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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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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 …
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
The Immense Stakes of the Biden COVID Response — Like Barack Obama before him, Joe Biden will inherit the presidency at a moment of national crisis, after the country has been failed once again by right-wing contempt for empiricism and federal regulatory power.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kelly Loeffler's latest nonsense exposes the worst of GOP nihilism
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell gives away the game: ‘Kelly and David are getting hammered’
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Congress faces ‘fork in the road’ on stimulus
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Politico:
GOP launches legal war on absentee voting ahead of Georgia runoffs
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
What you need to know about the Georgia Senate runoff elections
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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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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.
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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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.
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” …
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Zach Montague / New York Times:
Biden Transition Live Updates: $900 Billion Stimulus Compromise Appears Within Reach
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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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Marc Caputo / Politico:
'It's nonstop': Georgia Senate battles rage far from Atlanta
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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 …
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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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 …
Justine Coleman / The Hill:
Trump cuts $200M in health care funds to California over abortions — President Trump's administration announced on Wednesday an upcoming cut of $200 million in federal Medicaid funding to California over the state's requirement for abortions to be covered under health care plans.
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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’
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Lisa Bonos / Washington Post:
Pete Buttigieg is right. Airports are romantic. — In accepting his pending appointment to be the next U.S. transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg spoke about how travel, in his mind, “is synonymous with growth, with adventure — even love.” Then he went for a laugh line, adding …
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
75K new Georgia voters registered before US Senate runoffs — Nearly 75,000 new voters registered in Georgia since before the presidential election, enough to make a difference in the U.S. Senate runoffs if they turn out. — The number of new voters was revealed in an updated voter …
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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.
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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Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
This hedge-fund billionaire is a huge fan of Sen. Kelly Loeffler — but why? — Finance mogul Ken Griffin gave big chunks of cash to Kelly Loeffler's PAC — and the timing is intriguing — On Oct. 9, billionaire Ken Griffin, the head of a multinational financial services company …
Bloomberg:
Amazon Has Turned a Middle-Class Warehouse Career Into a McJob — Amazon.com Inc. job ads are everywhere. Plastered on city buses, displayed on career web sites, slotted between songs on classic rock stations. They promise a quick start, $15 an hour and health insurance.
Sam Mellins / The Appeal:
The Election That Could Thwart New York City's War On Drugs — The office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor is on the chopping block in Manhattan's 2021 DA race. — This article is published as part of a partnership between New York Focus and The Appeal: Political Report to cover Manhattan's 2021 elections.
Suzanne Hirt / USA Today:
Florida blames mothers when men batter them - then takes away their children — Her memory of the midnight attack was muddled, but her battered body bore the story. — Purple bruises peppered her arms, legs and chest. Blood dried on her busted lip. Dark, swollen skin circled her bloodshot right eye.
Mackenzie Mays / Politico:
California teachers unions mobilize against Democratic school reopening bill — SACRAMENTO — California teachers unions are demanding that the Legislature maintain pandemic restrictions on school reopenings and have begun mobilizing against a Democratic bill introduced last week that could force schools to reopen in March.
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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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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 …
Samantha Melamed / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Police shot a Philly man, then accused him of rape. He was exonerated after 19 years. — It was before dawn on Nov. 27, 2001, and Termaine Joseph Hicks was at the wrong place at precisely the wrong time. — A woman had been pistol-whipped, dragged into an alleyway behind …
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Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Trump states shut out COVID headlines as virus rages — States that voted for President Trump tend to have high coronavirus caseloads compared to how much COVID content they read online, while the opposite is true of states that voted for President-elect Biden, according to exclusive data …
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