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12:01 PM ET, December 27, 2021

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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Capitol panel to investigate Trump call to Willard hotel in hours before attack  —  Committee to request contents of the call seeking to stop Biden's certification and may subpoena Rudy Giuliani  —  Congressman Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack …
Discussion: Raw Story and emptywheel
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump and the January 6 committee are now locked in a full-on confrontation
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: ‘The View’ struggles to find a Republican  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Before taking off for the holidays, the four long-standing hosts of “The View” had a message for executive producer BRIAN TETA: We're tired of the rotating cast of Republican guest hosts.
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Justice Roberts Tops Federal Leaders in Americans' Approval  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chief Justice John Roberts earns the highest job approval rating of 11 U.S. leaders rated in a Dec. 1-16 Gallup poll with 60% approving of how he is handling his role.  —  Only two other leaders on the list …
Discussion: HotAir and The Daily Caller
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Alleged ‘dead’ Georgia voters found alive and well after 2020 election  —  Trump's allegations of vast voter fraud debunked  —  False claims that there were thousands of ballots cast in the names of dead Georgia voters can now rest in peace.  —  Election investigators found …
Discussion: Rolling Stone
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Fauci says to cancel New Year's Eve parties, as millions struggle for normalcy nearly two years into pandemic  —  Amid young adult mental health crisis, Fauci says to stay away from normalcy of New Year's Eve parties: ‘Not this year’  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for December 27
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Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Fauci warns omicron cases ‘likely will go much higher’
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Dan Bongino and the Big Business of Returning Trump to Power  —  The Secret Service agent turned radio host is furious at liberals—so he's trying to build a right-wing media infrastructure in time for 2024. … Dan Bongino, one of America's most popular conservative commentators …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jarvis DeBerry / MSNBC:
White evangelicals dying of Covid after denouncing vaccines are wasting martyrdom  —  Most of America's religious groups have no objections to vaccines or mandates.  In that context, white evangelicals stand out.  —  This year we've seen a number of conservative personalities …
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Inside Disney's Handling of the ABC News Sexual-Assault Allegations  —  A lawsuit claims executives knew of misconduct at the key revenue generator ‘Good Morning America’ but didn't follow up and discouraged an official report  —  When writer Jay Carson was doing research in the fall of 2017 to develop …
Parul Sehgal / New Yorker:
The Case Against the Trauma Plot  —  Fiction writers love it.  Filmmakers can't resist it.  But does this trope deepen characters, or flatten them into a set of symptoms?  —  It was on a train journey, from Richmond to Waterloo, that Virginia Woolf encountered the weeping woman.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Arizona Senate candidate brings NFTs to politics  —  Blake Masters, co-author of tech pioneer Peter Thiel's blockbuster “Zero to One,” and now a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Arizona, is offering NFTs with a limit of 99 copies.  —  Why it matters: Masters, 35, told Axios the plan is to attract support …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Washington Free Beacon:
2021 Man of the Year: Ed Durr  —  New Jersey's pantheon of legends is, well, legendary.  It includes the likes of Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, Steven Spielberg, Derek Jeter, Zach Braff.  Joining this long and illustrious list is a state senator-elect by the name of Edward Durr Jr.
New York Times:
Record Beef Prices, but Ranchers Aren't Cashing In  —  “You're feeding America and going broke doing it”: After years of consolidation, four companies dominate the meatpacking industry, while many ranchers are barely hanging on.  —  SHEPHERD, Montana — Judging from the prices at supermarkets …
The Daily Beast:
Why 2022 Could Be ‘The Year of the Political Comeback’  —  It's a redemption year for these politicians.  —  Every election year, American politicians find new and ever more brazen ways to disprove that old F. Scott Fitzgerald adage—that there are “no second acts in American lives.”
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
GOP optimism grows over possible red wave in 2022  —  With less than a year to go until the 2022 midterms, Republicans are increasingly bullish on the prospect of a red wave that could flip both chambers of Congress and end Democrats' unified control in Washington.
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
House MAGA squad seeks to expand by boosting challengers to fellow Republicans  —  The defiant far-right acolytes of former president Donald Trump in the House Republican caucus have embarked on a targeted campaign ahead of the midterm elections to expand their ranks — and extend their power — on Capitol Hill.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Charles Sykes / Politico:
Rush Limbaugh: The Radio Voice Who Owned the Libs Long Before Trump
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Outlets hurt by dwindling public interest in news in 2021
Discussion: HotAir and Breitbart
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
FrontPage Magazine's Man of the Year - Kyle Rittenhouse
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Just how much is Trump's judiciary sabotaging the Biden presidency?
Discussion: Associated Press and Raw Story
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Deisy Buitrago / Reuters:
Venezuela's president to visit Iran ‘very soon’
Discussion: Just The News
Washington Post:
Michael Fanone deserves the nation's gratitude. That's not what he has gotten.
Discussion: The Guardian
Wall Street Journal:
AT&T Slashed Promised Life Insurance for Former Workers—and Time Runs Out at Year-End
Stephen Chen / South China Morning Post:
Chinese scientists develop AI ‘prosecutor’ that can press its own charges
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
First They Fought About Masks. Then Over the Soul of the City.