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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Yep, Comey's Decision Was Just as Bad As You Thought — Apart from the question of its impact on the 2016, we now have confirmation of just how bad a decision, how unjustified a decision James Comey made when he rocked the presidential election a week before election day. Every bit as bad as you thought.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Heidi M. Przybyla / USA Today:
Lawyer: ‘Appalled’ by FBI warrant that shook Clinton — WASHINGTON — The FBI warrant that shook Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign in its final two weeks has been unsealed, and the lawyer who requested it says it offers “nothing at all” to merit the agency's actions leading up to the Nov. 8 election.
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Occupy Democrats
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Emails between Clinton and top aide, but little else, spurred FBI to resume controversial probe — The FBI told a federal judge that it needed to search a computer to resume its investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server because agents had found correspondence …
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New York Magazine, Balloon Juice and The Week
Jack Date / ABC News:
Search Warrant Related to Clinton Emails Unsealed
Search Warrant Related to Clinton Emails Unsealed
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Associated Press, Hot Air and TheBlaze
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Trump's Sons Might Be the Ones to Sink Him — Plus, his national security advisor met with an Austrian far-right leader. — The Center For Public Integrity, which is probably hiring at a frenzied pace at the moment, would like you all to sing along. — Gimme the beat, boys …
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Alison Smale / New York Times:
Austria's Far Right Signs a Cooperation Pact With Putin's Party — BERLIN — The leader of the Austrian far-right Freedom Party has signed what he called a cooperation agreement with Russia's ruling party and recently met with Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, the designated national security adviser …
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Business Insider, Daily Kos and The Week
Nick Baumann / The Huffington Post:
Trump National Security Adviser Met With Leader Of Party Founded By Nazis
Trump National Security Adviser Met With Leader Of Party Founded By Nazis
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog and Shakesville
Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg:
Obama Said to Use 1953 Law to Block Drilling in Arctic, Atlantic — Obscure statute would grant permanent protection to areas — Restrictions on new oil leases may provoke legal challenge — President Barack Obama is preparing to block the sale of new offshore drilling rights …
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The White House, Politico, NPR, Common Dreams, Daily Kos, New York Times, Morning Consult, Hot Air, The Daily Caller and New York Magazine
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists — To die-hard fans, Apple Inc.'s Macintosh sometimes seems like an afterthought these days. — Mac upgrades, once a frequent ritual, are few and far between. The Mac Pro, Apple's marquee computer, hasn't been refreshed since 2013.
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Ed White / Associated Press:
Emergency Managers Charged Over Flint's Lead-Tainted Water — FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's attorney general filed more criminal charges Tuesday in the investigation of lead-tainted water in Flint, targeting two former state-appointed emergency managers who were running the troubled city …
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The Root
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Brady Dennis / Washington Post:
Four more officials charged with felonies in Flint water crisis
Four more officials charged with felonies in Flint water crisis
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Mother Jones, Rewire and The Week
Foreign Policy:
Russia Missing from Trump's Top Defense Priorities, According to DoD Memo — Meanwhile, Pentagon brass say Moscow is the No. 1 threat to the United States. — A Pentagon memo outlining the incoming Trump administration's top “defense priorities” identifies defeating the Islamic State …
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The Guardian, Washington Free Beacon, Daily Kos and Politicus USA
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Wisconsin's red realignment — Eight years ago, Wisconsin Democrats were in the catbird seat; they held the Governor's office, the majority in both chambers of the state legislature, two U.S. Senate seats, five of the state's eight congressional seats and handed Barack Obama a rousing victory in the presidential election.
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Hot Air
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Stuart Rothenberg / Washington Post:
Can Republican senators get to 60 seats in 2018?
Can Republican senators get to 60 seats in 2018?
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Hot Air
Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
The head of Trump's inauguration explains what's going on with Andrea Bocelli — Donald Trump did not ask his friend Andrea Bocelli to perform at his inauguration, the chairman of the Presidential Inaugural Committee said Tuesday in response to reports that the singer turned the president-elect down.
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Page Six, New York Times, BizPac Review, AOL and Washington Free Beacon
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
This Deep Sea Fisherman Posts His Discoveries on Twitter and OH MY GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE — Roman Fedortsov is a deep sea fisherman in Russia. And he's been taking photos of OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT? — Seriously, I just took a quick three-minute scroll through Fedortsov's Twitter page …
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AOL, Mashable and Independent Journal Review
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Exclusive: Families of Orlando nightclub shooting victims sue Facebook, Twitter and Google — Mourners embrace outside the wake for Pulse shooting victim Javier Jorge Reyes in Orlando, Florida, U.S. June 15, 2016 (Reuters) — Families of the victims of the Orlando gay nightclub shooting …
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USA Today, The Daily Caller, Jezebel, The Verge, RT, Techdirt, LGBTQ Nation, Heat Street, AOL, The Right Scoop, Gizmodo, Clayton Cramer, Mashable and twitchy.com
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Wild cards add drama to Trump's West Wing picks — Donald Trump's transition team is planning to announce a number of key senior White House staff appointments imminently, but — perhaps befitting a president-elect who grew his fame on reality television — there is suspense around a few big names and positions.
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Business Insider, more at Mediagazer »
Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair:
Inside the Desperate, Year-Long Hunt to Find Donald Trump's Rumored Apprentice Outtakes — Throughout the election, both the media and the Clinton camp were obsessed by outtakes from the reality show, amid allegations of hair-raising things said by the now president-elect.
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Don Kaplan / New York Daily News:
Roger Ailes calls The News to complain, seek apology for ‘Gropey old men’ headline — Former Fox News chief Roger Ailes called the Daily News' MediaBlast Monday — to complain about a headline. — “I was hoping you would be a gentleman and apologize,” Ailes said, citing MediaBlast's Sunday column …
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Matthew Cole / The Intercept:
TRUMP'S PICK FOR INTERIOR SECRETARY WAS CAUGHT IN “PATTERN OF FRAUD” AT SEAL TEAM 6 — A Montana lawmaker tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be secretary of the interior committed travel fraud when he was a member of the elite Navy SEAL Team 6, according to three former unit leaders and a military consultant.
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Mother Jones and Raw Story
Kate Scanlon / TheBlaze:
Lena Dunham: 'I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had' — Actress Lena Dunham announced during the most recent episode of her podcast “Women of the Hour” that she wishes she had undergone an abortion in order to combat “stigma around this issue.” — Dunham said that …
Mirror.co.uk:
Russian diplomat 'found dead from gunshot wounds hours after ambassador's death' — WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Petr Polshikov was reportedly discovered with a bullet wound to his head at his flat in Moscow's Balaklavsky Prospekt
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JustOneMinute and Vox Popoli
Jeff Green / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
FedEx discount for NRA members draws LGBT, anti-gun activist ire — A coalition of gay-rights and gun-control activists is taking on FedEx Corp. for discounts it offers to members of the National Rifle Association, targeting the global shipper during the peak of the holiday season. (Antonio Gravante)
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Hot Air and Bearing Arms
Vanessa Londino / SoundCloud:
SoundCloud — In this episode, stories of reproductive choice. We hear from a woman with no children, a mother of ten children, and everything in between! — Ms. Dunham, you lack wisdom, maturity, compassion, and perspective. I've observed this in you for some time.
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RedState, Page Six, Mashable, Mediaite and New York Magazine
John Sharp / al.com:
Mobile official apologizes for Christmas tree at Trump rally removed from public park — President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, in Mobile, Ala. In the background is a large cedar tree that was cut down at Public Safety Memorial Park …
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Jezebel, New York Magazine and Hullabaloo
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Priorities USA positions itself as center of gravity for the left in the Trump era — The super PAC that poured nearly $200 million into trying to elect Hillary Clinton president is remaking itself as a permanent center of opposition to the impending Trump administration …
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Political Wire
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Trump plots two-for-one assault on Obama regs — is setting out to gut the Obama administration's regulations, starting with a mandate that would slowly chip away at the number of rules on the books. — In a video message mapping out his first 100 days, Trump said he would issue …
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RedState
Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
A Tangerine Wig and a Tightrope Walk: Alec Baldwin as Donald J. Trump — It takes seven minutes. — A dusting of Clinique Stay-Matte powder in honey. A hand-stitched wig. Eyebrows glued up into tiny peaks. The rest is left to Alec Baldwin: the puckered lips, a studied lumbering gait …
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Mediaite, Business Insider, The Week and CNN
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Schumer fires video unit staff — Incoming Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer cleaned house last week in the Senate Democrats' internal video department, firing nearly all its employees amid plans to revamp the unit with a new digital operation aimed at creating viral social media content.
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F.H. Buckley / New York Post:
Catholic surprise: another way Trump is remaking the GOP — You only think you know what won the election for Donald Trump. — Hillary's corruption? The betrayal of the American Dream? Vladimir Putin? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Let me tell you the real story, and the person behind it.
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BizPac Review
Dan Hopkins / FiveThirtyEight:
Voters Really Did Switch To Trump At The Last Minute — Donald Trump's somewhat surprising win has forced many political analysts to wonder: Were we wrong all along in thinking Hillary Clinton had the upper hand, or was late-breaking movement to Trump part of the reason why polling averages missed his upset Electoral College victory?
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Salon, Washington Post, Politico and TheBlaze