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.

As others stand at attention for anthem, Trump fidgets, points, pretend-conducts the band  —  President Donald Trump has repeatedly said all Americans should “stand proudly” during the national anthem, and publicly chastises those who don't as disrespectful of the troops.

Iowa Precinct Chairs Report Issues Using Caucus App, Potentially Delaying Results  — Iowa Democratic Party doesn't expect problems with results  — Problems could slow reporting, counting of Iowa caucus results  —  Precinct chairs across Iowa said that some of them are struggling …

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 …

Rush Limbaugh announces he has ‘advanced lung cancer’  —  Discussing President Trump's economic success, Rush Limbaugh says Democrats  —  Talk radio king Rush Limbaugh stunned his 27-million member audience Monday with the announcement he's been diagnosed with “advanced lung cancer.”

“It's Payback Time”: With Acquittal Certain, Trump Plots Revenge on Bolton, Impeachment Enemies  —  Trump, says a source, wants Bolton to be criminally investigated for possibly mishandling classified information.  Romney, Schiff, and Nadler are also...  BY - GABRIEL SHERMAN  —  Person of Interest

Trump has the votes for Senate acquittal  —  A Senate vote to convict President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial is now a mathematical impossibility.  —  More than 34 senators have indicated they intend to acquit the president, or have declared the House's two impeachment charges …

Scoop: Veterans Affairs deputy secretary James Byrne fired  —  Veterans Affairs deputy secretary James Byrne was fired Monday morning, three Trump administration officials tell Axios.  The White House confirmed that Byrne is no longer with the administration.  —  Why it matters: The VA has recently been in inner turmoil.

Greta Thunberg Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize  —  In nominating her, two Swedish lawmakers said the 17-year-old “has worked hard to make politicians open their eyes to the climate crisis.”  —  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Two lawmakers in Sweden have nominated Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg …

Powerful Trump supporters urge donors to shun John Bolton's super PAC after bombshell book revelations  — Several of President Trump's most loyal donors and supporters are telling other conservative financiers to shun former national security advisor John Bolton's PAC and super PAC.

Conservatives spread false claims on Twitter about electoral fraud as Iowans prepare to caucus  —  The claims, spread by conservative activists, were quickly debunked.  That didn't stop their spread.

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 …

‘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 …

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 …

I can never forget the Bosnian genocide.  But others are trying to rewrite history.  —  Janine di Giovanni is a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute and a 2019 Guggenheim fellow.  Her latest book is “The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria.”

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 …

Thinking the Kansas City Chiefs are from Kansas, and Trump's many other geography flubs  —  For years, one of the Republican Party's favorite digs at President Barack Obama was to point to his “57 states” flub.  Obama momentarily confusing his having visited 47 states with 57 states was cause for much laughter at his expense.

Republicans say Trump has learned his lesson on impeachment.  The evidence suggests otherwise.  —  As President Trump's impeachment trial winds down, the argument from many Senate Republicans is trending in a very specific direction: What he did was perhaps wrong, but it wasn't impeachable.

‘Comfortably Smug’ Twitter Account Banned For Asking 'Where's Hunter, Fat?'  —  An anonymous and popular Twitter account known as “Comfortably Smug” was apparently banned Monday from Twitter for violating the site's rules on “abuse and harassment” after tweeting about Hunter Biden.

Mike Bloomberg Ad Uses Obama-Era Footage Of Caged Migrants To Criticize Trump  —  Mike Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City and contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, released an anti-Trump campaign advertisement that included footage from the Obama era.

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 …