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3:45 PM ET, December 17, 2020

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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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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” …
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.
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
Discussion: The Hill
Politico:
GOP launches legal war on absentee voting ahead of Georgia runoffs
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
75K new Georgia voters registered before US Senate runoffs
Discussion: TheBlaze, The Week and Fox News
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  —  Our country confronts two of its most monumental crises of the modern era.  More than 3,300 Americans died of the coronavirus on Wednesday alone.  The latest weekly jobless claims are a shocker, totaling nearly 900,000.
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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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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Washington Post:
Federal investigators find evidence of previously unknown tactics used to penetrate government networks
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Bulwark+ and R Street
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Jean Guerrero / Jezebel:
No Country for Brown Sinners
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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 …
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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Washington Post:
Congressional leaders try to clear final hurdles in sprint to finish coronavirus relief package
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 …
Discussion: CNN
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 …
Discussion: TheBlaze and The Gateway Pundit
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Jordan Davidson / The Federalist:
New Strzok Texts Show FBI Was Investigating Trump Before Crossfire Hurricane Was Opened
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 …
Discussion: Fox News, CISA and The Sun
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.
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.
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
Pardon Everyone  —  Power is wasted if you don't use it, especially when exercising your power will protect your friends and hamstring your enemies.  The Democrats get that.  The last four years have demonstrated that they get how to use power via their obnoxious and evil witch hunts targeting …
Andrew Mark Miller / Washington Examiner:
Rhode Island governor joins list of prominent Democrats under fire for violating own coronavirus recommendation  —  Rhode Island Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo is being criticized after she was spotted in public dining without a mask after she warned residents that they should stay at home and avoid nonessential activities.
Discussion: WLNE-TV, The Daily Caller and TheBlaze
Jacob Silverman / New Republic:
The New Language of Forever War-Making  —  “History, unfortunately, is a forever war,” according to Clifford D. May and Bradley Bowman, who seem never to have encountered a war they don't like.  This faux profundity comes midway through an essay in a collection published earlier this week …
Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost:
Chicago's Top Prosecutor Blasts Mayor Over Suit To Block Bodycam Video Of Botched Raid  —  Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx spoke against the city trying to conceal footage of police raiding the wrong home and handcuffing a naked Black woman.  —  Chicago's chief prosecutor, Kim Foxx …
Mother Jones:
A Top Trump Fundraiser Asked the FBI for Help.  Big Mistake.  —  Elliott Broidy hoped the feds would investigate a hack of his email.  But they had other ideas.  —  Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.
Discussion: Bulwark+
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.
 
 
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Nick Reynolds / Casper Star-Tribune:
Wyoming lawmaker apologizes for tweet about Wyoming's first Black sheriff
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
The Hill:
McConnell getting much of what he wants in emerging relief deal
Discussion: HotAir
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Sacklers apologize for harm caused by OxyContin, deny personal responsibility
Discussion: Politico and UPI
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Nearly 40 states sue Google over search manipulation, marking the third antitrust salvo against the tech giant
Mica Soellner / Washington Examiner:
‘It looks like a war zone:’ Minneapolis developers shy away from city projects after unrest and calls to ‘defund the police’
Discussion: HotAir
Mackenzie Mays / Politico:
California teachers unions mobilize against Democratic school reopening bill
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Sam Mellins / The Appeal:
The Election That Could Thwart New York City's War On Drugs
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Samantha Melamed / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Police shot a Philly man, then accused him of rape. He was exonerated after 19 years.
Discussion: The Hill
Justine van der Leun / New Republic:
“No Choice but to Do It”: Why Women Go to Prison
Christopher Bedford / The Federalist:
This Series Of Fact-Checks On America's Mission To Defeat COVID Exposes Media Hatred
Discussion: HotAir and Twitchy
Michelle Ruiz / Vogue:
How Savannah Guthrie and Kristen Welker Won the 2020 Election Coverage
Discussion: Newsbusters
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Trump states shut out COVID headlines as virus rages