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1:55 PM ET, December 11, 2014

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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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Brian Ries / Mashable:
Senate staffer tries to scrub ‘torture’ reference from Wikipedia's CIA torture article
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Cheney on torture report: ‘Full of crap’
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Guardian
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:
GOP makes one-week funding backup plan  —  The government funding debate might last until next week.  —  House Republicans are warning Democrats that if they cannot pass the long-term government funding bill Thursday, they will pass a one-week stopgap bill and come back next week to pass a three-month funding bill.
Discussion: 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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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.
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.
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
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Rick Perry: ‘Running for the Presidency Is Not an IQ Test’  —  An MSNBC reporter asked Rick Perry in an interview that aired this morning whether the Texas governor is “smart enough to be president of the United States.”  Perry responded that “running for the presidency is not an IQ test.”
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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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite
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 …
Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Top military official calls for ‘review’ of transgender ban  —  A top military official is calling on the Obama administration to end the Department of Defense's ban on transgender troops.  —  Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James signaled Wednesday that transgender people may be allowed …
Discussion: Raw Story and Shakesville
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Air Force secretary supports lifting transgender ban
 
 
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Gitmo inmate: My treatment shames American flag
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Frank Jack Daniel / Reuters:
U.S. closes Bagram prison, says no more detainees held in Afghanistan
Discussion: New York Times and emptywheel
James Hohmann / Politico:
Rick Snyder, eyeing 2016, to take Detroit success story on the road
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Richmond police chief a prominent participant in protest against police violence
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Lanny Davis / The Hill:
Why I am ready for Hillary
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Hanna Rosin / Slate:
The Washington Post Inches Closer to Calling the UVA Gang Rape Story a Fabrication
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV
 
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