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New York Times:
Peter Thiel to Exit Meta's Board to Support Trump-Aligned Candidates  —  The tech billionaire, who has been on the board of the company formerly known as Facebook since 2005, is backing numerous politicians in the midterm elections.  —  Peter Thiel, one of the longest-serving board members of Meta …
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Financial Times:
Peter Thiel plans to leave board of Facebook owner Meta  —  Billionaire tech investor will focus on ‘political endeavours’ as he promotes Trump-aligned candidates  —  Peter Thiel will not seek re-election to the board of Facebook's owner Meta later this year, the social media group said on Monday.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Politico:
Senate GOP backlash smacks RNC after Cheney-Kinzinger censure  —  Senate Republicans are not happy with the Republican National Committee.  —  In interviews on Monday evening, GOP senators lashed out at their own national party's overwhelming vote to censure Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) …
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Renew America Movement:
Statement of Republican Leaders and Former Officials on the RNC's Censure of Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger  —  Last week the Republican National Committee (RNC) made clear that it would rather be the “Big Lie” party than the “Big Tent” party by condemning two principled elected leaders …
Financial Times:
France says Putin is moving towards de-escalating Ukraine crisis  —  Russia's president has agreed not to undertake new military initiatives in region, according to Paris  —  French officials said Vladimir Putin had moved towards de-escalating the Ukraine crisis by promising not to undertake any new …
Discussion: The US Sun, TASS and PBS NewsHour
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Peter Beinart / The Beinart Notebook:   Biden's CIA Director Doesn't Believe Biden's Story about Ukraine
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
‘Precipitous decline’: J.D. Vance pollster issues warning on Ohio Senate race  —  Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance “needs a course correction ASAP” — and that's according to the well-funded super PAC supporting him.  —  A 98-page PowerPoint presentation produced by Tony Fabrizio …
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Sidney Powell, ‘Kraken’ Lawyers Ask Appeals Court to Reverse ‘Intemperate’ Sanctions Order: We're Not ‘Overwrought, Dangerous Lunatics’  —  Indignant about what they describe as their portrayals as “overwrought, dangerous lunatics,” attorney Sidney Powell and her fellow “Kraken” …
Tarpley Hitt / Gawker:
We Have Kyrsten Sinema's Social Security Number  —  Last month, we filed a public records request for Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's divorce papers.  The request came back with many enlightening insights, such as that the Congresswoman — who wrote the book Unite and Conquer …
Discussion: National Review and Twitchy
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
How Mike Pence just doomed his 2024 chances  —  (CNN)Mike Pence just crashed his political career into Donald Trump — and the former President's ongoing claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent and should have been overturned on January 6.  —  “President Trump is wrong,” Pence said in a speech to a conservative group in Florida.
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Guy Benson / FOX News Radio:   Chris Christie: ‘Inexperienced’ DeSantis Gets ‘Too Cute’ In Avoiding Questions on Trump, Vaccines
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
DeSantis refuses to take sides in Trump-Pence clash as 2024 speculation grows
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court, in 5-4 Vote, Restores Alabama's Congressional Voting Map  —  A special three-judge court had ordered lawmakers to redraw the lines, saying Black voters “have less opportunity” than other Alabamians to elect their favored candidates.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court …
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The Economist:
Democrats have fared surprisingly well in Congress's new maps
Discussion: Reuters
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Biden's top science adviser, Eric Lander, resigns amid reports of bullying  —  President Joe Biden's top science adviser, Eric Lander, resigned on Monday evening following reports of his bullying and mistreatment of subordinates.  —  The resignation came despite initial insistence …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Requiem for a Liberal Giant  —  There's an indelible scene in Todd Gitlin's 1987 book “The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage,” in which he and other leaders of Students for a Democratic Society — the leading organization of what was called the New Left — meet with old guard democratic socialists from the journal Dissent.
Discussion: New Republic
Michael Shellenberger / Common Sense:
Slow-Motion Suicide in San Francisco  —  The city is carrying out a bizarre medical experiment in which they are helping homeless drug addicts use drugs.  'It's handing a loaded gun to a suicidal person.'  —  Writes Michael Shellenberger  · Subscribe
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Associated Press:
Justice Dept. signals it may allow safe injection sites
Dylan Byers / Puck:
Kilar Comes Back for More...  After a series of off-the-rails newsroom conversations last week to address Jeff Zucker's ouster, the likely outgoing WarnerMedia C.E.O. returned to the barrel today via an emotional virtual meeting with select high-level staff.
Mark S. Wrighton / Office of the President:
Message Regarding Posters Displayed on Campus  —  Dear Members of the George Washington University Community,  —  Last week, the university learned of posters on campus depicting images that alarmed some members of our community, and we began to receive a number of concerns through official …
Discussion: Reason, HotAir and The Federalist
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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios:
U.S university reverses decision to remove Olympic protest posters
Discussion: mailchi.mp, FIRE and National Review
Ashley Wong / New York Times:
He Survived the Holocaust and Was Killed Crossing the Street at Age 99  —  Jack Mikulincer was on his way to synagogue to observe the Sabbath when he was hit by an SUV in Brooklyn, the police and family members said.  —  After surviving two wars, the Nazi invasion of Hungary and the Holocaust …
New York Times:
New York Deer Infected With Omicron, Study Finds  —  White-tailed deer on Staten Island have become the first wild animals with documented Omicron infections.  The coronavirus has now been found in deer in 15 states.  —  White-tailed deer on Staten Island have been found carrying …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Financial Times:
SoftBank's $66bn sale of chip group Arm to Nvidia collapses  —  Transaction had faced scrutiny from regulators and was opposed by rivals  —  SoftBank's $66bn sale of UK-based chip business Arm to Nvidia collapsed on Monday after regulators in the US, UK and EU raised serious concerns …
Margaret Talbot / New Yorker:
Amy Coney Barrett's Long Game  —  The newest Supreme Court Justice isn't just another conservative—she's the product of a Christian legal movement that is intent on remaking America. … On December 1st, the Supreme Court had its day of oral argument in a landmark abortion case …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
How can you judge the quality of a news outlet?  Look at how politically diverse its audience is  —  One exercise I like to use when teaching college students about media is to draw a Cartesian coordinate plane, give them each a list of news organizations, and then have them place each one at some X,Y coordinate.
Abigail Shrier / City Journal:
Child Custody's Gender Gauntlet  —  Transgender ideology has already achieved a powerful hold on our court system—and parents and children are paying the price.  —  The Social Order  —  Politics and law  —  Before she decided to strip him of all custody over his son, Drew* …
Discussion: GC News
Mark Brnovich / Arizona Attorney General's Office:
Re: The Federal Government's Duty To Protect the States And The States' Sovereign Power Of Self Defense When Invaded  —  Attorney General Opinion Number  —  To:  —  Arizona House of Representatives  —  Questions Presented  —  The request seeks a formal legal opinion on whether …
Tom Hays / Associated Press:
Banker gets gets 1 year in prison in Manafort loan scheme  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A Chicago banker was sentenced on Monday to a year in prison for his conviction in a scheme to make $16 million in loans to Paul Manafort to gain influence in the Trump administration.
Dov Lieber / Wall Street Journal:
Israel Launches Investigation Into Ballooning Spyware Scandal  —  Inquiry adds a new dimension to a political firestorm over Israelis being targeted by homegrown spyware that infects smartphones  —  TEL AVIV—Israeli authorities launched a state inquiry on Monday into allegations …
Randall D. Eliason / Washington Post:
Yes or no on Mueller report criminal charges?  Don't let Trump just run out the clock.  —  It's time for the Biden Justice Department to issue a report on the Mueller report.  —  There are multiple criminal investigations currently swirling around former president Donald Trump.
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Roger Stone Is Raking It In—From Candidates He Endorses  —  Roger Stone is officially back, tax evasion cases be damned.  —  Less than a year after receiving a presidential pardon, Roger Stone is staging a comeback, doling out political endorsements to a spate of right-wing longshots and raking in cash.
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike Catalini / Associated Press:
Governors in 4 states plan for end to school mask mandates  —  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The governors of four states announced plans Monday to lift statewide mask requirements in schools by the end of February or March, citing the rapid easing of COVID-19′s omicron surge.
Chris Pleasance / Daily Mail:
Peng Shuai's Olympic ‘forced confession’: Communist minders are caught lurking in the background of Chinese tennis star's new interview in which she claimed rape accusation was an ‘enormous misunderstanding’  — Peng Shaui, Chinese tennis ace who accused official of sex attack, spoke to foreign media at Winter Olympics
Joe Lonsdale / Wall Street Journal:
The Case for Splitting Amazon in Two  —  Cloud-computing division AWS subsidizes Prime, harming consumers in the long run.  —  If the price of a service seems too good to be true, it probably is.  —  Amazon's most recent earnings report sent the stock price soaring, up nearly 14% …
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
NRA Silent as Amir Locke Slain by Police for Having a Gun He Legally Owned … The first gun control organization in the United States was formed after the Civil War by white Southerners bothered by the fact that enslaved people were now free, entitled to vote, and arming themselves to defend that freedom.
Discussion: Insider
 
 
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Andy Ngo / New York Post:
Antifa almost killed me — but I won't stop reporting their dangerous deeds
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American Greatness:
Our Elite is No Elite At All  —  The only real recent public service of elites has been to persuade us …
Discussion: Points And Figures
Sam Ray / DemCast:
How Psychiatry Is Failing America
CNBC:
Trump SPAC stock Digital World Acquisition Corp. plunges after news spreads of delayed app launch
Discussion: Raw Story
Erin Banco / Politico:
Biden officials trying to recalculate U.S. Covid-19 hospitalizations
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Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:
Black Workers Say Racism Is Rampant Inside Tesla. Now California Could Sue.
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Sabrina Rodriguez / Politico:
The GOP is gaining among Texas Hispanics. Women are leading the charge.
Steve Contorno / CNN:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signals support for 'Don't Say Gay' bill
R. Albert Mohler Jr / WORLD:
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

 
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