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7:40 PM ET, November 30, 2020

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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Trump Lawyer: DHS Whistleblower Should Be Executed  —  During Newsmax call-in Joe diGenova said Chris Krebs should be put to death.  —  On Monday President Trump's campaign lawyer and former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova said that fired Trump cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs should be executed …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Donald Trump Jr. aides launch super PAC as Georgia worries mount  —  Advisers to Donald Trump Jr. are launching a super PAC to prod the president's supporters to vote in the upcoming Georgia Senate runoffs, as Republicans grow concerned that Trump's backers will boycott the elections.
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kemp to Trump: Georgia law blocks him from ‘interfering’ with elections  —  Gov. Brian Kemp's office responded Monday to President Donald Trump's demands to help him overturn Georgia's election results with a reminder that state law “prohibits the governor from interfering in the election.”
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Ossoff's embrace of Bernie Sanders highlights shift for Georgia Democrats
Discussion: Townhall
National Review:
Trump's Disgraceful Endgame  —  President Trump said the other day that he'd leave office if he loses the vote of the Electoral College on December 14.  This is not the kind of assurance presidents of the United States typically need to make, but it was noteworthy given Trump's disgraceful …
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
Everything we needed to know about Melania Trump is in those bewildering Christmas decorations  —  It's our final Christmas with Melania Trump, and we shall celebrate in the usual way: by accompanying FLOTUS on an annual tour of her White House decor, a one-minute video that also appears …
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The White House:
First Lady Melania Trump Unveils the 2020 White House Christmas Décor  —  The First Family is celebrating their fourth Christmas in the White House.  This year's theme, “America the Beautiful,” is a tribute to the majesty of our great Nation.  From coast to coast, our country is blessed with boundless natural wonders.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Kayleigh McEnany's peculiar complaint about coverage of Biden's all-female press team
Washington Post:
Biden's pick to lead White House budget office emerges as lightning rod for GOP  —  Neera Tanden, who served in both the Clinton and Obama administrations, would face Senate confirmation early next year  —  President-Elect Joe Biden's pick to lead the powerful White House budget office …
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Glenn Greenwald:
Biden Appointee Neera Tanden Spread the Conspiracy That Russian Hackers Changed Hillary's 2016 Votes to Trump
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Fox News Anchor Maria Bartiromo's Farcical Interview With Trump Marks the End of Her Days as a Journalist  —  Do you believe in magic?  —  Maria Bartiromo seems to.  During her interview with President Donald Trump on Sunday, the Fox News and Fox Business anchor promoted a Federalist article titled …
Discussion: HotAir, Al Jazeera and Washington Post
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Tom Jones / Poynter:
President Trump's interview is an embarrassing low mark for him, Fox News and, especially, interviewer Maria Bartiromo  —  Once a respected journalist and top business reporter, Bartiromo has seemingly sold her journalistic soul to become a sycophant for President Trump.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Fox News needs to reinvent itself for the post-Trump era. Here's one radical idea.
Discussion: NPR
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Wisconsin, Arizona certify Biden's victories  —  Arizona and Wisconsin officials certified the presidential election results in their states, making President-elect Joe Biden's victories in the key battlegrounds official.  —  Why it matters: The moves deal yet another blow to President Trump's efforts …
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Washington Post:
Live updates: Arizona, Wisconsin certify Biden's win; president-elect names inauguration planning committee
New York Times:
Presidential Transition Live Updates: Wisconsin and Arizona Certify Biden's Victory  —  President-elect Joe Biden formally announced his economic team and received his first full presidential daily briefing.  —  RIGHT NOW Iowa officials certify a Republican's House victory by six votes.
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Dr. Scott Atlas resigns as special adviser to Trump on coronavirus  —  Atlas was considered a Special Government Employee (SGE) serving a 130-day detail, which expires this week  —  Dr. Scott Atlas slams Dr. Anthony Fauci over newfound COVID optimism  —  EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Scott Atlas …
Discussion: Raw Story
Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
Vaccines Are Coming, but Pandemic Experts Expect a ‘Horrible’ Winter  —  With vaccines and a new administration, the pandemic will be tamed.  But experts say the coming months “are going to be just horrible.”  —  Each week, good news about vaccines or antibody treatments surfaces, offering hope that an end to the pandemic is at hand.
Nick Paton Walsh / CNN:
The Wuhan files  —  London — A group of frontline medical workers, likely exhausted, stand huddled together on a video-conference call as China's most powerful man raises his hand in greeting.  It is February 10 in Beijing and President Xi Jinping, who for weeks has been absent from public view …
Discussion: Twitchy
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
'We've Harmed the Senate Enough': Why Joe Manchin Won't Budge on the Filibuster  —  The moderate senator from West Virginia has a message for his fellow Democrats on muscling through sweeping change.  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, the most conservative member …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
For Manchin, a Divided Senate Is a ‘Golden Opportunity’ for Action
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Fox News
John Poulos / Wall Street Journal:
Fake Claims About Dominion Voting Systems Do Real Damage  —  Our machines have no secret ‘vote flipping’ algorithm.  We have no ties to dictator Hugo Chávez.  —  Accurate, transparent and accessible elections—this is the objective that motivated me to create Dominion Voting Systems 18 years ago in Canada.
Discussion: Forbes, Raw Story, HotAir and Axios
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Liberal Hyperbole About Trump's Authoritarianism Was Never the Problem  —  As Donald Trump started shambling toward the exit of the U.S. presidency last week, the U.S. left confronted the pivotal question hanging over our newfound interregnum: Who gets to say, I told you so?
Discussion: Power Line
Brian Klaas / Washington Post:
How to protect our democracy from a future Donald Trump  —  American democracy has spent the past four years under attack — from the White House itself.  President Trump's authoritarian populism has damaged the foundations of the republic.  —  Yet Trump's efforts to undermine the system have an unintended benefit.
Discussion: Raw Story
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Federal Judge Advances Lawsuit Accusing Felix Sater of Laundering Loot Through Trump Properties  —  A federal judge on Monday partially advanced a lawsuit accusing Russian mafia-tied businessman Felix Sater of laundering millions stolen from Kazakhstan's BTA Bank through Trump Organization properties.
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
The GOP Is a Propaganda Party  —  Media parasites have taken control of the host.  —  Cymothoa exigua is a terrifying creature.  —  The parasite enters a fish through its gills, attaches to its tongue, consumes the tongue, and then becomes a sort of new tongue.
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
The Mastermind Behind Biden's No-Drama Approach to Trump  —  When Julián Castro wasn't given a speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention in August, he complained that Joe Biden's campaign wasn't showing proper respect to Latino voters.  The real explanation for the snub is much simpler …
Discussion: Politico
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Hannah Knowles and By Hannah Knowles  —  National reporter covering law enforcement and criminal justice  —  Samuel Little guided his car to a stop in a secluded area off Route 27 near Miami and cut the engine.  Before long, Mary Brosley had straddled his lap.  He started playing with her necklace.
Jochen Bittner / New York Times:
1918 Germany Has a Warning for America  —  Donald Trump's “Stop the Steal” campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century.  —  HAMBURG, Germany — It may well be that Germans have a special inclination to panic at specters from the past, and I admit that this alarmism annoys me at times.
Julia Azari / FiveThirtyEight:
What Makes A One-Term President?  —  Donald Trump is officially a one-term president, the first to fail a reelection bid in nearly 30 years.  But history shows his loss isn't surprising, given the circumstances.  —  One-term presidents used to be a lot more common.
ABC News:
Navy decides to scrap USS Bonhomme Richard after major fire  —  One of the two masts collapsed and the fire consumed large areas of the interior  —  Helicopters, boats, sailors battle raging Navy ship inferno  —  Four hundred sailors have rotated on and off the USS Bonhomme Richard every 15 minutes …
Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on January 20  — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will step down from his post on January 20, the day President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated, he announced Monday.  — The announcement means that the FCC could reach …
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court skeptical of Trump's plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from census  —  The U.S. Supreme Court seemed wary on Monday of approving President Donald Trump's plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census figures that are used to calculate each state's representation …
Angele Delevoye / Washington Post:
The WNBA influenced the Georgia Senate race, new research finds  —  After Kelly Loeffler attacked Black Lives Matter, the WNBA backed one of her opponents — who pushed her into a January runoff  —  On June 24, Kelly Loeffler, an incumbent Republican senator and WNBA team owner …
Discussion: The Root
 
 
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Matt Egan / CNN:
Trump said the stock market would crash if Biden won. The Dow just had its best month since 1987.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, The Week and CNBC
Tricia Ennis / WTVG:
Articles of Impeachment officially filed against Gov. DeWine
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Times
Steve Howe / Utica Observer Dispatch:
NY-22: Judge orders new vote tally following Herkimer, Madison updates
Discussion: The Federalist
Richard Frishman / New York Times:
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation
Rosa Brooks / New York Times:
It's Time for a Woman to Run the Defense Department
Rachelle Hampton / Slate:
The Voice of Black America?
Diane Roberts / Florida Phoenix:
For 70 million real Americans, Donald Trump is the new ‘Lost Cause’
Mark Judge / The Stream:
Slanted: Our Dumb, Incompetent, Dangerous and Awful Media
 Earlier Items: 
Emily Jacobs / New York Post:
Joe Biden reportedly to be tough on charter schools
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Breitbart
Francesca Mari / New Yorker:
Using the Homeless to Guard Empty Houses
Matthew Walther / The Week:
How camp explains Trump
Discussion: Foreign Policy
Sally Goldenberg / Politico:
Andrew Yang, said to be considering mayoral bid, tested in new online poll
Discussion: Forbes and Business Insider
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

 
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