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12:40 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 …
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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.
Liz Peek / Fox News:
Biden's first 10 days - here's how he infuriated half the nation in record time
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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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
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 …
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: The Independent, 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
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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BBC:
Myanmar military takes control of country after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi
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
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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Washington Post:
Trump's legal team exited after he insisted impeachment defense focus on false claims of election fraud
New York Times:
Trump Names Two Members of Impeachment Defense Team
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 …
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 …
Discussion: New York Times
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.
ABC News Public Relations:
WEEKEND WORLD NEWS TONIGHT  —  ABC News President James Goldston sent the following note to the news division announcing that Linsey Davis and Whit Johnson will be the new anchors of weekend “World News Tonight.”  Whit will anchor Saturdays, and Linsey will anchor Sundays, beginning this weekend.
Discussion: TVNewser
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
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 …
 
 
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Andrew Kenney / NPR:
Spurred By The Capitol Riot, Thousands Of Republicans Drop Out Of GOP
Wall Street Journal:
Pause in Corporate PAC Spending Triggers Political Pushback
Ingrid Seyer-Ochi / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. high school students get a lesson in subtle white privilege
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
 Earlier Items: 
The Daily Beast:
Trump Wants Liz Cheney Gone, but Will the House GOP Obey?
Discussion: Raw Story
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
The president has changed, but Washington hasn't
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Everybody loves Tony: New secretary of State gets high marks — for now
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