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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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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 …
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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The Hill, Vanity Fair, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Raw Story and HotAir
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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Washington Examiner and Raw Story
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 …
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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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Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Roll Call, Raw Story and The American Independent
A.B. Stoddard / The Bulwark:
Kevin McCarthy Is a Disaster
Kevin McCarthy Is a Disaster
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Arizona Republic, Raw Story, Foreign Policy and New York Times
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The buzzword you need to know to understand Biden
POLITICO Playbook: The buzzword you need to know to understand Biden
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Washington Examiner, The Blue State Conservative, Reason, National Review, Roll Call, New York Magazine, CNN, Florida Politics, CBS 42, Al Jazeera and The Hill
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.
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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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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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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.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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, Raw Story and New York Times
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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Nicole Hong / New York Times:
Rochester Police Pepper-Sprayed 9-Year-Old Girl, Footage Shows
Rochester Police Pepper-Sprayed 9-Year-Old Girl, Footage Shows
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Democrat and Chronicle, Mic, Crime Online, Daily Kos, NPR, Reason, The Week, Gothamist, The Federalist, Raw Story, Common Dreams, Rolling Stone, TheGrio and New York Post
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
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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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 …
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littlegreenfootballs.com, Daily Kos, The American Independent, Business Insider, National Review, CNN and Vox
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
There's an Economic-Relief Deal That Lets Both Sides Win
There's an Economic-Relief Deal That Lets Both Sides Win
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CNN, New York Post, Associated Press, Slate and POLITICUSUSA
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Don't Believe the GOP Hype on Court Expansion
Don't Believe the GOP Hype on Court Expansion
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Wall Street Journal
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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The Hill
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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Breitbart, TheBlaze, Big League Politics and Twitchy
Bloomberg:
U.S. Hits Milestone in Pandemic With More Vaccinated Than Cases — 26.5 million people have gotten vaccine in U.S., data show — About 1.35 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 …
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.
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, The 19th and WRBL-TV
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 …
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The Intellectualist, Raw Story and Political Wire
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.
Gregg Gonsalves / The Atlantic:
The Vaccine Line Is Illogical — In mid-January, I got an email telling me that I should schedule a visit to get my COVID-19 vaccination. I was a little surprised, as I am only 57 years old and didn't think I qualified for the shot. I am also HIV-positive, but that shouldn't move me ahead in line …
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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USA Today, The Guardian and Washington Post
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.
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 …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Justice Department Nominee Lisa Monaco Prosecuted Black Man Sentenced To 27 Years In Prison For Selling $20 Worth Of Drugs — Lisa Monaco, who has been nominated to serve as deputy attorney general, helped prosecute a black man who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for selling $20 worth of drugs in a drug sting, court records show.
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 …
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New York Times, Politico, Washington Examiner, New York Post, The Verge and ABC News
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.
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The Daily Caller
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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Reuters, The Hill, IJR, The Daily Caller, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Axios, UPI and New York Post