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New York Times:
Putin's War: The Inside Story of a Catastrophe … Russian soldiers go into battle with little food, few bullets and instructions grabbed from Wikipedia for weapons they barely know how to use. — Russian soldiers go into battle with little food, few bullets and instructions grabbed …
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Insider, Lawyers, Guns & Money, DNyuz, Brussels Reporter and Bloomberg
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Washington Post:
Musk unsuspends some reporters on Twitter. But their companies never left. — Despite outrage over a move viewed as hostile to free speech — even by Musk's conservative allies — media companies continued to tweet, in keeping with their conflicted relationship with Twitter.
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NBC News:
Musk cheerleaders and conservative influencers criticize journalist suspensions from Twitter
Musk cheerleaders and conservative influencers criticize journalist suspensions from Twitter
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Mediaite, New York Post, The Intercept, CNBC, Tom's Substack, DNyuz, Newsbusters, The Hill, Cyprus Mail, Los Angeles Times, Grid News, Media Matters for America, HuffPost, RedState, Twitchy, Garbage Day, Reason, HotAir, Bloomberg, The JGibson Report, Semafor and Washington Post, more at Techmeme »
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Twitter's top ranks riddled with ex-FBI employees — Twitter's top ranks were riddled with ex-FBI agents and executives, stitching the company even closer to the federal agency now under fire for leaning on Twitter to meddle in the 2020 elections. — More than a dozen former feds flocked …
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HotAir, RedState, Summit News, DNyuz and National Review
Thomas Tracy / New York Daily News:
Jewish man attacked in Central Park, assailant screams 'Kanye 2024′: NYPD — A Jewish man was attacked in Central Park by a suspect who screamed “Kanye 2024″ and anti-Semitic slurs as he jumped his victim in what police are investigating as a hate crime.
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Washington Post, CNN, ABC7 and New York Post
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
No alien life discovered on Earth, Pentagon says, but search deepens — A new office within the Defense Department is evaluating recent reports of unexplained phenomena and is planning to look at accounts dating back decades — A new office at the Pentagon is scrutinizing hundreds of reports …
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New York Post, Task & Purpose, Cyprus Mail, ABC News, DNyuz, CNN and CBS News
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Talking Points Memo:
Scenes From The Meadows Texts Show The Diverse Cast Of Characters Who Chimed In On Efforts To Overturn The Election — When businessman Marty Davis made his way into the Oval Office in mid-December 2020, he brought a blanket for former First Lady Melania Trump.
Wall Street Journal:
Big Cities in Swing States Saw Declines in Midterm Voting — Democrats say low turnout in Detroit, Milwaukee and Philadelphia points to problems in future elections — Big cities faltered this year in producing the large vote totals that Democrats have traditionally relied on for election wins …
Steven Mintz / Inside Higher Ed:
What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate? — Reflections on the end of history ... and the academic study of the arts, literature and philosophy. — The December 2022 issue of Jacobin, which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left …
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Ex-lawmakers request ethics probes into sitting members of Congress linked to Jan. 6 — More than 30 former House lawmakers are calling for ethics investigations into sitting members of Congress “who played a role” in the events on the day of and before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol …
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Washington Examiner, Former Members of the House, Vanity Fair and RedState
Bari Weiss / The Free Press:
The Twitter Files and the Future of the Democratic Party With Silicon Valley's Congressman — Ro Khanna on why we should be skeptical of Big Tech's power. — Ro Khanna is a progressive congressman representing California's 17th District—the wealthiest congressional district in America.
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Politico and The Cat Was Never Found
Michael E. Ruane / Washington Post:
After Biden's wife died in a crash 50 years ago, Richard Nixon called — A recording of Nixon's condolence call survives at the Nixon Presidential Library. — Joe Biden's first wife, Neilia, and baby daughter, Naomi Christina, had just been killed in a car crash.
Transportation Security Administration:
TSA breaks record for number of firearms at security checkpoints, announces new measures to mitigate threat — WASHINGTON — Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers intercepted a record number of firearms brought by passengers to airport security checkpoints in 2022.
Justin Davidson / Curbed:
Can the Hochul-Adams New New York Actually Happen? — New York should be roaring back by now, and in some ways it has. In the last few months, I've attended crowded museums and sold-out concerts, shouted over diners at the next table, stood hip-to-hip in crowded subway cars …
New York Times:
Restaurateur, Political Donor, Tipster: The Many Roles of FTX's Ryan Salame — The co-chief executive of an FTX unit who told regulators about wrongdoing at the exchange was a big Republican donor. He also bought restaurants. — In Western Massachusetts, Ryan Salame was known …
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