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NBC News:
Why liberal Washington can't quit Twitter — They may hate Elon Musk, but they're not leaving Twitter yet. “You will have to pry my fingers from my phone.” — WASHINGTON — To tweet or not to tweet? That is the question many left-leaning and Elon Musk-loathing political influencers are debating — often on Twitter.
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Louder With Crowder, Twitter is Going Great!, CNN and CBS News
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
What Are the Politics of Elon Musk? It's Complicated. — Elon Musk has tweeted about political topics regularly since taking over Twitter, often belittling some liberal causes. But what he stands for remains largely unclear. — He has called himself an independent and a centrist, yet “economically right of center, maybe.”
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Althouse, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Fox News
Daniel Friedman / Mother Jones:
We Found the Guys Behind the Hunter Biden Porn That Elon Musk Won't Shut Up About — On the evening of October 24, 2020, a guy who goes by the name Wenyang tweeted a picture of Hunter Biden. Hunter was facing a mirror in what looked like a hotel room, with his penis exposed.
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Althouse
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The ‘Twitter Files’ Is What It Claims to Expose — But it is actually a tool of progressive power. While you were hypnotized by viral memes, a cabal of social-justice STEM majors seized the commanding heights of the attention economy. And they have been using it to bend the mass public to their will.
Chloe Folmar / The Hill:
RNC chief: GOP can't ‘do an ostrich method’ on abortion and 'pretend that it doesn't exist' — Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel addressed GOP midterm election performance on Sunday's Cats Roundtable radio show, attributing some losses to candidates ignoring the abortion argument.
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One America News Network
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Times:
Rainbow-colored atom T-shirt helped Vegas cops pin luggage theft on Biden's nuclear waste director — Las Vegas police had been unable to identify the person who stole an expensive piece of luggage from Harry Reid International Airport in July, despite the subject's unique T-shirt with a large rainbow-colored atomic nuclear symbol.
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Fox News, Washington Examiner, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy and Just The News
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Mary Kay Linge / New York Post:
Non-binary Biden nuke official Sam Brinton caught on camera stealing woman's bag
Non-binary Biden nuke official Sam Brinton caught on camera stealing woman's bag
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The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy, Fox News and KLAS
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Libyan Operative Charged in 1988 Lockerbie Bombing Is in F.B.I. Custody — Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud, a Libyan bomb expert, is accused of building the explosive device used in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. — WASHINGTON — A Libyan intelligence operative charged in the 1988 bombing …
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Associated Press, USA Today, CBS News, New York Post, NPR, NBC New York, Just The News and ABC7
Derek Brower / Financial Times:
Biden adviser calls Wall Street opposition to shale drilling ‘un-American’ — Amos Hochstein's comments come as US tries to stem Russia's oil income while restraining petrol prices — The White House's chief energy adviser has described as “un-American” the refusal of US shale investors …
Washington Post:
Russia-Iran military partnership ‘unprecedented’ and growing, officials say — Moscow and Tehran are said to be collaborating on drone development, ballistic missiles and technical training — The relationship between Russia and Iran is becoming “a full-scale defense partnership” …
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The Hill, Bloomberg, Voice of America, Al Jazeera, BBC, Agence France-Presse, Wall Street Journal and Cyprus Mail
BBC:
Nobel Peace Prize: Russian laureate ‘told to turn down award’ — The Russian co-winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize has said Kremlin authorities told him to turn down the award. — Yan Rachinsky, who heads Memorial, said he was told not to accept the prize because the two other co-laureates …
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CNN, Axios, Common Dreams, NPR, The Hill and Al Jazeera
David Smith / The Guardian:
Trump was fresh and new during his 2016 campaign. Has his fame fizzled? — The failed ‘red wave’ during the midterm elections marked the beginning of a downward spiral of losses and lost support — Instead of taking off like a rocket over the past three weeks, Donald Trump's bid to win …
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HuffPost, Raw Story and High Plains Blogger
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Blake Hounshell / New York Times:
Sununu on Trump: 'He's Not Scaring Anyone Out of the Race'
Sununu on Trump: 'He's Not Scaring Anyone Out of the Race'
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Insider and The Threats Within
New York Times:
J.R.O.T.C. Textbooks Offer an Alternative View of the World — Descriptions of civic life and some key historical events differ from the way they are taught in typical public school textbooks. — One textbook for high school military cadets says girls should wear lipstick when in uniform.
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Twitter Files dump number 4. How Donald Trump was banned — The third installment of the “Twitter files” gave us some of what we were looking for in terms of government involvement in censoring free speech, though many questions remain. Tonight, close on the heels of the last data dump …
Matthew Cantor / The Guardian:
Masking could fight the ‘tripledemic’, experts say. Will anyone listen? — Masks can feel like a thing of the past in the US - but experts are once again advising them as Covid, flu and RSV surge simultaneously — Masking can feel like a thing of the past in the US …
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Washington Examiner, CBS News, NPR, Outside the Beltway, San Francisco Chronicle, NBC New York and KRON4