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10:45 AM ET, January 9, 2021

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Twitter:
Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump  —  After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.
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Politico:
Trump went ‘ballistic’ after being tossed off Twitter  —  President Donald Trump has many prized possessions.  But few seemed to inspire as much personal joy as his Twitter feed.  Trump routinely boasted of the social media bullhorn he possessed.  He credited it with launching his political trajectory.
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Senior Trump Official: We Were Wrong, He's a ‘Fascist’  —  On Friday afternoon, 48 hours after the U.S. Capitol was stormed by violent insurrectionists encouraged by Donald Trump in an attempt to overthrow the government in protest of his election loss, a senior member of his administration spoke to me while he was driving to work.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
BuzzFeed News:
Apple Has Threatened To Ban Parler From The App Store  —  Apple has given Parler, the social network favored by conservatives and extremists, an ultimatum to implement a full moderation plan of its platform within the next 24 hours or face expulsion from the App store.
Brian Fung / CNN:
Twitter bans President Trump permanently
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Facebook suspends account of Virginia state Sen. Amanda Chase
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Twitter banned Trump because he's not worth $2B to the brand anymore
James Brooks / Anchorage Daily News:
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski calls on President Trump to resign, questions her future as a Republican  —  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Friday that Donald Trump should resign the presidency immediately and that if the Republican Party cannot separate itself from Trump, she isn't certain she has a future with the party.
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New York Times:
Democrats Ready Impeachment Charge Against Trump for Inciting Capitol Mob  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi threatened decisive action against the president for his role in the insurrection against Congress if he refused to resign.  —  WASHINGTON — Democrats laid the groundwork on Friday …
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
The One Good Thing the MAGA Mobs Smashed? The Trump Kids' Futures.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
An Air Force Combat Veteran Breached the Senate  —  As insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol this week, a few figures stood out.  One man, clad in a combat helmet, body armor, and other tactical gear, was among the group that made it to the inner reaches of the building.
Discussion: Business Insider and DNyuz
Houston Chronicle:
Resign, Senator Cruz.  Your lies cost lives.  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is among a number of GOP lawmakers claiming without evidence that voter fraud was widespread during the November election.  (Eli Imadali/American-Statesman/TNS)  —  In Texas, we have our share of politicians …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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Washington Examiner:   Tim Scott, not Ted Cruz, has the right election commission idea
Chief Adrian Diaz / SPD Blotter:
SPD Officers in D.C. Referred to OPA  —  Today the Seattle Police Department was made aware that at least two of its officers were reportedly in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.  The Department fully supports all lawful expressions of First Amendment freedom of speech, but the violent mob …
Discussion: The Hill, NBC News and ABC News
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Washington Post:
Arrested by Capitol Police at peaceful protests? You're not alone.
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
A Palm Beach Proud Boy at the Putsch  —  Bobby Pickles, a purveyor of far-right T-shirts, joined the horde of balding dudes in dad jeans at the Capitol, because Donald Trump, he says, is “like punk rock.”  —  As federal law-enforcement officials consider investigating the President's role …
NBC News:
Republican AGs group sent robocalls urging march to the Capitol  —  An arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association, a national group representing the top law enforcement officers in their states, sent out robocalls encouraging people to march to the U.S. Capitol the day before the building was stormed by a pro-Trump mob.
Discussion: Business Insider
Washington Post:
Companies backed Trump for years.  Now they're facing a reckoning after the attack on the Capitol.  —  ‘It was a classic Faustian bargain,’ one critic says.  ‘They should have known from the beginning.’  —  The bargain with the business world worked like this: They mostly tolerated President …
Discussion: HotAir
John F. Harris / Politico:
Hey, Twitter, Are You Sure About This?  —  For a half-century, the trend in political culture has been inexorably in one direction: toward the steady loosening and eventually the near-obliteration of media filters.  —  If someone has a voice that other people want to hear, that voice is going to be heard.
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
McConnell memo outlines how Senate would conduct second trial for Trump if House impeaches  —  On the cusp of the second impeachment battle in just over a year, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is circulating a memo to Republican senators that outlines how a potential Senate trial …
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
‘It Was No Accident’ Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal on surviving the siege.  —  On Wednesday, January 6, Pramila Jayapal, a Democratic congresswoman from Washington State, was sitting in the gallery above the House chamber, watching the proceedings to count the Electoral College vote and certify …
CNN:
Extremists intensify calls for violence ahead of Inauguration Day  —  (CNN)"Trump or war.  Today.  That simple."  —  “If you don't know how to shoot: You need to learn.  NOW.”  —  “we will storm the government buildings, kill cops, kill security guards, kill federal employees and agents, and demand a recount.”
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Politico:
McCarthy and Scalise face internal dissension after Capitol riot  —  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise are facing backlash from their Republican colleagues for standing by President Donald Trump after he incited a violent mob to storm the Capitol this week …
Discussion: CNN, DCReport.org and Raw Story
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.
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Washington Post:
Video shows fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt in the Capitol
Rudi Keller / Missouri Independent:
‘Reckless pandering’: Josh Hawley's woes grow as another major backer abandons him  —  The list of Missouri supporters abandoning U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley grew Friday, when a prominent early backer accused him of “an act of reckless pandering” by raising objections as electoral votes were counted.
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Lindsey Ellefson / Yahoo Entertainment:
Steve Bannon's ‘War Room’ Channel Pulled From YouTube  —  The channel for Steve Bannon's “War Room” podcast was removed from YouTube Friday evening.  —  A YouTube spokesperson told TheWrap, “In accordance with our  —  strikes system, we have terminated Steve Bannon's channel 'War Room …
Washington Post:
FBI focuses on whether some Capitol rioters intended to harm lawmakers or take hostages  —  FBI agents are trying to determine whether some who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday intended to do more than cause havoc and disrupt the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory …
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New York Times:
Man Who Broke Into Pelosi's Office and Others Are Charged in Capitol Riot
Discussion: Mother Jones and Defense One
Brian McEntee / Slate:
D.C. Residents Put Up With Overbearing Security for 20 Years.  It Did Nothing.  —  You develop a certain psychic geography as a bike commuter in D.C. You know places, but from the outside only.  Most people here aren't Hill staffers or journalists or tour guides—we don't actually go into the U.S. Capitol …
Discussion: Eschaton, Politico, DNyuz and HotAir
Zach Helfand / New Yorker:
As Told To: The Pelosi Staffer Keith Stern on the Breach of the Capitol  —  “Ma'am, we've got to go.”  —  When one of the sergeant-at-arms staffers on the floor of the House of Representatives said that people were starting to move toward the Capitol, we didn't think much of it.  We've had plenty of protests.
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Republicans Confront the Consequences of Their Rhetoric  —  The Republican Party's “Flight 93” revolution tragically, but almost inevitably, came full circle this week in a storm of insurrectionary violence at the U.S. Capitol.  —  Late in the 2016 presidential campaign, an anonymous author …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump's existential threat: How to keep GOP in line without Twitter  —  Donald Trump was meeting then-campaign manager Brad Parscale and other political aides in the White House Cabinet Room early last year when the president made a demand: Find me a social media platform to use other than Twitter.
 
 
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 More Items: 
Randall Lane / Forbes:
A Truth Reckoning: Why We're Holding Those Who Lied For Trump Accountable
New York Times:
Trump Administration Politicized Some Intelligence on Foreign Election Influence, Report Finds
Discussion: Washington Examiner
April Ryan / TheGrio:
How will history view the Capitol insurrection and its racial hypocrisy?
Discussion: Chicago Tribune
New York Times:
What Is Dlive? The Streaming Site Growing in Far-Right Users
Dan Tilkin / KOIN-TV:
Video shows state lawmaker let in protesters to Oregon Capitol
Discussion: Oregonian and Law & Crime
MSNBC:
Neal Katyal explains how quickly impeachment can take place
Russ Choma / Mother Jones:
If Trump Is Impeached and Convicted, He'll Lose His Post-Presidency Perks
Discussion: Rolling Stone and Eschaton
 Earlier Items: 
Cam Wolf / GQ:
The Man Who Saw Yesterday's Coup Attempt Coming Is Only Surprised It Wasn't Much Worse
Discussion: Daily Kos and CANNONFIRE
Washington Post:
The Capitol mob desecrated a historical workplace — and left behind some disturbing artifacts
Discussion: The Hill, Mic, Slate and TheGrio
John Hudson / Washington Post:
In unusual move, top Trump official rescinds cheery exit letter and resubmits a protest resignation
Discussion: The Hill
Whitney Kimball / Gizmodo:
Reddit Bans r/Conspiracy Moderator and r/DonaldTrump
CNN:
As riot raged at Capitol, Trump tried to call senators to overturn election
John Murawski / RealClearInvestigations:
A Big Move to Ban Realtor ‘Hate Speech.’ At Work. Anywhere. 24/7.
 

 
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute

Youkyung Lee / Bloomberg:
Shares of South Korean entertainment companies related to Squid Game drop 20%+ following a less-than-perfect debut for the new season of the series on Netflix

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
 
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