memeorandum: Far Right Turns on ‘Faker’ & ‘Liar’ Marjorie Taylor Greene (Zachary Petrizzo/The Daily Beast)

5:00 PM ET, December 24, 2022

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Arizona Judge Rejects Kari Lake's Effort to Overturn Her Election Loss — Kari Lake, a Republican who was defeated by Katie Hobbs in the Arizona governor's race, had made false election claims the centerpiece of her campaign. — A state judge on Saturday rejected Kari Lake's last-ditch effort …

Jacques Billeaud / Associated Press:

Lake loses suit over her defeat in Arizona governor's race — PHOENIX — A judge has thrown out Republican Kari Lake's challenge of her defeat in the Arizona governor's race to Democrat Katie Hobbs, rejecting her claim that problems with ballot printers at some polling places on Election Day were the result of intentional misconduct.

Discussion: Axios, Fox News, Bloomberg, The Hill, Politico, Election Law Blog, The Daily Caller, Law & Crime, America First Report, The Gateway Pundit, The Post Millennial, Arizona Republic, The Western Journal, Arizona Mirror and Associated Press

Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:

Judge rules against Kari Lake in bid to overturn election results — The defeated GOP candidate for Arizona governor claimed that illegal voting and printer malfunctions had cost her the November election — An Arizona judge on Saturday rebuffed an effort by Kari Lake …

Discussion: Votebeat Arizona, Arizona Republic, The Guardian, CNN, Washington Examiner, New York Daily News, Arizona Capitol Times, NewsNation, PJ Media and The Gateway Pundit

Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
Jan. 6 report sheds new details about Sen. Mike Lee's efforts to help Trump overturn 2020 election

Discussion: CNN, The Guardian, Lawfare, Al Jazeera, Source New Mexico, Associated Press, Raw Story, Insider, Digby's Hullabaloo, Civil Discourse …, Talking Points Memo and The Atlantic

New York Times:
How the Worst Fears for Democracy Were Averted in 2022

Discussion: The Hill

The Athletic:

Mets have concerns with Carlos Correa's physical: Sources — It's the physical. Again. — The New York Mets, like the San Francisco Giants earlier in the week, have raised concerns about Carlos Correa's surgically repaired lower right leg, potentially jeopardizing their 12-year …

Discussion: New York Daily News and New York Post

Kenneth Li / Reuters:

Twitter restores suicide prevention feature after Reuters report — Twitter Inc restored a feature that promoted suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, after coming under pressure from some users and consumer safety groups over its removal.

Discussion: The Guardian, New York Daily News, New York Post, RedState and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »

Brady Knox / Washington Examiner:

Top five takeaways from the newest trove of Jan. 6 transcripts — The Jan. 6 Committee released 46 more witness transcripts the day after the release of its final report. — The new witness transcripts included hundreds of pages of testimony from several key people in the last days …

Discussion: Mediaite, Insider, Political Wire and Bloomberg

CNN:
Trump White House drafted statement attacking Barr after he publicly refuted Trump's voter fraud claims, transcript reveals

Discussion: The Hill, Insider and Political Wire

Internal Revenue Service:

IRS announces delay for implementation of $600 reporting threshold for third-party payment platforms' Forms 1099-K — News Releases for Frequently Asked Questions — WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today announced a delay in reporting thresholds for third-party settlement organizations set …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Caller, Washington Times, Bloomberg and CBS News, more at Techmeme »

Dante Atkins / Anti-Imperialist League:

Zelenskyy's speech and the blind fury of the hard right … The above is a key part of an opinion piece by Greg Sargent at the Washington Post that's worth reading in its entirety. The prompt for the piece was Tucker Carlson's rage-fueled rant about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's momentous speech …

Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:

Far Right Turns on ‘Faker’ & ‘Liar’ Marjorie Taylor Greene — Her one-time allies are now targeting her with the same rage they had once reserved for Democrats. — The far right is out to destroy one of their own. — Over the past week, far-right pundits have begun lining up to take shots …

Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Beast

Michael Luciano / Mediaite:

Eric Bolling Rips 'Putin's Press Secretary' Tucker Carlson for Innuendo About Lindsey Graham's Personal Life — Newsmax host and former Fox News talking head Eric Bolling said “Putin's press secretary” Tucker Carlson owes Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) an apology for comments he made about the senator's personal life.

Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo, The Mahablog, IJR and Trends Journal

New York Times:

Putin Wants Fealty, and He's Found It in Africa — The Russian president has unleashed a new disorder on the world with his war in Ukraine, and the Central African Republic may be its ultimate expression. — BANGUI, Central African Republic — In early March, as Russia's invasion …

Mark Chiusano / Newsday:

George Santos' congressional freshman yearbook entries come with questions — Besides a photo and party affiliation, there are only three pieces of personal information in George Santos' entry for the recently released 118th Congress freshman yearbook — and all three of them come with questions.

Kate Brumback / Associated Press:

Georgia special grand jury wraps up probe of Trump, allies — A special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies illegally tried to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election in Georgia appears to be wrapping up its work, but many questions remain.

Discussion: Daily Montanan and The Western Journal

Yasmin Tayag / The Atlantic:

How Many Republicans Died Because the GOP Turned Against Vaccines? — No country has a perfect COVID vaccination rate, even this far into the pandemic, but America's record is particularly dismal. About a third of Americans—more than a hundred million people—have yet to get their initial shots.

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money

Guillermo / Foreign Policy Research Institute:

A Nation Must Think Before it Acts How the Battle for the Donbas Shaped Ukraine's Success — A nation must think before it acts. — BOTTOM LINE — As the Russian-Ukrainian War enters the winter, Ukrainians have reason to be cautiously optimistic about the course of the war.

Discussion: TASS