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7:25 PM ET, December 23, 2021

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Washington Post:
Trump asks Supreme Court to withhold records from House Jan. 6 committee  —  Lawyers for former president Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to block release of his White House records to a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
What Jim Jordan knows about Trump's coup attempt — and what he may cover up  —  The House select committee examining Jan. 6 appears increasingly focused on a highly consequential question: What did Donald Trump say and do as he watched the violent assault on the Capitol unfold over the course of at least two hours?
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
The problem with performative centrism  —  In basically every major institution in America, there are powerful figures who I doubt voted for Donald Trump but nonetheless play down the radicalism of the Republican Party, belittle those who speak honestly about it or otherwise act in ways that make it harder to combat that radicalism.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Washington Post:
Thompson says Jan. 6 committee focused on Trump's hours of silence during attack, weighing criminal referrals  —  The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is focusing intently on Donald Trump's actions that day as it begins to discuss whether to recommend …
Discussion: UPI and Washington Times
New York Times:
Will Donald Trump Get Away With Inciting an Insurrection?
Discussion: Reason and Raw Story
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trumpland has a new favorite Jan. 6 conspiracy theory
Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story
William Grimes / New York Times:
Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87  —  She established a distinctive voice in American fiction before turning to political reporting and screenplay writing.  But it was California, her native state, that provided her with her richest material.
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Harrison Smith / Washington Post:
Joan Didion, who chronicled American decadence and hypocrisy, dies at 87  —  Joan Didion, a virtuosic prose stylist who for more than four decades explored the agitated, fractured state of the American psyche in her novels, essays, criticism and memoirs, and who as one of the “New Journalists” …
Parul Sehgal / New York Times:   Joan Didion Chronicled American Disorder With Her Own Unmistakable Style
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Trump Pushes Back on Candace Owens Undermining Vaccine: 'People Aren't Dying When They Take the Vaccine'  —  Former President Donald Trump pushed back on Candace Jones during a recent interview when the conservative commentator appeared to be undermining the efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccines to hurt President Joe Biden politically.
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Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
MAGA Cartoonist Ben Garrison Turns on Trump After Pro-Vaccine Comments  —  Controversial cartoonist Ben Garrison's latest offering takes aim at former President Donald Trump - who once invited him to the White House for a social media summit.  —  Garrison's cartoon shows a distraught Trump riding …
The Daily Beast:
Trump Rebukes Candace Owens' Anti-Vax Talking Points: ‘The Vaccine Works’
Discussion: Joe.My.God., Mediaite and alicublog
Olafimihan Oshin / The Hill:
Trump pushes back on Candace Owens: 'People aren't dying when they take the vaccine'
Justice News:
Wilmington Man to Face Federal Charges For Armed Carjacking in FDR Park Yesterday Afternoon  —  PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Josiah Brown, 19, of Wilmington, DE, was arrested and charged by Criminal Complaint on charges of carjacking …
Discussion: The Hill, CBS News and Fox News
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NBC News:
Kim Potter, ex-Minnesota officer, found guilty of manslaughter in death of Daunte Wright  —  Watch live: Jury reaches outcome in death of Daunte Wright  —  A Minneapolis jury on Thursday convicted former police officer Kim Potter on all charges she faced for fatally shooting Black motorist Daunte Wright earlier this year.
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Katherine Eban / Vanity Fair:
The Biden Administration Rejected an October Proposal for “Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays”  —  With omicron cases spreading like wildfire, the White House is finally taking steps to make free antigen tests available to all.  But this fall, Vanity Fair has learned, it dismissed a bold plan …
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden's testing mess
Discussion: HotAir
Washington Post:
Trump's newest business partner: A Chinese firm with a history of SEC investigations  —  Shanghai-based Arc Capital, an investment firm that has been the target of probes by securities regulators, is at the center of the deal to take Trump's media venture public.
New York Times:
Kamala Harris's Allies Express Concern: Is She an Afterthought?  —  The vice president's allies are increasingly concerned that President Biden relied on her to win but does not need her to govern.  —  WASHINGTON — The president needed the senator from West Virginia on his side …
Jimmy Quinn / National Review:
A Rift in the Conservative Foreign-Policy World  —  For years an influential foreign-policy voice on the right, the American Enterprise Institute finds itself at odds with hawkish Republicans.  —  hile Donald Trump's presidency realigned the foreign-policy debate on the right …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Biden Can't Remember What He Promised on Covid-19 Testing  —  On the menu today: I would prefer to send you off into the holidays with Christmas cheer, but unfortunately, the news this morning is grim.  Roughly one year after Joe Biden pledged, “I'm not going to shut down the country …
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Darragh Roche / Newsweek:
Jen Psaki Mocked Free At-Home Tests Three Weeks Before Omicron Testing Crisis Hit America
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Complete and Total Trump Campaign!  —  The former president's obsession with the 2020 election may lead to GOP losses in the next two.  —  President Trump has formally endorsed 85 Republican candidates so far this year, probably far more than any other president so soon after leaving office.
NBC Chicago:
Illinois State Senator Carjacked in Suburban Broadview  —  Illinois State Sen. Kimberly Lightford and her husband were the victims of a carjacking in a Chicago suburb Tuesday evening, authorities said.  —  The Broadview Police Department said three masked people driving a Durango SUV hijacked …
Alexandra Marquez / CNBC:
New York will require masks and social distancing at scaled-back Times Square New Year's celebration  — Attendees at the Times Square New Year's Eve celebration will have to wear masks, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday.  — Social-distancing rules will limit the crowd …
Margaret Talev / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Lack of trust puts the unvaccinated at risk  —  Unvaccinated Americans' already low trust in the federal government plummeted over the course of 2021, exacerbating the challenges in getting the pandemic under control, according to a year's worth of data from the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index.
Discussion: Townhall and The Hill
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Jared Kushner investment firm Affinity raises $3 billion in committed funding  —  Jared Kushner's global investment firm, Affinity Partners, has raised more than $3 billion in committed funding from international investors, a person familiar with the fund-raising effort told Reuters on Thursday.
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
 
 
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Chuck Ross / Washington Free Beacon:
Historian Says Princeton Left Him To ‘Rot’ in Iranian Prison
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Paranoid Putin claims US is trying to partition Russia
Rasmussen Reports:
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Discussion: Power Line and Washington Examiner
Louis K. Bonham / Minding The Campus:
Fighting Behind Enemy Lines: Three Tactics for Resisting Wokeness from Within
Discussion: National Review
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Business appears complacent about US democratic stability
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Katelyn Burns / MSNBC:
‘The Matrix Resurrections’ makes more room for trans identity in corporate Hollywood
Discussion: Politico, The Daily Wire and The Ringer
Jonathan Shorman / Kansas City Star:
DOJ: Missouri let fugitive go because of Second Amendment law
Discussion: The Mahablog and Raw Story
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump's Defeat a Year Ago Was Dunkirk, Not D-Day
Discussion: Twitchy and Brownstone Institute
American Greatness:
Please—Stop the Coup Porn
Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Walker's financial disclosure give us a peak into a sports icon's wealth
Melissa Block / NPR:
The clear and present danger of Trump's enduring ‘Big Lie’
Discussion: Political Flare and Raw Story
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: the new iPad Pro may launch with an M4 chip, kicking off Apple's AI strategy that will be expanded at WWDC; the new Pencil will have haptic feedback

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Some founders say TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump tried banning it in 2020

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