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11:45 AM ET, February 1, 2021

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New York Times:
9 Top N.Y. Health Officials Have Quit as Cuomo Scorns Expertise  —  “When I say ‘experts’ in air quotes, it sounds like I'm saying I don't really trust the experts,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said, referring to pandemic policies.  “Because I don't.”  —  The deputy commissioner for public health …
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Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:   New York Attorney General's Nursing-Home Probe Puts Cuomo on Defense
A.B. Stoddard / The Bulwark:
Kevin McCarthy Is a Disaster  —  Have you ever read a poem called “The Snake”?  —  It's a dark time for Kevin McCarthy.  In the space of four years, his party lost the White House, House, and Senate—a trifecta of #Losing unseen since Herbert Hoover presided over the onset of the Great Depression.
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The buzzword you need to know to understand Biden  —  DRIVING THE DAY  — Republicans counter (low-ball?)  President JOE BIDEN'S Covid relief package: Will he play ball with them to get a bipartisan deal?  — Democrats face a major test of unity on reconciliation.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
‘She is weighing us down’: Georgia GOP cringes at Marjorie Taylor Greene spectacle
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
House Republicans brace for party clash over Cheney and Greene
Liz Peek / Fox News:
Biden's first 10 days - here's how he infuriated half the nation in record time
Wall Street Journal:
Biden's Covid Spending Choice
The Daily Beast:
Trump Wants Liz Cheney Gone, but Will the House GOP Obey?
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
77 Days: Trump's Campaign to Subvert the Election  —  Hours after the United States voted, the president declared the election a sham — putting himself at the center of a movement that would shatter democratic norms and upend the peaceful transfer of power.
Discussion: The Week and Raw Story
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
McConnell: Trump Tricked Me Into Backing His Coup  —  On November 9, a senior Republican explained what was then the Republican Party's consensus posture toward President Trump's refusal to accept the election results.  The quote, given anonymously to the Washington Post, became instantly notorious …
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
NBC News:
Biden faces the first big test of his bipartisan pitch
New York Times:
Key Takeaways From Trump's Effort to Overturn the Election
Discussion: HotAir and The Week
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Kushner, Berkowitz nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for Israel deals  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his deputy, Avi Berkowitz, were nominated on Sunday for the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in negotiating four normalization deals between Israel …
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Reuters:
U.S. voting rights activist Stacey Abrams nominated for Nobel Peace Prize  —  OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. voting rights activist and Democratic Party politician Stacey Abrams has been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote nonviolent change via the ballot box, a Norwegian lawmaker said on Monday.
Tim Reid / Reuters:
Exclusive: Dozens of former Bush officials leave Republican Party, calling it ‘Trump cult’  —  (Reuters) - Dozens of Republicans in former President George W. Bush's administration are leaving the party, dismayed by a failure of many elected Republicans to disown Donald Trump after his false claims …
Associated Press:
Myanmar military says it is taking control of the country  —  NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar military television says the military has taken control of the country for one year.  —  An announcer on military-owned Myawaddy TV made the announcement Monday morning.
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Washington Post:
Trump's legal team exited after he insisted impeachment defense focus on false claims of election fraud  —  The implosion of former president Donald Trump's legal team comes as Trump remains fixated on arguing at his second impeachment trial that the 2020 election was stolen from him …
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New York Times:
Trump Names Two Members of Impeachment Defense Team
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Centering Trump's impeachment defense on ‘fraud’ is both on brand and ill advised
CNN:
They stormed the Capitol to overturn the results of an election they didn't vote in  —  (CNN)They were there to “Stop the Steal” and to keep the President they revered in office, yet records show that some of the rioters who stormed the US Capitol did not vote in the very election they were protesting.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
The White House:
Statement from White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki … The President spoke to Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer today; he is grateful that Congress is prepared to begin action on the American Rescue Plan in just his second full week in office.  —  As has been widely reported …
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Biden faces presidency-defining dilemma over Republican offer on Covid-19 rescue plan
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Survey Says: Never Tweet  —  The tensions in newsrooms over reporters' social media presence are not just about politics.  —  David Carr, the legendary Timesman who made this column a destination, told me back in 2012 that he kept a “helicopter on the roof” of The New York Times Building in case he needed to escape.
New York Times:
As Trump Raked In Cash Denying His Loss, Little Went to Actual Legal Fight  —  The picture that emerged in new campaign finance reports was of Donald J. Trump waging a public relations effort to falsely argue that he had won the election rather than mounting a serious legal push.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
NBC News:
Blinken criticizes Putin for crackdown on Navalny protesters … WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that he was “deeply disturbed by the violent crackdown” on Russian protesters and the arrests of thousands of people throughout the country demanding the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:   Everybody loves Tony: New secretary of State gets high marks — for now
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
GOP group ‘Stop Stacey’ targets Abrams ahead of expected 2022 run  —  Republican strategists aligned with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on Monday launched an outside group aimed at hitting Democrat Stacey Abrams over her possible 2022 gubernatorial run.  —  The independent group, dubbed …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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Bari Weiss / New York Post:
10 ways to fight back against woke culture  —  I realize the faddish thing to say these days is that we live in the worst, most broken and backward country in the world and maybe in the history of civilization.  It's utter nonsense.  —  I have a few basic litmus tests in my own life: Can I wear a tank top in public?
Discussion: Althouse
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Superstar Cities Are in Trouble  —  Some evenings, when pandemic cabin fever reaches critical levels, I relieve my claustrophobia by escaping into the dreamworld of Zillow, the real-estate website.  From the familiar confines of my Washington, D.C., apartment, I teleport to a ranch on the outskirts of Boise …
 
 
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ABC News Public Relations:
WEEKEND WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
Discussion: TVNewser
Jim DeFede / CBS Miami:
Facing South Florida: 1-On-1 With Charlie Crist
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Why we're removing comments on most of Inquirer.com
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
After barely surviving 2020, Pa.'s democracy might not survive the Republican effort to gerrymander the court
New Republic:
I Bought Tens of Thousands of Dollars of GameStop Stock. And I Have No Regrets.
Discussion: New York Times
 Earlier Items: 
Max Hastings / Bloomberg:
American Universities Declare War on Military History
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
The president has changed, but Washington hasn't
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
The normie case for filibuster reform
Discussion: CNN, Roll Call and The Dispatch
John McWhorter / It Bears Mentioning:
More on what modern “antiracism” does to schools, or could not — and some insight on the Kendi thing.
Discussion: HotAir
Martyn McLaughlin / Scotsman:
Scottish Parliament to hold vote on Unexplained Wealth Order into Donald Trump's finances