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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
JPMorgan CEO helped whip votes — JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon made calls to lawmakers on Thursday urging them to support the “cromnibus” spending bill, House Financial Services Committee ranking member Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) told reporters. — Dimon's involvement came amidst progressives enraged …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Democrats who voted for the CRomnibus have received twice as much money from the finance industry as the ‘no’ voters
Democrats who voted for the CRomnibus have received twice as much money from the finance industry as the ‘no’ voters
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Daily Kos and Daily Signal
Ben Jacobs / The Daily Beast:
‘Crominbus’ Passes, But Did Anyone Win?
‘Crominbus’ Passes, But Did Anyone Win?
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New York Times, The Atlantic Online, The Dish, Daily Kos, CANNONFIRE and Washington Post
inSourceCode / Committee on Oversight & …:
Issa Subpoenas ObamaCare Architect Jonathan Gruber — Last night, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., subpoenaed ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber for all documents and communications with federal, state, or local government employees related …
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New York Times, National Review, Hit & Run and Bloomberg Politics
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Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Leaked Emails Reveal Maureen Dowd Promised To Show Sony Exec's Husband Column Before Publication — The end result: kudos at the studio and an email to Dowd after it published saying, “you're amazing.” Update: Dowd says she didn't send an advance copy of the column.
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Politico, Mediaite, Gawker, Washington Post and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Michel du Cille, Post photojournalist who won Pulitzer three times, dies at 58 … Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist who was a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph, and who recently chronicled the plight of Ebola patients …
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New York Times, Mashable, FishbowlDC, ABC News, Poynter and The Huffington Post, more at Mediagazer »
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Torture Is Who We Are — A country, like a person, is what it does. — Torture, declared President Obama this week, in response to the newly released Senate report on CIA interrogation, is “contrary to who we are.” Maine Senator Angus King added that, “This is not America. This is not who we are.”
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Power Line, Fresno Bee, The Dish and alicublog
Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Dogs in Heaven? Pope Francis Leaves Pearly Gate Open — Pope Francis has given hope to gays, unmarried couples and advocates of the Big Bang theory. Now, he has endeared himself to dog lovers, animal rights activists and vegans. — Trying to console a distraught little boy whose dog had died …
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JustOneMinute, The Daily Banter, BuzzFeed, Gawker and New York Magazine
ABC News:
New Questions Raised About Rolling Stone's UVA Rape Story … The college students described as friends of the alleged rape victim Jackie in an explosive Rolling Stone article revealed their identities to ABC News today, and said that some of the magazine's story is false.
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The Federalist, Hot Air and Vox Popoli
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The full demise of Rolling Stone's rape story
The full demise of Rolling Stone's rape story
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JustOneMinute, The Week, Bloomberg View, CNN, The Daily Caller, Inside Higher Ed and protein wisdom
Will Carr / Fox News:
Veteran Fox News correspondent Dominic Di-Natale dead at 43 — Dominic Di-Natale, a globetrotting journalist whose work at Fox News Channel and other news organizations took him to Usama bin Laden's compound, demonstrations in Egypt's Tahrir Square and, more recently, to the scene of racially charged riots in Ferguson, Mo., has died.
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Talking Points Memo, Gawker and Mediaite
Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Nonemployed: The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind — The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind — Many men aged 25 to 54 have decided that low-wage jobs will not improve their lives. Their absence from the work force has consequences for the nation.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Hot Air and Clayton Cramer
Susie Madrak / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Cop Shows Up At Penn Student's Room To Question Her About Activist Facebook Post — If only they were this diligent about investigating right-wing domestic terrorists. — Activists also report that the day after the town hall was held at Calvary United Methodist Church …
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The Philly Declaration and Liberaland
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Inside the Collapse of The New Republic — Last Friday morning, Chris Hughes, the owner of The New Republic, and Guy Vidra, the magazine's C.E.O., presided over a meeting at the publication's Penn Quarter offices in Washington, D.C. It had been a busy twenty-four hours: a day earlier …
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Talking Points Memo, more at Mediagazer »
Politico:
Conservatives rage against the machine — Opponents of Obama's immigration action hoped the GOP would use budget to push back harder on issue — Conservatives began the lame-duck session enraged over President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration and hell-bent on unraveling …
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Matt Fuller / Roll Call:
GOP to Bring Up Bill Blocking Obama Immigration Action — Next Year
GOP to Bring Up Bill Blocking Obama Immigration Action — Next Year
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Washington Post and Hot Air
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Blow Me Domain Registered To Republican Congressman — The website could have been registered by Farenthold, or possibly as a prank by someone not associated with the Texas conservative. — Whoisology.com / Via whoisology.com — The website Blow-me.org is registered to Republican Texas …
Julie Beck / The Atlantic Online:
‘Do No Harm’: When Doctors Torture — The Senate released its report on the CIA's interrogation program on Tuesday, revealing horrendous details of the torture tactics used on prisoners, including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and “rectal feeding.” Complicit in this treatment were several …
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The Dish
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Ed Rendell trash-talks ‘pathetic’ Chris Christie's Cowboys loyalty — (CNN) — Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Gov. Chris Christie's unapologetic love for the Dallas Cowboys is “pathetic,” adding that it's rooted in a “basic inferiority complex.” — “If you are a Jerseyite …
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New Jersey Online and Booman Tribune
Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
Geraldo's Latest Slogan Idea For Black Protesters: 'We're The Problem' — Fox News senior correspondent Geraldo Rivera advised black protestors on Friday to abandon the popularized “I can't breathe” slogan in favor of a new one: “We're the problem.” — Geraldo's comments were made during …
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Balloon Juice
CBS News:
ISIS issues guidelines for sex slavery — Shares - — Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have kidnapped thousands of women and girls in their raids on non-Sunni Muslim towns and villages across northern Syria and western Iraq. — Many of the captives are believed to be sold …
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“The Lid” and Liberty Unyielding
Anthony Weiner / Business Insider:
Rand Paul And Apple Have The Same Strategy — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and Apple both seem to understand the marketplace. — Apple is betting bipartisan concern about intrusive government snooping will help sell phones, and Paul is creating a pretty impressive presidential campaign based on the same play.