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10:30 AM ET, December 21, 2020

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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 …
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 …
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: CNN, NPR, Axios, Forbes and IJR
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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 …
Discussion: Fox News and Washington Examiner
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Robert E. Lee statue removed from US Capitol
Discussion: Blue Virginia
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
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Donald J. Trump for President:
Trump Campaign taking Constitutional fight to Supreme Court
Discussion: UPI and Just The News
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Shirley Abrahamson, longest-serving member of Wisconsin Supreme Court, dies at 87
Discussion: Wisconsin Right Now
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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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Already Wondering What Airport Will Bear His Name  —  The president has been asking aides and advisers what the process is for getting an airport named after him—another sign his mind is drifting to a post-presidency.  —  In the dying days of his presidency, Donald Trump has taken …
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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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 …
Donald Trump Jr / Fox News:
Vote Loeffler and Perdue - Georgia, here's what's at stake in Jan. 5 runoff elections  —  The fate of our country is in your hands, Georgia.  —  Georgia voters ‘will do the right thing’ and reelect Loeffler, Perdue to Senate: Rep.-elect Owens  —  The fate of our country is in your hands, Georgia.
Discussion: USA Today
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Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Adds New Members to His White House Economic Team  —  President-elect hires David Kamin, a former Obama administration budget official, and Bharat Ramamurti, a longtime aide to Sen. Elizabeth Warren  —  WASHINGTON—President-elect Joe Biden is rounding out his economic team …
Discussion: Bloomberg and The Daily Caller
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
Fuzzy Slippers / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Tables Turned: Restaurants Organize To Ban Gov. Cuomo From ‘all New York City establishments’  —  “He can dine at Gracie Mansion if he wants hospitality in Manhattan.  He ain't getting it here!”  —  It probably goes without saying at this point that Democrat governors have overreached in their response to the Wuhan coronavirus.
Discussion: New York Post and RedState
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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
Politico:
Inside Trump's pressure campaign to overturn the election  —  It started with a phone call.  —  In mid-November, President Donald Trump rang Monica Palmer, the Republican chair of an obscure board in Michigan that had just declared Joe Biden winner of the state's most populous county.
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.
Robert Knight / Washington Times:
Ruling elites continue cultural cleansing rampage and not even Honest Abe is safe  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  It may be Christmastime, but our ruling elites are keeping up their campaign of cultural cleansing.  —  Not even Honest Abe is safe.  —  In San Francisco, a committee tasked to rid …
 
 
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The ‘Caliphate’ retraction won't end the New York Times's woes
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
N.Y.C. Judges File Age Discrimination Lawsuits
Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
She Called Police Over a Neo-Nazi Threat. But the Neo-Nazis Were Inside the Police.
Zach Dorfman / Foreign Policy:
China Used Stolen Data to Expose CIA Operatives in Africa and Europe
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The Trade: Meet the New Red Dog Democrats
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Progressives look for reset after disappointing year
Katie Bo Williams / Defense One:
Personality, Not Policy, Will Determine Top House Armed Services Republican
Discussion: National Review
Nandita Bose / Reuters:
Big Tech's stealth push to influence the Biden administration
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
More than 1.3 million Georgians have already voted in the Senate runoffs, rivaling general election turnout
Discussion: Political IQ and HotAir
Associated Press:
Trump's legacy: He changed the presidency, but will it last?
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
Juleanna Glover / USA Today:
Don't cut in line for the COVID vaccine. Elites who do will be named and shamed.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and HotAir
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
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