memeorandum: 'I've never been hiding': Walker defends campaign ahead of Tuesday's runoff (Brittany Gibson/Politico)

10:25 AM ET, December 4, 2022

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Iran Abolishes Morality Police After Months of Protests — The move appeared to be a concession to the protest movement that erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman being held by the morality police for supposedly violating Islamic dress rules.

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Washington Post:

White House rebukes Trump's suggestion to suspend Constitution over 2020 election — The White House issued a stern rebuke on Saturday after former president Donald Trump suggested suspending the Constitution in his ongoing crusade to discredit the results of the 2020 election.

Discussion: ABC News, NPR, Outside the Beltway, The Guardian, Althouse, Rolling Stone, Raw Story, Washington Times, CNN and Fox News

Sareen Habeshian / Axios:

Trump: Constitution should be terminated due to “massive” election fraud — Former President Trump on Saturday falsely cited election fraud as a reason to terminate the Constitution, after Elon Musk released information about Twitter's role in limiting access to a story about Hunter Biden.

Discussion: New York Magazine, Raw Story, HuffPost, Politico, Letters from an American, Power Line, The Hill, The Daily Wire and The Gateway Pundit, more at Mediagazer »

Kristen Holmes / CNN:

Trump calls for the termination of the Constitution in Truth Social post — Former President Donald Trump called for the termination of the Constitution to overturn the 2020 election and reinstate him to power Saturday in a continuation of his election denialism and pushing of fringe conspiracy theories.

Discussion: The Bulwark, The Daily Beast, Letters from a Floridian, Insider, UPI, Raw Story, Mock Paper Scissors and Blue Virginia

Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump's pre-runoff message: Terminate the Constitution

Discussion: Raw Story

Gabriella Killett / New Orleans Times-Picayune:

Chris Christie's niece kicked off New Orleans plane, injured 6 deputies, officials say — She asked passengers she perceived to be Latino if they were ‘smuggling cocaine’ — After getting forced off an airplane, for asking passengers who appeared to her to be Latino whether they were drug mules …

Discussion: Insider and Raw Story

Laura Bassett / Jezebel:

Chris Christie's Niece Kicked Off Plane for Accusing Latino Family of ‘Smuggling Cocaine’ — Shannon Epstein, 25, reportedly kicked, bit, and spit on deputies, injuring six of them, when they tried to arrest her at the New Orleans airport. — Alerts — Shannon Epstein …

Discussion: Political Wire

New York Times:

How Democrats' New Primary Calendar Changes the Chessboard — President Biden's push to abandon Iowa for younger, racially diverse states is likely to reward candidates who connect with the party's most loyal voters. — When a panel of Democratic Party insiders endorsed President Joseph …

Discussion: Against the Grain, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Forbes, Daily Montanan and CBS News

Caleb Howe / Mediaite:

The Twenty-Seven Most Embarrassing Reactions to Taibbi Thread About Twitter Censoring Hunter Biden Tweets — Construct Tweet: [Say formerly respected or once great, etc.] Matt Taibbi [call it PR or comms or like that] for the [world's richest man, the richest person in the world, so on].

Discussion: RedState

Brittany Gibson / Politico:

'I've never been hiding': Walker defends campaign ahead of Tuesday's runoff — ATLANTA, Ga. — Herschel Walker defended his campaign strategy less than four days before the Georgia Senate runoff and denied that he has been avoiding questions from voters and mainstream news organizations …

Discussion: Insider, USA Today, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Fox News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, PBS NewsHour, CNN and New York Times

Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Georgia Senate runoff smashes early voting records — and attracts new voters

Discussion: MSNBC, New York Post, Reuters, Washington Times, Insider, Raw Story, The Hill, Politico, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and One America News Network

Associated Press:

US intel chief thinking ‘optimistically’ for Ukraine forces — The head of U.S. intelligence says fighting in Russia's war in Ukraine is running at a “reduced tempo” and suggests Ukrainian forces could have brighter prospects in coming months. Avril Haines alluded to past allegations …

Discussion: The Hill, BBC, NBC News, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Japan Times

Janelle Stecklein / Enid News & Eagle:

State law loosening requirements for teachers comes under fire — OKLAHOMA CITY — In response to Oklahoma's continued teacher shortage, lawmakers passed a measure that no longer requires educators to have a college degree in order to teach permanently in public schools.

Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:

Fox News parts ways with Lara Trump as a contributor, citing father-in-law's presidential campaign — Donald Trump's announced 2024 bid for the White House means a member of his family will no longer be getting a Fox News paycheck. — The network confirmed Saturday it has parted ways with Lara Trump …

Discussion: Insider, Variety and Deadline

David French / The Atlantic:

Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson Don't Understand the First Amendment — Last night, Matt Taibbi, an independent journalist, wrote a lengthy Twitter thread he called “THE TWITTER FILES.” The thread purported to expose how Twitter made the decision to dramatically suppress discussion of the contents …

Discussion: Twitchy, Insider, National Review, Mother Jones, Washington Examiner, RedState, Forbes, The Western Journal, BadCompany, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Breitbart and Power Line

Isabel Vincent / New York Post:

Scientist who worked at Wuhan lab says COVID was man-made virus — A scientist who worked at a controversial research lab in China has claimed that COVID was a man-made virus that leaked from the facility, according to a report. — Andrew Huff, who worked for a New York-based non-profit …

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