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9:25 AM ET, December 28, 2020

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New York Post:
The Post says: Give it up, Mr. President — for your sake and the nation's  —  Mr. President, it's time to end this dark charade.  —  We're one week away from an enormously important moment for the next four years of our country.  —  On Jan. 5, two runoff races in Georgia will determine …
Washington Post:
Trump signs stimulus and government spending bill into law, averting shutdown  —  The president had demanded changes to the stimulus bill but on Sunday moved to release the stimulus funds after all  —  President Trump unexpectedly capitulated Sunday night and signed the stimulus bill into law …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
GOP officials invoked Trump's legacy in pleas to sign coronavirus relief bill  —  Getting a cranky, stubborn President Trump to belatedly sign the COVID relief bill, after unemployment benefits had already lapsed, was like being a hostage negotiator, or defusing a bomb.
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Trump Signs Pandemic Relief Bill After Unemployment Aid Lapses  —  After calling the measure a “disgrace,” President Trump abruptly signed it, extending expanded unemployment benefits and an eviction moratorium, and averting a government shutdown.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump …
Wall Street Journal:
What's in the $900 Billion Covid-19 Relief Bill
Discussion: NBC News and The US Sun
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on Trump Signing Bipartisan Coronavirus Relief and Omnibus Funding Bill  —  Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the President signed the bipartisan coronavirus relief and omnibus funding bill:  —  “The signing of the bipartisan …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump got nothing  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THAT'S IT?  President DONALD TRUMP made all this noise about the Covid relief and government funding bill only to sign it and get nothing in return?  —  TRUMP got taken to the cleaners.  —  WHAT A BIZARRE, embarrassing episode for the president.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Political Reckoning  —  The year 2020 brought extraordinary and unexpected challenges that tested the strength of basic institutions, demanded courage and sacrifice in the face of a raging pandemic, underscored racial and economic inequities, and produced the biggest turnout of voters in the history of U.S. elections.
Dom Calicchio / Fox News:
Trump accuses McConnell, others in GOP of failing to fight for him
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Heather Cox Richardson Offers a Break From the Media Maelstrom.  It's Working.  —  She is the breakout star of the newsletter platform Substack, doing the opposite of most media as she calmly situates the news of the day in the long sweep of American history.
Washington Post:
Authorities identify Anthony Warner as Nashville bomber, say his remains were found in the wreckage  —  Neighbors describe Warner as a “recluse” with an interest in home security.  —  Anthony Quinn Warner was responsible for the Christmas morning explosion that rocked downtown Nashville …
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Wall Street Journal:
Nashville Bombing Suspect Died in Explosion, Police Say
Discussion: The Guardian
Politico:
Meet the GOP freshmen taking on the squad  —  On the first day of Congress' freshman orientation, four incoming GOP members realized they shared a special connection: All had first- or second-hand experience living in communist or socialist countries.  —  The crew quipped that their family histories …
Lawrence Wright / New Yorker:
The Plague Year  —  The mistakes and the struggles behind America's coronavirus tragedy.  —  1. “An Evolving Situation”  —  There are three moments in the yearlong catastrophe of the covid-19 pandemic when events might have turned out differently.  The first occurred on January 3, 2020 …
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Alec Baldwin's wife became Hollywood's Rachel Dolezal because of our sniveling, bootlicking press  —  The fading celebrity trophy life ranks as one of the easiest jobs of modern life: refresh your fillers enough that the Daily Mail can never describe you as “tired-looking” …
Discussion: Mediaite, Althouse and The Daily Beast
Margalit Fox / New York Times:
Reginald Foster, Vatican Latinist Who Tweeted in the Language, Dies at 81  —  One of the world's foremost experts on Latin, Father Foster was a monk who looked like a stevedore, dressed like a janitor and swore like a sailor.  —  Reginald Foster, a former plumber's apprentice from Wisconsin who …
Mark Judge / The Stream:
‘They Were Relentless’: How I Learned Respect for Our Communist Media  —  Some of the best advice for dealing with the media can be found in He Leadeth Me, a 1973 book by American Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek.  Father Ciszek was captured by the Russian army during World War II.
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
5 Big Things We Learned About Our Elites In 2020  —  It's been a hard year but at least we know, beyond all doubt, that our elites despise us and will do anything to expand their power.  —  For as difficult as the past year has been, from politics to the pandemic, it has at least helped …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Loser Trump Wants to Drag the Republican Party Down With Him  —  Trump doesn't care who runs the Senate if he's not president.  He cares about screwing McConnell and making clear that Republicans can't win without him.  —  BEAST INSIDE … So Donald Trump signed the relief bill.
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Memo: Left seeks leverage to move Biden  —  The tug-of-war between President-elect Joe Biden and the left wing of the Democratic Party is shifting onto policy grounds now that nominees have been selected for key positions in the new administration.  —  The left knows it will have a tough battle …
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
Trump's legacy: An enduring contempt for truth?  —  PolitiFact, the fact checking site, was in a quandary over its annual “lie of the year” award; there were so many choices.  —  Instead of the usual one example, the award was given to the package of lies about the novel Coronavirus …
 
 
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ABC News:
Congresswoman-elect Cori Bush reflects on her Black Lives Matter roots and why she ran for Congress
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
How cancel culture keeps COVID-19 lockdown-doubters silent
Vivian Nereim / Bloomberg:
Saudi Women's Rights Activist Convicted But Could Be Freed Soon
Shi-Ling Hsu / Slate:
Republicans Propping Up the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Borderline Socialist
E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
What 2020 might teach us
Adam Gopnik / New Yorker:
What We Get Wrong About America's Crisis of Democracy
Iris Ouyang / South China Morning Post:
China orders Ant to rein in expansion, regulators put up fences around financial risks
Discussion: CNN, Axios and The Week, more at Techmeme »
 Earlier Items: 
Bill Schneider / The Hill:
How the American system failed in 2020: Pandemic politics
Scott Gottlieb / Wall Street Journal:
Turning the Corner on Covid
The Times of Israel:
Israel said planning to advance settlement building before Biden enters office
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Waiting for Joe Biden: How to make it through the final, awful days of Donald Trump
New York Times:
1 of every 17 people in the U.S. has been infected, and 1 in 1,000 has died. Yet the worst may lie ahead.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Axios
Kerry Picket / Washington Examiner:
Colleagues are happy to see Steve King go but ousted lawmaker says he's not bitter
Meghan Cox Gurdon / Wall Street Journal:
Even Homer Gets Mobbed
JPMorgan Chase & Co.:
Household Cash Balances during COVID-19: A Distributional Perspective
Discussion: Bloomberg and Marginal REVOLUTION
 

 
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Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
Some TikTok staff and users see Trump as a possible savior from the ban; others question whether Trump even cares about the app now that the campaign is over

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Block reports Q3 revenue up 6% YoY to $5.98B, vs. $6.24B est., gross profit up 19% YoY to $2.25B, Cash App gross profit up 21% to $1.31B, and a $284M net income

Financial Times:
Sources: TSMC told Chinese customers it would no longer manufacture AI chips at advanced process nodes of 7nm or smaller as of this coming Monday

 
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