‘raucous’ Xmas party thrown by Tory aides in lockdown breach  —  Our image shows 24 people crowded together in a room in the Tories' Westminster HQ for an event organised by Shaun Bailey's mayoral campaign - Mr Bailey tonight quit as chair of the London Assembly's police …
Discussion: Metro.co.uk and The Guardian
 
 
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Jeremy Duda / Arizona Mirror:
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Grant Stern / The Stern Facts:
EXCLUSIVE: State regulators reveal new fine against Sidney Powell, could lead to felony charges in Florida
Discussion: HuffPost
David Gilbert / VICE:
Roger Stone Visited the JFK-QAnon Cult In Dallas
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Boston University Requires Faculty To Say They Should ‘Intervene’ If a Woman Is Encouraged To Have Children
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Gabby Orr / CNN:
Trump says Pence is ‘mortally wounded’ inside the GOP for his role in certifying 2020 election results
Discussion: The Hill and Mock Paper Scissors
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The Authoritarian Right's 1877 Project
Rachel Hatzipanagos / Washington Post:
'I know my parents love me, but they don't love my people'
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Revealed Norman Podhoretz for What He Always Was
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
The MAGA Perversion of Patriotism
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