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3:05 PM ET, December 29, 2021

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Jon Ralston / The Nevada Independent:
Reid's final hang up  —  There will never be another like him.  —  Not a chance.  —  Oh sure, there will be leaders who grew up in unimaginable poverty.  Or those who are more workhorse than showhorse.  Or who dominate their state's political apparatus.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
'He's a press guy, I'm not': How Harry Reid shaped Chuck Schumer  —  When Senate Democrats are in a jam, a question sometimes quietly bubbles up on Capitol Hill: What would Harry Reid have done?  —  That the query itself still surfaces five years after Reid left the Senate is a mark of respect …
Discussion: Vox, The Guardian and Fox News
Megan Messerly / The Nevada Independent:
Harry Reid, former Senate majority leader and Democratic kingmaker, dies at 82
Jeff Goodell / Rolling Stone:
‘The Fuse Has Been Blown,’ and the Doomsday Glacier Is Coming for Us All  —  New data suggests a massive collapse of the ice shelf in as little as five years.  “We are dealing with an event that no human has ever witnessed,” says one scientist.  “We have no analog for this”
Natasha Bertrand / CNN:
Biden to speak with Putin on Thursday at Russian leader's request  —  (CNN)President Joe Biden will hold a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday afternoon “to discuss a range of topics, including upcoming diplomatic engagements with Russia,” National Security Council spokesperson Emily Horne told CNN.
Discussion: The Hill, USA Today, TASS and Deseret News
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Biden accepts Putin request for phone call ahead of talks on Ukraine  —  President Biden will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday afternoon, ahead of a series of diplomatic talks in January over Russia's military buildup on its border with Ukraine.
Politico:
Biden and Putin to speak again at ‘moment of crisis’
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
He died after waiting 15 days for a hospital bed.  His family blames unvaccinated covid-19 patients.  —  Throughout his life, Dale Weeks was characterized by family and friends in Iowa as “a good neighbor,” someone who would do anything for anyone.  So when he was diagnosed with sepsis last month …
Discussion: Twitchy
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
2 Georgia Republicans Rack Up Fines for Defying House's Mask Mandate  —  Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Andrew Clyde have incurred more than $100,000 combined in penalties for dozens of violations.  —  WASHINGTON — During a recent marathon session in the House …
Discussion: Insider
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
‘Badass’ Marjorie Taylor Greene cruising to reelection, DC critics ‘delusional’
Discussion: Page Array and Political Flare
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
11 Years After Trying to Kill Each Other, a Marine and a Talib Meet Again  —  A Times reporter who once served in the Marines returned to the site of a major battle in Afghanistan to see what's changed since the Taliban took over — and to meet a commander he once fought.  —  MARJA, Afghanistan — The tea was hot.
Politico:
Republicans eye new front in education wars: Making school board races partisan  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Republicans across America are pressing local jurisdictions and state lawmakers to make typically sleepy school board races into politicized, partisan elections in an attempt to gain …
Discussion: Twitchy
Robby Soave / Reason:
Facebook Said My Article Was ‘False Information.’ Now the Fact-Checkers Admit They Were Wrong.  —  On Monday, I received a rather curious notification on Facebook.  A friend alerted me that when she tried to share a recent article of mine, the social media site automatically blurred the accompanying image …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Fox News
Quint Forgey / Politico:
‘This was the moment’: CDC defends altered guidance amid Omicron surge  —  CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on Wednesday sought to deflect several lines of skepticism about the agency's newly shortened, five-day period of recommended isolation for asymptomatic individuals who test positive for Covid-19.
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Danielle Echeverria / San Francisco Chronicle:
Two California teachers were secretly recorded speaking about LGBTQ student outreach.  Now they're fighting for their jobs  —  This fall, a pair of middle school teachers from the Salinas Valley traveled to Palm Springs for the California Teachers Association's annual LGBTQ+ Issues Conference.
Discussion: New York Post
Barry Ritholtz / The Big Picture:
After Vaccines: Where Covid Death Rates Have Risen  —  Do a compare and contrast of the red and green maps above.  They are the most astonishing thing I saw today.  —  They are from a NY Times deep data dive into the Covid mortality stats post-vaccine availability, titled “Why Covid Death Rates Are Rising for Some Groups.”
Discussion: New York Times
Allysia Finley / Wall Street Journal:
Is Fluvoxamine the Covid Drug We've Been Waiting For?  —  A 10-day treatment costs only $4 and appears to greatly reduce symptoms, hospitalization and death.  —  The Food and Drug Administration last week authorized two oral antiviral medicines for the early treatment of Covid-19.  But don't get too excited.
Mark Steyn / Steyn Online:
America Sticks Out Its Tush  —  For his Christmas Day column William Kilpatrick wrote: … That's a bit of an over-simplification, but it's certainly clear that “barring a miracle” the future is post-western.  Mr Kilpatrick continues: … That was a very sharp way of putting it.
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
Biden should stop pretending his resistance to a vax-to-fly rule is about public health  —  The decision by federal health officials to cut in half the number of days for people to quarantine if infected with covid-19 says less about our understanding of how the coronavirus spreads than the influence of …
Discussion: Townhall, CNN and New York Magazine
Associated Press:
Decades of DOD efforts fail to stamp out bias, extremism  —  In February, with the images of the violent insurrection in Washington still fresh in the minds of Americans, newly confirmed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin took the unprecedented step of signing a memo directing commanding officers across …
Vivian Wang / New York Times:
Hong Kong Police Arrest Six Linked to Pro-Democracy News Site  —  Six current or former senior staff members of Stand News were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to publish seditious material.  More than 200 officers raided the news site's headquarters.  —  HONG KONG — The Hong Kong police …
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Amelia Lucas / CNBC:
More than half of U.S. states will raise their minimum wage in 2022, but employers are hiking pay faster  — Twenty-six U.S. states will raise their minimum wage in 2022, but many workers will see more significant pay gains from employers that are raising their pay floor.
Discussion: Human Events and The Daily Caller
Constance Grady / Vox:
Why so much Obama-era pop culture feels so cringe now  —  How Hamilton, Parks and Recreation, and Harry Potter lost cultural cachet.  —  One of the oddities of getting old is bearing witness as the pop culture you used to think would always be beyond reproach slowly slides out of favor.
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook's Pushback: Stem the Leaks, Spin the Politics, Don't Say Sorry  —  Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg drove response to disclosures about company's influence; sending deputies to testify in Congress  —  The day after former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen went public in October …
 
 
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Ryan Mills / National Review:
State Department ‘Actively Impeding’ Rescue Efforts as Afghanistan Fades from Spotlight, Vets Say
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Anyone can boycott the Beijing Olympics. Everyone should.
Mairead Elordi / The Daily Wire:
More Than 1,400 Afghan Kids Evacuated To U.S. Without Their Parents
Discussion: CNN and New York Post
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Ethics Investigators in Congress Increasingly Run Into Walls
Discussion: Political Wire
Duaa Eldeib / ProPublica:
They Were the Pandemic's Perfect Victims
The College Fix:
U. North Carolina-Greensboro lecturer defends CRT, says ‘whiteness is a disease’
Discussion: RedState
S.E. Cupp / New York Daily News:
The change we wish to see in the world for 2022: New Year's resolutions
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Lou Cannon, ‘Hall of Fame’ political writer and Reagan chronicler, hangs it up. Sort of
 Earlier Items: 
New York Post:
Biden's COVID incompetence, hypocrisy and fact-spinning are only making things worse
Washington Free Beacon:
2021 Man of the Year: Jon Gruden
Don Feder / Front Page Magazine:
Us So Stupid  —  How the Left views middle Americans as sub-human.
William Barber / Repairers of the Breach:
Bishop Barber: Bishop Tutu brought the truth this world needs
Zachariah Hughes / Anchorage Daily News:
Anti-Biden 'Let's Go Brandon' merchandise sold at JBER mall prompts update to vendor guidance
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Florida mayor: DeSantis has been MIA during omicron surge
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Chas Danner / New York Magazine:
Seriously, Upgrade Your Face Mask
Kathrin Hille / Financial Times:
US shows China its hand on strategic value of ‘unsinkable’ Taiwan