memeorandum: In a Pre-Election Video, Marjorie Taylor Greene Endorsed Political Violence (Mark Follman/Mother Jones)

6:55 PM ET, January 29, 2021

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Mark Follman / Mother Jones:

In a Pre-Election Video, Marjorie Taylor Greene Endorsed Political Violence — Evidence continues to emerge that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has over the past several years promoted deranged conspiracy theories and endorsed violence against perceived political enemies.

Discussion: Business Insider, The Independent, The Week, Muslim Advocates, Conservative News Today, TheGrio, American Enterprise Institute, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, INDIVISIBLE VENTURA, The Federalist, The Hill and Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:

Kevin McCarthy Made a Pilgrimage to the Holy Shrine of the Golden Commode — It's a damn miracle, is what it is. Barely three weeks ago, — El Caudillo Del Mar-a-Lago — was the most successful insurrectionist leader since Robert E. Lee. The Republicans were huddled in the bowels …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, The Independent and TheBlaze

Niall Stanage / The Hill:

The Memo: Center-right Republicans fear party headed for disaster — The Republican Party is riven by internal tensions, and moderate voices fear it is headed for disaster at the hands of the far right. — The centrists' worry is that the party is branding itself as the party of insurrectionists and conspiracy theorists.

Discussion: Washington Post, Sputnik News and emptywheel

Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson's Confessions …:

On Marjorie Taylor Greene — I knew Marjorie Taylor Greene was QAnon and a 9/11 truther. — Today, I learn the congresswoman from Georgia who replaces Cynthia McKinney as Georgia's in-house antisemite believes the Jews have an orbital space laser that started wild fires in California to clear a path for a high speed rail system.

Discussion: Vanity Fair, GV Wire and Vox

Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:

Marjorie Taylor Greene in 2019 suggested Ruth Bader Ginsburg was replaced with a body double — Marjorie Taylor Greene said in February 2019 that then-Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — who died in September 2020 — didn't really make a public appearance, implying she was replaced by a body double.

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Ron Kampeas / The Times of Israel:
RJC slams Marjorie Taylor Greene's ‘indefensible’ Jewish space laser comments

Discussion: Forbes, National Review, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Raw Story

Grace Panetta / Business Insider:
Rep. Cori Bush says she's changing offices after being ‘berated’ in a hallway by a maskless Marjorie Taylor Greene

Discussion: Washington Examiner, CNN, The American Independent and IJR

NBC News:
Rep. Cori Bush moving office away from Marjorie Taylor Greene 'for my team's safety'

Discussion: Washington Examiner, CNBC, Washington Post, The Independent and The Hill

Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Brian Williams Deadpan Trolls Trump, McCarthy With ‘Exclusive Video’ Of Meeting

Discussion: Mediaite, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, TMZ.com, Newsbusters, The Daily Beast, Deadline, Crooks and Liars, The Wrap, Mother Jones and Raw Story

Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Anti-Trump group launches $1M billboard campaign calling on Cruz, Hawley, McCarthy to resign

Discussion: The Hill, The Independent, POLITICUSUSA and Washington Examiner

HotAir:
If Republicans Don't Remove Marjorie Taylor Greene, We Must Do It, Says ... Ilhan Omar

Discussion: VICE, The Daily Beast, CBS News, HuffPost and Instapundit

Eric Cantor / Washington Post:

Many of my fellow politicians won't tell voters the truth. The result was Jan. 6. — Telling the public only what it wants to hear is no way to keep democracy going — In the fall of 2013, in the middle of what was at the time the second-longest government shutdown in American history …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, New York Magazine, AGF Perspectives, Oil City News, The Hill, Mother Jones and Letters from an American

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.”

Discussion: New York Magazine, Fox News, Maryland Matters, Washington Post, TheBlaze, NBC News, NBC4 Washington, Progress Pond, Deseret News, Daily Kos, Bulwark+, HuffPost, The Week and The Guardian

New York Times:

Tracking the Oath Keepers Who Attacked the Capitol — Alleged conspirators Other raid participants Alleged conspirators — Donovan Crowl and Jessica Watkins — both members of the Oath Keepers with ties to its leader — have been accused by federal investigators of coordinating …

Discussion: Ohio Capital Journal

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.

Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story, Daily Kos and The Intellectualist

Washington Post:

Pipe bombs found near Capitol on Jan. 6 are believed to have been placed the night before — The two pipe bombs that were discovered on Jan. 6 near the U.S. Capitol shortly before a mob stormed the building are believed to have been planted the night before, according to a law enforcement official familiar …

Discussion: CNN, USA Today, The Root, The Independent, CBS Baltimore, Forbes, TheGrio, Sputnik News, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, Fox News, The Week and Fox 59

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 …

Discussion: The Independent, Buttermilk Sky, Mediaite, First Draft, The Intellectualist, Business Insider, Raw Story, The Root and Associated Press

Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:

Single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine 66 percent effective against moderate and severe illness — A coronavirus vaccine with less onerous storage and administration requirements could be a ‘game changer’ — A single-shot coronavirus vaccine from pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson …

Discussion: Politico, USA Today, New York Times, Bloomberg, What The Fuck …, HotAir, National Review, The Week, Vox and Kyodo News+

Content Lab U.S.:
Johnson & Johnson Announces Single-Shot Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Met Primary Endpoints in Interim Analysis of its Phase 3 ENSEMBLE Trial

Discussion: Vox, The 19th, New York Times, TechCrunch, CNBC, Washington Examiner, UPI, Daily Kos, DutchNews.nl, NPR, The Verge, COURIER, The Week, Gothamist, Reason, Forbes, Fox News and Deseret News

Reuters:

Famed GameStop bull ‘Roaring Kitty’ is a Massachusetts financial advisor — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A YouTube streamer who helped drive a surge in the shares of GameStop Corp is a 34-year-old financial advisor from Massachusetts and until recently worked for insurance giant MassMutual, public records and social media posts show.

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Wall Street Journal:
Keith Gill Drove the GameStop Reddit Mania. He Talked to the Journal.

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Washington Post:

D.C. area awaits biggest snowstorm in two years; snowfall starts Sunday, possibly lasting to Tuesday — Four to eight inches of snow is most likely, although substantially more or a bit less cannot be ruled out — This article has been updated with Capital Weather Gang's snowfall forecast map (above).

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 …

Discussion: Raw Story

Laura Begley Bloom / Forbes:

Crime In America: Study Reveals The 10 Most Unsafe Neighborhoods — While data shows that crime is actually down in the U.S. in recent years, many Americans believe that the country is becoming more violent than ever—and high-profile incidents like mobs rioting at the U.S. Capitol …

Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:

Red Alert: The Return of Cass Sunstein — Cass Sunstein, pictured during his tenure as director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, March 16, 2011 — When I wrote a piece last spring called “The Biden Do Not Reappoint List,” it did not even occur to me to include Cass Sunstein …

Discussion: Revolving Door Project

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

The GOP's whining about Biden is absurd. Good thing Democrats are ignoring it. — Let's state this clearly. Broadly speaking, Republicans are simply not part of the conversation in any meaningful sense about how to address the two biggest crises facing the country right now …

Discussion: The American Independent, POLITICUSUSA, Slate, New York Times, The Daily Caller and Daily Kos

Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:

Trump Impeachment Lawyer Removed A Black Juror He Said ‘Shucked And Jived’ — The South Carolina Supreme Court called attorney Greg Harris' use of a racial stereotype “troublesome.” — One of the attorneys on former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial team previously used racial stereotypes …

Discussion: Above the Law, Associated Press and Raw Story

KING-TV:

Hundreds rush to get COVID-19 vaccine in Seattle overnight after freezer failure — A total of 1,650 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at risk of expiring Thursday night were quickly administered to more than a thousand people at UW and Swedish clinics. — SEATTLE — Hundreds of people rushed …

Washington Post:

Trump White House donated 8,700 ventilators to other nations. Officials now don't know where many of them are, watchdog finds. — The Trump administration spent $200 million to send more than 8,700 ventilators to countries around the world last year, with no clear criteria for determining …

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 …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, alicublog and Raw Story

Chandi Chapman / WTAE:

Police: South Park man submitted mail-in ballot under his deceased wife's name — Francis Presto, 79, is facing several charges — Hide Transcript Show Transcript — Receive daily coronavirus & public health news straight to your inbox. — Submit — Privacy Notice — SOUTH PARK TOWNSHIP, Pa. —

Steve Hayes / The Dispatch:

An Interview With Sen. Rob Portman — The Republican from Ohio discusses his retirement, the current political environment, and impeachment. — 6 hr ago — On Thursday, I interviewed Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, who recently announced his retirement. We discussed the lack of civility in politics …

Discussion: FOX 2 and New York Times

Olivia Little / Media Matters for America:

“Stop The Steal” organizer bragged about a phone call with “people from the White House” weeks before the insurrection — In the same video, Ali Alexander also appeared to advocate for violence against lawmakers — In a newly uncovered video from a December 19 “Stop the Steal” rally in Arizona …

Jonathan V. Last / Bulwark+:

Washington: A Love Story — How Republican lies are killing the city I once loved. — 1. The Capitol — I'd like to tell you a story. — I took my first grown-up, unsupervised trip to Washington in the spring of 1996. I was a college senior in Baltimore and during the pause before finals …

Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:

Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward rejects call for audit of party elections — The Arizona Republican Party is rebuffing demands from some of its activists to audit the procedures and results of its own election for chair and other positions, according to an email sent Thursday night to party members.

Discussion: Washington Examiner

Katie Rogers / New York Times:

Job Seekers With Trump White House on Their Résumés Face a Cold Reality — Working at the White House has traditionally been a ticket to a lucrative future. But that hasn't been the case so far for Trump alumni. — WASHINGTON — After announcing her departure …

Ali Breland / Mother Jones:

A Major Trump Forum Scrubs Its Archives of Thousands of Pre-Riot Posts — Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. — In the days ahead of the January 6 Capitol riot, there were warnings …

Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:

The Vaccines' Race Against Time — As the virus adapts, these months may be the hardest of them all. — One strange aspect of plagues is that they often finish strong. I learned this the hard way last time around. Many people have a general sense of AIDS being terrible in the 1980s …

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 …

Discussion: Washington Post, National Review, Mercury News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Crooks and Liars, Letters from an American and The Hill

Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:

Jack Posobiec Central in Spreading Russian Intelligence-Led #MacronLeaks Hack — Twitter personality Jack Posobiec worked alongside other American far-right extremists in amplifying the fruits of an apparent Russian military intelligence (GRU) hack intended to disrupt the outcome of the French elections in May 2017.