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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
During January 6 Hearing, Schiff Doctored Text Messages Between Mark Meadows And Rep. Jim Jordan  —  Democrat Adam Schiff doctored text messages between Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan during Monday's Jan. 6 hearings, an investigation by The Federalist shows.  —  Oops, he did it again.
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Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
Gone Too Far  —  The Capitol riot happened because President Donald Trump simply lied, and lied, and lied.  —  s cable television broadcast the scenes of Trump supporters breaking past police lines and even smashing their way into the Capitol on January 6, the president's son, Donald Trump Jr. …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Angie Drobnic Holan / PolitiFact:
The 2021 Lie of the Year: Lies about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and its significance
Politico:
‘Going very poorly’: Biden can't nail Manchin down on Dems' bill  —  Tensions are boiling over as discussions about finishing Democrats' $1.7 trillion domestic spending bill drag on between President Joe Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin.  —  The legislation looks increasingly likely to stall …
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Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Final Child Tax Credit Payments Go Out Amid Doubt Over Program's Future  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) told HuffPost it's “bulls**t” to ask his position on continuing the payments.  —  WASHINGTON — The IRS this week is sending out the final child tax credit payments of 2021 as Democrats struggle to keep the program alive next year.
NBC News:
Democrats' hopes dim that Build Back Better will pass before New Year  —  Democrats skeptical Build Back Better can pass before end of the year  —  Democrats in the Senate are preparing to miss their self-imposed deadline to pass President Joe Biden's $1.7 trillion social safety net bill …
Kate Scanlon / Washington Examiner:
Senate GOP target BBB child care provision as bill stalls in the Senate
Discussion: Fox News and AMAC
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Democrats push Manchin on ‘nuclear option’ for voting rights
Discussion: Insider
National Archives:
JFK Assassination Records - 2021 Additional Documents Release  —  Have a question about JFK Assassination Records?  —  Ask it on HistoryHub!  —  The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is processing previously withheld John F. Kennedy assassination-related records to comply …
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Katie Bo Lillis / CNN:
Biden administration releases previously classified JFK assassination documents
Discussion: Raw Story and Politico
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Dylan McGuinness / Houston Chronicle:
Former Houston cop who thought A/C repairman was a voter fraud mastermind indicted on felony assault charge  —  A Harris County grand jury on Tuesday indicted former Houston police captain Mark Aguirre on an assault charge after he was accused of running a man off the road and pointing to a gun …
Discussion: Off the Kuff and Political Wire
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ABC13:   Ex-HPD captain indicted for aggravated assault in bizarre voter fraud conspiracy case
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
Omicron Is About to Overwhelm Us … For all their limitations, the models right now are flashing bright red.  Over the course of the pandemic, again and again, projections based on simplistic extrapolations of current trends have missed the mark when the trajectories turned.
Reuters:
The military-intelligence veterans who helped lead Trump's campaign of disinformation  —  After Donald Trump lost the White House, ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and three other current and former U.S. Army officers challenged the vote's legitimacy and pushed baseless conspiracy claims.
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Insider:
Congress and top Capitol Hill staff have violated the STOCK Act hundreds of times. But the consequences are minimal, inconsistent, and not recorded publicly.
Discussion: Washington Post
Matt Labash / Slack Tide:
Bassholes  —  Stop culturally appropriating, or, a meditation on the importance of fishing hats  —  Whenever I'm lecturing in journalism schools, eyeing row upon row of tomorrow's Tom Wolfes and Janet Malcolms - or as editors like to call them, future listicle writers - I tell the kids, “Journalism is easy, I just make it look hard.”
Tom Jones / Poynter:
A behind-the-scenes look at PolitiFact's ‘Lie of the Year’  —  PolitiFact editor-in-chief Angie Drobnic Holan shares why lies about Jan. 6 are this year's pick for ‘Lie of the Year.’  —  We live in a time when misinformation is rampant.  Politicians lie.  Cable news pundits twist the truth to fit their agenda.
Discussion: CNN
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Elizabeth Warren / The Boston Globe:
Expand the Supreme Court  —  I don't come to this conclusion lightly or because I disagree with a particular decision; I come to this conclusion because I believe the current court threatens the democratic foundations of our nation.  —  This month, a majority of justices …
Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times:
Retailers say thefts are at crisis level.  The numbers say otherwise  —  Organized retail crime is haunting the nation this holiday season.  —  Captured on smartphones and closed-circuit cameras, thefts involving groups of people smashing windows or individuals wheeling loaded shopping …
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis:
Governor DeSantis Announces Legislative Proposal to Stop W.O.K.E. Activism and Critical Race Theory in Schools and Corporations  —  WILDWOOD, Fla. - Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (W.O.K.E.) Act, a legislative proposal that will give businesses …
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Tyler O'Neil / Fox News:
DeSantis takes aim at CRT training in schools and corporate America
The Columbus Dispatch:
Romin Iqbal, of CAIR-Ohio, fired for allegedly leaking information to anti-Muslim group  —  Danae King Yilun ChengThe Columbus Dispatch  —  The Ohio chapter of a national Muslim-American advocacy and civil rights group announced on Tuesday that its director was working with a national anti-Muslim group and had been for years.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The lawyer behind the Trump coup memo unmasks the absurdity of the coverup  —  In their frantic efforts to disrupt the work of the House select committee examining Jan. 6, Donald Trump's co-conspirators have advanced a singular argument: The committee lacks any “legitimate legislative purpose.”
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Build Back Better would make Biden's annus horribilis even worse  —  At the end of his year of Old Testament afflictions — the political equivalent of Job losing his camels and acquiring boils — President Biden might be muttering: Job was at least spared Sens. Joe Manchin III and Kyrsten Sinema.
Washington Post:
Historic wind storm slamming central U.S. with rare tornado threat in the north  —  Minnesota and northern Iowa could see their first December tornadoes on record; winds are expected to gust over 60 mph in Denver, Omaha and Des Moines.  —  Half of the Lower 48 faces a dangerous weather event Wednesday …
Discussion: CNN and WKRG-TV
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Fed Officials Project Three Rate Rises Next Year and Accelerate Wind Down of Stimulus  —  Reducing bond-buying program more quickly opens door to earlier interest rate rise  —  Most Federal Reserve officials signaled Wednesday they were prepared to raise their short-term benchmark rate …
Discussion: Associated Press
Washington Post:
This block used to be for first-time homebuyers.  Then global investors bought in.  —  LA VERGNE, TENN. — The homes on Tammy Sue Lane aren't fancy.  Modest in size and clad in vinyl siding, the houses were priced below $200,000 when most were built about 15 years ago …
 
 
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