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Axios:
McConnell: No legislative agenda for 2022 midterms  —  Mitch McConnell has told colleagues and donors Senate Republicans won't release a legislative agenda before next year's midterms, according to people who've attended private meetings with the minority leader.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Crisis averted after conservatives cave  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  NO SHUTDOWN — Congress avoided a government shutdown after Senate conservatives dropped their demands to nix President JOE BIDEN's vaccine mandates in the funding bill — and Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER gave them a way out.
Discussion: ABC News and The Federalist
Politico:
Senate Republicans wonder whether Dr. Oz is their Pennsylvania remedy  —  Senate Republicans are open to Dr. Oz as the miracle cure for their headaches in Pennsylvania.  —  With the Keystone State's GOP Senate primary uncertain, Senate Republicans suggested this week that they might embrace …
Discussion: Raw Story
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Senate candidate Mehmet Oz says he's a Pennsylvania resident now. So why's he still hanging out in his New Jersey mansion?
Discussion: Politico
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
More Democratic senators are willing to weigh changes to Supreme Court  —  This week's Supreme Court argument on abortion has accelerated an urgency among Senate Democrats to fundamentally alter how the court operates, fueled in part by lingering anger over Republican confirmation maneuvers …
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Elizabeth Spiers / New York Times:   Amy Coney Barrett Doesn't Understand the Trauma of Adoption
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
The Supreme Court's End Game on Abortion
Discussion: The Hill
Mariel Fernandez / NAACP Legal Defense …:   LDF Issues Statement on Misleading References to Brown v. Board of Education by Supreme Court Justices
NBC News:
Avoiding shutdown, Congress approves bill to fund government through Feb. 18  —  House deal on government funding bill could face challenge in the Senate  —  WASHINGTON — Congress on Thursday passed a short-term government funding bill that will prevent a shutdown before the Friday night deadline …
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Maeve Reston / CNN:
Republicans pull back from the Covid brink — for now  —  (CNN)Sanity prevailed Thursday night when the Senate overcame an effort by a handful of conservative Republican senators who had threatened to force a government shutdown unless they got a vote on an amendment to defund President Joe Biden's Covid-19 vaccine mandates.
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Job growth disappoints in November, with a gain of just 210,000, despite high hopes  —  November job growth falls far short of expectations, unemployment rate hits 4.2%  —  The U.S. economy created far fewer jobs than expected in November, before a new Covid threat created a scare that growth …
Discussion: HotAir
Wall Street Journal:
Didi Global Plans to Delist From New York Stock Exchange  —  Chinese ride-hailing giant says it plans to pursue a listing in Hong Kong  —  Didi Global Inc. plans to delist its shares in the U.S. and pursue a listing in Hong Kong, a dramatic reversal just months after the Chinese ride-hailing …
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New York Times:   Didi of China Moves to Delist From New York Stock Exchange
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds could release ‘alternative’ Mueller report soon  —  An unpublished investigative compilation sometimes referred to as the “Alternative Mueller Report” has been located in Justice Department files and could be released soon, according to a letter filed in federal court Thursday.
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Meadows' book possible ‘waiver’ of executive privilege, Jan. 6 investigators say  —  Jan. 6 investigators have tried to pry information from Mark Meadows for months.  Now, excerpts from his forthcoming book have piqued the select committee's interest.  —  In interviews, members of the committee …
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Far-Right Shock Jock Confronts Mark Meadows on Alleged Ties to China
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Beast
Jenny Jarvie / Los Angeles Times:
A drama professor told students they got their feelings hurt too easily.  They decided to fight back  —  It all started with a misunderstanding.  —  A Black theater student at Coastal Carolina University told a visiting drama teacher she wanted to connect with nonwhite students …
Discussion: Althouse
Steve Contorno / CNN:
DeSantis proposes a new civilian military force in Florida that he would control  —  St, Petersburg, Florida (CNN)Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to reestablish a World War II-era civilian military force that he, not the Pentagon, would control.  —  DeSantis pitched the idea Thursday …
Discussion: The Hill and RedState
Washington Post:
Amid heightened tensions, Russia and U.S. make quiet breakthrough on staffing at Moscow embassy  —  MOSCOW — Despite significant tensions over a Russian troop buildup at the Ukrainian border, U.S. diplomats have overcome a months-long standoff with the Kremlin on the granting of visas …
Axios:
Burnout, money, concern drive Harris turnover  —  Burnout, better opportunities and concern about being permanently branded a “Harris person” is driving some of the turnover in Vice President Kamala Harris's office, people familiar with the situation tell Axios.
Daniel Bates / Daily Mail:
Epstein visited the White House on 14 separate days and stopped by twice in one day on three occasions during Bill Clinton's first term  —  The disclosure puts renewed scrutiny on Clinton's friendship with Epstein, who was known to have flown the former president on his private jet …
CNN:
Exclusive: Sinema won't commit to voting for Biden's sweeping social safety net expansion  —  (CNN)Kyrsten Sinema, the influential moderate Democratic senator from Arizona, did not commit to voting for President Joe Biden's sweeping social safety net legislation in a sit-down interview with CNN on Thursday …
Nellie Bowles / Common Sense:
TGIF: A Report From Waukesha  —  Plus: the brothers Cuomo; teachers against teaching; crime on the rise; and good news. … → Teachers against teaching: Public school teachers' unions around the country are proposing “self-taught” Fridays—in other words, a four-day work week—citing the stresses of the pandemic.
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Congress needs to act on Xi Jinping's genocide now  —  This week, a private U.K.-based investigative panel released what it says are classified Chinese government documents that appear to show how Chinese President Xi Jinping personally laid the groundwork for the systematic forced assimilation of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News:
Liberty University professor charged in alleged abduction, sexual battery of student  —  A professor at Liberty University is accused in the abduction and sexual battery of a student, according to the evangelical school and court records in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Discussion: USA Today, Yahoo and The Hill
The Guardian:
Saudi warplanes carpet-bomb Yemen with US help.  This must end  —  The US must end all support for the Saudi war effort in Yemen.  It is fueling the largest humanitarian crisis in the world  —  he recent breaching of the United States' embassy in Yemen's capital city of Sanaa by rebel forces …
Washington Post:
As world focuses on omicron, delta variant overwhelms parts of U.S.  —  While the U.S. braces for the unknowns of omicron, which has now been detected in Minnesota, St. Cloud Hospital in the central part of the state is still deep in a battle with the delta variant of the coronavirus.
General Michael Hayden / The Cipher Brief:
My Worry for America  —  OPINION — I was a Brigadier General 30 years ago, assigned in Europe as the head of intelligence.  Most of the time I was looking at the Balkans because there was a war going on.  Yugoslavia lasted for 72 years and then it was gone; it fell apart.  —  These were bitter rivalries.
Jacob L. Nelson / Columbia Journalism Review:
A Twitter tightrope without a net: Journalists' reactions to newsroom social media policies  —  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY  —  Journalists increasingly rely on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to pursue audience engagement, which many believe necessary for improving journalism's popularity and credibility among the public.
Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: No COVID in Cabo!  California governor Gavin Newsom does it again - with a Thanksgiving vacation at $29,000-a-night villa owned by Russian oligarch who admitted dodging $248M in taxes - days after extending state's state of emergency  — Governor Gavin Newsom spent Thanksgiving …
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Facebook sold ads comparing vaccine to Holocaust  —  New York (CNN Business)Facebook has sold ads promoting anti-vaccine messages, comparing the US government's response to Covid-19 to Nazi Germany, casting doubt on the result of the 2020 election, and even pushing political violence.
Discussion: Mediaite
 
 
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John Eastman's Lawyers Just Destroyed the Jan 6 Committee and Its ‘Subpoenas’.
Discussion: Rolling Stone and Washington Post
Jacob Magid / The Times of Israel:
Blinken initiated call with PM amid doubts Israel actually called off Atarot plan
Merritt Tierce / New York Times:
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Washington Post:
House Republicans express concern over party infighting, but not the Islamophobic rhetoric that set it off
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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Sophie Cocke / Honolulu Star-Advertiser:
Rep. Kai Kahele calls Navy water contamination ‘a crisis of astronomical proportions in Hawaii’
Discussion: The Hill and Associated Press
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Sidney Powell, L. Lin Wood among attorneys ordered to pay $175,000 over Michigan ‘Kraken’ suit
William D. Cohan / Puck:
Carlos Watson Has a Cold
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Far right is using Twitter's new rule against anti-extremism researchers
Insider:
Kayleigh McEnany said she didn't lie in the White House briefing room because she went to Oxford, Harvard, and Georgetown and is a Christian
David Corn / Mother Jones:
A CIA Report Shows Trump Abandoned His Duty as Commander in Chief
Discussion: Washington Post and Lawfare
 

 
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports Q3 digital subscribers hit 260K, for 11.9M in total, digital ad revenue rose 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic turned its first profit

Porter Anderson / Publishing Perspectives:
PEN America: 10,046 school books bans across 29 states were recorded from July 2023 to June 2024, up ~200% YoY; Florida had 4,500+ bans and Iowa had 3,600+ bans

Ross Raihala / Twin Cities:
Q&A with Aaron Rupar on leaving Vox to start Public Notice on Substack, watching ~400 Trump rallies to share clips with his 989K followers on X, and more

 
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