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Max Tani / Semafor:
Why The White House isn't stressed about Elon Musk's Twitter  —  Joe Biden's White House is less concerned about Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter than many Democrats, officials said in recent interviews.  —  That's because Biden's team believes Twitter is largely valuable for just two things:
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Joshua Green / Washington Post:
Elon Musk Is Ruining Trump's Presidential Campaign
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
Elon Musk Gets Viciously Booed by Stadium Crowd at Dave Chappelle Show  —  “You shut the fuck up,” Chappelle said as the crowd booed the billionaire.  —  Alerts  —  Elon Musk, the billionaire who wants nothing more in life than to be adored by legions of fans, was loudly booed by a crowd …
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
A Plot To Overturn An American Election  —  A Plot To Overturn An American Election  —  TPM Has Obtained Explosive Evidence Uncovered By The January 6 Select Committee  —  The messages you are about to read are the definitive, real-time record of a plot to overturn an American election.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Washington Post:
Kari Lake was unflinchingly loyal to Trump.  Then her campaign unraveled.  —  Interviews, internal documents and audio show how the former TV news anchor squandered a chance to become Arizona's governor — a defeat that carries warnings for the GOP in 2024  —  PHOENIX — After Kari Lake …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Election deniers have to pretend election denial isn't election denial
Discussion: Raw Story and KOLD-TV
CBS News:
White House: Marjorie Taylor Greene's latest Jan. 6 comments a “slap in the face” to law enforcement, victims' families  —  Washington — The White House is reacting sharply to comments made over the weekend by Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and how the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021 …
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Greene says Jan. 6 remarks were ‘sarcasm’
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Special counsel sends Trump subpoena to Ga. secretary of state Raffensperger  —  State or local officials in five of the six contested battlegrounds where former president Donald Trump tried to reverse his defeat have received similar subpoenas  —  Special counsel Jack Smith has sent …
Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Iran execution: Man publicly hanged from crane amid protests  —  Iran executed a second prisoner on Monday convicted over crimes committed during the nationwide protests challenging the country's theocracy, publicly hanging him from a construction crane as a gruesome warning to others.
Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
Hoodie-loving, shorts aficionado John Fetterman makes New York Times most stylish people list  —  Big shorts and hoodie-loving Sen.-elect John Fetterman's (D-PA) unique fashion has landed him on the New York Times's list of the 93 most stylish people of 2022.
Discussion: Twitchy
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New York Times:
Styles's 93 Most Stylish ‘People’ of 2022
Discussion: The Hill, The Daily Caller and IJR
Associated Press:
Young voters' enthusiasm for Democrats waned during midterms  —  Young voters who have been critical to Democratic successes in recent elections showed signs in November's midterms that their enthusiasm may be waning, a potential warning sign for a party that will need their strong backing heading into the 2024 presidential race.
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CNN:   CNN Poll: Americans are split over confidence in incoming House GOP majority or Biden
Washington Post:
How a Trump-allied group fighting ‘anti-white bigotry’ beats Biden in court  —  America First Legal was founded last year by Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump's immigrant family separation policy  —  The deal in early 2021 was hailed by advocates for Black farmers as the most significant piece …
Discussion: Raw Story
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Scott Stringer Sues for Defamation Over Sexual Assault Claim  —  Mr. Stringer, the former New York City comptroller, said that a woman's claims of sexual assault were lies and caused “irreparable harm” as he ran for mayor.  —  Nearly 20 months after allegations of unwanted sexual advances derailed …
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Karen Matthews / Associated Press:
NYC politician sues woman who accused him of sexual assault
Discussion: Bloomberg
Thomas Catenacci / Fox News:
Pete Buttigieg often flies on taxpayer-funded private jets, flight data show  —  Biden Cabinet member has taken at least 18 flights on taxpayer-funded private jets, despite calls to curb carbon emissions  —  Pete Buttigieg: We will be proud when America ‘leads the way’ into EV future
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Red-Pilled Elon Musk Still Loves the Chinese Communist Party … A decade ago, Elon Musk was an object of contempt for conservatives.  Tesla was “a prodigious harvester of government favors and handouts,” complained Phil Kerpen of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity.
Ariel Zilber / New York Post:
Sam Bankman-Fried to testify before Congress remotely: ‘Quite overbooked’  —  Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried said Monday he will testify remotely rather than in person before Congress because he's “quite overbooked” and has security concerns about “paparazzi” if he were to travel to Washington, DC.
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Judge Cannon Forced to Toss Trump's Special Master Bid for Mar-a-Lago Docs  —  Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case Monday morning.  —  Former President Donald Trump's clumsy attempt to halt the FBI investigation into the way he hoarded classified documents at Mar-a-Lago has reached its inevitable end …
Eric Lichtblau / The Guardian:
Biden faces growing pressure to drop charges against Julian Assange  —  Biden faces a renewed push, domestically and internationally, to drop charges against Assange, who is languishing in a UK jail  —  The Biden administration has been saying all the right things lately about respecting …
Washington Post:
Cause of death: Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America  —  During the past seven years, as soaring quantities of fentanyl flooded into the United States, strategic blunders and cascading mistakes by successive U.S. administrations allowed the most lethal drug crisis in American history …
Jerusalem Demsas / The Atlantic:
The Obvious Answer to Homelessness  —  When someone becomes homeless, the instinct is to ask what tragedy befell them.  What bad choices did they make with drugs or alcohol?  What prevented them from getting a higher-paying job?  Why did they have more children than they could afford?
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Inside the secret $32M effort to stop ‘Stop the Steal’  —  A pair of progressive organizations operating in complete secrecy spearheaded a $32 million campaign during the midterms to push back against former President Donald Trump's “Stop the Steal” movement.
Discussion: Raw Story
Matt Maytum / GamesRadar:
Christopher Nolan: “Oppenheimer is one of the most challenging projects I've ever taken on in terms of scale”  —  By Matt Maytum Contributions from Jack Shepherd published  —  Exclusive: Christopher Nolan tells Total Film about recreating the first-ever nuclear weapon detonation without the use of computer graphics
Discussion: Variety
Nick Schwellenbach / Project On Government Oversight:
Hundreds of Oath Keepers Have Worked for DHS, Leaked List Shows  —  This investigation was produced in partnership with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.  —  More than 300 individuals on a leaked membership list of the far-right militia group the Oath Keepers described themselves …
Discussion: Rolling Stone
Washington Post:
U.S. to announce fusion energy ‘breakthrough’  —  Scientists hit a key milestone in the quest to create abundant zero-carbon power through nuclear fusion.  But they still have a long way to go.  —  The Department of Energy plans to announce Tuesday that scientists have been able …
 
 
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FTX Bankruptcy Means $73 Million in Political Donations at Risk of Being Clawed Back
Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
Inflation Forecasts Were Wrong Last Year. Should We Believe Them Now?
Jael Holzman / Axios:
Exclusive: Behind Biden's overseas mining funding
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Ronald J. Deibert / Foreign Affairs:
The Autocrat in Your iPhone … In the summer of 2020, a Rwandan plot to capture exiled …
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
The Great Delusion Behind Twitter
Discussion: Althouse
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
The media's silence on the ‘Twitter Files’ is shameful
Discussion: Power Line and HotAir
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. Justice Dept is split over charging Binance as crypto world falters, sources say
Washington Post:
Japan to buy Tomahawk missiles in defense buildup amid fears of war
Maya Yang / The Guardian:
Massachusetts recount flips state house election to Democrat by one vote
Discussion: The Western Journal
 

 
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Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Reddit must continue growing its ad and content licensing revenue to justify its market valuation, which could fast-track the platform's “enshittification”

William Christou / The Guardian:
A look at Syria's state news agency Sana, which had led the Assad regime's propaganda effort for the past 13 years, with its journalists unable to report freely

Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Industry executives say media companies expect ad spending to stabilize in 2025 and even grow for platforms with sports and live events

 
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