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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Mueller's Flynn Memo Should Worry Kushner and Trump — The former national security adviser provided information about interactions between the presidential transition team and Russian officials. — Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser who pleaded guilty …
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Washington Post and Raw Story
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Meadows tells Hannity that Flynn report is ‘good news for President Trump’ — Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) is characterizing special counsel Robert Mueller's sentencing report on former national security advisor Michael Flynn as “good news for President Trump” because “there is no mention of collusion.”
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Washington Post, Shareblue Media and POLITICUSUSA
emptywheel:
The Mueller Investigation Is the Second Most Important Investigation into Which Flynn Assisted
The Mueller Investigation Is the Second Most Important Investigation into Which Flynn Assisted
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Washington Monthly, Hullabaloo, Salon and Lawfare
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
From fishy beginning, Mueller case against Michael Flynn nears end with no jail recommendation
From fishy beginning, Mueller case against Michael Flynn nears end with no jail recommendation
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Washington Monthly, Spectator USA, The Mahablog and Vox
CNBC:
Mueller says Michael Flynn gave ‘first-hand’ details of Trump transition team contacts with Russians
Mueller says Michael Flynn gave ‘first-hand’ details of Trump transition team contacts with Russians
Gregg Jarrett / Fox News:
Mueller strikes out trying to nail Trump - Flynn sentencing memo is a big nothing
Mueller strikes out trying to nail Trump - Flynn sentencing memo is a big nothing
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Washington Examiner, Power Line and Politico
Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Paul Ryan Silent On GOP Power Grab In Wisconsin — Republicans are subverting the will of the electorate in Wisconsin. The outgoing speaker of the House, a Wisconsin Republican, is staying mum. — WASHINGTON The extraordinary proposals aimed at reducing the power of incoming Gov. Tony Evers …
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Wisconsin Senate limits governor's power — MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on Wisconsin Republican lawmakers moving to limit the powers of the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general (all times local): — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate has passed …
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Shareblue Media, Talking Points Memo, madison.com, Splinter, Althouse and FiveThirtyEight
Associated Press:
Wisconsin Republicans weaken incoming Dem governor, AG — MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans passed sweeping legislation Wednesday that shifts power to the Republican-controlled Legislature and weakens the Democrat replacing Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
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Mother Jones, WGN-TV, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Guardian, FOX6Now.com and CBS Chicago
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Wisconsin Republicans Approve Bills Stripping Power From Incoming Democratic Governor — MADISON, Wis. — After a rancorous, sleepless night of debate, Republican lawmakers early Wednesday pushed through a sweeping set of bills that will limit the power of Wisconsin's incoming governor, a Democrat.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
America's Two Political Parties Are Asymmetrical
America's Two Political Parties Are Asymmetrical
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Hullabaloo, CBS Los Angeles, LifeZette, CNBC, KBZK, Washington Post, thenewamerican.com and Outside the Beltway
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
The Lame-Duck Power Grab
The Lame-Duck Power Grab
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ThinkProgress, Axios and Daily Caller News Foundation
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump on Coming Debt Crisis: 'I Won't Be Here' When It Blows Up — The president thinks the balancing of the nation's books is going to, ultimately, be a future president's problem. — Since the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump's aides and advisers have tried to convince him of the importance of tackling the national debt.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Week, Shareblue Media, POLITICUSUSA and Mediaite
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The Daily Beast:
Feds Target Butina's GOP Boyfriend as Foreign Agent — Paul Erickson served as accused Kremlin spy Maria Butina's guide as she penetrated the American conservative movement. Now he's under investigation as a Russian agent, too. — BETSY WOODRUFF, ERIN BANCO12.5.18 8:00 AM ET
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Politico, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Washington Post:
George W. Bush's touching eulogy for George H.W. Bush, annotated — On Wednesday, the American people witnessed something historic: A president eulogizing his father, who was also a president. — It could have been any other son eulogizing his father, though, and it was moving.
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Political Wire
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New York Times:
George H.W. Bush Funeral: A Son Eulogizes His Father — • President George Bush was eulogized by George W. Bush, his son and the former president. “He showed me what it means to be a president who serves with integrity, leads with courage and acts with love in his heart for the citizens of our country,” Mr. Bush said.
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Splinter
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Alan Simpson cried while writing George H.W. Bush's eulogy — so he wouldn't cry while giving it
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Trump joins nation's presidents as funeral service for President George H.W. Bush begins
Trump joins nation's presidents as funeral service for President George H.W. Bush begins
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Washington Post, Politico, Daily Mail, Breitbart, BostonGlobe.com and abc7ny.com
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
George W. Bush eulogizes his father with laughter and tears: ‘A genuinely optimistic man’
George W. Bush eulogizes his father with laughter and tears: ‘A genuinely optimistic man’
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Wall Street Journal, NBC News, HuffPost, IJR, twitchy.com, The Daily Caller, Washington Post and POLITICUSUSA
CBS News:
Thousands honor former President George H.W. Bush at National Cathedral funeral
Thousands honor former President George H.W. Bush at National Cathedral funeral
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IJR
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
President Trump traveled 250 yards to greet George W. Bush. …
President Trump traveled 250 yards to greet George W. Bush. …
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Politico, Spectator USA, The Guardian, Breitbart, Political Wire, TheBlaze, Washington Press, Washington Post, New York Times and ABC News
BuzzFeed News:
Inside The North Carolina Republican Vote Machine: Cash, Pills — And Ballots — BLADENBORO, North Carolina — The allegations that Republicans tampered with absentee ballots in a close North Carolina election represent the most serious federal election tampering case in years …
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VICE News, Washington Post, Raw Story, Daily Kos, WRAL-TV, Above the Law, Roll Call and New York Times
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The Charlotte Observer:
Hold a new election in NC's tainted 9th District — In the week since the state Board of Elections declined to certify the results of North Carolina's 9th Congressional District election, journalists and others have begun to fill in the details of a troubling case of apparent ballot fraud.
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Talking Points Memo, The Week, twitchy.com, NPR, HuffPost, Religion News Service, BuzzFeed News, Politico, Raw Story and Washington Post
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Why We Miss the WASPs — Their more meritocratic, diverse and secular successors rule us neither as wisely nor as well. — The nostalgia flowing since the passing of George H.W. Bush has many wellsprings: admiration for the World War II generation and its dying breed of warrior-politicians …
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New Republic, The Week, Splinter, Balloon Juice, No More Mister Nice Blog and Mediaite
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
Here's How Facebook's Local News Algorithm Change Led To The Worst Riots Paris Has Seen In 50 Years — The Yellow Jackets movement is what happens when you point Facebook's traffic hose at France's small towns. The question now is: How do you turn it off?
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Shakesville
Washington Post:
‘We are in trouble.’ Global carbon emissions reached a new record high in 2018. — As nations assemble in Poland for climate talks, the figures suggest there is no clear end in sight to the growth of humanity's contribution to climate change. — Global emissions of carbon dioxide have reached …
Adam Satariano / New York Times:
Facebook Gave Some Companies Special Access to Users' Data, Documents Show — LONDON — Emails and other internal Facebook documents released by a British parliamentary committee on Wednesday show how the social media giant gave favored companies like Airbnb, Lyft and Netflix special access to users' data.
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Engadget and Sputnik International, more at Techmeme »
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Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Deval Patrick bows out of 2020 presidential run — Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is calling close allies and informing them he is not running for president in 2020, sources close to the governor tell POLITICO. — Patrick informed staff and advisers of his decision Tuesday …
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Zach Carter / HuffPost:
Deval Patrick, Foreclosure Mogul
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“Everyone's for Sale”: A Generation of Digital-Media Darlings Prepares for a Frigid Winter — Vice, Vox, and BuzzFeed, among other companies that once heralded the dawn of a new media age, are now grappling with decidedly old-media problems. — It was around this time last year that things …
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CNN and Hit & Run, more at Mediagazer »
Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Rudy Giuliani Says Twitter Sabotaged His Tweet. Actually, He Did It Himself. — To Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor who is one of President Trump's lawyers, it was an example of how low Twitter would stoop to carry out its anti-Trump agenda. — It was, decidedly, no such thing.
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Washington Post, Engadget, Vox, Common Dreams, ThinkProgress, Mother Jones, IJR, Splinter, The Guardian and Boing Boing
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
14 Trump and Russia Questions Robert Mueller Knows the Answers To — MICHAEL FLYNN'S SENTENCING memo, filed yesterday with the most intriguing and interesting parts redacted by special counsel Robert Mueller, provided yet another frustrating glimpse into an investigation that seems at times almost maddeningly opaque.
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Political Wire, FiveThirtyEight, Raw Story, Sputnik International and LewRockwell
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
ESPN wants to make ‘SportsCenter’ great again — BRISTOL, Conn. — During a recent episode of “SportsCenter,” anchor Keith Olbermann was counting down a series of top plays when he arrived at a block by Duke star Zion Williamson. “He puts a 21-49 down!” Olbermann announced …
Andrew Seidman / Philly.com:
‘My voice went unheard’: Official testifies N.J. Gov. Murphy campaign, administration ignored sexual assault allegation — TRENTON — An official in the Murphy administration described in harrowing terms Tuesday how high-ranking members of Gov. Murphy's campaign and staff, including the governor himself …
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Political Wire
Axios:
The Democrats' wild 2020 free-for-all — Democrats are about to hit the wildest turn we have seen in a presidential campaign. — The big picture: Dozens of people are thinking of running — and running early — in the rage-and-rapid-reaction era of Donald J. Trump.
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Townhall, Washington Post, CNN and IJR
Lara Bazelon / New York Times:
I'm a Democrat and a Feminist. And I Support Betsy DeVos's Title IX Reforms. — There is an uncomfortable truth in the current system. No one wants to talk about it. — Ms. Bazelon is the director of the criminal juvenile justice and the racial justice clinics at the University of San Francisco School of Law.
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Some Republicans want to oust a Muslim doctor from his GOP leadership role — because he's Muslim — The first time Shahid Shafi ran for a seat on the city council in Southlake, Tex., in 2011, advisers assured him a Muslim in post-9/11 America who spoke with an accent and emigrated from Pakistan would never win an election in Texas.
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Eschaton and The Texas Observer
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Mourning Not Just George Bush's Death, but the World Order He Helped Build — WASHINGTON — On Sept. 16, 1991, Angela Merkel, then a young protégé of Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany, watched in the Oval Office as her boss and President George Bush wrestled with the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union.