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10:20 AM ET, November 15, 2024

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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump moves to burn down the rule of law  —  His cabinet nominations are obscene and augur dark days to come. … 🌎  —  When the sordid history of the second Trump administration is written, should we all survive that long, it will be difficult to sort out which of his early cabinet picks were the most atrocious.
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Trump wants his criminal lawyers at DOJ, RFK Jr. at HHS, and no one holding him back  —  Republican senators are going to have to think hard about their role.  —  It is becoming increasingly clear that, to the extent Donald Trump ever took the presidency seriously, he is not doing so this time around …
Washington Post:
Trump is already testing Republicans, and they seem unwilling to defy him  —  “It's a given Trump's going to beat us into submission,” said one House Republican.  —  On the eve of their return to Congress this week, a group of House Republicans sat down with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) …
Discussion: Raw Story, MinnPost and The Hill
Politico:
Playbook: Trump floods the zone with new appointees  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  TALK OF THIS TOWN — Michael Schaffer's latest Capital City column: “The Resistance Is Not Coming to Save You.  It's Tuning Out: The first Trump …
Rolling Stone:
Trump's Extreme Hires Are About Showing Republicans Who's Boss  —  One Trump transition team member says he wants to bend Republican senators to his will “until they snap in half”  —  Donald Trump has nominated a roster of highly controversial, and in some cases scandal-plagued …
Discussion: Raw Story and Business Insider
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Trump looks to bypass Senate for polarizing Cabinet picks
CNN:
Trump picks Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his Department of Health and Human Services secretary
Eric Beech / Reuters:
Trump picks ex-congressman Doug Collins for veterans affairs secretary
Politico:
Trump to select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS
New York Times:
How Trump Picked Gaetz
Will Steakin / ABC News:
Woman testified to House Ethics Committee that Gaetz had sex with her when she was 17: Sources  —  Trump tapped Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz to be the new attorney general.  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md., Feb. 23, 2024.
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Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
Gaetz Begins Lobbying Lawmakers, Hoping He Hasn't Burned All the Bridges  —  MATT GAETZ EARNED A REPUTATION IN CONGRESS as an acid-tongued, anti-establishment knife fighter who didn't come to Washington to make friends.  —  But now Gaetz wants to become the next attorney general of the United States.
Politico:
House ethics panel cancels meeting amid pressure to release Gaetz report
Discussion: Washington Examiner
NBC News:
Senators want details of Matt Gaetz ethics probe before his confirmation vote for attorney general
New York Times:
Trump Transition Live Updates: Some in G.O.P. Balk at Choice of Gaetz for Attorney General
Ben Domenech / The Transom:
Matt Gaetz is a Vile Sex Pest and Any Senator Who Votes For Him Owns That
Benjamin Mazer / The Atlantic:
The Sanewashing of RFK Jr.  —  Let's call a crank a crank.  —  Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump's improbable nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, actually such a crank?  Short answer: yes.  But two opinion pieces published in just the past few days argue that although Kennedy …
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Maya Yang / The Guardian:
RFK Jr condemned as ‘clear and present danger’ after Trump nomination
Denver Post:
Gov. Jared Polis cheers RFK Jr.'s nomination for health post despite anti-vaccine statements
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Trump's Defense Secretary Pick Pete Hegseth Said to Face Previous Sexual Misconduct Allegation  —  Sources say Donald Trump's transition team leadership met with the former Fox News host, who is a left-field pick to head the Department of Defense, about the claims on Thursday.
CNN:
Trump's team skips FBI background checks for some Cabinet picks  —  President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is bypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of potential candidates for administration jobs …
Washington Post:
Inside the Republican false-flag effort to turn off Kamala Harris voters  —  A multipronged dark money effort by advisers to Elon Musk targeted liberals, Jews, Muslims and Black voters with ads that were not quite what they seemed.  —  Muslims in Michigan began seeing pro-Israel ads …
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Stephen Neukam / Axios:   Scoop: Senate Democrats caught flat-footed by GOP anti-trans attacks
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Scoop: Manchin signals willingness to back Biden's final push on judges
Discussion: Raw Story
M. Gessen / New York Times:
This Is the Dark, Unspoken Promise of Trump's Return  —  For those bewildered by why so many Americans apparently voted against the values of liberal democracy, Balint Magyar has a useful formulation.  “Liberal democracy,” he says, “offers moral constraints without problem-solving” …
Discussion: Raw Story
Lachlan Cartwright / Columbia Journalism Review:
Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over Critical Coverage  —  Legal letter follows complaints aimed at CBS News, the Washington Post, and the Daily Beast.  —  The letter, addressed to lawyers at the New York Times and Penguin Random House, arrived a week before the election.
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Final CHIPS Award for TSMC  —  Two years ago, shortly after I signed the CHIPS & Science Act, I visited Arizona to announce a commitment by TSMC to invest in America, create American jobs, and shore up American supply chains.
Michael Schaffer / Politico:
The Resistance Is Not Coming to Save You.  It's Tuning Out.  —  The first Trump administration sparked waves of public activism and aggressive media coverage.  This time, not so much.  —  In the weeks before the 2024 election, no media platform had more catnip for Donald Trump's detractors than the Drudge Report.
Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
Elon Musk Met With Iran's U.N. Ambassador, Iranian Officials Say  —  The tech billionaire, a top adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, was reported to have discussed ways to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States.  —  Elon Musk, a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump …
Erin Lowry / Bloomberg:
Pay Close Attention to Your Credit Card Balance Under Trump 2.0  —  Expect efforts to protect consumers from sky-high fees to fizzle under the new administration.  —  During Donald Trump's reelection campaign, he boasted of plans to overhaul the federal government, promising to gut or even eliminate entire federal departments.
Alex Nitzberg / Fox News:
Lara Trump says she'd ‘love to consider’ filling Rubio's Senate seat if asked by DeSantis  —  President-elect Donald Trump tapped Sen Marco Rubio to serve as secretary of state  —  Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump told FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo that she would …
Erin Doherty / Axios:
Focus group: Swing voters wary of Musk-Trump relationship … - 12 of 14 participants in this week's sessions said they were familiar with Musk's advising Trump. … “I don't know what his ultimate agenda would be for having that type of access.”  — “I think it'll favor his Tesla company …
Discussion: Raw Story and Business Insider
Reporters Without Borders:
RSF presses criminal charges against X (formerly Twitter) for its participation in identity theft and spreading disinformation  —  Organisation:  — RSF_en  — RSF_Inter  —  After discovering that it was the target of a disinformation campaign, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) …
 
 
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Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
Why the Gaetz Announcement Is Already Destroying the Government
Discussion: New Yorker
Sam Sutton / Politico:
The Biden economy is about to get a new salesman: Donald Trump
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Scoop: Rahm Emanuel weighs bid for DNC chair
Discussion: New Jersey Online and Daily Mail
NOTUS:
Tim Scott's New NRSC Hire Is Ruffling Feathers Even Before It's Official
Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
Trump picks North Dakota governor to lead Interior
 Earlier Items: 
Marc Bennetts / The Times:
Trump's intelligence chief pick Tulsi Gabbard is 'Russia's girlfriend'
Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
Steve Bannon Threatens Ari Melber, Says Matt Gaetz's DOJ Is Coming For Him And ‘All The Producers of MSNBC’
Washington Post:
Go bags, passports, foreign assets: Preparing to be a target of Trump's revenge
Discussion: The Bulwark and Raw Story
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump's transition team aims to kill Biden EV tax credit
 

 
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New York Times:
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