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Washington Post:
Mike Lindell's firm told to pay $5 million in ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ election-fraud challenge  —  MyPillow founder and prominent election denier Mike Lindell made a bold offer ahead of a “cyber symposium” he held in August 2021 in South Dakota: He claimed he had data showing Chinese interference …
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Sara Murray / CNN:
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell ordered to follow through with $5 million payment to expert who debunked his false election data  —  My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell has been ordered to shell out $5 million to an expert who debunked his data related to the 2020 election, according to a decision by the arbitration panel obtained by CNN.
Discussion: CNBC, The Hill and Raw Story
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
JUST IN: Dan Bongino Parts Ways With Fox News  —  Dan Bongino, the pro-Trump firebrand who turned frequent appearances on Fox News into a job hosting a weekend show on the network, announced his departure on Thursday.  —  Bongino, the host of Unfiltered and Fox Nation's Canceled in the USA …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Political Wire
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Mark Joyella / Forbes:
Fox News Parts Ways With Dan Bongino: 'It's A Sad Day'  —  Fox News has ended its relationship with Dan Bongino, who hosted the Saturday night show Unfiltered with Dan Bongino.  Bongino's Canceled in the USA streamed on Fox's streaming service, Fox Nation, will end as well.
Washington Post:
Fox was resigned to a tough trial.  Then, a secret mediator stepped in.  —  Dominion held firm to its big-money claim, and the jury was seated, just before a dramatic ending to the defamation case  —  For months, as the pretrial proceedings wore on and the embarrassing internal messages kept spilling …
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Julia Rock / The Lever:
Fox Can Claim Tax Writeoff For Defamation Settlement
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Don't get it twisted: Fox's $787.5M defamation deal is record-setting, massive and painful, experts say
Matthew Dallek / New York Times:
How Fox Helped Break the American Right
Discussion: Alternet.org
Gary Fineout / Politico:
‘Deeply frustrated’: Florida legislators worn out by DeSantis  —  The governor didn't wow D.C. It's not great in Tallahassee either.  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' iron-clad grip on the Republican-controlled Legislature may be slipping amid growing frustration among GOP legislators.
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
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Berny Belvedere / The Bulwark:
Decoding DeSantis's Weird War on Disney  —  It may seem crazy for a governor to wildly attack one of his state's major employers—but you gotta understand MAGA logic.  —  This week, when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suggested that he might build a prison next to Disney World …
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida poised to make DeSantis' travel records secret
Rolling Stone:
Trump Plotted for Weeks to ‘Mindf-ck’ DeSantis With Florida Endorsements
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Manchin slams Biden for ‘deficiency of leadership,’ applauds McCarthy debt limit plan  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who faces reelection in a Republican-leaning state, on Thursday slammed President Biden for showing “a deficiency of leadership” on a potential national default …
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Associated Press:
Biden Blasts GOP ‘Wacko Notions’ Amid Debt Limit Standoff
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
GOP conservatives are thrilled with the House's new debt ceiling bill
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Press Herald
Politico:
Republicans are alarmed about a Mastriano for Senate bid.  Even Trump.  —  The former president has privately conveyed concerns about having the Pennsylvania Republican on the top of the ticket alongside him this cycle.  —  MAGA firebrand Doug Mastriano is inducing panic among GOP officials …
Discussion: Raw Story, Slate and Alternet.org
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
'I'm not a paid assassin': Inside Chris Christie's 2024 decision  —  The former New Jersey governor is eager to take on Donald Trump.  But he's only running, he says, if he thinks he can win.  —  A few weeks ago, Chris Christie called up a former Republican presidential candidate and asked for some advice …
Washington Post:
Abortion divides 2024 candidates and confounds many within the GOP
Discussion: New Republic and New York Times
New York Times:
BuzzFeed Shuts Down Its Namesake News Division  —  BuzzFeed News, which won a Pulitzer Prize but never made money, is “beginning the process of closing,” the company's founder, Jonah Peretti, said in a memo to employees.  —  BuzzFeed is shutting down its news division as part of an effort …
Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
SpaceX's Starship Rocket Will Try to Launch on 4/20: What to Expect  —  The most powerful rocket ever built got off the launchpad in South Texas, but did not achieve its most ambitious goals on Thursday.  —  A setback for Elon Musk and SpaceX, but not a fatal one.
Washington Post:
Top GOP lawyer decries ease of campus voting in private pitch to RNC  —  A presentation by Cleta Mitchell at a donor retreat urged tougher rules that could make it harder for college students to cast ballots  —  NASHVILLE — A top Republican legal strategist told a roomful of GOP donors …
Ben Smith / The Atlantic:
After All That, I Would Still Publish the Dossier  —  But I would do some things differently.  —  When i realized the power of online journalism in the early aughts, I saw transparency as key to its promise.  I'd watched Gawker X-ray New York's media scene, and seen bloggers tear apart mainstream reporting …
Discussion: Fox News and Twitchy
Hannah Story Brown / American Prospect:
Exxon's Unethical Supreme Court Play  —  Oil company lawyers are pushing Justice Alito to indirectly decide cases he should recuse himself from. … As the revelations of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's flagrant corruption continue to unspool, scrutiny of the weak ethics rules binding the Court has intensified.
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
The (Republican) Party's Over  —  With each passing month, week, and day, the Republican Party contrives to go a little crazier, one step more radical—to smash one more norm or tradition.  If you still think that surely they'll come to their senses one of these days, you're just not paying attention.
Discussion: The Dean's Report
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Judicial record undermines Clarence Thomas defence in luxury gifts scandal  —  Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow was linked to a conservative group that had court business while Thomas was on the bench  —  Earlier this month, the supreme court justice Clarence Thomas put out a statement …
Associated Press:
More peril for Trump in pending probes than NY: AP-NORC poll  —  Former President Donald Trump has emerged largely unscathed politically from his New York indictment.  But a new poll suggests that investigations in Georgia and Washington could prove more problematic.
Luke Gentile / Washington Examiner:
WATCH: Michelle Obama talks White House return after being snubbed by Trump  —  Former first lady Michelle Obama described returning to the White House last fall as a “beautiful experience” on Wednesday while speaking to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show.  —  The former first lady's trip …
Discussion: Fox News, CBS News, Billboard, UPI and HuffPost
Will Saletan / Bulwark+:
Donald Trump Is Running a Democratic Campaign in a Republican Primary  —  DONALD TRUMP IS PUMMELING RON DESANTIS in the battle for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.  He accuses DeSantis of exaggerating Florida's economic success, failing to control crime, and locking down businesses during COVID.
Discussion: Miami Herald
Jean Merl / Los Angeles Times:
Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan dies at 92  —  Richard J. Riordan, the take-charge venture capitalist who as mayor shepherded Los Angeles' rebound from the 1992 riots, expanded its Police Department and masterminded its recovery from the Northridge earthquake, has died at his Brentwood home.
Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept:
Pentagon Requests $36 Million for Havana Syndrome … House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's debt limit bill unveiled Wednesday would slash $130 billion from a broad range of domestic programs, including clean-energy subsidies and student loan forgiveness.  But one thing the bill would not cut is the military …
Discussion: Fox News
Washington Post:
A new Smithsonian boss settled multiple employee retaliation lawsuits  —  The selection of Nancy Yao to run the American Women's History Museum is being re-evaluated because of questions about firing three sex-harassment accusers at a New York museum  —  When the Smithsonian Institution announced …
 
 
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Walter Russell Mead / Tablet Magazine:
American Crisis  —  How we lost our faith in the future and how to get it back  —  Via Meadia
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The how and why of Tucker Carlson's misleading Ukraine war math
Discussion: HuffPost
Jonathan Tirone / Bloomberg:
Global Warming Is Already Hitting Europe Hard
Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
House Republicans vote to bar transgender athletes from women's sports
 Earlier Items: 
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
How Trump's Dubious Tax Break for Donated Land Paid Off
Discussion: Raw Story
Madeline Holcombe / CNN:
Most adults value reproductive rights when deciding where to go to college, poll shows
Discussion: Forbes
Jay Kirk / New York Times:
At Sandy Hook, Crime-Scene Investigators Saw the Unimaginable
Washington Post:
A White man was ‘scared to death’ of Ralph Yarl. For Black boys, this isn't new.
Discussion: CBS News
Jack Resneck Jr / New York Times:
This Could Be One of the Most Brazen Attacks on Americans' Health Yet
Amy Beth Hanson / Associated Press:
Montana Republicans want censure while misgendering lawmaker
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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