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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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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 …
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: Forbes, Mediaite and Fox News
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.
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 …
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: Insider and Raw Story
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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
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
McConnell says Trump wrote foreword to his memoir. Trump says he didn't
Discussion: The Hill
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.
Discussion: Bloomberg, The Daily Beast and The Wrap
CNN:
US seizes $6 million in ransom payments and expected to charge Ukrainian over major cyberattack  —  Here's everything you need to know about ransomware  —  (CNN)Law enforcement officials have seized an estimated $6 million in ransom payments, and the US Justice Department is expected …
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 …
Discussion: HotAir and Townhall
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
The Democratic Senate majority was already dicey. Then came Virginia.
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump will ‘probably’ announce 2024 plans after midterms: ‘A lot of people will be very happy’  —  Trump to Fox News: 'A lot of great people who are thinking about running are waiting for that decision, because they're not going to run if I run'  —  Trump teases press with 2024 hints
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump looks like he'll run to reclaim the presidency in 2024
Discussion: National Review and New Republic
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
When Keeping It ‘Woke’ Gets Racist, Liberals Should Say So  —  A Republican won Virginia's governorship last week after campaigning on a vow to “ban critical race theory in our schools.”  —  On one level, this was an odd campaign promise.  Properly defined, critical race theory (or CRT) …
Discussion: Washington Post and Mediaite
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.
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 …
Derek T. Muller / Excess of Democracy:
Ranking the most liberal and conservative law firms among the top 140, 2021 edition  —  One of my most popular posts remains “Ranking the most liberal and conservative law firms.”  That post is from 2013, and an update is long overdue.  —  At the outset, “ranking” a firm or calling it …
Natasha Anderson / Daily Mail:
Biden is considering shutting down ANOTHER oil pipeline despite soaring energy prices: Republicans demand Michigan's Line 5 be kept open to avoid a further rise in energy bills this winter  — President Joe Biden's Administration is considering shutting down the Line 5 oil pipeline that links Superior …
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Talmon Joseph Smith / New York Times:
Winter Heating Bills Loom as the Next Inflation Threat
Discussion: NRCC
CNN:
CNN Poll: Majority of Americans say Biden isn't paying attention to nation's most important issues  —  (CNN)One year out from the 2022 midterm elections, 58% of Americans say President Joe Biden hasn't paid enough attention to the nation's most important problems, as a majority disapproves …
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.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Right-wing operatives deploy massive network of fake local news sites to weaponize CRT  —  Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria, and Rebecca Crosby  —  Last Tuesday night, Glenn Youngkin (R) was elected the next governor of Virginia.  At 9:15 PM, Garrit Lansing, president of WinRed …
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.
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 …
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 …
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Fed's Quarles Will Resign at End of Year  —  Randal Quarles's term as vice chairman for bank supervision expired last month  —  Federal Reserve governor Randal Quarles said Monday he would resign his position around the end of this year.  —  Mr. Quarles's resignation will open up another seat …
Washington Post:
Capitol rioter Evan Neumann applies for asylum in Belarus, local media says  —  MOSCOW — A man who allegedly participated in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 and is wanted by the FBI is now seeking asylum in Belarus, the country's state media reported Monday, presenting him as a …
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Study: Diversity Statements Required for One-Fifth of Academic Jobs  —  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, according to a new study from the American Enterprise Institute.
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.
Andrea Widburg / American Thinker:
Joe Biden's bowels again take center stage in Europe  —  The older you get, the harder travel can be on your body.  You tire more easily, your joints hurt and, if you're unlucky, your digestion goes all flipsy-wopsy.  Joe Biden is just a few days away from turning 79, which is a respectable age for anyone …
Discussion: Nicki Swift, BizPac Review and Twitchy
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Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Obama says world ‘nowhere near’ done on climate action
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
 
 
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Imagine if the Virginia governor's election had been held a week later
Sydney Trent / Washington Post:
The school that pioneered polio shots will give kids the covid vaccine, too
Discussion: New York Times
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Six Degrees From Brookings: How a Liberal Think Tank Keeps Coming Up in the Russian Collusion Investigation
Discussion: New York Post
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
First look: Bullish Republicans launch 2022 ad, midterm strategy
Discussion: The Hill, NRCC and Townhall
Tali Arbel / Associated Press:
EXPLAINER: How US rules on international travel are changing
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
GOP lobbyists say corporate America is coming back into the tent
Discussion: The Daily Wire and Raw Story
Molly Osberg / New Republic:
More Than 30,000 Health Care Workers Are on the Verge of Striking
Rachel Bovard / The Federalist:
How 31 Republicans Just Betrayed The Country To Reward Illegal Immigration, Worsen Inflation, And Pay Off Democrats' Donors
Discussion: National Review
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Examiner:
Biden's Afghan war crime gets the whitewash treatment
New York Times:
Bill Clinton Saved His Presidency. Here's How Biden Can, Too.
Discussion: Washington Post
CNN:
CIA Director had rare conversation with Putin while in Moscow last week
Discussion: Mediaite and Political Wire
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'
Vinay Prasad / Brownstone Institute:
For Whom Do the Covid “Fact Checkers” Really Work?
Discussion: Cafe Hayek and National Review
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sen. Josh Hawley defends speech on porn and video games
Discussion: BizPac Review and Mediaite