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Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Scott Rudin On Obama's Favorite Movies: “I Bet He Likes Kevin Hart” — An exchange between Sony Pictures chair Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin turned into a riff on films they thought the president liked. — Danny Moloshok / Reuters — Before Sony Pictures chair Amy Pascal attended …
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Alex Stedman / Variety:
Leaked Sony Emails Reveal Jokes About Obama and Race — In the latest of embarrassing emails to leak online from Sony this week, studio co-chairman Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin riff on what President Barack Obama's favorite movies could be, focusing mostly on films starring and by African Americans.
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New York Times, The Daily Caller and Hot Air, more at Mediagazer »
Miles Weiss / Bloomberg Politics:
Jeb Bush Has a Mitt Romney Problem — Over the last several months, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has been giving speeches, campaigning for candidates, appearing at public forums, and meeting with wealthy donors, which has led many people to believe that he may soon enter the race to become the next Republican presidential nominee.
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Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo, CNN and Business Insider
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Kasie Hunt / msnbc.com:
Rick Perry: Presidency is ‘not an IQ test’
Rick Perry: Presidency is ‘not an IQ test’
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Hot Air, American Spectator, Bloomberg Politics and The Huffington Post
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney Says CIA Torture Report Is ‘Full of Crap’ … Former Vice President Dick Cheney says a declassified Senate report on the controversial post-9/11 CIA interrogation program is “full of crap.” — “I think it is a terrible report, deeply flawed,” …
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Brian Ries / Mashable:
Senate staffer tries to scrub ‘torture’ reference from Wikipedia's CIA torture article
Senate staffer tries to scrub ‘torture’ reference from Wikipedia's CIA torture article
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Talking Points Memo
Fox News:
Cheney defends CIA interrogation techniques, calls Senate report ‘deeply flawed’
Cheney defends CIA interrogation techniques, calls Senate report ‘deeply flawed’
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BBC, Lawfare, New York Times, NBC News, PoliticusUSA, CBS DC and Associated Press
Reuters:
Psychologist says U.S. Senate's CIA report makes false charges
Psychologist says U.S. Senate's CIA report makes false charges
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The Daily Beast, Politico and Mediaite
Fox News Insider:
Dick Cheney Sounds off on Report on Interrogation Methods
Dick Cheney Sounds off on Report on Interrogation Methods
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Washington Times and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Cheney: Bush wasn't in the dark on CIA
Cheney: Bush wasn't in the dark on CIA
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Yahoo! News, CANNONFIRE, ABC News and Informed Comment
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Warren, left fume over deal — Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday sought to rally opposition to the $1.1 trillion government funding bill, spearheading a revolt on the left that has put her influence in the Democratic Party to the test. — The Massachusetts liberal pleaded for House Democrats …
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Politico:
Obama backs budget deal — The White House announced Barack Obama's support for a nine-month, $1.1 trillion spending bill at a critical time for the 1,600-page package, which just narrowly cleared a procedural hurdle in the House Thursday. — Obama supports the bipartisan deal …
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Daily Kos
Oliver Milman / Guardian:
Full scale of plastic in the world's oceans revealed for first time — Over five trillion pieces of plastic are floating in our oceans says most comprehensive study to date on plastic pollution around the world — More than five trillion pieces of plastic, collectively weighing nearly 269,000 tonnes …
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The Strata-Sphere, Firedoglake and Althouse
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Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea — Abstract — Plastic pollution is ubiquitous throughout the marine environment, yet estimates of the global abundance and weight of floating plastics have lacked data …
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ThinkProgress, BuzzFeed, The Verge, Washington Post, Scientific American Content, New York Times, Raw Story and Shakesville
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Government shutdown would not stop Obama on immigration — Even if Republicans shut down the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) next year, President Obama could still carry out his executive actions giving legal status to up to 5 million undocumented immigrants.
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Catherine Keefe / Washington Post:
I'm an Obama supporter. But Obamacare has hurt my family. — Obamacare has been far more frustrating than I'd ever dreamed. — At the moment President-elect Barack Obama proclaimed that “change has come to America,” I stood at the foot of my husband's bed in the cardiac ICU of Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo.
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The Hill, Patterico's Pontifications, Hot Air and BREITBART.COM
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
All Senate GOP staff going on ObamaCare — Senate Republican staffers will be required to obtain health insurance through ObamaCare's exchanges under a rule passed Wednesday by the GOP Conference. — The proposal from Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) means that Senate Republicans will designate their staff as …
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Humberto Sanchez / Roll Call:
Senate GOP Wrestles With Whether to Undo the Nuclear Option
Mike Giglio / BuzzFeed:
ISIS Is Trying To Sell The Body Of U.S. Hostage James Foley For $1 Million — Middlemen in touch with ISIS or its associates say the group has turned a grim new page in its deadly hostage trade âÂ" by trying to sell the remains of at least one of the U.S. citizens it has executed in Syria.
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Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Gawker discusses cost of ‘gamergate’ — The “gamergate” controversy cost Gawker Media “seven figures” in lost advertising revenue, the company's head of advertising Andrew Gorenstein said at an all-hands meeting on Wednesday afternoon, according to two people in attendance at the meeting.
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Talking Points Memo, Politico and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
Athena Jones / CNN:
Minority congressional staffers plan walkout in wake of Brown, Garner decisions — Washington (CNN) — Congressional staffers plan to walk off their jobs Thursday afternoon to show their support for the families of Michael Brown and Eric Garner in the wake of the decision by two grand juries …
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James Hohmann / Politico:
Rick Snyder, eyeing 2016, to take Detroit success story on the road — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, bet his political career on turning around Detroit, even as many leaders of the overwhelmingly Democratic city proclaimed he would fail. — Snyder's success since last summer …
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Washington Monthly and The PJ Tatler
Alex Roarty / National Journal:
Why the Club for Growth Is Changing Leadership — David McIntosh, a former congressman from Indiana, is vowing that the free-market group will continue to be a thorn in the side of the GOP establishment. — The Club for Growth has a new leader: David McIntosh, a former House member …
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Talking Points Memo and Washington Post