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Thomas Fuller / New York Times:
In Landslide, San Francisco Forces Out 3 Board of Education Members — The recall, which galvanized Asian Americans, was a victory for parents angered by the district's priorities during the pandemic. — In a recall election fueled by pandemic angst and anger, San Francisco voters ousted three members …
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2022 San Francisco Special Election Results: School Board Recall — Each board member is individually up for a recall, which would require the support of a majority of voters. — The Department of Elections is currently reporting votes out of a possible registered voters (0%).
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Biden Rejects Trump's Claim of Privilege for White House Visitor Logs — The president informed the National Archives that it should turn over the logs sought by the Jan. 6 committee within 15 days. — President Biden is opposing another effort by former President Donald J. Trump …
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Washington Post:
Texting through an insurrection — Thousands of frantic text messages that might have otherwise been lost to history are now key to piecing together a picture of the events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. — The panicked texts started landing in Mark Meadows's phone long before thousands …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jan. 6 panel seeks phone records of security official employed by Alex Jones
Jan. 6 panel seeks phone records of security official employed by Alex Jones
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Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Josh Hawley: ‘It Is Not A Pro-Riot Mug’
Josh Hawley: ‘It Is Not A Pro-Riot Mug’
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Politico:
GOP culture war attacks ‘alarmingly potent,’ DCCC warns — The campaign committee has been showing House Democrats new polling about how to counter GOP attacks on police funding and other issues. — Democrats' own research shows that some battleground voters think the party is “preachy …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Exclusive poll: Answers to the midterm's 2 big questions — DRIVING THE DAY — We have some news in our latest POLITICO-Morning Consult poll that we can share with you this morning. — The results get to the heart of two big questions about 2022:
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
A bipartisan deal to stop Trumpian election subversion? Not so fast.
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Is Sleepy Joe Biden Making Vladimir Putin Blink? — The Ukraine story is far from over. But if Vladimir Putin opts to back away from invading Ukraine, even temporarily, it's because Joe Biden — that guy whose right-wing critics suggest is so deep in dementia he wouldn't know Kyiv from Kansas …
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New York Times:
Jeff Zucker's Downfall at CNN: Ethical Lapses and Falling Ratings — The network's top-rated host and its president were forced out following ethical lapses, an office romance and a letter from a lawyer for “Jane Doe.” — Late in the day on Nov. 30, Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN Worldwide …
Patricia McKnight / Newsweek:
'People's Convoy' of Truckers Reportedly Heading to DC for Mandate Protest — While truck drivers protest COVID-19 restrictions in Canada, American truckers are following suit with their own cross-country convoy heading to Washington, D.C., with a message: “Government has forgotten its place.”
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Washington Post:
Which U.S. communities sent money to support the Canadian trucker protests?
Which U.S. communities sent money to support the Canadian trucker protests?
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Elliot Kaufman / Wall Street Journal:
Justin Trudeau's Trucker Emergency
Justin Trudeau's Trucker Emergency
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Las Vegas Sun:
Escalating hateful rhetoric leads nation down a dark, chaotic path — A terrifying incident in Louisville, Ky., this week revealed the dangers of the talk coming from the right about civil war and political violence. — Early Monday, mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg and his staff were busy …
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Neil Genzlinger / New York Times:
P.J. O'Rourke, Conservative Political Satirist, Dies at 74 — In articles, in best sellers and as a talk show regular he was a voice from the right skewering whatever in government or culture he thought needed it. — P.J. O'Rourke, the conservative satirist and political commentator …
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
P.J. O'Rourke was America's greatest satirist and coolest conservative — P.J. O'Rourke, who has died at the age of 74, once hosted a small New Year's party at his apartment in Washington. The year was 1990. He'd just returned from Germany, where he had covered the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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The Daily Beast:
Trump's Inner Circle Freaks That His Tax Firm ‘Screwed’ Him — “If he gets away from this, there's no God and no reason to live,” said Barbara A. Res, a former construction executive at the Trump Organization. — Predictably, Donald Trump wants you to think his longtime accounting firm's decision …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
The new ‘spying’ story is clearly not what Trump thinks it is — Donald Trump thought he finally had “indisputable evidence” that his campaign and White House “were spied on.” Alas, reality tells a very different story. — Over the course of his presidency's first year …
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Wall Street Journal:
A Strange Defense of Spying on Trump
A Strange Defense of Spying on Trump
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Washington Times, Mother Jones and Media Matters for America
Andrew Miller / Fox News:
Hillary Clinton dodges questions about Durham probe developments
Hillary Clinton dodges questions about Durham probe developments
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Seth Stevenson / Slate:
The Most Chilling Thing I Heard at the Sarah Palin-NYT Trial Came Before the Verdict — The former Alaska governor lost her libel suit against the New York Times. But others were watching—and learning. — At about 2:30 on Tuesday afternoon, after roughly a dozen hours of deliberation …
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Melanie Mason / Los Angeles Times:
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein's approval ratings hit an all-time low, poll says — Views of Sen. Dianne Feinstein's job performance have tumbled to the lowest point in her three-decade Senate career, with just 30% of California voters giving her positive marks in a new UC Berkeley Institute …
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Eliza Strickland / IEEE Spectrum:
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported — Barbara Campbell was walking through a New York City subway station during rush hour when her world abruptly went dark. For four years, Campbell had been using a high-tech implant in her left eye that gave her a crude kind of bionic vision …
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Would Turkey's president have leverage over ‘Senator Doctor Oz’? — Members of the U.S. Senate often have conflicts of interest, both business and personal. But never before has our country experienced a senator who has dual citizenship, served in a foreign military and maintains deep ties …
Joseph O’Sullivan / The Seattle Times:
Bill that would make it a crime for some to lie about election results dies in WA Senate — OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee's novel and controversial proposal to tamp down on election lies by candidates and elected officials will not move forward this year. — Senate Bill 5843 would create …
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Ross Barkan / Political Currents:
Eric Adams Wields His Weapon of Identity — It didn't take long — On Tuesday, Eric Adams, the new mayor of New York City, delivered a searing indictment of the journalists covering him. “I'm a Black man that's the mayor, but my story is being interpreted by people who don't look like me,” Adams said at City Hall.
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Washington Post:
New critical race theory laws have teachers scared, confused and self-censoring — A Utah student group was called “Black and Proud.” The principal had it renamed. A New Hampshire history teacher used to discuss current events in a unit about race and economics. No more.
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
The Verdict Is In: Trump Wasn't Right About China — He had the wrong goals—and didn't even achieve them. — One thing that Republicans persuaded themselves of during the past five years has just come a cropper. It was the belief that whatever else Trump may have said or done, he sure was right about China.
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