memeorandum: Tax Plans May Give Your Co-Worker a Better Deal Than You (Patricia Cohen/New York Times)

9:20 AM ET, December 10, 2017

Top Items:

Brian Lyman / The Montgomery Advertiser:

Days before election, Roy Moore disappears from campaign trail — Things seem to be going Roy Moore's way. President Trump endorsed him. The Republican National Committee is back to supporting him. And Moore, who has been accused of sexual contact with women when they were underaged …

Discussion: Raw Story

Amy Davidson Sorkin / New Yorker:

Donald Trump, Roy Moore, and the Degradation of the G.O.P. — In less than a year, the President, with help from the Alabama Senate candidate, has so damaged the Party that it may never recover. — When Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House spokeswoman, was explaining last week …

New York Times:

Alabama, Despite History of Unruly Politics, Has ‘Never Seen Anything Like This’ — MONTGOMERY, Ala. — “I don't think you can compare this one with anything,” said Bill Baxley, 76, whose first foray into Alabama state politics was as attorney general nearly five decades ago.

Discussion: Denver Post, Washington Post and Weekly Standard

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump to cut robocall for Moore

Discussion: The Daily Beast, RedState and Axios

Dan Balz / Washington Post:
In Alabama, no good outcomes for the Republican Party

Discussion: Politico and The Week

Washington Post: Bitter Senate race tests Alabama's image in the country — and at home

John Bowden / The Hill:
Liberal group trolls Trump rally using Ivanka Trump's criticism of Roy Moore

Discussion: Washington Post, Balloon Juice and HuffPost

Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:

Op-Ed The campaign to delegitimize the Russia probe is well under way — Sean Hannity interviews Former White House strategist Steve Bannon on the set of Fox News Channel's Hannity in New York on Oct. 9. (Craig Ruttle / Associated Press) — Some of President Trump's biggest fans …

Gregg Jarrett / Fox News:

Robert Mueller and his politically biased team of prosecutors need to go — Special Counsel Robert Mueller has sabotaged his own investigation of Russian meddling into the 2016 election. He has only himself to blame for ruining what could have been a credible probe.

Discussion: The Guardian

New York Times:

Inside Trump's Hour-by-Hour Battle for Self-Preservation … WASHINGTON — Around 5:30 each morning, President Trump wakes and tunes into the television in the White House's master bedroom. He flips to CNN for news, moves to “Fox & Friends” for comfort and messaging ideas, and sometimes watches MSNBC's …

Discussion: Althouse, Mother Jones, New York Magazine, Shareblue Media, RedState, Mediaite, Business Insider, AOL, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, The Week, Axios and Politicus USA

Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Trump watches up to eight hours of TV per day: report

Discussion: Business Insider, Raw Story and Mediaite

Emily Smith / Page Six:
Ex-Fox News anchor claims Trump tried to kiss her

Discussion: New York Daily News, TheBlaze, AOL, TVNewser, ThinkProgress and Axios

Foreign Policy:

White House Names Trump Loyalist to Iran Policy Job at State Department — The Trump administration's pick for the Iran post will likely back a more aggressive stance. — The Trump administration plans to install a political appointee at the State Department to a key position managing policy …

Foreign Policy: U.S. Diplomat's Resignation Signals Wider Exodus From State Department

David French / National Review:

The Police Murder of Daniel Shaver — If you have the stomach for it, I want you to watch one of the most outrageous and infuriating videos I've ever seen. It shows the police shooting of Daniel Shaver in Mesa, Arizona. He was crawling on his hands and knees, crying, and begging police not to shoot him.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Arizona Republic, Patterico's Pontifications, Power Line, YouTube, Hollywood Life and Washington Post

Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:

Watch: Fox complains women reporting rape will make Christmas parties less “festive” — Fox News host Laura Ingraham is worried that women speaking out about sexual harassment and abuse is “just killing all the fun of Christmas.” — Fox News host and Trump cheerleader Laura Ingraham …

Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite

HuffPost:

Sadly, Trump Is Winning — Despite his widespread unpopularity, Trump has delivered on specific promises to wealthy donors and the far right. — This is one of the hardest things I've ever had to write and admit: Trump is winning. In the brief space of a week, he won a brief court fight …

Patricia Cohen / New York Times:

Tax Plans May Give Your Co-Worker a Better Deal Than You — In most places, a dollar is a dollar. But in the tax code envisioned by Republicans, the amount you make may be less important than how you make it. — Consider two chefs working side by side for the same catering company …

Kassy Dillon / Campus Reform:

Campus coffee shop evicts College Republicans from ‘safe space’ — Members of the Fordham University College Republicans were asked to leave an on-campus coffee shop because their MAGA hats apparently violated the shop's “safe space policy.” — The self-identified president …

Discussion: IJR, The Daily Caller and Fox News Insider

Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:

Pathetic GOP uses tax dollars to bully private business suing Trump — Congressional Republicans have joined the Trump administration's fight against outdoor retailer Patagonia, using an official government Twitter account to accuse the company of lying to sell its products.

Discussion: Hullabaloo and Grist

Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Uranium firm urged Trump officials to shrink Bears Ears National Monument

Discussion: Daily Kos, ThinkProgress and Axios

David Krayden / The Daily Caller:

Jerry Brown Claims Trump Does Not Have ‘A Fear Of The Lord’ — California Gov. Jerry Brown told CBS “60 Minutes” that he doesn't believe President Donald Trump “has a fear of the Lord” because the president hasn't embraced the politics of climate change, the Hill reports.