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10:50 AM ET, November 27, 2024

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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Ex-Prosecutor Spots The Jack Smith Move That May Keep Donald Trump ‘Cases Alive’  —  It's “not at all” about “obeying an authoritarian in advance,” argued Barbara McQuade.  —  LOADING  —  Former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade broke down why Jack Smith would preemptively “pull the plug” …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
End of Trump prosecutions renews scrutiny of DOJ's pace  —  Special counsel Jack Smith's move to dismiss Donald Trump's two federal indictments has sparked finger-pointing from those eager to see the president-elect held to account, with critics airing their frustrations at the Department …
Discussion: Tampa Free Press
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Appeals court agrees to end Trump's classified documents case
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Mexican President's Harsh Takedown of Trump Exposes an Ugly MAGA Scam  —  Donald Trump's angry threat to impose 25 percent tariffs on all U.S. imports from Mexico—delivered Monday via the cautious diplomatic language of a Truth Social rant—is widely being depicted as a bluff.
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Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Kamala Harris Campaign Aides Suggest Campaign Was Just Doomed  —  The Harris campaign's internal polling apparently never had her ahead of Trump.  —  LOADING  —  Senior advisers to Vice President Kamala Harris' failed presidential campaign suggested this week that there just wasn't much else Harris …
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Brady Knox / Washington Examiner:
Harris aides say internal polling never had her ahead of Trump  —  The leadership of outgoing Vice President Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign said that internal polling never had her ahead of President-elect Donald Trump.  —  After President Joe Biden began lagging heavily behind …
Public Notice:
Trump's radical plan to purge the civil service  —  “It's explicitly about retribution.”  —  ∙ Paid … 🥘  —  Trump has been bloviating for nearly a decade now about his desire to “drain the swamp.”  He finally has a real plan to do it.  —  In the final months of his first term …
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New York Times:
3 Americans, Including F.B.I. Informant, Are Said to Be Freed in China Swap  —  The three men, John Leung, Kai Li and Mark Swidan, are on planes heading to the United States, officials said.  —  The Biden administration has negotiated a prisoner swap with China for the release of three American men …
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Reuters:
US brokers release of three Americans it says were wrongly detained in China  —  The United States has brokered the release of three Americans it said had been wrongfully detained in China for many years, the White House said in a statement on Wednesday.  —  The White House national security …
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts  —  On Monday, X filed an objection in The Onion's bid to buy InfoWars out of bankruptcy.  In the objection, Elon Musk's lawyers argued that X has “superior ownership” of all accounts on X …
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for ‘Machine Learning Research’  —  Update: Following the publication of this article on Tuesday evening, van Strien removed the dataset.  “I've removed the Bluesky data from the repo,” he wrote on Bluesky.
Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg:
Musk Calls for Abolishing Consumer Finance Agency: ‘Delete CFPB’  — GOP has long sought to neutralize agency proposed by Warren  — Musk, Ramaswamy leading DOGE effort to cut federal government  —  Billionaire Elon Musk called for eliminating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau …
Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Rudy Giuliani draws rebuke for a courtroom outburst accusing judge in assets case of being unfair  —  In an angry outburst in a New York courtroom, Rudy Giuliani accused a judge Tuesday of making wrong assumptions about him as he tries to comply with an order requiring him to turn …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Trump Picks Stanford Physician Who Opposed Lockdowns to Head N.I.H.  —  As the director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya would oversee the world's premier medical research agency, with a $47 billion budget and 27 separate institutes and centers.
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Erin Schumaker / Politico:
Trump picks NIH critic Jay Bhattacharya to lead the agency
Washington Post:
Trump signs transition agreement with Biden, but it lacks key guardrails  —  The Trump team is still refusing to accept several typical trappings of the presidential transition process, including federal funding, equipment, office space or security.  —  The Trump transition team said Tuesday …
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Trump transition signs White House agreement
Politico:
Katie Porter alleges ‘persistent abuse,’ files domestic violence restraining order against ex-boyfriend  —  Julian Willis' alleged threats to leak “false” information to the press “poses a serious risk to my career and personal reputation,” Porter wrote.  Willis said the filing was an effort to preempt his own claims against her.
Theron Mohamed / Business Insider:
Maye Musk welcomes Elon's bromance with Donald Trump and says they ‘just seem to be having fun’  — Maye Musk commented on her son's friendship with Donald Trump in a Fox Business interview.  — Elon Musk and the president-elect are having “a lot of fun,” she said.
Discussion: The Independent and Fox Business
 
 
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
‘Unquestioning right-wing soldiers’: Analyst issues stark warning about MAGA's school plan
Discussion: People For and Salon
Jonathan Nicholson / HuffPost:
Biden Administration Wants To Protect IRS Funding As Budget Deadline Nears
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MSNBC Says It Was ‘Unaware’ of Harris Campaign Contributions to Al Sharpton Nonprofit—But Won't Say Whether It's Taking Action
Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
Trump Has Late-Night Meltdown Over New York Times Story on Close Aide
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump Guitars copy Gibson's Les Paul design, per cease and desist notice
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
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Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
OpenAI suspends early access to Sora after ~20 artists leaked access to the tool in protest of the company's treatment of creative professionals as “PR puppets”

Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
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