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Tom Wilson / Financial Times:
Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes — Net energy gain indicates technology could provide an abundant zero-carbon alternative to fossil fuels — US government scientists have made a breakthrough in the pursuit of limitless, zero-carbon power by achieving …
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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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Mock Paper Scissors, Bloomberg, Outside the Beltway, New York Post and Just The News
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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Media Newsletter 12/11 — Of course the “Twitter files” are a story. Elon Musk's selective release of internal correspondence has shed some light on how Twitter clamped down on voices it deemed extreme and misleading, mostly on the right and far right. Less interesting leaks from Facebook made front pages for years.
Peter Laffin / Washington Examiner:
The ‘Twitter Files’ are the final nail in the media's credibility
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Newsbusters, Freddie deBoer, Twetoor Threads and Raw Story
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
The media's silence on the ‘Twitter Files’ is shameful
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American Greatness, Power Line and HotAir
CNN:
Special Counsel Smith speeds ahead on criminal probes surrounding Trump — Newly-appointed special counsel Jack Smith is moving fast on a pair of criminal probes around Donald Trump that in recent months have focused on the former president's state of mind after the 2020 election …
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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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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.
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 …
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
How Kari Lake's campaign to be the Trump of 2022 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 rode former president …
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Raw Story, New York Daily News and The Hill
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 …
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The American Conservative
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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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 …
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RedState, Erick Erickson's Show Notes and American Everyman
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.
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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.
Ronald J. Deibert / Foreign Affairs:
The Autocrat in Your iPhone … In the summer of 2020, a Rwandan plot to capture exiled opposition leader Paul Rusesabagina drew international headlines. Rusesabagina is best known as the human rights defender and U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient who sheltered more than 1,200 Hutus …
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How to ban 3600 books from school libraries — This year, at least 102 books have been removed from the shelves of school libraries in Clay County, Florida. Many of these books were pulled at the request of one man: Bruce Friedman. A conservative activist and longtime resident of New York, Friedman moved to Clay County this May.
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Raw Story
Nick Schwellenbach / Project On Government Oversight:
Hundreds of Oath Keepers Have Worked for DHS, Leaked List Shows — Homeland Security Secretary Says Violent Extremists Should Have “No Place” in Department — This investigation was produced in partnership with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Trump who? GOP senators rave over a potential Tim Scott presidential run. — Joni Ernst is “very excited” about a potential Tim Scott presidential run. John Cornyn would “advise him to go for it.” And John Barrasso said it “doesn't get any better than Tim Scott.”
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New York Times:
Why Some Hasidic Children Can't Leave Failing Schools — Parents who try to withdraw their children from yeshivas over a lack of secular education often cannot do so, hampered by social pressure and a rabbinical court system. — To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times …
Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
Elon Musk Is a Far-Right Activist — If there's one tweet that will tell you everything you need to know about Elon Musk, it's this one from early this morning: … In five words, Musk manages to mock transgender and nonbinary people, signal his disdain for public-health officials …
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The Western Journal, No More Mister Nice Blog and New York Magazine
Washington Post:
Japan to buy Tomahawk missiles in defense buildup amid fears of war — TOKYO — Alarmed by increasing security threats and the risk of war in the Indo-Pacific, Japan will seek to purchase hundreds of U.S.-built Tomahawk cruise missiles as part of a major defense buildup unprecedented in the postwar period …
Los Angeles Times:
Karen Bass sworn in as Los Angeles mayor, the first woman to hold the office — After 241 years, the nation's second-largest city has its first female mayor. — Karen Bass was sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris as Los Angeles' 43rd mayor Sunday afternoon, with thousands …
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