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5:15 PM ET, February 1, 2021

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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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New York Times:
An Emboldened Extremist Wing Flexes Its Power in a Leaderless G.O.P.  —  As more far-right Republicans take office and exercise power, party officials are promoting unity and neutrality rather than confronting dangerous messages and disinformation.  —  WASHINGTON — Knute Buehler …
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 …
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.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The buzzword you need to know to understand Biden
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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Steve Holland / Reuters:
Kushner, Berkowitz nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for Israel deals
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.
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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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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Blinken: No New Deal Before Iran Ends Nuclear Buildup
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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
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.
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 …
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Raw Story
CNN:
White House reached out to Manchin after Harris' West Virginia interview  —  (CNN)The White House called Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin after Vice President Kamala Harris conducted interviews with West Virginia media, according to a person with knowledge of the conversation.
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: The 19th 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.
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 …
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 …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Republicans just handed Biden a good reason to go big — without them  —  Ten Senate Republicans are unveiling their own scaled-down economic rescue plan — with the transparent aim of getting President Biden to negotiate away his own ambitions.  The game they're playing runs as follows …
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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 …
Jessie Balmert / The Columbus Dispatch:
A ‘progressive’ state: Gov. Mike DeWine wants $50M to encourage people to move to Ohio  —  COLUMBUS - Move over, “Pure Michigan.”  Ohio wants to prove it's the cool kid on the Midwestern block.  —  Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced Monday that he wants to spend $50 million on a marketing campaign …
Marisa Sarnoff / Mediaite:
A Fox & Friends Guest Accused NBC News of Silencing Her Criticism of Andrew Cuomo.  The Video Shows Otherwise.  —  Dawn Best, whose mother died in a nursing home that she said was overwhelmed by coronavirus patients, told Fox News Monday that media outlets, including NBC News …
Laura Davison / Bloomberg:
Pandemic Watchdog Is Probing Mnuchin, Cruz Roles in Fed Lending  — Watchdog seeks answers on Mnuchin decision to end Fed programs  — Cruz pushed to expand lending programs to help oil companies  —  A federal watchdog is looking into former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's decision …
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Republican Economic Plan Is an Insult  —  It's bad faith in the name of bipartisanship.  —  So 10 Republican senators are proposing an economic package that is supposed to be an alternative to President Biden's American Rescue Plan.  The proposal would reportedly be only a fraction …
Thomas Jipping / The Hill:
Will Senate Democrats execute the power grab they once condemned?  —  Battles around the filibuster, which has been the defining feature of the Senate legislative process for more than two centuries, are all basically the same.  The majority gets frustrated at not getting its way every time …
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.
Maureen Ryan / Vanity Fair:
He “Horrifically Abused Me for Years”: Evan Rachel Wood and Other Women Make Allegations of Abuse Against Marilyn Manson  —  Manson's representatives, who were not immediately available for comment, have “categorically denied” similar accusations in the past.
 
 
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
GOP lawmakers introduce resolution opposing Guantanamo vaccinations before American citizens
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Emily Shugerman / The Daily Beast:
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Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Atlanta U.S. attorney, appointed by Trump amid post-election pressure campaign, resigns
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Mia Cathell / The Post Millennial:
REVEALED: Democrat operatives including Lincoln Project spread disinformation to suppress the conservative vote
Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
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Federal Bureau of Investigation:
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Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Don't Believe the GOP Hype on Court Expansion
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Danielle Wallace / Fox News:
Trump residency at Mar-a-Lago under Palm Beach legal review
Discussion: The Federalist
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
‘Cowboys for Trump’ Leader Charged in Capitol Riots Met Ex-President ‘Several Times’
Discussion: Raw Story
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
Nancy Cook / Bloomberg:
Biden's Promised $1,400 Checks Are Even Dividing the White House
Wall Street Journal:
Pause in Corporate PAC Spending Triggers Political Pushback
Discussion: Daily Kos
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
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