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BBC:
Sanna Marin: Finland's PM sorry for clubbing after Covid contact — Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin has apologised for going clubbing after coming into close contact with a Covid-19 case. — Sanna Marin went on a night out in Helsinki on Saturday, hours after her foreign minister had tested positive.
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The Daily Caller, Gawker and Twitchy
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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5 Links, Raw Story, Press Watch and The American Conservative
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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?
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New York Daily News, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story and Mock Paper Scissors
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.
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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Sonny Bunch / The Bulwark:
Against “Latinx” — A politically dubious neologism, sure, but one that makes up for it by also being monstrously ugly. — Of all the weird and grating modern linguistic imperatives, few are weirder or more grating than the attempted imposition of “Latinx.”
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Breitbart, Reason and Commentary Magazine
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 …
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Republicans ready new push to defund, repeal Biden vaccine and testing policies — The latest salvo is set to arrive this week, as GOP lawmakers force another Senate vote to revoke the president's policy requiring shots or tests at private employers — Congressional Republicans are planning …
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
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 …
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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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Insider, NBC News, Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
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Quinnipiac University Poll:
Abbott Leads O'Rourke By Double Digits In Texas Governor's Race, Quinnipiac University Texas Poll Finds; Texas-Mexico Border Dominates Issues For Voters — mail_outline — In a head-to-head matchup in the race for governor of Texas, Republican Governor Greg Abbott leads Democratic …
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Twitchy and Political Wire
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.
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The Clay Travis & …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The right's rationalization of Putin colors the Russia-Ukraine tension — The word “great,” of course, has multiple meanings. One meaning is that something is superlatively good. Another is that something is simply superlative, great in the sense of massive or important.
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ABC News, Washington Examiner, Politico, New Republic, TheBlaze and Task & Purpose
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Falsifying Russia's History Is a Step Toward More Violence
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.
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Insider, Washington Post, Raw Story and Political Wire
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 …
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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 …
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HotAir
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.
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Law & Crime, New York Post, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, Metro.co.uk and Insider
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,” …
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Raw Story
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.
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ABC News, Washington Post, CBS Denver and Insider
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
SCOTUS to hear argument that could allow vouchers in religious schools — Today will mark the final oral arguments at the Supreme Court for this session. They will be hearing arguments in what the Free Beacon calls “the biggest Supreme Court case that nobody is talking about.”
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Washington Examiner, Fox News, Vox, Washington Free Beacon and SCOTUSblog
Adam Beam / Associated Press:
California plans to be abortion sanctuary if Roe overturned — SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — With more than two dozen states poised to ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court gives them the OK next year, California clinics and their allies in the state Legislature on Wednesday revealed a plan to make the state a …
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Bloomberg, The Hill, National Review, Sacramento Bee and The Daily 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 …
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Washington Examiner, HotAir, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, IJR, The Daily Wire, Twitchy and Mediaite
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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Wisconsin Institute …, Wisconsin Examiner and Insider
Macmillan:
Gangsters of Capitalism — Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire — $29.99 — About This Book — A groundbreaking journey tracing America's forgotten path to global power—and how its legacies shape our world today—told through the extraordinary...
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.
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The American Conservative, Representative Marjorie Greene and The Gateway Pundit