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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Trump Lawyer: Former DHS Senior Official Should Be Executed  —  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 for saying that the election was the “most secure in United States history.”
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Mairead McArdle / National Review:
Trump Lawyer Says Krebs Should Be ‘Taken Out at Dawn and Shot’ for Defending Election  —  Trump campaign lawyer Joe diGenova declared Monday that the Trump administration's former cybersecurity chief deserves to be put to death for claiming that the presidential election was the “most secure” in the country's history.
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump campaign lawyer says former cybersecurity chief should be ‘shot’  —  An attorney for President Donald Trump's reelection efforts said on Monday that Chris Krebs, the former head of U.S. cybersecurity, should be “shot” for going against the president's conspiracy theories and declaring the 2020 elections as secure.
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 …
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Washington Post:
Trump raises more than $150 million appealing to false election claims  —  President Trump's political operation has raised more than $150 million since Election Day, using a blizzard of misleading appeals about the election to shatter fundraising records set during the campaign, according to people with knowledge of the contributions.
Discussion: Raw Story, The Week and Political Wire
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New York Times:
Trump Raises $170 Million as He Denies His Loss and Eyes the Future  —  The president's campaign has ratcheted up its appeals for cash, but the first 75 percent of every contribution is going to a new political action committee that could fund his next political move.
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Republicans to Trump: Georgia fraud claims could cost us the Senate  —  Donald Trump's sustained attacks on the integrity of Georgia's presidential election tally are threatening the Republican Senate majority — and GOP senators are starting to fret.  —  Even as the key battleground states …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: : One measure of Trump fatigue in Georgia — among Republicans
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Yashar Ali / Yashar's Newsletter:
Scoop: Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to Name Tina Flournoy as Chief of Staff  —  Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is set to name Tina Flournoy, who currently serves as chief of staff to former President Bill Clinton, as her chief of staff, according to two sources involved in transition planning.
Discussion: CNN and Axios
Bill Melugin / FOX 11 Los Angeles:
LA County Supervisor dines at restaurant hours after voting to ban outdoor dining  —  (Photo by Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Pres  —  SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Just hours after Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl voted to ban outdoor dining at L.A. County's 31,000 restaurants …
Betsy McKay / Wall Street Journal:
Covid-19 Likely in U.S. in Mid-December 2019, CDC Scientists Report  —  New analysis of blood donations finds virus was present on West Coast earlier than previously believed  —  The new coronavirus infected people in the U.S. in mid-December 2019, a few weeks before it was officially identified …
Discussion: Fortune and NPR
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: FDA chief called to West Wing  —  White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has summoned FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn to the West Wing for a 9:30am meeting Tuesday to explain why he hasn't moved faster to approve the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, two senior administration officials told Axios.
Discussion: CNN, Foreign Policy and Political Wire
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: TheBlaze, New York Post and Twitchy
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Politico:
‘Any and all possible offenses’: Trump pardon grants Flynn a sweeping reprieve  —  President Donald Trump's pardon of his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, includes an extremely broad reprieve from any possible crimes he might have committed connected to special counsel Robert Mueller's …
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Jonathan H. Adler / Reason:   The Pardon Power May Be Broad, But that Does Not Mean a Self-Pardon Would Be Legit
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.
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
Noa Shpigel / Haaretz:
'It's a Jewish City': Court Rejects Lawsuit by Arab Students, Citing Israel's Nation-state Law  —  Schoolkids asked to be reimbursed for travel outside of the city of Carmiel - because it has no Arabic-language schools; controversial 2018 law asserts self-determination in Israel is ‘unique to the Jewish people’
Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
Kristi Noem's Grandmother Died in Nursing Home Ravaged by COVID  —  'IT'S EVERYWHERE' … And yet the South Dakota governor continues to downplay the virus, refuse a mask mandate, and ignore the terrible price her state is paying.  —  On Monday, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem buried her grandmother …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Josh Hawley's Populist Shtick Is Undermined By One Glaring Weakness  —  Josh Hawley has had a pretty good year.  The Republican senator from Missouri has carved out a national profile with his smooth blend of theocratic quasi-authoritarianism combined with populist-inflected rhetoric that's …
Discussion: The Week
Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
There Aren't Serious-Enough Consequences for Those Trying to Break American Democracy  —  What the president and his lawyers have been attempting to do deserves punishment that will likely never come.  —  Donald Trump will not serve a second term.  The litigation launched by his campaign …
Justin George / Washington Post:
Metro budget cuts weekend service, half of bus routes and closes 19 stations amid dire financial forecast  —  Metro is proposing the elimination of weekend rail service in its budget for the first time as the transit agency's financial struggles deepen amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Discussion: HillFaith
Zeynep / Insight:
The Pandemic Heroes Who Gave us the Gift of Time and Gift of Information  —  As safe and effective vaccines make news, let's remember the heroism of China's scientists and medical workers  —  There is excellent news today on the vaccine front.  To appreciate how we got here …
Discussion: Roll Call, CBS News and STAT
Harriet Alexander / Yahoo Finance:
Trump was 'muttering, I won, I won, like ‘Mad King George’ after election defeat, report says  —  Donald Trump on election night was like “Mad King George, muttering, ‘I won.  I won.  I won,’ ” according to one close adviser,  —  who spoke to The Washington Post for a remarkable recap of the 20 days since the election.
Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
No game days.  No bars.  The pandemic is forcing some men to realize they need deeper friendships.  —  It took a global pandemic and a badly timed breakup for Manny Argueta to realize just how far he had grown apart from his guy friends.  —  In the spring, after the 35-year-old had left …
Tricia Ennis / WTVG:
Articles of Impeachment officially filed against Gov. DeWine  —  The representatives argue that the governor has abused his power during the coronavirus pandemic.  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio (WTVG) - A total of 12 Articles of Impeachment have officially been filed against Gov. Mike DeWine.
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 …
Michelangelo Signorile / The Signorile Report:
Elite G0P senators try to emulate Trump in criticizing Biden's Cabinet—but fail miserably  —  Call Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton and Marco Rubio the “Elite Strike-Out Force” … GOP Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri is as elite as they come.  —  He's the son of a banker, even though …
 
 
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Federal system for tracking hospital beds and COVID-19 patients provides questionable data
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Jasper Scherer / Houston Chronicle:
Harris County GOP chair Keith Nielsen resigns after racist post, fundraising struggles
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