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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Donald Trump ‘shied away from criticising Nick Fuentes’ — Advisers wanted ex-president to distance himself from white supremacist with whom he dined but Trump feared alienating supporters - insiders — Donald Trump repeatedly refused to disavow the outspoken antisemite …
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, Raw Story, emptywheel, Haaretz, Insider and Wall Street Journal
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Politico:
The GOP's great Trump reckoning begins at the state party level — For years, Lou Barletta counted himself among Donald Trump's most diehard allies. The former Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate and congressman endorsed him at a time in 2016 when many GOP elected officials saw Trump as radioactive.
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Reuters, The Nation, Raw Story, Duke Reeder and USA Today
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Key Trump 2024 Rivals Silent After His White Supremacist Meeting
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Semafor, Politico, Popular Information, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Reuters, Mother Jones, Breitbart, National Review, The Hill, Washington Times, Rolling Stone, Forbes and Associated Press
Andrew Solender / Axios:
GOP lawmakers hushed on Trump's dinner with white nationalist
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Hill, ABC News and Vanity Fair
Rebecca Morin / USA Today:
‘Not an accidental meeting.’ GOP Arkansas governor blasts Trump for hosting white supremacist
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Insider, The Hill, Rolling Stone, CNN, New York Post, Just The News, Washington Examiner, The Guardian, Mediaite and Fox News
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
House Dems on GOP's thin majority: Welcome to hell — Democrats just spent two harrowing years navigating one of the tiniest majorities in House history. Now it's the GOP's turn — and things could get even worse. — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and his team are set …
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New Republic
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Politico:
A five-week framework for shaking McCarthy — SCOOP: ‘CORRUPT BARGAIN’ SEASON FOR McCARTHY — As House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy works to lock down the GOP votes he needs to win the speaker's gavel in January, he's getting squeezed from the right on a number of fronts.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: We run down the year-end sprint
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Washington Examiner and The Guardian
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Biden Helped Democrats Avert a '22 Disaster. What About '24?
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Associated Press, Vox, The Hill, FiveThirtyEight, Washington Post, Conservative Guardian and The Daily Wire
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Manchin's side deal on brink as GOP seeks his 2024 ouster
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Washington Post, Extracted and Nexstar Media Wire
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests — For hours, links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from cities where dramatic rallies escalated — SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter's radically reduced anti-propaganda team grappled on Sunday with a flood of nuisance content …
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TechCrunch, The Daily Caller, New York Post and The Verge, more at Mediagazer »
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Major News Outlets Urge U.S. to Drop Its Charges Against Assange — In a joint letter, news organizations warned that the indictment of Julian Assange “sets a dangerous precedent” that could chill reporting about matters of national security. — WASHINGTON — The New York Times …
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An Open Letter from Editors and Publishers: Publishing is Not a Crime — The U.S. government should end its prosecution of Julian Assange for publishing secrets. — Twelve years ago, on November 28th 2010, our five international media outlets - The New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde …
Leanne Italie / Associated Press:
What headline? ‘Gaslighting’ Merriam-Webster's word of 2022 — “Gaslighting” — mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful — is Merriam-Webster's word of the year. Lookups for the word on merriam-webster.com increased 1,740% in 2022 over the year before. But something else happened.
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Metro.co.uk and Fox News
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Merriam-Webster:
Word of the Year 2022 — ‘Gaslighting,’ plus ‘sentient,’ ‘omicron,’ ‘queen consort,’ and other top lookups of 2022 — In this age of misinformation—of “fake news,” conspiracy theories, Twitter trolls,and deepfakes—gaslighting has emerged as a word for our time.
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The Hill
Joe Mcdonald / Associated Press:
China eases COVID rules after wide protests of lockdowns — Chinese authorities eased some anti-virus rules but affirmed their severe “zero COVID” strategy Monday after protesters demanded President Xi Jinping resign in the biggest show of opposition to the ruling Communist Party in decades.
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The Hill, Reason, Reuters, National Review, Fox News, Power Line, Bloomberg, Just The News and New York Times
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Associated Press:
Crowd angered by lockdowns calls for China's Xi to step down
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HotAir, Bloomberg, CBS News, WGN-TV, New York Daily News, The Guardian, CNN, UPI, The Information, Associated Press, NBC Boston, Axios, New York Post, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, Politico, The Western Journal, Just The News, The Daily Wire, BBC, RedState, The Hill, Daily Mail, Reuters and New York Times, more at Techmeme »
Yuan Yang / Financial Times:
China's zero-Covid protests create a rare nationwide coalition of interests
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Politico, NPR, Fortune, The East is Red, Fox News, Raw Story, Axios, The Daily Sceptic, ChinaTalk, BRIGHT, Latest, South China Morning Post, Quillette, Vox, ABC News, New York Post, Metro.co.uk, Semafor and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »
Eva Corlett / The Guardian:
Twitter failed to detect upload of Christchurch mosque terror attack videos — Footage was taken down only after the New Zealand government alerted Twitter, which had failed to pick up the content as harmful — Twitter has removed freshly uploaded footage of the Christchurch terror attack …
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Power Line and The Liberal, more at Techmeme »
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Billionaire-Backed ‘Hub for Election Denial’ — Dick Uihlein has been awfully busy backing election deniers. A new IRS filing shows he also teamed up with one. — Right-wing megadonor Dick Uihlein has been funneling tens of millions of dollars to election deniers …
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Raw Story
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Junot Díaz in limbo — Your Email addressSign Up — It took a bit of persuading to get the writer Junot Díaz to meet me at the McNally Jackson bookstore on Spring Street in Manhattan last Saturday. Once inside, he pulled his Detroit Tigers cap low over his eyes and pretended to browse the nonfiction paperbacks table.
Mitchell Epner / The Daily Beast:
Trump Might Have to Face His Worst Nightmare—a D.C. Jury — The 11th Circuit's upcoming ruling likely means the end of the special master in the investigation over classified documents. That means a District jury, not a Florida one. … Federal prosecutors on Tuesday …
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
High-profile Republicans gain followers in first weeks of Musk's reign — Shift in follower counts for Elizabeth Warren, Ted Cruz show how the platform is beginning to change under Musk — High-profile Republican members of Congress gained tens of thousands of Twitter followers …
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