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2:55 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 has delivered an ultimatum to McCarthy …
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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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
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
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  —  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 …
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.
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 …
Reuters:
Biden threatens U.S. sanctions in response to Myanmar coup  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday threatened to reimpose sanctions on Myanmar's military leaders and called for a concerted international response to press them to relinquish power they seized in a coup.
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Associated Press:
Myanmar military says it is taking control of the country
Washington Post:
Myanmar military seizes power in coup after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi
Wall Street Journal:
Myanmar Military Seizes Power in Coup
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.
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
Discussion: Breitbart and Twitchy
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.
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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 …
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.
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
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.
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 …
Matt Naham / Law & Crime:
Genius Wore Jacket with His Company's Name and Phone Number on It While Storming the Capitol, Kicking in Window  —  They had his number.  —  Federal authorities identified an Ohio man as a Capitol invader by merely looking at the name and number on the jacket he was wearing while storming the Capitol and kicking in a window.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and driftglass
 
 
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Danielle Wallace / Fox News:
Trump residency at Mar-a-Lago under Palm Beach legal review
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Schumer quietly nails down the left amid AOC primary chatter
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
‘Cowboys for Trump’ Leader Charged in Capitol Riots Met Ex-President ‘Several Times’
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Lucy Tompkins / New York Times:
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
After barely surviving 2020, Pa.'s democracy might not survive the Republican effort to gerrymander the court
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10 ways to fight back against woke culture
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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:
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