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William Grimes / New York Times:
Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87  —  She established a distinctive voice in American fiction before turning to political reporting and screenplay writing.  But it was California, her native state, that provided her with her richest material.
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Harrison Smith / Washington Post:
Joan Didion, who chronicled American decadence and hypocrisy, dies at 87  —  Joan Didion, a virtuosic prose stylist who for more than four decades explored the agitated, fractured state of the American psyche in her novels, essays, criticism and memoirs, and who as one of the “New Journalists” …
Parul Sehgal / New York Times:
Joan Didion Chronicled American Disorder With Her Own Unmistakable Style  —  The generation-defining essayist and novelist was preoccupied with mythos — and gifted at fashioning her own.  —  Joan Didion was 5 years old when she wrote her first story, upon the instruction of her mother …
Elaine Woo / Los Angeles Times:
Joan Didion, masterful novelist, memoirist and social critic, dies at 87
Washington Post:
Trump asks Supreme Court to withhold records from House Jan. 6 committee  —  Lawyers for former president Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to block release of his White House records to a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
What Jim Jordan knows about Trump's coup attempt — and what he may cover up  —  The House select committee examining Jan. 6 appears increasingly focused on a highly consequential question: What did Donald Trump say and do as he watched the violent assault on the Capitol unfold over the course of at least two hours?
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trumpland has a new favorite Jan. 6 conspiracy theory  —  It remains wild that there is still, to this day, a concerted effort to suggest that the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was somehow not directly a function of President Donald Trump and his supporters.
Discussion: ABC News and Raw Story
Politico:
Senate GOP feels another Trump effect: The rise of celeb candidates  —  The most reliable springboard to the Senate used to be House experience — before Donald Trump vaulted from reality TV to the White House.  —  Five years after Trump went from celebrity to the presidency …
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Trump Pushes Back on Candace Owens Undermining Vaccine: 'People Aren't Dying When They Take the Vaccine'  —  Former President Donald Trump pushed back on Candace Jones during a recent interview when the conservative commentator appeared to be undermining the efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccines to hurt President Joe Biden politically.
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Rebukes Candace Owens' Anti-Vax Talking Points: ‘The Vaccine Works’
Discussion: The Hill, alicublog and Mediaite
New York Times:
Kamala Harris's Allies Express Concern: Is She an Afterthought?  —  The vice president's allies are increasingly concerned that President Biden relied on her to win but does not need her to govern.  —  WASHINGTON — The president needed the senator from West Virginia on his side …
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W. James Antle III / Washington Examiner:
White House pressed on whether COVID-19 testing website will be better than botched Obamacare site
Discussion: Fox News and POLITICUSUSA
New York Times:
Will Donald Trump Get Away With Inciting an Insurrection?  —  Mr. Tribe taught constitutional law at Harvard for 50 years.  Merrick Garland was one of his students.  Mr. Ayer oversaw criminal prosecutions and investigations as Ronald Reagan's U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California.
Discussion: Reason and Raw Story
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
The Obscure Charge Jan. 6 Investigators Are Looking at for Trump  —  Prosecutors have hit 240 insurrectionists with the rare charge of obstructing an official congressional proceeding.  The Jan. 6 Committee might be looking at that charge for Trump.  —  As federal prosecutors increasingly use …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:   Enough despair. We cannot be victims of excessive expectations.
Zachary Cohen / CNN:
CNN Exclusive: US intel and satellite images show Saudi Arabia is now building its own ballistic missiles with help of China  —  Washington (CNN)US intelligence agencies have assessed that Saudi Arabia is now actively manufacturing its own ballistic missiles with the help of China …
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
The problem with performative centrism  —  In basically every major institution in America, there are powerful figures who I doubt voted for Donald Trump but nonetheless play down the radicalism of the Republican Party, belittle those who speak honestly about it or otherwise act in ways that make it harder to combat that radicalism.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
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Ned Foley / Election Law Blog:   Could bipartisan democracy-protection have worked? Could it still?
Monique Beals / The Hill:
Five arrested in connection with carjacking of House Democrat  —  Five suspects were arrested on Wednesday in connection with “an armed carjacking incident” earlier in the day involving Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.), authorities said.  —  Delaware State Police also announced that they had located …
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NBC Chicago:
Illinois State Senator Carjacked in Suburban Broadview  —  Illinois State Sen. Kimberly Lightford and her husband were the victims of a carjacking in a Chicago suburb Tuesday evening, authorities said.  —  The Broadview Police Department said three masked people driving a Durango SUV hijacked …
Margaret Talev / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Lack of trust puts the unvaccinated at risk  —  Unvaccinated Americans' already low trust in the federal government plummeted over the course of 2021, exacerbating the challenges in getting the pandemic under control, according to a year's worth of data from the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index.
Discussion: The Hill
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump's Defeat a Year Ago Was Dunkirk, Not D-Day  —  As 2021 ends, the forces of democracy remain beleaguered and the forces of sanity on the defensive.  —  Where do we stand, as year 2021 of the common era and year one of the Biden presidency comes to an end?  —  We're much better off than we might have been.
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden's testing mess  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  The novel coronavirus is raging through Washington, D.C., which on Wednesday registered the highest per-capita rate of daily new cases in the country.  —  At the White House, both President JOE BIDEN and VP KAMALA HARRIS …
Discussion: HotAir and ABC News
Melissa Block / NPR:
The clear and present danger of Trump's enduring ‘Big Lie’  —  It's been nearly a year since the United States suffered an unprecedented attack on constitutional democracy.  —  When a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the goal was to overturn the results …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Trump Fraud Inquiry Won't Be Resolved When Vance's Term Ends Next Week  —  After leading a three-year investigation into the former president, the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., will hand it to his successor.  —  The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., has run out of time.
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Complete and Total Trump Campaign!  —  The former president's obsession with the 2020 election may lead to GOP losses in the next two.  —  President Trump has formally endorsed 85 Republican candidates so far this year, probably far more than any other president so soon after leaving office.
Discussion: Raw Story
Kenneth Garger / New York Post:
Macron's wife plans to sue over false claims she is transgender  —  French President Emmanuel Macron's wife, Brigitte, plans to take legal action after a bizarre disinformation campaign was launched against her falsely claiming she was born a man.  —  The rumors appeared to have originated …
NBC News:
The Taliban have halted all evacuee flights out of Afghanistan for the past two weeks  —  The Taliban want to use the flights to send their own people abroad to earn desperately needed money.  The Afghan economy is in tatters.  —  The Taliban have halted all flights of Afghan evacuees …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Biden backs exception to filibuster for voting rights bills  —  President Biden says he supports creating an exception to the legislative filibuster in the Senate in order to pass voting rights legislation over Republican opposition.  —  Biden told ABC News' David Muir in a portion …
Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Walker's financial disclosure give us a peak into a sports icon's wealth  —  U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker's financial disclosures were posted late Wednesday, and it shows he has a number of lucrative businesses.The document shows his umbrella organization for his various business endeavors …
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Business appears complacent about US democratic stability  —  It is time for corporate America to back its fine talk on voting rights with concerted support for legislation  —  At key moments between November 2020 and January 2021, America's business community did something extraordinary.
 
 
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Reuters:
Large holiday gatherings in U.S. not safe even if boosted, Fauci says
Discussion: The Western Journal
Tim De Chant / Ars Technica:
2021 was the year the world finally turned on Facebook
Darragh Roche / Newsweek:
Jen Psaki Mocked Free At-Home Tests Three Weeks Before Omicron Testing Crisis Hit America
Katelyn Burns / MSNBC:
‘The Matrix Resurrections’ makes more room for trans identity in corporate Hollywood
Discussion: Politico, The Daily Wire and The Ringer
Jonathan Shorman / Kansas City Star:
DOJ: Missouri let fugitive go because of Second Amendment law
Discussion: Raw Story
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
America's Christmas Present Is All the Democrats' Dreams Dying
 Earlier Items: 
US Food and Drug Administration:
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Additional Oral Antiviral for Treatment of COVID-19 in Certain Adults
American Greatness:
Please—Stop the Coup Porn
Brian C. Joondeph / American Thinker:
Is COVID Now Becoming a Pandemic of the Vaccinated?
Wall Street Journal:
Covid-19 Marches Toward Endemic Status in U.S. as Omicron Spreads
Roger Scruton / The New Criterion:
The right targets  —  Introducing “Common-good conservatism: a debate.”
Maya King / Politico:
Republicans are trying to pin the ‘Big Lie’ on Stacey Abrams
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone does not plan to stay on the board of Paramount Global after the company completes its planned merger with Skydance Media

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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