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Matthew Litman / The Forward:
George Santos also lied about his grandparents fleeing anti-Jewish persecution during WWII  —  Congressman-elect George Santos' emotional narrative of having Jewish grandparents who fled Europe during World War II appears to be untrue, like much of the rest of his campaign biography …
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Ben Jacobs / Vox:
Did Republican Representative-elect George Santos lie about everything?  —  The Congress member who allegedly made up his life story, explained.  —  The biography of newly elected Congress member George Santos seemed quite impressive.  The 34-year-old son of immigrants had graduated from Baruch College …
Joe Perticone / The Triad:
Ronna Romney McDaniel Might Be in Trouble  —  The RNC isn't reversing course after the midterms—it's going further to the right.  —  Hey fam: JVL here.  I'm turning today's newsletter over to my new Bulwark colleague, Joe Perticone, who has a fantastic story on the cray-cray at the RNC.
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Ja'han Jones / MSNBC:
Ronna McDaniel may have helped bury Trump with Jan. 6 testimony  —  The RNC chair has been slavishly loyal to Trump, but her Jan. 6 testimony may have helped seal his fate if the former president ultimately faces charges.  —  Ronna McDaniel is in the catbird seat to retain her job as Republican Party chair.
Discussion: Associated Press and Raw Story
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Florida GOP to hold no-confidence vote in RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel
Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and Fox News
Miranda Green / NPR:
She was an ABC News producer.  She also was a corporate operative  —  NPR's David Folkenflik reported this story with Mario Ariza and Miranda Green of Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action.  —  Television news producer Kristen Hentschel …
Washington Post:
Zelensky slated to meet Biden, appear in Congress on Wednesday  —  The trip will mark his first public international appearance since Russia invaded Ukraine  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday plans to appear in Washington to meet with President Biden and visit Capitol Hill …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Zelenskyy in Washington, Scalise in waiting
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Zelensky Knows the Clock Is Ticking
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
I've Seen Trump's Tax Returns and Now You Can, Too  —  Sometime soon — possibly within the next few days — a congressional committee led by Democrats will begin doling out former President Donald Trump's income tax returns to the public.  The disclosure marks the end of a bitter, multi-year battle to keep the returns under wraps.
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New York Times:
Trump Paid $1.1 Million in Taxes During Presidency, but $0 in 2020, Report Shows  —  The former president reported a burst of income after entering the Oval Office, but by the end of his term, his tax filings had reverted to large losses, according to data released by a House panel.
NBC News:
House committee votes to make public Donald Trump's personal and business tax records
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Informant warned FBI weeks before Jan. 6 that the far-right saw Trump tweet as ‘a call to arms’  —  WASHINGTON — On Dec. 19, 2020, the day that then-President Donald Trump sent a tweet summoning his supporters to a “wild” protest in the nation's capital on Jan. 6, one of the FBI's own …
Discussion: Occupy Democrats and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Afghanistan's Taliban Ban All Education for Girls  —  Afghan girls and women have been squeezed out of public and professional life since the Taliban takeover last year  —  The Taliban banned girls from attending elementary school, effectively instituting a total ban on the education of girls …
Washington Post:
No conclusive evidence Russia is behind Nord Stream attack  —  World leaders were quick to blame Moscow for explosions along the undersea natural gas pipelines.  But some Western officials now doubt the Kremlin was responsible.  —  After explosions in late September severely damaged undersea pipelines built …
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Democrats Frittered Away the Lame-Duck Session  —  A lackadaisical approach led to failure for numerous bipartisan bills, and kept alive Republican goals to take the debt limit hostage in 2023.  —  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) …
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
GOP Can't Be Successful Until Mitch McConnell Is Gone
Richard Stern / The Daily Signal:
18 Absurdities of the McConnell-Schumer Omnibus Spending Bill
NBC News:
Why Trump's insurrection referral is the Jan. 6 committee's most important act  —  The House committee release sits full report on Wednesday.  But likely nothing in its findings will have more of a legal impact than the conclusion that Trump incited an insurrection.
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Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Executive Summary Of Jan. 6 Report Shows How Trump Ignored Advisers, Spread Election Lies
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Sotomayor and Kagan need to think about retiring  —  The US Senate is a fundamentally broken institution.  Democratic judges need to account for that in their retirement decisions.  —  We have now lived with the consequences of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's late-life arrogance for more than two years.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Reason
Washington Post:
Skepticism before a search: Inside the Trump Mar-a-Lago documents investigation  —  The FBI was initially reluctant to investigate Donald Trump's possession of classified documents, and cautious when it did so  —  FBI officials had a lot to worry about in late July as they discussed whether …
Discussion: Twitchy and Washington Examiner
Michael Shellenberger:
FBI Behind Twitter's Censorship Of The Hunter Biden Laptop  —  The FBI and intelligence community discredited factual information about Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings both after and *before* The New York Post revealed them in October 2020  —  Over the last two weeks …
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Erika Kinetz / Associated Press:
‘We will find you:’ Russians hunt down Ukrainians on lists  —  Three days after the first Russian bombs struck Ukraine, Andrii Kuprash, the head of a village north of Kyiv, walked into a forest near his home and began to dig.  He didn't stop until he had carved out a shallow pit, big enough for a man like him.
Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
US Rep. Ferguson voted in Georgia county where he no longer lives, records show  —  Election laws require voters to use their current address  —  U.S. Rep. Drew Ferguson, a Republican from west Georgia who has raised concerns in the past about election fraud, voted three times this year in Troup County.
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
Board Finds Loophole for South Dakota Guv in ‘No Exceptions’ Law  —  An ethics panel has ruled it can't take action against Kristi Noem for using a state plane to travel to a wedding because it has no authority to determine what state business is. … In dismissing a complaint against South Dakota …
Justin Garcia / News & Views …:
DeSantis appoints anti-abortion Hillsborough County judge Jared Smith to appeals court  —  Hillsborough County voters removed the judge from his seat in August. … Hillsborough County voted Jared Smith off the bench this year after his controversial behavior gained national headlines.
American Prospect:
Ticketmaster's Dark History  —  A 40-year saga of kickbacks, threats, political maneuvering, and the humiliation of Pearl Jam  —  Just over 28 years ago, Taylor Swift was a precocious Montessori preschooler growing up on a Pennsylvania Christmas tree farm, and Eddie Vedder was the Most Important Musician …
Discussion: The Ringer, ABC7 and Bloomberg
Joseph Bernstein / New York Times:
If Twitter Fails, They'll Be Free  —  For some of Twitter's most prolific users, the platform was often a “hellsite.”  Now they contemplate a life without it.  —  The literary critic Fredric Jameson once said it was easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.  But what about Twitter?
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
Fall of the Progressive Boy King  —  Sean McElwee formed a lucrative alliance with SBF.  Then his patron went bust and he suffered his own scandal.  —  As much as he was known on Twitter for his persona as a lefty rabble-rouser, Sean McElwee was equally renowned among Democratic professionals …
Discussion: Eschaton
Burgess Everett / Politico:
See Romney run?  Trump's top GOP foil eyes Senate reelection  —  Many of Mitt Romney's fellow senators assume his willingness to break from his party — and Donald Trump — means he's planning for only one term.  They may be surprised.  —  The Utahn was the first senator in history to vote …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Exclusive: Clean Up On Aisle George Santos  —  Scandal engulfed Rep.-Elect files paperwork to resurrect the company at the center of his scandal  —  This morning we noted that incoming congressman and apparent flimflam artist George Santos (R-NY) has a rather sketchy background …
Discussion: Mother Jones and Raw Story
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
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David French / The Dispatch:
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Washington Post:
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