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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:
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
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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Talking Points Memo, USA Today, Raw Story, The Week, Business Insider, National Review, Mock Paper Scissors and theslot.jezebel.com
Washington Post:
Hostility between congressional Republicans and Democrats reaches new lows amid growing fears of violence
Hostility between congressional Republicans and Democrats reaches new lows amid growing fears of violence
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Daily Kos, The Daily Beast, The Dispatch, CNN, The Hill, WTOP, Fox News and iPolitics
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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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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Content Lab U.S., Politico, ABC News, MIT Technology Review and HotAir
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Bloomberg:
J&J Vaccine Is 100% Effective at Stopping Deaths, Hospital Stays — Shot shows 66% efficacy against disease in large global trial — Easier-to-store vaccine could reinvigorate immunization push — Johnson & Johnson's one-shot vaccine generated strong protection against Covid-19 in a large …
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Wall Street Journal, CBS News, NPR, Marketplace and IJR
Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
Single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine 66 percent effective against moderate and severe illness
Single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine 66 percent effective against moderate and severe illness
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New York Times, Vox, National Review and The Week
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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Business Insider, The Federalist, True News Hub, The Independent and NOQ Report
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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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Reuters, Conservative News Today, Townhall, Fox News and Liberty Unyielding
Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
How Will the GameStop Game Stop?
How Will the GameStop Game Stop?
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Slate and Above the Law, more at Techmeme »
Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
What We've Learned From the Robinhood Affair
What We've Learned From the Robinhood Affair
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The Federalist, Washington Examiner, Townhall, New Republic, CNN, National Review, Breitbart and HotAir
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, The Independent and Raw Story
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.
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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, Boing Boing, Wall Street Journal, Forbes and The Mahablog
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Did Biden Just Make Everything Normal Again?
Did Biden Just Make Everything Normal Again?
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Politico, New York Times, ABC News, Defense One, The Hill, Foreign Policy, Columbia Journalism Review, The Federalist, Middle East Monitor, Raw Story and NPR
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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Arizona Republic, Business Insider and NPR
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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NBC News, NPR, New York Times, Washington Post, Mercury News, Letters from an American, The Federalist and The Guardian
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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HuffPost, The Hill, Business Insider, Fox News and Raw Story
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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Washington Post, Letters from an American and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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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.
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
‘Trump Just Used Us and Our Fear’: One Woman's Journey Out of QAnon — During the political fallout after four years of Donald J. Trump, one question is what will happen with the followers of conspiracy theories that bend Americans' perceptions of reality. — WASHINGTON — In the summer of 2017 …
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Raw Story
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.
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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Althouse
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, emptywheel and Business Insider
Massimo Faggioli / Commonweal Magazine:
Lots of Politics, Little Legitimacy — The USCCB needs an ecclesial and theological vision. — U.S. Catholicism Bishops Joe Biden — The second Catholic president of the United States is the first to hold office in the midst of an American intra-Church crisis.
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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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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Washington Post, Salon, Associated Press, Washington Examiner, Bangor Daily News, Sputnik News and Raw Story
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 …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Paul says Roberts's absence ‘crystalized’ argument against Trump impeachment — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday said hearing that Chief Justice John Roberts would not preside over former President Trump's upcoming impeachment trial “crystalized” the GOP argument that the proceedings are unconstitutional.
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Associated Press, Cincinnati.com, IJR, Los Angeles Times and NPR
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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Salon, HuffPost, The Hill, Denver Post, Grist, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Washington Post:
New Georgia runoffs data finds that more Black voters than usual came out. Trump voters stayed home. — Those slight differences helped Democrats win the Senate. — This month, Georgia voters sent two Democrats to the U.S. Senate after runoff elections, breaking with a decades-long history of electing Republicans.
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Washington Examiner
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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CNN, The Daily Caller, Common Dreams and Political Wire
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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Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, Fox News, Washingtonian, KRON4, Page Six, Mic and The Week
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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Washington Post, Raw Story, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Caller, Butterflies and Wheels and Political Wire