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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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George Packer / The Atlantic:
Are We Doomed? — A year after the insurrection, I'm trying to imagine the death of American democracy. It's somehow easier to picture the Earth blasted and bleached by global warming, or the human brain overtaken by the tyranny of artificial intelligence, than to foresee the end of our 250-year experiment in self-government.
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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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Who Just Gave Trump $1 Billion? Let's Find Out. — Investments in a blank-check company backing the former president could turn out to be IOUs if he wins back the White House. — Donald Trump's new social media enterprise announced on Saturday that the blank-check company it set …
New York Times:
Donald Trump's media company deal is being investigated by securities regulators. — Securities regulators have opened investigations into the planned merger of a nascent social media company backed by former President Donald J. Trump with a so-called blank-check company that raised nearly $300 million …
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Wall Street Journal and Hollywood Reporter
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump SPAC under investigation by federal regulators, including SEC
Trump SPAC under investigation by federal regulators, including SEC
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Politico, New York Post, Variety, Bipartisan Report and One America News Network
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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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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POLITICUSUSA and Rolling Stone
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 …
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RedState and The Daily Wire
Wall Street Journal:
CNN President Jeff Zucker Protected Chris Cuomo. Then Came a U-Turn. — Network boss fired the star anchor on Saturday, leaving a hole in the channel's prime-time lineup — CNN President Jeff Zucker stood by Chris Cuomo last spring after revelations that the star anchor had helped his brother …
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Lee Brown / New York Post:
Chris Cuomo claims CNN boss Jeff Zucker knew about involvement in gov scandal
Chris Cuomo claims CNN boss Jeff Zucker knew about involvement in gov scandal
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Twitchy, National Review, HotAir and The Daily Wire, more at Mediagazer »
Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
Corporate Media's Systemic Corruption Is Far Worse Than Chris Cuomo's Coverup For His Brother
Corporate Media's Systemic Corruption Is Far Worse Than Chris Cuomo's Coverup For His Brother
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Fox News, Townhall, CBS News, The Daily Caller, CBS New York and CNBC
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
New York City sets sweeping vaccine mandate for all private employers. — Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a sweeping Covid vaccine mandate for all private employers in New York City on Monday morning to combat the spread of the Omicron variant. — Mr. de Blasio said the aggressive measure …
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Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
The Absence of “The Donald” — In the several hundred criminal cases brought against individuals involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Department of Justice and FBI have included scores of incriminating communications posted by defendants on social media sites including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Parler.
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Trump brokers deal to remake the field in N.C. Senate race — Donald Trump brokered a deal this weekend to clear the North Carolina GOP Senate field for Rep. Ted Budd, the candidate he endorsed in June but who has failed to emerge so far as the clear frontrunner.
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Washington Post, The Hill, NBC News and The Daily Caller
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Politico:
Dems plot escape from Biden's poll woes — Rep. Jared Golden is facing one of the toughest reelection battles in the country. One thing he says doesn't keep him up at night, though, is President Joe Biden's sinking approval rating. — “I really don't care at all.
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
How TikTok Reads Your Mind — It's the most successful video app in the world. Our columnist has obtained an internal company document that offers a new level of detail about how the algorithm works. — There are four main goals for TikTok's algorithm: .户价值, .户 …
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Michael Schulman / New Yorker:
On “Succession,” Jeremy Strong Doesn't Get the Joke — “I take him as seriously as I take my own life,” he says of his character, Kendall Roy. … When Jeremy Strong was a teen-ager, in suburban Massachusetts, he had three posters thumbtacked to his bedroom wall: Daniel Day-Lewis in …
Associated Press:
Trump-tied group pushing for voting changes in Wisconsin — MADISON, Wisc. (AP) — A group formed to support former President Donald Trump's agenda is working with Wisconsin Republicans on a ballot measure that would bypass the state's Democratic governor to change how elections are run in the battleground state.
Miami Herald:
Florida's elected leader must try to prevent gun violence — OPINION AND COMMENTARY — Editorials and other Opinion content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters. — Eight Floridians die every day because of gun violence.
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Paulina Villegas / Washington Post:
GOP congressman's gun-toting family Christmas photo sparks outrage days after school shooting
GOP congressman's gun-toting family Christmas photo sparks outrage days after school shooting
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CBS News, TheBlaze and Mother Jones
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Charlie Sykes stuns MSNBC host with lewd description of Thomas Massie's gun photo as like pic of his privates — Speaking to MSNBC on Sunday, conservative commentator and Bulwark editor attacked Rep. Tom Massie (R-KY) after he posted a Christmas photo of him with his family in their pajamas with a bunch of guns.
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Morning Shots and HuffPost
The White House:
Fact Sheet: U.S. Strategy on Countering Corruption — “Corruption threatens United States national security, economic equity, global anti-poverty and development efforts, and democracy itself. But by effectively preventing and countering corruption and demonstrating the advantages …
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Washington Post:
‘Rife’ cocaine use reported in U.K. Parliament — just as Boris Johnson announces crackdown on drug crime — LONDON — The speaker of Britain's House of Commons says he is calling in police to investigate reports that drug use is “rife” in Parliament — as Prime Minister Boris Johnson dressed …
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Biden administration expected to announce diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics this week — (CNN)The Biden administration is expected to announce this week that no US government officials will attend the 2022 Beijing Olympics, implementing a diplomatic boycott of the games, according to several sources.
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Trump backed former GOP Sen. Perdue launches Georgia gubernatorial bid; charges Gov. Kemp ‘failed all of us’ — Perdue, declaring his candidacy for Georgia governor, argues that Kemp ‘caved to Abrams’ — Fox News Flash top headlines for December 6 — EXCLUSIVE - Former Republican …
Washington Post:
Seven days: Following Trump's coronavirus trail — When he first learned he had tested positive for the coronavirus, President Donald Trump was already aboard Air Force One, en route to a massive rally in Middletown, Pa. — With him on the plane that Saturday evening were dozens of people …
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The Hill, Insider, Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Katrina Manson / Financial Times:
Biden turns to spy chief for tricky diplomatic missions — CIA director Bill Burns tries to re-engineer the agency while dealing with Russia and an assertive China — As the first career diplomat to run the CIA, director Bill Burns sometimes has to remind himself to stick to his role as US spy chief.
Washington Examiner:
Biden needlessly extends COVID misery — The film Please Remove Your Shoes, released in 2010, documents the development of security theater in airports after 9/11. It shows how the Transportation Security Administration's screening for commercial flights encouraged a false sense …