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Rebecca Traister / thecut:
Why the Harvey Weinstein Sexual-Harassment Allegations Didn't Come Out Until Now  —  I have been having conversations about Harvey Weinstein's history of sexual harassment for more than 17 years.  —  The conversations started when I was a young editorial assistant at Talk, the magazine he financed …
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Bari Weiss / New York Times:
Will Liberals Give Weinstein the O'Reilly Treatment?  —  I'll never forget the one time I laid eyes on Harvey Weinstein outside the pages of Vanity Fair.  It was at a movie premiere in Manhattan in 2014.  My sister and I got up before the film started for a pre-emptive bathroom run.
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Late-Night Comedy Shows Avoid Harvey Weinstein Allegations... for Now … “Experts say it's unlikely that any self-respecting network will ever hire him.”  - Jimmy Fallon  —  “I mean, it is nice to know that while liberals and conservatives disagree on a lot of things …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Harvey Weinstein, Milo Yiannopoulos, and the era of unleashing
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Lisa Bloom, Harvey Weinstein's Adviser, Criticizes His Behavior Toward Women
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Harvey Weinstein and that ‘different time’ when hostile workplaces were totally okay
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Hollywood's Loud Silence on Harvey Weinstein's Sexual Harassment Allegations
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Harvey Weinstein Speaks: My Apology Is Sincere, But I'm Still Suing NY Times
Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue:
Watch: Sarah Huckabee Sanders callously laughs at women who will lose their birth control  —  For the Trump administration to block women's access to birth control is bad enough.  To laugh at those women is exceptionally cruel.  —  Donald Trump has utterly failed to deliver on his threat …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: 'You'll find out' what ‘calm before the storm’ means … President Trump on Friday kept the public wondering about his cryptic warning regarding a “calm before the storm.”  —  “You'll find out,” Trump told reporters at the White House when asked what he meant by his comment.
Discussion: Politico
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump is treating a potential war like a reality show cliffhanger  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump hosted his top military brass and their spouses for dinner at the White House on Thursday night.  The group posed for a photo.  Then this exchange with reporters happened:
NBC News:
Investigators Probing Whether Others Were in Las Vegas Gunman's Suite  —  Investigators are trying to determine whether someone else was in the Las Vegas gunman's hotel room when he was registered there, senior law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation told NBC News.
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Trump just officially made it easier for employers to stop covering birth control  —  The new rules let big companies end contraceptive coverage — and take effect immediately.  —  The Trump administration is relaxing an Obama-era requirement that nearly all employers offer health insurance …
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Washington Post:
Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Courts Thwart Administration's Effort to Rescind Obama-Era Environmental Regulations
Discussion: Federal Register
Stephen Young / Dallas Observer:
Meet the Dallas Bartender Who Kicked Milo Yiannopoulos and Some Neo-Nazis Out of Her Bar … One night last spring, infamous right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and Dallas' homegrown white nationalist, Richard Spencer, walked into a karaoke bar on Abrams Road in Lake Highlands.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: CIA director Pompeo considered to replace Tillerson  —  Trump advisers and allies are floating the idea of replacing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, age 53 — someone who's already around the table in the Situation Room, and could make the switch without chaos.
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Washington Post:
Civil liberties groups decry Sessions's guidance on religious freedom  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued sweeping guidance to executive branch agencies Friday on the Justice Department's interpretation of how the government should respect religious freedom, triggering an immediate backlash …
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Trump Dossier Author Is in Talks With Senate Intel Committee  —  WASHINGTON — Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence operative who authored a 35-page dossier alleging that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, has been in talks with the Senate Intelligence Committee about speaking …
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Foreign Policy:
The FBI's New U.S. Terrorist Threat: ‘Black Identity Extremists’  —  Law enforcement calls it a violent movement.  Critics call it racist.  —  As white supremacists prepared to descend on Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, the FBI warned about a new movement that was violent, growing, and racially motivated.
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Roy Moore in 2009: ‘Only thing I know that the Islamic faith has done in this country is 9/11’  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Republican nominee for US Senate in Alabama Roy Moore said in a 2009 speech that the only thing that Muslims had done in the United States was the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
The Democrats' Gerrymandering Obsession
Discussion: Liberal Values
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Democrats look to wreak havoc in GOP primaries
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
AIM will shut down after 20 years  —  It's a sad moment: AIM, AOL's long-running instant messenger service that was core to many people's first social experiences on the internet, will shut down once and for all on December 15th.  AOL announced the shutdown today, acknowledging that people …
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Karen Berkowitz / Chicago Tribune:
Highland Park deli co-owner to leave family business after Vegas shooting tweet sparks outrage  —  Max's Deli in Highland Park has ousted co-owner Greg Morelli over a controversial tweet that was posted Monday after the mass shootings in Las Vegas.  —  Deli co-owner Joey Morelli released …
Discussion: Chicagoist, Raw Story and IJR
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BuzzFeed:
US Intelligence Unit Accused Of Illegally Spying On Americans' Financial Records  —  The Treasury Department's Office of Intelligence and Analysis has been illegally rifling through and filing away the private financial records of US citizens, Treasury employees alleged.
Discussion: Hit & Run and The Week
Paul Lewis / The Guardian:
‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia  —  Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster
Discussion: Shakesville
Tyisha Fernandes / WSB-TV:
Students given homework assignment to create mascot for Nazi party  —  GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - Parents are concerned after they say middle school students were asked to create a mascot for the Nazi party as part of a homework assignment.  —  The assignment was given to sixth grade students at Shiloh Middle School in Snellville.
Sarah Lee / RedState:
NFL in Bed with Soros  —  Turns out taking a knee to protest police brutality — and later, to protest remarks made by Donald Trump — was mostly political after all.  —  It's being reported today that the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), the union that represents NFL players …
 
 
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Associated Press:
AP-NORC Poll: Just 24 percent say US heading right direction
Discussion: The Guardian
ICE:
Statement from ICE Acting Director Tom Homan on California Sanctuary Law
Discussion: Mother Jones and Splinter
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
How an Oval Office meeting led to a Trump tweet that changed U.S. policy toward Venezuela
Discussion: Business Insider
Christina Tkacik / Baltimore Sun:
Pumpkin spice scent prompts Baltimore school evacuation
Thomas Chatterton Williams / New York Times:
How Ta-Nehisi Coates Gives Whiteness Power
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Sam J. / twitchy.com:
BAKE THE CAKE?! Gay coffee shop owner refuses service to Christians, kicks them out (video)
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Democrats doubling down on campaign against Paul Ryan
Discussion: Political Wire
John DiStaso / WMUR:
In surprise announcement, Shea-Porter says she won't seek re-election in 2018
Discussion: Daily Kos
Weekly Standard:
Getting to No  —  Donald Trump was frustrated.
Bloomberg:
Inside the Saudi King's 1,500-Person Entourage in Moscow
Discussion: The Express Tribune
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Inside Tim Murphy's reign of terror
 

 
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Financial Times:
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