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5:30 PM ET, December 17, 2022

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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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Wall Street Journal:
The Chechen Warlord Who Does Putin's Dirty Work in Ukraine
Discussion: TASS
Institute for the Study of War:
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 16
Discussion: HotAir and Raw Story
Thomas Tracy / New York Daily News:
Jewish man attacked in Central Park, assailant screams 'Kanye 2024′: NYPD  —  A Jewish man was attacked in Central Park by a suspect who screamed “Kanye 2024″ and anti-Semitic slurs as he jumped his victim in what police are investigating as a hate crime.
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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 Times:
Restaurateur, Political Donor, Tipster: The Many Roles of FTX's Ryan Salame
Discussion: IJR
New York Times:
What Comes Next for the Most Empty Downtown in America  —  Tech workers are still at home.  The $17 salad place is expanding into the suburbs.  So what is left in San Francisco?  —  The coffee rush.  The lunch rush.  The columns of headphone-equipped tech workers rushing in and out of train stations.
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 …
Michael E. Ruane / Washington Post:
After Biden's wife died in a crash 50 years ago, Richard Nixon called  —  A recording of Nixon's condolence call survives at the Nixon Presidential Library.  —  Joe Biden's first wife, Neilia, and baby daughter, Naomi Christina, had just been killed in a car crash.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Bari Weiss / The Free Press:
The Twitter Files and the Future of the Democratic Party With Silicon Valley's Congressman  —  Ro Khanna on why we should be skeptical of Big Tech's power.  —  Ro Khanna is a progressive congressman representing California's 17th District—the wealthiest congressional district in America.
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Biden Advisers Craft Re-Election Plans as President Weighs Final Decision
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and The Post Millennial
Justin Davidson / Curbed:
Can the Hochul-Adams New New York Actually Happen?
Wall Street Journal:
Republican Party Masochists in Congress
Discussion: Raw Story and DNyuz
Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
Brittney Griner and the Role of Race in Diplomacy
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Akilah Johnson / Washington Post:
Can politics kill you? Research says the answer increasingly is yes.
Discussion: Opinion Today
Financial Times:
David Cameron lands teaching job at Abu Dhabi university
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Bloomberg
P.C. Robinson / New Jersey Hills:
Mendham Twp. Committee ballots, filed by Dems and questioned by Republicans, include one from GOP incumbent's daughter
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
UNHCR:
Joint Statement by UNHCR and Angelina Jolie
Paul Farrell / Daily Mail:
'Comply or it's going to be a serious backlash:' Activist demanding $800,000 for every black resident issues warning to California's reparations task force