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•••• The New York Times • Sheera Frenkel, Kate Conger • 15 hours ago • nytimes.com
Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find
Problematic content and formerly barred accounts have increased sharply in the short time since Elon Musk took over, researchers said.
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•• The Washington Post • Lenny Bernstein, Jordan-Marie Smith • 15 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Drugs killed 8 friends, one by one, in a tragedy seen across the U.S.
Cascading deaths from fentanyl and other drugs transformed this small N.C. city and left indelible scars.
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Jordan-Marie Smith 🕷️@itsJhyphenM
You likely know someone who died from opioids/drugs. I know of 16. 8 were friends. All from my hometown in NC.
11 months. Interviews with friends, families, and teachers.
What overdoses did to my hometown
from the @washingtonpost
listen, read, watch:
wapo.st/3gSNyUa
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•• The Washington Post • Natalia Abbakumova, Adela Suliman • 15 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Edward Snowden swears allegiance to Russia and receives passport, lawyer says
Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor, is still wanted by the United States on espionage charges.
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• HuffPost • Matt Shuham • 8 hours ago • huffpost.com
The Mysterious Fourth Man At The Trump-Ye Dinner Tells His Story
“I was there as a spectator. I was just along for the ride,” said Jamar Montgomery, who told HuffPost he met Ye just a few days before joining him, Nick Fuentes and Donald Trump for dinner.
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Matt Shuham@mattshuham
New: There was another person at the dinner with Trump, Ye, and Nick Fuentes. His name is Jamar Montgomery, and I spoke to him last night about an unexpected invitation to Mar-a-Lago. huffpost.com/entry/jamar-mo…
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•• SAVANNAH POLICE • Bianca Johnson • 14 hours ago • savannahpd.org
SPD Arrests Suspect in Hartridge Street Shooting
SAVANNAH, GA (December 2, 2022) – Savannah Police detectives have arrested a 42-year-old Savannah man who shot a teen outside his home on Hartridge Street on Dec. 1. Around 5:35 p.m. officers responded to the 500 block of Hartridge Street in reference to a shooting and discovered a 15-year-old male victim suffering from a gunshot […]
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Isaac Stanley-Becker@isaacstanbecker
Good god- A 15-year-old canvassing for Raphael Warnock was shot yesterday in Savannah by a man who fired a gun through his front door savannahpd.org/spd-arrests-su…
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•• The New York Times • Peter Baker • 1 day ago • nytimes.com
Trump Embraces Extremism as He Seeks to Reclaim Office
As he gets his presidential campaign underway, Donald J. Trump has aligned himself with forces that used to be outside the mainstream of American politics.
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• HuffPost • Paul Blumenthal • 1 day ago • huffpost.com
It Turns Out This Was One Of The Issues That Mattered Most In The 2022 Midterms
The findings indicate that concerns about protecting democracy helped Democrats beat expectations in November’s elections.
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Kevin Robillard 🇺🇸@Robillard
Democracy was a major issue for Rs who backed Dems in the midterms: 64% of GOPers who voted for Democrats said Trump’s election denial was the #1 reason they did so.
Read @PaulBlu on some new polling from @StopBigMoney:
huffpost.com/entry/democrac…
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• The New York Times • Annie Karni • 19 hours ago • nytimes.com
How Steny Hoyer, Pelosi’s No. 2, Decided It Was Time to Step Aside
The decision by the Maryland Democrat, who has served in Congress for four decades — two of them in leadership — reflected a generational and demographic shift afoot in his party.
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Katie Rogers@katierogers
If you’re a good leader, you know when there’s a time to go or to stay.” ⁦A zen read on knowing when to fold by ⁦@anniekarni⁩ nytimes.com/2022/12/02/us/…
15 hours ago
POLITICO • 14 hours ago • politico.com
Harris’ comms director, Jamal Simmons, is set to depart from office
The longtime communications aide is heading up to New York with his family. A search for a replacement is underway.
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Eugene Daniels@EugeneDaniels2
Scoop: Jamal Simmons, VP Kamala Harris' communications director is leaving his post next month.
Staff was told today in an email.
politico.com/news/2022/12/0…
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The Washington Post • Greg Sargent • 11 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Kevin McCarthy reveals exactly how the GOP House will protect Trump
Get ready for a massive smear campaign designed to discredit revelations about Jan. 6.
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Greg Sargent@ThePlumLineGS
Just absurd: Some news orgs are already describing GOP plans to "investigate" the 1/6 committee findings as a "counter-investigation." That grants an aura of seriousness to what will surely be a bad faith effort to discredit damning findings about Trump.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
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The New York Times • Trip Gabriel • 12 hours ago • nytimes.com
Iowa Democrats Ask: Without the First-in-the-Nation Caucuses, Who Are We, Really?
President Biden’s push to start the Democratic presidential nominating process in South Carolina has inspired a rush of wistful memories and soul searching in the Hawkeye State.
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Peter Baker@peterbakernyt
"We’ve always joked, If Iowa doesn’t have the caucuses, are we Nebraska?" The traditional launching pad for presidential campaigns faces the end of its first-in-the-nation status. @tripgabriel nytimes.com/2022/12/02/us/…
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The Atlantic • Charlie Warzel • 9 hours ago • theatlantic.com
The Far Right Is Getting What It Asked For
With Ye on Infowars and Elon Musk lifting the floodgates on Twitter, the right wing is getting the free-speech thunderdome of its dreams. Or nightmares.
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Associated Press • Will Weissert • 8 hours ago • apnews.com
Dems move to make South Carolina, not Iowa, 1st voting state
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats voted Friday to remove Iowa as the leadoff state on the presidential nominating calendar and replace it with South Carolina starting in 2024, a dramatic shakeup championed by President Joe Biden to better reflect the party’s deeply diverse electorate.
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The New York Times • Jeffery C. Mays, Jonah E. Bromwich, William K. Rashbaum • 8 hours ago • nytimes.com
N.Y. Attorney General’s Top Aide Resigns After Sexual Harassment Claims
Ibrahim Khan had been Letitia James’s chief of staff for close to a decade.
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Josh Dawsey@jdawsey1
When we asked about this yesterday, we were told that we were spreading gossip and it was beneath the Washington Post by the AG spokesman. Today, they say they’ve done an investigation and he’s resigned. twitter.com/nytimes/status…
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NBC News • Brandy Zadrozny, Kevin Collier • 12 hours ago • nbcnews.com
Elon Musk's 'amnesty' pledge brings back QAnon, far-right Twitter accounts
Data reviewed by NBC News shows that many restored accounts trafficked in conspiracy theories and hate speech. The changes come as some high-profile users have fled.
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Brandy Zadrozny@BrandyZadrozny
New: A week ago, Elon Musk announced a great unbanning—Twitter would reverse thousands of suspensions, including Donald Trump. But also, scraped data shows, he freed an emboldened group of trolls, white nationalists, QAnoners, and extreme right-wingers. nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
11 hours ago
• The Washington Post • Sarah Ellison • 1 day ago • washingtonpost.com
Washington Post lays off Pulitzer-winning dance critic in spate of cuts
Sarah Kaufman, The Post's dance critic for a quarter-century, was laid off this week along with others.
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The Atlantic • David French • 17 hours ago • theatlantic.com
The Most Consequential First Amendment Case This Term
303 Creative v. Elenis isn’t about LGBTQ rights, as many people believe it to be, but about what constitutes speech.
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The New York Times • Katie Rogers • 4 hours ago • nytimes.com
Inside Biden’s State Dinner: Hot Dog Talk and a Party That Lasted Until 1 A.M.
At one point, the bartenders ran out of glassware, depriving some invitees of social lubricant after years spent in a pandemic.
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Katie Rogers@katierogers
Inside edition: Last night, Biden was asked to tell Macron and other state dinner guests which foods represent America.
“Hot dogs, ice cream and spaghetti,” he replied.
Pelosi chimed in and told the French president she eats a hot dog a day.
🇺🇸
nytimes.com/2022/12/02/us/…
4 hours ago
TK News by Matt Taibbi • Matt Taibbi • 5 hours ago • taibbi.substack.com
Note to Readers
It's about to get weird in here. An appeal for your patience
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The New York Times • Jonah E. Bromwich, Lola Fadulu • 7 hours ago • nytimes.com
Trump Approved Key Aspect of Company’s Scheme, Prosecutors Assert
Jurors at the Trump Organization trial will begin deliberating Monday after prosecutors presented a document they said showed that the former president had sanctioned tax fraud.
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Jonah Bromwich@Jonesieman
Donald J. Trump approved a key aspect of a tax fraud scheme orchestrated by several top executives at his family business, prosecutors said on Friday in their closing arguments at the company’s trial. Our story here: nytimes.com/2022/12/02/nyr…
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TPM – Talking Points Memo • Josh Marshall • 6 hours ago • talkingpointsmemo.com
The Sweetheart Deal Gets Sweeter
We've discussed already how a GOP-connected defense contractor, Vertol Systems Company, was awarded a no bid contract to run Gov. Ron DeSantis's controversial immigrant relocation program which flew…
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Josh Marshall@joshtpm
Holy Crap. DeSantis keeps hosing down that sweetheart defense contractor behind the migrant flights with more money. But there still haven't be any more flights. A total of $3.4m for flying 50 people to Massachusetts. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-swe…
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The Atlantic • Ronald Brownstein • 19 hours ago • theatlantic.com
The GOP Can’t Hide From Extremism
A perfect storm is brewing among Trump, Fuentes, Ye … and Twitter.
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The New Yorker • Clare Malone • 18 hours ago • newyorker.com
The E-Mail Newsletter for the Mogul Set
The media startup Puck is aiming to build a business by covering power and wealth from the inside.
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Peter Hamby@PeterHamby
The New Yorker on @PuckNews — specifically, a former New Yorker who is now a reluctant New Jerseyer
Nice work @JonKelly2 newyorker.com/news/annals-of…
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Rolling Stone • Nikki McCann Ramirez • 10 hours ago • rollingstone.com
Elon Brings One of America's Most Prominent Nazis Back to Twitter
The new Twitter owner told advertisers in October that the platform would not become a “free-for-all hellscape” once he was in charge. About that…
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The Bulwark • 8 hours ago • thebulwark.com
Tim Miller: A Week Full of Nazis
Kanye not only ruined the cover story on Trump’s Nazi dinner, he also wrecked Tucker’s plan to make him a conservative icon. Plus, prematurely clearing the field for DeSantis, Trump’s judge gets slapped down, and Hunter’s laptop will be a punchline. Tim Miller’s back with Charlie Sykes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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POLITICO • 1 day ago • politico.com
Haley, Pence and other potential ‘24 candidates buff up their dark money groups
The non-profits associated with possible presidential candidates are taking in millions. The donors are anonymous.
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Bulwark+ • Charlie Sykes • 14 hours ago • morningshots.thebulwark.com
Kanye Clarifies a Few Things
"Well, I see good things in Hitler."
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The Wall Street Journal • Liyan Qi, Raffaele Huang • 1 day ago • wsj.com
China Missed a Window to Be Better Prepared for Covid-19 Surge
China had three years to prepare for a Covid-19 outbreak, but rather than boost capacity and invest in prevention it focused resources on control.
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ryan cooper@ryanlcooper
"Mr. Green estimates that China could experience 50,000 deaths a day at the height of an uncontrolled surge." wsj.com/articles/china…
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Intelligencer • Shawn McCreesh • 10 hours ago • nymag.com
The New York Times Newsroom Gets Ready to Walk Out
It’s a frosty winter for the media business.
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The New York Times • Amy Qin • 19 hours ago • nytimes.com
Applying to College, and Trying to Appear ‘Less Asian’
The affirmative action lawsuit against Harvard seemed to confirm advice given for years to Asian Americans: Don’t play chess, don’t check the box declaring race.
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•• The Washington Post • Michael Scherer, Tyler Pager • 1 day ago • washingtonpost.com
Biden pushes South Carolina as first primary state, elevates Georgia and Michigan
The tectonic decision to radically remake his party’s presidential nominating calendar for 2024 came as a shock to party officials and state leaders who had been lobbying hard in recent weeks to gain a place in the early calendar.
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The Atlantic • Brian Stelter • 11 hours ago • theatlantic.com
The End of Companion Television
CNN’s Headline News may seem thoroughly old-fashioned now that it’s dead. But its demise is a reminder of the creeping nature of media obsolescence.
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The Atlantic • Juliette Kayyem • 18 hours ago • theatlantic.com
The Prospect of Prison Time Spoils Far-Right Fantasies
Making extremist leaders answer for their actions will deter future violence.
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Jeffrey Goldberg@JeffreyGoldberg
"If leaders have to answer for the violence they inspire, they will have a harder time gaining traction in the future." -- @juliettekayyem:
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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Vanity Fair • Joe Pompeo • 11 hours ago • vanityfair.com
“No One Is Going to Kill Twitter Except Elon”: As Musk’s Blue Bird Reels, the Arms Race for an Alternative Is On
Amid the chaos, super-users like Kathy Griffin and George Conway are flocking to a growing crop of rivals, including decentralized Mastodon and the Andreessen Horowitz–backed Post.News. (Coming soon: Jack Dorsey’s Bluesky.) But will Twitter triumph in the end?
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The New York Times • Charlie Savage, Alan Feuer • 5 hours ago • nytimes.com
Two Trump-Appointed Judges Rebuke a Third for Bending the Law in His Favor
The reversal of a district judge’s intervention in the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation shows the complexity of former President Donald J. Trump’s judicial legacy.
The Washington Post • Hannah Natanson • 2 days ago • washingtonpost.com
U.S. says Fairfax schools failed students with disabilities amid pandemic
Fairfax failed to appropriately develop and provide students with disabilities instruction and related services during online learning, the Education Department said.
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Alec MacGillis@AlecMacGillis
This is a pretty big deal: the US Dept of Education finds after a 2-year investigation that Fairfax County, the largest school district in Virginia and 11th largest in the country, "badly failed students with disabilities during the coronavirus pandemic."
washingtonpost.com/education/2022…
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The New York Times • Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Jim Tankersley, Alan Rappeport • 23 hours ago • nytimes.com
Russia-Ukraine War: E.U. Agrees to a Price Cap for Sale of Russian Oil
Following protracted negotiations, European Union diplomats set a price limit of $60 a barrel that they and their allies will try to enforce for buyers of Russian oil.
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The New York Times • Jeanna Smialek, Lydia DePillis, Ben Casselman • 19 hours ago • nytimes.com
Why Are Middle-Aged Men Missing From the Labor Market?
Men ages 35 to 44 are staging a lackluster rebound from pandemic job loss, despite a strong economy.
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Puck • Dylan Byers • 5 hours ago • puck.news
The CNN Green Room Massacre
End notes on a sad day or two at CNN as the Licht era enters a new phase.
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The New York Times • Ryan Mac, Mike Isaac, Kate Conger • 5 hours ago • nytimes.com
Twitter Keeps Missing Its Advertising Targets as Woes Mount
Under Elon Musk, the company has cut its financial expectations as some advertisers request discounts and are offered incentives.
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Vox • Ben Jacobs • 5 hours ago • vox.com
Democrats go to war with Iowa and New Hampshire over 2024
It’s Joe Biden’s Democratic Party and he’ll ditch New Hampshire and Iowa if he wants to.
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Arizona Republic • Ray Stern • 1 day ago • azcentral.com
'Furthering false narratives': Lake, Finchem lawsuit draws sanction order from judge
A federal judge ordered sanctions against the attorneys of Kari Lake and Mark Finchem in their lawsuit against voting machines.
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The Washington Post • John Wagner • 17 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Trump expresses solidarity with Jan. 6 rioters who stormed the Capitol
Former president Donald Trump, in a fundraising video, made clear that he stands with the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to stop Congress from counting the electoral votes for Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election.
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The Washington Post@washingtonpost
Trump expressed solidarity with the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol, sending a video of support to a fundraising event Thursday hosted by a group called the Patriot Freedom Project that is supporting families of those being prosecuted by the government. wapo.st/3gP0M4x
16 hours ago
Mediaite • 11 hours ago • mediaite.com
‘We Can’t Let the Governor Look Like He Lost’: DeSantis Reportedly Backing Down From Plan to Wreck Disney’s Self Government District
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is reportedly backing down on a plan to repeal Disney's Reedy Creek Improvement District, after Bob Iger returned as CEO.
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Semafor • Steve Clemons • 17 hours ago • semafor.com
🟡 Semafor Principals: Ye fallout spreads
In this edition of Principals, we look at the fallout from Ye's pro-Hitler interview and report on crypto, child tax credits, and more.
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CNN • Kate Sullivan, Ethan Cohen • 8 hours ago • cnn.com
Democrats vote to move forward with Biden plan to put South Carolina first on 2024 primary calendar
The rule-making arm of the Democratic National Committee on Friday voted to approve a proposal to drastically reshape the 2024 presidential nominating calendar and make South Carolina the first state to hold a primary, followed by Nevada and New Hampshire on the same day a few days later, and then Georgia and Michigan before Super Tuesday.
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The Washington Post • Isaac Stanley-Becker, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez • 1 day ago • washingtonpost.com
Ariz. county ordered to certify election as GOP lawyers are sanctioned
Cochise County certified the Nov. 8 vote as a judge sanctioned lawyers for Kari Lake and Mark Finchem over their failed suit to force a hand count.
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POLITICO • 15 hours ago • politico.com
DNC moves forward with dramatic change to presidential primary calendar
Biden's proposal would have South Carolina hold Democrats' first presidential primary and Michigan and Georgia join the early states.
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Bulwark+ • Jonathan V. Last • 11 hours ago • thetriad.thebulwark.com
Don't Do TikTok
Just Say No.
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POLITICO • 1 day ago • politico.com
Pennsylvania Republicans reconsider their war on mail voting
GOP officials in the state are coming to the belief that it’s better to work within the system than politically die by it.
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