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5:35 PM ET, December 19, 2024

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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The World's Richest Man Wants to Burn It All Down  —  Per NBC News, the Republicans who welcomed Elon Musk into their tent as a key decision-maker and thought leader are having an excellent time: … Happy Thursday.  —  The Kent Brockman Republicans  —  by William Kristol
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Paul Krugman / Krugman wonks out:
The Chaos Monkeys Have Already Taken Over the Zoo  —  The peddlers of misinformation are high on their own supply  —  Well, I was going to post about proposals for bank deregulation, but I think that can wait for a bit.  The news of the moment is the looming prospect that the federal government will shut down over the weekend.
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Musk's America … - A Trump source told us this is the new playbook: Republican lawmakers got “instant and overwhelming feedback. … You should never bet against Trump or Elon.”  — Now, the two are a combined force blanketing culture, media and governance.
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump says Mike Johnson will ‘easily remain speaker’ if he acts ‘decisively and tough’ on spending bill  —  Trump told Fox News Digital anyone who supports a bill that doesn't take care of debt ceiling should be ‘primaried and disposed of’  —  EXCLUSIVE: President-elect Donald Trump told Fox News Digital …
Garrett Haake / NBC News:
Trump calls for abolishing the debt ceiling  —  In a phone interview with NBC News, Trump said getting rid of the debt ceiling entirely would be the “smartest thing [Congress] could do.  I would support that entirely.”  —  President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that Congress should get rid …
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Republicans Turn Eating Their Own Into A Spectator Sport  —  INSIDE: Elon Musk ... Mike Johnson ... Matt Gaetz … Welcome To Trump II  —  MAGA Republicans led by Elon Musk and under pressure from Donald Trump are now poised to ruin Christmas with a government shutdown and New Year's …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Spending Deal Debacle Threatens Johnson's Tenuous Hold on His Job  —  A Republican backlash to the speaker's plan to temporarily fund the government has sparked new talk of ousting him, and highlighted the challenges he will face if he manages to keep his job.
NBC News:
Trump's demands leave Republicans flailing with no plan on eve of shutdown
Discussion: The Hill and ABC News
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
‘President Elon Musk!’ MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell And Dem Dan Goldman Taunt Trump Over Musk Taking Lead
Discussion: Raw Story
Robert McCoy / New Republic:
MTG Suddenly Calls for Elon Musk to Take Over as House Speaker
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Trump's Trump  —  As you've likely seen, things kind of went off the rails today on Capitol Hill.
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
GA appeals court disqualifies DA Fani Willis from Trump election case, lets indictment stand … A Georgia appeals court on Thursday disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from overseeing the criminal election interference prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump and other defendants.
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CNN:
Georgia appeals court disqualifies Fulton County DA Fani Willis from prosecuting Trump
Kate Brumback / Associated Press:
Prosecutor Fani Willis is removed from the Georgia election case against Trump and others
Wall Street Journal:
How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge  —  Aides kept meetings short and controlled access, top advisers acted as go-betweens and public interactions became more scripted.  The administration denied Biden has declined.  —  During the 2020 presidential primary …
Washington Post:
Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump met for dinner at Mar-a-Lago, joined by Elon Musk  —  After feuds during Trump's first term, Trump and Bezos have both noted their recent evolving relationship.  —  President-elect Donald Trump had dinner Wednesday with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:   Musk's dangerous, exaggerated conflation of social media and democracy
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Amazon Delivery Drivers at Seven Hubs Walk Out  —  The retail giant said it expected its operations to be largely unaffected by the strike of some drivers at contracting firms Amazon uses to deliver packages.  —  Workers who deliver packages from seven Amazon facilities across the country went …
Discussion: Reuters, CBS News, TMZ.com, WHDH-TV, UPI, NPR and The Verge
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Daniel Moskowitz / International Brotherhood …:
Teamsters Launch Largest Strike Against Amazon in American History
Chris Isidore / CNN:
Thousands of Amazon drivers have gone on strike in the thick of the holiday package season
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Closures, Social Security checks, furloughs: What a government shutdown might mean  —  Congress has until midnight Friday to come up with a way to fund the government or federal agencies will shut down, meaning hundreds of thousands of federal employees could be sent home — or stay on the job without pay — just ahead of the holidays.
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Politico:
Shutdown threatens ‘chaos’ for Trump's transition and inauguration
Discussion: USA Today
Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
How Liberal America Came to Its Senses … A decade ago, cultural norms in elite American institutions took a sharply illiberal turn.  Professors would get disciplined, journalists fired, ordinary people harassed by social-media mobs, over some decontextualized phrase or weaponized misunderstanding.
Politico:
GOP strikes a new spending deal  —  Republicans have struck a deal on a short-term government spending patch and potential debt limit increase, according to two GOP lawmakers meeting in Speaker Mike Johnson's office Thursday afternoon.  “There is an agreement,” said Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.).
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
GOP lawmakers prepare to carry out Gaetz's revenge, expose harassment settlements  —  Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, the focus of a House Ethics Committee report that may soon become public, is planning to inflict fresh pain on some of his old colleagues.  A number of Republican lawmakers are preparing to help.
Discussion: Blaze Media
Politico:
Top aide to Eric Adams indicted on bribery and conspiracy charges  —  The aide's son and two developers were also charged.  —  NEW YORK — Prosecutors charged New York City Mayor Eric Adams' closest confidant in a conspiracy, bribery and money laundering case Thursday.
Washington Post:
Even some in the pro-Trump media environment are wary of his plans  —  They are much less worried, though, about Trump trying to become a dictator.  —  President-elect Donald Trump is an unusual politician, to understate the obvious.  He has a vision for what he'd like to see happen in the country …
Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
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