Top Items:
Michael J. Totten / City Journal:
The Last Communist City — A visit to the dystopian Havana that tourists never see — Neill Blomkamp's 2013 science-fiction film Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, takes place in Los Angeles, circa 2154. The wealthy have moved into an orbiting luxury satellite …
Discussion:
Althouse
RELATED:
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Kellyanne Conway and Sen. Bernie Sanders — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ on November 27, 2016 and it will be updated. — MARTHA RADDATZ, ABC HOST: And for more now, let's turn to Republican senator and former presidential candidate, Ted Cruz of Texas.
Discussion:
Politico, Associated Press, Politicus USA and Mediaite
Greg Grandin / The Nation:
Fidel Castro, 1926-2016 — The Cuban revolutionary almost outlasted 11 US presidents.
Fidel Castro, 1926-2016 — The Cuban revolutionary almost outlasted 11 US presidents.
Discussion:
Power Line, Cafe Hayek and Washington Post
Prime Minister / pm.gc.ca:
Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on the death of former Cuban President Fidel Castro
Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on the death of former Cuban President Fidel Castro
Discussion:
Independent Journal Review, ABC News, Daily Wire, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, MichelleMalkin.com, United Nations, Washington Post, TheBlaze, Politico, Human Rights Watch, BBC, twitchy.com, The Guardian, RedState, The Daily Caller, CBS News, Bloomberg, The Week, Business Insider, US Department of State, Heat Street, The Gateway Pundit, Political Insider blog, Mediaite, New York Times, CNN, Mashable, The Hill, The White House, The Daily Signal, The Independent and alan.com
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Conway unloads on Romney — Appointing Mitt Romney as secretary of state would be viewed by many supporters of President-elect Donald Trump as a major betrayal, former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CNN on Sunday. — “It's just breathtaking in scope and intensity,” …
Discussion:
The Gateway Pundit and alan.com
RELATED:
Emily Smith / New York Post:
Trump spent Thanksgiving asking: Mitt or Rudy? — More On: — The talk at Donald Trump's Thanksgiving dinner at his Florida club was all about if he should pick Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani for secretary of state. — The president-elect held court on Thursday at his Palm Beach, Fla. …
Discussion:
Hullabaloo, The Guardian, Mediaite and Raw Story
Tom LoBianco / CNN:
Conway: Trump backers feel ‘betrayed’ by Romney consideration — Washington (CNN)One of President-elect Donald Trump's top advisers said Sunday that his loyal supporters across the country feel “betrayed” that he is considering one of his most vicious critics, Mitt Romney, for secretary of state.
Discussion:
New York Times, BuzzFeed, Washington Post, ABC News, Political Wire, RedState, Business Insider, Hot Air, LifeZette, The Geller Report and The Week
Nick Juliano / Politico:
Obama's agencies push flurry of ‘midnight’ actions — Federal agencies are rushing out a final volley of executive actions in the last two months of Barack Obama's presidency, despite warnings from Republicans in Congress and the reality that Donald Trump will have the power to erase much of their handiwork after Jan. 20.
Discussion:
Booman Tribune
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
GOP senators wary of nuking filibuster — Senate Republicans are wary of making a historic move to nix the filibuster despite growing pressure from conservatives. — Roughly two weeks after Donald Trump — 's White House win, GOP lawmakers are already facing calls to overhaul Senate rules …
Discussion:
Hot Air, The Week and New York Times
New York Post:
Trump administration will pressure foreign states to probe Clinton Foundation — More On: — Foreign governments will be encouraged to investigate the Clinton Foundation's finances, as many are already turning off money spigots to the scandal-scarred group, The Post has learned.
Discussion:
RedState, Infowars and Fox News Insider
CNN:
CNN/ORC poll: A nation divided, and is it ever — (CNN)After a bruising presidential election featuring the two least liked major-party candidates in recent history, more than 8-in-10 Americans say the country is more deeply divided on major issues this year than in the past several years, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.
Discussion:
The Week, The Daily Caller and RedState
Hailey Branson-Potts / Los Angeles Times:
Letters threatening genocide against Muslims and praising Trump sent to multiple California mosques — Hussam Ayloush, seen here in May, is the Los Angeles director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the country's largest Muslim civil liberties organization. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Discussion:
Washington Post, The Week, Mediaite and CBS Sacramento
RELATED:
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Trump is ‘going to do to you Muslims what Hitler did to the Jews’: California mosque threatened
Trump is ‘going to do to you Muslims what Hitler did to the Jews’: California mosque threatened
Discussion:
The Talking Dog and Law News
Katherine Lam / New York's PIX11:
Google fixes NYC Trump Tower name after changed to ‘Dump Tower’ on Google Maps — NEW YORK — Google has fixed Trump Tower's name after an unknown person changed the midtown building's label on Google Maps for several hours on Saturday. — A search for Trump Tower on Google Maps brought …
Lindsay Gibbs / ThinkProgress:
Trump is ignoring daily intelligence briefings, relying on ‘a number of sources’ instead — His spokeswoman thinks he is getting enough information through phone calls with world leaders. — Last week, the Washington Post reported that President-elect Donald Trump had only received …
Discussion:
alan.com, YouTube, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story and New York Times
Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast:
Already Happening: Media Normalization of Trumpism — In the children's short story “The Emperor's New Clothes,” by Hans Christian Andersen, what kept the fiction of the naked emperor's sartorial splendor alive was nothing in particular about the emperor. True, he was vain and plainly foolish …
Discussion:
Raw Story