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10:55 AM ET, December 21, 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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Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
Liberal lawmakers don't want to talk about scaling back their ambitions to revive some of what Joe Manchin killed  —  Liberals are furious.  —  Their hopes of enacting an expansive domestic policy bill focused on health care, education and climate change have been dashed.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The search for a Plan B begins
Discussion: Political Wire and TheBlaze
Washington Examiner:
West Virginia is lucky to have an honest senator like Joe Manchin
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Biden Should Take Manchin's Deal Right Now
ABC News:
Biden to announce plan to mail 500 million free rapid tests to Americans next month  —  The president also aims to deploy 1,000 military doctors and nurses.  —  President Joe Biden will announce a plan on Tuesday to distribute 500 million free at-home rapid tests to Americans beginning …
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The White House:
FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces New Actions to Protect Americans and Help Communities and Hospitals Battle Omicron  —  Today, President Biden will announce new actions to protect Americans and help communities and hospitals battle Omicron, building on the robust plan he announced earlier …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
To Fight Omicron, Biden Plans Aid From Military and 500 Million Tests  —  The president is set to unveil his initiatives, which also include creating new federal testing sites and deploying federal vaccinators, in a speech on Tuesday.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden will announce new steps …
New York Times:
Jan. 6 Committee Weighs Possibility of Criminal Referrals  —  The House panel is examining whether there is enough evidence to recommend that the Justice Department pursue cases against Donald J. Trump and others.  —  When the House formed a special committee this summer to investigate …
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CNN:
January 6 committee sends letter to GOP Rep. Scott Perry, asking to interview him
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Thomas Friedman's columns prompt a different kind of ethical question for the New York Times  —  In two dozen opinion columns published by the New York Times over the past 15 years, Thomas Friedman has favorably cited the environmental organization Conservation International.
Politico:
Democrats riled by Spanish-language radio attacks on Kamala Harris  —  Florida Democrats are sounding alarms over what they believe is a sustained and coordinated campaign rapidly unfolding across Spanish-language media to tarnish the image of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo, Raw Story and CNN
Dana Priest / Washington Post:
A UAE agency put Pegasus spyware on phone of Jamal Khashoggi's wife months before his murder, new forensics show … Emirates flight attendant Hanan Elatr surrendered her two Android cellphones, laptop and passwords when security agents surrounded her at the Dubai airport.
Discussion: Associated Press
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.
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Stephen Kruiser / pjmedia.com:
The Morning Briefing: Democrat Psychopaths to America—Merry Christmas!  You're All Gonna Die!  —  Top O' the Briefing  —  Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends.  They're doing magical things with kimchi if you just keep an open mind.  —  It has been one of those Decembers …
Discussion: Townhall and The Western Journal
Doug Sosnik / Washington Post:
As the GOP sheds its moderates, a whirlwind approaches  —  Doug Sosnik was a senior adviser to Bill Clinton from 1994 to 2000 and is a counselor to the Brunswick Group.  —  We don't need to wait for the results of next year's midterm elections to know that a political shock wave is headed toward Washington.
Discussion: Mediaite
Emma Goldberg / New York Times:
Fox tightens its vaccine rule, removing a test-out option for N.Y.C. office workers.  —  Fox Corporation, the owner of Fox News, told employees on Friday that those working in New York City would have to show proof they'd had at least one dose of the Covid vaccine by Dec. 27, removing the option to get tested weekly instead.
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 …
Discussion: New York Post
Michael Martz / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Spanberger privately says she's prepared to run in new Northern Virginia 7th District if map holds  —  Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-7th, is telling state legislators privately that she will run in the newly configured 7th Congressional District in Northern Virginia if the state Supreme Court's …
Discussion: Townhall
Jackson Richman / Mediaite:
Steve Bannon Threatens to Take Over the ‘Election Apparatus’ and ‘The Secretaries of State’  —  Former senior Trump adviser Steve Bannon threatened on Monday to take over the U.S. “election apparatus.”  —  During his weekday internet show War Room Pandemic, Bannon, who was indicted last month …
Discussion: YouTube
Kerry Howley / New York Magazine:
Gina.  Rosanne.  Guy. … They can't arrest us all," a future defendant had posted days before, and this was the vibe in the moment, the ecstatic invulnerability that leads someone to smear feces on the floor of the building in which the most powerful country on earth writes its rules.
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Dan Bongino threatened to quit his radio show over a vaccine mandate.  So, why hasn't he?  —  Two months later, the conservative host says he's still in an ‘ongoing fight’ about the mandate with his employer, Cumulus Media  —  Two months ago, Dan Bongino sounded ready to give …
Discussion: Raw Story
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Republican candidates across the country refuse to acknowledge Biden won legitimately  —  Mary Trump on the real danger of Trump's election lie  —  Washington (CNN)Five Republican candidates for governor of Minnesota were asked at a forum last Wednesday whether they thought President Joe Biden won a …
Akela Lacy / The Intercept:
Right-Wing Groups Opposed to Government Aid Cashed In While Collecting PPP Loans … “Government spending is a HUGE problem,” the conservative video site PragerU tweeted in September 2019.  “We must reinvest in Americans by giving them a hand up, not handouts,” the group wrote in another tweet …
Discussion: Raw Story
Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Crime a top worry for Latinos  —  Latinos say crime and gun violence is their number two concern — behind COVID-19 and before immigration, social justice or voting rights — in our inaugural Axios-Ipsos Latino Poll in partnership with Noticias Telemundo.
Los Angeles Times:
Latino political power is a big winner in California's new congressional map  —  Latino voters would see a major boost in political clout under new congressional and legislative districts approved unanimously Monday by the independent citizen panel charged with redrawing the state's political map.
Lisa Fickenscher / New York Post:
Amazon deleted reviews of Chinese president's book on government's orders: report  —  Didn't like Chinese President Xi Jinping's book?  Keep your mouth shut.  —  That's what China told Amazon, according to a new report, when the country pushed the bookseller to delete all comments and reviews related to …
Discussion: The Times
 
 
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Biden vowed a return to normalcy — instead, we got a year of chaos
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Pentagon Updates Its Rules on Extremism in the Military
Discussion: UPI and Washington Post
Washington Free Beacon:
Power Underreported Investments by Nearly $1 Million Ahead of Senate Confirmation, Complaint Alleges
Discussion: Instapundit
Joseph G. Allen / New York Times:
We Learned Our Lesson Last Year: Do Not Close Schools
Discussion: Twitchy
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Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:
CIA advisor and expert in foreign conflicts believes the US is ‘closer to civil war than anyone would like to believe’ and claims America is no longer a democracy but an ‘anocracy’
NBC News:
Food suppliers blame inflation for price hikes. Lawmakers say they're padding the bill.
Discussion: The Hill, Twitchy and New York Times
The Daily Beast:
Actor Jay Johnston Told Me He Was at the Capitol Riot, Says Director
Discussion: Raw Story and BizPac Review
Miami Herald:
Logs show Trump flew more often on Epstein jets than was known
Discussion: Political Wire
 

 
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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

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
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