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11:20 AM ET, December 31, 2021

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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Joe Biden's Year of Hoping Dangerously  —  It was a brutal start for the new President.  —  The best thing you can say about 2021 is that it will soon be over.  A year that started with an insurrection at the Capitol is ending with more than eight hundred thousand Americans dead in the covid pandemic …
Discussion: Newsbusters and Breitbart
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Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:   One Year After Jan. 6, the Hard Right Digs In
David R. Lurie / The Daily Beast:
Jan. 6 Was Just the Start of Radicalizing Trump's Republican Party
Brittany Bernstein / National Review:
EXCLUSIVE: AOC Spotted in Miami Beach as NYC Reports Record Covid Cases  —  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was spotted dining in Miami Beach, Fla. on Thursday, according to a tip received by National Review, on the same day that her native New York City reported a record number of Covid-19 cases.
Amy Cheng / Washington Post:
Omicron has passed peak in South Africa, causing relatively few deaths and hospitalizations, authorities say  —  South Africa appears to have passed the peak of its omicron variant-driven fourth coronavirus wave, the country's cabinet announced Thursday, adding that there was only a …
Discussion: UPI and National Review
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Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
‘Crazy’ omicron surge could peak soon, but the virus is unpredictable as the pandemic enters its third year  —  Columbia University researchers estimate infections could top out during the week of Jan. 9  —  The rapid surge of omicron infections in the United States may be relatively brief …
Adeel Hassan / New York Times:
South Africa says that it has passed its fourth wave of cases, and counts few added deaths.
Discussion: Just The News and Political Wire
Mary Louise Kelly / NPR:
Retired general warns the U.S. military could lead a coup after the 2024 election  —  As the anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol approaches, three retired U.S. generals have warned that another insurrection could occur after the 2024 presidential election and the military could instigate it.
New York Times:
Putin Warns Biden of ‘Complete Rupture’ of U.S.-Russia Relationship Over Ukraine  —  President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia spoke with President Biden for 50 minutes about the escalating crisis with Ukraine, but his intentions remained unclear.  —  WASHINGTON — President Vladimir V. Putin …
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Ryan Gillespie / Orlando Sentinel:
Florida doesn't plan to open COVID testing sites amid surge, Orange County official says  —  Orange County officials said Wednesday the state has balked at opening testing sites amid a tidal wave of demand and denied a request this week for four flashing signs to help provide information to people in miles-long lines.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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Isabel Van Brugen / theepochtimes.com:
US COVID-19 Cases Hit Record High, Hospitalizations and Deaths Remain ‘Comparatively Low’: CDC  —  New COVID-19 cases in the United States have soared to their highest level on record, as the Omicron coronavirus variant is estimated to have taken over the virus's Delta variant …
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Devoun Cetoute / Miami Herald:   Florida COVID update: cases, hospitalizations, deaths
wwwnc.cdc.gov:
Level 4: Very High … Avoid cruise travel, regardless of vaccination status.
Madeline Fry Schultz / Washington Examiner:
Don't Look Up: Another lazy anti-Trump movie  —  If you thought the Biden era might at least deliver us from lazy anti-Trump comedy, Don't Look Up will reassure you that no one gets off that easy.  —  It's bad.  It's The 1975 featuring Greta Thunberg bad.
Discussion: The Signorile Report
John Dale Dunn / American Thinker:
The Truth You Never Learned about Watergate  —  The Nixon Conspiracy: Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President  —  373 pages, hardcover $30.00, Kindle $14.99  —  Bombardier Books, Post Hill Press, New York, 2021  —  In 2019, I wrote here and here at American Thinker of the work …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
U.S. ends case against Jeffrey Epstein's jail guards  —  U.S. prosecutors decided to end their criminal case against two Manhattan jail guards who admitted to falsifying records on the night the financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself on their watch.  —  In a Thursday filing in Manhattan federal court …
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Jacob Shamsian / Insider:
Federal prosecutors quietly dropped their case against Jeffrey Epstein's jail guards in the middle of Ghislaine Maxwell's trial
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
Fox News' Worst Lies About Covid-19 From 2021  —  The cable network is actively harming its audience's health.  —  Alerts  —  Fox News spent the better part of 2021 telling its viewers blatant lies about the covid-19 pandemic.  The network has claimed covid-19 vaccines are dangerous …
Discussion: Political Wire
Kimberly Atkins Stohr / The Boston Globe:
A year after a seditious insurrection, why won't federal prosecutors treat it that way?  —  History is full of examples where other uprisings have resulted in charges of sedition conspiracy and insurrection, something that — despite ample video evidence and the admissions of those involved — hasn't happened here.
Discussion: Raw Story and CNN
Joshua Kendall / New York Magazine:
She Tweeted That Alan Dershowitz Might Be Acting Crazy.  So Yale Fired Her.  —  The strange free-speech case of Bandy Lee.  —  “I think I'll order only a bowl of the New England clam chowder,” Bandy Lee said to me one afternoon several months ago, as we settled in at a restaurant overlooking the Boston Common.
Discussion: Political Flare
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Meet the GOP's new national security power broker  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  TIME TO GIVE UP?  — Every year, one of us makes a resolution to stop biting her nails.  It never happens.  According to CBS, the percentage of Americans making resolutions this year dropped 14 points.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jon Brown / Fox News:
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's top controversies  —  De Blasio has taken flak on issues ranging from crime and law enforcement to COVID pandemic  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for December 30  —  After serving eight years as the Democratic mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio closed …
Discussion: Politico
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New York Post:
Bill De Blasio leaves City Hall with broken promises and dashed dreams
 
 
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Susan Heavey / Reuters:
Experts, governors warn of U.S. Omicron ‘blizzard’ in weeks ahead
Discussion: The Guardian and Political Wire
Eugene Kontorovich / Wall Street Journal:
Gov. Kathy Hochul Will Tell You if You're ‘Essential’
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Record number of minimum wage increases set for 2022
Discussion: NBC Bay Area
Washington Post:
D.C. had one of the lowest rates of coronavirus cases in the country. That has changed.
Houston Keene / Yahoo News:
Ocasio-Cortez staffer calls Israel a ‘racist European ethnostate’ that was built on ‘stolen land’
Discussion: Breitbart
James Pethokoukis / Faster, Please!:
🎬 Why 2022 won't be anything like the 2022 of ‘Soylent Green’
Discussion: National Review
New York Times:
After 4 Killings, ‘Officer of the Year’ Is Still on the Job
 Earlier Items: 
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Pro-Trump lawyer says his plantations were go-to spots for those aiming to overturn the 2020 election
Discussion: emptywheel and Raw Story
Karen Townsend / HotAir:
White House asks Supreme Court to intervene in Remain in Mexico legal battle
Discussion: Truthout, Washington Post and ABC News
Reuters:
Anatomy of a death threat
Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
A New Ban on Surprise Medical Bills Starts This Week
Megan Basham / The Daily Wire:
British Newspaper Cancels ‘Person Of The Year’ Poll After J.K. Rowling Runs Away With Top Spot
Discussion: Power Line and RedState
Monica R. McLemore / Scientific American:
The Complicated Legacy of E. O. Wilson
Discussion: Wraith, Observing
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ its revenue is from ads

 
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