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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Where Is the President of the United States? — Donald Trump is AWOL. And his disgrace is hiding in plain sight. — Before we start: Tonight we're doing a livestream that I'm hoping will go down in legend as The Bulwark version of the Star Wars Holiday Special. The first 12 minutes will be entirely in Wookie.
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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Biden promises retaliation for cyberattack on government agencies — President-elect Biden on Thursday said that a suspected Russian cyberattack on multiple government agencies and U.S. companies “is a matter of great concern” and promised to impose “substantial costs” to those responsible for the attack.
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Thomas P. Bossert / New York Times:
I Was the Homeland Security Adviser to Trump. We're Being Hacked. — The magnitude of this national security breach is hard to overstate. — Mr. Bossert was the homeland security adviser to President Trump and deputy homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush.
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us-cert.cisa.gov:
Alert (AA20-352A) — Advanced Persistent Threat Compromise of Government Agencies, Critical Infrastructure, and Private Sector Organizations — Summary — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of compromises of U.S. government agencies …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
More Hacking Attacks Found as Officials Warn of ‘Grave Risk’ to U.S. Government
More Hacking Attacks Found as Officials Warn of ‘Grave Risk’ to U.S. Government
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Washington Post:
Federal investigators find evidence of previously unknown tactics used to penetrate government networks
Federal investigators find evidence of previously unknown tactics used to penetrate government networks
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Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Putin Denies Involvement in Poisoning of Navalny
Putin Denies Involvement in Poisoning of Navalny
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Washington Post:
Biden picks Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) to be first Native American interior secretary — Tribal and progressive activists lobbied hard to put an indigenous leader in charge of a department that helps oversee Indian County — President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland …
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Biden Will Pick Deb Haaland to Lead Interior Department
Biden Will Pick Deb Haaland to Lead Interior Department
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Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Transition Live Updates: Stimulus Deal Appears Within Reach, but Final Product Could Limit Biden in the Future
Transition Live Updates: Stimulus Deal Appears Within Reach, but Final Product Could Limit Biden in the Future
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Top Biden aide walks back expletive description of Republicans — Jen O'Malley Dillon, President-elect Joe Biden's campaign manager and incoming White House deputy chief of staff, walked back comments she made in a recent interview suggesting that congressional Republicans were “a bunch of f—ers.”
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Republicans suddenly discover they don't like naughty words — Could someone please find Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) a cold compress and a place where he might lie down for a few minutes? — The senator, whom you might recall from the time he implied during a presidential campaign …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kelly Loeffler's latest nonsense exposes the worst of GOP nihilism
Kelly Loeffler's latest nonsense exposes the worst of GOP nihilism
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Does Joe Biden Understand the Modern GOP?
Does Joe Biden Understand the Modern GOP?
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Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught — The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers accessed their networks as part of an extensive espionage operation that has affected …
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Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Georgia Senate Runoffs: Breaking Down November, Looking to January — Dear Readers: This is the last issue of the Crystal Ball this year. We wanted to finish off our 2020 publishing schedule by taking a deep look at the Georgia Senate runoffs, which will decide control of the Senate on Tuesday, Jan. 5.
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David Wickert / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge dismisses GOP lawsuit challenging Georgia's absentee ballot rules
Judge dismisses GOP lawsuit challenging Georgia's absentee ballot rules
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Politico:
GOP launches legal war on absentee voting ahead of Georgia runoffs
GOP launches legal war on absentee voting ahead of Georgia runoffs
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
75K new Georgia voters registered before US Senate runoffs
75K new Georgia voters registered before US Senate runoffs
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Federal judge dismisses Georgia lawsuit that sought to scrap absentee voting drop boxes
Federal judge dismisses Georgia lawsuit that sought to scrap absentee voting drop boxes
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Jennifer Horn / USA Today:
Texas lawsuit was the last straw. I'm leaving the Republican Party: Former NH GOP chair — The GOP has ransacked our Constitution and attempted a coup. The Republican Party of Lincoln is no more. I'm switching my registration to independent. — My mother spent a lifetime trying to teach me to stand for what is right.
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Politico:
Never-Trump movement splinters as its villain heads for the exit — The defeat of Donald Trump might have been the easy part for never-Trump Republicans. Next up: taking on the more elusive target of Trumpism with their boogeyman gone from office. — More than a dozen leaders …
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Washington Post:
Biden picks top North Carolina environmental official to run EPA — Michael Regan has forged a multibillion-dollar clean up of coal ash and worked with the state's GOP legislature — President-elect Joe Biden will choose to nominate Michael S. Regan, who heads the North Carolina Department …
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Ellen Knickmeyer / Associated Press:
Biden picks North Carolina environmental chief to lead EPA
Biden picks North Carolina environmental chief to lead EPA
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Washington Post:
States report confusion as feds reduce vaccine shipments, even as Pfizer says it has ‘millions’ of unclaimed doses — Officials in multiple states said they were alerted late Wednesday that their second shipments of Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine next week had been reduced, sparking widespread confusion …
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The Bulwark:
Uninstalling Stephen Miller — How one man's mastery of the dark bureaucratic arts made life a living hell for immigrants and refugees. — In November 2019, a former staffer from Breitbart leaked emails from 2015 in which White House advisor Stephen Miller recommended The Camp of the Saints …
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Grady Means / The Hill:
Joe Biden's looming disaster — Pity Joe Biden. He is the dog that finally caught the bus and he is soon to be political roadkill. While he celebrates his victory in the Electoral College, powerful forces already are engaged to doom him and his presidency.
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Andrew Heavens / Reuters:
Sweden's king says ‘we have failed’ over COVID-19, as deaths mount — STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden's king said his country had failed in its handling of COVID-19, in a sharp criticism of a pandemic policy partly blamed for a high death toll among the elderly.
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Peter Strzok's Declassified Messages Give Insider View Of FBI's Trump Campaign Probe — The Justice Department declassified a batch of internal FBI messages from Peter Strzok, the former counterintelligence investigator who oversaw Crossfire Hurricane. — The messages provide a real …
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Jordan Davidson / The Federalist:
New Strzok Texts Show FBI Was Investigating Trump Before Crossfire Hurricane Was Opened
New Strzok Texts Show FBI Was Investigating Trump Before Crossfire Hurricane Was Opened
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Politico:
Pence prepares to oversee Trump's loss — and then leave town — On Jan. 6, Vice President Mike Pence will oversee final confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden's victory. — Then he'll likely skip town. — As vice president, Pence has the awkward but unavoidable duty of presiding …
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Dominion demands that Sidney Powell retract ‘baseless and false allegations’ about voting machines. — Dominion Voting Systems sent a blistering letter on Wednesday night to the right-wing lawyer Sidney Powell, demanding that she publicly retract her “wild, knowingly baseless and false accusations” …
Politico:
Congress flirts with short shutdown as negotiators near stimulus deal — Congress is preparing for the possibility of a short government shutdown as leaders attempt to wrap up a nearly $1 trillion coronavirus relief package ahead of a Friday deadline. — As of Thursday afternoon …
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Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
DHS Inspectors Found ICE Detainees Who Were Kept In Solitary Confinement For 300 Days — Nearly a dozen immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement were kept in solitary confinement for more than two months, including two people who were isolated for more than 300 days …
Miriam Berger / Washington Post:
Man really did hack Trump's Twitter account by guessing password, ‘maga2020!,’ Dutch prosecutors say — Six years ago, Dutch hacker Victor Gevers logged into President Trump's Twitter account by guessing the password: “yourefired.” — Then he did it again.
Zeynep Tufekci / The Atlantic:
Hang On for Three More Months — Hunkering down to wait out the coronavirus isn't easy. The costs of isolation are steep. Quarantine fatigue is real. The chance to gather with extended family and friends this holiday season is particularly alluring to those of us battling loneliness.
xkcd.com:
2020 Election Map — Permanent link to this comic: https://xkcd.com/2399/ — Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/2020_ election_map.png — Comics I enjoy: — Three Word Phrase, SMBC, Dinosaur Comics, Oglaf (nsfw), A Softer World, Buttersafe …
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