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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.
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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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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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump SPAC under investigation by federal regulators, including SEC — Federal regulators are investigating former President Donald Trump's SPAC deal. — The Securities and Exchange Commission and FINRA probes were disclosed in a filing by Digital World Acquisition Corp., the special purpose acquisition company.
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.
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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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Washington Post:
Justice Dept. sues Texas over redistricting maps, citing discrimination against Latinos — The Justice Department has sued Texas for the second time in a month over voting-related concerns, this time alleging that Republican state lawmakers discriminated against Latinos and other minorities …
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Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Biden administration sues to block Texas redistricting maps
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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Justice Department closes investigation into Emmett Till killing after failing to prove key witness lied
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Files Voting Rights Suit Against Texas Over New Map
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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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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 …
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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.
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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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Carmen Sesin / NBC News:
‘Latinx’ can be ‘counterproductive’ among Hispanic voters, poll finds
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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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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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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.
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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Carl Bildt / Washington Post:
It's time to let Russia know once and for all that Ukraine is off limits — Is the United States ready to defend Taiwan against an attack by China? What about Russian attempts to militarily subdue Ukraine? Will Washington limit its response to Moscow to sanctions and other nonmilitary measures?
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Allahpundit / HotAir:
“Ongoing genocide”: Biden orders diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics — How often do you find Joe Biden and Ted Cruz on the same side of an issue? — Especially when that side is the middle-ground option between a total boycott of the Games, as some Republicans want …
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New York Times:
Inside Tesla as Elon Musk Pushed an Unflinching Vision for Self-Driving Cars — The automaker may have undermined safety in designing its Autopilot driver-assistance system to fit its chief executive's vision, former employees say. — To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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.
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.
Azeen Ghorayshi / New York Times:
Women Earn $2 Million Less Than Men in Their Careers as Doctors — A survey of more than 80,000 physicians estimated that women make 25 percent less than men over a 40-year career. — Female doctors make less than their male counterparts starting from their very first days on the job, according to a large new study.
The Daily Poster:
Six Things They're Not Telling You About Inflation — In the Great Inflation Scare of 2021, the corporate media isn't reporting the full story. — Inflation is punching far above its weight in the minds of Americans immersed in louder and louder media alarms about rising prices …
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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