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Washington Post:
Trump's actions described as ‘a betrayal of historic proportions’ in trial brief filed by House impeachment managers  —  House Democrats made their case to convict former president Donald Trump of inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in a sweeping impeachment brief filed with the Senate Tuesday …
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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 …
New York Times:
Read the Brief from Trump's Defense Team on Impeachment Charge
Discussion: Business Insider
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Trump defense team argues impeachment trial violates Constitution
Cmte Judiciary (D) RSS Articles:
Impeachment Managers File Trial Brief, Explain Senate's Obligation to Hear Case against Donald Trump
Axios:
Bonus episode: Inside the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency  —  Last month, Axios published “Off the rails,” a series taking you inside the end of Donald Trump's presidency, from his election loss to the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection that triggered his second impeachment — and a Senate trial set to begin next week.
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Column: Where QAnon goes, so goes the Republican Party  —  Warning: Disturbing stuff ahead.  —  There's a conspiracy theory called Frazzledrip.  Even for QAnon types, it's pretty fringe, which is saying something.  Recall that the central belief in Q-world is that there's a secret cabal …
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Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
In 2019, Marjorie Taylor Greene told protesters to “flood the Capitol,” feel free to use violence  —  As a candidate, Greene told followers “we should feel like we will” resort to violence “if we have to”  —  In a video posted to social media months before announcing her congressional candidacy …
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Punishing vile lawmakers is not cancel culture
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Ginni Thomas apologizes to husband's Supreme Court clerks after Capitol riot fallout  —  Conservative political activist Virginia Thomas told her husband Justice Clarence Thomas's former law clerks that she was sorry for a rift that developed among them after her election advocacy …
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Amber Athey / spectator.us:
AOC's body politics  —  The congresswoman uses a sexual assault allegation as a political cudgel  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talks about the July 6 storming of the Capitol building during a livestream video (Twitter Screenshot)  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is no stranger to attention.
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Ocasio-Cortez Says She Is a Sexual Assault Survivor
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
AOC's ‘trauma’ doesn't make the violent Capitol riot any worse than it already was
Discussion: National Review
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David Knowles / Yahoo News:
Did Bernie's inauguration outfit epitomize ‘white privilege’?  A San Francisco teacher thinks so.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Within hours of President Joe Biden's inauguration, the Internet was consumed by images of Sen. Bernie Sanders sitting, stone-faced, bundled against the cold in a parka and colorful mittens.
Gary Kamiya / The Atlantic:
The Five-Second Cancellation of Abraham Lincoln
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The weird threats Lindsey Graham and Trump's lawyer are making about calling impeachment witnesses  —  Former president Donald Trump's impeachment trial is set to begin in a week's time.  And judging by a couple interviews Monday, his side is focused on delivering a not-so-veiled threat …
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Politico:
Austin ousts Pentagon advisory board members as he roots out Trump appointees  —  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has removed members of the Pentagon's advisory boards in a sweeping effort to oust a series of last-minute appointees by the Trump administration, according to defense officials and a memo obtained by POLITICO.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Nancy A. Youssef / Wall Street Journal:
Defense Chief Clears Out Pentagon Advisory Boards to Oust Last-Minute Trump Picks  —  With clean sweep, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin avoids selectively firing Trump supporters  —  WASHINGTON—Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin dismissed every member of the Pentagon's policy advisory boards Monday …
New York Times:
An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election  —  An interactive map that lets readers explore in new detail how most states voted in the 2020 presidential election.
Konrad Putzier / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Unveils Outdoorsy New HQ2, Renewing Its Commitment to Offices  —  Centerpiece of design is a 350-foot building dubbed the Helix, which features two spiraling outdoor walkways  —  Amazon. com Inc.'s plans for its new northern Virginia headquarters feature an outdoor theme …
The Moscow Times:
As It's Happening: Navalny Sentenced to 2.5 Years in Penal Colony  —  A Moscow court is beginning a hearing Tuesday on whether jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, whose arrest has triggered mass protests, should face years in prison.  —  Navalny, 44, was detained on Jan. 17 when he returned …
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Bridget Read / The Cut:
The Nightmare Share She posted an ad for a roommate.  What's the worst that could happen?  —  As it goes in New York City, the apartment was small, it was expensive, but it was theirs.  Heidi Russell and Valentina Bajada owned an 860-square-foot second-floor walk-up, and they loved …
Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept:
Inside the Brutal Power Struggle at Homeland Security … Tensions ran so high at the Department of Homeland Security's oversight wing that one senior official fantasized about Arya Stark, the fictional assassin in “Game of Thrones,” “taking care of” the agency chief, according …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
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 …
Jonathan Larsen / TYT Network:
Democrats Support Prayer Breakfast After Its Leaders Backed Trump Lies  —  Will President Biden and other Democrats participate in this week's National Prayer Breakfast?  A given in past years, presidential attendance has taken on new weight this year in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
The Ridiculous ‘Free Speech’ Defense of Trump
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Hawley rakes in grassroots cash after Capitol attack  —  January was Sen. Josh Hawley's best fundraising month—by far—since his 2018 election, with a flood of small-dollar donations more than eclipsing the corporate cash he lost after leading an effort to block certification of President Biden's Electoral College win.
Robert A. Pape / The Atlantic:
The Capitol Rioters Aren't Like Other Extremists  —  On January 6, a mob of about 800 stormed the U.S. Capitol in support of former President Donald Trump, and many people made quick assumptions regarding who the insurrectionists were.  Because a number of the rioters prominently displayed symbols …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Manchin says he doesn't support raising minimum wage to $15 per hour  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said on Tuesday that he does not support increasing the minimum age to $15 an hour—a critical roadblock to including the proposal in the final coronavirus relief bill.  —  “No I'm not.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
‘He invited us’: Accused Capitol rioters blame Trump in novel legal defense  —  (Reuters) - Emanuel Jackson, a 20-year-old Washington area man, was caught on video using a metal bat to strike the protective shields wielded by police officers as they tried to fend off rioters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Andrew Romano / Yahoo Entertainment:
Yahoo News/YouGov poll: More than two-thirds of Americans side with Biden on COVID relief — and most support the rest of his agenda  —  When asked about the 20 policies that define President Biden's agenda, more Americans support than oppose all 20 of them, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.
Rebecca Baird-Remba / Commercial Observer:
Grand Central's Grand Hyatt Replacement: A First Look at the 1,600-Foot Tower  —  Previous Next  —  RXR Realty and TF Cornerstone are planning to replace the Grand Hyatt Hotel by Grand Central Terminal with a dramatic 1,600-foot office-and-hotel tower known as 175 Park Avenue.
Marthe de Ferrer / living:
Scientists have taught spinach to send emails and it could warn us about climate change  —  It may sound like something out of a futuristic science fiction film, but scientists have managed to engineer spinach plants which are capable of sending emails.  —  Through nanotechnology …
Discussion: Power Line
Vandana Rambaran / Fox News:
2 FBI agents dead, others injured in Florida shooting while serving warrant: source  —  FBI was reportedly attempting to serve a warrant in a child pornography case  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for February 2  —  Two FBI agents were killed Tuesday morning while trying to serve …
 
 
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Jay Greene / Washington Post:
Amazon's anti-union blitz stalks Alabama warehouse workers everywhere, even the bathroom
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The Marshall Project:
“That Could Have Been Me”: The People Derek Chauvin Choked Before George Floyd
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Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
House Republicans Prepare To Oust Liz Cheney From Leadership
Discussion: Washington Examiner
theepochtimes.com:
Biden and the Greengrocer  —  One of the strangest aspects of America's new cup o' Joe …
Discussion: Instapundit
Michael Lee / Washington Examiner:
Yale doctor slams Fauci for his dismissal of hydroxychloroquine in COVID treatment
Discussion: Townhall
Jeremy B. White / Politico:
Newsom approval rate plummets in California
David Lim / Politico:
Biden administration to begin shipping vaccine doses directly to pharmacies
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John Keefe / New York Times:
N.Y.C.'s Covid Metrics Are Dire. Cuomo Is Reopening Restaurants Anyway.
A.C. Thompson / FRONTLINE:
The Boogaloo Bois Have Guns, Criminal Records and Military Training. Now They Want to Overthrow the Government.
Rich Lowry / New York Post:
Biden is the most radical left-wing president in US history, period
Discussion: alicublog and The Daily Beast
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
White House Reporters: Biden Team Wanted Our Questions in Advance
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