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Jennifer Szalai / New York Times:
In Another Trump Book, a Journalist's Belated Awareness Steals the Show … When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.  —  By the looks of his formidable résumé, the veteran Beltway journalist Jonathan Karl shouldn't startle all that easily.
Discussion: HuffPost and Balloon Juice
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Seeks Continued Block on Sending White House Files to Jan. 6 Panel  —  The ex-president's brief to a federal appeals court argued that his residual secrecy powers could block a House subpoena for information about the Capitol riot.  —  WASHINGTON — Former President Donald J. Trump asked …
Discussion: CNN, Roll Call and Raw Story
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Biden administration soon to announce diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics  —  With the Beijing Winter Olympics just three months away, the Biden administration will soon have to make clear whether it plans to send an official delegation to China.  But sooner rather than later …
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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Biden and Xi Pledge More Cooperation, but Offer No Breakthroughs
Will Steakin / ABC News:
Trump allies pressed Defense Department to help overturn election, new book says  —  Michael Flynn told a DoD official that Democrats were “stealing the election.”  —  In the aftermath of the 2020 election, some of Donald Trump's closest allies embarked on an unprecedented effort …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Report: Sidney Powell Even Crazier Than You Think
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
FBI Tracks Threats Against Teachers, School-Board Members  —  Many Republicans see prospect of criminalizing concerned parents  —  WASHINGTON—The Federal Bureau of Investigation has set up a process to track threats against school-board members and teachers, moving to implement …
Washington Post:
The second-biggest program in the Democrats' spending plan gives billions to the rich … The House is expected to vote this week on President Biden's Build Back Better legislation.  The social spending bill includes investments in clean energy and affordable child care …
Emily Singer / The American Independent:
GOP lawmaker takes credit for infrastructure funding after voting against it  —  Republicans have begun to take credit for things in the infrastructure bill they didn't vote for.  —  Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL) on Monday night touted “critical funding” that President Joe Biden's infrastructure bill provided …
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Congressman Gary Palmer:
Palmer on New Funding for Birmingham's Northern Beltline
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Jen Psaki is annoyed you'd ask about Biden defaming Kyle Rittenhouse as a white supremacist  —  The Biden campaign defamed Kyle Rittenhouse as a white supremacist in 2020, even though there is nothing at all to back such a claim about him.  —  Now, the White House would rather not discuss …
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Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 ‘Documentary’ Is His Most Nakedly Fascist Piece Of Propaganda Yet  —  His recent series for Fox Nation, “Patriot Purge,” is setting the stage for something even worse than the attack on the Capitol.  —  Tucker Carlson's “Patriot Purge,” a revisionist history …
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Media Matters for America:
On Fox Nation, Tucker Carlson goes full anti-vaccine with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Discussion: Insider, Joe.My.God. and Eschaton
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
New anti-election memo from Team Trump comes into sharper focus  —  Bannon makes curious choice of lawyer for contempt of Congress case  —  Over the course of the last year, the public has learned in frightening detail just how far Donald Trump and his team went to pressure …
Discussion: Raw Story and Right Wing Watch
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Hayes Brown / MSNBC:   Jenna Ellis' memo on stealing the 2020 election holds a lesson for Democrats
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Inflation Is Not The Biggest Thing Happening In The Economy Right Now  —  Family poverty has substantially declined thanks to the child tax credit.  —  WASHINGTON ― Rising prices have crushed consumer sentiment and become a major political story as President Joe Biden struggles to enact …
Discussion: CBS Philly
Tovia Smith / NPR:
Why Boston will need to wait longer for its 1st elected Black mayor  —  For the first time in its history, Boston is inaugurating a newly-elected mayor on Tuesday who is not a white man.  Michelle Wu - who's Asian American, is the first woman and first person of color elected to lead the city.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: A victory lap and a reality check  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  It was all smiles and selfies at the White House on Monday as Democrats celebrated passage of the bipartisan infrastructure deal.  But rising voter concern about inflation has cast a pall over President JOE BIDEN's victory lap.
Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
A maternity ranch is born … ARGYLE, Tex. — The vision had come as she was driving home from the Kroger, and it was so sudden and fully formed that Aubrey Schlackman began to tell people that “it was like God placed it in my head.”  —  This was last year, a time when abortion …
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Trump Fanatic Who Electroshocked D.C. Cop On Jan. 6 Tries To Get His Confession Tossed  —  The Trump supporter, who electroshocked Officer Mike Fanone at the Capitol on Jan. 6, is trying to argue that he wasn't properly advised of his rights.  —  Daniel Rodriguez, a pro-Trump extremist …
Slate:
Could a New Government Report Spell Felony Charges for Trump?  —  Last week, the Office of Special Counsel released a report finding that 13 senior Trump administration officials violated the Hatch Act, a statute prohibiting federal officials from using their positions to influence the outcome of partisan elections.
Discussion: Raw Story
Kyle Whitmire / al.com:
Hubbard still pulling strings from prison, tapes reveal  —  This is an opinion column.  —  In September, Mike Hubbard said he was sorry — for something.  —  In a letter to Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker, the former Alabama House speaker apologized — for his convictions.  Not his crimes.
Discussion: Political Wire
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Unauthorized Migration Across the Mexico-U.S. Border Slips  —  Border crossings declined for the third consecutive month in October, but thousands of Haitians and other migrants were waiting in Mexico, hoping to head north.  —  After a major influx of migrants overwhelmed …
Discussion: Mediaite and IJR
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David Pitt / USA Today:
Audit: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds improperly used COVID funds for salaries  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — A state audit report on government spending released Monday accused Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds of using nearly $450,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds to pay salaries for 21 staff members …
The White House:
A Proclamation on Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Persons Responsible for Policies or Actions That Threaten Democracy in Nicaragua  —  In light of the importance to the United States of fostering democratic processes and institutions in Nicaragua to help …
Discussion: Insider
Jeremiah Poff / Washington Examiner:
House Republicans demand Education Department communications over NSBA parents-as-terrorist letter  —  Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Virginia Foxx of North Carolina are seeking access to communications between the Department of Education and the National School Boards Association …
Discussion: National Review and The Federalist
Washington Post:
Americans broadly support Supreme Court upholding Roe v. Wade and oppose Texas abortion law, Post-ABC poll finds  —  Americans say by a roughly 2-to-1 margin that the Supreme Court should uphold its landmark abortion decision in Roe v. Wade, and by a similar margin the public opposes …
Ivey DeJesus / PennLive:
U.S. Rep. Scott Perry tests positive for COVID-19  —  Congressman Scott Perry has tested positive for COVID-19, his office announced on Tuesday.  —  The office of the 10th congressional district Republican said in a statement that the lawmaker's symptoms are mild.
Axios:
Goldman: “Inflation will get worse”  —  “The current inflation surge will get worse this winter before it gets better,” Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research warns clients in a “2022 U.S. Economic Outlook.”  —  Driving the news: But Goldman expects the economy “to reaccelerate …
Southern Poverty Law Center:
Infowars Director Bought Domain Named After Terrorist  —  Hours after Christchurch terrorist Brenton Tarrant livestreamed the murder of 51 Muslim worshippers, Infowars information technology director Michael Zimmerman bought the domain “tarrantmanifesto.com,” leaked data from the company Epik shows.
Andrew Van Dam / Washington Post:
The government dramatically underestimated job growth this summer  —  Initial reports underestimated job growth by a cumulative 626,000 over four months  —  The government sharply underestimated job gains for most of 2021, including four months this summer in which it missed more job growth than at any other time on record.
Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Biden tormented by Republican guerrilla campaign and ‘I did it’ stickers  —  If you see Joe Biden's picture on a gas pump these days, it's not a tribute to his amazingly successful energy policy.  —  The stickers — with Biden pointing to the $3.50 a gallon gas price and saying “I did that!”
Discussion: UPI, Bloomberg and Ace of Spades HQ
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Andrew Sullivan and the Narrative of the “MSM Narrative”  —  The narrative on MSM narratives is false.  —  Over the weekend Andrew Sullivan published a jeremiad against the “mainstream media” that tracks pretty closely with the Matt Taibbi-Glenn Greenwald-Bari Weiss view …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Althouse
Sophie Egan / New York Times:
Does It Matter if I Eat the Stickers on Fruits and Vegetables?  —  I keep finding myself biting into an apple or a peach, only to find I've eaten half the sticker the store put on there.  Is there any harm in eating produce stickers?  —  While the stickers that get placed on fruits …
 
 
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Daniel Desrochers / Kansas City Star:
Josh Hawley is stalling Biden administration nominations
C. Ryan Barber / Insider:
Democrats are frustrated with Merrick Garland's judge-like apolitical style as Biden's attorney general
Discussion: Washington Times and Raw Story
Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Rep.-elect Victoria Spartz, raised in Soviet country, says it's ‘crazy’ for Americans to want socialism here
Discussion: Townhall
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Dems' gloom increases over midterms: Afghanistan fallout?
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
Star Tribune:
Minnesota has nation's worst 7-day rate of new COVID-19 infections
Walter Hickey / Numlock News:
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David Charns / KLAS:
I-Team: Las Vegas man, whose case GOP highlighted as voter fraud, to plead guilty to voting twice
Discussion: Political Wire and Boston.com
 Earlier Items: 
Laurence Norman / Wall Street Journal:
Iran Resumes Production of Advanced Nuclear-Program Parts, Diplomats Say
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
South Carolina Republican introduces bill to decriminalize marijuana at federal level
Discussion: Associated Press and Reason
Wall Street Journal:
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Knew for Years About Sexual-Misconduct Allegations at Videogame Giant
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / Lucid:
Waiting for the Apocalypse: The Unnerving New Normal
Rachel Holliday Smith / THE CITY:
FDR Drive Tear-Down and Manhattan Land Extension Eyed in Downtown Flood Plan
The Daily Beast:
Mary Trump: If Donald Runs Again, This Will Be the Reason
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