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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 …
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
It's Different When Ron DeSantis Does It: CNN Edition
It's Different When Ron DeSantis Does It: CNN Edition
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Digby's Hullabaloo and CNN
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.
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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.
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Washington Examiner, ABC News, Regular Order and The Federalist
Irin Carmon / New York Magazine:
Amy Coney Barrett's Adoption Myths — “They're co-opting our lives and our stories.” — Twice in oral arguments this week for the abortion case that could overturn Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett asked pro-choice advocates: Would banning abortion be so bad if women …
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Elizabeth Spiers / New York Times:
Amy Coney Barrett Doesn't Understand the Trauma of Adoption — Ms. Spiers, a Democratic digital strategist, was adopted as an infant. — On Wednesday, as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments from state attorneys seeking to uphold Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban …
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Men Yell at Me
CNN:
Russia positions more forces, supply lines as fears rise of potential Ukraine invasion — Analysis: Would Putin get away with invading Ukraine again? — (CNN)Russian forces have capabilities in place along the Ukraine border to carry out a swift and immediate invasion …
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European Council …, Slate, Associated Press, The Daily Beast and Insider
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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 …
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HotAir, Fox Business, NPR, New York Times, CNN, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, The Federalist, Twitchy and Mediaite
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David Harrison / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Added Just 210,000 Jobs in November
U.S. Added Just 210,000 Jobs in November
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The Daily Caller
UnHerd:
Video15:08 Inside Australia's Covid internment camp — Freddie Sayers spoke to Hayley Hodgson, who has returned from a 14-day detention — Hayley Hodgson, 26, moved to Darwin from Melbourne to escape the never-ending lockdowns — only to find herself locked up in a Covid Internment Camp without even having the virus.
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Louder With Crowder, The Federalist, YouTube and BBC
medRxiv:
Increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection associated with emergence of the Omicron variant in South Africa — Juliet R.C. Pulliam, Cari van Schalkwyk, Nevashan Govender, Anne von Gottberg, Cheryl Cohen, Michelle J. Groome, Jonathan Dushoff, Koleka Mlisana, Harry Moultrie
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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 …
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Althouse
Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
Alec Baldwin on ‘Rust’ shooting: 'Someone is responsible ... but I know it's not me' — Actor spoke with George Stephanopoulos for an exclusive interview on ABC, Hulu. — On the morning of Oct. 21, Alec Baldwin had an epiphany. — Sitting in a church pew on the set of “Rust,” …
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Mediaite, Breitbart, The Wrap, Variety, CBS News, New York Post, KTLA, Townhall, The Daily Caller, UPI, Rolling Stone and Insider
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Stephen Gutowski / The Reload:
Alec Baldwin's Gun Could Have Fired Without Him Pulling the Trigger, But Did It?
Alec Baldwin's Gun Could Have Fired Without Him Pulling the Trigger, But Did It?
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Al Jazeera, Who the Hell Is Jim Treacher?, New York Times, Breitbart, TheBlaze, Mediaite, BizPac Review and Twitchy
Murray Waas / The Guardian:
Sidney Powell filed false incorporation papers for non-profit, grand jury finds — Trump's lawyer falsely claimed two men as fellow directors of Defending the Republic in an apparent effort to attract donors — A federal grand jury investigating Donald Trump's former attorney Sidney Powell …
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
The Supreme Court's End Game on Abortion — There are many reasons for dismay over the Supreme Court argument in the Mississippi abortion case, but it was the nonstop gaslighting that really got to me. — First there was Justice Clarence Thomas, pretending by his questions actually …
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Morning Shots and The Hill
American Greatness:
Why I Can't Support Trump, the GOP, or Conservatism, Inc. Anymore — How many disappointments, betrayals, and failed promises do people need to endure before they say, “Never again?” — That the “woke” are anything but awake is a fact that needs no underscoring for readers of this website.
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.
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Insider, Meaning In History and Raw Story
American Prospect:
As Buttigieg Eyes a Presidential Run, His DOT Is Floundering — The transportation secretary has a major role to play in easing the supply chain crisis. Pete Buttigieg isn't doing the job. — The transportation secretary has had very little to say about actual transportation policy during this crisis.
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Eschaton
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.
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Fox News, Washington Examiner, The Guardian, Breitbart and CNN
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 …
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New York Post, RedState, The Gateway Pundit, Summit News, cryptogram and Political Wire
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 …
Ruy Teixeira / The Liberal Patriot:
Democrats, Not Republicans, Need to Defuse the Culture Wars — It's not exactly a secret the Republicans are running hard against the Democrats on sociocultural issues like crime, immigration, ideology in the schools and cancel culture. Their strategy is to combine attacks …
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New York Magazine, Townhall and Bloomberg
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The U.S. has added nearly 1 million more jobs in 2021 than initially reported — The economic news that came first thing Friday morning was not what President Biden had hoped: the country added only 210,000 jobs in November, well below expectations and below the pace needed to replace the jobs lost since the start of the pandemic.
New York Times:
Thefts, Always an Issue for Retailers, Become More Brazen — In recent months, robberies have been more visible, with several involving large groups rushing into stores and coming out with armloads of goods. — “Flash mobs” swarm through a Nordstrom in Northern California and two Best Buy stores …
American Greatness:
How the FBI Downplays Leftist Terror Activity — The investigation into the 2019 Dayton, Ohio mass shooting shows the Bureau cannot be trusted to identify left-wing violence. — Pro-Antifa social media accounts are taking a victory lap this week following the announcement that the FBI …
Raheem J. Kassam / The National Pulse:
John Eastman's Lawyers Just Destroyed the Jan 6 Committee and Its ‘Subpoenas’. — You're going to want to read this letter in full. — Lawyers acting for constitutional law professor John Eastman have picked apart the raison d'etre for the January 6th Congressional committee …
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Rolling Stone and Washington Post
Washington Post:
December launches with exceptional warmth over large parts of Lower 48 states — Temperatures will be more than 30 degrees above average in some locations — Winter, by the meteorological definition (Dec. 1 to Feb. 28), began Wednesday morning, but the weather is feeling more like mid-fall …
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Twitchy
Jason D. Hill / Front Page Magazine:
Genocide, Stolen Land, and Other Lies about America — Native Americans: War refugees on conquered American soil? — A few years ago, I was invited by a small liberal arts college in the Northeast to give a series of lectures on ethics and the formation of moral character to a mixed group of juniors and graduating seniors.
Ilya Shapiro / Washington Examiner:
What happened when I ran for school board in Virginia — About a year ago, when schools were still closed in northern Virginia and parents were fretting about learning loss, the school board in my small town of Falls Church voted to change the names of Thomas Jefferson Elementary and George Mason High.
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Trump Conspiracy Is Hiding in Plain Sight — Antebellum pro-slavery radicals spoke freely of secession and violence; Democratic Party paramilitaries planned their attacks on Reconstruction governments in public view; and the men who codified segregation into Jim Crow did so in the open.
New York Times:
Review Finds No Answers to Mystery of Havana Syndrome — Some officials remain convinced Russia is involved, but so far there is no evidence pointing to a particular adversary and no one has detected microwaves or other possible weapons. — WASHINGTON — For months, the C …
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.
JONATHAN TURLEY:
“We Were Just Trying to ... Find Any Leads about the Case”: A Police Video Raises New Questions About NBC's Rittenhouse Statement — In the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, proceedings were disrupted by what Judge Bruce Schroeder considered a major breach of security after NBC was found to be following the van of jurors.
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