Top Items:
Marc Erik Elias:
Listening and Responding To Calls for an Audit and Recount — Over the last few days, officials in the Clinton campaign have received hundreds of messages, emails, and calls urging us to do something, anything, to investigate claims that the election results were hacked and altered in a way to disadvantage Secretary Clinton.
Discussion:
RedState, New York Times, ABC News, Mother Jones, Business Insider, Washington Post, KQED News, NPR, The Gateway Pundit, Gothamist, Mashable, The Verge, The Daily Caller, Common Dreams, Daily Kos, The Guardian, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hot Air, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Politicus USA, AOL, BizPac Review, NBC News, Raw Story, Wall Street Journal, CBS Pittsburgh, The New Civil Rights Movement, The Week, Talking Points Memo, The Wisconsin Elections … and Daily Mail
RELATED:
Brent Griffiths / Politico:
Clinton campaign to join Wisconsin recount — After a period of public silence about the results of the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton's top campaign lawyer said the campaign will play a role in the Wisconsin recount initiated Friday by Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, BizPac Review, Outside the Beltway, twitchy.com, Heat Street, Detroit News, Mediaite, Prntly and The Daily Caller
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Clinton Campaign Will Participate in Stein's State Recounts — Little chance to overturn results seen but ‘principle’ remains — Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan could redo vote counts — Hillary Clinton's campaign lawyer announced plans to participate in vote recounts of Wisconsin …
Discussion:
Mediaite, The Last Refuge, The Gateway Pundit and Resistance Feed
Eric Geller / Politico:
White House insists hackers didn't sway election, even as recount begins — The Obama administration said it has seen no evidence of hackers tampering with the 2016 presidential election, even as recount proceedings began in Wisconsin. — “We stand behind our election results …
Discussion:
RedState, Balloon Juice, TheBlaze and Detroit News
Eugene Scott / CNN:
Clinton campaign: We are taking part in the recount
Clinton campaign: We are taking part in the recount
Discussion:
New York Magazine, The Geller Report, Fox 59, The Week, New York's PIX11 and The Verge
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
Clinton Campaign to Participate in Recount Sought by Green Party's Stein
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
Clinton Will Join Wisconsin Recount
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
U.S. Officials Defend Integrity of Vote, Despite Hacking Fears
U.S. Officials Defend Integrity of Vote, Despite Hacking Fears
Discussion:
RedState, Business Insider, Political Wire and The Week
The White House:
Statement by the President on the Passing of Fidel Castro — At this time of Fidel Castro's passing, we extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban people. We know that this moment fills Cubans - in Cuba and in the United States - with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways …
Discussion:
The Gateway Pundit, RedState, CNN, Towleroad, twitchy.com, Washington Post, Mediaite, WDEF-TV, Hot Air, WQAD-TV, NBC News, Mashable and CBS Miami
RELATED:
Prime Minister / pm.gc.ca:
Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on the death of former Cuban President Fidel Castro — The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on the death of former Cuban President Fidel Castro: — “It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of Cuba's longest serving President.
Discussion:
ABC News, CNN, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, Business Insider, BizPac Review and twitchy.com
Anthony DePalma / New York Times:
Fidel Castro, Cuban Revolutionary Who Defied U.S., Dies at 90 — Mr. Castro brought the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere, bedeviled 11 American presidents and briefly pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war. — Fidel Castro, the fiery apostle of revolution who brought the Cold War …
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Rubio blasts Obama's ‘pathetic’ Castro statement — (R-Fla.) lashed out at President Obama on Saturday for not taking a harsher stance against Fidel Castro in a statement issued after the former Cuban leader's death. — “President Obama issued a pathetic statement on death of dictator #FidelCastro …
Discussion:
Independent Journal Review, Mashable, CBS Miami and twitchy.com
BBC:
Cuba's Fidel Castro, former president, dies aged 90 — Fidel Castro, Cuba's former president and leader of the Communist revolution, has died aged 90, state TV has announced. — It provided no further details. — Fidel Castro ruled Cuba as a one-party state for almost half a century …
Carlos Eire / Washington Post:
Farewell to Cuba's brutal Big Brother — Carlos Eire is an author and the T.L. Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. — One of the most brutal dictators in modern history has just died. Oddly enough, some will mourn his passing, and many an obituary will praise him.
Jeremy Berke / Business Insider:
TRUMP: ‘Fidel Castro is dead!’
TRUMP: ‘Fidel Castro is dead!’
Discussion:
USA Today, New York Times, Washington Post, ABC News, CNN, The Guardian, Hit & Run, RedState, Mediaite, WDEF-TV, AOL, NBC News, Political Insider blog and Althouse
Glenn Garvin / miamiherald:
Fidel Castro is dead
Fidel Castro is dead
Discussion:
Little Green Footballs, Business Insider, Outside the Beltway, Booman Tribune, neo-neocon and Infowars
Armando Salguero / miamiherald:
Unrepentant hypocrite Colin Kaepernick defends Fidel Castro
Unrepentant hypocrite Colin Kaepernick defends Fidel Castro
Discussion:
BizPac Review, TheBlaze and Independent Journal Review
Michael Bastasch / The Daily Caller:
Trump's Brutally Honest Castro Statement Proves He's No Obama
Trump's Brutally Honest Castro Statement Proves He's No Obama
Discussion:
Guido Fawkes, Washington Post, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, VDARE, Politicus USA and thepittmaverick.com
The Independent:
Jeremy Corbyn has hailed Fidel Castro as a “champion of social justice”, following the announcement …
Jeremy Corbyn has hailed Fidel Castro as a “champion of social justice”, following the announcement …
Discussion:
Washington Post, The Daily Signal, Fox News Insider and The American Conservative
Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen:
Ros-Lehtinen Comments on Death of Fidel Castro
Ros-Lehtinen Comments on Death of Fidel Castro
Discussion:
Today, a tyrant …, Politico, Mashable and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
miamiherald:
Cuban exiles pour onto Miami streets to celebrate Fidel Castro's death
Cuban exiles pour onto Miami streets to celebrate Fidel Castro's death
Discussion:
Mashable, The Guardian, Associated Press, New York Magazine, Al Jazeera English, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, RT, CBS New York, CBS Miami, France 24, WATE-TV and RedState
Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:
Obama Must Save the Courts to Save America From Trump — Can President Obama appoint Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court now that the Senate's term is ending? Should he? — The answer to the first question is yes: The constitution gives him that power.
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Trump supporter calls passengers ‘Hillary b— es’ during rant on plane — supporter yelled at fellow passengers on a Delta flight on Tuesday night, calling some people “Hillary bitches.” — “Didn't take long to notice that I'm back in 'Merica...,” a Facebook user captioned the 45-second video.
RELATED:
Eric Chenoweth / Washington Post:
Americans keep looking away from the election's most alarming story — Eric Chenoweth is co-director of the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe. — In assessing Donald Trump's presidential victory, Americans continue to look away from this election's most alarming story …
New York Times:
Potential Conflicts Around the Globe for Trump, the Businessman President — MANILA — On Thanksgiving Day, a Philippine developer named Jose E. B. Antonio hosted a company anniversary bash at one of Manila's poshest hotels. He had much to be thankful for.
Discussion:
Raw Story
Chelsea Hawkins / Stand With Standing Rock:
Army Corp Closes Public Access to Oceti Sakowin Camp on Dec. 5th — Tribe calls on President Obama again to deny easement and honor treaty — Cannon Ball, N.D. — The following statement from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's Chairman, Dave Archambault II, can be quoted in part or in full.
Discussion:
Bismarck Tribune, NPR, Common Dreams, dcclothesline.com, New York Times, Shadowproof, The Week and Diane Ravitch's blog
RELATED:
Ralph Ellis / CNN:
Dakota Pipeline: Army Corps orders protesters out
Dakota Pipeline: Army Corps orders protesters out
Discussion:
ThinkProgress, Reuters, The Root and Sierra Club National