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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
GOP Congresswoman Blamed Wildfires on Secret Jewish Space Laser — Axios has a small squib about “The Mischief Makers,” a handful of idiosyncratic congressional backbenchers who make trouble for their respective party leadership. The leading Democratic mischief-maker is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
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Axios:
Scoop: GOP ignored its early fears about Marjorie Taylor Greene — During previously unreported meetings last summer, House Republican leaders discussed — but then largely set aside — fears that QAnon-supporting conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene would end up a flaming trainwreck for their party.
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Axios:
Conservatives warn culture, political wars will worsen — The verdict is clear: The vast majority of Republicans will stand firm with former President Trump. The next phase is clear, too: Republicans are rallying around a common grievance that big government, big media and big business …
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Raw Story and Associated Press
Washington Post:
Hostility between congressional Republicans and Democrats reaches new lows amid growing fears of violence — Open hostility broke out among Republicans and Democrats in Congress on Thursday amid growing fears of physical violence and looming domestic terrorism threats from supporters …
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New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Dispatch, Media Matters for America, CNN, WTOP, Fox News, iPolitics and Daily Kos
Politico:
Trump may poison the party, but Republicans have decided they need him
Trump may poison the party, but Republicans have decided they need him
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The Hill, Gallup, Raw Story, The Dispatch, PRESS RUN and The Message Box
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
McCarthy Seeks Thaw With Trump as G.O.P. Rallies Behind Former President
McCarthy Seeks Thaw With Trump as G.O.P. Rallies Behind Former President
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Business Insider, Politico, Raw Story, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Forbes and The Mahablog
Michael Warren / CNN:
Trump targets Cheney as he unites with McCarthy
Trump targets Cheney as he unites with McCarthy
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Matt Taibbi / TK News:
Suck It, Wall Street — In a blowout comedy for the ages, finance pirates take it up the clacker — In the fall of 2008, America's wealthiest companies were in a pickle. Short-selling hedge funds, smelling blood as the global economy cratered, loaded up with bets against finance stocks …
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New York Times:
Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1 Billion From Its Investors — The no-fee trading app, which is popular with young investors, has been strained by the high volume of trading this week in stocks such as GameStop. — Facing an onslaught of demands on its cash amid a stock market frenzy …
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Under the Hood:
An Update on Market Volatility — This past year, we've seen the financial markets become a voice for the voiceless. We've seen a new generation of people come into the markets, sparking conversations about what it means to be an investor. Our customers have shown the world that investing …
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Bloomberg:
Robinhood Raises $1 Billion in Dash for Cash After Trader Revolt — DTCC asked brokerages for $33.5 billion in collateral Thursday — Robinhood taps its existing investors and bank credit lines — New York markets had just fired up, and the investing world was tuning …
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Washington Examiner, Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Twitchy
Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
What We've Learned From the Robinhood Affair
What We've Learned From the Robinhood Affair
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Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
How Will the GameStop Game Stop?
How Will the GameStop Game Stop?
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George Prayias / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
GameStop Story Illustrates What I've Told You About the Elites
GameStop Story Illustrates What I've Told You About the Elites
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David Smith / The Guardian:
‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years - ex-KGB spy — The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian — Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years …
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Business Insider and Raw Story
New York Times:
Johnson & Johnson's Vaccine Offers Strong Protection but Fuels Concern About Variants — The vaccine's efficacy rate dropped from 72 percent in the United States to just 57 percent in South Africa, where a highly contagious variant is driving most cases. — Johnson & Johnson announced …
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Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Arizona GOP lawmaker introduces bill to give Legislature power to toss out election results — The Republican chair of Arizona's state House Ways and Means Committee introduced a bill Wednesday that would give the Legislature authority to override the secretary of state's certification of its electoral votes.
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New York Times:
Body Camera Footage Shows Capitol Rioters Trampling Over Woman — Video obtained by The Times provides a police officer's view of the deadly battle to defend a key entryway from the surging mob. — As 34-year-old Rosanne Boyland lay dying on the steps of the Capitol on Jan. 6 after being crushed by a mob …
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
U.S. handling of American evacuees from Wuhan increased coronavirus risks, watchdog finds — The special counsel also criticized the HHS general counsel's office for its ‘attempts to shame the whistleblower.’ — As the first American evacuees from Wuhan, China, touched down at a California military base …
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RealClearInvestigations:
DC Fails To Disbar Anti-Trump FBI Lawyer Despite Guilty Plea — As the U.S. government seeks prison time for a former FBI lawyer who admitted falsifying evidence to spy on a former Trump aide, the District of Columbia Bar association hasn't begun an investigation to strip him of his law license, records show.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: My wild day in Wyoming with Matt Gaetz — DRIVING THE DAY — TARA WRITES FROM CHEYENNE, Wyo. — When the opportunity arose to fly across the country to see whether a slick-suited, 30-something congressman from Florida could stage a substantial rally in the name of DONALD TRUMP …
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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Ignoring calls to pull back, Gaetz slams Cheney in her home state
Ignoring calls to pull back, Gaetz slams Cheney in her home state
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Politico:
'I'm just furious': Relations in Congress crack after attack — Some House lawmakers are privately refusing to work with each other. Others are afraid to be in the same room. Two members almost got into a fist fight on the floor. And the speaker of the House is warning that “the enemy is within.”
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Associated Press:
Man who wore horns at riot willing to speak at Trump's trial — PHOENIX (AP) — The lawyer for an Arizona man who took part in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol while sporting face paint, no shirt and a furry hat with horns is offering to have his client testify at former President Donald Trump's upcoming impeachment trial.
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HotAir and Business Insider
Merrill Matthews / The Hill:
So much for Joe Biden, moderate — President Biden wasted no time releasing a flurry of executive orders and legislative proposals. Some of them may be helpful in addressing the economic challenges imposed by the coronavirus pandemic. But others would almost certainly “cancel” …
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
The Conservative Case Against the Boomers — For bleakness, scope, and entropic finality, the progressive critique of the generation has nothing on the social-conservative one. — Everyone's fed up with the baby boomers. Younger progressives charge them with a form of generational hoarding—of titles and power but mostly of money.
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New York Times:
Republican Ties to Extremist Groups Are Under Scrutiny — A number of members of Congress have links to organizations and movements that played a role in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. — WASHINGTON — The video's title was posed as a question, but it left little doubt about where the men who filmed it stood.
Douglas Perry / Oregonian:
‘Charming’ D.B. Cooper suspect Sheridan Peterson dies at 94, spent years dedicated to political causes — Sheridan Peterson, long considered a suspect in the D.B. Cooper skyjacking case, died Jan. 8 in California. He was 94. — The California native served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II …
Sean D. Naylor / Yahoo News:
Mattis: Trump ‘fomented’ Jan. 6 Capitol assault — Former Defense Secretary James Mattis said Thursday the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol was “fomented” by former President Donald Trump, and exemplified the “internal threats” faced by the U.S. that should be viewed “with every bit as much gravity …
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Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
Noem refuses to say whether Biden victory was free and fair — PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem refused to acknowledge Thursday that Democrat Joe Biden defeated her close Republican ally Donald Trump in a free and fair election, instead using the opportunity to criticize Biden's actions since taking office.
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Politico:
‘Betrayed’: Republicans urge Biden to change course on stimulus — When a bipartisan Senate coalition helped clinch a coronavirus relief bill last year after months of gridlock, it was supposed to be a model for governing in the Biden era. But now Democrats' surprise takeover of the Senate threatens to leave the group behind.
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Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Anti-Trump group launches $1M billboard campaign calling on Cruz, Hawley, McCarthy to resign — The anti-Trump Republican Accountability Project is kicking off a $1 million billboard campaign Thursday that targets 12 Republican lawmakers, including Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
New York Times:
Ella Emhoff Signs to IMG Models — The second daughter follows the inauguration poet Amanda Gorman to IMG. — Amanda Gorman is not the only breakout star to have emerged from the inauguration as the fashion world's latest influencer-in-waiting. — One week after the Miu Miu coat she wore …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Did Biden Just Make Everything Normal Again? — Reflections on a post-Trump week of refreshingly Presidential behavior and predictably partisan feuding. — Eight days into his tenure, President Joe Biden has not occupied my every waking thought—nor, I suspect, yours. He has not insulted anyone, as far as I'm aware.
Lara Seligman / Politico:
Pentagon halts Trump appointments to advisory boards — The Pentagon has suspended the processing of a number of former President Donald Trump's last-minute appointees to defense advisory boards as the new administration looks to weed out loyalists to the former president.
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Politico:
'For Christ's sake, watch yourself': Biden warns family over business dealings — In the midst of his campaign for president, Joe Biden took his younger brother, Frank, aside to issue a warning. — “For Christ's sake, watch yourself,” Biden said of his brother's potential business dealings …
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Sen. Mike Lee / Washington Examiner:
The Constitution does not authorize a general impeachment power — The Supreme Court is the highest tribunal in the United States for all cases and controversies arising under the Constitution. But not all legal issues reach the court, and even if they do, it takes years for them to do so.
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Politico and Bangor Daily News
Wall Street Journal:
Suspected Russian Hack Extends Far Beyond SolarWinds Software, Investigators Say — Roughly 30% of victims are said to have no connection to the network-management company's tainted software — Investigators probing a massive hack of the U.S. government and businesses say they have found concrete evidence …
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Washington Post:
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is trying to hold together a party that Donald Trump might want to tear up — Air Force One was fueled and ready for the final flight. — This was the end for Donald Trump, the last hours of a progressively more noxious and isolated presidency.
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Sabrina Eaton / Plain Dealer:
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan won't run for U.S. Senate next year — WASHINGTON, D.C. - Champaign County GOP Rep. Jim Jordan on Thursday announced that he won't run for the U.S. Senate seat that will be vacated by Republican Rob Portman's upcoming retirement, a decision that opens the field …