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9:40 PM ET, December 19, 2020

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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Officials increasingly alarmed about Trump's power grab  —  Senior Trump administration officials are increasingly alarmed that President Trump might unleash — and abuse — the power of government in an effort to overturn the clear result of the election.  —  Why it matters …
Discussion: Task & Purpose, Slate, Forbes and Mediaite
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New York Times:
Trump Discussed Naming Campaign Lawyer as Special Counsel on Election Fraud  —  In a meeting at the White House on Friday, the president weighed appointing Sidney Powell, who promoted conspiracy theories about rigged voting machines, to probe voter fraud.  —  President Trump on Friday …
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump campaign told to preserve all documents related to Sidney Powell and Dominion Voting Systems  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's campaign legal team sent a memo to dozens of staffers Saturday instructing them to preserve all documents related to Dominion Voting Systems and Sidney Powell …
CNN:
Heated Oval Office meeting included talk of special counsel, martial law as Trump advisers clash  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump convened a heated meeting in the Oval Office on Friday, including lawyer Sidney Powell and her client, former national security adviser Michael Flynn …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Giuliani asks DHS about seizing voting machines  —  Rudy Giuliani called Ken Cuccinelli, second in command at the Department of Homeland Security, on Thursday night and asked him whether DHS could seize voting machines, a source familiar with the call confirmed to Axios.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Floats Coup Plan That's So Wild Even Rudy Giuliani Is Terrified  —  At the White House on Friday, President Trump held what may have been his most deranged meeting yet.  In it, the president raged at his loyalists for betraying him, and discussed taking extra-legal measures to overturn the election.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Yasmeen Abutaleb / Washington Post:
The inside story of how Trump's denial, mismanagement and magical thinking led to the pandemic's dark winter  —  National reporter focusing on health policy  —  Reporter covering the White House White House Bureau Chief  —  As the number of coronavirus cases ticked upward in mid-November …
Discussion: Mediaite and Boing Boing
Ana Lucia Murillo / The Daily Beast:
White House Blocks a Statement Acknowledging Russia's Role in Cyberattack  —  PATHETIC  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday night that Russia was “pretty clearly” behind a huge cyberattack on U.S. agencies that compromised sensitive information.
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Vanessa Romo / NPR:
U.S. State Department Closing Two Consulates In Russia
Steve Kenny / New York Times:
Pompeo Says Russia Was Behind Cyberattack on U.S.
Wall Street Journal:
Defense Officials Push Proposal to Separate NSA, Cyber Command  —  Proposal to split control of the two agencies before end of Trump administration faces resistance from lawmakers  —  WASHINGTON—Some senior Defense Department officials are pressing to formally separate the leadership …
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Christopher Bing / Reuters:
Congress, experts worry about potential spy agency reorganization amid hack response
Discussion: Associated Press
Reuters:   ‘Powerful tradecraft’: how foreign cyber-spies compromised America
Frank Pallotta / CNN:
Jim Carrey will no longer play Joe Biden on ‘SNL’  —  New York (CNN Business)Jim Carrey's short stint as Joe Biden has come to an end.  —  Carrey will no longer play the president-elect on “Saturday Night Live,” the comedian announced on Twitter Saturday.  —  “Though my term was only meant …
Washington Post:
Lawmakers hit major roadblock over GOP plan to limit Federal Reserve, imperiling weekend deal for emergency relief package  —  Both Democrats and Republicans say an issue over the Federal Reserve's authority remains a significant hurdle.  —  Senior congressional lawmakers attempting to complete …
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CNN:
Tucker Carlson's vaccine rant should be called out by every reputable news organization  —  Joe Lockhart is a CNN political analyst.  He was the White House press secretary from 1998-2000 in President Bill Clinton's administration.  He co-hosts the podcast “Words Matter.”
Discussion: The Guardian
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Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
Rupert Murdoch Gets COVID-19 Shot While Profiting Off Vaccine Misinformation
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Lou Dobbs debunks his own claims of election fraud — after a legal demand from Smartmatic  —  A fact-check segment that aired on his Fox Business show Friday will be rebroadcast on two other Fox programs this weekend  —  Something surprising happened Friday night on Lou Dobbs's top-rated show on the Fox Business Network.
Ashok Selvam / Eater Chicago:
Stephanie Izard Apologizes For a Poorly Received Representation of a Korean Dish  —  A photo posted Thursday using Izard's social media handle showed a “bibimbap” without any cultural context, igniting a conversation on cultural appropriation  —  A fellow Chicago chef is once again accusing …
Ron Lieber / New York Times:
An Oral History of the World's Biggest Coupon  —  Bed Bath & Beyond's plus-size mailer, known as Big Blue, has made it to TV, eBay, even a mobster's kitchen drawer.  “The poor mailmen,” the company's former marketing V.P. said, “what we did to them.”  —  The F.B.I. found one in the junk drawer …
New York Times:
U.K. Imposes Harsher Lockdown on London, Citing New Version of Virus  —  Scientists in Britain say the new variant is spreading faster than previous ones, but does not appear to make people sicker.  —  LONDON — Alarmed by a what he called a faster-spreading variant of the coronavirus …
Discussion: Bloomberg, CNN, Slate and TheGrio
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Scoop: Lance Bottoms rejected Biden's SBA offer  —  Joe Biden implored Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to accept a job heading the Small Business Administration earlier this week, a lesser position she rejected after he characterized it as “only the first step” for her during his presidency …
Brittny Mejia / Los Angeles Times:
They risk their lives cleaning hospitals.  Now, they are getting vaccinated.  ‘I want people to know that we exist’  —  Maria Saravia changes in and out of protective gear 24 times a day — once for each patient room she enters on the COVID-19 floor at Keck Hospital of USC.
Brian Bakst / MPR News:
Minn. Sen. Jerry Relph dies of COVID-19 complications  —  Brian Bakst and Kirsti MarohnSt.  —  Jerry Relph, a first-term state senator from St. Cloud, died Friday of complications of COVID-19, his family and the Senate majority leader confirmed.  —  “Jerry dedicated his life to service …
 
 
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Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Lebanese Officials Try to Limit Inquiry Into Deadly Beirut Blast
John Nichols / The Nation:
Georgia Senators Loeffler and Perdue Are Campaigning Against Democracy
Discussion: NBC News
New York Times:
Once a Slogan of Unity, ‘Je Suis Charlie’ Now Divides France
Associated Press:
General sorry for ‘miscommunication’ over vaccine shipments
Discussion: Axios and Associated Press
 Earlier Items: 
Auguste Meyrat / The American Mind:
Keep Texas Red
Bill Zeiser / RealClearPolicy:
Either the US Leads on Crypto, or China Will
David W. Brown / Wall Street Journal:
For NASA, It Should Be Mars or Bust
Frank Bajak / Associated Press:
Hacked networks will need to be burned ‘down to the ground’
Discussion: abc7NY, Vox and Reuters
Molly Jong-Fast / Vogue:
No, This Pandemic Is Not Over. Please Don't Act Like It Is.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Ann Telnaes / Washington Post:
All the Republican rats … - Tom Toles recently retired.  See his archive of editorial cartoons.
John S Gardner / The Guardian:
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Bloomberg:
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