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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
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Richard Fowler / Fox News:
Trump's defeat is now final, bringing a disastrous presidency to a welcome end
Trump's defeat is now final, bringing a disastrous presidency to a welcome end
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Associated Press, Politico, POLITICUSUSA and Democrats
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Journalists, it's time for a cold-turkey breakup with Trump
Axios:
Mitch McConnell is outmuscling Trump as the dominant GOP powerbroker on Capitol Hill
Mitch McConnell is outmuscling Trump as the dominant GOP powerbroker on Capitol Hill
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The Bulwark, The Last Refuge, Associated Press, Reuters, The Sun, The Week, Business Insider and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Congressional leaders add stimulus checks to $900 billion relief package as they near deal — New direct payments will likely be included, but leaders are scrapping aid to states and cities as well as liability protections for companies as they try to finish negotiations.
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Politico:
Hill leaders close in on Covid stimulus deal
Hill leaders close in on Covid stimulus deal
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Kevin McCarthy refuses to congratulate Biden on election victory
Kevin McCarthy refuses to congratulate Biden on election victory
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The Nation, Politico, New York Times, POLITICUSUSA and KIFI-TV
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 …
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Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
Pompeo quarantining after coronavirus exposure
Pompeo quarantining after coronavirus exposure
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Associated Press, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, Political Wire and Washington Times
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.
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The Daily Beast, Raw Story and The Week
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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Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
North Carolina GOP lawmaker urges Trump to suspend civil liberties to keep power: ‘Invoke the Insurrection Act’ — On Facebook, North Carolina state Sen. Bob Steinburg (R) paraphrased a conservative commentator to make a radical suggestion: President Trump should declare a national emergency …
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The Sun, Florida Politics, Just Security, Progressive Eruptions and Raw Story
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Republican NC state senator: Trump should ‘invoke the Insurrection Act’
Republican NC state senator: Trump should ‘invoke the Insurrection Act’
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Election Law Blog
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.
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Vincent Marshall / Dodge City Daily Globe:
Mayor Warshaw resigns effective immediately
Mayor Warshaw resigns effective immediately
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Aída Chávez / The Intercept:
AOC: Nancy Pelosi Needs to Go, but There's Nobody to Replace Her Yet … Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes the Democratic Party needs new leadership, telling The Intercept in an interview that it's time for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to go.
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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 …
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The Hill, Talking Points Memo, The Week, Raw Story and MSNBC
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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The Hill, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, IJR, Crooks and Liars, New York Magazine, Raw Story, Mediaite and Slate
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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. — President Trump may be refusing to concede that he's leaving the White House in January, but — the Secret Service are reportedly busy preparing for his post-presidency life at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, Florida.
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The Week
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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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 …
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MacKenzie Scott / Medium:
384 Ways to Help — Emily Dickinson lived much of her life isolated in a single room …
384 Ways to Help — Emily Dickinson lived much of her life isolated in a single room …
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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 …
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Crooks and Liars and Raw Story
Glennon Doyle / Glamour:
Glennon Doyle and Biden Campaign Manager Jen O'Malley Dillon on Politics, Motherhood, and Doing Hard Things — Within an hour of the networks' at last declaring Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election, his campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon took to Twitter to celebrate.
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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.
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Joyce Vance / MSNBC:
Barr's escape hatch isn't enough to shake Trump's stigma
Barr's escape hatch isn't enough to shake Trump's stigma
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Heather Long / Washington Post:
Nearly 8 million Americans have fallen into poverty since the summer — Nation's poverty rate has risen at the fastest pace ever this year after aid for the unemployed declined. — The U.S. poverty rate has surged over the past five months, with 7.8 million Americans falling into poverty …
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Forbes
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.
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The Intellectualist and Raw Story
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.”
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USA Today
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.
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 …
Daniel Funke / @politifact:
Lie of the Year: Coronavirus downplay and denial — A Florida taxi driver and his wife had seen enough conspiracy theories online to believe the virus was overblown, maybe even a hoax. So no masks for them. Then they got sick. She died. A college lecturer had trouble refilling …
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Poynter
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.
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The American Conservative and The Daily Caller
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.
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The Federalist
Christopher Bedford / The Federalist:
Florida Is Open, New York Is Closed, And The Latter Has More COVID Deaths — Despite larger populations, currently freer peoples, and a media narrative that screams otherwise, there are far, far fewer deaths in Texas and in Florida than in New York. — Thus far in Florida, approximately 20,000 people have died of COVID-19.
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NBC News
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 …
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Financial Times, The Unz Review and abc7NY
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 …
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Raw Story
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 …
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.
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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 …