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9:15 AM ET, December 21, 2020

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Ben Smith / New York Times:
The ‘Red Slime’ Lawsuit That Could Sink Right-Wing Media  —  Voting machine companies threaten “highly dangerous” cases against Fox, Newsmax and OAN, says Floyd Abrams.  —  Antonio Mugica was in Boca Raton when an American presidential election really melted down in 2000 …
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
White House secures ‘three martini lunch’ tax deduction in draft of coronavirus relief package  —  President Trump has long seized on the tax break as a way to revive the restaurant industry.  But economists have panned it as ineffective and largely benefitting the wealthy.
Discussion: Business Insider and Mother Jones
Stephanie Clifford / Elle:
The Journalist and the Pharma Bro  —  Why did Christie Smythe upend her life and stability for Martin Shkreli, one of the least-liked men in the world?  —  Almost every weekday for six years, Christie Smythe took the F train from Park Slope downtown to her desk at Brooklyn's federal court …
bellingcat:
“If it Hadn't Been for the Prompt Work of the Medics”: FSB Officer Inadvertently Confesses Murder Plot to Navalny  — Bellingcat and its partners reported that Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) was implicated in the near-fatal nerve-agent poisoning of Alexey Navalny on 20 August 2020.
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CNN:
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned  —  Watch Clarissa Ward and the latest on the revelations about Navalny's poisoning and its aftermath, on Anderson Cooper 360˚ tonight on CNN at 8 ET.  —  Moscow (CNN)A Russian agent sent …
Discussion: Alternet.org
Erica Newland / New York Times:
'I'm Haunted by What I Did' as a Lawyer in the Trump Justice Department  —  No matter our intentions, lawyers like me were complicit.  We owe the country our honesty about what we saw — and should do in the future.  —  Ms. Newland worked in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department from 2016-18.
Discussion: Alternet.org
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Donald J. Trump for President:
Trump Campaign taking Constitutional fight to Supreme Court  —  President Trump's campaign today issued the following statement:  —  “Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., President Trump's campaign committee, today filed a petition for writ of certiorari to the US.
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Shirley Abrahamson, longest-serving member of Wisconsin Supreme Court, dies at 87
Discussion: Wisconsin Right Now
Mica Soellner / Washington Examiner:
Trump campaign independently filing with Supreme Court over election results
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Congress Strikes Long-Sought Stimulus Deal to Provide $900 Billion in Aid  —  Democrats and Republicans said they had an agreement on another round of pandemic aid, including direct payments to Americans, jobless benefits and funds for businesses and vaccine distribution.
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Washington Post:
Here's what's in the new $900 billion stimulus package  —  Jobless benefits, aid to small businesses, stimulus checks and money for vaccine distribution are in.  New aid for local governments and corporate liability shields are out.  —  Congressional leaders brokered a deal …
Discussion: IJR and BuzzFeed News
Washington Post:
Details emerge on $600 stimulus checks, jobless benefits as Congress rushes to finalize deal
Reuters:
Canada halts passenger flights from UK for 72 hours due to new virus strain  —  TORONTO (Reuters) -Canada is halting passenger flights from the United Kingdom for 72 hours, the health ministry said on Sunday, joining a growing list of countries barring British travelers to prevent the spread of a new coronavirus strain from the country.
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Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
Trump plots martial law from White House — the press shrugs  —  The Normalizing Olympics … In a West Wing meeting that would seem more fitting for a nation with a long history of authoritarian rule, Trump recently met with deranged, conspiracy-peddling advisers and discussed the possibility …
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Washington Post:
Ex-cop hits truck thinking it held 750,000 fraudulent ballots, police say.  It held air conditioning parts.  —  David Lopez-Zuniga, an air-conditioner installer, had just left his mobile home for his typical predawn commute when he noticed an SUV's headlights closely trailing his small cargo truck.
Discussion: Buttermilk Sky
Virginia Governor / Virginia Governor Ralph Northam:
Virginia Removes Confederate Statue from U.S. Capitol  —  Commission recently selected civil rights icon Barbara Johns to represent the Commonwealth with new statue  —  WASHINGTON, D.C.—Governor Ralph Northam today announced that Virginia's statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee …
Discussion: The Hill
Lara Jakes / New York Times:
Trump Incentives for Signing Peace Accords With Israel Could Be at Risk  —  Diplomatic sweeteners for joining the Abraham Accords that were offered to Morocco, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates could be rejected by Congress or reversed by the incoming Biden administration.
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Associated Press:
Birx travels, family visits highlight pandemic safety perils  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — As COVID-19 cases skyrocketed before the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus response, warned Americans to “be vigilant” and limit celebrations to “your immediate household.”
Washington Post:
A frustrated Trump redoubles efforts to overturn election result  —  President Trump has intensified efforts to overturn the election, raising a series of radical measures in recent days, including military intervention, seizing voting machines and a 13th-hour appeal to the Supreme Court.
Politico:
‘An emergency’ like 'we've never seen': Inside Biden's Cabinet confirmation drive  —  It was April of 2009 when then-Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius received a phone call from the Obama White House.  A plane was on its way to bring her to Washington to be sworn in as the Health and Human Services secretary.
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Pollsters disappear in Georgia with Senate on the line  —  Something's missing from Georgia's high-stakes Senate runoffs: the polls.  —  After a disastrous November election for the polling industry, when the polls again underestimated President Donald Trump (who lost regardless) …
Discussion: CNN and NPR
Harry Enten / CNN:
How voters rank Trump a historically bad president  —  (CNN)Poll of the week: A new Fox News poll finds that 42% of voters say history will remember President Donald Trump as one of the worst presidents ever.  —  An additional 8% say he will be remembered as below average …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Most Republicans say President Trump was robbed
 
 
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Washington Post:
More than 1.3 million Georgians have already voted in the Senate runoffs, rivaling general election turnout
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BBC:
Germany and Finland bring home women from Islamic State camps
Dan Diamond / Politico:
‘A shining moment’: Congress agrees to restore Medicaid for Pacific Islanders
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Juleanna Glover / USA Today:
Don't cut in line for the COVID vaccine. Elites who do will be named and shamed.
Discussion: HotAir
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
A Conservative Justice in Wisconsin Says He Followed the Law, Not the Politics
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
How Trump drove the lie that the election was stolen, undermining voter trust in the outcome
E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
How Biden can make us hate each other a little bit less
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How Fake News Is Hatching in Immigrant Communities
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
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