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Michael Moore / Facebook:
A Personal Appeal to the Republican Members of the Electoral College from Michael Moore — Dear Republican Electors: — Ok, if you've read this far, knowing that it's me, Michael Moore, writing to you -\-\ well, thank you for having an open mind and the willingness to listen to someone you don't agree with.
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
The Anti-Trump Electoral College Effort Is Only The Beginning — WASHINGTON — The battle over Monday's electoral college vote is the beginning, not the end. A larger campaign to undermine the legitimacy — and constitutionality — of Donald Trump's presidency is likely just getting underway.
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Heat Street and Common Dreams
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Voters show little support for Electoral College revolt
Voters show little support for Electoral College revolt
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The Week, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
The electoral college is poised to pick Trump, despite push to dump him
The electoral college is poised to pick Trump, despite push to dump him
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ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, New York Times, The Daily Caller, Common Dreams, Hot Air, The Geller Report and New York Magazine
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders: Electoral College won't block Trump
Insiders: Electoral College won't block Trump
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No More Mister Nice Blog, AOL, The Geller Report, BizPac Review and The Hill
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
‘Faithless electors’ explain their last-ditch attempt to stop Donald Trump
Emmarie Huetteman / New York Times:
The Electoral College Meets Monday. Here's What to Expect.
The Electoral College Meets Monday. Here's What to Expect.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Trump private security force ‘playing with fire’ — GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — President-elect Donald Trump has continued employing a private security and intelligence team at his victory rallies, and he is expected to keep at least some members of the team after he becomes president, according to people familiar with the plans.
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Scott Detrow / NPR:
To Rehabilitate Democratic Party, Obama Plans To ‘Coach’ Young Talent — President Obama sees a role for himself in rebuilding the Democratic Party after he leaves office — coach. — “What I am interested in is just developing a whole new generation of talent,” Obama told NPR's Steve Inskeep …
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Allen Cone / UPI:
Obama warns Trump not to overuse executive orders
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
How Republics End — Many people are reacting to the rise of Trumpism and nativist movements in Europe by reading history — specifically, the history of the 1930s. And they are right to do so. It takes willful blindness not to see the parallels between the rise of fascism and our current political nightmare.
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Buck Ryan / Lexington Herald-Leader:
UK prof: Singing a Beach Boys' tune got me punished for ‘sexual misconduct’ — The University of Kentucky has punished me in a “sexual misconduct” case, in part, for singing a Beach Boys tune covered by Alvin and the Chipmunks. — Under Administrative Regulation 6:1, Discrimination and Harassment …
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Trump advisers spar over new political arm — Donald Trump's top advisers are jousting over control of the new political group they are forming to help press the president-elect's agenda, as rival camps have formed with repercussions for who ends up as senior staff at the White House.
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Sherrel Stewart / NPR:
This Mostly White City Wants To Leave Its Mostly Black School District — DeVonte Kirkland is in his second to last year of school at Center Point High in Jefferson County, just outside of Birmingham, Ala. When he graduates next year he wants to head to Alabama State University.
Michael Wines / New York Times:
All This Talk of Voter Fraud? Across U.S., Officials Found Next to None — After all the allegations of rampant voter fraud and claims that millions had voted illegally, the people who supervised the general election last month in states around the nation have been adding up how many credible reports of fraud they actually received.
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
The Terrifying Aftermath of Hillary's Election Victory — In the midst of our joyous celebrations, and as we savor the delicious schadenfreude left in the wake of Hillary's humiliating rejection by normal Americans, it's easy to forget that there is a much darker timeline where things could have gone very differently . . .
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Bill Clinton: Trump knows how to get ‘angry, white men to vote for him’ — President-elect Donald Trump “doesn't know much,” former President Bill Clinton told a local newspaper earlier this month, but “one thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him.”
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Eric Eyre / Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of overdoses … Follow the pills and you'll find the overdose deaths. — The trail of painkillers leads to West Virginia's southern coalfields, to places like Kermit, population 392. There, out-of-state drug companies shipped nearly …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Team Still Won't Accept CIA Conclusion On Russian Hacks — Reince Priebus, incoming chief of staff for Donald Trump, on Sunday morning said that Trump will not yet accept the CIA's conclusion that Russian hacks into Democratic groups were an attempt to boost Trump to victory.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Shul ties: Ivanka and Jared's big move has D.C.'s Jews buzzing — At the intimate, light-brick synagogue in Georgetown, members don't fuss over their famous-for-Washington congregants. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew prays at Kesher Israel just like everybody else in the tight-knit Modern Orthodox community.