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4:20 PM ET, December 17, 2021

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Politico:
GOP blows off Trump's bid to oust McConnell  —  Former President Donald Trump has hit a wall in his efforts to oust Mitch McConnell as GOP leader.  —  Despite months of attacks, the Trump-led campaign to depose the Senate minority leader has resulted in firm pledges from just two Republican candidates …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump ally Straka has provided potentially significant information
Discussion: Alternet.org
Nick Niedzwiadek / Politico:
Trump invokes antisemitic tropes while discussing his support for Israel  —  Former President Donald Trump veered into several antisemitic tropes in a recent interview, claiming that Israel used to have “absolute power over Congress” and saying that American Jews — the majority of whom vote Democratic …
Discussion: Washington Post and Joe.My.God.
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Morgan Phillips / Daily Mail:
Trump accused of ‘vile anti-Semitism’ for saying American Jews ‘no longer love or care about Israel’ because of Biden, Obama and the ‘Jewish people’ who run the New York Times  — Trump has claimed that Jews in America ‘no longer love Israel,’ and that evangelical Christians love it more
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Claims Israel Controlled Congress, Jews Run New York Times
Discussion: Twitchy
Oma Seddiq / Insider:
Trump says American Jews ‘no longer love Israel’ and Jewish people ‘run The New York Times’
Discussion: Slate
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Trump Rioter Who Attacked Cops With Fire Extinguisher Gets Longest Jan. 6 Sentence Yet  —  Capitol rioter Robert Scott Palmer, known to online sleuths as #FloridaFlagJacket, was arrested by the FBI 12 days after he was named in a HuffPost story.  —  A Florida man who attacked law enforcement officers …
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Mike D'Onofrio / Axios:
Capitol rioter who threw fire extinguisher at police gets more than 5 years in prison  —  A capitol rioter from Florida has been sentenced in federal court to more than five years in prison for assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A glimmer of hope on Joe Manchin and voting rights?  —  By now, you'd be forgiven for concluding the chances of Sen. Joe Manchin III supporting a filibuster carve-out to pass democracy protections are somewhere between nonexistent and extremely nonexistent.  —  The West Virginia Democrat …
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Zoya Teirstein / Grist:
Build Back Better is stalled, and so are Biden's ambitious climate plans
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Biden's Art of the Overreach
Discussion: Insider, Politico, The Hill and The Guardian
CNN:
CNN Exclusive: Jan 6 investigators believe Nov. 4 text pushing ‘strategy’ to undermine election came from Rick Perry  —  Washington (CNN)Members of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol believe that former Texas Governor and Trump Energy Secretary Rick Perry …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
CNN:
House oversight committee releases report detailing efforts of Trump administration officials to ‘undermine’ Covid-19 efforts in US  —  (CNN)Trump administration officials made “deliberate efforts to undermine the nation's coronavirus response for political purposes,” a House oversight committee led …
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump White House made ‘deliberate efforts’ to undermine Covid response, report says
Discussion: UPI
Randall Lane / Forbes:
Forbes Testified Before The Trump Grand Jury Yesterday - Here's Why We Fought Their Subpoena  —  Almost three months ago, I was subpoenaed by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. to appear before the grand jury investigating Donald Trump.  I was asked to testify about the 2015 cover story …
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Randall Lane / Forbes:
Inside The Epic Fantasy That's Driven Donald Trump For 33 Years
Discussion: Raw Story
Financial Times:
‘No evidence’ Omicron is less severe than Delta, say UK researchers  —  Imperial College study warns of elevated reinfection risk but notes ‘very limited’ data on hospitalisations  —  There is at present “no evidence” that the Omicron coronavirus variant is any less severe than the Delta strain …
Discussion: HotAir, Imperial News and The Atlantic
Anna North / Vox:
The world as we know it is ending.  Why are we still at work?  —  From the pandemic to climate change, Americans are still expected to work no matter what happens.  —  For a moment in early 2020, it seemed like we might get a break from capitalism.  —  A novel coronavirus was sweeping the globe …
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
New York Times fires ‘Wirecutter’ editor accused of leaving profane voicemails for gun rights group  —  Erin Marquis, a staffer for the popular product-review site, had also lashed out at a gun-rights organization on Twitter.  —  The New York Times has fired an editor for Wirecutter …
Jan Hoffman / New York Times:
Judge Overturns Purdue Pharma's Opioid Settlement  —  The ruling said the company's owners, members of the Sackler family, could not receive protection from civil lawsuits in return for a $4.5 billion contribution.  —  A federal judge on Thursday evening unraveled a painstakingly negotiated …
Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
I Canceled My Birthday Party Because of Omicron  —  I turn 40 today, and I was planning to have a party.  The Delta surge made me nervous about it.  The arrival of Omicron made me cancel it.  —  The plan was to have an extended house party, with a couple dozen people popping by over the weekend.
Discussion: National Review, The US Sun and Twitchy
The Daily Beast:
Kanye West's ‘Independent’ Campaign Was Secretly Run by GOP Elites  —  The campaign took steps, experts say, to mask its connections to GOP operatives.  That could violate federal election laws.  —  New documents show Kanye West's doomed White House campaign—styled as an “independent” …
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Herschel Walker's campaign falsely claimed he graduated from college  —  Republican Herschel Walker's campaign deleted a false claim that he graduated from the University of Georgia hours after it was posted on a website promoting his U.S. Senate bid.  —  The former football star's campaign removed …
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News:
“Corrosive Communities”: How A Facebook Fight Over Wind Power Predicts the Future of Local Politics in America  —  Bad vibrations abound.  Many of them are obvious: We can sense them, measure the damage they do, try to counteract or avoid them.  Others exist in a range outside the limit of normal human perception.
Discussion: Substack
Pfizer:
PFIZER AND BIONTECH PROVIDE UPDATE ON ONGOING STUDIES OF COVID-19 VACCINE  —  NEW YORK and MAINZ, GERMANY, DECEMBER 17, 2021 — Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and  —  BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) today shared that following a routine review by the external independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) …
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Russia Lays Out Demands for a Sweeping New Security Deal With NATO  —  The proposal, coming as Russia masses troops on the border with Ukraine, was directed at the United States and Ukraine's other Western allies.  —  KYIV, Ukraine — Russia outlined on Friday its demands for a sweeping …
Taylor Goldenstein / Houston Chronicle:
Texas AG Paxton's $2.2M voter fraud unit closed three cases in 2021.  GOP lawmakers still boosted its budget.  —  Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton has been one of former President Donald Trump's most reliable allies in spreading the myth of widespread voter fraud …
Reuters:
Special Report: Amazon partnered with China propaganda arm  —  Amazon.com Inc was marketing a collection of President Xi Jinping's speeches and writings on its Chinese website about two years ago, when Beijing delivered an edict, according to two people familiar with the incident.
Kevin Daley / Washington Free Beacon:
Influential Judge Deals Blow to Biden's Employer Vaccine Mandate  —  The Biden administration's employer vaccine mandate took a beating this week from one of the nation's top judges, a major win for red states and conservative groups fighting it in court.  —  Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton …
Discussion: Townhall
 
 
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