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Alex Seitz-Wald sorts through the crush of early morning news and picks the top political stories for Salon readers, posted by 8:30 on weekdays. Follow @aseitzwald on Twitter

Minnesota State Capitol Building (iStock/Getty)

Minnesota senator dies from COVID-19

Travis Gettys - Raw Story
Melania Trump visits children at Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC, on December 13, 2018. (Getty/Jim Watson)

Melania's photoshopped Christmas card

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
Maya Rudolph as Kamala Harris and Jim Carrey as Joe Biden on "Saturday Night Live" (Will Heath/NBC)

Carrey resigns from playing Biden on SNL

Brian Steinberg - Variety
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (Marvel Studios)

Guardians of the Galaxy = Space Force?

Natalie Oganesyan - Variety
Paul McCartney (Photo by Mary McCartney)

Swift moved album release for McCartney

Claire Shaffer - Rolling Stone
Pedro Pascal is The Mandalorian in the Disney+ series "The Mandalorian" (Francois Duhamel/Lucasfilm Ltd.)

"Mando" star hopes to appear in spinoffs

Tyler Hersko - Indiewire
George Clooney (Getty/Joe Scarnici)

Clooney: Tom Cruise "didn't overreact"

Jude Dry - Indiewire
Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman & Ewan McGregor in "Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (Lucasfilm)

Lucas defends Star Wars prequel dialogue

Zack Sharf - Indiewire
Jessie T. Usher and Antony Starr in "The Boys" (Jasper Savage/Amazon Studios)

"The Boys" cast reacts to Obama praise

Tyler Hersko - Indiewire
Gal Gadot in HBO Max's "Wonder Woman 1984" (HBO Max/Warner Bros.)

HBO Max joins Roku in time for holidays

Zack Sharf - Indiewire
Dave Chappelle (Netflix)

Chappelle pulling his show off HBO Max

Zack Sharf - Indiewire
Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" (New Line Cinema)

Jackson didn't write his fave LOTR scene

Zack Sharf - Indiewire
(L-r) TOM HARDY as Bane and CHRISTIAN BALE as Batman in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ action thriller “THE DARK KNIGHT RISES,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. TM and © DC Comics (Ron Phillips)

Hardy's Bane performance: "Brando-esque"

Zack Sharf - Indiewire
Natalie Portman (Getty/Emma McIntyre)

Portman felt unsafe as a child "Lolita"

Ryan Lattanzio - Indiewire
Henry Cavill in "The Witcher" (Katalin Vermes/Netflix)

Henry Cavill injured on "Witcher" set

Ryan Lattanzio - Indiewire
FKA Twigs at the Brit Awards; Shia LaBeouf at the Amazon premiere of "Honey Boy" (Rich Fury/David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images)

FKA Twigs sues Shia LaBeouf over abuse

Ryan Lattanzio - Indiewire
Matt Smith attends Miu Miu Women's Tales Dinner during Venice Film Festival (Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)

Game of Thrones prequel adds Matt Smith

Elaine Low - Variety
On "The Mandalorian," Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano confronts Magistrate Elspeth (Disney+)

Ahsoka Tano spinoff coming to Disney+

Alex Stedman, Adam B. Vary - Variety
Bolaji Badejo as Xenomorph in "Alien" (Twentieth Century Fox/Robert Penn)

"Alien" coming to TV from Noah Hawley

Zack Sharf - Indiewire
Ellen DeGeneres during a taping of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" (Brooks Kraft/Getty Images)

Ellen tests positive for coronavirus

Jordan Moreau - Variety
Stephen Moyer, Alexander Skarsgard and Lucy Griffith in "True Blood"

"True Blood" won't die – reboot planned

Kristen Lopez - Indiewire
Nicolas Cage, the f***ing host of "History of Swear Words" (Netflix)

Nic Cage gives a sh*t about curse words

Zack Sharf - Indiewire
"Steven Universe" (Cartoon Network)

Viral PSA challenges whitewashed history

Ashlie D. Stevens
Anya Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon, reading a chess book in "The Queen's Gambit" (Netflix)

Queen's Gambit team reunites for Nabakov

Ryan Lattanzio - Indiewire
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