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11:00 PM ET, December 22, 2021

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David Gilbert / VICE:
People Got Sick at a Conspiracy Conference.  They're Sure It's Anthrax.  —  The fact that the conference was likely a COVID outbreak and superspreader event has been almost entirely ignored.  —  DG  —  A group of unvaccinated people who attended a huge conspiracy conference in Dallas earlier …
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Biden tells ABC's David Muir ‘yes’ he'll run again, Trump rematch would ‘increase the prospect’  —  He spoke with “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir in an exclusive interview.  —  President Joe Biden said Wednesday in an exclusive interview with ABC “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir that …
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Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
President Biden to ABC's David Muir: Accountability needed for Jan. 6 insurrection ‘no matter where it goes’  —  He spoke with “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir in an exclusive interview.  —  President Joe Biden said Wednesday in an exclusive interview with ABC “World News Tonight” …
Discussion: Politico
Jon Brown / Fox News:
Biden says 2024 reelection run depends on his health
Discussion: ABC News and Washington Post
EJ Dickson / Rolling Stone:   The Jonas Brothers Made a Vaccine PSA TikTok With President Biden — and It Massively Backfired
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon carjacked and robbed in South Philly after touring FDR Park  —  U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon was carjacked and robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight on Wednesday afternoon shortly after finishing a meeting at FDR Park, her office and police officials confirmed.
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Janice Kew / Bloomberg:
Omicron Has 80% Lower Risk of Hospitalization, New Study Shows
Mara Gay / New York Times:
The Rise of Eric Adams and Black New York  —  Ms. Gay is a member of the editorial board.  —  It was winter in Black New York, and the last thing Eric Leroy Adams wanted to do was join the New York City Police Department.  —  It was the early 1980s and waves of joblessness and crime …
Jason Stanley / The Guardian:
America is now in fascism's legal phase  —  The history of racism in the US is fertile ground for fascism.  Attacks on the courts, education, the right to vote and women's rights are further steps on the path to toppling democracy  —  et us be reminded that before there is a final solution …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ruby Cramer / Politico:
‘Have I Hit Bottom?’:  Michael Avenatti and the Fall of a Trump-Era Antihero  —  VENICE, Calif. — Inside a two-bedroom apartment, 11 blocks from the ocean, there is a man in free fall, though he has nowhere to go.  He wears a monitor on his right ankle, government-issued, blinking green beneath his tapered track pants.
Discussion: HotAir and Twitchy
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Trump's Handling of COVID Was Worse Than You Thought.  —  1. Early COVID  —  Last week the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis issued a report, along with a release of some emails and interviews.  —  First things first: This report is not what America needs.
Discussion: Overtime
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Biden Won Big With a Bad Hand  —  Relative to its strength in Congress, the Biden administration has proved outstandingly successful.  —  About the author: David Frum is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy (2020).
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sets special hearing for Biden's vaccine rules for health-care workers, private businesses  —  The Supreme Court Wednesday night announced it will hold a special hearing next month to consider challenges to the Biden administration's pandemic efforts to impose a nationwide vaccine …
Mike Spies / The Trace:
Wayne LaPierre Testified He Fled to the Bahamas for ‘Security.’ Documents and Interviews Tell a Different Story.  —  The NRA chief's misleading statements about his yacht trip after Sandy Hook and his niece's employment could strengthen the New York attorney general's attempt to dissolve the gun group.
National Review:
End the Covid-Zero Mentality  —  As the Omicron variant rips through areas of the United States with among the highest vaccination rates in the world, it should be abundantly clear that we will not be able to “end” Covid.  But we still have the power to end the “Covid zero” mentality.
Washington Post:
Inside the nonstop pressure campaign by Trump allies to get election officials to revisit the 2020 vote  —  More than a year after Donald Trump lost the presidency, election officials across the country are facing a growing barrage of claims that the vote was not secure and demands to investigate …
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Biden aides catch the holiday blues  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  With Allie Bice.  —  About two months ago during a fire drill, the White House emptied and aides congregated outside.
Discussion: Insider and Bloomberg
Peter Hamby / Puck:
The Biden Youth Bomb  —  Joe Biden was elected to be competent, compromising, and stoic.  But his staggering—no, seriously, staggering—unpopularity among younger voters suggests that the Democratic establishment really doesn't have an earthly idea about what matters to their kids.
Discussion: New York Times
Jonathan S. Tobin / Haaretz:
Trump Just Crossed a Red Line for His Evangelical and Jewish Fans  —  Trump's obscenities and antisemitic tropes don't bother his Jewish fans.  But a recent quote has stunned his pro-Israel base, evangelicals and Jews, to the core - and could complicate his chances for a second term  —  Zen Read
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
Democrats Score a Big Win in California Redistricting Map  —  On Monday, California's citizens' redistricting commission voted 14-0 to approve a map that's a dream for Democrats.  Technically, the commission (five Democrats, five Republicans and four others) was prohibited from taking partisan or incumbent data into consideration.
Discussion: Sacramento Bee
The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden Extending the Pause on Student Loan Repayment an Additional 90 Days  —  When I came into office, we were facing a number of unprecedented crises.  Our economy was creating only 50,000 new jobs per month, less than 1 percent of Americans were fully vaccinated …
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Washington Post:
Biden administration extends federal student loan payment pause until May
Discussion: New York Magazine
BBC:
Brigitte Macron to sue over false claims she was born male  —  Brigitte Macron is set to take legal action over an internet conspiracy theory that she is a transgender woman and was born male.  —  The French first lady has been targeted on social media with the false claims …
Adam Jentleson / Washington Post:
Here's how Democrats can fix the Build Back Better mess — and appease Manchin  —  If Democrats take Manchin's own proposal seriously — with one small addition — they might be able to move ahead  —  Clearly, mistakes were made with the Build Back Better bill.  —  Who was at fault?  Tough to say.
Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
On More Generous Terms, Obamacare Proves Newly Popular  —  Record sign-ups, even in states that had resisted expanding health coverage under the Affordable Care Act.  —  A record number of Americans — 13.6 million — have signed up for health plans through the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces for 2022 …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Quint Forgey / Politico:
‘The runner-up is almost always the next nominee’: Cruz says he's well-positioned for 2024  —  Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday argued he is particularly well-positioned to win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, citing his second-place finish behind then-candidate Donald Trump in the party's 2016 primary.
Kira Lerner / The States:
Candidates fighting 2020 misinformation run to administer local elections  —  As a chemist and immigrant from Vietnam, Linh Nguyen never thought she could have a role in U.S. politics.  But then Donald Trump was elected president in 2016 and he “unknowingly inspired minority leaders …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
U.S. opens investigation into 580,000 Tesla vehicles over game feature  —  U.S auto safety regulators said Wednesday they have opened a formal safety investigation into 580,000 Tesla vehicles sold since 2017 over the automaker's decision to allow games to be played on the front center touchscreen.
Select Committee to Investigate …:
Select Committee Requests Information from Representative Jordan  —  Bolton, MS—Chairman Bennie G. Thompson today announced that the Select Committee has requested that Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio provide information for the committee's investigation into the violence of January 6th and its causes.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
House Jan. 6 probe seeks information from Rep. Jim Jordan about his contact with Trump
 
 
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Matthew Perrone / Associated Press:
Pfizer pill becomes 1st US-authorized home COVID treatment
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden gets an early Christmas gift: Good economic news
Eric Levai / The Daily Dot:
Rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 are now asking the government to forgive their PPP loans
Discussion: Raw Story
Marshall News Messenger:
Guest Column: Invest in rural areas like Marshall to help them thrive
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Roger Stone is selling a Trump autograph NFT to pay his legal bills
Discussion: Forbes and Raw Story
Todd Neikirk / HillReporter.com:
WATCH: Charlie Kirk Compares the Persecution of Kyle Rittenhouse to That of Jesus Christ
Discussion: Political Flare
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
India's Christians Attacked Under Anti-Conversion Laws
Discussion: The Western Journal
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump says new media company could be up and running by end of first quarter 2022
Discussion: Political Flare and Raw Story
PNAS:
Algorithmic amplification of politics on Twitter
John Murawski / RealClearInvestigations:
No Critical Race Theory in Schools? Here's the Abundant Evidence Saying Otherwise
Discussion: National Review
Jason Dearen / Associated Press:
He wore a wire, risked his life to expose who was in the KKK
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How bad will 2022 be for Democrats? A new party analysis sounds the alarm.
Discussion: Townhall
New York Times:
The F.B.I. Deployed Surveillance Teams Inside Portland Protests
Discussion: S.T.O.P. and Digby's Hullabaloo
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Why Christmas Gifts Are Arriving on Time This Year
 

 
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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
As the NYT Tech Guild goes on strike, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas offers the AI company's services to the NYT to help ensure election coverage is available

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

Elisabeth Egan / New York Times:
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