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Barton Gellman / The Atlantic:
Trump's Next Coup Has Already Begun — Technically, the next attempt to overthrow a national election may not qualify as a coup. It will rely on subversion more than violence, although each will have its place. If the plot succeeds, the ballots cast by American voters will not decide the presidency in 2024.
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
A Party, and Nation, in Crisis — In October of 1860, The Atlantic's first editor, James Russell Lowell, wrote of Abraham Lincoln that he “had experience enough in public affairs to make him a statesman, and not enough to make him a politician.” Lowell, in his endorsement …
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Fred Hiatt, Washington Post editorial page editor, dies at 66 — Fred Hiatt, a onetime foreign correspondent who in 2000 became The Washington Post's editorial page editor and greatly expanded the global reach of the newspaper's opinion writers in the era of 9/11, the election of Barack Obama …
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Donald Graham / Washington Post:
I've never known a better editor than Fred Hiatt — or a better person — Donald Graham was publisher of The Post from 1979 to 2000 and served as chairman and CEO of The Washington Post Co. until 2013. — If you are reading this in the Opinion section of the online Washington Post or …
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Fred Hiatt was an editor of surpassing integrity, intelligence and compassion — Fred Hiatt, who edited these pages for nearly 22 years before his death on Monday at the age of 66, was a consummate journalist: a dogged reporter, a brilliant editor, a graceful writer.
Jeremy B. White / Politico:
Nunes quits Congress for Trump Media job — Rep. Devin Nunes, a close ally of former President Donald Trump and the former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, will resign from Congress later this month to run Trump's new social media company. — Nunes (R-Calif.) …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Devin Nunes Will Quit the House to Take Over Trump's Media Company
Devin Nunes Will Quit the House to Take Over Trump's Media Company
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Los Angeles Times:
California Rep. Devin Nunes leaving Congress to head Trump social media group
California Rep. Devin Nunes leaving Congress to head Trump social media group
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Who Just Gave Trump $1 Billion? Let's Find Out.
Fox News:
House Republican Rep. Devin Nunes to resign
House Republican Rep. Devin Nunes to resign
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New York Post:
Chris Cuomo prepping to sue CNN for more than $18M over contract: sources — Fired CNN host Chris Cuomo is set to sue the network if it balks at paying him at least $18 million to cover what's left on his contract, sources told The Post on Monday. — Cuomo, 51, has hired lawyers …
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CNN:
CNN Exclusive: Top Pence aide cooperating with January 6 committee — Washington (CNN)Marc Short, the former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, is cooperating with the January 6 committee, a significant development that will give investigators insight from one of the highest-ranking …
New York Times:
Trump's Blood Oxygen Level in Covid Bout Was Dangerously Low, Former Aide Says — Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump's former chief of staff, said in his new book that the weakened president's blood oxygen level reached 86 during a harrowing fight against the coronavirus.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A GOP lawyer issues a frantic warning to his own party about Trump and 2024 — Benjamin Ginsberg, a veteran Republican election lawyer, just issued a stark warning to lawmakers in his own party: If you don't act now to protect our system, the losing candidate in the 2024 presidential election might seek …
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New York Times:
Omicron Is Fast Moving, but Perhaps Less Severe, Early Reports Suggest — Researchers in South Africa, where the variant is spreading quickly, say it may cause less serious Covid cases than other forms of the virus, but it is unclear whether that will hold true.
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Politico:
Kamala Harris is Bluetooth-phobic — Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. With Allie Bice. — KAMALA HARRIS is never missing her AirPods. That's because she's wary of them. — While a growing number …
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Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Lawmakers drop proposal to add women to the draft as defense bill headaches mount — Compromise defense policy legislation set to be filed Monday will not require women to register for a military draft, according to two people with knowledge of the negotiations, a stunning turnaround …
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New York Times:
Justice Department Closes Emmett Till Investigation Without Charges — The department said it could not corroborate a book's claim that a central witness had recanted her statements about Emmett, a Black teenager killed by two white men in 1955. — ATLANTA — The Justice Department announced …
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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Justice Department closes investigation into Emmett Till killing after failing to prove key witness lied
Justice Department closes investigation into Emmett Till killing after failing to prove key witness lied
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Politico:
‘Absolute liars’: Ex-D.C. Guard official says generals lied to Congress about Jan. 6 — A former D.C. National Guard official is accusing two senior Army leaders of lying to Congress and participating in a secret attempt to rewrite the history of the military's response to the Capitol riot.
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Axios:
Right wing builds its own echo chamber — Conservatives are aggressively building their own apps, phones, cryptocurrencies and publishing houses in an attempt to circumvent what they see as an increasingly liberal internet and media ecosystem. — Why it matters: Many of these efforts …
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Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
A White teacher taught White students about White privilege. It cost him his job. … KINGSPORT, Tenn. — Matthew Hawn checked his phone to see if the wait was finally over. — It had been five months since he was fired for teaching about White privilege at a high school in rural Tennessee.
Politico:
Democrats fall flat with ‘Latinx’ language — As Democrats seek to reach out to Latino voters in a more gender-neutral way, they've increasingly begun using the word Latinx, a term that first began to get traction among academics and activists on the left. — But that very effort …
Washington Post:
Sidney Powell group raised more than $14 million spreading election falsehoods — In the months after President Donald Trump lost the November election, lawyer Sidney Powell raised large sums from donors inspired by her fight to reverse the outcome of the vote.
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Charles Gaba / ACA Signups:
No kind way of putting this: Florida's COVID death rate is FAR worse than the NPR analysis makes it out to be. As in, 15x worse. Seriously. — Yesterday there was a bit of a brouhaha caused when NPR reporters Geoff Brumfiel and Daniel Wood published an in-depth report on the partisan divide …
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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
The Paycheck Paradox: What's Missing When We Talk About the Economy … On Friday, a familiar pattern played out: The Labor Department released a very, very good jobs report, and the media continued hyping what a lousy economy President Joe Biden is overseeing.
Michael Lee / Fox News:
Republicans blast Biden ‘diplomatic boycott’ of Olympics as too meager — Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee argued that the 2022 games should be moved out of China completely — Biden administration underestimating China threat: Colby — Republican lawmakers took aim at President Biden …
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Jordan Liles / Snopes.com:
Did Trump Send This Phallic Christmas Card in 2021? — In early December 2021, former U.S. President Donald Trump appeared in a Christmas card with a festive and quite phallic design. The image was shared heavily by left-leaning and anti-Trump social media accounts.
John Sexton / HotAir:
After recount, Republicans confirmed has gaining control of VA House of Delegates — Last month it looked like Republicans were poised to not only win the governorship. lt. governorship and attorney general in Virginia but to also take control over the VA House of Delegates after flipping 7 seats.
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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Capitol riot panel finds White House metadata on letter pushing Georgia to overturn Trump election loss — Capitol riot investigators have found evidence possibly linking the Trump White House to the Justice Department in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
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Washington Post:
Biden's ‘Summit for Democracy’ includes countries that hardly seem to qualify — Pakistan, the State Department warns sharply, has more than a dozen serious human rights problems, from “extrajudicial killings” to “forced disappearance by the government or its agents” to “political prisoners” …
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Scott Lemieux / American Prospect:
Abortion Will Not Be Sent Back to the States — Republican jurists invoke democracy in preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade, but democracy functionally doesn't exist in much of the country. — Abortion rights advocates demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, December 1, 2021.
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump says a bit too much about James Comey's FBI firing (again) — January 6th Committee encounters questions of criminality while following evidence — It was on May 9, 2017, when Donald Trump fired James Comey as the director of the FBI. The Republican president hadn't yet been in office …
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Brian Murphy / Raleigh News & Observer:
Court ruling stops 2022 candidate filing in new NC districts — The North Carolina Court of Appeals has halted candidate filing in U.S. House, state Senate and state House districts, according to the state elections board. — Candidate filing starts at noon Monday in federal, state and local races across North Carolina.
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