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Mitch McConnell / Foreign Affairs:
The Price of American Retreat  —  Why Washington Must Reject Isolationism and Embrace Primacy  —  Mitch McConnell  —  Mitch McConnell is a Senator from Kentucky and served as U.S. Senate Republican Leader from 2007 through 2024.  —  When he begins his second term as president …
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Joshua Keating / Vox:   How China could try to strangle Taiwan without firing a shot
Politico:
Playbook: What the GOP's new Big 3 discussed this weekend
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Maybe Democrats Didn't Do So Badly After All  —  Five days after last month's election, Senator Chris Murphy rendered a damning verdict on his party's performance.  “That was a cataclysm,” the Connecticut Democrat wrote on X.  “Electoral map wipeout.”  Donald Trump had won both the popular vote …
Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and NOTUS
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Joan E Greve / The Guardian:
Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg runs for Democratic committee post: 'We can't win without young voters'  —  Gun safety activist bidding for a DNC vice-chair post says party defends institutions when it needs to reform them  —  David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland school shooting turned gun safety …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
ABC bends the knee  —  📝 Public Notice is made possible by paid subscribers.  If you aren't one, please click the button below to sign up and support our independent journalism.  📝  —  🎄 Subscribe to Public Notice 🎄  —  Since the election …
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Journalists anticipate a renewed hostility toward their work under the incoming Trump administration
Discussion: Power Line and Breitbart
New York Times:
A Constitutional Convention?  Some Democrats Fear It's Coming.  —  Some Republicans have said that a constitutional convention is overdue.  Many Democratic-led states have rescinded their long-ago calls for one, and California will soon consider whether to do the same.
Discussion: New Republic
Paul Krugman / Krugman wonks out:
Crypto is for Criming  —  It's not digital gold — it's digital Benjamins  —  The tech bros who helped put Trump back in power expect many favors in return; one of the more interesting is their demand that the government intervene to guarantee crypto players the right to a checking account …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Sun
Chris Stein / The Guardian:
Trump expects RFK Jr to be ‘much less radical’ as health secretary - live  —  President-elect says he believes his choice for health secretary will ‘be much less radical than you would think’ amid concern over his anti-vaccine views  —  Trump says he supports polio vaccine, despite signs of RFK Jr's opposition
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Phillip Nieto / Mediaite:
New House Repub Tells Audience ‘We Need a Lot More Daniel Pennys’ Because There Are ‘Far Too Many Jordan Neelys’ In This Country  —  Congressman-elect Brandon Gill (R-TX) on Sunday opened his remarks at the New York Young Republican Club annual gala with praise for Daniel Penny …
Discussion: The Hill
The White House:
FACT SHEET: President Biden Designates Frances Perkins National Monument  —  Action Uplifts Women's History by Honoring the First Woman Cabinet Secretary, Longest-Serving Secretary of Labor, and a Key Architect of the New Deal  —  Today President Biden will sign a proclamation establishing …
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Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Biden establishing Frances Perkins National Monument in Maine
Discussion: Washington Times
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Adviser Collapses On Stage At New York Young Republican Gala  —  The president-elect called into the event and addressed the incident, saying Alex Bruesewitz is “a very special guy.”  —  LOADING  —  Alex Bruesewitz, a consultant who helped President-elect Donald Trump cut through to young …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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The Atlantic:
How Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration  —  Not long ago, immigration was a winning issue for Democrats.  When Mitt Romney lost to Barack Obama in 2012, his defeat was blamed, in part, on his hard-line stance in favor of “self-deportation”—making life so hard for immigrants that they would choose to return to their home country.
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Popular Information:
Zuckerberg, once a champion for the undocumented, embraces Trump
Discussion: El País
Washington Post:
Kamala Harris grapples with her future in a wounded Democratic Party  —  As questions loom about a run for president or governor, many Democrats do not blame Harris for her loss, but that doesn't mean they want her to run again  —  When Mitt Romney lost his 2012 presidential race …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Kamala Harris' digital chief on Democrats ‘losing hold of culture’  —  Soon after Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee, deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty turned his attention to sports.  —  The campaign needed to introduce Harris quickly to people who aren't obsessed with politics.
Wall Street Journal:
Why Musk Doesn't Have Access to SpaceX's Biggest Government Secrets  —  Executives haven't sought higher security clearance for the CEO to avoid questions about his drug use and contact with foreign officials; the answers might no longer matter  —  The payloads SpaceX launches into the heavens …
Curt Devine / CNN:
Trump vows to ‘hire American.’ His businesses keep hiring foreign guest workers  —  President-elect Donald Trump vowed on the campaign trail to do everything in his power to benefit American workers.  “We will build American, buy American and hire American,” he said during a rally in August.
Discussion: The Independent and Raw Story
CBS News:
Armed man with Glock switch in his underwear arrested outside Pentagon  —  A man with a loaded gun in his car and a device in his underwear that would enable the firearm to act like a machine gun was arrested outside the Pentagon last week after attempting to speed off with Pentagon police officers clinging …
Kimberly Leonard / Politico:
Trump downplays possibility of DeSantis appointing Lara Trump to the Senate  —  President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that he doesn't expect Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to appoint his daughter-in-law Lara Trump to the Senate.  The seat in Florida will soon be vacant because Trump …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Florida Politics
Damien McGuinness / BBC:
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz loses confidence vote  —  German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has lost a vote of confidence in parliament, paving the way for early elections on 23 February.  —  Scholz called Monday's vote and had expected to lose it, but calculated that triggering an early election …
Bloomberg:
Trump Says He'd Consider Pardoning NYC Mayor Eric Adams  —  President-elect Donald Trump said he'd consider pardoning New York Mayor Eric Adams after he was indicted this fall on bribery and fraud charges.  —  “I would certainly look at it,” he said Monday at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida estate.
Mark Jacob / Stop the Presses:
Here's what we WON'T do when Trump takes over  —  As democracy defenders, we're facing hard times when authoritarian Donald Trump takes office Jan. 20.  But what will we do about it?  For now, I'm focusing on what we won't do:  —  We won't shut up.  —  We won't retreat from the news.
Politico:
New York City mayor's campaign denied millions in public matching funds  —  The decision deals a body blow to the beleaguered mayor's reelection effort.  —  Election officials on Monday denied a request from New York City Mayor Eric Adams' 2025 campaign for millions in public matching dollars.
Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Majority of Americans are ready to support Trump and large parts of his agenda, says CNBC survey  —  Americans say they are ready to support President-elect Donald Trump in his second term and majorities give a green light to some of his controversial promises on the campaign trial.
 
 
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
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Reuters:
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Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
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Julianne McShane / Mother Jones:
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