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NBC News:
Appeals court allows special counsel's report about Trump's election interference case to be released to public  —  The president-elect could still appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.  —  A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Justice Department can release a report …
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court allows Trump's sentencing in New York hush money case  —  The decision means that a sentencing hearing scheduled for Friday can go ahead as planned.  The president-elect had asked the high court to intervene.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President …
Washington Post:
Supreme Court refuses to delay Trump's hush money sentencing  —  President-elect Donald Trump turned to the Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to stop the sentencing, citing the conservative majority's explosive immunity opinion.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Bulwark
Washington Post:
Appeals court allows release of Trump Jan. 6 special counsel report  —  The ruling can be appealed.  President-elect Donald Trump says releasing the special counsel report would interfere with his White House transition  —  A federal appellate court has cleared the way for the Justice Department …
Politico:
Appeals court muddles timing of release for Jack Smith's final report
New York Times:
How a Phone Call Drew Alito Into a Trump Loyalty Squabble  —  The phone call centered on a former law clerk of Justice Alito's.  In the eyes of the Trump team, the clerk still needed to prove his loyalty to the president-elect.  —  Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. received a call on his cellphone Tuesday.
Discussion: Slate, Associated Press and Fox News
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New York Times:
Supreme Court Denies Trump's Last-Ditch Effort to Avoid Sentencing  —  After the court declined in a 5-to-4 decision to block Donald J. Trump's criminal sentencing, he is scheduled to face a New York judge on Friday morning.  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday denied President-elect …
Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Divided Supreme Court denies Trump request to block sentencing in NY hush money case
Kanishka Singh / USA Today:
Supreme Court Justice Alito spoke to Trump - says they didn't discuss legal cases
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
Donald Trump Jr.'s Ridiculous Greenland Trip Just Took a Dark Turn  —  A MAGA visit intended to make Greenland look pro-Donald Trump appears staged from the bottom up.  —  The so-called tourism trip saw Donald Trump Jr., far-right political pundit Charlie Kirk, and Trump administration …
Discussion: NBC News, Raw Story and The Independent
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CBS News:
Fetterman to be first sitting Democratic U.S. senator to visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago  —  Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has accepted an invitation from President-elect Donald Trump to meet with him at his Mar-a-Lago estate, according to multiple sources familiar with the plans.
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Al Weaver / The Hill:
Laken Riley Act overwhelmingly clears first hurdle in Senate with help from Democrats
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Democrats and the Ruthless Aggression Era
Discussion: CT Mirror and Raw Story
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
'It's Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now': Employees Protest Zuckerberg's Anti LGBTQ Changes  —  Meta employees are furious with the company's newly announced content moderation changes that will allow users to say that LGBTQ+ people have “mental illness,” according to internal conversations obtained …
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Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”  —  Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and gender identities, training materials obtained by The Intercept reveal.
Discussion: Associated Press
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Inside Meta's dehumanizing new speech policies for trans people
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Associated Press:
‘Pizzagate’ gunman killed by police in North Carolina after traffic stop, authorities say  —  A man who fired a gun inside a restaurant in the nation's capital after a fake online conspiracy theory called “Pizzagate” motivated him to do so nearly a decade ago was shot and killed by North Carolina police during a weekend traffic stop.
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Luke Barr / ABC News:   “Pizzagate” gunman dies in officer-involved shooting in North Carolina
Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
Elon Musk and Donald Trump spread disinformation as wildfires rage in the LA area … As fires rage across Los Angeles and tens of thousands flee their homes, the usual suspects have decided to blame the blazes on their political enemies.  In a series of posts on Truth Social …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Blames California's Governor, and His Water Policy, for Wildfires
Kevin Drum:
Elon Musk is the new emperor of misinformation
Discussion: Raw Story
Brooke Migdon / The Hill:
Federal judge strikes down Biden Title IX rules  —  A federal judge in Kentucky struck down changes made to Title IX by the Biden administration Thursday, ruling that the new regulations, which had sought to expand nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ students, violate the Constitution.
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Chris Koseluk / The Hollywood Reporter:
Anita Bryant, Singer and Crusader Against Gay Rights, Dies at 84  —  She has hits with songs like “Paper Roses” and served as a spokesperson for Florida orange juice before her career came crashing down.  —  Anita Bryant, the pop singer and Oklahoma beauty queen who gained fame by convincing America that a …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location  —  This article was produced with support from WIRED.  —  Some of the world's most popular apps are likely being co-opted by rogue members of the advertising industry to harvest sensitive location data …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims  —  Counsel for plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit filed against Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the green light to the team behind the company's Llama AI models to use a dataset of pirated e-books and articles for training.
Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
CNN's Scott Jennings Makes L.A. Fire Hell All About DEI  —  Scott Jennings felt the ire of Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), who took a blowtorch to him after he appeared to suggest on CNN NewsNight that the southern California wildfires are worse because there are not enough white men working …
Los Angeles Times:
Thousands of homes destroyed or damaged in Palisades firestorm, LAFD estimates  —  Los Angeles fire officials said Thursday that thousands of homes appear to have been damaged or destroyed in the firestorm in Pacific Palisades, an estimate that would significantly heighten the scale of the disaster.
Tristin Hopper / National Post:
Elizabeth May proposes California, Oregon, Washington join Canada after Trump's 51st state threat  —  The basic idea of ‘Cascadia’ is to calve off B.C., Washington and Oregon to form a super-rich hyper-progressive enviro-state  —  Amid repeated pledges by U.S. president-elect Donald Trump to annex Canada …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Alexander B. Howard / CIVIC TEXTS:
Remembering Carter, Biden's truth deficit, and Zuckerberg's choice to raise the risk of genocide  —  Good evening from Washington, where I am still learning and relearning the lesson not to compose newsletters in the content management system.  If you're reading this, you're subscribed to the first edition of Civic Texts in the year.
Discussion: ABC, Axios and Twitchy
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Trump's talk of retaking Panama Canal becomes a GOP bill … - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Tuesday she plans to introduce a bill that would rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.” … - The bill authorizes the president and secretary of state to …
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Trump announces new ambassador, Justice Department, VA nominees  —  President-elect Trump announced on Thursday his latest batch of presumptive nominees to serve in his forthcoming administration.  —  Trump announced his pick of Christine Jack Toretti, Pennsylvania's Republican National Committeewoman …
 
 
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
What does the Laken Riley Act have to do with Laken Riley? Almost nothing.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
Politico:
Trump's plan for new energy council beset by infighting
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Price transparency divides hospitals, CMS
Discussion: Breitbart
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Ashli Babbitt's mother says Trump called her and told Jan. 6 rioters to ‘keep their chins up’
Discussion: Raw Story
Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Biden says federal government to cover 100% of costs for initial LA fire recovery
 Earlier Items: 
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
The ‘Ice Maiden’ Cometh: Can Susie Wiles, Trump's Chief of Staff, Survive?
Discussion: Florida Politics
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Reality bites Trump
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram explode after Meta ends fact-checking
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Associated Press:
Venezuelan opposition leader is arrested after a protest against Maduro
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
More than 15,000 doctors sign letter urging Senate to reject RFK Jr. as health secretary
Paige Skinner / HuffPost:
Karen Pence Snubs Donald Trump At Jimmy Carter's Funeral
 

 
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Joseph Cox / Wired:
A hack of location data firm Gravy reveals Candy Crush, Tinder, and thousands of other apps are being used to steal user location data; apps may not even know

Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica:
The Linux Foundation launches an initiative to fund developing Chromium projects in a “neutral space”, with support from Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Opera

Jaiveer Singh Shekhawat / Reuters:
Frank McCourt's Project Liberty says it made a formal bid to ByteDance to acquire TikTok's US assets, aiming to keep the app alive without its current algorithm
 
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