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5:20 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.
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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.
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.
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Kevin McCarthy Made a Pilgrimage to the Holy Shrine of the Golden Commode
Ron Kampeas / The Times of Israel:
RJC slams Marjorie Taylor Greene's ‘indefensible’ Jewish space laser comments
Discussion: National Review and Raw Story
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
WATCH: Brian Williams Roasts Kevin McCarthy with ‘Exclusive Video’ of Mar-a-Lago Meeting with Trump
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.”
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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Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
FBI: Pipe bombs at RNC, DNC were planted night before riot
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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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
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:
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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Ema O'Connor / BuzzFeed News:
One Of The Proud Boys Who Stormed The Capitol Had Instructions For Making Guns And Bombs In His Home, FBI Says
Discussion: VICE and Raw Story
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 …
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
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).
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
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. —
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Alexei Navalny wants Biden to sanction Putin's cronies  —  Thousands of Russians are expected to protest Sunday in dozens of cities for the second consecutive week, demanding the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny from jail and an end to the corruption of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his cronies.
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 …
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.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Ex-FBI lawyer spared prison for altering Trump-Russia probe email  —  The only person charged in the Justice Department's investigation into the origins of the probe of former President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and its ties to Russia was spared prison time for altering an email used to support a surveillance application.
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Job Seekers With Trump White House on Their Résumés Face a Cold Reality
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
DOJ Pulls Trump Administration's Harsh Charging And Sentencing Policy
Discussion: Reason
Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Jack Posobiec Central in Spreading Russian Intelligence-Led #MacronLeaks Hack
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Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
The Biden Administration Just Made Peter Strzok's Wife A Top SEC Official
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Steven Perlberg / Business Insider:
Cable networks are cutting back on contributors as the Trump media frenzy comes to an end
Sean Illing / Vox:
American fascism isn't going away
Discussion: Raw Story
Grace Segers / CBS News:
Joe Lieberman: Eliminating filibuster wouldn't be good for the nation
Washington Post:
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is trying to hold together a party that Donald Trump might want to tear up
Discussion: The Hill, New York Times and Raw Story
New York Times:
Body Camera Footage Shows Capitol Rioters Trampling Over Woman
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