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David Corn / Mother Jones:
I Compared the New January 6 Texts to Mark Meadows' Book. It's Damning. — Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. — Mark Meadows, call your publisher. — It seems that Donald Trump's final White House chief …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: About those Jan. 6 texts — Welcome to Byron York's Daily Memo newsletter. — Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to receive the newsletter. — ABOUT THOSE JAN. 6 TEXTS. The House Jan. 6 committee has released a bunch of texts …
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
It Sure Sounds Like Trump Was Screening Don Jr.'s Calls During the Capitol Attack — The president's namesake texted Mark Meadows that his father needed to “condemn this s—t.” — On Monday night, while arguing that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows should be held …
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CNN, Gizmodo, The Western Journal and Daily News
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
American Conservatism Is a Rotting Whale Carcass on the Beach
American Conservatism Is a Rotting Whale Carcass on the Beach
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Rolling Stone, Washington Post and The Status Kuo
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
McConnell: Riot panel findings of GOP involvement ‘will be interesting’
McConnell: Riot panel findings of GOP involvement ‘will be interesting’
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CNN, The Federalist, Fox News and Wall Street Journal
New York Times:
Trump Fraud Inquiry's Focus: Did He Mislead His Own Accountants? — The investigation, by the Manhattan district attorney, is zeroing in on information the former president and his company shared about the value of his assets. — As prosecutors in Manhattan weigh whether to charge Donald J. Trump …
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Washington Post:
Trump's longtime accountant testifies to N.Y. grand jury in criminal probe — A longtime accountant for former president Donald Trump — who helped prepare Trump's taxes and the financial statements he used to woo lenders — testified recently before a New York grand jury investigating Trump's …
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Mock Paper Scissors and Raw Story
New York Post:
Eric Adams picks Keechant Sewell as the first female police commissioner of the NYPD — Mayor-elect Eric Adams has tapped Nassau County Chief of Detectives Keechant Sewell as the first female police commissioner of the NYPD — a stunning, close-to-home pick from a field of seasoned top women cops across …
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City & State New York and PIX11
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New York Times:
Keechant Sewell to Lead N.Y.P.D. as Its First Female Commissioner — The selection of Ms. Sewell, the Nassau County chief of detectives, was seen as one of Eric Adams's most critical appointments as incoming mayor. — Keechant Sewell, the Nassau County chief of detectives …
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The Hill and New York Post
Christina A. Cassidy / Associated Press:
Far too little vote fraud to tip election to Trump, AP finds — ATLANTA (AP) — An Associated Press review of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by former President Donald Trump has found fewer than 475 — a number that would have made no difference in the 2020 presidential election.
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HotAir, Washington Post and Political Wire
Politico:
Judge scraps Trump lawsuit to shield tax returns from Congress — A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump's bid to block congressional Democrats from obtaining his tax returns. — Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee to federal district court in Washington …
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, Roll Call, CBS News, New York Times, One America News Network, POLITICUSUSA and Talking Points Memo
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Three Republican Residents of The Villages Arrested for Casting Multiple 2020 Votes — CAUGHT OUT — Three Republican residents of the hedonistic Florida retirement haven The Villages have been charged with casting multiple votes in the 2020 presidential election, according to local reports.
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Digby's Hullabaloo and Homeless on the High Desert
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Mike DeForest / WKMG:
3 residents of The Villages arrested for casting multiple votes in 2020 election — Few Central Floridians have faced similar charges over past two decades, records show — SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. - Three residents of The Villages have recently been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into voter fraud, court records show.
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Mediaite, Washington Post, Raw Story and Orlando Weekly
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Andrew Cuomo ordered to return $5.1M pandemic book profits to state — New York's ethics watchdog panel ordered disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo to return the $5.1 million in profits from his pandemic book deal to the state next month. — The extraordinary resolution was approved …
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HuffPost, NBC New York, HotAir, Breitbart, Ace of Spades HQ, CNBC, RedState, The Western Journal, The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, The Gateway Pundit, TheBlaze and Twitchy
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Grace Ashford / New York Times:
Cuomo Is Ordered to Forfeit Earnings From $5.1 Million Book Deal
Cuomo Is Ordered to Forfeit Earnings From $5.1 Million Book Deal
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Los Angeles Times, NPR, Vanity Fair, Washington Times, Rolling Stone, Mediaite, National Review, Politico, Bloomberg, Insider, City & State New York, The Wrap, abc7NY, Just The News and Political Wire
Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Phil Waldron, backer of Jan. 6 PowerPoint, is invited to speak to Louisiana voting panel — A retired Army colonel who worked with then-President Donald Trump's outside legal team to claim that the 2020 election results were rigged was an invited speaker Tuesday at a state commission charged with shaping Louisiana's voting system.
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Popular Information, NBC News and First Draft
Reuters:
Nearing ‘end of the road’ to save Iran nuclear deal -France — The door to resuscitating the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is open for now but “we are rapidly reaching the end of the road” to revive a pact that is being gutted by Iran's nuclear advances, France's ambassador to the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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Nathan Baca / wusa9.com:
Zebras on the loose since August found in Prince George's County — We are not horsing around: The two missing zebras have been safely found and captured. A third was found dead in September. — PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. — Two zebras that have been on the loose since Aug. 22 from an Upper Marlboro farm have been caught.
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New York Times and The Hill
Chuck Ross / Washington Free Beacon:
Blumenthal Speaks at Communist Party Awards Ceremony — Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) spoke at an awards ceremony over the weekend hosted by a Communist Party affiliate whose leaders used the event to recruit potential members to the organization. — Blumenthal, one of the wealthiest members …
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Fox News, Townhall, National Review, The Daily Caller and Yankee Institute
New York Times:
How Beijing Influences the Influencers — We are on the outskirts of Shanghai today at the most incredible hotel we've ever stayed at. — It's the first in the world built inside a quarry. — Stick around when we show you around. — Catch you later.
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Breitbart and HotAir, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
D.C. attorney general sues Proud Boys, Oath Keepers over Jan. 6 attack — D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) on Tuesday sued the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers over the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, seeking to use a law written to cripple the Ku Klux Klan to exact stiff financial penalties …
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CNN, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, New York Post, The Times of Israel, Insider, The Daily Beast, NPR, Raw Story, Al Jazeera, BuzzFeed News, Metro.co.uk, news.com.au, UPI, CBS News, Talking Points Memo, Rolling Stone, NBC News, Bloomberg and Forbes
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
A Real Housewife of New York Dined and Dashed at D.C.'s Sceniest Restaurant — Live in Washington long enough, and you'll see some naughty behavior. This is a town that's seen three impeachments, two fake wars, one attempted coup, and too many sex scandals to count — and that's just the last four administrations.
Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
Climate change has destabilized the Earth's poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril — New research shows how rising temperatures have irreversibly altered both the Arctic and Antarctic. Ripple effects will be felt around the globe. — The ice shelf was cracking up.
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Substack and Common Dreams
Theodore Schleifer / Puck:
Tech's Looming Radical Chic Throwdown — The recall election of Chesa Boudin, San Francisco's avant-garde D.A., has turned bitter, pitting tech's billionaires against one another—and forcing the city to look at itself, and its past, in the mirror. — Last January, I fired up my AirPods …
Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Gorsuch writes scathing dissent after Supreme Court rejects New York vaccine mandate challenge — Justice Neil Gorsuch penned a scathing dissent after the Supreme Court left in place New York's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. — Only two other Republican-appointed justices …
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Washington Free Beacon and Ground News
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
This State's Rogue Sheriff Problem Somehow Just Got Worse — Twisted new criminal allegations of Tasing came in a state where elected law-enforcement figures love to cross the line into criminality. — A South Carolina sheriff is facing multiple charges after allegedly ordering a deputy …
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scag.gov, Raw Story and governor.sc.gov
Washington Post:
Omicron spreading rapidly in U.S. and could bring punishing wave as soon as January, CDC warns — But federal and some pharmaceutical executives signal they do not currently favor revising vaccines, saying existing regimen plus boosters are effective
Politico:
How a 100-year-old newspaper became the go-to way to influence Biden — Interest groups trying to influence the president of the United States will often fork over millions of dollars in order to do so. During the Biden era, however, an old media-centric, less splashy technique has been deployed.
Eric Geller / Politico:
Feds scramble to assess security flaw that threatens ‘hundreds of millions’ of devices — “Hundreds of millions” of internet-connected devices are vulnerable to hackers because of a newly discovered security flaw in a widely used piece of computer code, a federal official said Tuesday …
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ABC News
Sarah Mimms / BuzzFeed News:
The Pro-Trump Conspiracy Internet Is Moving From Facebook To Your Doorstep — The man at the door said he was just there to verify some publicly available information. — In the home security video, he seems nervous and out of breath as he waits at the doorway, glancing frequently at his phone.
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Raw Story
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
For world peace, this is the most threatening ‘ism’ — Over the past century, one ideology after another has destabilized global politics and sparked war: fascism, communism, nationalism, imperialism. — Among conflict-generating “isms” the most relevant one today, however, may be irredentism.
Pippa Crerar / Mirror.co.uk:
Extraordinary image shows ‘raucous’ Xmas party thrown by Tory aides in lockdown breach — Our image shows 24 people crowded together in a room in the Tories' Westminster HQ for an event organised by Shaun Bailey's mayoral campaign - Mr Bailey tonight quit as chair of the London Assembly's police …
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Metro.co.uk and The Guardian
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Man who threatened to shoot Pelosi and brought guns and ammo to D.C. is sentenced to 28 months — Cleveland Meredith Jr. repeatedly texted family and friends saying he hoped to shoot Pelosi and assault the nation's capital — As Cleveland G. Meredith Jr., a devoted follower …
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wusa9.com
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
‘15 minutes to save the world’: a terrifying VR journey into the nuclear bunker — Nuclear Biscuit, a simulated experience, allows US officials to wargame a missile attack and see the devastating consequences of their choices — It became clear that things had gone terribly awry …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The Authoritarian Right's 1877 Project — In a recent column for The American Conservative, Helen Andrews argues that Reconstruction — that brief slice of the 19th century during which Black Southerners enjoyed extensive political rights under the aegis of Northern Republicans — was “objectively bad.”
Jaewon Kang / Wall Street Journal:
Kroger to End Some Covid-19 Benefits for Unvaccinated Workers — Grocery chain to remove paid emergency leave for unvaccinated employees who contract Covid-19, add $50 monthly health surcharge for some staff — Kroger Co. is eliminating some Covid-19 benefits for unvaccinated employees …
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The Daily Caller, The Daily Beast, The Daily Wire, Al Jazeera, TheBlaze and Page Array