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9:50 PM ET, November 14, 2016

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Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
3 Thoughts On Steve Bannon As White House ‘Chief Strategist’  —  So, in a not-unexpected move, Donald Trump has elevated former Breitbart News CEO Steve Bannon to chief strategist of the White House.  —  When I left Breitbart back in March, I accused Bannon of turning Breitbart News into Trump Pravda …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Praise for Reince Priebus is another sign of how we're lowering the bar for Trump  —  The extent to which Reince Priebus's appointment as White House chief of staff has been greeted in mainstream quarters as a reassuring sign that Donald Trump is going to govern the country in a responsible way is, itself, a disturbing sign.
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump's presidency will be like Donald Trump's campaign  —  There is no pivot.  —  On Friday, Donald Trump sat for an interview with the Wall Street Journal.  Among the questions: Did he think the rhetoric he used on the campaign trail had gone too far?  —  “No,” Trump said.  “I won.”
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Critics See Stephen Bannon, Trump's Pick for Strategist, as Voice of Racism
Fatima Hussein / Indianapolis Star:
What's Mike Pence hiding in his emails?  —  Mike Pence wants his communications limited from public access.  Experts say this sets a “dangerous precedent.”  —  Now that the presidential campaign and most of the furor over Hillary Clinton's email scandal are behind us …
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Ronn Blitzer / Law News:
Now Mike Pence is Fighting to Keep His Emails Away From Public View
Discussion: AOL
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Pence pushes for email privacy
Discussion: RedState
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Gwen Ifill dead at age 61  —  Gwen Ifill, the longtime PBS news anchor who had served as a co-host of PBS's NewsHour and as moderator of “Washington Week,” has died after a battle with cancer, PBS has confirmed.  She was 61.  —  “It is with extremely heavy hearts that we must share …
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PBS NewsHour:
PBS NewsHour Co-anchor Gwen Ifill Dies at 61
Discussion: The Root, WBAY-TV and LGBTQ Nation
Michael Nunez / Gizmodo:
Facebook's Fight Against Fake News Was Undercut by Fear of Conservative Backlash  —  It's no secret that Facebook has a fake news problem.  Critics have accused the social network of allowing false and hoax news stories to run rampant, with some suggesting that Facebook contributed …
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Sheera Frenkel / BuzzFeed:
Renegade Facebook Employees Form Task Force To Battle Fake News  —  The group is hoping to challenge the position by CEO Mark Zuckerberg that the platform has no responsibility to address the issue following the election of Donald Trump.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook employees have formed …
Chris Kleponis / Talking Points Memo:
President Obama On Trump: 'I Don't Think He's Ideological'  —  President Barack Obama told reporters Monday that he believes President-elect Donald Trump is coming to the White House with a more flexible outlook on policy than his predecessors.  —  “He is coming to this office with fewer set hard …
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Rehema Figueiredo / Daily Express:
Trump to bring back Churchill statue SHAMEFULLY removed from White House by Barack Obama
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Kate Mather / Los Angeles Times:
LAPD will not help deport immigrants under Trump, chief says  —  Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said Monday that he did not intend to change the LAPD's approach to immigration enforcement, despite pledges by President-elect Donald Trump to toughen federal immigration laws and increase deportations.
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Soros bands with donors to resist Trump, ‘take back power’  —  George Soros and other rich liberals who spent tens of millions of dollars trying to elect Hillary Clinton are gathering in Washington for a three-day, closed door meeting to retool the big-money left to fight back against Donald Trump.
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Kate Bellows / The Cavalier Daily:
Professors ask Sullivan to stop quoting Jefferson  —  Many student groups believe Jefferson shouldn't be included in emails  —  Several groups on Grounds collaborated to write a letter to University President Teresa Sullivan against the inclusion of a Thomas Jefferson quote in her post-election email Nov. 9.
Jatara McGee / WSAZ-TV:
Non-profit director and mayor under fire after First Lady Facebook post  —  CLAY COUNTY, W.Va (WSAZ) — Two Clay County women are under intense criticism after a Facebook post launched outrage on social media.  Screenshots of the post have been shared thousands of times.
CBS News:
Trump team seeks top-secret security clearances for Trump's children  —  President-elect Donald Trump is potentially seeking top secret security clearances for his children, sources tell CBS News.  —  The Trump team has asked the White House to explore the possibility of getting his children the top secret security clearances.
Yahoo! News:
EXCLUSIVE: White House expects Trump to uphold US treaties  —  The United States can be relied upon to uphold mutual defense treaties with its allies but a trans-Pacific trade deal now looks unlikely, National Security Advisor Susan Rice said Monday.  —  In her first public comments since …
Discussion: ABC News
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump will honor NATO commitment, Obama says
Discussion: RedState and Associated Press
Joe Concha / The Hill:
CBS News under fire for holding clip of Trump telling supporters not to attack minorities … CBS News is under fire for holding a videotaped clip from a Friday interview with President-elect Donald Trump  —  urging supporters not to attack minorities until a “60 Minutes” broadcast on Sunday night.
Julia Hahn / Breitbart:
House Speaker Paul Ryan's immigration policy is not “in the best interest of America,” says Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks.  —  Lawmakers are set to hold leadership elections this coming Tuesday.  Yet, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Brooks indicated that he is not sure whether …
Discussion: CNN
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How the Loyal Opposition Will Work in Trump's America
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Dem Strategist Mocks Trump Supporter Beat Up By Mob: ‘Oh My Goodness, Poor White People!’  —  Former press secretary to Bernie Sanders and Democratic strategist Symone Sanders mocked and dismissed a Donald Trump supporter who was beat up by a Chicago mob on CNN Monday because he was white.
Lauren Gill / Brooklyn Paper: Full:
[BOERUM HILL] Man punches woman in the face after argument about Trump at Boerum Hill bistro  —  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.  —  Brooklyn Paper  —  An apparent Donald Trump fan punched a lady in the face after the pair got into an argument about the outcome of the election …
Bloomberg:
Apple Considers Wearables Expansion With Digital Glasses  —  Early product testing comes as company searches for next hit  —  Similar Google Glass project flopped as a consumer product  —  Apple Inc. is weighing an expansion into digital glasses, a risky but potentially lucrative area …
Nina Burleigh / Newsweek:
The presidential election was a referendum on gender and women lost  —  U.S. 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION GENDER  —  The sickening realization came on suddenly, like a norovirus.  All day long, Hillary Clinton's close friends and wider circle of supporters had been cautiously optimistic about her chances in the general election.
Discussion: naked capitalism
Mike Lux / The Huffington Post:
The Years of Living Dangerously  —  I have held off posting anything publicly on the election because with an event which combines this level of surprise with this traumatic a nightmare, I wanted to take some time to reflect, analyze, and hear what others were thinking before I rushed in and vomited my emotions all over my desktop.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 
 
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Kurt Eichenwald / Newsweek:
THE MYTHS DEMOCRATS SWALLOWED THAT COST THEM THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
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Esther Whieldon / Politico:
Steyer calls on Obama to ban offshore drilling in Arctic, Atlantic
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Monday in Pictures: The Epic Trumpening Supplemental
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Obama to team: You can mope for two weeks
Discussion: RedState
Rush Limbaugh:
Obama and Hillary Must Shut Down Their Riots: The Democrat Party's Illusion Is Shattered …
Josefa Velasquez / Politico:
Fearing Trump, two legislators press for update of state abortion law
Discussion: Raw Story
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Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
VA drops plans to cover surgery for transgender vets
Discussion: RedState
Gary Shteyngart / New Yorker:
Aftermath: Sixteen Writers on Trump's America
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trump Slump Coming?
Julieta Chiquillo / Dallas Morning News:
A man got a free Veterans Day meal at Chili's in Cedar Hill, then a manager took it away
Discussion: RedState