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10:25 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 …
Discussion: HotAir and Twitchy
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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Marc Caputo / Politico:
‘She is weighing us down’: Georgia GOP cringes at Marjorie Taylor Greene spectacle
Washington Post:
Trump's legal team exited after he insisted impeachment defense focus on false claims of election fraud
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
House Republicans brace for party clash over Cheney and Greene
Associated Press:
Trump names 2 lawyers to impeachment defense team
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
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New York Times:
Key Takeaways From Trump's Effort to Overturn the Election
Discussion: The Week and Raw Story
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Wall Street Journal:
Myanmar Military Seizes Power in Coup  —  Civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi detained with other members of her party  —  Myanmar's military leader has taken charge of the country from its civilian-run government, according to a statement broadcast on an army-run television station …
BBC:
Myanmar military takes control of country after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi  —  Myanmar's military has confirmed it has taken control of the country after Aung San Suu Kyi and other political leaders were arrested in the early hours.  —  The coup comes after tensions rose between …
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
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.
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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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 …
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
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
GOP senators to meet Biden Monday on coronavirus relief as Dems ready to pass bill without Republican support
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
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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.
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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Liz Peek / Fox News:
Biden's first 10 days - here's how he infuriated half the nation in record time
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.
Discussion: Axios
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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
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: Raw Story
Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Knew Calls for Violence Plagued ‘Groups’, Now Plans Overhaul  —  The giant struggled to balance Mark Zuckerberg's free-expression mantra against findings that rabid partisanship had overrun a feature central to its future  —  Facebook Inc. in 2019 redesigned its flagship product …
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, Raw Story, Fox News and New York Post
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 …
 
 
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Max Hastings / Bloomberg:
American Universities Declare War on Military History
Sharon Risher / Washington Post:
Guns are white supremacy's deadliest weapon. We must disarm hate.
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Democrats ready to go it alone on next round of coronavirus aid
The Daily Beast:
Trump Wants Liz Cheney Gone, but Will the House GOP Obey?
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Post:
Double standards abound at The New York Times
Sarah Stillman / New Yorker:
The Race to Dismantle Trump's Immigration Policies
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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
The normie case for filibuster reform
Discussion: CNN, Roll Call and The Dispatch
New York Times:
The Gerrymander Battles Loom, as G.O.P. Looks to Press Its Advantage
Clay Risen / New York Times:
Andrew Brooks, Who Developed a Coronavirus Spit Test, Dies at 51
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
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

 
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