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The Hill:
McConnell says Taylor Greene's embrace of conspiracy theories a ‘cancer’ to GOP, country — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday blasted Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's embrace of “loony lies and conspiracy theories” as a “cancer for the Republican Party.”
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Politico:
Dems deliver GOP ultimatum over Marjorie Taylor Greene — Top House Democrats are moving to force Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off multiple committees this week — with or without Kevin McCarthy's help. — House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer delivered an ultimatum to McCarthy on Monday …
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Trumpism is American fascism — It is revealing how a political movement that claims to be dedicated to the recovery of national greatness has so readily and completely abandoned many defining national ideals. Donald Trump's promise of American strength has involved the betrayal of American identity.
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The Moderate Voice, Raw Story and Washington Examiner
Manu Raju / CNN:
First on CNN: Liz Cheney gets boost from McConnell amid divisive intraparty battle over Trump's impeachment — (CNN)Rep. Liz Cheney, under fire from former President Donald Trump and his staunchest defenders, is picking up support from some influential Republicans as her allies close ranks …
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The Daily Caller, Mediaite and Raw Story
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
Marjorie Taylor Greene: I'm meeting with Trump ‘soon’ — Freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Monday that she would soon be visiting former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. — Amid revelations of more inflammatory social media posts she has made and videos she's produced …
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
McConnell says ‘loony lies’ spread by Marjorie Taylor Greene are a ‘cancer’ on G.O.P.
McConnell says ‘loony lies’ spread by Marjorie Taylor Greene are a ‘cancer’ on G.O.P.
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WTOP:
GOP's McConnell blasts ‘loony lies’ by Ga. Rep. Greene
GOP's McConnell blasts ‘loony lies’ by Ga. Rep. Greene
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Axios, Common Dreams and WRBL-TV
New York Times:
An Emboldened Extremist Wing Flexes Its Power in a Leaderless G.O.P.
An Emboldened Extremist Wing Flexes Its Power in a Leaderless G.O.P.
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Washington Post, TheBlaze, IJR, The Hill, Raw Story, The American Independent, Daily Kos, Reuters and Washington Examiner
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Rob Portman has done more damage to America than Marjorie Taylor Greene
Rob Portman has done more damage to America than Marjorie Taylor Greene
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HuffPost, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Power Line and Raw Story
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 …
Bisnow:
D.C. Claims Eminent Domain To Seize Infamous NoMa Wendy's Site — D.C. is using eminent domain to seize the Wendy's property in NoMa as part of a plan to transform the notorious “Dave Thomas Circle” intersection. — The District government filed an eminent domain case in D.C. Superior Court …
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.
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New York Times:
Trump's Sleight of Hand: Shouting Fraud, Pocketing Donors' Cash for Future — With breathless, often misleading appeals, the former president promised small donors that he was using the money to fight the election results, but in fact stored much of it for future use.
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Raw Story
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Samantha Kubota / TODAY.com:
Dolly Parton turned down the Presidential Medal of Freedom twice — Besides being East Tennessee's songbird, country superstar Dolly Parton has always had a philanthropic side and it turns out even presidents have noticed! — The queen of country, 75, told TODAY in an interview …
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The Daily Beast
New York Times:
Trump Official's Last-Day Deal With ICE Union Ties Biden's Hands — A whistle-blower accused Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II of an abuse of power in making sweeping concessions to pro-Trump Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. — WASHINGTON — A whistle-blower complaint filed on Monday …
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BuzzFeed News, Raw Story and Al Jazeera
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.
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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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Officer Who Shot Capitol Rioter Ashli Babbitt Shouldn't Be Charged, Investigators Advise — Ms. Babbitt died after being shot by Capitol Police officer on Jan. 6 — WASHINGTON—Investigators have made a preliminary determination that the police officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt during …
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CNN, The Gateway Pundit and New York Post
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Tim Ryan, a Top Democrat in Ohio, Is Said to Plan Senate Bid — Mr. Ryan, who mounted a long-shot campaign for president in 2019, plans to compete for the state's open Senate seat. His campaign will test Democrats' strength in a state tilting to the right.
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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 …
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Big League Politics, HuffPost, HotAir and Raw Story
CREW:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's final financial disclosures … Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner disclosed receiving between $23,791,645 and $120,676,949 in combined outside income in their final financial disclosure reports. The disclosures cover the entirety of 2020 through January 20, 2021.
Cleve Wootson / Washington Post:
Harris TV interview in West Virginia provokes flare-up with Manchin — The five-minute clip on a West Virginia news station was an effort by Vice President Harris to pitch the administration's pandemic relief package directly to voters — including constituents of Democrats who might be less likely to embrace the plan.
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Washington Examiner, Fox News, The Daily Caller and Daily Kos
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Ga. bills would end no-excuse absentee voting, automatic registration — Republican state senators introduced a package of bills Monday to ban automatic voter registration, ballot drop boxes and no-excuse absentee voting in Georgia. — The proposals amount to an overhaul of Georgia's election laws …
CNN:
Rochester police officers handcuff and pepper-spray a 9-year-old girl after call of ‘family trouble’ — (CNN)Police officers in Rochester, New York, handcuffed and pepper-sprayed a 9-year-old girl while responding to what a police official called a report of “family trouble” in an incident sharply criticized by city officials.
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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Anti-vaccine protest at Dodger Stadium was organized on Facebook, including promotion of banned ‘Plandemic’ video — The activity shows how the social media site remains a critical organizing tool of the anti-vaccine movement — The Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free.
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POLITICUSUSA
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Democrats risk unintended Medicare cuts if they pass partisan Covid relief … WASHINGTON — Democrats considering a maneuver to forgo bipartisan support to pass Covid-19 relief are confronting an unintended consequence: doing so could automatically cut Medicare.
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
White House Reporters: Biden Team Asked Us for Questions in Advance — “It pissed off enough reporters for people to flag it” for the White House Correspondents' Association, one of The Daily Beast's sources said. … If you're a reporter with a tough question for the White House press secretary …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump pollster's campaign autopsy paints damning picture of defeat — Former President Donald Trump has blamed the election results on unfounded claims of fraud and malfeasance. But at the top levels of his campaign, a detailed autopsy report that circulated among his political aides paints …
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FiveThirtyEight
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Schumer quietly nails down the left amid AOC primary chatter — Just a few weeks after a group of young climate activists, accompanied by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, orchestrated a highly publicized sit-in in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office in late 2018, their Sunrise Movement received an unexpected email from Chuck Schumer's staff.
Bloomberg:
U.S. Hits Pandemic Milestone With More Vaccinated Than Cases — 26.5 million people have gotten vaccine in U.S., data show — About 1.34 million people a day being vaccinated on average — More Americans have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine than have tested positive …
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The Daily Caller and New York Post
Mark Follman / Mother Jones:
How Trump Unleashed a Domestic Terrorism Movement—And What Experts Say Must Be Done to Defeat It — Even the wifi password was a signal. Attendees at President Donald Trump's rally in Dalton, Georgia, on January 4 who wanted to log in to the Make America Great network had to enter the phrase into their devices: “SeeYouJan6!”
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Travis Waldron / HuffPost:
Republican State Legislatures Are Radicalizing Against Democracy — The Trump presidency is over. But Trumpism is alive and well in state legislatures, which will serve as an incubator for GOP radicalism over the next four years. — Jim Brewster was cutting up with his colleagues …
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Washington Examiner, The Guardian, USA Today, The Intellectualist and Washington Post
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.
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Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal:
Robinhood Raises Another $2.4 Billion From Shareholders — The $3.4 billion raised since last Thursday is more than it has raised in its entire prior existence — Robinhood Markets Inc. raised another $2.4 billion from shareholders, days after investors agreed to pump $1 billion …
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Atlanta U.S. attorney, appointed by Trump amid post-election pressure campaign, resigns — The federal prosecutor tapped by President Donald Trump to lead the Atlanta U.S. attorney's office during Trump's failed bid to overturn the election has resigned from that post, a spokesman confirmed Monday.
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Washington Examiner, Law & Crime and Talking Points Memo
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Watchdogs Appointed by Trump Pose Dilemma for Biden — Removing inspectors general installed by the former president under a political cloud could have the consequence of further eroding good-government norms. — WASHINGTON — Even as the Biden administration has moved aggressively …
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Daily Kos
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 Miller / Rolling Stone:
The View From the Republican Rebels — They're done with Trump and want their party back, but the pro-impeachment Republicans are still looking for the best way forward — During his seminal “House of Many Mansions” address, Winston Churchill identified the problem with appeasement in one of history's most momentous mixed metaphors.
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The COVID Tracking Project:
It's Time: The COVID Tracking Project Will Soon Come to an End — After a year of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting COVID-19 data for the United States, we're ending our data compilation work in early March. — Every day for almost a year, hundreds of COVID Tracking Project contributors …
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Balloon Juice and WRBL-TV
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.
Katie Lobosco / CNN:
An estimated 29 million people would lose out on stimulus payments under GOP proposal — Washington (CNN)The Republican counterproposal on coronavirus relief unveiled Monday would potentially leave out 29 million middle- and upper-income earners who would qualify for stimulus payments under President Joe Biden's plan.
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Associated Press, Raw Story, The Independent and National Review
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: Fees — not just strategy — blew up Trump's legal team — Disagreements over legal strategy weren't the only reason Donald Trump's defense team collapsed just days before his second impeachment trial, Axios has learned. — What we're hearing: The notoriously stingy former president …
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The Week
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Ex-colleague of Hunter Biden's lawyer gets top DOJ post — Hunter Biden hired a new attorney to assist with his federal criminal defense a month before his father became president. On Inauguration Day, one of that lawyer's close colleagues was tapped to temporarily lead the Justice Department's criminal division.