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4:15 PM 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 …
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Undercutting Trump, Barr says there's no basis for seizing voting machines, using special counsels for election fraud, Hunter Biden  —  Outgoing Attorney General William P. Barr said Monday he saw no basis for the federal government seizing voting machines and that he did not intend to appoint …
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Barr Sees ‘No Reason’ for Special Counsels for Hunter Biden or the Election
Newsmax:
Facts About Dominion, Smartmatic You Should Know  —  Since election day, various guests, attorneys and elected officials have appeared on Newsmax TV and offered opinions and claims about Smartmatic and Dominion Systems, both companies that offer voting software in the U.S.
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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 …
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Engaging With Trump's Die-Hard Supporters Isn't Productive  —  President-elect Joe Biden made national unity a centerpiece of his campaign, and no patriotic American who wants to repair the damage of the Donald Trump years can argue with such a noble call.  The election is over …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The GOP whitewashing of the Trump stain has quietly begun  —  Listen closely, and you can already discern how leading Republicans will attempt to expunge the massive black stain of Trumpism from their party.  —  Prepare for a set of rhetorical tricks.  Republicans will portray President …
Emily Czachor / Newsweek:
Trump Shares Video Suggesting COVID Pandemic Created to Make Him Look Bad, Lose Election
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Trump Sets ‘Beautiful’ as the New Standard for Federal Buildings  — Executive action makes classical style default in Washington  — Order stops short of fully banning modernist architecture  —  President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday making classical architecture …
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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 …
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Robert E. Lee statue removed from US Capitol
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Steve Phillips / The Nation:
Centrist Dems Are Wrong About November's Losses  —  It wasn't because voters were turned off by leftist sloganeering but because Dems failed to inspire their own base—and the data prove it.  —  Too many congressional Democrats are making a potentially fatal political miscalculation …
Discussion: WBUR
Washington Post:
Trump administration weighing legal immunity for Saudi crown prince accused in assassination plot  —  The U.S. government is weighing a request to declare Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman immune from a federal lawsuit accusing him of targeting for assassination a former top intelligence officer …
Discussion: The Intellectualist
Zach Everson / 1100 Pennsylvania:
Hundreds partied at Mar-a-Lago with Turning Point  —  President profited as sold out, $2,000/person reception and dinner flouting COVID guidance  —  Turning Point USA held a sold-out $2,000/person gala at Mar-a-Lago on Friday night.  Based on photos posted to Instagram …
New York Times:
Where Immigrant Neighborhoods Swung Right in the Election  —  Across the United States, many areas with large populations of Latinos and residents of Asian descent, including ones with the highest numbers of immigrants, had something in common this election: a surge in turnout and a shift to the right, often a sizable one.
Discussion: Mother Jones
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 …
Tyler Van Dyke / Washington Examiner:
White House testing chief: COVID-19 vaccines effective 'against any variant that we've seen'  —  White House coronavirus testing chief Adm. Brett Giroir said the coronavirus vaccines rolling out in the United States are effective against “any variant we've seen,” including …
Discussion: The Daily Caller, CNN and Scotsman
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Laura Kelly / The Hill:
Barr says Russia appears to be behind massive hack  —  Attorney General William Barr on Monday said that Russia is likely behind the unprecedented hack into multiple federal agencies and thousands of private entities, becoming the second senior administration official to place the blame …
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Wall Street Journal:
Barr Points Finger at Russia for SolarWinds Hack
Kai Kupferschmidt / Science:
Mutant coronavirus in the United Kingdom sets off alarms, but its importance remains unclear  —  Science's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.  —  On 8 December, during a regular Tuesday meeting about the spread of the pandemic coronavirus …
Thomas Franck / CNBC:
Americans will get stimulus checks as soon as next week, Mnuchin says  — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Americans could see stimulus checks hit their bank accounts in a matter of days.  — Mnuchin's comments came hours before Congress is expected to pass a new, $900 billion Covid-19 relief bill.
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Tovah Lazaroff / Jerusalem Post:
US Embassy courtyard named in Jared Kushner's honor  —  Kushner, along with a visiting US delegation stopped in the embassy in the afternoon for a small ceremony with US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman.  —  The courtyard of the US Embassy in Jerusalem was named Monday in honor …
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Appeals court rejects Georgia absentee ballot signature lawsuit  —  The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a Republican Party effort to reject more absentee ballots in Georgia's U.S. Senate runoffs by changing how election officials check absentee ballot signatures.
Vivian Jones / Washington Examiner:
Lee limits public gatherings to 10; health official says Christmas surge could ‘break’ hospitals  —  Gov. Bill Lee has signed an executive order that limits indoor public gatherings in Tennessee to 10 or fewer people effective at 11:59 p.m. Sunday until Jan. 19.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Republicans desperate to avoid floor fight over Electoral College vote  —  National Republicans are desperate to avoid a floor fight in Congress over the certification of the Electoral College vote next month, believing it would be horrible politics to continue waging what most recognize …
LD Wilder / Wilder Visions:
The Rule of Law & Due Process in Virginia  —  Why would a former Governor not afford the current Lt. Governor the time-honored jurisprudistic tenet of innocence until PROVEN guilty?  —  Terry McAuliffe endlessly touts as his main accomplishment the restoration of voting rights.
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 …
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Corporate America would like the vaccine now  —  The debate about which workers should get the Covid-19 vaccine next, explained.  —  SHARE All sharing options  —  Uber has spent years and millions of dollars making sure its workers aren't classified as such and insisting it's not responsible for those people's health care.
Discussion: Washington Post
Allison P. Davis / The Cut:
Living With Karens A white woman calls the police on her Black neighbors.  Six months later, they still share a property line.  —  When it came time to relocate from near D.C. to the New York tristate area, Fareed Hayat thought, I'm certainly going to Brooklyn.  It was the summer of 2017.
 
 
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Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
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Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
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