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9:25 AM ET, December 16, 2020

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Keith Griffith / Associated Press:
MAGA turns on Mitch: Trump allies including Michael Flynn slam the GOP Senate majority leader for ‘caving to the mob and China’ for recognizing Biden as president-elect  — Trump loyalists were furious after McConnell congratulated Biden on Tuesday  — Top allies accused Senate majority leader of selling out the party's leader
Discussion: The Hill, Politico, Axios, IJR, Mediaite and Deadline
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Journalists, it's time for a cold-turkey breakup with Trump  —  Long before he glided down that golden escalator at Trump Tower in 2015 to announce his presidential candidacy, Donald Trump was an object of media fascination.  He could never actually become president, of course …
Alayna Treene / Axios:   Kevin McCarthy refuses to congratulate Biden on election victory
Politico:
Congressional leaders near deal on Covid relief
Discussion: Forbes and Axios, more at Mediagazer »
Politico:
McConnell warns Senate Republicans against challenging election results
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Biden launches a quiet effort to tame the Senate, a mission critical to his presidency
NBC News:
White House counsel's office warned Trump not to fire Chris Wray  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has come so close to firing FBI Director Christopher Wray in recent months that the White House counsel's office has warned him not to do so because it could put him in potential legal jeopardy …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and MSNBC
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Associated Press:
Trump asking about special prosecutor for Hunter Biden  —  Washington (AP) — President Donald Trump is considering pushing to have a special counsel appointed to advance a federal tax investigation into the son of President-elect Joe Biden, setting up a potential showdown with incoming acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen.
ABC13:
Alleged crusade to stop voter fraud lands former HPD captain in handcuffs  —  HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A former Houston Police Department Captain was arrested and charged for running a man off the road and pointing a gun at his head in an attempt to prove claims of a massive voter fraud scheme …
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Sun-Sentinel:
A mysterious gap in COVID-19 deaths appeared in Florida before the presidential election  —  An astonishing pattern has emerged in Florida's COVID death tally — one that suggests the state manipulated a backlog of unrecorded fatalities, presenting more favorable death counts in the days leading up to the 2020 presidential election.
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Raw Story and The Week
Bloomberg:
MacKenzie Scott Gives Away $4.2 Billion in Four Months  — World's 18th-richest person announced contributions on Medium  — Scott's total gifts this year are close to $6 billion  —  MacKenzie Scott is giving away her fortune at an unprecedented pace, donating more than $4 billion …
Discussion: Gothamist and Raw Story
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MacKenzie Scott / Medium:
384 Ways to Help  —  Emily Dickinson lived much of her life isolated in a single room …
Jazmin Goodwin / CNN:   MacKenzie Scott donates $4.2 billion to 384 organizations
Michael Stratford / Politico:
DeVos urges career staff to ‘be the resistance’ as Biden takes over  —  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos urged career employees at the Education Department on Tuesday to “be the resistance” when the Biden administration comes into power next month, according to a recording of her remarks obtained by POLITICO.
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Politico:
Biden to tap former Michigan Gov. Granholm to lead Energy Department
Vincent Marshall / Dodge City Daily Globe:
Mayor Warshaw resigns effective immediately  —  On Tuesday, Dec. 15, Dodge City Mayor Joyce Warshaw officially resigned from her position effective immediately.  —  “I understand people are under a lot of pressure from various things that are happening around society like the pandemic …
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Associated Press:
‘I do not feel safe’: Kansas GOP mayor resigns after threats over backing mask mandate  —  A Republican mayor in western Kansas announced in a letter to city officials and on social media Tuesday that she is resigning, effective immediately, because of threats she has received after she publicly supported a mask mandate.
Discussion: Raw Story
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Hundreds of invitees skip Mike Pompeo's indoor holiday party at State Department  —  Only a tiny fraction of the more than 900 guests invited to an indoor holiday party hosted by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife Susan showed up on Tuesday following an outcry from public health officials …
Washington Post:
Mar-a-Lago neighbors to Trump: Spend your post-presidency elsewhere  —  Next-door neighbors of Mar-a-Lago, President Trump's private club in Palm Beach, Fla., that he has called his Winter White House, have a message for the outgoing commander in chief: We don't want you to be our neighbor.
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Peter Weber / Yahoo News:
Trump's Mar-a-Lago neighbors don't want him to move there. They may be able to stop him, too.
Discussion: The Week
Noah Weiland / New York Times:
‘Like a Hand Grasping’: Trump Appointees Describe the Crushing of the C.D.C.  —  Kyle McGowan, a former chief of staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and his deputy, Amanda Campbell, go public on the Trump administration's manipulation of the agency.
Discussion: Raw Story
Christian Middleton / Mississippi Free Press:
UM Fires History Professor Who Criticizes ‘Powerful, Racist Donors’ and ‘Carceral State’  —  During a period of what University of Mississippi faculty are calling a time of increasing paranoia, the university is set to terminate a celebrated professor of history.
Jordan Williams / The Hill:
Longtime GOP strategist Steve Schmidt announces he's registering Democrat  —  Longtime GOP strategist Steve Schmidt announced that he is registering as a Democrat after nearly 30 years with the Republican Party.  —  Schmidt made the announcement during an episode of the “Battleground” …
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MSNBC:   'There's now one pro-democracy political party': Steve Schmidt announces he's a Democrat
Eli Lake / Commentary Magazine:
Framed and Guilty … Hunter Biden, son of the man who will be America's 46th president, tried to profit from his father's name abroad—as we learned anew from some of the contents of a computer hard drive that were leaked in the weeks before the election.  What is also true is that the tale …
Discussion: The Unz Review
Marc Thiessen / Washington Post:
Giving Trump credit for the vaccine is the best way for Biden to unite the country  —  Joe Biden promised in his victory speech to “unite us here at home” and told Trump supporters that he wanted to “put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature [and] see each other again.”
Discussion: USA Today and Spectator USA
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden considering Republicans for Commerce secretary  —  President-elect Joe Biden is considering some well-known Republicans — think Meg Whitman types — for Commerce secretary as a way to signal to red-state Americans he understands their concerns and plans to address them.
NBC News:
Restaurants worry bipartisan coronavirus deal is cutting them out  —  The White House and congressional leaders are nearing the finish line on a bipartisan Covid-19 relief deal.  But they're running up against objections from a coalition of restaurants who argue the emerging plan will leave …
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
17 theses on Pete Buttigieg and the Department of Transportation  —  Emergency blog post!  —  3 hr ago  —  Trying something new, an emergency out-of-schedule post on Pete Buttigieg and the Department of Transportation!  — I love transportation policy and know a fair amount about it.
Discussion: The Federalist
Craig Stirling / Bloomberg:
Fifty Years of Tax Cuts for Rich Didn't Trickle Down, Study Says  — Paper looks at fiscal policies in 18 countries over 50 years  — Governments shouldn't worry about taxes on rich, author says  —  Tax cuts for rich people breed inequality without providing much of a boon to anyone else …
Patreon:
Bill Barr and Other Hacks  —  We are halfway through the attempted coup - formerly known as the presidential transition process - and the United States has not completely collapsed (yet) so, yay?  This week we discuss the massive Russian cyberattack on American institutions and businesses …
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
How 2020 Shattered Shared Reality  —  Twenty years ago, the sociologist Robert Putnam in Bowling Alone used the decline of bowling leagues since the middle of the 20th century to symbolize America's declining social engagement.  This year, he published a sequel of sorts, The Upswing …
Roque Planas / HuffPost:
USPS Finally Releases Louis DeJoy's Calendar — And Everything's Redacted  —  The agency pretended to release the postmaster general's calendar in a lawsuit looking to get to the bottom of mail slowdowns ahead of the election.  —  After being hit with a lawsuit in federal court …
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
How Qanon's lies are hijacking the national conversation  —  How Trump is fueling the alarming growth of QAnon  —  (CNN)It started with a Tweet from a QAnon supporter at 2:09 in the morning: #SubpoenaObama.  —  Though devoid of context, the cryptic message made sense to anyone in tune …
The Daily Beast:
Value of Loeffler's Mansion Dropped $6M Overnight—and Nobody Can Explain Why  —  The estate went from a $10.5 million appraisal to $4.1 million, resulting in a much lower tax bill for the senator and her husband.  —  When Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and her husband, Jeffrey Sprecher …
Discussion: Raw Story
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A notable death in 2020: American democracy |  Will Bunch Newsletter  —  As I wrote this, I was watching the Electoral College coverage on CNN and I have to say the whole thing seemed suspicious as hell.  Every hour or so, there was another “mysterious” dump of 20 or 30 more votes for Biden.
Discussion: Newsmax, The Atlantic and Daily Kos
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Ron Johnson gambles his political future on Trump  —  President Donald Trump listens as Sen. Ron Johnson addresses the crowd during a campaign rally on Oct. 17, 2020, in Janesville, Wis.  —  Ron Johnson is linking himself to President Donald Trump's election challenge as tightly as possible …
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Troy Closson / New York Times:
Children Love Snow Days.  The Pandemic May End Them Forever.  —  In New York City and elsewhere, classes will be held online no matter how bad storms are this year in a shift that makes some parents wistful.  —  “Snow day.”  These two words have charmed New York children for generations …
Discussion: Gothamist and KIFI-TV
 
 
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Anti-Trump Republicans Are Doing Nothing Right Now to Stop Him in 2024
Discussion: Raw Story
Aída Chávez / The Intercept:
AOC: Nancy Pelosi Needs to Go, but There's Nobody to Replace Her Yet
Discussion: Fox News and Politico
New York Times:
From Voter Fraud to Vaccine Lies: Misinformation Peddlers Shift Gears
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Detroit Is Trying to Get Sidney Powell Fined, Banned from Court, and Referred to the Bar for Filing the ‘Kraken’
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Trump Jr. to stump for Perdue after Pence rallies Thursday, as Trump team answers Biden event
Discussion: Associated Press and Townhall
Phil Helsel / NBC News:
California orders thousands of body bags as Covid death toll grows
Discussion: UPI
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's book ‘Persist’ to come out in April
 Earlier Items: 
Betsy Klein / CNN:
Trump campaign asks supporters if the President should run in 2024
Discussion: Mediaite and The Week
Dr. Susan Berry / Breitbart:
‘I Am Grateful to God’ for ‘the Last Four Years’
Discussion: Forbes and TheBlaze
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Joe Biden should beware liberal identity politics
Washington Post:
The U.S. government spent billions on a system for detecting hacks. The Russians outsmarted it.
Discussion: CNN, more at Techmeme »
Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
How did a Proud Boys leader with a felony record get into the White House?
Discussion: Holy Bullies …
The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Considering Clemency for Silk Road Founder
 

 
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