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This Day in History
Sen. Joseph McCarthy is censured; Scientists demonstrate the world’s first artificially-created, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction; Enron files for Chapter 11 protection; Colombian drug lord is shot and killed.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
From caring comes courage.
As Rule 41 Quietly Passes, Trump to Inherit Expanded Hacking Powers Death toll in Tennessee wildfires rises to 10 Senators call for declassification of files on Russia’s role in US election New California attorney general Xavier Becerra to lead state’s Trump pushback Organizers Assure Protesters, Women’s March Against Trump Still On François Hollande will not seek re-election as president of France Russians talk with Syrian rebels as eastern Aleppo runs out of food Unmanned Russian spacecraft crashes to Earth in Siberia
Breakfast Blogs
What Do You Do Without Water? What Does Anyone Do? Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
CYBERCOM versus NSA: On Fighting Isis or Spying on Them emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Why GOPs Will Beg Dems To Help Kill Obamacare and Medicare Josh Marshall, TPM EdBlog
It Ain’t What You Don’t Know That Gets You Into Trouble driftglass, at his blog
What Trump Is Giving To His Angry Working-Class Voters This Christmas Echidne, at her blog
Hell in a handbasket digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
I Wonder How Long Those Carrier Jobs Will Stay In America Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Border Patrol Stops Journalist From Heading To Dakota Pipeline Protests, Searches All Of His Electronic Devices Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Trump Appoints Third Anti-Net Neutrality Advisor To Telecom Transition Team Karl Bode, Techdirt
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