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Michael Bastasch / The Daily Caller:
Obama Blames The Media For Trump's Landslide Win In Rural America — Obama Blames The Media For Not Telling Rural Americans How Awesome He Is — Obama To Muster Organizers, Journos, Pols For Next Generation Of Progressive Leaders — Democrats Freak Out After Trump Does What They Asked Him To Do
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RedState, TheBlaze and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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David Axelrod / CNN:
Full transcript: David Axelrod interviews President Barack Obama for The Axe Files — PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA IS INTERVIEWED ON “THE AXE FILES” FROM CNN & THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO INSTITUTE OF POLITIC — AXELROD (voiceover): I first met Barack Obama when he returned to Chicago from law school …
Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Obama: I'm going to keep to myself when I leave the White House — President Obama plans to keep a low-profile when he leaves office in January to better reflect on his time as president. — “I have to be quiet for a while. And I don't mean politically, I mean internally. I have to still myself,” Obama said.
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twitchy.com, The Last Tradition, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Daily Mail:
‘NO WAY’: Trump mocks Obama for saying he could have beaten him if he were allowed to run again - and cites job losses, Obamacare and the ISIS terror army as reasons — Trump blasted Obama for claiming he could have mobilized Americans to win a third term in office if he had been the Democratic nominee
DrexelNow:
Response to Professor George Ciccariello-Maher's Tweet — Drexel became aware today of Associate Professor George Ciccariello-Maher's inflammatory tweet, which was posted on his personal Twitter account on Dec. 24, 2016. While the University recognizes the right of its faculty to freely express …
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CBS Philly, Heat Street, The Daily Caller, Jezebel, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Hot Air and Fox News Insider
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Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
Drexel Condemns Professor's Tweet — University issues statement on Christmas Day over post that said “all I want for Christmas is white genocide.” Update: Professor criticizes response to “satirical” comment. — Drexel University issued a statement on Christmas Day to condemn a tweet …
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Heat Street
Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Drexel Professor Has A History Of Hating White People And Wishing For Their Genocide
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Washington Times, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, RedState and Infowars
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
NY Attorney General Hinders Trump Plan to Shutter Foundation — Donald Trump's plan to dissolve his eponymous foundation is already running into a roadblock from the New York Attorney General's office, which says the organization can't close while its probe is ongoing.
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Mucking Out the Justice Department — Of Donald Trump's most prominent allies in the presidential campaign, Jeff Sessions is the last one standing. Newt Gingrich is an outside adviser to Trump and occasional critic. Chris Christie works full-time as governor of New Jersey.
TMZ.com:
Versace Sued — Secret ‘Code’ for Black Customers ... Fired Employee Claims — Versace secretly alerts staffers when an African-American person enters the store ... according to an ex-employee who claims the company also dissed his fashion sense and then canned him.
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Raw Story, Jezebel, New York Magazine, Fox News Insider and Independent Journal Review
Abigail Hauslohner / Washington Post:
Muslims in a Bible Belt town hold their breath — It was here, in this midsize college town in the dead center of Tennessee, that a right-wing effort to ban Islamic law found one of its first sponsors. Here, too, a congressman co-sponsored a plan to “defund Muslim ‘refugees’ ” …
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Israel reduces relations with 12 Security Council countries: reports — Israel is reducing diplomatic working relationships with 12 countries on the United Nations Security Council, after the body voted to condemn Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory last week, according to reports.
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Political Wire, Haaretz, RedState, American Greatness, The Economic Collapse, BizPac Review and CNN
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
'We don't support Satanic Jews': Trump's neo-Nazi fans freak after he posts a ‘Happy Hanukkah’ tweet — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — President-elect Donald Trump decided to throw a bone to people who care about religious diversity in the United States by wishing Jewish people a …
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alan.com and Independent Journal Review
William Turton / Gizmodo:
Senior Facebook Employee Arrested For Allegedly Soliciting Unprotected Sex From Underage Girl — Dov Katz, the head of computer vision at Oculus VR, was arrested near Seattle on December 21 for allegedly soliciting sex from an underage girl. According to charging records …
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The Verge
Jori Finkel / New York Times:
‘The Fashion of Islam’ to Arrive at de Young in 2018 — SAN FRANCISCO — The de Young Museum here has drawn big crowds before with shows on Oscar de la Renta, Jean Paul Gaultier and Yves Saint Laurent. But for its next big fashion extravaganza, the museum is entering new territory …
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The Gateway Pundit
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
When One Party Has the Governor's Mansion and the Other Has the Statehouse — RALEIGH, N.C. — With swift and brutal efficiency, North Carolina Republicans welcomed an incoming Democratic governor this month to an elite but hardly desirable club: the handful of governors around the nation …
Paul Rosenberg / Salon:
Donald Trump's wrecking crew: A cabinet of zealots who yearn to destroy their own agencies — Previous GOP presidents have appointed anti-government hardliners, but Trump's cabinet goes further than ever — In one sense, it's nothing new. At least since Ronald Reagan took office in 1981 …
Media Matters for America:
As Inauguration Approaches, NRATV Says Dissent Against Trump Is An “Assault” On The Constitution — Ostensibly a news organization, the National Rifle Association's NRATV is actually a pro-Trump propaganda effort that routinely labels protected-speech reporting on the president-elect as a plot …
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Hullabaloo
Deroy Murdock / New York Post:
Obama's legacy is a devastated Democratic Party — As President Obama concludes his reign of error, his party is smaller, weaker and ricketier than it has been since at least the 1940s. Behold the tremendous power that Democrats have frittered away — from January 2009 through the aftermath …
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The Gateway Pundit and The Other McCain
Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
Don't be fooled: Closing the Trump Foundation doesn't solve Trump's conflict of interest problems — Not even close. — On Christmas Eve, President-elect Donald Trump announced he's closing his controversial charitable foundation in order to avoid potential conflicts of interest.
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TaxProf Blog and Slate
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