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2:15 PM 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 …
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, IJR and New York Times
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The buzzword you need to know to understand Biden
Tina Nguyen / Politico:   Marjorie Taylor Greene: I'm meeting with Trump ‘soon’
Marc Caputo / Politico:
‘She is weighing us down’: Georgia GOP cringes at Marjorie Taylor Greene spectacle
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
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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.
New York Times:
Key Takeaways From Trump's Effort to Overturn the Election
Discussion: HotAir and The Week
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 …
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.
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.
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:
Myanmar military seizes power in coup after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi
Wall Street Journal:
Myanmar Military Seizes Power in Coup
Dustin Diamond Dead / TMZ.com:
Dustin Diamond Dead at 44 After Battle with Stage 4 Lung Cancer  —  REMEMBERING DUSTIN DIAMOND  —  Dustin Diamond — best known for playing the lovable Samuel “Screech” Powers on the hit NBC sitcom, “Saved by the Bell” — has died ... TMZ has learned.  —  A rep for Dustin tells us he died Monday morning.
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
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Rep. Matt Gaetz Staffer Cheered On Capitol Rioters Via Parler as They Overran Police  —  As police struggled futilely to fend off a wave of rioters outside the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, Joel Valdez, an aide to Congressman Matt Gaetz, made his way to the rooftop of his boss's office building across …
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.
Ingrid Seyer-Ochi / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. high school students get a lesson in subtle white privilege  —  Three weeks ago I processed the Capitol insurrection with my high school students.  Rallying our inquiry skills, we analyzed the images of that historic day, images of white men storming through the Capitol, fearless and with no forces to stop them.
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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Nancy Cook / Bloomberg:
Biden's Promised $1,400 Checks Are Even Dividing White House
Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Propose $618 Billion Covid-19 Stimulus Plan
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.
Andrew Kenney / NPR:
Spurred By The Capitol Riot, Thousands Of Republicans Drop Out Of GOP  —  Lyle Darrah was on a conference call at work in rural Weld County, north of Denver, when the riot at the U.S. Capitol started on Jan. 6.  When his boss mentioned what was happening, he turned on news coverage …
Angela Couloumbis / Spotlight PA:
Top Pa. election official to resign after agency bungled requirement for constitutional amendment  —  Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media.
New Republic:
I Bought Tens of Thousands of Dollars of GameStop Stock.  And I Have No Regrets.  —  The first rule of r/WallStreetBets is YOLO.  —  There is no second rule.  —  This isn't the land of enlightenment, it's the borough slum of loss porn.  I'm here for the goods: Show me the screenshot …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Andrea Salcedo / Washington Post:
Wisconsin pharmacist who destroyed more than 500 vaccine doses believes Earth is flat, FBI says  —  When a pharmacist discovered that 57 vials of the Moderna vaccine were left to spoil outside a Wisconsin clinic's refrigerator in December, the worker immediately suspected a colleague …
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.
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
 
 
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Matt Naham / Law & Crime:
Genius Wore Jacket with His Company's Name and Phone Number on It While Storming the Capitol, Kicking in Window
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and driftglass
Jeff Barker / Baltimore Sun:
Two big names — Michael Steele and Tom Perez — say they will consider running for Maryland governor next year
Discussion: The Hill
Lucy Tompkins / New York Times:
Why Some Who Are Vaccinated Still Get Coronavirus
Discussion: HuffPost and TheGrio
David Crary / Associated Press:
ACLU, for first time, elects Black person as its president
Discussion: Axios and TheGrio
 Earlier Items: 
Wall Street Journal:
Pause in Corporate PAC Spending Triggers Political Pushback
ABC News Public Relations:
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Why we're removing comments on most of Inquirer.com
Discussion: Poynter
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
After barely surviving 2020, Pa.'s democracy might not survive the Republican effort to gerrymander the court
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
The normie case for filibuster reform