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Detroit Free Press:
Trump tweets undermine Michigan leaders; images show Chatfield drinking at Trump hotel  —  Dave Boucher Clara HendricksonDetroit Free Press  —  Public skepticism that Michigan's Republican legislative leaders focused on COVID-19 assistance during a Friday meeting with President Donald …
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Beth LeBlanc / Detroit News:
Michigan, national GOP seek to delay certification of election results  —  The state and national Republican parties have asked the Board of State Canvassers to delay certification of the state's election results in a bid to investigate “anomalies and irregularities” alleged to have occurred in Michigan's Nov. 3 election.
Discussion: The Mahablog and Politico
New York Times:
Duty or Party?  For Republicans, a Test of Whether to Enable Trump  —  In pushing his false claims to the limits and cowing Republicans into acquiescence or silence, President Trump has revealed the fragility of the electoral system — and shaken it.  —  For the next three weeks …
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New York Times:
Business and World Leaders Move On as Trump Fights to Reverse Election
Natalie Allison / The Tennessean:
Staff of U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn says she misspoke by calling Biden ‘president-elect’
Washington Post:
Trump privately plots his next act — including a potential 2024 rematch  —  President Trump would have the world falsely believe that he won the election and is preparing for a second term.  —  In private huddles and phone conversations, however, Trump has been discussing an entirely different next act …
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Tom LoBianco / Business Insider:   Trump's 2024 plans have frozen the field for other likely Republican candidates.  Breaking away from him could risk an early campaign-sinking rage tweet, GOP insiders say.
Susan Edelman / New York Post:
Secret plans helped Brooklyn synagogue pull off massive, maskless wedding  —  A Hasidic synagogue in Brooklyn planned the wedding of a chief rabbi's grandson with such secrecy it was able to host thousands of maskless celebrants without the city catching on.
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Trump tries to drum out GOP election officials who won't play his games  —  President Donald Trump has driven senators into retirement and tweeted wayward Republicans into primary defeat during four years leading the GOP.  Now, as a lame duck, he's launched a new campaign against GOP election officials who won't bend to his will.
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and Political Wire
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Using Last Days to Lock In Policies and Make Biden's Task More Difficult  —  At a wide range of departments and agencies, Mr. Trump's political appointees are going to extraordinary lengths to try to prevent Mr. Biden from rolling back the president's legacy.
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Associated Press:
Week offers snapshot of how Trump, Biden approach presidency
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Culture wars fuel Trump's blue-collar Latino gains  —  Donald Trump lost the presidency, but showed Republicans a way to win the culture wars with working-class Hispanics.  —  Despite four years of being defined as a racist for his rhetoric and harsh immigration policies …
Discussion: ABC News, TheBlaze and Dissent
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Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:   How Hispanic Voters Swung Miami Right
Wall Street Journal:
Georgia Certifies: Donald Trump Lost  —  A recount changed little, as the evidence of ballot fraud fails to appear.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  The recount in Georgia is finished, after workers examined five million ballots by hand, but President Trump still lags Joe Biden by 12,000 votes.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Trump Appointee Unconstitutionally Interfered With VOA, Judge Rules  —  Toggle more options  —  The chief executive over the Voice of America and its sister networks has acted unconstitutionally in investigating what he claimed was a deep-seated bias against President Trump by his own journalists, a federal judge has ruled.
Stephanie Beasley / Politico:
Liz Cheney: Trump should respect ‘the sanctity of our electoral process’  —  Others in House leadership have largely backed Trump as he seeks to challenge the election.  —  Rep. Liz Cheney speaks during a news conference.  Samuel Corum/Getty Images  —  Liz Cheney on Saturday urged President Donald …
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New York Times:
Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?  —  There are now businesses that sell fake people.  On the website Generated.Photos, you can buy a “unique, worry-free” fake person for $2.99, or 1,000 people for $1,000.  If you just need a couple of fake people — for characters in a video game …
Democracy Docket:
Pennsylvania VBM Certification Challenge  —  Several Republican candidates and voters filed a lawsuit against Pennsylvania, the General Assembly, the governor, and Secretary of State.  The lawsuit seeks to block the state from certifying the election results and asks the court to exclude mail …
Discussion: Daily Kos, The Week and Raw Story
Audrey McNamara / CBS News:
Trump campaign again seeks to stop certification of Pennsylvania's election results  —  The Trump campaign on Saturday filed a new brief in one of their numerous federal court cases in Pennsylvania.  The brief rehashes claims that the campaign appeared to abandon earlier this week.
Washington Post:
Justice Dept. meets Trump, Giuliani vote-fraud claims with silent skepticism  —  The Justice Department has met President Trump's fantastical claims of widespread voter fraud with two weeks of skeptical silence, not taking any overt moves to investigate what Trump's lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani …
Discussion: Election Law Blog and Raw Story
Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Breaking: In Total Loss for Trump Campaign in Its Most Major Remaining Election Case, Federal Court in Pennsylvania Dismisses Case and Denies Motion to File Amended Complaint [link to opinion]  —  [This post is in progress]  —  In a total loss the the Trump campaign, a federal district court …
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Stacey Abrams' group finances grassroots efforts to win Senate runoffs  —  The voting rights group founded by Stacey Abrams is pumping $2.7 million to boost the work of a network of grassroots organizations ahead of the Jan. 5 runoffs - not to finance more TV ads but to strengthen their get-out-the-vote apparatus.
Discussion: Breitbart, Political Wire and The Hill
Christina Maxouris / CNN:
US coronavirus cases top 12 million.  An expert says spread is now ‘faster’ and ‘broader’ than ever  —  (CNN)The number of US coronavirus cases surpassed 12 million Saturday — an increase of more than 1 million cases in less than a week.  —  At least 12,019,960 cases have been confirmed …
Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
The Founders didn't prepare for a president who refuses to step down, historians say  —  President Trump continued Friday to deny the results of the election, pressuring state officials in Michigan and Georgia to overturn the will of voters, and increasing fears that he might refuse to cede power to President-elect Joe Biden.
Sean McMinn / NPR:
1,000 U.S. Hospitals Are ‘Critically’ Short On Staff — And More Expect To Be Soon  —  More than 1,000 hospitals across the United States are “critically” short on staff, according to numbers released this week by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Discussion: Vox and Blue Virginia
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
Biden Considering Lisa Monaco, Sally Yates For Attorney General  — President-elect has goal of having women at highest levels  — Yates gained notoriety when she defied Trump and was fired  —  The Biden transition team is weighing attorney general contenders led by Lisa Monaco …
Michael Tarm / Associated Press:
Wisconsin officials: Trump observers obstructing recount  —  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Election officials in Wisconsin's largest county accused observers for President Donald Trump on Saturday of seeking to obstruct a recount of the presidential results, in some instances by objecting to every ballot tabulators pulled to count.
Tracy Connor / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Neo-Nazi Cabal Tied to Marines and a Porn Star  —  The evidence includes a sickening video of live-fire weapons training that ended with the masked participants giving “Heil Hitler” salutes.  —  An active-duty Marine assigned to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina has been charged …
Discussion: Raw Story
Mark Wilson / Fast Company:
COVID-19 deniers are still all too real.  Here's how we can convince them  —  COVID-19 has killed 250,000 Americans and counting.  We're nine months into the pandemic, and our infection rates are worse than ever.  —  A majority of people across the political spectrum acknowledge the danger of COVID-19.
 
 
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker patience runs thin with Trump tactics
New York Times:
Politics, Science and the Remarkable Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine
Washington Post:
‘I just pray God will help me’: Racial, ethnic minorities reel from higher covid-19 death rates
Discussion: Mother Jones
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
A vindictive Trump seeks to undermine Biden's presidency
Leah Wright Rigueur / The Atlantic:
The Major Difference Between Black Male and Female Voters
BuzzFeed News:
Democrats' New Plan To Win Georgia's Crucial Senate Seats In A Pandemic Is To Actually Knock On Doors
John Dickerson / The Atlantic:
Why You Don't Mess Around With Presidential Transitions
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Katherine Morgan / Bitch Media:
How Long Do We Wait for White Women to Learn?
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Bypassing McConnell: Democrats push Biden to aggressively use executive power
Discussion: Boing Boing
Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed News:
One In Three Americans Didn't Vote. Should We Force Them To Next Time?
Shannon McMahon / Washington Post:
A traveler tested negative for covid-19 before a flight. He had the virus and infected 4 passengers.
 

 
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Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify plans to pay incentives to video creators who hit certain viewing thresholds and, in January, to let Premium subscribers view podcast videos without ads

Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
German royalty licensing group GEMA sues OpenAI and subsidiary OpenAI Ireland in Munich Regional Court, claiming ChatGPT violates copyrights of lyrics

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Don Lemon, who sued Elon Musk and X after a deal fell apart, says he's leaving X on November 15, citing X's new ToS that moves legal disputes to Texas courts

 
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