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8:05 PM ET, December 20, 2021

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Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Biden and Manchin speak  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and President Joe Biden spoke Sunday night after a major blowup in negotiations around the president's domestic agenda, three people familiar with the call told POLITICO.  —  The conversation ended with a sense that negotiations would …
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Washington Post:
Manchin's private offer to Biden included pre-k, climate money, Obamacare — but excluded child benefit  —  The West Virginia Democrat tried to pare back a tax and spending package, stripping out pieces the White House wanted to keep.  —  Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Biden Should Take Manchin's Deal Right Now … Sunday morning, Joe Manchin threw a giant twist into the plot of the Biden presidency by announcing his opposition to the administration's signature domestic agenda.  But the new plot had a gaping hole: Biden noted that, a few days before walking away …
Steve Clemons / The Hill:
White House incivility is what ‘lost’ Joe Manchin  —  President Biden is, at most times, a brilliant negotiator.  He seduces foreign leaders by working hard to know what they care about.  He often brings along his grandchildren to remind them that decisions they make now will affect those kids and their futures.
HuffPost:
Joe Manchin Privately Told Colleagues Parents Use Child Tax Credit Money On Drugs
Valerie Volcovici / Reuters:   U.S. coal miners' union asks Manchin to ‘revisit’ opposition to spending bill
Axios:
Manchin's next move
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Manchin to Dems: Redo the whole thing, maybe I'll vote for it
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:   Joe Manchin and Reckoning with the Political World As It Is
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
House Jan. 6 committee seeks information from GOP Rep. Perry about communications with Trump White House officials  —  The House select committee investigating the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 sent a letter on Monday to Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) requesting he provide information …
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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
White House says Biden came in close contact with COVID-infected staffer
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Bidens add to their family with new first puppy
Discussion: The Hill, UPI and The Daily Caller
Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
Omicron sweeps across nation, now 73% of US COVID-19 cases  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Omicron has raced ahead of other variants and is now the dominant version of the coronavirus in the U.S., accounting for 73% of new infections last week, federal health officials said Monday.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and NBC Chicago
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
CDC: Omicron now a majority of US COVID-19 cases — 73 percent
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Times:
Trump Sues New York A.G. in Attempt to Stop Inquiry Into His Business  —  The attorney general, Letitia James, is seeking to question the former president under oath next month as part of a long-running investigation.  —  Donald J. Trump filed a lawsuit on Monday against the New York State attorney general …
Robert T. Garrett / Dallas Morning News:
Journalist, Dallas Morning News politics reporter, author Wayne Slater killed in car crash  —  Slater, who chronicled two Texas governors' rise to national prominence and co-wrote two books about George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove, was 74.  —  AUSTIN — Retired Dallas Morning News Austin bureau chief …
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump met with boos after revealing he received Covid-19 booster  —  (CNN)Former President Donald Trump was booed by a portion of an audience in Dallas on Sunday when he said he had received a Covid-19 booster shot, according to video of the closed press event that was shared on social media.
Matthew A. Winkler / Bloomberg:
Biden's Economic Performance Has Proved Unbeatable  —  No first-year president going back to Carter comes close to matching the current White House occupant's No. 1 or No. 2 ranking in each of 10 key measures.  —  U.S. financial markets are outperforming the world by the biggest margin in the 21st century …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
J.D. Vance Is Now Pushing False Conspiracy Theories About “Quarantine Camps”  —  Seems a little crazy!  —  It should be generally assumed when somebody starts talking about concentration or internment camps, outside of the historical context (Nazis, Japanese internment) …
Discussion: New York Times and Overtime
Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
Fanone resigns from D.C. police force 11 months after battling insurrectionist mob at Capitol  —  Michael Fanone, the D.C. police officer who was dragged into a mob and beaten during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and later publicly excoriated lawmakers and others who downplayed the attack …
Discussion: Forbes, Mediaite and Twitchy
Blake Stuerman / Variety:
My Traumatizing Years With Bryan Singer … I turned 18 in March of 2009.  Just days after my birthday, my life would change forever.  —  I was working in New York as an assistant scenic designer when I was introduced to Bryan Singer.  Bryan had heard about me through Gary Goddard …
Discussion: Rolling Stone
The Hill:
Powerful House Democratic appropriator not seeking reelection  —  Longtime Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), the powerful chair of an Appropriations subcommittee overseeing immigration issues, will not seek reelection in 2022, two sources familiar with her decision told The Hill on Monday.
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Murphy, a leader of House Dem centrists, won't seek reelection
Techno Fog / The Reactionary:
It's official: Durham is investigating the Clinton Campaign.  —  Enter the Clinton Campaign Lawyers  —  The latest filings by Special Counsel John Durham reveal that lawyers for the Hillary Clinton Campaign now represent Christopher Steele primary subsource Igor Danchenko.
David H. Freedman / Newsweek:
Millions of Angry, Armed Americans Stand Ready to Seize Power If Trump Loses in 2024  —  Mike “Wompus” Nieznany is a 73-year-old Vietnam veteran who walks with a cane from the combat wounds he received during his service.  That disability doesn't keep Nieznany from making …
Discussion: Raw Story and Twitchy
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
QAnon cultists are now drinking bleach compound from communal bowl: ‘Immediately evokes images of Jonestown’  —  QAnon cultists gathered in Dallas have started drinking an industrial disinfectant mixed into a chemical cocktail.  —  Family members of a Delaware woman who left her husband …
Brandon Brown / Newsweek:
My Name Is Brandon  —  My name is Brandon.  Brandon Brown, to be specific.  Yes, that Brandon.  —  I am Brandon, the NASCAR driver and unlikely meme.  A 28-year-old who now finds himself in the middle of the American political conversation.  As a pro driver, I never expected to be in the passenger seat of my own viral moment.
The Times of Israel:
DC 3rd graders made to reenact Holocaust ‘because Jews ruined Christmas’  —  Children told to simulate digging mass graves and shooting victims; Jewish student cast as Hitler and made to pretend to commit suicide at end of exercise  —  A staff member at a Washington DC school has been suspended …
PBS NewsHour:
Biden's approval dips to new low as independents sour on his leadership  —  As President Joe Biden heads into the end of the year, he's facing a sour reality: The number of Americans who approve of his performance has hit a new low.  Just 41 percent of Americans approve of the job he has been doing …
The Guardian:
Revealed: the Florida power company pushing legislation to slow rooftop solar  —  Florida Power & Light delivered bill text to a state lawmaker.  Its parent company sent $10,000 to her campaign coffers  —  Mary Ellen Klas for the Miami Herald and Mario Alejandro Ariza for Floodlight
 
 
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New York Post:
New NY health commissioner Bassett tests positive for COVID: Hochul
Discussion: City & State New York
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / MSNBC:
Trump loves American Jews and Israel — until he doesn't
Discussion: The Beinart Notebook and Raw Story
Politico:
Alex Jones sues Jan. 6 committee, indicates plan to plead the Fifth
Discussion: Dallas Observer
U.S. Department of Defense:
Department of Defense Releases Report on Countering Extremist Activities and Outlines Next Steps
Discussion: ABC News and Fox News
Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Foreign Drones Tip the Balance in Ethiopia's Civil War
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Dan Christensen / Florida Bulldog:
Conservative Florida pundit awaiting trial for allegedly funneling Russian money to Trump campaign dies
Discussion: Raw Story
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Lolita Baldor / Military Times:
Pentagon issues rules aimed at stopping rise of extremism
Discussion: HotAir, Raw Story and Twitchy
Fox News:
Saudi Arabian ‘potential terrorist’ nabbed at US-Mexico border; ties to Yemeni subjects of interest, feds say
Discussion: New York Post
Freddie deBoer:
Covid Panic is a Site of Inter-Elite Competition
Discussion: HotAir
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon Vows to Take Over Entire U.S. ‘Election Apparatus’
Discussion: The Daily Beast
The Texas Tribune:
The push to ban books in Texas schools spreads to public libraries
CREW:
CREW files criminal complaint against Trump, Pompeo and Wolf
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
John B. Washington / The Atlantic:
Trump's Big Border Wall Is Now a Pile of Rusting Steel
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Raw Story
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Oust Trump coup planners, enablers and provocateurs from public office. They betrayed us.
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
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