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10:40 PM ET, January 9, 2021

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John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed News:
Amazon Is Booting Parler Off Of Its Web Hosting Service  —  Amazon on Saturday kicked Parler off its Web hosting services.  Parler, a social network favored by conservative politicians and extremists, was used to help plan and coordinate the January 6 attempted coup on Washington D.C …
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New York Times:
Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler, an App That Drew Trump Supporters  —  The companies pulled support for the “free speech” social network, all but killing the service just as many conservatives are seeking alternatives to Facebook and Twitter.  —  Parler, a social network that pitches itself as a …
Wall Street Journal:
Apple, Amazon Move to Marginalize Parler
Wall Street Journal:
White House Forced Georgia U.S. Attorney to Resign  —  Pressure for resignation was part of broader push by President Trump to overturn state's election results  —  White House officials pushed Atlanta's top federal prosecutor to resign before Georgia's U.S. Senate runoffs because President Trump …
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
‘Find the fraud’: Trump pressured a Georgia elections investigator in a separate call legal experts say could amount to obstruction  —  President Trump urged Georgia's lead elections investigator to “find the fraud” in a lengthy December phone call, saying the official would be a “national hero …
Washington Post:
A mob insurrection stoked by false claims of election fraud and promises of violent restoration  —  The problem with devotion to a prophet of falsehoods is that reality eventually intrudes.  —  By mid-December, President Trump's fraudulent claims of a rigged election were failing in humiliating fashion.
Discussion: The Hill and The Gateway Pundit
Emmanuel Felton / BuzzFeed News:
These Black Capitol Police Officers Describe Fighting Off “Racist Ass Terrorists”  —  The first glimpse of the deadly tragedy that was about to unfold came at 9 a.m. on the morning of the insurrection for one Black veteran of the US Capitol Police.  But it didn't come from his superiors …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Linda So / Reuters:
U.S. Capitol police officer who died after violent assault ‘loved his job’
Discussion: Raw Story
Jim Acosta / CNN:
Pence has not ruled out 25th Amendment, source says  —  DC attorney general: Pence should invoke 25th Amendment  —  (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence has not ruled out an effort to invoke the 25th Amendment and wants to preserve the option in case President Donald Trump becomes more unstable, a source close to the vice president says.
Brad McElhinny / WV MetroNews:
Derrick Evans resigns W.Va. House after entering U.S. Capitol with mob  —  Derrick Evans, facing federal charges for entering the U.S. Capitol with a mob, has resigned from West Virginia's House of Delegates.  —  “I hereby resign as a member of the House of Delegates, effective immediately …
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Three Men Charged in Connection with Events at U.S. Capitol
WTRF-TV:
BREAKING: WV Delegate Derrick Evans announces resignation from House of Delegates
Discussion: Washington Post and DNyuz
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Timothy Snyder / New York Times:
The American Abyss  —  A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next  —  When Donald Trump stood before his followers on Jan. 6 and urged them to march on the United States Capitol, he was doing what he had always done.
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Washington Post:
Republicans largely silent about consequences of deadly attack and Trump's role in inciting it  —  Three days after a mob attack on the U.S. Capitol carried out in President Trump's name, Republican leaders have yet to outline plans to hold anyone accountable or to alter a platform …
Associated Press:
'He's on his own': Some Republicans begin to flee from Trump
Kelly Hooper / Politico:
Toomey says Trump ‘committed impeachable offenses’  —  Republican Sen. Pat Toomey on Saturday said President Donald Trump has “committed impeachable offenses” by inciting a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, as dozens of Democratic lawmakers demanded his removal from office.
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Joe Biden wants to set aside deficit concerns to invest in ailing U.S. economy
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senator: Trump ‘committed impeachable offenses’
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump Media Empire?  Don't Bet on It.  —  Eighty-sixed permanently from his personal account by Twitter for propelling his mob to attack and occupy the Capitol, President Donald Trump transferred his carping to the official @POTUS account early Friday evening.
Discussion: Fox News, New York Post and HotAir
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Chris Christie Has No Regrets  —  Throughout Donald Trump's Presidency, the former New Jersey governor Chris Christie has been an informal adviser to the White House.  His embrace of the Trump Administration has been complicated.  Christie led Trump's White House transition team but was removed shortly after Trump won the election.
ProPublica:
Members of Several Well-Known Hate Groups Identified at Capitol Riot … ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  This story is part of an ongoing collaboration between ProPublica and FRONTLINE that includes an upcoming documentary.
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Foreign Policy:
Group of State Department Officials Call for Consultations on Trump's Removal  —  Second dissent cable directed at Pompeo also rebukes the secretary of state for not forcefully condemning the president.  —  Career officials at the State Department filed a second unprecedented dissent cable …
Discussion: Political Wire, ABC News and The Hill
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
In Pulling Trump's Megaphone, Twitter Shows Where Power Now Lies  —  The ability of a handful of people to control our public discourse has never been more obvious.  —  In the end, two billionaires from California did what legions of politicians, prosecutors and power brokers had tried and failed to do for years:
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Evelyn Douek / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Banned. Who Is Next?
Discussion: Politico, TheGrio and Fox News
Washington Post:
‘The storm is here’: Ashli Babbitt's journey from capital ‘guardian’ to invader  —  The politician she revered above all others had lost an election.  She'd struggled with crippling amounts of debt.  Her home state of California was locking down again because of a virus she believed was fiction.
Discussion: DNyuz, Juanita Jean's and The Sun
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Stewing in the White House, Trump Plots a Boastful Media Tour and Screams 'I'm Not Going To Resign'  —  Sources say Trump has made comments that gave no indication he was worried about leaving early or being removed.  —  Sequestered in the White House following a series of high-profile resignations …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Trump's Capitol Offense  —  The presidency melts down, as Trump becomes too vile even for Twitter.  —  WASHINGTON — Even as a small child, I knew I was seeing something tremendous.  —  I didn't know that the light in the dome meant that Congress was in session.
Discussion: Raw Story, Quartz and The Atlantic
 
 
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Washington Post:
Inside the Capitol siege: How barricaded lawmakers and aides sounded urgent pleas for help as police lost control
Discussion: HuffPost and CBS San Francisco
Tracy Brown / Los Angeles Times:
Ariel Pink dropped from label after attending Trump rally that led to D.C. riots
Discussion: Breitbart, DNyuz and Fox News
Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
The facial-recognition app Clearview sees a spike in use after Capitol attack.
Discussion: Breitbart
BrieAnna J. Frank / Arizona Republic:
Maricopa County Republican Committee votes to censure Cindy McCain, who endorsed Joe Biden for president
Discussion: The Hill
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The Silence of the Damned  —  The first time I walked through the West Wing …
Kristina Wong / Breitbart:
Exclusive - Pompeo Stands by Trump: 'I'm Proud of What We Accomplished ... History Will Remember Us Very Well'
Chris Joyner / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC EXCLUSIVE: Georgia attorney among those who broke into U.S. Capitol
Discussion: DNyuz
Daniel N. Gullotta / The Bulwark:
Violence in the Capitol: A Historic Wake-Up Call
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Democrats Are Determined to Pressure Biden to Investigate Trump
Discussion: CNBC and Crooks and Liars
Paul Egan / Detroit Free Press:
Michigan man faces terrorism charges over fake bomb call, threat to lawmaker
Discussion: Washington Post
Hemal Jhaveri / USA Today:
NHL players' silence over the past few days shows just how little things have changed
Discussion: Twitchy
Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
White man who drove into Iowa protesters avoids prison after guilty plea
Discussion: Raw Story
Nathan J. Robinson / Current Affairs:
The Only Thing Worse Than A NIMBY Is A YIMBY
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
‘It Was No Accident’ Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal on surviving the siege.
Discussion: The Root
 

 
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: the NFL's two Christmas Day games that streamed on Netflix averaged 24.2M US viewers, peaking at 27M for Beyoncé's Ravens-Texans halftime show

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Richard Parsons, who had a long career as chairman, CEO, and as a board member of media companies including CBS and Time Warner, died at 76 of bone cancer

Reuters:
Palestinian sources say an Israeli airstrike killed five journalists from Al-Quds Today; the Israeli military called the five “operatives posing as journalists”

 
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