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8:00 PM ET, December 23, 2021

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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?
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
Washington Post:
Thompson says Jan. 6 committee focused on Trump's hours of silence during attack, weighing criminal referrals  —  The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is focusing intently on Donald Trump's actions that day as it begins to discuss whether to recommend …
Discussion: UPI and Washington Times
New York Times:
Will Donald Trump Get Away With Inciting an Insurrection?
Discussion: Reason and Raw Story
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trumpland has a new favorite Jan. 6 conspiracy theory
Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story
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
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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Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
MAGA Cartoonist Ben Garrison Turns on Trump After Pro-Vaccine Comments  —  Controversial cartoonist Ben Garrison's latest offering takes aim at former President Donald Trump - who once invited him to the White House for a social media summit.  —  Garrison's cartoon shows a distraught Trump riding …
Discussion: Rolling Stone and Washington Post
Olafimihan Oshin / The Hill:
Trump pushes back on Candace Owens: 'People aren't dying when they take the vaccine'
Justice News:
Wilmington Man to Face Federal Charges For Armed Carjacking in FDR Park Yesterday Afternoon  —  PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Josiah Brown, 19, of Wilmington, DE, was arrested and charged by Criminal Complaint on charges of carjacking …
Discussion: CNN, The Hill, CBS News and Fox News
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A 19-year-old has been charged in the carjacking of U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, police say.  Four other teens were also arrested  —  A 19-year-old from Wilmington, Del., was charged in federal court Thursday with participating in Wednesday's gunpoint carjacking of U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon …
Discussion: Delaware State Police, UPI and The Hill
Virginia Aabram / Washington Examiner:
Jury finds former officer Kim Potter guilty in Daunte Wright's death  —  A jury found Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who said she accidentally shot a young black man when she mistook her gun for her Taser, guilty on two manslaughter charges Thursday.
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Katherine Eban / Vanity Fair:
The Biden Administration Rejected an October Proposal for “Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays”  —  With omicron cases spreading like wildfire, the White House is finally taking steps to make free antigen tests available to all.  But this fall, Vanity Fair has learned, it dismissed a bold plan …
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden's testing mess
Discussion: New York Times and HotAir
Washington Post:
Trump's newest business partner: A Chinese firm with a history of SEC investigations  —  Shanghai-based Arc Capital, an investment firm that has been the target of probes by securities regulators, is at the center of the deal to take Trump's media venture public.
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 …
Jimmy Quinn / National Review:
A Rift in the Conservative Foreign-Policy World  —  For years an influential foreign-policy voice on the right, the American Enterprise Institute finds itself at odds with hawkish Republicans.  —  hile Donald Trump's presidency realigned the foreign-policy debate on the right …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Biden Can't Remember What He Promised on Covid-19 Testing  —  On the menu today: I would prefer to send you off into the holidays with Christmas cheer, but unfortunately, the news this morning is grim.  Roughly one year after Joe Biden pledged, “I'm not going to shut down the country …
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Darragh Roche / Newsweek:
Jen Psaki Mocked Free At-Home Tests Three Weeks Before Omicron Testing Crisis Hit America
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Davis Winkie / Army Times:
Wave of suicides hits Texas National Guard's border mission  —  Four soldiers have taken their own lives in two months  —  Pfc. Joshua R. Cortez was preparing to accept a “lifetime job” with one of the nation's biggest health insurance companies in late October.  But the Texas National Guard had other ideas.
Alexandra Marquez / CNBC:
New York will require masks and social distancing at scaled-back Times Square New Year's celebration  — Attendees at the Times Square New Year's Eve celebration will have to wear masks, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday.  — Social-distancing rules will limit the crowd …
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.
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Jared Kushner investment firm Affinity raises $3 billion in committed funding  —  Jared Kushner's global investment firm, Affinity Partners, has raised more than $3 billion in committed funding from international investors, a person familiar with the fund-raising effort told Reuters on Thursday.
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
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 …
 
 
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Chuck Ross / Washington Free Beacon:
Historian Says Princeton Left Him To ‘Rot’ in Iranian Prison
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
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Rasmussen Reports:
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Discussion: Power Line and Washington Examiner
Louis K. Bonham / Minding The Campus:
Fighting Behind Enemy Lines: Three Tactics for Resisting Wokeness from Within
Discussion: National Review
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Business appears complacent about US democratic stability
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Jonathan Shorman / Kansas City Star:
DOJ: Missouri let fugitive go because of Second Amendment law
Discussion: The Mahablog and Raw Story
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump's Defeat a Year Ago Was Dunkirk, Not D-Day
Discussion: Twitchy and NOQ Report
American Greatness:
Please—Stop the Coup Porn
Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Walker's financial disclosure give us a peak into a sports icon's wealth
Margaret Talev / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Lack of trust puts the unvaccinated at risk
Discussion: Townhall and The Hill
Melissa Block / NPR:
The clear and present danger of Trump's enduring ‘Big Lie’
Discussion: Political Flare and Raw Story
 

 
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