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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.
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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.
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Washington Post, Sputnik News and emptywheel
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 …
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and TheBlaze
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.
Ron Kampeas / The Times of Israel:
RJC slams Marjorie Taylor Greene's ‘indefensible’ Jewish space laser comments — Republican Jewish Coalition chief calls lawmaker's anti-Semitic conspiracy theories ‘unacceptable,’ but won't say if he will press for her to be removed from House committees — WASHINGTON (JTA) …
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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
Rep. Cori Bush says she's changing offices after being ‘berated’ in a hallway by a maskless Marjorie Taylor Greene
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Washington Examiner, The American Independent and IJR
Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson's Confessions …:
On Marjorie Taylor Greene
On Marjorie Taylor Greene
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Vanity Fair, Vox and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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 …
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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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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.
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Washington Post, Raw Story, Daily Kos and The Intellectualist
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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 …
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Ohio Capital Journal
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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The Independent, Buttermilk Sky, The Intellectualist, Mediaite, First Draft, Business Insider, Raw Story, Associated Press and The Root
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 …
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CNN, The Root, USA Today, Washington Examiner, The Independent, Talking Points Memo, TheGrio, Forbes, Sputnik News, Raw Story, Fox News, The Week and Fox 59
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 …
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USA Today, New York Times, Vox, HotAir, National Review, The Week and Kyodo News+
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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
Johnson & Johnson Announces Single-Shot Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Met Primary Endpoints in Interim Analysis of its Phase 3 ENSEMBLE Trial
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Vox, The 19th, New York Times, Reason, Novavax Inc., TechCrunch, CNBC, Washington Examiner, UPI, Forbes, Daily Kos, DutchNews.nl, NPR, The Verge, COURIER, The Week, Fox News and Deseret News
Matthew Herper / STAT:
J&J one-dose Covid vaccine is 66% effective, a weapon but not a knockout punch
J&J one-dose Covid vaccine is 66% effective, a weapon but not a knockout punch
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NBC Los Angeles, One America News Network, Slate, HotAir and New York Post
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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New York Times, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart and CBS News, more at Techmeme »
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Brian Williams Deadpan Trolls Trump, McCarthy With ‘Exclusive Video’ Of Meeting — The MSNBC host promised “exclusive” footage of the former president's time with the House Republican leader — then cut to something hilariously different. — MSNBC's Brian Williams poked fun …
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Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Anti-Trump group launches $1M billboard campaign calling on Cruz, Hawley, McCarthy to resign
Anti-Trump group launches $1M billboard campaign calling on Cruz, Hawley, McCarthy to resign
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The Hill, The Independent, POLITICUSUSA and Washington Examiner
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
WATCH: Brian Williams Roasts Kevin McCarthy with ‘Exclusive Video’ of Mar-a-Lago Meeting with Trump
WATCH: Brian Williams Roasts Kevin McCarthy with ‘Exclusive Video’ of Mar-a-Lago Meeting with Trump
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HotAir, Crooks and Liars and Roll Call
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 …
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Revolving Door Project
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).
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 …
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
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 …
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The American Independent, Slate, POLITICUSUSA, New York Times and The Daily Caller
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 …
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Above the Law, Associated Press and Raw Story
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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Talking Points Memo, alicublog 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 …
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 …
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 …
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FOX 2 and New York Times
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.
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Washington Examiner
Michael Kruse / Politico:
The Antipope of Mar-a-Lago — The ousted leader refused to relent to reality. — Set against a backdrop of avarice and inequality and persistent sickness, distrust and misrule, the leader exploited and exacerbated societal unrest to seize and flaunt vast power—doing anything and everything he could to try to keep it in his grip.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts:
NEW THIS AM: Warren Calls on the SEC to Address Stock Market Gamesmanship Amid Volatile GameStop Trades — “The recent chaos reveals a clear distortion in securities markets, with benefits accruing to investors that do not clearly benefit the company's workers, consumers, or the broader economy.”
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Washington Post:
Actions by Proud Boy at Capitol show ‘planning, determination and coordination,’ U.S. alleges — A police riot shield used to break a window, then a door kicked open from the inside — new court documents detail the first moments of the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol that left five people dead …
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New York Post and The Daily Beast