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Editor's Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative news and view in December, 2021Note: Excerpts are from the authors' words except for subheads and occasional "Editor's notes" such as this.
Dec. 3
Top Headlines
New York Times, Biden’s New Virus Plan Aims to Keep Economy Open as Omicron Spreads- Palmer Report, Opinion: The January 6th Committee is suddenly closing in on Donald Trump at high speed, Bill Palmer
- Palmer Report, Opinion: Liz Cheney has bad news for Donald Trump, Bill Palmer
- Washington Post, Senate passes bill to fund the government, averting shutdown
- Washington Post, U.S. economy adds just 210,000 jobs in November
Virus Victims, Responses
- New York Times, President Biden’s approach for free rapid testing will require some legwork, like submitting receipts to insurers
- Washington Post, ‘We are pulling out all the stops’: White House details strategies to fight variants
- New York Times, Germany announces tough restrictions for unvaccinated people
Washington Post, Those new covid measures Biden announced? Europe’s been doing that and more for a while- Washington Post, As world focuses on omicron, delta variant overwhelms parts of U.S.
Washington Post, Omicron covid variant three times more likely to cause reinfection than delta, S. Africa study says- Washington Post, Live Updates: Many vaccines offer protection as boosters; study says Pfizer and Moderna may work best
- Washington Post, Omicron variant identified in U.S.: First case of covid-19 linked to new variant found in California
- Washington Post, Federal mask mandate for transportation extended through March 18
Washington Post, NFL suspends Antonio Brown, two others for submitting fake vaccination cards- Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals: U.S. Deaths: 806,398
- Washington Post, 197.8 milliion in U.S. fully vaccinated
Attacks On U.S. Democracy, Elections, Capitol
New York Times, Opinion: How Saboteurs Took Over the G.O.P., Paul Krugman- New York Times, The window to lift the debt limit is narrowing, an influential think tank warns
- New York Times, Opinion: The Supreme Court Gaslights Its Way to the End of 'Roe,' Linda Greenhouse
- Washington Post, Opinion: How to protect voting rights, prevent the Supreme Court from self-immolation and boost democracy, Jennifer Rubin
- Washington Post, More Democratic senators are willing to weigh changes to Supreme Court
- Washington Post, Sidney Powell, L. Lin Wood among attorneys ordered to pay $180,000 over Michigan ‘Kraken’ suit
Trump Watch
- Palmer Report, Opinion: A second key witness is pleading the fifth – and the January 6th Committee is going to have a field day with it, Bill Palmer
- Washington Post, Opinion: The bombshell about Trump testing positive also implicates the Trump family, Greg Sargent
- New York Times, Two Election Workers Targeted by Pro-Trump Media Sue for Defamation
- Washington Post, Trump could pocket $100 million in deal for money-losing D.C. hotel
Washington Post, Trump asks to dismiss E. Jean Carroll defamation case, citing N.Y. law that would force her to pay fees- Palmer Report, Opinion: The real reason Mark Meadows is such a problem for Donald Trump, Bill Palmer
World News
- New York Times, A Slow-Motion Climate Disaster: The Spread of Barren Land
- Associated Press via New York Times, U.N. Asks Donors for $41 Billion in Humanitarian Aid
- National Press Club, Sinn Féin leader: A unified Ireland possible within decade
New York Times, Migration Talking Points Surge in France, but Not Migration- Belfast Telegraph, Flags report: SDLP and Greens call for action plan, while DUP MLA criticises Sinn Fein
U.S. Law, Courts, Immigration
- Washington Post, ‘Flash mob’ retail robberies spike as groups likely organized online hit stores piled with holiday inventory
Washington Post, In first interview from jail, suspect in Wisconsin parade rampage says he feels ‘demonized,’ Jonathan Edwards- Washington Post, Number of immigrants held in private facilities grows despite Biden’s promise to end practice
U.S. Politics, Governance
- Washington Post, GOP tactics herald a grim new era of governing for Biden and Democrats
- Washington Post, House Republicans express concern over party infighting, but not the Islamophobic rhetoric that set it off
- Washington Post, Government nears weekend shutdown as Republicans take aim at vaccine, testing mandates
Media News
Washington Post, Alec Baldwin says he isn’t responsible for ‘Rust’ shooting: 8 takeaways from his emotional interview, Sonia Rao- PBS Frontline, Investigation: What the Pandora Papers Reveal, Evan Williams, Will Fitzgibbon and Raney Aronson-Rath
- Washington Post, News organizations join Bannon’s battle to get Jan. 6 prosecution documents
Top Stories
New York Times, Biden’s New Virus Plan Aims to Keep Economy Open as Omicron Spreads, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Dec. 3, 2021 (print ed.). President Biden, confronting a worrisome new coronavirus variant and a potential winter surge, laid out a pandemic strategy on Thursday that includes hundreds of vaccination sites, boosters for all adults, new testing requirements for international travelers and free at-home tests.After nearly a year of pushing vaccination as the way out of the pandemic, Mr. Biden has been unable to overcome resistance to the shots in red states and rural areas. His new strategy shifts away from a near-singular focus on vaccination and places a fresh emphasis on testing — a tacit acknowledgment by the White House that vaccination is not enough to end the worst public health crisis in a century.
Mr. Biden’s announcement came as several new cases of the Omicron variant were reported in the United States, including five people in New York State, a Minnesota resident who had recently traveled to New York City and a Colorado resident who had recently returned from southern Africa. Hawaii also reported its first known case, and California its second.
Mr. Biden’s remarks at the National Institutes of Health were the second time this week that he had addressed the nation on the pandemic; on Monday he spoke about new travel restrictions he imposed last week on eight African nations.
The president’s plan shifts away from a near-singular focus on vaccination, as new cases of the variant have emerged in the United States.President Biden’s strategy includes new testing requirements for international travelers and insurance reimbursement for at-home coronavirus tests.
“We’re going to fight this variant with science and speed, not chaos and confusion,” Mr. Biden said in a speech.
U.S. House Jan. 6 insurrection investigating committee members Liz Cheney (R-WY), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Jamie Raskie (D-MD) are shown, left to right, in a file photo.Palmer Report, Opinion: The January 6th Committee is suddenly closing in on Donald Trump at high speed, Bill Palmer, right, Dec. 3, 2021. Steve Bannon has
been arrested and is going to stand trial. Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has begun turning over evidence in the hope of avoiding arrest. Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark is preparing to plead the fifth in regard to what he and Trump did in relation to the 2020 election, even as he tries to fend off an imminent criminal referral. Ali Alexander has come out of hiding and says he’ll testify against everyone because, in his words, he doesn’t want to go to prison.
That’s a whole heck of a lot of progress of late, when you consider that just three weeks ago there were no big names known to be cooperating, and the pundits were still trying to convince us that the DOJ wouldn’t act on the criminal referral against Bannon. Now we’ve got key Trump people cooperating, pleading the fifth, awaiting trial, you name it. In other words, the January 6th Committee’s strategy is working – and now it’s all starting to come together comparatively quickly.The thing to remember here is that there simply are no magic wands that Trump’s people can use to get the January 6th Committee to just ignore them. As we’re now seeing, privilege isn’t a magic wand, partial cooperation isn’t a magic wand, pleading the fifth isn’t a magic wand, and whatever tactic any of them might try next won’t end up being a magic wand either.
Things truly are closing in on Donald Trump. As the committee gears up to hold very public hearings after the holidays, this is all about to get remarkably explosive in nature. And that’s before getting to the part where the committee inevitably subpoenas Trump himself, leaving Trump with the impossible choice of cooperating or being indicted for contempt.Palmer Report, Opinion: Liz Cheney has bad news for Donald Trump, Bill Palmer, right, Dec. 3, 2021. House Republican Liz Cheney is not in any way a friend of the Democrats. In fact she frequently votes against the Democrats on various issues, and she frequently tweets dishonest criticisms of the Democrats. Cheney, shown below at right in an official photo, is simply a far right Republican extremist who happens to have a problem with Donald Trump’s treason. That makes her an ally of the Democrats when it comes to the January 6th Committee, and nothing more – but she’s a crucial ally nonetheless.
Spoiler alert: the January 6th Committee was always going to end up subpoenaing Donald Trump in the end. It’s a probe focused primarily on his actions, so of course it’s going to go after him. It’ll just go after him last, because that’s how these things work. The point of going after everyone else first is to build the strongest case ...
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