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11:30 AM ET, December 26, 2019

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David Siders / Politico:
Democratic insiders: Bernie could win the nomination  —  Suddenly, Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign is being taken seriously.  —  For months, the Vermont senator was written off by Democratic Party insiders as a candidate with a committed but narrow base who was too far left to win the primary.
Discussion: Breitbart and Progress Pond
Mike Dorning / Yahoo News:
Trump Senate Impeachment Trial Finds Scant Precedent in History  —  (Bloomberg) — Bill Clinton's impeachment two decades ago set the modern template for President Donald Trump's upcoming trial in the Senate.  But the process may be even more contentious this time given sharper tribal divisions in Washington.
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Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Trump lashes out at Pelosi on Christmas, decries ‘scam impeachment’  —  President Trump on Wednesday lashed out at Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in a pair of tweets Christmas night, decrying what he called a “Scam Impeachment.”  —  “Why should Crazy Nancy Pelosi, just because she has a slight majority …
Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:   Murkowski ‘Disturbed’ by McConnell's Senate Impeachment Strategy
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   McConnell flexes reelection muscle with $1B gift for Kentucky
James Arkin / Politico:
Democrats seize on anti-Obamacare ruling to steamroll GOP in 2020  —  A court ruling last week putting the Affordable Care Act further in jeopardy may provide the opening Democrats have been waiting for to regain the upper hand on health care against Republicans in 2020.
Discussion: Raw Story
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Democrats' denial on health care may produce Trump's reelection  —  As this shabby year, and with it a dispiriting decade, sags to an end, there is an interesting symmetry.  In 2010, passage of the Affordable Care Act signaled the nation's domestic policy preoccupation: health care.
Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC:
Trump stock market rally is far outpacing past US presidents  — The S&P 500 has returned more than 50% since President Trump was elected, more than double the average market return of presidents three years into their term, according to Bespoke Investment Group.
Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
Trump ‘Home Alone 2’ scene reportedly cut from Canadian Christmas broadcasts  —  President Trump's cameo scene in the holiday classic “Home Alone 2: Lost In New York” was reportedly cut from showings of the movie on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) this month.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
The Year of Batshit Crazy at One America News, Trump's New Favorite Cable-News Channel  —  Trump in 2019 began attacking Fox News when its news side seemed insufficiently loyal to him.  Such an opportunity presented itself for OAN to vie for the president's affections.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd  —  That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it.  —  'Round midnight on Christmas eve, Rolling Stone posted a short interview with Chuck Todd, host of “the longest running show on television,” NBC's Meet the Press.
Tamar Lapin / Page Six:
Ari Behn, Norwegian princess' ex and Kevin Spacey accuser, dead at 47  —  Ari Behn, a former member of Norway's royal family who was one of Kevin Spacey's sexual assault accusers, died by suicide on Wednesday, his manager said.  He was 47.  —  “It is with great sadness in our hearts …
Associated Press:
At each end of Pacific, skepticism over China farm purchases  —  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — President Donald Trump likes to joke that America's farmers have a nice problem on their hands: They're going to need bigger tractors to keep up with surging Chinese demand for their soybeans …
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Agence France-Presse:   Single Chinese woman sues over egg freezing
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Hallmark movies are fascist propaganda  —  Forget “Triumph of the Will” — the most insidious authoritarian propaganda comes in the form of schmaltz  —  The Hallmark Channel has been having a rough go of it in the past few weeks.  The cable TV behemoth, which has been minting money …
Discussion: Althouse
Isabelle Khurshudyan / Greenwich Time:
Raids and conscription: Russian authorities crack down on Kremlin critics  —  MOSCOW - In Russian authorities' latest crackdown this week on Kremlin critics, opposition leader Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation office was raided Thursday, just days after one of his top aides …
Eric W. Dolan / Raw Story:
Psychiatry expert says Trump's rambling Merry Christmas rant includes three signs of serious mental impairment  —  President Donald Trump's speech in Florida over the weekend provides evidence that he is suffering from cognitive decline, according to a psychiatric expert.
Discussion: Alternet.org and Althouse
Lauren Fruen / Daily Mail:
Now a new picture of the famed Wall of Sound producer  —  taken at the California Health Care Facility in Stockton on November 19 and exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com - shows him sporting a new look.  —  Spector looks to be in good spirits ahead of turning 79 on Thursday.
Discussion: Althouse
 
 
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Tom Ziller / Good Morning It's Basketball:
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Christine Stapleton / Palm Beach Post:
Why did Trump ditch his church in Palm Beach on Christmas Eve for evangelical service?
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
The ‘But I Would Vote for Joe Biden’ Republicans
Discussion: Washington Post
Kim Zetter / Politico:
How Close Did Russia Really Come to Hacking the 2016 Election?
Zoe Tidman / Yahoo News:
Public support for Trump conviction at all-time high, poll finds
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
The National:
Iraq president Barham Salih offers to step down amid protests
Discussion: Politico
Patrick J. McDonnell / Los Angeles Times:
Seeing a Central American surge, Mexicans join the asylum line at the U.S. border
Discussion: Axios
Bill Scher / Politico:
The 2019 Presidential Campaign Dropouts, Ranked
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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
A Barrier to Trump's Border Wall: Landowners in Texas
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
In court, he speaks for Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Discussion: Raw Story
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
U.S. Cybercom contemplates information warfare to counter Russian interference in 2020 election
Sergii Leshchenko / KyivPost:
By helping Giuliani, Ukrainian politicians help Russia
Discussion: Raw Story
Rebecca Tan / SFGATE:
Undocumented woman marks a year inside Maryland church
Regina Garcia Cano / Associated Press:
Nonstop violence as Baltimore nears record homicide rate
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
For Trump Organization, Office Skyscrapers Make Up for Lagging Hotels
Discussion: The Hill
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

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

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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