Top Items:
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.
RELATED:
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.”
Discussion:
The Hill, Crooks and Liars, Mediaite, The American Independent, Alternet.org, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA and The Gateway Pundit
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Tantrum Over Loss Could Smash Georgia GOP
Trump's Tantrum Over Loss Could Smash Georgia GOP
Discussion:
USA Today, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Business Insider, Talking Points Memo, Alternet.org and Vox
Ella Nilsen / Vox:
Georgia Senate runoffs: The final battles for control of the US Senate
Georgia Senate runoffs: The final battles for control of the US Senate
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, Fox News and The Daily Caller
National Review:
Trump's Disgraceful Endgame — The Supreme Court Got Church Restrictions Right — Biden's Cabinet: What a Hillary Clinton Administration Would Have Looked Like — You Have a National Adoption Month Date on Monday Morning — President Trump said the other day that he'd leave office …
Discussion:
The Hill, Law & Crime, The Week, Alternet.org and HotAir
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Live updates: Arizona certifies Biden's win; president-elect names inauguration planning committee — The Washington Post is providing this important election information free to all readers. Get election results and other major news delivered to your inbox by signing up for breaking news email alerts.
RELATED:
Jonathan J. Cooper / Associated Press:
Arizona certifies Biden's narrow victory over Trump — PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona officials certified the state's election results Monday, formalizing Democrat Joe Biden's narrow victory over Donald Trump even as the Republican president's attorneys continued making baseless claims of fraud in the state's vote count.
Discussion:
USA Today, Media Matters for America, Washington Times, Associated Press and Daily Kos
New York Times:
Presidential Transition Live Updates: Arizona Certifies Biden's Victory and Wisconsin Is Expected to Certify Within Hours
Presidential Transition Live Updates: Arizona Certifies Biden's Victory and Wisconsin Is Expected to Certify Within Hours
Andrew Oxford / Arizona Republic:
Arizona secretary of state certifies election results with Biden winning state's 11 electoral votes
Arizona secretary of state certifies election results with Biden winning state's 11 electoral votes
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, The Hill, Politico, Bloomberg and Raw Story
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Arizona certifies Biden's win
Arizona certifies Biden's win
Discussion:
CNBC, National Review, Mediaite and Washington Times
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.
Discussion:
USA Today, HuffPost, Raw Story and The Week, more at Mediagazer »
RELATED:
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:
Washington Post, HotAir and Vox
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Fox News needs to reinvent itself for the post-Trump era. Here's one radical idea. — For a long time, Fox News has ruled the cable-news roost. With its rabidly right-wing prime-time hosts and news shows that too often gave a showcase to crackpot ideas, it had a formula that worked beautifully …
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.
Discussion:
Raw Story, Washington Post and CNN
RELATED:
Ben Smith / New York Times:
The King of Trump TV Thinks You're Dumb Enough to Buy It
The King of Trump TV Thinks You're Dumb Enough to Buy It
Discussion:
NPR, Mediaite, Washington Post and No More Mister Nice Blog, more at Mediagazer »
Helen Branswell / STAT:
Divisions emerge among U.S. officials over when first Covid-19 vaccine doses will be available — and for whom — Divisions are emerging among top U.S. officials over when the country's first Covid-19 vaccine will be authorized — and who should be at the front of the line to get vaccinated.
Discussion:
The Verge
RELATED:
Jon Cohen / Science:
‘Absolutely remarkable’: No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe COVID-19
‘Absolutely remarkable’: No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe COVID-19
Discussion:
CNN, Moderna, Inc., NBC News, CBS News, CNBC, USA Today, Observer, Washington Examiner, HotAir, NPR, STAT, Raw Story, Townhall and Science Media Centre
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
The Health 202: Obese Americans could be prioritized for coronavirus vaccine
The Health 202: Obese Americans could be prioritized for coronavirus vaccine
Discussion:
Vanity Fair and National Review
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.
RELATED:
Nonzero.org:
Grading candidates for Biden's foreign policy team: Michèle Flournoy — Background: Flournoy, a candidate for secretary of defense, was an undersecretary of defense in the Obama administration, where she played a big role in designing the Afghanistan “surge.”
Discussion:
Common Dreams and IJR
RELATED:
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 …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Kayleigh McEnany's peculiar complaint about coverage of Biden's all-female press team — From literally the day after President Trump was inaugurated, his White House press operation has been anything but a model of honesty and good faith. — And now it appears ready to go out just as it came in.
Discussion:
The Daily Caller, RedState, Talking Points Memo, Al Jazeera and IJR
RELATED:
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Why Joe Biden's broken foot reveals how different his White House will be from Donald Trump's
Why Joe Biden's broken foot reveals how different his White House will be from Donald Trump's
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
MEDIA SAY BIDEN'S FEMALE-LED COMMS TEAM IS A FIRST. IT'S WHAT TRUMP HAS NOW
MEDIA SAY BIDEN'S FEMALE-LED COMMS TEAM IS A FIRST. IT'S WHAT TRUMP HAS NOW
Discussion:
The American Independent, National Review, Instapundit, Vanity Fair, USA Today, CNN, New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, Reuters, The Guardian, Breitbart and KTLA
Glenn Greenwald:
Biden Appointee Neera Tanden Spread the Conspiracy That Russian Hackers Changed Hillary's 2016 Votes to Trump — How can Democrats and allied media outlets credibly oppose unhinged conspiracy theories and attacks on U.S. election legitimacy while empowering its worst purveyors? — 1 hr ago
Discussion:
The Daily Caller, Politico, National Review, Business Insider, USA Today, The Hill, Reason, CNN, HotAir, Mediaite and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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 …
Discussion:
New York Post, UPI, TechCrunch, Common Dreams and Deadline
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
Raw Story
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
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.
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
Data For Progress:
Voters Reject the Politics of Austerity — This blog is the third in a series of posts that explore likely voters' attitudes towards the national debt and deficit-financed spending. In our first post, we discussed the results of an October survey where we found that likely voters support deficit-spending …
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.
Discussion:
Commentary Magazine, Raw Story, Blue Virginia, Twitchy and Juanita Jean's
Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
Trouble at Treasury — Will Wall Street control the key subcabinet jobs? The early signs are not encouraging. — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen in a Financial Stability Oversight Council meeting, May 2015 — Progressives rejoiced when former Fed chair Janet Yellen was named to be President-elect Biden's Treasury secretary.
Mike Dunford / The Bulwark:
The ‘Kraken’ Lawsuit Was Released And It's Way Dumber Than You Realize — Every time you think you have a grasp of how preposterous the Trump team's election lawsuits are, another one comes out, dumber and more conspiracy-filled than the last. — The Pennsylvania monstrosity that was submitted …
Discussion:
Alternet.org
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Cuomo orders emergency hospital protocols as COVID capacity dwindles — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Monday that struggling state hospital systems must transfer patients to sites that are not nearing capacity, as rising coronavirus cases and hospitalizations strain medical resources.
Discussion:
Politico, The Providence Journal and WSAZ-TV