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11:10 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 …
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.
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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: New York Times
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
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
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
New York Times:
Key Takeaways From Trump's Effort to Overturn the Election
Discussion: HotAir and The Week
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Washington Post:
Myanmar military seizes power in coup after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi  —  HONG KONG — Myanmar's military said Monday that it took control of the country and declared a state of emergency for a year, after detaining civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other leaders of her ruling National League …
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
U.S. warns Myanmar's military it'll be punished for coup
NBC News:
Aung San Suu Kyi urges people to resist Myanmar military coup
Discussion: HotAir, New York Post and UPI
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 …
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
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.
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
One of Trump's new lawyers declined to charge Bill Cosby.  The other maintains Jeffrey Epstein was murdered.  —  When Bruce L. Castor Jr. ran for district attorney in Montgomery County, Pa., in 2015, the campaign hinged on his decision years earlier not to charge comedian Bill Cosby with sexual assault.
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New York Times:
Trump Names Two Members of Impeachment Defense Team
Washington Post:
Trump's legal team exited after he insisted impeachment defense focus on false claims of election fraud
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
The president has changed, but Washington hasn't  —  Only a fortnight ago, with Donald Trump in eclipse and Joe Biden's celebrated inaugural, there was optimism that reasonable achievements, bipartisan ones, were possible.  —  It may have been a Prague spring.
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Biden faces presidency-defining dilemma over Republican offer on Covid-19 rescue plan
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
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:
The Remote-Work Revolution Will Be Bigger Than We Think  —  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 …
Max Hastings / Bloomberg:
American Universities Declare War on Military History  —  The world applauds the scientists who have created vaccines to deliver humanity from Covid-19.  One certainty about our future: There will be no funding shortfall for medical research into pandemics.  —  Now, notice a contradiction.
Nicole Hong / New York Times:
Rochester Police Pepper-Sprayed 9-Year-Old Girl, Footage Shows  —  The incident brought renewed scrutiny to a department whose officers had placed a hood on Daniel Prude, a Black man, before he died from suffocation.  —  The police department in Rochester, N.Y., released body-camera footage …
Discussion: CNN, The Week, Raw Story and New York Post
 
 
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New Republic:
I Bought Tens of Thousands of Dollars of GameStop Stock. And I Have No Regrets.
Discussion: New York Times
Sharon Risher / Washington Post:
Guns are white supremacy's deadliest weapon. We must disarm hate.
New York Post:
Double standards abound at The New York Times
Sarah Stillman / New Yorker:
The Race to Dismantle Trump's Immigration Policies
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
The normie case for filibuster reform
Discussion: CNN, Roll Call and The Dispatch
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New York Times:
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Discussion: Washington Post
Clay Risen / New York Times:
Andrew Brooks, Who Developed a Coronavirus Spit Test, Dies at 51
Discussion: New York Post
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