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Pew Research Center:
Democrats on Twitter more liberal, less focused on compromise than those not on the platform — The political views and primary candidate preferences of Democrats on Twitter differ from those who are not on the platform, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in January.
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Biden: Impeachment hasn't ‘shaken my faith’ in working with Republicans
Biden: Impeachment hasn't ‘shaken my faith’ in working with Republicans
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Liz Peek / Fox News:
Democrats' impeachment flop sets stage for boffo State of the Union speech by Trump
Natalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats, Defense Team to Make Final Arguments in Impeachment Trial
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
2020 Democrats Are Bringing Butter Knives to a Gunfight — CEDAR RAPIDS—Heading into tonight's Iowa caucus, the clock may be ticking faster on the Democratic presidential candidates than they believe. — All of the leading contenders have campaigned energetically and extensively across …
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Lissandra Villa / TIME:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A ‘Dangerous’ Mistake for Democrats Not to Embrace the Eventual Nominee — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive rockstar who is currently Sen. Bernie Sanders' most powerful surrogate, warns that Democrats will be making a “dangerous” mistake …
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Iowa might have just witnessed the start of a Democratic Party takeover — If you were an alien visiting Iowa this weekend and were asked to guess the order of Monday's results based on nothing but watching the top four Democrats speak, you would predict a Bernie Sanders victory …
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New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
Michael Kruse / Politico:
'We Don't Want to F— It Up': How Trump Got Inside Iowa's Head
'We Don't Want to F— It Up': How Trump Got Inside Iowa's Head
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Raw Story
NBC News:
John Kerry overheard discussing possible 2020 bid amid concern of ‘Sanders taking down the Democratic Party’
John Kerry overheard discussing possible 2020 bid amid concern of ‘Sanders taking down the Democratic Party’
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New York Times:
What Is the Election Needle? And Why Will We Have 4 of Them Tonight? — A closer look at our election forecaster before the Iowa caucuses. — Shortly before 9 p.m. Eastern on Monday, we expect the first returns from the Iowa Democratic caucuses. If you choose to follow the results live tonight …
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Clint Hendler / Mother Jones:
The Iowa Caucuses Are a Democracy Disaster — A dozen years ago, I set up shop at a Des Moines middle school to cover the Iowa caucuses on a snowy January night. In a process that has since remained unchanged at heart, participants filed in and divided by neighborhoods between a classroom, the library, and the gym.
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Washington Post Threatened Another Star Reporter Over His Tweets — The newspaper's Kobe Bryant tweet mess last week wasn't the first time WaPo bosses got into heated clashes with reporters over social-media policy. — The Washington Post's controversial decision to punish a reporter …
Blake Hounshell / Politico:
‘Truly bizarre circumstances’: Anonymous book agents refute whisper campaign against Trump official — The literary agents for the senior Trump administration official who penned an anonymous New York Times op-ed and best-selling book are breaking their silence to swat down a whisper campaign pinning …
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Raw Story
Eric Roston / Bloomberg:
Climate Models Are Running Red Hot, and Scientists Don't Know Why — There are dozens of climate models, and for decades they've agreed on what it would take to heat the planet by about 3° Celsius. It's an outcome that would be disastrous—flooded cities, agricultural failures …
Jeff Stone / CyberScoop:
As Vault 7 trial begins, Joshua Schulte's attorneys will argue he's a whistleblower — Nearly three years after WikiLeaks began publishing secret CIA hacking tools, the legal team for the former agency employee who allegedly stole those files will try to convince a jury he did so in order …
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Rebecca Davis O'Brien / Wall Street Journal:
Ex-CIA Engineer Goes on Trial for Massive Leak
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
White nationalist has long worked at conservative outlets under real name — Guardian findings support watchdog's report that ‘Paul Kersey’, a prominent author and activist, is actually Michael J Thompson — A new report has revealed that a prominent white nationalist author …
Chris Chavez / Sports Illustrated:
President Trump Congratulates ‘The Great State of Kansas’ After Chiefs Super Bowl Victory — President Trump deleted a tweet congratulating the “Great State of Kansas” after the Chiefs' Super Bowl win. The Chiefs play in Missouri. — President Donald Trump took to Twitter …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Thinking the Kansas City Chiefs are from Kansas, and Trump's many other geography flubs
Thinking the Kansas City Chiefs are from Kansas, and Trump's many other geography flubs
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The Daily Beast, Raw Story and Contemptor
Amy Qin / New York Times:
Virus Pummels Wuhan, a City Short of Supplies and Overwhelmed — It is nearly impossible to get the care they need to treat, or even diagnose, the coronavirus, say residents at the crisis' center. — WUHAN, China — Weak with fever, An Jianhua waited in line for seven hours outside …
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Associated Press, The Atlantic and The American Spectator
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The Guardian:
Political journalists boycott No 10 briefing after PM's aide tries to ban selected reporters - live news — The day's political developments, including Johnson's speech on EU trade talks, and Barnier publishing EU's draft negotiating guidelines — In response to my colleague Rowena Mason's report …
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Conspiracy theories swirl over canceled Iowa poll, pushed by Sanders and Yang supporters — Recent discussions around the race for the Democratic nomination highlight how social media remains easily manipulated by passionate Americans. — Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. …
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Bleeding Heartland, more at Mediagazer »
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Susan Collins' Campaign Is Being Helped by a Mysterious Hawaii Company — The two states, shall we say, are not exactly close to each other. — A mysterious Hawaii company may have illegally funneled a six-figure contribution to a political group boosting an embattled Republican Senator 5,000 miles away …
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Political Wire
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Axios Sneak Peek — Subscribe — Welcome to Sneak Peek, our weekly lookahead from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, plus our best scoops. — Tonight's newsletter is 2,027 words, < 8-minute read. — 1 big thing: Trump's sense of invincibility — President Trump often says he's …
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Breitbart, Fox News and New York Post
Emily Peck / HuffPost:
Staffers Say Sexism Runs Deep At The Washington Post — There's an “understated respectability” that is “secretly pernicious,” said one woman. — Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez received death and rape threats for a tweet she sent out late last month linking to a story …
ABC News:
Trump impeachment trial live updates: Closing arguments ahead of acquittal vote — Each side has up to two hours to make their case before a Wednesday final vote. — President Donald Trump's impeachment trial resumes Monday morning at 11 a.m. with closing arguments …
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Richard L. Hasen / The Atlantic:
The Supreme Court May No Longer Have the Legitimacy to Resolve a Disputed Election — Among the many strange and worrying truths about American elections, one has a tendency to get lost: The path to the presidency can run not just through battleground states but also through the Supreme Court.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Simple Reason Trump Does What He Does — Trump's credo, from ‘Access Hollywood’ to impeachment. — It wasn't the most notorious part of the “Access Hollywood” tape, but it was the most revealing: “And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”
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