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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A GOP senator reveals just how deranged many in his party have become — Sen. Patrick J. Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania, has done something truly extraordinary. He has now stated in unequivocal terms that it's unacceptable for his fellow Republicans to try to subvert the will of American voters …
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Even in Defeat, Trump Tightens Grip on State G.O.P. Lawmakers — In Pennsylvania, the president's false claims of a rigged vote may inflame the party base for years to come. One lawmaker said that refusing to back up his assertions would “get my house bombed.”
New York Times:
As Trump Rails Against Loss, His Supporters Become More Threatening — The president's baseless claims of voting fraud have prompted outrage among his loyalists and led to behavior that Democrats and even some Republicans say has become dangerous. — With a key deadline passing Tuesday …
Christian Vanderbrouk / The Bulwark:
Enemies of Democracy — Remember. Their. Names. — Three days before Christmas in 2001, Richard Reid took off from Paris on a flight to Miami. He did not intend on arriving. Instead, he attempted to ignite explosives packed into one of his shoes to destroy the plane, killing everyone aboard for the cause of violent jihad.
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Washington Examiner, Raw Story and Associated Press
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Romney: ‘Madness’ for Republicans to challenge Electoral College vote — Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) dismissed a push from fellow Republicans in the House who are mulling the idea of challenging the Electoral College vote in an effort to keep President Trump in office another four years.
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JSOnline, IJR and Crooks and Liars
Lucas Kunce / American Prospect:
The China Hack and How to Reverse It — What will it require to take China seriously as an economic challenge? — In the 1990s, satellite communications were taking off. Demand for space launches was high, but supply of vehicles was low. The U.S. satellite industry was on the prowl for cheap rocket rides into space.
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Wall Street Journal and Townhall
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Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
Ossoff's Father Met With Chinese ‘Dignitaries’ While Touring His China-Built Yacht
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Townhall
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The marketplace for fantasy is reshaping conservative media, just like it reshaped conservative politics — With the clarity of retrospect, one can see how Fox News got into its current predicament. For the duration of President Trump's time in office — and, of course, well before that …
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New York Magazine, CNN, Media Matters for America and Mediaite
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David Bauder / Hosted:
Competitive CNN Shows Post-Election Surge In Viewership
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CBS News and Associated Press
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Newsmax TV scores a ratings win over Fox News for the first time ever
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, Forbes, RedState, HotAir, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Outside the Beltway, The Gateway Pundit, The Wrap, The Week and Todd Starnes, more at Mediagazer »
CNN:
George Conway: This is the most insane thing yet — Attorney George Conway reacts to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton seeking to block election results by asking the Supreme Court to take up a lawsuit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin arguing that the battleground states exploited …
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The Hill
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Loeffler, Perdue side with Texas lawsuit that Georgia AG says is ‘wrong’
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The Daily Caller, New York Times, Breitbart, Politico, USA Today, The Hill and Political Wire
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Challenges to Election Results Face End of the Legal Road — Courts across the U.S. have rejected the president and his supporters, citing lack of proof and other shortcomings — A sweeping multistate legal effort by President Trump and his supporters to override President-elect Joe Biden's victory …
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Washington Post, Reuters, Democrats, National Review, The American Independent, Michigan Advance and CBS News
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Riley Snyder / The Nevada Independent:
NV Supreme Court denies Trump campaign lawsuit seeking overturn of presidential election
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Forbes, The Root, Daily Kos, HotAir, IJR, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Breitbart and Common Dreams
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden eyeing Buttigieg for China ambassador — Letting him deepen his foreign policy chops could boost Buttigieg's future.
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PinkNews, Raw Story, Sara A. Carter, HotAir, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, Townhall, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and Political Wire
NBC News:
Historian: After Trump, public and press should hold Biden to a high standard — WASHINGTON — Republicans certainly had their complaints about Barack Obama's presidency. — They argued he was too politically inexperienced, spent too much, wasn't transparent enough, issued too many executive orders …
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Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Progressive Eruptions, Mediaite, scheerpost.com and Liberty Unyielding
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Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
An Idaho official left a meeting in tears as anti-maskers swarmed her home — Minutes into a public health district's virtual meeting to vote on a local mask mandate in Idaho on Tuesday evening, Ada County Commissioner Diana Lachiondo tearfully excused herself after getting a phone call …
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Washington Examiner, KIVI, The Hill, CNN, USA Today, Talking Points Memo, RedState and Boing Boing
Matthias Gafni / San Francisco Chronicle:
Report: Suspected Chinese spy targeted Bay Area politicians, then disappeared — The Cal State East Bay student and Chinese national hobnobbed with some of the Bay Area's leading politicians, even fundraising for some. She attended student events, fundraisers, campaign rallies …
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The Federalist, Fox News, New York Post, The Daily Caller, RealClearPolitics and Washington Examiner
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Rep. Swalwell says Trump criticism behind spy story
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Fox News, The Daily Caller, The Hill, New York Post, National Review, RedState, The US Sun, Mediaite, Washington Examiner, Twitchy, Breitbart, Sara A. Carter, Power Line and Axios
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: 'It's tight'
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The Week, National Review, New York Times and Florida Politics
Julia Marcus / The Atlantic:
The Danger of Assuming That Family Time Is Dispensable — Pandemic shaming, a national pastime since the spring, intensified in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving. Thousands waited in line, some for many hours, for a preholiday coronavirus test, only to be rebuked as careless, selfish violators of public-health rules.
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The Nation and New York Times
Mary Ellen Klas / Tampa Bay Times:
GOP lawyer resigns over treatment of Florida data analyst — Ron Filipkowski, a lifelong Republican who was appointed to the 12th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission by DeSantis, resigned Tuesday morning after reviewing the search warrant affidavit the state used to seize computers and phones from Rebekah Jones.
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Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, Florida Politics and Law & Crime
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump ‘just wants to go home’ — (CNN)In mid-November, as President Donald Trump railed against the election results, his wife, first lady Melania Trump publicly agreed with his sentiments. But privately, a handful of days after the final state tally, the first lady tasked an emissary …
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The US Sun, Raw Story and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Giuliani witness whose testimony went viral says she isn't self-quarantining despite his covid-19 diagnosis — A witness who attracted national attention after testifying at the side of Rudolph W. Giuliani about alleged voter fraud in Michigan says she is not self-quarantining and has not been tested …
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The Hill, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, The US Sun, The Daily Beast, hd.ingham.org and Political Wire
Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
‘God be with us’ — Covid-19 becomes personal in a South Dakota town as neighbors die and the town debates a mask mandate — MITCHELL, S.D. — A cold wind whipped through the prairie as they laid Buck Timmins to rest. — Timmins, a longtime coach and referee, was not the first person in Mitchell …
Politico:
Republicans plot their first and last Trump rebellion — Sen. Jim Inhofe is among Donald Trump's most loyal supporters. But with Inhofe and legions of other Republicans preparing to defy the president on a major defense bill, Trump decided to make one last push.
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Axios, Business Insider, The Texas Tribune, The American Independent, Raw Story and HotAir
Brian Klaas / Washington Post:
America has an authoritarian voter problem — For the past four years, American democracy has been in firefighting mode. Our institutions, our norms and our democratic values were being torched by the president himself. Thankfully, voters doused those flames on Nov. 3 by rejecting four more years of Trumpism.
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Biden defense nominee's need for a congressional waiver sows discomfort among Democrats — President-elect Joe Biden's selection of Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III to serve as defense secretary is already mired in controversy, as Democrats from across the party's political spectrum worry about undermining …
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New York Times:
Intensive Care Beds Are Nearing Capacity Across the Country, New Data Shows — Source: New York Times analysis of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data. ·Note: Shows 7-day average patient count by hospital service area. — In El Paso, hospitals reported that just 13 …
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Los Angeles Times, NPR, The Week and Blue Virginia
Nick Visser / HuffPost:
‘Corruption In Real Time’: Rep. Katie Porter Shreds McConnell For Stymying Stimulus Bill — “This must be exposed,” the California Democrat wrote as Congress tries to negotiate a COVID-19 stimulus deal. — Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) lambasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell …
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The Hill, Business Insider, New York Post, Raw Story and Crooks and Liars
James Fallows / The Atlantic:
How Biden Should Investigate Trump — I. A Crimes Commission? — As he prepares to occupy the White House, President-elect Joe Biden faces a decision rare in American history: what to do about the man who has just left office, whose personal corruption, disdain for the Constitution …
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USA Today, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, The National Interest, Daily Kos, Miami Herald and Washington Free Beacon
blog.youtube:
Supporting the 2020 U.S. election … Over the past weeks and months, we've seen people coming to YouTube to learn more about where and how to vote or learning more about a candidate or an issue. We've seen news organizations grow their audience. And we've seen people turn to YouTube …
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Politico, Washington Examiner, The Week, BuzzFeed News, Reuters, CNN, Breitbart, Forbes, Mediaite, Twitchy, Deadline, The Verge and Townhall, more at Mediagazer »
David Dayen / American Prospect:
The Cabinet Selection Process Is Veering Off Course — What was supposed to be a return to seriousness and expertise has been a hodge-podge of favor-trading and ill-considered decisions. — It does a disservice to Marcia Fudge as a public official to pressure her into a position she was not seeking.
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Resentment That Never Sleeps — Rising anxiety over declining social status tells us a lot about how we got here and where we're going. — Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality. — More and more, politics determine …
Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
‘Make Them Pay’: Michigan Democratic State Rep. Cynthia Jones Threatens Trump Supporters — Michigan Democratic State Rep. Cynthia Johnson threatened President Donald Trump's supporters in a Facebook live video Tuesday, saying it is a warning message to those who support the president.
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Todd Starnes
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Supplies of Covid-19 PPE Fall Short of Targets — Shortages of gear persist as cases surge; ‘we just have the regular masks you can buy at Walmart’ — The federal government has fallen well short of its goal to shore up an emergency stockpile of respirator masks and some other personal …
Brian Kahn / Earther:
New York State Just Set a New Standard for Fossil Fuel Divestment — After an eight-year fight to get New York to divest its $226 billion pension fund from fossil fuels, activists have won a major victory. On Wednesday, New York Comptroller Tom DiNapoli announced the state …
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Office of the New York …, HuffPost, New York Times, Common Dreams, Talking Points Memo and nrdc.org
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
SPAC with ties to Biden Cabinet picks sees surge in support from Wall Street after offering ‘access’ — Pine Island's team includes Tony Blinken, Biden's choice to be secretary of State, and retired Gen. Lloyd Austin, nominated to be secretary of Defense. — Since the initial pitch, the SPAC has raised over $218 million.
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Common Dreams, New York Times and The Intercept
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Russian Media Wants Moscow to Grant Asylum to Trump — Russian media and lawmakers are concerned about the future of the Kremlin's favorite U.S. president. — BEAST INSIDE — Russian state media—a reliable barometer of the mood at the Kremlin—remains fixated on election-related events in America.
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Raw Story and The Intellectualist
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