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Bloomberg:
FBI Lacks White House Approval to Talk to Kavanaugh and Ford, Sources Say — White House views Senate testimony as sufficient, people say — Sanders says Senate to ‘make the determination of the scope’ — The FBI hasn't interviewed Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh …
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NBC News:
Dozens of potential sources of information have not been contacted by the FBI in Kavanaugh investigation — With the investigation winding down, multiple individuals who have tried to contact the bureau have not heard back. — WASHINGTON — More than 40 people with potential information …
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
FBI expands inquiry into Ford allegations — (CNN)The FBI is expanding its inquiry into sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh beyond the initial four interviews that the White House directed to be conducted. — The efforts come as anticipation builds …
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Margot Cleveland / USA Today:
Christine Blasey Ford's changing Kavanaugh assault story leaves her short on credibility — Put aside Christine Blasey Ford's emotional performance. Her testimony revealed her as a witness whose memories change at her convenience. — CONNECT — When Christine Blasey Ford testified …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Brett Kavanaugh's anger may be backfiring — Brett M. Kavanaugh will still probably be confirmed to the Supreme Court. But it's becoming increasingly clear that he damaged himself with last week's angry appearance in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Wall Street Journal, Vox, Shareblue Media and The Daily Caller
Reuters:
Opposition to Kavanaugh grows after Senate hearing: Reuters/Ipsos poll — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Opposition among Americans to Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, has increased in the wake of his testimony last week before a U.S. Senate committee …
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Political Wire and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Conservatives should be cautious about letter from Christine Blasey Ford's ex-boyfriend — Conservatives lit up Tuesday night when Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee released a letter claiming to be from an ex-boyfriend of Christine Blasey Ford that undermined her testimony against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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Connie Chung / Washington Post:
Dear Christine Blasey Ford: I, too, was sexually assaulted — and it's seared into my memory forever — Connie Chung is a broadcast journalist. — Dear Christine Blasey Ford, — I, too, was sexually assaulted — not 36 years ago but about 50 years ago. I have kept my dirty little secret to myself.
Ronn Blitzer / Law & Crime:
Michael Avenatti Releases New Statement from Unidentified Witness Alleging ‘Inappropriate Conduct’ by Kavanaugh — Attorney Michael Avenatti has released another sworn statement from someone claiming to have knowledge of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh misbehaving at parties when he was in high school.
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The Gateway Pundit, Conservative News Today and Daily Wire
Wall Street Journal:
Friend Rejects Claim That Ford Helped Her on Polygraph Test
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New York Magazine, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo and Joe.My.God.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP senators say FBI report on Kavanaugh allegations imminent
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C. Ryan Barber / LAW.com:
Law Firm Partner, a Kavanaugh Classmate, Questions Yale Accuser's Claim
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CNN:
Friend of Kavanaugh accuser disputes polygraph controversy
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Horrified Assault Survivors Swarm Washington to Protest Kavanaugh
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Hullabaloo, WSAZ-TV and The Daily Caller
USA Today:
Republicans plan careful steps to protect secrecy of FBI report on Brett Kavanaugh
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Fox News:
Christine Blasey Ford ex-boyfriend says she helped friend prep for potential polygraph; Grassley sounds alarm
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Rachel Mitchell expertly eviscerates the case against Kavanaugh
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Washington Free Beacon, DCReport.org and Right Wing Watch
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
QAnoners Cheer Trump's Text Alert Test, See It As a Step Towards Martial Law — ‘That is how we will receive orders if all else fails.’ — Phones across the country buzzed Wednesday afternoon for the first national test of FEMA's presidential-level emergency alert system.
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USA Today:
A presidential alert test from FEMA is coming to your cellphone. But can you turn it off? — Cellphones across the United States will be buzzing in unison Wednesday with a special test message from the Trump administration. — The Federal Emergency Management Agency will conduct a test …
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New York Times, Axios, FEMA.gov and GeekWire, more at Techmeme »
Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
That Presidential Alert on Your Phone This Afternoon Wasn't Written by Trump
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Political Wire, Common Dreams, Vox and FEMA.gov
Melina Delkic / New York Times:
How Times Journalists Uncovered the Original Source of the President's Wealth — Three reporters spent over a year digging through more than 100,000 pages of documents and chasing down key sources familiar with President Trump's father and his empire. — Times Insider delivers behind …
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Even Inherited His Self-Made Myth
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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump rips into The New York Times over tax schemes report
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Washington Post and Mediaite
Michael D'Antonio / CNN:
Trump is exposed as the fraud that he is
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Politico, ThinkProgress, Washington Post and Raw Story
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP senators use Kavanaugh to beat back 2020 primary challengers — Senate Republicans are making an aggressive play to ward off primary challenges in 2020, digging in behind embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and showing the GOP base that they are fighting on behalf of President Donald Trump's court pick.
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New York Times:
Swing Republican Senators Condemn Trump's Mockery of Kavanaugh Accuser
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Areo:
Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship — This essay, although hopefully accessible to everyone, is the most thorough breakdown of the study and written for those who are already somewhat familiar with the problems of ideologically-motivated scholarship, radical skepticism and cultural constructivism.
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Crooked Timber, Mother Jones, Daily Wire and National Review
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Jillian Kay Melchior / Wall Street Journal:
Fake News Comes to Academia
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Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed News:
This Ohio Woman's Run-In With The FBI Gives Us A Window Into Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia Probe — WASHINGTON — Cassandra Ford tends to stay online late into the evening and then sleep in. So when two FBI agents dispatched by special counsel Robert Mueller's office pounded on her boyfriend's door …
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Raw Story
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Meritocracy Against Itself — How Ivy League resentments took over the Kavanaugh debate. — A week ago, Elizabeth Bruenig of The Washington Post wrote a column about the dreadful feeling of being yanked back, thanks to the allegations of teenage sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh …
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The American Conservative
YouTube:
VICE | Official Trailer — IN THEATERS CHRISTMAS. VICE explores the epic story about how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-Pre...
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers' Bizarre New Mascot, Is Antifa Now — Anti-fascists have claimed the NHL's new orange Muppet as their own anti-Trump. — “Gritty,” the wild-eyed, Muppet-looking mascot of Philadelphia Flyers is an anti-fascist now, and there's nothing you can do about it, anti-fascists say.
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Billy Penn
Joe Heim / Washington Post:
Chris Christie on early Trump problems: ‘I probably could have prevented 75 percent of them’ — Chris Christie, 56, is the former governor of New Jersey and was a Republican candidate for president in the 2016 primary elections. — Corey Lewandowski recently said that President Trump got off …
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Mediaite
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Small GOP Lead in CD01 — Positive views of incumbent overcome Dem-leaning environment — West Long Branch, NJ - The contest in Pennsylvania's newly drawn 1st Congressional District remains tight, but Republican incumbent Brian Fitzpatrick has inched ahead of Democratic challenger Scott Wallace …
Molly McKew / Wired:
BRETT KAVANAUGH AND THE INFORMATION TERRORISTS TRYING TO RESHAPE AMERICA — The network architecture built in Gamergate helped propel Trump to the presidency and fuel conspiracies like Pizzagate and QAnon. Now it's backing Brett Kavanaugh. — SINCE THE ADVENT of Donald Trump's candidacy …
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