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7:00 PM ET, November 30, 2021

Top Items:

Why I'm running to be a senator from Pennsylvania — We are angry at our government and at each other. — We have not managed our crises as effectively as past generations. During the pandemic, I learned that when you mix politics and medicine, you get politics instead of solutions.

Discussion: HuffPost, Media Matters for America, CBS News, Insider, CNBC, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Deseret News, The Hill, Talking Points Memo, NPR, Mediaite, National Review and Deadline

Associated Press:

Sources: Dr. Oz plans to run for Senate seat in Pennsylvania — HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon best known as the host of TV's Dr. Oz Show after rocketing to fame on Oprah Winfrey's show, is planning to run for Pennsylvania's open U.S. Senate seat as a Republican …

Discussion: HotAir, New York Magazine, Insider, HuffPost, Washington Times, Slate, Hollywood Reporter, Fox News, Rolling Stone, CNN, Pennsylvania Capital-Star, CBS Philly, The Hill, New York Post and The Philadelphia Inquirer

Daniel Summers / The Daily Beast:

Please Don't Elect Dr. Oz—He's a Disgrace to Our Profession — Dr. Oz is running for Senate in Pennsylvania. “I greet this prospect with the same enthusiasm I'd have for contracting dysentery,” writes Dr. Daniel Summers. … Can we please not do this, Pennsylvania? — By “this,” I mean send Mehmet Oz to the Senate.

Discussion: Raw Story

Politico:
Dr. Oz announces Senate bid to his millions of followers

Discussion: USA Today, YouTube and Vanity Fair

Jonathan Tamari / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Dr. Oz officially joins the Senate race in Pennsylvania

Discussion: ABC News, NBC News, New Jersey Globe, Insider, Associated Press, WTOP News and NBC4 Washington

Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Dr. Oz Says He's Running for Senate in Pennsylvania

Discussion: Jezebel, Insider and Human Events

CNN:

First on CNN: Meadows cooperating with January 6 investigators — (CNN)Donald Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows is cooperating with the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot and is providing records and agreeing to appear for an initial interview, CNN first reported Tuesday.

Discussion: HuffPost, Washington Post, Raw Story, The Hill, HotAir, Al Jazeera, Insider, Talking Points Memo, NPR, Fox News, Rolling Stone, CNBC, Metro.co.uk, Conservative Brief, CBS News and Mediaite

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Trump's coverup of his Jan. 6 corruption takes an ominous new turn — As the Jan. 6 select committee investigation gathers momentum, Donald Trump has gotten several cronies to refuse to testify by invoking “executive privilege.” That's absurd on its face: Much of the information Trump wants …

Discussion: Slate, Raw Story and New York Times

Politico:
Appeals court judges poised to reject Trump's effort to withhold Jan. 6 documents

Discussion: Associated Press, CNN, Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, NBC News, Roll Call, CBS News, Insider, UPI, Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA

Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Mark Meadows Cooperating With Jan. 6 Attack Inquiry

Discussion: Politico, Associated Press, NBC News, CBS News, Washington Post, Reuters, New York Post, Washington Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, USA Today and Political Wire

Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Meadows to cooperate with Jan. 6 panel — sort of

Discussion: ABC News, Breitbart, Political Wire and Roll Call

Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:

Trump called aides hours before Capitol riot to discuss how to stop Biden victory — Sources tell Guardian Trump pressed lieutenants at Willard hotel in Washington about ways to delay certification of election result — Hours before the deadly attack on the US Capitol this year …

Discussion: Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, Mediaite, The Moderate Voice and Insider

Michele Goodwin / New York Times:

I Was Raped by My Father. An Abortion Saved My Life. — Ms. Goodwin is a professor of law at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of “Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood.” — On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments …

Ross Douthat / New York Times:

The Case Against Abortion — A striking thing about the American abortion debate is how little abortion itself is actually debated. The sensitivity and intimacy of the issue, the mixed feelings of so many Americans, mean that most politicians and even many pundits really don't like to talk about it.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Raw Story, SCOTUSblog and ABC News

Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Why Wednesday is a big day for abortion at the Supreme Court

Discussion: ABC News and Insider

Charles Fried / New York Times:
I Once Urged the Supreme Court to Overturn Roe. I've Changed My Mind.

Discussion: Washington Post, Slate and Reason

Washington Post:

Prosecutors demanded records of Sidney Powell's fundraising groups as part of criminal probe — A subpoena issued by the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. sought communications and other documents related to fundraising and accounting by Defending the Republic

Discussion: Fox News and Raw Story

The Daily Beast: Feds Are Asking Questions About Sidney Powell and Her Pro-Trump Group

Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:

Another video shows Lauren Boebert suggesting Ilhan Omar was terrorist — (CNN)Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado suggested to a crowd in September that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, whom she called “black-hearted” and “evil,” was a terrorist.

Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Greene calls fellow Republican ‘trash’ of GOP conference

Discussion: Raw Story, HuffPost, Washington Post, Fox News, Mediaite, New York Post, HotAir, Associated Press, BizPac Review, NBC News, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, CNN, The Gateway Pundit, IJR and The Daily Beast

Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

House committee probing Jan. 6 riot interviews Georgia's top elections official — Georgia's top elections official was interviewed for more than four hours Tuesday by a panel of U.S. House lawmakers investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a pro-Donald Trump mob as it widens a probe into the causes of the insurrection.

Discussion: Washington Post

Meridith McGraw / Politico:

Trump allies launch publishing house with an eye on upending the book industry — Allies of former President Donald Trump are trying to rip up the traditional book publishing paradigm in politics by setting up a publishing house of their own. And they have the ex-president helping them do it.

Jamie Smyth / Financial Times:

Moderna chief predicts existing vaccines will struggle with Omicron — Stéphane Bancel foresees ‘material drop’ in current jabs' effectiveness, sending stocks and oil prices lower — The chief executive of Moderna has predicted that existing vaccines will be much less effective …

Washington Post:
As Biden pushes to end the pandemic, omicron's emergence points to a longer struggle

Discussion: National Review, Florida Politics, The American Independent and Ground News

New York Times:

CNN Suspends Chris Cuomo After New Details on Help He Gave His Brother — The cable news network's top-rated anchor was an enthusiastic adviser to Andrew Cuomo in the last 18 months of his governorship. — The star CNN anchor Chris Cuomo was suspended indefinitely by the network on Tuesday …

Discussion: Washington Post, Reason, Insider, Townhall, Vanity Fair, Human Events, HuffPost and Washington Free Beacon, more at Mediagazer »

Twitter:

Expanding our private information policy to include media — As part of our ongoing efforts to build tools with privacy and security at the core, we're updating our existing private information policy and expanding its scope to include “private media.” Under our existing policy …

Detroit News:

Three dead, six hurt in Oxford High shooting; 15-year-old in custody — Oxford — Three students were killed Tuesday and six others wounded in an afternoon shooting at Oxford High School, Oakland County Undersheriff Mike McCabe said. — The shooter, a 15-year-old sophomore, is in custody, McCabe added during a news conference.

Discussion: New York Daily News, Orange County Register, Breitbart and Deseret News

Courtney Kube / NBC News:

Defense Secretary Austin orders National Guard to get vaccinated or face loss of pay — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered that all members of the National Guard and Reserve must receive Covid vaccines or face loss of pay and being marked absent without cause from drills and training …

Discussion: CNN, Associated Press and Orange County Register

Military.com:
Oklahoma Guard Paychecks Under Threat as Vaccine Battle with Pentagon Escalates

Discussion: Washington Post, Washington Examiner, The Oklahoman and CBS News

Jonathan V. Last / Bulwark+:

Phony! Phoni! Phoné! — Chris Christie fails. Again. — 1. Chris Christie Is Nobody — Spoiler: I'm going to poleaxe Chris Christie in a minute. But first, I want to acknowledge that he presents a genuine moral dilemma. … Welcoming people who previously collaborated …

Discussion: Shore News Network and PRESS RUN

Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:

Red states are now paying people not to get vaccinated — Once upon a time, states debated whether to pay people to get vaccinated. Now, some red states are paying people not to get vaccinated, by cutting checks to workers who quit or are fired because they refuse covid-19 shots.

Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and Mock Paper Scissors

Edward McKinley / Houston Chronicle:

Gov. Abbott says he can ‘guarantee the lights will stay on’ this winter in Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott promised that the state's electric grid would be able to withstand pressures caused by any potential winter storm that occurs this year in a television interview Friday. — “Listen, very confident about the grid.

Discussion: The Texas Tribune and NBC News

Matthew Herper / STAT:

FDA panel narrowly recommends authorization of first antiviral pill to treat Covid-19 — A panel of experts convened by the Food and Drug Administration voted by a slim margin on Tuesday to recommend the agency authorize the Covid treatment developed by Merck and partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics …

Discussion: CBS News, NPR, Inquirer News, abc7NY and KRON4

A.O. Scott / New York Times:

Tony Kushner, Oracle of the Upper West Side — When Steven Spielberg asked Kushner, America's most important living playwright, to take on ‘West Side Story,’ he thought, 'He's lost his mind.' But he dared. — To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.

Konrad Putzier / Wall Street Journal:

Metaverse Real Estate Piles Up Record Sales in Sandbox and Other Virtual Realms — Firms' purchases of digital land in online worlds are bets that property values will rise as more people join in — The latest hot real-estate market isn't on the scenic coasts or in balmy Sunbelt cities.

Brian Flood / Fox Business:

New Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal once said company is ‘not to be bound by the First Amendment’ — ‘Our role is to serve a healthy public conversation and our moves are reflective of things that we believe lead to a healthier public conversation,’ Agrawal said in 2020

Discussion: Washington Examiner, The Federalist, Marketplace, TK News and Louder With Crowder, more at Techmeme »

Jacob Magid / The Times of Israel:

He led IDF intel gathering on Iran, was ignored and fears Israel is now paying price — Danny Citrinowicz, ex-head of Military Intelligence research, says politicians' inability to adopt a nuanced approach led to ‘colossal’ policy failure, sped up Tehran's nuke effort

Discussion: Defense One and The New Arab

Lizzie Johnson / Washington Post:

They trusted a coach with their girls and Ivy League ambitions. Now he's accused of sex abuse. … The rowing season had already ended by the time the seven girls began drafting a letter that they hoped would get their coach fired. — They'd spent years competing for the crew team affiliated …

Adam Gurri / Liberal Currents:

Liberal Democracy and the Federal System — The American federal system and the various Supreme Courts that have defended its boundaries impose firm limitations on what system-wide reforms are possible. To many it seems impossible to make any meaningful improvement to American governance without amending …

Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:

Lara Logan draws outrage for comparing Fauci to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele on Fox News — It's the latest in a series of inflammatory and conspiracy-tinged comments from the once-lauded former ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent. — Lara Logan, once a lauded foreign correspondent for CBS News's …

Discussion: Vanity Fair, Forbes, The Times of Israel, Deadline, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, CNN and The Hill

Robin Bravender / Insider:

Republicans eyeing a 2023 majority say they're eager to grill Biden's Cabinet secretaries, investigate Hunter, and (maybe) impeach the president — Republicans have big plans to thwart Joe Biden if they reclaim the US House. — Biden foes like Reps. Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor Greene would get more powerful.

Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story and One America News Network