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9:10 PM ET, December 22, 2021

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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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Teaganne Finn / NBC News:
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon carjacked at gunpoint in Philadelphia
Discussion: CBS Philly and Washington Times
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Rep. Scanlon ‘unharmed’ after being carjacked at gunpoint in Philadelphia
Discussion: ABC News, Associated Press and The Hill
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
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
President Biden to ABC's David Muir on at-home COVID testing: 'Nothing's been good enough'
EJ Dickson / Rolling Stone:   The Jonas Brothers Made a Vaccine PSA TikTok With President Biden — and It Massively Backfired
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 …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Supreme Court will hear challenge to Biden Covid vaccine mandates
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
William Booth / Washington Post:
Real-world data from U.K. suggests omicron is less likely than delta to send people to the hospital  —  LONDON — Researchers looking at real-world coronavirus cases in Britain reported Wednesday that the omicron variant of the coronavirus appears to be less severe than the once-dominant delta strain.
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Janice Kew / Bloomberg:
Omicron Has 80% Lower Risk of Hospitalization, New Study Shows
Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:
Omicron Is the Beginning of the End
Discussion: Bloomberg
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Michael Flynn loses his legal challenge to the House January 6 probe, one day after filing it  —  (CNN)Michael Flynn has swiftly lost his bid in court to block a possible House select committee subpoena for his phone records and to hold off demands he speak to the panel investigating January 6.
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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
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Why Christmas Gifts Are Arriving on Time This Year  —  Fears that a disrupted supply chain could wreak havoc on the logistics industry over the holiday turned out to be wrong as many Americans ordered early and shopped in stores.  —  The warnings started to stream in early this fall: Shop early or you may not get your gifts on time.
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Politico:
Biden aides catch the holiday blues
Discussion: Bloomberg
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden gets an early Christmas gift: Good economic news
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
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).
Mike Spies / New Yorker:
N.R.A. Chief Wayne LaPierre's Misleading Testimony About Free Yacht Trips in the Bahamas  —  Documents and accounts of former staffers, which raise questions about LaPierre's statements, could strengthen the New York attorney general's lawsuit to dissolve the gun-rights group.
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Mike Spies / The Trace:   Wayne LaPierre Testified He Fled to the Bahamas for ‘Security.’ Documents and Interviews Tell a Different Story.
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
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
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
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.
Discussion: USA Today and POLITICUSUSA
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
House Jan. 6 probe seeks information from Rep. Jim Jordan about his contact with Trump
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Covid Live Updates: Omicron Cases Appear Less Severe, 2 U.K. Studies Say  —  Experts warned that hospitals could still be flooded, because the variant is so transmissible.  The F.D.A. authorized Pfizer's Covid pills for high-risk patients 12 and older, a treatment that could be available within days.
Discussion: TechCrunch, STAT, Bloomberg and Reason
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Jared S. Hopkins / Wall Street Journal:
Pfizer's Covid-19 Pill Authorized in U.S.
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.
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
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
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.
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
 
 
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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
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
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