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WRCB-TV:
Channel 3 crew threatened with arrest after asking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene a question during town hall meeting  —  A Channel 3 reporter and photojournalist were threatened with arrest after asking U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene a question during a town hall meeting in Dalton.
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Parkland Parents: Marjorie Taylor Greene Won't Get Away With Lying About Our Son  —  Linda Beigel Schulman does not have the luxury of believing in conspiracy theories.  She knows that no amount of magical thinking can bring her son back.  She knows exactly how long he's been gone.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: SCOOP: Inside the White House's new thinking on Covid relief  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  MCCARTHY TRIES TO MAKE NICE WITH TRUMP: House Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY and former President DONALD TRUMP will meet around lunchtime at Mar-a-Lago — a face-to-face we're told McCarthy requested …
WRCB-TV:   Channel 3 crew threatened with arrest by deputy for questioning Marjorie Taylor Greene at Dalton town hall
U.S. Representative Jimmy Gomez:
Congressman Jimmy Gomez to Introduce Resolution Expelling Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress
Daniel Villarreal / Newsweek:
Rep. Jimmy Gomez to Introduce Resolution to Expel Marjorie Taylor Greene From Congress
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Chris Stirewalt / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed: I called Arizona for Biden on Fox News.  Here's what I learned  —  The New York Evening Express was no great shakes as a newspaper.  But in 1886, when the New York Times ran the obituary of one of the Express' former owners, Erastus Brooks, it had to give credit where it was due.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Alexis Goldstein / Markets Weekly:
What happened with GameStop?  —  It's not David vs Goliath.  It's Goliath vs. Goliath, with David as a fig leaf  —  This is a free post from Markets Weekly, a newsletter by former Wall Street professional Alexis Goldstein.  If you appreciated this post, please consider signing up here for premium access to all posts.
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New York Times:
GameStop Stock Soars as Reddit Investors Take On Wall St.  —  GameStop shares have soared 1,700 percent as millions of small investors, egged on by social media, employ a classic Wall Street tactic to put the squeeze — on Wall Street.  —  A real estate salesman in Valparaiso, Ind. A former line cook from the Bronx.
Wall Street Journal:
GameStop Mania Reveals Power Shift on Wall Street—and the Pros Are Reeling  —  Internet-fueled amateurs, on platforms like Reddit and Discord, are piling into stocks, bragging about gains and banding together to intensify moves  —  The power dynamics are shifting on Wall Street.
J. Miles Coleman / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
2022 Senate Races: Initial Ratings  —  On a potentially limited playing field, both parties look to expand past their current 50 seats  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — Republicans will be defending more Senate seats than Democrats in 2022, but both sides have some potential pickup opportunities …
Discussion: Politico and Ohio Capital Journal
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Arizona Republic:
Republicans demand audit of Kelli Ward's narrow win for Arizona GOP chair  —  Yvonne Wingett Sanchez Ronald J. HansenArizona Republic  —  After months of sounding the alarm on what she claimed was a stolen presidential election, Kelli Ward is facing questions about her own reelection Saturday as Arizona Republican Party chair.
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
N.Y. Severely Undercounted Virus Deaths in Nursing Homes, Report Says  —  The state attorney general, Letitia James, said the Cuomo administration likely omitted thousands of Covid-19 deaths of nursing home residents.  —  ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State attorney general accused …
Washington Post:
2020 was the worst year for economic growth since the Second World War  —  New federal data offers comprehensive snapshot of a year marred by staggering job losses, waves of small-business closures and mounting inequality  —  The U.S. economy shrank by 3.5 percent last year …
Discussion: Reuters, Axios and The Week
Rebecca Jennings / Vox:
What happened when a beloved mom influencer donated to Trump  —  Taking Cara Babies taught her 1.3 million followers how to get their babies to sleep.  Then her political affiliations sparked a social media meltdown.  —  SHARE All sharing options  —  This story is part of a group of stories called
Discussion: Twitchy
New York Times:
McConnell Was Done With Trump.  His Party Said Not So Fast.  —  After four years, the minority leader had finally had enough.  But with most Republicans rallying around Donald J. Trump, he sided with his colleagues trying to throw out the impeachment case.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
McCarthy to meet Trump after rift over his assertion that the former president ‘bears responsibility’ for the Capitol attack.
Discussion: NBC News
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Kinzinger: Voting to impeach Trump ‘could very well be terminal to my career’  —  Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said in a podcast released Thursday that he was willing to lose his House seat when he voted to impeach former President Trump.  —  “I did it knowing full well it could very well be terminal …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and IJR
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Zach Everson / 1100 Pennsylvania:
What was Tommy Tuberville doing in the Trump Hotel D.C.?  —  Despite his denials, photos appear to show Tuberville in the Trump Hotel D.C.'s lobby the night before the Capitol insurrection  —  Photos posted on social media appear to refute a U.S. Senator's claim that he was not at the Trump Hotel D.C …
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Eddie Burkhalter / Alabama Political Reporter:
Photos put Tuberville in Trump's hotel on Jan. 5 despite denying meeting
Susannah Luthi / Politico:
Biden takes first step toward bolstering Obamacare  —  President Joe Biden is taking the first step toward rebuilding Obamacare, ushering in a new era for the health care law after a decade of Republican attacks.  —  The Biden administration on Thursday announced it's throwing open the doors …
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Washington Post:
Self-styled militia members in three states began planning in November for recruits, weapons ahead of Capitol breach, U.S. alleges  —  Three self-styled militia members charged in the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol began soliciting recruits for potential violence within days …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Twitter's priceless gift to Biden  —  As he entered his first week in office, President Joe Biden was handed a priceless gift: the blissful sound of former President Donald Trump's Twitter silence.  —  Gone are the pre-dawn tirades, the all-caps declarations, the “Sleepy Joe” mocking …
Katherine Tully-McManus / Roll Call:
Insurrection aftermath: Staffers struggle with trauma, guilt and fear  —  They replay the day in their minds, hear threats when they pick up the phone, and try to keep doing their jobs.  Congressional staffers are still struggling in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Biden Appoints New Cabinet Secretaries, Ousting Trump Loyalists  —  President Biden named nearly all of his cabinet secretaries and their immediate deputies before he took office, but his real grasp on the levers of power has come several layers down.  —  WASHINGTON — When President Biden swore …
New York Times:
Ease Up on the Executive Actions, Joe  —  President Biden is right to not let his agenda be held hostage, but legislating through Congress is a better path.  —  The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.
Washington Post:
Biden struggles to define his ‘unity’ promise for a divided nation  —  Barack Obama offered “hope and change.”  Donald Trump vowed to “Make America Great Again.”  George W. Bush promised “compassionate conservatism.”  —  And for President Biden, the slogan comes down to one word: “unity.”
American Prospect:
Merrick Garland Wants Former Facebook Lawyer to Top Antitrust Division  —  Susan Davies has spent much of the last decade working on behalf of major mergers and fending off antitrust enforcement.  —  Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland is working behind the scenes to install longtime aide Susan Davies …
Daniel Friedman / Mother Jones:
Roger Stone Did Something Wrong  —  Roger Stone, the longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump and a recipient of a pardon last month, was a lead promoter of the election lies that led to the January 6 attack on Congress.  Now the self-styled dirty trickster is covering his tracks.
Discussion: CNN
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Just Open the Schools Already  —  Federal health officials at the CDC this week called for children to return to American classrooms as soon as possible.  In an essay in the Journal of the American Medical Association, they wrote that the “preponderance of available evidence” …
Abby Vesoulis / TIME:
'He's Saying One Thing and Then He's Doing Another.' Rep. Madison Cawthorn Peddles a Different Kind of Trumpism in a Post-Trump World  —  As the Trump Administration drew to a close, Republican legislators and aides were forced to choose a side.  They could either distance themselves …
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Scoop: Conservative group puts $700k behind Hawley  —  A Republican group is raising and spending huge amounts of money defending Sen. Josh Hawley after he was ostracized for early January's attack on the U.S. Capitol.  —  Why it matters: The Senate Conservatives Fund is backfilling lost corporate …
Discussion: Reason and Business Insider
Rebecca Kaplan / CBS News:
House members say they're “targets” and ask for more security in new letter  —  More than 30 members of the House of Representatives are asking their leaders if they may use their congressional allowances to augment their personal safety in their home districts by hiring local law enforcement …
Discussion: CNN, Business Insider, The Hill and The Week
Los Angeles Times:
Man arrested with explosives may have been targeting Gov. Newsom, authorities say  —  A suspected far-right extremist and radicalized supporter of former President Trump facing federal explosives charges may have been targeting California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the San Francisco Bay Area headquarters …
Mack Lamoureux / VICE:
Proud Boys Reel at Report Leader Was a Rat  —  “They're trying to take down the Proud Boys—our beacon of light,” a fan wrote on Telegram.  —  Mack Lamoureux  —  TORONTO, CA  —  TO  —  After Reuters broke the news that Enrique Tarrio, 36, the current chairman of the Proud Boys, was a …
Mia Jankowicz / Business Insider:
A Trump advisor who promised to eat his shoe if Biden won is refusing to do it, citing debunked election-fraud claims … - A Trump campaign advisor who promised to eat his shoe if Trump lost the election now won't do it.  — Harlan Hill cited debunked election-fraud claims, falsely telling Mediaite: “Trump won.”
Marc Caputo / Politico:
‘What Democrat beats that guy?’:  Top Dems flinch from Rubio challenge  —  MIAMI — Few Republicans are more loathed by Democrats than Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.  Many have never looked at him the same since, after helping to draft the 2013 bipartisan immigration bill, he backed away under conservative pressure.
 
 
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
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CNN:
CFO of House GOP campaign committee resigned after lawmakers objected to Electoral College results
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Discord bans the r/WallStreetBets server
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
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