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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: Bloomberg, HotAir and Alternet.org
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 …
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 …
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.
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
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: Axios and Forbes
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Robert E. Lee statue removed from Capitol  —  The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee inside the U.S. Capitol was removed from the building's crypt Monday morning and will be relocated to the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.  —  The removal was conducted by staff from the Architect …
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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Mica Soellner / Washington Examiner:
Trump campaign independently filing with Supreme Court over election results
Michael Lee / Washington Examiner:
NYC restaurants band together to ban Andrew Cuomo from dining in their establishments  —  A group of New York City restaurants has joined together to ban Gov. Andrew Cuomo from dining at their establishments in reaction to his lockdown policies.  —  “He can eat at some sh—
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Fuzzy Slippers / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Tables Turned: Restaurants Organize To Ban Gov. Cuomo From ‘all New York City establishments’
Discussion: New York Post and RedState
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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Denver Post:   What happened to the Colorado Republican Party?
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
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Engaging With Trump's Die-Hard Supporters Isn't Productive  —  The loyalists who still cling to conspiracy theories should be deprived of the attention they seek.  —  Author of The Death of Expertise  —  President-elect Joe Biden made national unity a centerpiece of his campaign …
Lee Brown / New York Post:
Gov. Cuomo: UK's COVID-19 mutation ‘is on a plane to JFK’ without testing  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday called it “reprehensible” and “grossly negligent” to allow UK travelers to fly into JFK Airport without being tested despite a contagious new mutation of the coronavirus shutting down London.
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Reuters:   Canada halts passenger flights from UK for 72 hours due to new virus strain
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
Politico:
Amid a crisis like 'we've never seen,' Biden drives to fill Cabinet  —  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.
Washington Post:
Live updates: Biden to get coronavirus vaccine; Harris, Ivanka Trump to campaign in Georgia for Senate candidates  —  President-elect Joe Biden and future first lady Jill Biden will receive the coronavirus vaccine in public Monday in an effort to show the nation the safety of the vaccine.
Discussion: USA Today, RedState and IJR
Nandita Bose / Reuters:
Big Tech's stealth push to influence the Biden administration  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Silicon Valley is working behind the scenes to secure senior roles for tech allies in lesser-known but still vital parts of president-elect Joe Biden's administration, even as the pushback against Big Tech …
Katie Bo Williams / Defense One:
Personality, Not Policy, Will Determine Top House Armed Services Republican  —  The pick may telegraph whether the GOP intends a cooperative or combative approach to the Biden administration.  —  The race to replace retiring Rep. Mac Thornberry, Texas, as the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, is heating up.
Discussion: National Review
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.
The Citizen Lab:
Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit  —  Summary & Key Findings  — In July and August 2020, government operatives used NSO Group's Pegasus spyware to hack 36 personal phones belonging to journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera.
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Lara Jakes / New York Times:   Trump Incentives for Signing Peace Accords With Israel Could Be at Risk
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The Trade: Meet the New Red Dog Democrats  —  The two parties have traded voters—whether the old political class likes it or not.  —  In 2013 my beloved Denver Nuggets traded Carmelo Anthony to the New York Knicks for Wilson Chandler, Raymond Felton, Danilo Gallinari, Timofey Mozgov …
 
 
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Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
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How Trump drove the lie that the election was stolen, undermining voter trust in the outcome
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How Fake News Is Hatching in Immigrant Communities
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