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11:40 PM ET, December 21, 2022

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Matthew Litman / The Forward:
George Santos also lied about his grandparents fleeing anti-Jewish persecution during WWII  —  Congressman-elect George Santos' emotional narrative of having Jewish grandparents who fled Europe during World War II appears to be untrue, like much of the rest of his campaign biography …
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Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
Brazilian database records, historian cast doubt on Santos' claims of Jewish ancestry  —  A New York Times expose prompted a closer look at the congressman-elect's claims  —  In his campaign materials and on the trail, George Santos, an upstart Republican elected to Congress last month on Long Island …
CNN:
Incoming congressman's claims his grandparents fled the Holocaust contradicted by genealogy records
Discussion: New York Times
New York Times:
I.R.S. Routinely Audited Obama and Biden, Raising Questions Over Delays for Trump  —  The revelation that the agency had not audited Donald J. Trump during his first two years in office despite a mandatory presidential audit program raised concerns about potential politicization.
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New York Times:
Trump Paid $1.1 Million in Taxes During Presidency, but $0 in 2020, Report Shows
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
I've Seen Trump's Tax Returns and Now You Can, Too
New York Times:
Caroline Ellison and FTX Co-Founder Gary Wang Plead Guilty to Fraud  —  Caroline Ellison, the former chief executive of Alameda Research, and Gary Wang, a founder of FTX, are cooperating in the federal criminal case against Mr. Bankman-Fried.  —  Two former top executives …
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Washington Post:
Zelensky's visit yields remarkable moment for two presidents  —  Ukrainian leader briefly leaves his war-torn country to meet U.S. counterpart who has rallied nations on his behalf  —  Capping a year in which they each faced long odds and defied gloomy predictions, the two men stood side …
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Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Zelenskyy comes to Washington and pulls neither punches nor asks
Jonathan Guyer / Vox:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's unexpected visit to the US, explained
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Zelensky Knows the Clock Is Ticking
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Zelenskyy and Biden kickoff show of unity and force with Oval Office meeting
Miranda Green / NPR:
She was an ABC News producer.  She also was a corporate operative  —  NPR's David Folkenflik reported this story with Mario Ariza and Miranda Green of Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action.  —  Television news producer Kristen Hentschel …
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Paul Farrell / Daily Mail:
REVEALED: GMA producer was paid thousands of dollars by Florida-based lobbying firm to perform ‘hit job’ interviews on political opponents - 11 years after she had THAT affair with married ‘To Catch a Predator’ host Chris Hansen  — A Good Morning America producer is accused of using …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
In Testimony, Hannity and Other Fox Employees Said They Doubted Trump's Fraud Claims  —  On Wednesday, lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems shared some of the strongest evidence yet that some Fox employees knew what they broadcast about the claims was false.  —  On Nov. 30, 2020 …
Select Committee to Investigate …:
Release of Select Committee Materials  —  Washington—Today, the Select Committee made public 34 transcripts of witness testimony that was gathered over the course of the Select Committee's investigation into the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene / The Daily Caller:
If Republicans Want To Get Things Done, There's Only One Choice For House Speaker  —  Editor's note: Big Tent Ideas always aims to provide balancing perspectives on the hottest issues of the day.  Below is a column arguing that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy should be elected Speaker when Republicans take the gavel in January.
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John Bowden / The Independent:
Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert blow through Capitol security and refuse screenings before Zelensky speech  —  Moment occurs as joint session of Congress called to hear Ukrainian leader's address  —  Biden welcomes Ukrainian president Zelensky to The White House
Joe Perticone / The Triad:
Ronna Romney McDaniel Might Be in Trouble  —  The RNC isn't reversing course after the midterms—it's going further to the right.  —  Hey fam: JVL here.  I'm turning today's newsletter over to my new Bulwark colleague, Joe Perticone, who has a fantastic story on the cray-cray at the RNC.
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Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Florida GOP to hold no-confidence vote in RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel
Lia Opperman / The Princetonian:
3 Princeton DEI staff members resign, alleging lack of support  —  In May, the University's Director of Athletics was “incredibly excited” to announc e a new hire for the department: Jordan “JT” Turner, who would be joining the University as the inaugural Associate Director of Athletics for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Sotomayor and Kagan need to think about retiring  —  The US Senate is a fundamentally broken institution.  Democratic judges need to account for that in their retirement decisions.  —  We have now lived with the consequences of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's late-life arrogance for more than two years.
Joseph Bernstein / New York Times:
If Twitter Fails, They'll Be Free  —  For some of Twitter's most prolific users, the platform was often a “hellsite.”  Now they contemplate a life without it.  —  The literary critic Fredric Jameson once said it was easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.  But what about Twitter?
Wall Street Journal:
Afghanistan's Taliban Ban All Education for Girls  —  Afghan girls and women have been squeezed out of public and professional life since the Taliban takeover last year  —  The Taliban banned girls from attending elementary school, effectively instituting a total ban on the education of girls …
Carrie Keller-Lynn / The Times of Israel:
'I've done it': Netanyahu announces his 6th government, Israel's most hardline ever  —  7 weeks after elections and minutes before deadline, Likud head tells president he's mustered a majority; right-religious coalition set to expand settlements, constrain judiciary
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Informant warned FBI weeks before Jan. 6 that the far-right saw Trump tweet as ‘a call to arms’  —  WASHINGTON — On Dec. 19, 2020, the day that then-President Donald Trump sent a tweet summoning his supporters to a “wild” protest in the nation's capital on Jan. 6, one of the FBI's own …
John Solomon / Just The News:
House GOP locates emails, texts showing Pelosi office directly involved in failed Jan. 6 security  —  House Republicans have gathered a trove of text and email messages revealing that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office was directly involved in the creation and editing of the Capitol security plan …
Erin Durkin / Politico:
Trump lawyers target Adult Survivors Act in attempt to invalidate rape lawsuit  —  NEW YORK — A lawyer for Donald Trump said Wednesday he will try to dismiss a lawsuit by a woman alleging the former president raped her in the 1990s by arguing New York's Adult Survivors Act is unconstitutional …
 
 
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Michael Sfard / Haaretz:
As Crimes of Apartheid Worsen, the West's Exceptionalism Toward Israel Must End
Scott Maxwell / Orlando Sentinel:
Childhood immunizations drop in Florida, where public health is mocked
Rosemary Lane / Georgetown University:
Georgetown Hires Adnan Syed To Support Prisons and Justice Initiative
Torsten Bell / Financial Times:
Strikes are an inevitability not an aberration
Walker Bragman / EXPOSEDbyCMD:
Koch-Funded Litigation Group Fights to Protect Covid Misinformation
Sarah Fitzpatrick / NBC News:
Hunter Biden hires attorney Abbe Lowell to beef up legal team
Discussion: Politico
Robert A. George / Bloomberg:
Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger Put Patriotism Over Politics
Discussion: Jacobin, masslive.com and In the (K)now
 Earlier Items: 
Erika Kinetz / Associated Press:
‘We will find you:’ Russians hunt down Ukrainians on lists
Washington Post:
From Jared Kushner to Salt Bae: Here's who Elon Musk was seen with at the World Cup
Discussion: The Forward and New York Times
Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
Powerful Democratic Consultants Split With Kyrsten Sinema
Discussion: Common Dreams and Political Wire
Ray Stern / Arizona Republic:
Kari Lake ‘excited’ over election trial but Katie Hobbs won't have to testify
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
Fall of the Progressive Boy King
Discussion: Eschaton and Politico