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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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No More Mister Nice Blog and Raw Story, more at Techmeme »
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CISA:
Joint Statement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) — Over the course of the past several days, the FBI, CISA, and ODNI have become aware of a significant and ongoing cybersecurity campaign.
Politico:
Pence prepares to confirm 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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NBC News, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and American Prospect
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Vice President Pence to receive televised vaccine shot
Scoop: Vice President Pence to receive televised vaccine shot
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Business Insider, BuzzFeed News, HotAir and Washington Examiner
Margaret Carlson / The Daily Beast:
Mike Pence's Mission Is Slavish Devotion Every Day Til Jan. 20
Mike Pence's Mission Is Slavish Devotion Every Day Til Jan. 20
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Raw Story
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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David Siders / Politico:
'Everything's great': GOP ditches election post-mortems — Democrats in Texas and New Hampshire are forming committees to examine the party's failings in last month's election. Less formal autopsies are underway in states across the country. — But the party that lost the presidential election isn't soul-searching at all.
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Associated Press, New York Times, Raw Story and Augusta Chronicle
CNN:
'It's turned crazy': Inside the scramble for Trump pardons — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump may not be willing to accept his term is ending, but as the clock ticks down on his time in office, hundreds of his allies — including some of his closest business associates …
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Axios:
O'Malley Dillon's line that GOP are “f-ckers” worries some Biden aides — Some advisers close to President-elect Joe Biden are frustrated over a Glamour magazine interview in which incoming White House deputy chief of staff Jen O'Malley Dillon referred to Republicans on Capitol Hill as “f*ckers.”
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Politico, Fox News, The Hill, IJR, Washington Free Beacon, Mediaite, HotAir, RedState, New York Magazine, Twitchy, Breitbart, Liberty Unyielding, Talking Points Memo, National Review and The Federalist
Kyle Smith / National Review:
Jill Biden's Doctorate Is Garbage Because Her Dissertation Is Garbage — Her dissertation is not an addition to the sum total of human knowledge. — You can tell someone is smarting from an inferiority complex when he insists on being addressed as “Dr.” on the basis of holding an academic doctorate rather than being a physician.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Obsessed Tucker Carlson Calls Jill Biden ‘Illiterate’ and ‘Our National Shame’ — This was the third straight night that Carlson devoted to insulting the soon-to-be first lady over her use of the “Dr.” title because she has a doctorate in education. — Fox News host Tucker Carlson obsessed …
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The Daily Caller and The Wrap
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell gives away the game: ‘Kelly and David are getting hammered’ — Pressure works. That's what we're learning from the news that congressional negotiators are moving toward a deal on an economic rescue package that includes stimulus checks for individuals.
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CNN, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, The Sun, Raw Story, Business Insider and Reuters
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Joe Biden may be tougher than the GOP expects — President-elect Joe Biden's decision to campaign in Georgia for two Democratic Senate candidates facing runoff elections next month is a bigger deal than you might think. Consider what another president-elect chose not to do 12 years ago.
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Staring Down Deadline, Congress Nears $900 Billion Stimulus Deal
Staring Down Deadline, Congress Nears $900 Billion Stimulus Deal
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Michigan Advance, The Dispatch and Washington Post
CNN:
Biden's search for an attorney general complicated by ‘competing questions’ — Washington (CNN)The deliberations among President-elect Joe Biden's tight circle of advisers about whom he should nominate as attorney general have emerged as some of the more complicated of the transition …
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New York Times, Issues & Insights, The Gateway Pundit, Mic and Washington Free Beacon
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New York Times:
Alaska Health Worker Had a Serious Allergic Reaction After Pfizer's Vaccine — The person had no history of allergies. Two similar reactions happened last week in Britain. — WASHINGTON — A health care worker in Alaska had a serious allergic reaction after getting Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine …
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STAT, CBS News, The Week, Washington Post, Meduza.io, Breitbart, The Western Journal, The Daily Caller, The Sun, Townhall and New York Post
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Sarah Owermohle / Politico:
FDA says Pfizer vaccine vials hold extra doses, expanding supply
FDA says Pfizer vaccine vials hold extra doses, expanding supply
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Washington Post, NPR, The Sun, New York Magazine, New York Post, Axios, The Week, Washington Examiner, Forbes and UPI
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
We've finally identified the source of fraud in the 2020 election. It's Ron Johnson. — Finally, significant fraud has been identified in the 2020 election. It is being perpetrated by Sen. Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin. — President Trump lost the election. He lost the recounts.
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Douglas Braff / Sara A. Carter:
Rand Paul: ‘The fraud happened. The election in many ways was stolen’
Rand Paul: ‘The fraud happened. The election in many ways was stolen’
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Courier-Journal, Washington Post, The Week, Conservative News Today, Mediaite, The Hill and Bloomberg
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary is something Frank Kameny could have only dreamed of — President-elect Joe Biden's nomination of Pete Buttigieg as the next transportation secretary made me think of the man who fought for the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Ind., but would never meet him.
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Washington Post:
Interior Secretary Bernhardt tests positive for covid-19 — Two other top Interior officials contracted the virus last month — Interior Department Secretary David Bernhardt, 51, tested positive for covid-19 Wednesday, the department spokesman confirmed after an inquiry from The Post.
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CNN, NBC News, USA Today, The Hill, NBC4 Washington, The Week, Associated Press, Axios and New York Post
Michelle Ruiz / Vogue:
How Savannah Guthrie and Kristen Welker Won the 2020 Election Coverage — FIVE MINUTES before NBC called the 2020 election for Joe Biden, Kristen Welker was sprinting. After rising at 4 a.m. and coanchoring Weekend Today in New York, the White House correspondent darted into a car …
Nikki Haley / Washington Post:
Biden shouldn't reject all Trump's foreign policies. Here are three he should keep. — Nikki Haley was governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017 and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 to 2019. — At the United Nations, I often found that many countries agreed with U.S. policies …
Washington Examiner:
Raphael Warnock's embrace of anti-Semite Farrakhan is disqualifying for Senate service — It was once said of a famously vulnerable Senate candidate that, with respect to the opposition research that could be used against her in a campaign, “there's a haystack of needles.”
Dave Boucher / Detroit Free Press:
New Supreme Court filing includes blatantly wrong information about Michigan — A long-shot legal effort relying on conspiracy theories and inaccurate analyses to argue President Donald Trump actually won Michigan included additional blatantly false information in a new filing with the U.S. Supreme Court this week.
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Law & Crime and Business Insider
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
US Joint Chiefs chairman meets with Taliban on peace talks — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The top U.S. general held unannounced talks with Taliban peace negotiators in the Persian Gulf to urge a reduction in violence across Afghanistan, even as senior American officials in Kabul warned …
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Defense One, Wall Street Journal and Political Wire
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
The Swalwell Timeline — Did a communist spy know the congressman was about to assume oversight of the CIA? — Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.) hasn't been willing to say much about his relationship with an alleged spy for the Chinese Communist Party, citing a need to protect classified information.
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The Federalist, Townhall and professorbainbridge.com
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Trump's Latino gains suggest a key progressive theory of politics is wrong — White backlash or education polarization? — 1 hr ago — Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson in their widely-cited Trump book write, for example, that: “To advance an unpopular plutocratic agenda …
Washington Post:
Biden order to halt border wall project would save U.S. $2.6 billion, Pentagon estimates show — The U.S. government would save about $2.6 billion if President-elect Joe Biden halts construction on the border wall project on his first day in office, according to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates reviewed by The Washington Post.
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Boing Boing, American Military News and Political Wire
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A Glitch in Trump's Plan to Live at Mar-a-Lago: A Pact He Signed Says He Can't — Neighbors of the president say he has violated the 1993 agreement he made with Palm Beach that allowed him to convert a private residence into a moneymaking club. — President Trump's neighbors in Florida …
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Palm Beach Post, Vanity Fair, The Sun, Reason, Mercury News, The Week, Mic, Raw Story, Political Wire, Conservative News Today, Washington Examiner, Daily Kos, Crooks and Liars and Law & Crime
Jeff Schogol / Task & Purpose:
Vet groups call on Congress to investigate Dan Crenshaw's alleged smearing of a sexual assault victim … Ten veterans service organizations are calling on Congress to investigate whether Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) tried to discredit a woman who said she was sexually assaulted in September 2019 …
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Media Matters for America
New York Times:
People Thought Covid-19 Was Relatively Harmless for Younger Adults. They Were Wrong. — New research shows that July may have been the deadliest month for young adults in modern American history. — Dr. Faust is a doctor at Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine.
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Norman Ornstein / Washington Post:
Democrats' House majority is razor-thin. Any glitch could spell disaster. — The biggest surprise in November's elections was the Democrats' loss of seats in the House of Representatives. Indeed, there were two surprises: that the party suffered losses at all, and that there were so many — at least 12.
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