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6:25 PM ET, December 17, 2021

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Mike D'Onofrio / Axios:
Capitol rioter who threw fire extinguisher at police gets more than 5 years in prison  —  A capitol rioter from Florida has been sentenced in federal court to more than five years in prison for assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Trump Rioter Who Attacked Cops With Fire Extinguisher Gets Longest Jan. 6 Sentence Yet  —  Capitol rioter Robert Scott Palmer, known to online sleuths as #FloridaFlagJacket, was arrested by the FBI 12 days after he was named in a HuffPost story.  —  A Florida man who attacked law enforcement officers …
Discussion: CNN, CBS News, Law & Crime and Alternet.org
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump ally Straka has provided potentially significant information  —  Brandon Straka, a Donald Trump ally who spoke at a Jan. 5 “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington — and has since pleaded guilty for joining the mob that stormed onto the grounds of the U.S. Capitol the next day …
Nick Niedzwiadek / Politico:
Trump invokes antisemitic tropes while discussing his support for Israel  —  Former President Donald Trump veered into several antisemitic tropes in a recent interview, claiming that Israel used to have “absolute power over Congress” and saying that American Jews — the majority of whom vote Democratic …
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump White House made ‘deliberate efforts’ to undermine Covid response, report says  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration engaged in “deliberate efforts” to undermine the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic for political purposes, a congressional report released Friday concludes.
Discussion: HuffPost and Metro.co.uk
Morgan Phillips / Daily Mail:
Trump accused of ‘vile anti-Semitism’ for saying American Jews ‘no longer love or care about Israel’ because of Biden, Obama and the ‘Jewish people’ who run the New York Times
CNN:
House oversight committee releases report detailing efforts of Trump administration officials to ‘undermine’ Covid-19 efforts in US
Oma Seddiq / Insider:
Trump says American Jews ‘no longer love Israel’ and Jewish people ‘run The New York Times’
Discussion: Slate
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Claims Israel Controlled Congress, Jews Run New York Times
Discussion: Mediaite and Twitchy
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Trump Admin Sabotaged COVID Efforts to Score Political Points, House Probe Finds
Discussion: UPI
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A glimmer of hope on Joe Manchin and voting rights?  —  By now, you'd be forgiven for concluding the chances of Sen. Joe Manchin III supporting a filibuster carve-out to pass democracy protections are somewhere between nonexistent and extremely nonexistent.  —  The West Virginia Democrat …
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Zoya Teirstein / Grist:
Build Back Better is stalled, and so are Biden's ambitious climate plans
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Wall Street Journal:
New York Hits Covid-19 Case Record as Omicron Looms
Randall Lane / Forbes:
Forbes Testified Before The Trump Grand Jury Yesterday - Here's Why We Fought Their Subpoena  —  Almost three months ago, I was subpoenaed by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. to appear before the grand jury investigating Donald Trump.  I was asked to testify about the 2015 cover story …
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Randall Lane / Forbes:
Inside The Epic Fantasy That's Driven Donald Trump For 33 Years
Discussion: Raw Story
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
Southwest CEO tests positive for COVID-19 after Senate hearing - airline
Discussion: CNBC and CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
Politico:
GOP blows off Trump's bid to oust McConnell  —  Former President Donald Trump has hit a wall in his efforts to oust Mitch McConnell as GOP leader.  —  Despite months of attacks, the Trump-led campaign to depose the Senate minority leader has resulted in firm pledges from just two Republican candidates …
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Washington Post:
3 retired generals: The military must prepare now for a 2024 insurrection  —  Paul D. Eaton is a retired U.S. Army major general and a senior adviser to VoteVets.  Antonio M. Taguba is a retired Army major general, with 34 years of active duty service.  Steven M. Anderson is a retired brigadier general …
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
New York Times fires ‘Wirecutter’ editor accused of leaving profane voicemails for gun rights group  —  Erin Marquis, a staffer for the popular product-review site, had also lashed out at a gun-rights organization on Twitter.  —  The New York Times has fired an editor for Wirecutter …
Wall Street Journal:
‘The Corpse Bride Diet’: How TikTok Inundates Teens With Eating-Disorder Videos  —  The app's algorithm can send users down rabbit holes of narrow interest, resulting in potentially dangerous content such as emaciated images, purging techniques, hazardous diets and body shaming
Discussion: Protocol and The Verge
TMZ.com:
NFL LEGEND LAWRENCE TAYLOR ARRESTED IN FLORIDA ... Mug Shot Released  —  BREAKING NEWS  — 1.6K … 1:52 PM PT — Court records, obtained by TMZ Sports, show Taylor has been hit with two felony charges of failure to register as a sexual offender.  —  NFL legend Lawrence Taylor …
Financial Times:
‘No evidence’ Omicron is less severe than Delta, say UK researchers  —  Imperial College study warns of elevated reinfection risk but notes ‘very limited’ data on hospitalisations  —  There is at present “no evidence” that the Omicron coronavirus variant is any less severe than the Delta strain …
Pfizer:
PFIZER AND BIONTECH PROVIDE UPDATE ON ONGOING STUDIES OF COVID-19 VACCINE  —  NEW YORK and MAINZ, GERMANY, DECEMBER 17, 2021 — Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and  —  BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) today shared that following a routine review by the external independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) …
Reuters:
Special Report: Amazon partnered with China propaganda arm  —  Amazon.com Inc was marketing a collection of President Xi Jinping's speeches and writings on its Chinese website about two years ago, when Beijing delivered an edict, according to two people familiar with the incident.
Jan Hoffman / New York Times:
Judge Overturns Purdue Pharma's Opioid Settlement  —  The ruling said the company's owners, members of the Sackler family, could not receive protection from civil lawsuits in return for a $4.5 billion contribution.  —  A federal judge on Thursday evening unraveled a painstakingly negotiated …
Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
I Canceled My Birthday Party Because of Omicron  —  I turn 40 today, and I was planning to have a party.  The Delta surge made me nervous about it.  The arrival of Omicron made me cancel it.  —  The plan was to have an extended house party, with a couple dozen people popping by over the weekend.
Discussion: National Review, The US Sun and Twitchy
Bill McCarthy / PolitiFact:
Video of child giving Biden vial of blood to drink is doctored  —  “Boy passes Joe Biden a vial of fresh blood to drink on his way back to the White House”  —  stated on December 14, 2021 in a Facebook post:  —  “Santa Claus arrested by German police for not wearing a mask.”
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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The White House:
Remarks by President Biden at South Carolina State University's 2021 Fall Commencement Ceremony
Discussion: Townhall
Orlando Sentinel:
Operative pitched secretive political spending plan to FPL exec's email alias, records reveal
David Gilbert / VICE:
Meet Phil Waldron, the Man Who Used PowerPoint to Incite an Insurrection
Jasmine Geonzon / Media Matters for America:
Fox News pushes to ban two LGBTQ books, lies that they “promote pedophilia”
Allahpundit / HotAir:
New woke buzzword just dropped: “Policy violence”
Discussion: Fox News, The Daily Caller and Townhall
Kevin Daley / Washington Free Beacon:
Influential Judge Deals Blow to Biden's Employer Vaccine Mandate
Discussion: Townhall
Associated Press:
Far-right using COVID-19 theories to grow reach, study shows
Discussion: Associated Press
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Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News:
“Corrosive Communities”: How A Facebook Fight Over Wind Power Predicts the Future of Local Politics in America
Discussion: Substack
Anna North / Vox:
The world as we know it is ending. Why are we still at work?
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Herschel Walker's campaign falsely claimed he graduated from college