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Ryan Mac / New York Times:
X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post  —  IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages.
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Nicholas Vinocur / Politico:
No more ads on Elon's X, EU Commission tells staff  —  Ads on Musk-owned social media site risk causing ‘reputational damage’ to the EU, its executive says in internal note.  —  The European Commission has decided to stop advertising on social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, over …
Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg:
White House Condemns Elon Musk's ‘Abhorrent’ Endorsement of Antisemitism
Todd Spangler / Variety:
IBM Immediately Suspends Advertising From X/Twitter After Discovering Its Ads Appeared Next to Pro-Nazi Content
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
As Musk endorses antisemitic conspiracy theory, X has been placing ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity next to pro-Nazi content
The Economist:
Donald Trump poses the biggest danger to the world in 2024  —  What his victory in America's election would mean  —  Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.  —  A shadow looms over the world.  In this week's edition we publish The World Ahead 2024, our 38th annual predictive guide …
Discussion: HotAir, Reuters, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Shauneen Miranda / Axios:
The Economist names Trump “biggest danger” for 2024  —  The Economist says former President Trump presents the world's “biggest danger” in 2024. … - “China and its friends would rejoice over the evidence that American democracy is dysfunctional” and Beijing “could easily miscalculate over Taiwan, with catastrophic consequences.”
Politico:
Playbook: The case for triangulation on immigration  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE SPIRIT OF '68 — “Violent clash at DNC headquarters sparks concern over convention security,” by Shia Kapos: “A pro-Palestinian protest …
The Messenger:
Donald Trump's 2024 Trial Schedule Drifts Into Chaos
Discussion: Raw Story and The Dispatch
CNN:
House Ethics chairman introduces resolution to expel George Santos from Congress  —  House Ethics Chairman Michael Guest, a Mississippi Republican, introduced a resolution Friday to expel GOP Rep. George Santos of New York from Congress, one day after the Ethics Committee released a damning report on its investigation into Santos.
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
George Santos faces new motion to expel him from Congress  —  Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) is facing a new motion to expel him from Congress, one day after the House Ethics Committee released a scathing report that found “substantial evidence” Santos had knowingly violated ethics guidelines, House rules and criminal laws.
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Santos calls Ethics Committee report a ‘dirty biased act’ that ‘tramples over all of my rights’
Associated Press:
Michigan Supreme Court asked to hear appeal of ruling in Trump ballot case  —  A lower court judge denied a liberal group's effort to bar the former president from the state ballot under the U.S. Constitution's prohibition on those who engaged in insurrection running for office.
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Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Posts Tirade Against Judge, Court Clerk Hours After Gag Order Paused  —  The former president called a court staffer a “Trump Hating Clerk,” who is “politically biased and out of control.”  —  LOADING  —  Former President Donald Trump went on a tirade against the judge overseeing …
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Scoop: Christie tells donors he still can beat Trump … - The former New Jersey governor's appeal in the Granite State has made it difficult for any other non-Trump candidates to get within striking distance of Trump in the state — namely former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who has been rising in polls lately.
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William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
CNN Airs New Tape of Trump Discussing Capitol Trip on Jan. 6  —  WON'T BACK DOWN  —  In a taped interview for ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl's book, Tired of Winning, former President Donald Trump said that if he had been allowed to go to the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Republicans get ready to roll Tuberville on military holds  —  Republican senators are laying the groundwork to vote before Christmas on a Democratic-drafted resolution to circumvent the blockade that Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R) has placed in front of more than 400 military nominees.
Washington Post:
The hidden biases at play in the U.S. Senate  —  People of color get significantly less representation than White voters.  And that's not the only way the Senate is skewed.  —  The United States Senate was never designed to represent all people equally.  But over recent decades …
Jake Lahut / The Daily Beast:
‘No Labels’ Tax Forms Reveal Execs Cashing In on 2024 Hype  —  According to tax documents obtained by The Daily Beast, the centrist group plotting a 2024 challenge is raising lots of dough, padding its leaders' paychecks. … No Labels, No Worries  —  As the centrist group No Labels gears …
Discussion: Sludge, Raw Story and Washington Post
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump classified documents trial running about four months behind schedule  —  Judge Aileen Cannon put off setting deadline for Trump to submit notice about what classified information he intends to use at trial  —  Donald Trump's trial on charges that he retained classified documents …
Reuters:
Israel-Hamas War  —  Israeli Army Takes Journalists on Controlled Visit to Gaza Hospital … The Israeli Army escorts Times journalists to Al-Shifa, a focus of its invasion.  —  Almost 48 hours after entering Gaza's largest medical complex, the Israeli military escorted journalists …
Washington Post:
Failure at the fence: How Israel's vaunted ‘Iron Wall’ crumbled  —  In December 2021, Israel's military said a high-tech upgrade to the barrier that had long surrounded the Gaza Strip would protect nearby Israeli residents from the threat of violence from militants.
Reuters:
Argentina on a knife-edge as presidential election offers clashing visions of the future  —  Argentine voters are angry and afraid.  Which is stronger will tip the balance of the South American country's presidential election on Sunday and may reshape its diplomatic ties, economic future, and the wider region's political fault lines.
Discussion: Bloomberg, WJXB and New York Times
A.L. Lee / UPI:
Study: 58% of world's richest companies quietly lobby against climate policies  —  Pledges by the world's largest corporations to fight climate change frequently do not align with their lobbying efforts, with more than half of companies at risk of engaging in misleading practices known as …
Discussion: InfluenceMap, The Hill and Sludge
Jordyn Hermani / MLive.com:
Secret source informed prosecutors in Michigan voting machine probe  —  With an MLive.com subscription, you can gift 10 Subscriber Exclusive articles per month to anyone, including non-subscribers.  —  Already a subscriber? … Disclaimer  —  Use of and/or registration on any portion …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Ana CeballosTimes / Tampa Bay Times:
DeSantis' State Guard contracts with combat-training company  —  Eddie Gallagher, a former U.S. Navy SEAL accused of war crimes, is listed as an instructor with a company hired by Florida to train its civilian military force.  —  To recruit and train members of a civilian military force under his control …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
 
 
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The Times of Israel:
Outgoing Human Rights Watch senior editor blasts group's ‘infected’ work on Israel
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Bloomberg:
Ukraine Aid From US Won't Be Approved for a Month, Maybe Longer
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
For Biden, a Subtle Shift in the Power Balance With China's Xi Jinping
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Trump Crosses a Crucial Line
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CNN:
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Washington Post:
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Suppose They Threw a Cage Match Between Fascism and Democracy and Nobody Cared
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