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Hunter Walker / Rolling Stone:
Two Jan. 6 Organizers Are Coming Forward and Naming Names: 'We're Turning It All Over'  —  After losing faith in Trump, the pair plan to hand over text messages, Instagram direct messages, and other documents related to the planning of the Jan. 6 rally on the Ellipse where Trump spoke
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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 …
The Daily Beast:
Mark Meadows' Personal Cell Is Becoming a Personal Hell  —  Meadows once chaired a panel with oversight of personal communications issues.  Now he has an issue of his own—and the Jan. 6 committee and the National Archives have taken note.  —  It turns out Mark Meadows may have good reason …
David Corn / Mother Jones:
I Compared the New January 6 Texts to Mark Meadows' Book. It's Damning.
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Fox News hosts urged Meadows to have Trump stop Jan. 6 violence, texts show
New York Times:
Pfizer says its Covid pill will protect against severe disease, even from Omicron.  —  A highly anticipated study of Pfizer's Covid pill confirmed that it helps stave off severe disease, the company announced on Tuesday.  —  Pfizer also said its antiviral pill worked in laboratory studies …
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Lesley Wroughton / Washington Post:
Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe covid, major South African study concludes  —  CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Omicron appears to cause less severe illness than earlier variants of the coronavirus but is more resistant to the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine widely used …
Eric Topol / Ground Truths:
Omicron is getting more defined
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Matthew Herper / STAT:   Pfizer's Covid pill remains 89% effective in final analysis, company says
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.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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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.
Mike DeForest / WKMG:
3 residents of The Villages arrested for casting multiple votes in 2020 election  —  Few Central Floridians have faced similar charges over past two decades, records show  —  SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. - Three residents of The Villages have recently been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into voter fraud, court records show.
Grace Ashford / New York Times:
Cuomo Is Ordered to Forfeit Earnings From $5.1 Million Book Deal  —  The ex-governor ran afoul of ethics laws in writing a book focused on his leadership during the pandemic, a state panel had previously found.  —  ALBANY, N.Y. — Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was ordered to turn …
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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 …
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 …
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Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
Proud Boys Regroup, Focusing on School Boards and Town Councils
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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.
Discussion: HotAir
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.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
A federal court has ruled that obstructing the electoral vote count is illegal.  Trump should panic.  —  U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich ruled last week that an effort to interrupt the counting of the electoral votes can be a crime — even if no violence was contemplated.
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
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 …
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Manchin seeks child tax credit “we can afford”  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is telling colleagues the expanded child tax credit is both the most underpriced item — and biggest inflation-driver — in President Biden's $1.75 trillion Build Back Better plan, people familiar with the matter tell Axios.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Revealed Norman Podhoretz for What He Always Was … One of the most contentious questions in American political thought over the past half-dozen years has been whether Donald Trump represents a departure from the ideals of American conservatism or, alternatively, its apotheosis.
Discussion: Kevin Drum and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Daniel Snyder pledged support for the NFL's investigation.  His actions tell a different story. … In July 2020, just a few days after prominent D.C. attorney Beth Wilkinson began investigating allegations of widespread sexual harassment in the Washington Football Team workplace …
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Senate Confirms First Korean American Woman As U.S. Appeals Court Judge  —  Lucy Koh, 53, now has a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.  —  The Senate voted Monday night to confirm Lucy Koh to a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit …
Discussion: Reuters and The Hill
Equis Research:
2020 Post-Mortem (Part Two): The American Dream Voter  —  A collaboration of Equis Research and Equis Institute  —  Today Equis is releasing Part Two of a post-mortem on the Latino vote in the 2020 election.  The REPORT IS HERE.  —  In Part One (available HERE), we attempted to document …
Discussion: Politico
Brad Polumbo / Foundation for Economic Education:
YouTube Star Dave Rubin Announces That He's Leaving California, Heading to This Free State Instead  —  Celebrities like Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, and Elon Musk have fled California for greener pastures in recent years, making headlines.  But it's not just individuals: According to a Stanford study …
Washington Post:
Omicron spreading rapidly in U.S., could bring punishing wave of infections , CDC warns  —  Peak could be as soon as January, straining hospitals already handling delta and flu cases, agency tells public health leaders … Top federal health officials warned in a briefing Tuesday morning …
Discussion: CBS News, Bloomberg and STAT
Wall Street Journal:
United Arab Emirates Threatens to Pull Out of $23 Billion F-35, Drone Deal With U.S.  —  Gulf ally complained U.S. security requirements are too onerous, U.S. officials say  —  WASHINGTON—The United Arab Emirates is threatening to pull out of a multibillion-dollar deal to buy American-made F-35 aircraft …
Insider:
Meet the 25 wealthiest members of Congress  — The reports cover 2020 and provide the most up-to-date estimate of members' net worth.  — The wealthiest 15 members were worth at least $1.3 billion, half of Congress' wealth.  —  Each year, every member of Congress is required to file …
Discussion: Raw Story
Gabby Orr / CNN:
Trump says Pence is ‘mortally wounded’ inside the GOP for his role in certifying 2020 election results  —  (CNN)As former Vice President Mike Pence weighs his future in politics — laying the groundwork for a possible presidential campaign in 2024 and supporting Republican candidates …
Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer threatens weekend votes to break GOP blockade of Biden nominees  —  Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is threatening to keep the Senate in session and voting over the weekend and into the week of Christmas to break a Republican blockade of President Biden's nominees.
Discussion: Political Wire
Christian Datoc / Washington Examiner:
Biden backs Congress's last-second debt limit hike  —  The White House released an official Statement of Administration Policy Tuesday supporting Senate Leadership's deal to raise the U.S. debt limit by $2.5 trillion just one day ahead of the Dec. 15 deadline.
 
 
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Lauren Lumpkin / Washington Post:
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Discussion: The Root and The Hill
Rohit Chopra / Consumer Financial Protection Bureau:
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Discussion: American Prospect and Politico
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
The MAGA Perversion of Patriotism
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Eva Dou / Washington Post:
Documents link Huawei to China's surveillance programs
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