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Will Steakin / ABC News:
Trump told RNC chair he was leaving GOP to create new party, says new book  —  In his new book, Jonathan Karl shares what Trump said before backing down.  —  In an angry conversation on his final day as president, Donald Trump told the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee …
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ABC News:
'I'm done': Trump's post-Jan. 6 threat to GOP comes to light: The Note  —  New reporting from ABC's Jonathan Karl reveals Trump's threat to leave the GOP.  —  There's no questioning the Republican Party's loyalty to former President Trump these days — and a gathering of potential 2024 candidates …
Discussion: Fox News
NBC News:
New NBC poll shows deep partisan differences among social media users  —  WASHINGTON — Our most recent NBC News poll asked respondents about their social media consumption, and the results told a clear story that doesn't require 280 characters.  —  Twitter isn't real life …
Discussion: Political Wire, Breitbart and Townhall
USA Today:
Gloomy landscape for Democrats for midterms as Biden's approval drops to 38%: USA TODAY/Suffolk poll
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
U.S. Covid Deaths Get Even Redder  —  The partisan gap in Covid's death toll has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point.  —  As 2020 wound down, there were good reasons to believe that the death toll during the pandemic's first year might have been worse in red America.
Discussion: Raw Story
Pano Kanelos / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
We Can't Wait for Universities to Fix Themselves.  So We're Starting a New One.  —  I left my post as president of St. John's College in Annapolis to build a university in Austin dedicated to the fearless pursuit of truth.  —  So much is broken in America.  But higher education might be the most fractured institution of all.
Christian Vanderbrouk / The Bulwark:
Notes on an Authoritarian Conspiracy: Inside the Claremont Institute's “79 Days to Inauguration” Report  —  The sun rises on January 6, 2021 while a nation is in crisis.  —  Michigan's presidential electors are in dispute after a mysterious fire in Detroit destroyed thousands of mail-in ballots …
Discussion: Raw Story, Bulwark+ and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Countries' climate pledges built on flawed data, Post investigation finds  —  Malaysia's latest catalogue of its greenhouse gas emissions to the United Nations reads like a report from a parallel universe.  The 285-page document suggests that Malaysia's trees are absorbing carbon four times faster …
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Maxine Joselow / Washington Post:   It's crunch time for COP26 negotiators as Obama weighs in
Kyle Rittenhouse / Associated Press:
Satellite images show China built mock-ups of US warships  —  BEIJING (AP) — Satellite images show China has built mock-ups of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and destroyer in its northwestern desert, possibly for practice for a future naval clash as tensions rise between the nations.
Discussion: New York Post and MyNorthwest.com
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Yew Lun Tian / Reuters:
China builds mockups of U.S. Navy ships in area used for missile target practice
Discussion: Bloomberg and USNI News
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Republican wave builds to take back the House  —  Republicans could hardly be better poised to recapture the House majority.  —  Increasingly aggressive redistricting, a diverse slate of candidates raking in record-breaking amounts of cash and a political atmosphere that just keeps getting …
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JONATHAN TURLEY:
Six Degrees From Brookings: How a Liberal Think Tank Keeps Coming Up in the Russian Collusion Investigation  —  The latest indictment by Special Counsel John Durham has created a stir in Washington as the investigation into the Russian collusion scandal exposed new connections to the Clinton campaign.
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Aaron Maté / Aaron Mate:   Russiagate has no rock bottom
Barry Meier / New York Magazine:
The Crippling Blow for the Steele Dossier A key source for the purported dirt has been exposed, with damning fallout for his handler.
Robert Frank / CNBC:
Elon Musk faces a $15 billion tax bill, which is likely the real reason he's selling stock  — Elon Musk faces a tax bill of more than $15 billion in the coming months on stock options.  — Musk asked his 62.7 million Twitter followers over the weekend whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla holdings.
John Wagner / Washington Post:
NRSC chair Rick Scott declines to say if Trump-backed Senate hopeful accused of strangling wife is right candidate for the job  —  Sen. Rick Scott, who heads the group that works to elect Senate Republicans, declined Monday to say whether Sean Parnell, a GOP hopeful in Pennsylvania …
Discussion: The Hill and Crooks and Liars
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell spent decades chasing power.  Now he heeds Trump, who mocks him and wants him gone.  —  How one of Washington's longtime Republican power players succumbed to the preeminence of the 45th president  —  As President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 …
Discussion: The Guardian and Raw Story
Rachel Bovard / The Federalist:
How 31 Republicans Just Betrayed The Country To Reward Illegal Immigration, Worsen Inflation, And Pay Off Democrats' Donors  —  A vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill is a vote for Biden's reconciliation legislation — the largest cradle-to-grave expansion of federal power since the New Deal.
Discussion: National Review
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Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Trump bashes Senate Republicans, McConnell over infrastructure bill
Discussion: Mediaite, Insider and Political Wire
Brad Wilmouth / Newsbusters:
MSNBC Regular: ‘Sick of White Men’ Like Carville, ‘Shut the F Up’  —  Text to Speech  —  On Saturday morning's The Cross Connection, MSNBC viewers got a triple helping of racist comments as frequent guests Roland Martin and Elie Mystal took aim at whites.  After Mystal claimed in the show's …
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Meet the anti-Fauci: Florida's sane surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo  —  America has had 20 long months with Dr. Anthony Fauci as the spokesman for the government's COVID response, poorly explaining to us both the pandemic and the concurrent illogical restrictions.  —  Perhaps it's time for some new voices.
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
First look: Bullish Republicans launch 2022 ad, midterm strategy  —  The National Republican Congressional Committee will run a one-day, nation-wide ad campaign today — one year out from the 2022 midterm elections, targeting Democrats over rising prices, crime and the border.
Discussion: The Hill, NRCC and Townhall
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sen. Josh Hawley defends speech on porn and video games  —  Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told “Axios on HBO” he'll make masculinity a signature political issue, because he claims “the left” is telling men: “You're part of the problem. ...  Your masculinity is inherently problematic.”
Discussion: Mediaite
Washington Post:
Biden's border woes expose White House divisions as centrists assert more control  —  Illegal border crossings and coronavirus cases were both rising this summer when a group of Biden administration officials developed a plan to vaccinate migrants in U.S. custody, viewing the shots as a sensible public health measure.
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Study: Diversity Statements Required for One-Fifth of Academic Jobs  —  Requirements as common in STEM as in social science  —  Nearly a fifth of university jobs require diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) statements that press applicants to express and expound upon their commitment to diversity …
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
GOP lobbyists say corporate America is coming back into the tent  —  Republican lawmakers appear more likely to take back Congress in 2022.  And corporate America is taking notice.  —  A host of Republican lobbyists say that Tuesday's elections in Virginia and New Jersey have ignited interest …
Discussion: Townhall and Raw Story
New York Times:
Why Republicans Won in a New York County Where Democrats Outnumber Them  —  Voters readily ousted Democrats in Nassau County on Long Island, electing Republicans down the ballot.  —  It wasn't the high taxes in Nassau County, or the recent changes to New York's bail laws that drove Lizette Sonsini …
New York Times:
A Way Forward for Biden and the Democrats in 2022 and 2024  —  Mr. Penn is a former adviser and pollster to President Clinton and Hillary Clinton.  Mr. Stein is a former president of the New York City Council.  —  Swing voters in two blue-leaning states just sent a resounding wake-up call …
Discussion: Washington Post
CNN:
CIA Director had rare conversation with Putin while in Moscow last week  —  (CNN)CIA Director Bill Burns held a rare conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last week, to convey “serious” US concerns about Russia's military buildup along the Ukrainian border and to attempt …
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump will ‘probably’ announce 2024 plans after midterms: ‘A lot of people will be very happy’
Discussion: The Hill, Mediaite and New York Post
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump looks like he'll run to reclaim the presidency in 2024
Molly Osberg / New Republic:
More Than 30,000 Health Care Workers Are on the Verge of Striking
Washington Examiner:
Biden's Afghan war crime gets the whitewash treatment
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Democrats must fight and win on the economy
New York Times:
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 Earlier Items: 
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Winter Heating Bills Loom as the Next Inflation Threat
Lisa O'Carroll / The Guardian:
Northern Ireland health minister to sue Van Morrison over Covid remarks
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Ted Cruz Talks About Joe Rogan Being ‘President’ Of Texas If State Secedes From U.S.
Discussion: Mediaite
Monique Beals / The Hill:
CORRECTED: Guardian op-ed says Trump is likely 'Biden's best hope for re-election'
Discussion: Mediaite and The Guardian
Vinay Prasad / Brownstone Institute:
For Whom Do the Covid “Fact Checkers” Really Work?
Discussion: Cafe Hayek and National Review
Mike Florio / ProFootballTalk:
Terry Bradshaw unloads on Aaron Rodgers: “You lied to everyone”
Discussion: New York Post and The Wrap