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5:45 PM ET, December 20, 2021

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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.) …
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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 …
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 …
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.
CNN:
How months of talks between Biden and Manchin over Build Back Better broke down  —  (CNN)President Joe Biden was at home in Delaware Sunday when Sen. Joe Manchin appeared on Fox News to abruptly declare he could not support his sweeping social and climate plan.
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 …
HuffPost:
Joe Manchin Privately Told Colleagues Parents Use Child Tax Credit Money On Drugs
Axios:
Manchin's next move
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Congress is on the brink of an immense health policy failure
Discussion: Politico
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:   Joe Manchin and Reckoning with the Political World As It Is
Alan Cole / Full Stack Economics:
Joe Manchin's friends aren't listening to him
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
The White House's extraordinary, furious statement about Joe Manchin
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 …
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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
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Murphy, a leader of House Dem centrists, won't seek reelection
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Why Trump appears deeply unnerved as Capitol attack investigation closes in  —  Flurry of recent revelations raises the specter that the committee is swiftly heading towards an incriminating conclusion  —  Donald Trump is increasingly agitated by the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Alex Jones sues Jan. 6 committee, indicates plan to plead the Fifth
Discussion: Dallas Observer
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: Twitchy and Raw Story
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.
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 …
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 …
The Texas Tribune:
The push to ban books in Texas schools spreads to public libraries  —  Some Texas residents are asking for greater say in what titles appear on public library shelves.  —  Copy link  —  When the Llano County Library shuts down for three days this week, starting Tuesday, it won't be for the holidays.
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 …
Dan Christensen / Florida Bulldog:
Conservative Florida pundit awaiting trial for allegedly funneling Russian money to Trump campaign dies  —  A longtime conservative political commentator and author under federal indictment for conspiring to illegally funnel Russian money to the Trump campaign in 2016 has died.
Discussion: Raw Story
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
US Food and Drug Administration:
FDA Approves First Injectable Treatment for HIV Pre-Exposure Prevention  —  Drug Given Every Two Months Rather Than Daily Pill is Important Tool in Effort to End the HIV Epidemic  —  For Immediate Release:  —  Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Apretude …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
New York Times:
Buying Influence: How China Manipulates Facebook and Twitter  —  境外.交平 台注册  —  Register accounts on foreign social media platforms  —  按月报单 价  —  境外.交平 台账号伪装 ; 及.护
CREW:
CREW files criminal complaint against Trump, Pompeo and Wolf  —  Washington — Federal prosecutors should investigate whether Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo and Chad Wolf committed criminal violations of the Hatch Act, according to a complaint filed today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon Vows to Take Over Entire U.S. ‘Election Apparatus’  —  OH, GREAT  —  Former Trump official turned right-wing provocateur Steve Bannon took things a step further Monday morning, pledging to one day soon take over the entire “election apparatus” in the United States.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
U.S. Department of Defense:
Department of Defense Releases Report on Countering Extremist Activities and Outlines Next Steps  —  On February 3, 2021, Secretary Austin directed a one-day stand down at all levels to hold an in-depth conversation on the values underpinning national service, the oath of office …
Discussion: Fox News
John B. Washington / The Atlantic:
Trump's Big Border Wall Is Now a Pile of Rusting Steel  —  Tens of thousands of heavy steel slats, once destined to become part of former President Donald Trump's border wall, are slowly rusting in the open air throughout the southwestern borderlands.  The bollards—18- or 33-foot-long hollow posts …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Raw Story
 
 
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat / MSNBC:
Trump loves American Jews and Israel — until he doesn't
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Pelosi announces plans for ‘solemn observance’ of one-year anniversary of Jan. 6 insurrection
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Hill
Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Foreign Drones Tip the Balance in Ethiopia's Civil War
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Lolita Baldor / Military Times:
Pentagon issues rules aimed at stopping rise of extremism
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Fox News:
Saudi Arabian ‘potential terrorist’ nabbed at US-Mexico border; ties to Yemeni subjects of interest, feds say
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Covid Panic is a Site of Inter-Elite Competition
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Travel Advisory  —  Ukraine - Level 4: Do Not Travel  —  The Department of State continues …
Daniel N. Gullotta / The Bulwark:
When Christmas Was Really Under Attack
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Leia Idliby / Mediaite:
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Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Oust Trump coup planners, enablers and provocateurs from public office. They betrayed us.
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