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11:40 AM ET, December 4, 2024

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Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Mulls Replacing Pete Hegseth With Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis  —  The president-elect is discussing replacing the current Pentagon nominee as the former Fox News host faces mounting scrutiny over allegations about his personal life  —  President-elect Donald Trump is considering Florida …
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Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
Trump Talks to DeSantis About Replacing Hegseth  —  DONALD TRUMP AND RON DESANTIS have personally discussed the possibility of the Florida governor becoming the next secretary of defense amid concerns that sexual assault allegations could engulf the president-elect's current nominee for the post, Pete Hegseth.
New York Times:
Trump Considers DeSantis for Defense Secretary as His Support for Hegseth Falters  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump is weighing his options, even as Pete Hegseth meets with senators to muster support.  Accusations of past misconduct have threatened his nomination from the start.
Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
James Carville Claims 1 Person Is Secretly ‘Driving’ Trump's Sketchy Nominations  —  The Democratic strategist was friends with the conservative figure who he says is wielding the most influence on the president-elect.  —  LOADING  —  Democratic strategist James Carville said Tuesday …
Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
Now There's Resurfaced Video Of Pete Hegseth Completely Trashing Trump  —  A clip of the embattled defense secretary nominee may further sink his chances to assume the post.  —  LOADING  —  Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth called Donald Trump “an armchair tough guy” who's “all bluster …
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
Joe Gould / Politico:
Hegseth: Trump told me to ‘keep fighting’
Discussion: CBS News
Punchbowl News:   12/4/24 ☀️ AM: … The 2024 elections finally ended on Tuesday night …
Associated Press:
Trump's defense pick Pete Hegseth faces deepening scrutiny in Senate
New York Post:
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot outside Hilton hotel in Midtown in possible targeted attack: sources  —  The CEO of UnitedHealth was fatally shot in the chest Wednesday morning outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown in what police say was a targeted attack.
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Chelsia Rose Marcius / New York Times:
C.E.O. of UnitedHealthcare Is Fatally Shot in Midtown Manhattan  —  The executive, Brian Thompson, was shot in the chest in what people briefed on the investigations said appeared to be a targeted attack.  —  The chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, one of the nation's largest health insurers …
New York Times:
Martial Law Didn't Silence South Korea's Media.  It Empowered Them.  —  Journalists criticized the president's attempt to place the press under military control, hardened by years of challenges to press freedoms by the country's political leaders.  —  When President Yoon Suk Yeol …
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Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
Dictators for a Day  —  South Korea and America  —  South Korea's president, Yoon Suk Yeol, invoked martial law, tried to install a military dictatorship — and failed completely.  In his actions there are some likely similarities with the coming Trump regime, and some clear lessons for Americans to learn right now.
Brian Klaas / The Atlantic:
South Korea's Warning for Washington
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
I listened to hours of Trump's FBI pick on Steve Bannon's podcast.  Oh boy.  —  Kash Patel, Donald Trump's pick to direct the Federal Bureau of Intelligence, has never served in the FBI.  But he has hosted Steve Bannon's podcast.  —  Patel is a contributor at Real America's Voice …
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CNN:
Kash Patel, Trump's pick to lead FBI, has been targeted in an Iranian hack, sources say
Reuters:
Trump taps team geared toward retribution and remaking of government
Reuters:
Trump team agrees with Justice Dept to begin background checks
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Elon Musk's harassment of federal employees proves DOGE is weaker than he pretends  —  Musk's relentless misbehavior on X leads MAGA into a “cowardly troll” era  —  Shortly after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, he announced, with great fanfare, that billionaire Elon Musk …
Discussion: Rolling Stone
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NBC News:
Pete Hegseth's drinking worried colleagues at Fox News, sources tell NBC News  —  Ten current and former Fox employees say Trump's pick for defense secretary drank in ways that concerned his co-workers.  A Trump transition team spokesperson called the claims “completely unfounded and false.”
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Jill Cowan / New York Times:
California Democrat Flips Seat in the Last House Race to Be Called  —  Adam Gray, a former state lawmaker, defeated Representative John Duarte, a Republican, in a reversal of their 2022 race.  —  A Democratic former state lawmaker defeated the Republican incumbent on Tuesday to flip a seat …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times, USA Today, CNN and Axios
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Michael R. Blood / Associated Press:
Democrat Adam Gray captures California's 13th US House District, ousting Republican Rep. John Duarte
Steven Monacelli / The Texas Observer:
Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts  —  Under owner Elon Musk, the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, has become a hotbed of white supremacist and neo-Nazi content.  A recent headline in the Atlantic doesn't mince words: “X is a white supremacist site.”
Anna Gifty / Public Notice:
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Trump v. Clinton: The media double standard on the influence of foreign cash  —  On Monday, Popular Information reported that Justin Sun, a Chinese national currently being prosecuted for fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission, sent President-elect Donald Trump $18 million in cash.
Discussion: The Independent
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Justine McDaniel / Washington Post:
Chinese entrepreneur invested $30M in Trump's crypto project after election
Discussion: New Republic
David Strom / HotAir:
Trump's Notre Dame Appearance Means More Than You Think  —  Emmanuel Macron, the French President, invited President Donald Trump to attend the grand re-opening of Notre Dame Cathedral after 5 years of reconstruction.  —  It will be a grand affair, attended by 50 heads of state …
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Alex Henderson / Alternet.org:   Stunning chart shows ‘mindblowing’ rise in manufacturing under Biden — that Trump gets to ‘ribbon cut’
Henry Farrell / Programmable Mutter:
Why did Silicon Valley turn right?  —  The “pounded progressive ally” thesis has limits  —  A significant chunk of the Silicon Valley tech industry has shifted to the right over the last few years.  Why did this happen?  Noah Smith and Matt Yglesias think they have the answer.
Phil Galewitz / KFF Health News:
9 States Poised To End Coverage for Millions if Trump Cuts Medicaid Funding  —  With Donald Trump's return to the White House and Republicans taking full control of Congress in 2025, the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion is back on the chopping block.  —  USE OUR CONTENT
Kevin Downey Jr / PJ Media:
Libs Are Shocked That Biden Is a Liar.  Wait Until They See His Encore.  —  I watched with suspicion as various left-wingers seemed surprised that Joe Biden lied and pardoned his crack-puffin', gun-buyin', bribe-takin', tax-dodgin' progeny.  Are they really shocked, or are they feigning …
Discussion: Townhall and Instapundit
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Joe Biden's predictable pardon of Hunter didn't threaten his reputation - it cemented an already corrupt legacy
Discussion: HotAir
Asher Notheis / Washington Examiner:
Charlamagne tha God tells Democrats to get off ‘moral high ground’ amid Biden pardon
Washington Post:
Trump's pick to head DEA withdraws after GOP criticism of his covid policies  —  Chad Chronister is the second Trump pick to abandon his bid to serve in the administration.  —  Chad Chronister, the Florida sheriff tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Drug Enforcement Administration …
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Trump's DEA nominee withdraws from consideration just days after being picked
 
 
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Corey Williams / Associated Press:
Detroit Mayor Duggan, a longtime Democrat, will run for Michigan governor in 2026 as independent
Washington Post:
Is Kristi Noem ready to run FEMA? South Dakota flood victims doubt it.
Discussion: Democrats and Alternet.org
NBC News:
Texas is offering land for Trump mass deportation facilities
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Jonathan Cowan / Politico:
Even Centrists Agree: Ben Wikler for DNC Chair
Discussion: The Hill
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Have I been running the Biden Administration?
 Earlier Items: 
Politico:
The new question ballot-measure pollsters have to ask
Discussion: Election Law Blog
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
A President Shouldn't Pardon His Son? Hello, Anybody Remember Neil Bush?
Discussion: Reason
Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
The View's Ana Navarro Cites Completely Fake Pardon of ‘Hunter deButts’ In Defense of the Hunter Biden Pardon
Discussion: Reason, The Independent and USA Today
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
AOC may run for Oversight job
Discussion: The Hill, Semafor, Fox News and HotAir
 

 
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Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Amazon says Prime Video has exclusively licensed a Melania Trump documentary, directed by Brett Ratner in his first film after facing #MeToo allegations in 2017

John Koblin / New York Times:
A profile of Dick Wolf, the Law & Order creator who is debuting his show On Call on Amazon Prime Video, as streamers gravitate towards his style of programming

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Apple offers Apple TV+ for free to anyone with an Apple ID this weekend, the first time it has offered such a promotion
 
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