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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Trump calls for Democratic lawmakers to face trial for ‘seditious behavior’  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday called for six Democratic lawmakers to face arrest and trial after they made a video encouraging U.S. service members and members of the intelligence community to refrain from following orders if they broke the law.
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Matthew Kupfer / Democracy Docket:
Trump Calls for Executing Democrats Over Message to Military
Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Dem leaders contact Capitol Police after Trump “death threats”
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Democratic veterans in Congress urge service members to refuse unspecified unlawful orders
Washington Post:
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols  —  The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”  —  Just now  —  The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify …
Vaccine Safety:
Autism and Vaccines  —  KEY POINTS … Vaccines do not cause Autism*  —  Pursuant to the Data Quality Act (DQA), which requires federal agencies to ensure the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information they disseminate to the public, this webpage has been updated because the statement …
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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Donald Trump Wants to Bullshit the Economy Into Greatness
John Yoon / New York Times:
C.D.C. Website No Longer Rejects Possible Link Between Autism and Vaccines
Discussion: Scientific American
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Red alert … - In a Fox News Poll out last evening, voters said the White House is doing more harm than good on the economy: 46% said they've been hurt by the administration's economic policies, 15% say they've been helped and 39% said Trump has made no difference.
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David R. Lurie / Public Notice:
The lame duck dictatorship  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🔥🔥🔥 Subscribe to PN 🔥🔥🔥  —  Democrats of all ideological persuasions correctly rebuked the decision of eight senators to accept a deal …
Jon Seidel / Chicago Sun Times:
Feds drop case against woman shot by Border Patrol agent in Brighton Park  —  Federal prosecutors have moved to dismiss the charges they brought against a woman shot by a Border Patrol agent last month in Brighton Park, one of the most high-profile criminal cases to result from the Trump administration's' “Operation Midway Blitz.”
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators warn Bondi not to slow-walk release of Epstein files  —  Republican senators are warning Attorney General Pam Bondi not to slow-walk the public release of records and documents related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein following votes by the House and Senate demanding the documents.
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CNN:
Trump and Vance not invited to Dick Cheney's funeral, but all four living former vice presidents attending  —  Past presidents and politicians of both parties will gather Thursday in Washington, DC, for former Vice President Dick Cheney's funeral — sending off a key figure of pre-MAGA Republican politics.
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Calvin Woodward / Associated Press:
A bipartisan show of respect and remembrance is set for Dick Cheney's funeral, absent Trump
CNN:
Justice Department is investigating handling of Adam Schiff mortgage fraud probe led by Ed Martin and Bill Pulte  —  The Justice Department is investigating possible issues with the mortgage fraud investigation into California Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff that is run by two Trump administration …
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Ken Dilanian / MS NOW:
Grand jury investigating potential misconduct in probes of Trump critics
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
Associated Press:
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns  —  The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found.
Discussion: The Hill and Straight Arrow News
Isabela Dias / Mother Jones:
Meet the Veteran Who Chases ICE on a Scooter  —  Recently, Clifford “Buzz” Grambo decided to upgrade his electric scooter.  The old one he had purchased online reached only 16 mph and wasn't cutting it anymore.  He needed to go faster to keep up with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement cars he chases around Baltimore.
Discussion: Raw Story
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Larry Ellison discussed axing CNN hosts with White House in takeover bid talks  —  Senior officials indicated favorability toward Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Bros Discovery  —  Senior White House officials have discussed internally their preference for Paramount Skydance …
Matthew Goldstein / New York Times:
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein  —  Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, wants to examine how the nation's largest bank handled the reporting of more than $1 billion in suspicious transactions.  —  The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee issued …
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
The hidden axis: the left-right spectrum has a non-ideology problem  —  This article presents more results from our November Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll.  You can read the first article about this poll here:  —  Introduction to this essay  —  Dissatisfaction with American politics …
Discussion: The Cross Section and The Preamble
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
Meet the Ambitious, Duplicitous, Semi-Fictitious MAGA Upstart Driving Trump World Nuts  —  REP. BYRON DONALDS (R-Fla.) should be cruising into the Florida governor's mansion, primarily because he possesses the most important currency in GOP politics: Donald Trump's endorsement.
Discussion: NBC News
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Republican moves to expel Cherfilus-McCormick from Congress  —  Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) said Thursday he will force a vote on expelling Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) from Congress after she was indicted by a federal grand jury. … - Just this week, the House has taken votes related …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick indicted
David Ingram / NBC News:
Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites a neo-Nazi website 42 times, researchers say  —  An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.  —  Tech billionaire Elon Musk's online encyclopedia, Grokipedia …
The Harvard Crimson:
Summers Visited Epstein's Island During 2005 Honeymoon  —  In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding at Elmwood — the Harvard president's official residence — Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, traded Cambridge's cold for a warmer escape.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
How the FBI Became the Face of Deprofessionalization  —  A 2020 paper published in the American Journal of Political Science studied who works for secret police organizations under authoritarian governments.  The authors, Christian Gläßel and Adam Scharpf, argued that those willing …
Reese Gorman / NOTUS:
Cory Mills Was Caught With Sex Workers Before Mission to Afghanistan in 2021, Sources Say  —  Following President Joe Biden's chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, a group of individuals sought to make an unannounced trip to the Taliban-run country to extract Americans who were stranded inside.
Discussion: Axios, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
 
 
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Ashley Oliver / Fox News:
Reagan-appointed judge torches colleagues in Texas map fight, calls ruling ‘fiction,’ ‘judicial activism’
Axios:
Zelensky agrees to negotiate on Trump's peace plan for Ukraine
Dave Lee / Bloomberg:
A White House Power Grab on AI Would Be a Huge Mistake
Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
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