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3:45 PM ET, December 8, 2021

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David Brooks / The Atlantic:
What Happened to American Conservatism?  —  I fell in love with conservatism in my 20s.  As a politics and crime reporter in Chicago, I often found myself around public-housing projects like Cabrini-Green and the Robert Taylor Homes, which had been built with the best of intentions but had become nightmares.
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Trump Won't Let America Go.  Can Democrats Pry It Away?  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  Do you believe, as many political activists and theorists do, that the contemporary Republican Party poses a threat to democracy?
Pfizer:
Pfizer and BioNTech Provide Update on Omicron Variant  — Preliminary laboratory studies demonstrate that three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine neutralize the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529 lineage) while two doses show significantly reduced neutralization titers
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / NBC News:
Pfizer says booster dose of vaccine protects against omicron variant  —  Pfizer releases new data about effectiveness of its booster against omicron  —  A booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine appears to provide strong protection against the omicron variant, the companies announced Wednesday.
Discussion: Substack
Emma Hurt / Axios:
Scoop: Trump-backed Perdue says he wouldn't have certified Georgia 2020 results  —  Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue wouldn't have signed the certification of the state's 2020 election results if he had been governor at the time, the former Senate Republican told Axios.
Discussion: Insider
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James Salzer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:   GOP hopefuls in 2022 want to eliminate state income tax
Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
Hispanic Voters Now Evenly Split Between Parties, WSJ Poll Finds  —  Republicans have made rapid gains among a crucial voting demographic that has long favored Democrats  —  The nation's large and diverse group of Hispanic voters is showing signs of dividing its support between Democrats …
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Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
Gov. Whitmer says President Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate a ‘problem,’ report says  —  Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, in her strongest public remarks to date about President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for employers, said Monday that the requirement is “a problem” for her and state government, according to a published report.
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Republicans ready new push to defund, repeal Biden vaccine and testing policies
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Politico: Don't look now, but Dems “souring” on vaccine mandates
Discussion: CNN, Spectrum News NY1 and Bloomberg
Financial Times:
Biden makes diplomatic concession to Russia with Nato talks plan  —  US president wants allies to discuss Moscow's ‘concerns’ in attempt to prevent invasion of Ukraine  —  Joe Biden has made a significant diplomatic concession to Moscow designed to prevent an invasion of Ukraine by signalling …
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Biden says US troops in Ukraine are off the table but promises withering sanctions if Russia invades
New York Times:
Jan. 6 Rally Planner to Tell House Panel He Played No Role in Violence  —  Ali Alexander, a right-wing activist who helped organize the gathering that drew Trump supporters to Washington on Jan. 6, is cooperating with the committee investigating the riot.  —  Ali Alexander, a prominent organizer …
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Caroline Vakil / The Hill:   Pelosi says she'll ‘never forgive’ Trump, lackeys over Jan. 6
Annie Grayer / CNN:
January 6 committee says it is moving forward with criminal contempt for Mark Meadows
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Manchin quietly discusses Senate rules changes with Republicans  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), a key Democratic holdout on reforming the filibuster, is discussing small changes to Senate rules with Republicans.  —  Manchin's discussions with GOP colleagues — which haven't been previously reported …
Discussion: Washington Times
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Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:
'It's just crazy': 12 major cities hit all-time homicide records  —  “It's worse than a war zone around here lately,” police official said.  —  At least 12 major U.S. cities have broken annual homicide records in 2021 — and there's still three weeks to go in the year.
FiveThirtyEight:
Trump's 2022 Endorsements Are Earlier, Bolder And More Dangerous Than When He Was President  —  Almost since the moment of his inauguration, former President Donald Trump has been the kingmaker of the Republican Party.  In both the 2018 and 2020 elections, Trump-endorsed candidates won almost every Republican primary they competed in.
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Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Former President Trump On Boris Johnson's Woes, Sidney Powell's Dough And More  —  Former President Trump joined me this morning:  —  Audio:  —  12-08hhs-trump  —  Transcript:  —  HH: I'm joined now by former president of the United States, Donald Trump.  Mr. President, good morning.
Giulia Heyward / New York Times:
Schools Are Closing Classrooms on Fridays.  Parents Are Furious.  —  Desperate to keep teachers, some districts have turned to remote teaching for one day a week — and sometimes more.  Families have been left scrambling to find child care.  —  DETROIT — Caitlin Reynolds, a single mother …
Discussion: HotAir and TheBlaze
Daniella Silva / NBC News:
Texas school district pulls 400 books from library shelves for review after legislator's inquiry  —  Texas school librarians reviewing hundreds of books for ‘obscene or vulgar text’  —  A Texas school district pre-emptively pulled more than 400 books from its libraries for review following an inquiry from a Republican state lawmaker.
Discussion: Political Wire
Scott Stump / TODAY.com:
Hillary Clinton chokes up as she reads parts of the victory speech she hoped to deliver in 2016  —  For the first time, Hillary Clinton is sharing the speech she would have made if she had won the 2016 presidential election.  —  The former first lady and secretary of state grows emotional …
The White House:
Executive Order on Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to reestablish the Federal Government as a leader in sustainability, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Discussion: Bloomberg and Associated Press
Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:
Ghislaine Maxwell and the Ecstasy of the Feet  —  Photos reveal just how close the pedophile billionaire and his accused madam were.  —  When the feds raided Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan mansion in 2019, they unearthed a trove of evidence including binders of CDs containing tens of thousands of photographs.
Mike Ives / New York Times:
Fox News Christmas Tree Catches Fire in Manhattan  —  The police said that a man was in custody in relation to the blaze.  The 50-foot tree had been ceremonially lit days earlier in an “All-American” festive broadcast.  —  A 50-foot-tall Christmas tree caught fire outside the Fox News headquarters …
Thomas Lecaque / The Bulwark:
As Grifters Squabble, QAnon's Bloodlust Gets More Open  —  QAnon influencers hope to unite the right in a sea of blood.  —  Not merely rhetorical violence, though that's important.  QAnon is violence in its ideology, in its end goal, and in its imagination: the “Storm,” …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Beijing Silenced Peng Shuai in 20 Minutes, Then Spent Weeks on Damage Control  —  This article is published with ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative newsroom.  —  When inconvenient news erupts on the Chinese internet, the censors jump into action.  —  Twenty minutes was all it took …
Discussion: Insider
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Young Dems more likely to despise the other party  —  Nearly a quarter of college students wouldn't be friends with someone who voted for the other presidential candidate — with Democrats far more likely to dismiss people than Republicans — according to new Generation Lab/Axios polling.
Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Boebert Shows Off Rifle-Toting Kids in Christmas Photo  —  TONE DEAF  —  Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) shared a photo of her children wielding rifles in front of their Christmas tree late Tuesday, the latest gun-themed holiday photo released by Republicans in the wake of a deadly high school shooting.
Discussion: ABC News, Washington Post and Insider
Kevin Downey Jr / pjmedia.com:
Reps. Greene and Gohmert Finally Met the J6 Political Prisoners: What They Saw Isn't Pretty  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene today released “Unusually Cruel- An Eyewitness Report From Inside The DC Jail,” her report about what she saw when she was finally allowed to meet the January 6 political prisoners.
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Falsifying Russia's History Is a Step Toward More Violence  —  One night in October, a group of masked men burst into the Moscow offices of Memorial, the celebrated Russian historical society and civil-rights organization, and disrupted a screening of Mr. Jones, a film about the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33.
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Conservative group finds no signs of widespread voter fraud in Wisconsin but urges changes to election processes  —  MADISON - A conservative group issued a report Tuesday saying it found no evidence of widespread fraud in Wisconsin's presidential election but believed officials did not closely follow all the state's voting laws.
 
 
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Alexia Fernández Campbell / Center for Public Integrity:
The holiday rush is here. Will mail carriers get paid for all their work?
James Queally / Los Angeles Times:
Torrance police traded racist, homophobic texts. It could jeopardize hundreds of cases
Discussion: Los Angeles Blade and Raw Story
Sarah Grace Taylor / The Seattle Times:
Effort to recall Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant leads in first vote count
Macmillan:
Gangsters of Capitalism  —  Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
Anna Phillips / Washington Post:
Biden wants to make federal government carbon neutral by 2050
Rasmussen Reports:
Biden Broke Promise to ‘Shut Down’ COVID-19, Voters Say
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Breitbart
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Rajesh Roy / Wall Street Journal:
Bipin Rawat, India's Top Military Official, Dies in Helicopter Crash
Washington Post:
Amazon's search results full of ads that may be ‘unlawfully deceiving’ consumers, complaint to FTC claims
Discussion: Gizmodo and Raw Story
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
What I never got to say to Fred Hiatt
CNN:
10 things you didn't know are in the Democrats' Build Back Better bill
Discussion: Political Wire
Will Lester / National Press Club:
Voice of America, ProPublica among National Press Club Journalism Awards winners
Rod Dreher:
Italian Lives Matter