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- Following Trump's unfounded accusations of election irregularities, Attorney General William Barr told federal prosecutors that they were allowed to investigate “specific allegations” of voter fraud.
- Richard Pilger, the head of the branch of the Justice Department that prosecutes election crimes, resigned from his post almost immediately after Barr issued that decree.
- Break out the tiny violins: here is a beautiful NY Post story about the woes of drivers looking for parking in Manhattan.
- The Supreme Court is hearing the latest challenge to Obamacare today.
- Trump’s defeat and the week-long disappearance of Q have forced supporters of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory to start to rethink their beliefs: "Have we all been conned?"
- Here is a great supercut of Fox News hosts chastising Democrats for being "sore losers" after the 2018 mid-term elections.
- Vox looks at what President-elect Joe Biden might be able to do to combat the pandemic even with a hostile Republican Senate.
- Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler may have taken advantage of a loophole in Trump’s tax bill to fully write off the cost of a private jet she bought to use on the campaign trail.
- Governor Andrew Cuomo told Howard Stern that if he weren't governor, he would have met Trump behind the playground after school: "If I wasn’t governor of New York, I would have decked him. Period," he said. "I mean he was attacking me, he was attacking my family, he was anti-Italian. Every nasty thing."
- EW offers a preview of Marvel Studio's upcoming WandaVision TV series.
- Listen to The War On Drug's live cover of Warren Zevon's "Accidentally Like A Martyr," unreleased Parquet Courts song "Hey Bug," The Antlers' "It Is What It Is," and "Cooler Returns," the excellent title track from Kiwi Jr.'s upcoming new album.
- And finally, this dog is training for the Olympics:
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