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11:30 AM ET, December 18, 2018

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Washington Post:
On Twitter, Trump comes out swinging in many directions  —  President Trump lashed out Tuesday morning at threats from many directions, taking aim at the special counsel's Russia inquiry, the Federal Reserve, social media companies and undocumented immigrants in tweets that spanned more than two hours.
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Michael Flynn Is Owed an Apology  —  One year after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, there is still no evidence that he is a traitor.  —  Remember when Michael Flynn was a traitor?  It was early 2017.  Democrats were still stinging from their defeat at the hands of Donald Trump.
emptywheel:
Mike Flynn Steps in It: In a Bid to Feed the Frothy Right, He Leads to Release of Damning New Details Showing He Lied to Protect Trump  —  Last week, I suggested that Mike Flynn's cute trick of publicly releasing information from Andy McCabe's memo and Peter Strzok's 302 might backfire.
Discussion: Raw Story, Hullabaloo and Salon
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Mueller releases memo summarizing FBI's interview with Michael Flynn
Discussion: KXLF-TV
Arizona Republic:
Martha McSally will be appointed to John McCain's Senate seat  —  Republican U.S. Rep. Martha McSally will replace retiring U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl to fill for the next two years the Senate seat long held by the late U.S. Sen. John McCain.  —  Gov. Doug Ducey's decision to appoint McSally …
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Arizona governor taps Martha McSally to fill Senate seat once held by McCain  —  Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has appointed fellow Republican Rep. Martha McSally to the Senate, he announced Tuesday, picking a favorite of GOP leaders to fill the seat John McCain held for decades.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Arizona governor to appoint Martha McSally to Senate
Discussion: ABC News and Breitbart
Associated Press:   Arizona governor names Martha McSally to McCain Senate seat
Fox News:
Rep. Martha McSally appointed by Arizona governor to Senate seat held by John McCain
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
White House signals it will back down on President Trump's demand for border wall funding and avert a partial government shutdown  —  The Trump administration wants to avoid a partial government shutdown and has found other ways to get the border wall money it wants, spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Tuesday.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Washington Post:
White House says it wants to avoid government shutdown, will find other ways to fund border wall  —  The White House wants to avoid a partial government shutdown and has found other ways to get the border wall President Trump is demanding, spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Tuesday.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and HuffPost
Washington Post:
Top Republicans struggle to persuade Trump not to shut down the government  —  Congressional Republicans struggled Monday to find a way to persuade President Trump to back off a public threat to shut down the government over border wall money, staying largely in the dark over the impasse …
CNN:
Senate Republicans in the dark on Trump's plan to avert a partial government shutdown
HuffPost:
White House Nightmare: Trump Golfs While His Secret Service Agents Work Without Pay
Discussion: Shareblue Media
NY State Attorney General:
A.G. Underwood Announces Stipulation Dissolving Trump Foundation Under Judicial Supervision, With AG Review Of Recipient Charities  —  News from the New York Attorney General's Office  —  Attorney General's Office Press Office / 212-416-8060  —  nyag.pressoffice@ag.ny.gov
Discussion: Raw Story and Law & Crime
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Washington Post:
Trump agrees to shut down his charity amid allegations he used it for personal and political benefit  —  New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced Tuesday that the foundation is dissolving and distributing its remaining funds as her office pursues a lawsuit against the charity …
Discussion: Political Wire
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump agrees to shut down his charity amid allegations he used it for personal and political benefit  —  President Trump has agreed to shut down his embattled personal charity and give away its remaining funds amid allegations that he used it for his personal and political benefit, the New York attorney general announced Tuesday.
Washington Post:
Russian disinformation teams targeted Robert S. Mueller III, says report prepared for Senate  —  Months after President Trump took office, Russia's disinformation teams trained their sites on a new target: special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.  Having worked to help get Trump into the White House …
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Washington Post:
Russia's support for Trump's election is no longer disputable
Discussion: HuffPost
Sohrab Ahmari / New York Post:   Why Western elites now can't resist conspiracy theories
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Mueller Ready to Pounce on Trumpworld Concessions to Moscow  —  New court filings by Mueller's office could answer a central question of the Russia investigation: What did the Kremlin hope to get from its political machinations?  —  For more than a year, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office …
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Steve Denning / Forbes:   Mueller Exposes Putin's Hold Over Trump
Wall Street Journal:
Roger Stone Admits Spreading Lies on InfoWars  —  Trump adviser made the admission in settling a defamation suit brought against him by an exiled Chinese businessman  —  As questions swirl about his credibility, former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone settled a defamation suit seeking $100 million …
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Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
Roger Stone admits he pushed false statements on Infowars
Discussion: Wonkette
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump Hates Christmas Parties  —  On Monday and Wednesday this week, Donald Trump will leave the Oval Office in the West Wing in the late afternoon and walk eastward to the White House residence, where he will meet Melania Trump.  Together, they will head downstairs at 5:15 to the Grand Foyer …
Discussion: Raw Story
Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Ocasio-Cortez weighs a new primary target: Hakeem Jeffries  —  Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is eyeing a new member of House Democratic leadership as a 2020 primary target: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).  —  Ocasio-Cortez, who ousted House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley earlier …
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Karl Evers-Hillstrom / OpenSecrets.org:   Ocasio-Cortez enters the House with highest portion of small contributions
Kimberly Hefling / Politico:
Trump school safety group goes after Obama civil rights policy, not guns  —  A Trump administration school safety panel hardly touched on the role of guns in deadly school shootings in its wrap-up Tuesday.  —  Instead, the advisory group headed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos identified …
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Michelle Hackman / Wall Street Journal:   Trump School-Safety Panel Targets Obama Policy on Race and Discipline
New York Times:
Trump Officials Plan to Rescind Obama-Era School Discipline Policies
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
David Dayen / The Intercept:
Elizabeth Warren Plan Would Allow the Government to Manufacture Its Own Generic Drugs  —  If I told you that there are two major efforts on the left to reform the pharmaceutical industry, and one relies on market competition while the other establishes a publicly run office to manufacture prescription drugs …
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Elizabeth Warren / Washington Post:
It's time to let the government manufacture generic drugs
Discussion: Bloomberg, Politico and Boing Boing
Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:
Death of The Weekly Standard Signals Rebirth of the Right  —  Neoconservatism is dead, long live American conservatism.  That's what I thought when I learned The Weekly Standard would be shuttered by longtime owner Clarity Media.  The Standard was a creature of a particular time and place …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump launches unprecedented reelection machine  —  President Donald Trump is planning to roll out an unprecedented structure for his 2020 reelection, a streamlined organization that incorporates the Republican National Committee and the president's campaign into a single entity.
Lawrence Lessig / USA Today:
Democratic House will address most important civil rights issue in half century  —  A bill of impeachment against the old ways: America has come to expect that its politicians will promise change, yet change nothing.  We need a radically comprehensive and practical fix.  —  CONNECT
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
New York Times assailed for Alice Walker interview endorsing ‘anti-Semitic’ conspiracy theorist  —  Critics call it anti-Semitic, saying it places Holocaust revisionism at the center of an odious and addled worldview.  Its title has been borrowed by followers of QAnon, a conspiracy movement …
Mark Rober / YouTube:
Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Trap … This might be my Magnum Opus.  Go to https://NordVPN.com/MarkRober and use code MARKROBER to get 75% off a 3 year plan and an extra month for free.  —  My buddy Sean posted a video with more details of the build: https://youtu.be/IpMxOmUcfOI
Discussion: The Verge and Engadget
Benjamin Hardy / Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times:
Work requirement ends Medicaid coverage for 4,600 more Arkansans in December  —  Almost 17,000 Arkansans have now lost their health insurance due to the state's experimental work requirement for certain low-income adult Medicaid beneficiaries, according to a monthly report released by the state Department of Human Services on Monday.
Discussion: Vox
Charlie Cooper / Politico:
Troops to be on standby in event of no-deal Brexit  —  LONDON — The U.K. government will move to a full no-deal Brexit footing after Theresa May's Cabinet agreed to trigger all remaining contingency plans for such a scenario.  —  Some government officials will be required to work …
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Advertisers Ditch Fox News' Tucker Carlson for Saying Immigration Makes U.S. ‘Dirtier’  —  Four advertisers, including Indeed and Pacific Life, say they have no plans to advertise on the Fox News host's show in the future.  —  Several advertisers have dropped Tucker Carlson's show …
Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost:
The Bible-Thumping Tech CEO Who's Proud Of Keeping Neo-Nazis Online  —  Rob Monster claims he helped resurrect Gab because of his commitment to free speech.  He also has a lot to say about Jews.  —  Most tech CEOs who provide safe spaces for neo-Nazis to organize, propagandize, and terrorize do so as quietly as possible.
 
 
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Former National Equirer editor claims the tabloid has unpublished ‘embarrassing’ and ‘criminal’ stories on Trump family
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
Rising Instagram Stars Are Posting Fake Sponsored Content
New York Times:
Blaming the Deep State: Officials Accused of Wrongdoing Adopt Trump's Response
Elliot Ackerman / New York Times:
Even a War Hero Is Not Above the Law
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Different kind of Blue Dog Coalition intent on being a force in House
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
GOP Stuck in a ‘Lose-Lose’ Dilemma With Judge's Obamacare Ruling
Discussion: HuffPost and Breitbart
Seth J. Frantzman / Jerusalem Post:
How totalitarian regimes will take over social media and destroy the West
 Earlier Items: 
Mike Allen / Axios:
Rudy Giuliani says Trump may give Mueller more written answers
Discussion: Washington Post and Wonkette
New York Times:
Wall Street Hits New 2018 Lows as Fed Decision Looms Over Markets
Discussion: The Week and CNBC
Patti Davis / Washington Post:
A child occupies the White House — and the world knows it
Discussion: Raw Story
Tom O'Connor / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Awarded ‘Golden Idiot’ Prize by German TV Show as Much of the World Laughs at U.S. President
Michael Sheetz / CNBC:
The stock market is on pace for its worst December since the Great Depression
Evgenia Peretz / Vanity Fair:
“Men for Others, My Ass”: After Kavanaugh, Inside Georgetown Prep's Culture of Omertà
Discussion: twitchy.com
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

 
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