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from Axios
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, news website
1 big thing ... "Off the rails": Swan series on Trump's final days
President Trump started choreographing election night in early October, including acting out a premature victory speech, Jonathan Swan and Zachary Basu report in Episode 1 of "Off the rails," an Axios series taking you inside a president's collapse.
1 big thing: What business wants from Biden
With four days to the inauguration of President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris, here's a special Deep Dive on the incoming administration's plans and team.
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from New York Magazine
One of the things that helped Senate Republicans unite (with the exception of Mitt Romney) during Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial early in 2020 was that his public support was relatively robust. As the trial unfolded, Gallup placed his job-approval rating at 49 percent, equaling the highest level of his presidency, with 92 percent of Republicans giving him a thumbs-up. That’s not going to be the case the second time around. Ever since Election Day and the beginning of his disgraceful effort to overturn the results, Trump’s job-approval ratings have been steadily falling. At FiveThirtyEight his average rating was at 44.7 percent the day Joe Biden’s win was “called” by all the media outlets. It’s at 38.0 right now, the lowest since December of 2019 when he was reeling from his unsuccessful effort to repeal Obamacare. We don’t have any Gallup data for the last several weeks. But if a new Pew survey taken from January 8-12 is any indication, the bottom is falling out for Trump since the spectacle of January 6.
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from The Orca
News & Media Website in B.C.
How Cariboo Gold launched the richest men in the world.
Daniel Marshall: I remember traveling years ago into the sublime landscape of the Comstock Lode country of Nevada, anticipating my soon-to-be quenched thirst – both for a drink, but also for history. This had been the 19th century’s “Silicon Valley” – a place so rich in silver as to have made some of the wealthiest entrepreneurs of their day – the legendary Bonanza Kings of California. Rolling past the ruins and passing Boot Hill cemetery, we made our way to an old saloon in historic Virginia City – a quite wonderfully preserved gold, or more correctly, silver rush town – a boomtown that sprung up shortly after the Fraser River gold rush of 1858. So many who flooded into British Columbia during the Fraser and Cariboo gold rushes made their next stake in Nevada’s White Pine District in the 1860s. Samuel Clemens had lived here for a time; in fact, in Virginia City he adopted his more famous nom de plume, Mark Twain.
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from Rolling Stone
National harmony is impossible without true accountability, especially when a major political party enables sedition and white-supremacist terrorism
Many a Republican this past week brushed away the seditious January 6th attacks as they sought to keep their president from being impeached by the House for a second time. The word “unity” may seem newly robbed of meaning when wielded by people who have themselves been, very recently, trying to overturn an election. In our current dystopian politics, these words are now opiates for the masses, intoxicating us daily with notions of American exceptionalism even as scourges of our nation grow more dangerous.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from Sputnik
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Broadcasting & Media Production Company out of Moscow, Russia
On Tuesday, the outgoing US president, Donald Trump, known for his tough stance on immigration, warned that if his policies are reversed, as Biden has pledged to do, "a tidal wave" of illegal migration will follow. A migrant caravan of reportedly thousands is heading to the United States from Honduras, asking the incoming Biden administration to "honor its commitments", apparently referring to the president-elect's pledges to reverse most of Trump's immigration policies, according to media reports. According to a statement issued by the migrant rights group Pueblo Sin Fronteras ["People Without Borders"], and cited by Fox News, the caravan expects the Biden administration to provide them with a warmer welcome than the outgoing administration offered.
Earlier this month, the United States Capitol Building was stormed by a group of Trump-supporters, who believed the outgoing president's claims that the November 2020 election was stolen through fraudulent means. Retired Army General Stanley McChrystal compared the violent pro-Trump rioters to Al-Qaeda*, suggesting that both movements had a "powerful leader" who "justified their violence'", and warned that radicalism in the US could result in an insurgency. McChrystal, who formerly commanded US troops in Afghanistan, suggested specific parallels between the rise of the Islamist terrorist group and those who stormed the US Capitol last week, a violent attack that killed five.
During his presidential campaign, Joe Biden said that he would consider returning the United States to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) treaty, if Iran will comply with the conditions of the deal. Officials with the incoming Biden administration have began setting the ground for talks with Iran over a possible US return to the nuclear deal, officially known as the JCPOA, as there are only a handful of days left until the Democrat's inauguration, Israel's Channel 12 reported on Saturday, adding that US officials allegedly updated Tel Aviv on the matter.
After officially wining the November election, former Vice-President Joe Biden is set to be inaugurated on 20 January. Outgoing President Donald Trump has ruled out attending the ceremony. President-elect Joe Biden faces an uphill struggle to live up to his pledge to unify the United States, Donald Trump's former chief of staff said on Saturday. Mick Mulvaney told LBC that the "centrist" former vice president "might have been ideally suited to play a unifying role" in the past but he's now "well past his prime." He explained that internal divisions with the Democratic Party will also make it hard for Biden to keep him promise.
On Saturday, 57-year-old Baron Benjamin de Rothschild unexpectedly died from a heart attack, leaving behind four daughters. He was president of the family-owned Edmond de Rothschild Holding SA and considered one of the richest members of the Rothschild family. Europe’s most famous banking dynasty, the Rothschilds, started with the rise of 18th century German Jewish banker Mayer Amschel Rothschild before splitting into different branches and scattering across the Continent.
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from Vox
LEFT BIAS, HIGH, Media/News Company based in Washington, D.C.
In the wake of the deadly January 6 riot at the US Capitol that President Donald Trump heavily promoted on social media, platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, and others finally moved to ban the president. The result? A sudden drop in the online spread of election misinformation. According to research by Zignal Labs, which the Washington Post reported on Saturday, online misinformation about election fraud plunged 73 percent in the weeklong period following Twitter’s decision to ban Trump on January 8.
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