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New York Times:
Putin's War: The Inside Story of a Catastrophe … Russian soldiers go into battle with little food, few bullets and instructions grabbed from Wikipedia for weapons they barely know how to use. — Russian soldiers go into battle with little food, few bullets and instructions grabbed …
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Washington Post:
Musk unsuspends some reporters on Twitter. But their companies never left. — Despite outrage over a move viewed as hostile to free speech — even by Musk's conservative allies — media companies continued to tweet, in keeping with their conflicted relationship with Twitter.
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NBC News:
Musk cheerleaders and conservative influencers criticize journalist suspensions from Twitter
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New York Post, The Intercept, CNBC, Tom's Substack, DNyuz, Newsbusters, The Hill, Cyprus Mail, Los Angeles Times, Grid News, Media Matters for America, HuffPost, RedState, Twitchy, Garbage Day, Reason, Bloomberg, HotAir, The JGibson Report, Washington Post and Semafor, more at Techmeme »
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Twitter's top ranks riddled with ex-FBI employees — Twitter's top ranks were riddled with ex-FBI agents and executives, stitching the company even closer to the federal agency now under fire for leaning on Twitter to meddle in the 2020 elections. — More than a dozen former feds flocked …
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HotAir, RedState, Summit News, DNyuz and National Review
Talking Points Memo:
Scenes From The Meadows Texts Show The Diverse Cast Of Characters Who Chimed In On Efforts To Overturn The Election — When businessman Marty Davis made his way into the Oval Office in mid-December 2020, he brought a blanket for former First Lady Melania Trump.
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Ex-lawmakers request ethics probes into sitting members of Congress linked to Jan. 6 — More than 30 former House lawmakers are calling for ethics investigations into sitting members of Congress “who played a role” in the events on the day of and before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol …
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Washington Examiner, Former Members of the House, Vanity Fair and RedState
Steven Mintz / Inside Higher Ed:
What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate? — Reflections on the end of history ... and the academic study of the arts, literature and philosophy. — The December 2022 issue of Jacobin, which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left …
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
No alien life discovered on Earth, Pentagon says, but search deepens — A new office within the Defense Department is evaluating recent reports of unexplained phenomena and is planning to look at accounts dating back decades — A new office at the Pentagon is scrutinizing hundreds of reports …
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New York Post, Task & Purpose, Cyprus Mail, ABC News, DNyuz, CNN and CBS News
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Wall Street Journal:
Big Cities in Swing States Saw Declines in Midterm Voting — Democrats say low turnout in Detroit, Milwaukee and Philadelphia points to problems in future elections — Big cities faltered this year in producing the large vote totals that Democrats have traditionally relied on for election wins …
Wall Street Journal:
Republican Party Masochists in Congress — GOP division and disarray on Capitol Hill bode ill for the next two years. — By The Editorial Board — WSJ Opinion: Free Speech and the Push to Shut You Up — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE — Created with sketchtool. — 1x
Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
Brittney Griner and the Role of Race in Diplomacy — Griner's release recalls the lessons of the effort to free Robert Goodman, an African American Navy navigator, from Syria. — Thirty-nine years ago this month, an African American Navy bombardier-navigator named Robert Goodman was taking part …
Justin Davidson / Curbed:
Can the Hochul-Adams New New York Actually Happen? — New York should be roaring back by now, and in some ways it has. In the last few months, I've attended crowded museums and sold-out concerts, shouted over diners at the next table, stood hip-to-hip in crowded subway cars …
Transportation Security Administration:
TSA breaks record for number of firearms at security checkpoints, announces new measures to mitigate threat — WASHINGTON — Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers intercepted a record number of firearms brought by passengers to airport security checkpoints in 2022.
New York Times:
Restaurateur, Political Donor, Tipster: The Many Roles of FTX's Ryan Salame — The co-chief executive of an FTX unit who told regulators about wrongdoing at the exchange was a big Republican donor. He also bought restaurants. — In Western Massachusetts, Ryan Salame was known …
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Department of Justice:
Georgia Man with Ties to White Supremacist Organization Pleads Guilty to Federal Hate Crime for Racially Motivated Shootings — A Georgia man pleaded guilty today to a federal hate crime and a firearms violation for shooting into two Clayton County convenience stores in an attempt to kill …
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