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10:50 AM ET, February 9, 2021

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Adam Kinzinger / Washington Post:
My fellow Republicans, convicting Trump is necessary to save America  —  Adam Kinzinger, a Republican, represents Illinois's 16th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.  —  Winston Churchill famously said, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”
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Politico:
Trump plans a reemergence and some retribution after impeachment  —  Three weeks ago may have been the nadir of Donald Trump's political influence.  A meager crowd of supporters gathered to send him off to Florida, he'd lost access to Twitter and the Senate's most powerful Republican …
CBS News:
Majority favor conviction as impeachment trial begins, but many Republicans urge loyalty to Trump — CBS News poll  —  As former President Trump's second impeachment trial begins, a 56%-majority of Americans would like the Senate to vote to convict him, and the same percentage say he encouraged violence …
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Biden's strategy for Trump's impeachment: Sit back and STFU  —  Washington may be consumed by Donald Trump's impeachment trial this week, but the White House has a decidedly different view of it: Impeachment?  What impeachment?  —  The Biden team has shut down question after question …
Caroline Kelly / CNN:
How to watch the Senate impeachment trial
CNN:
DOJ to ask Trump-appointed US attorneys to resign  —  (CNN)The Justice Department, as soon as Tuesday, is expected to ask US attorneys appointed by former President Donald Trump to submit their resignations, a turnover expected to spare two top prosecutors in Delaware and Connecticut overseeing …
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Jameel Jaffer / Just Security:
The Biden Administration Should Drop the Assange Case
Discussion: Reason and New York Times
Adam Carlson / People.com:
Reporter Forgoes Covering President as Romance Blossoms with Biden Aide Battling Cancer: 'Didn't Think Twice'  —  “We both realized we both felt the same way,” TJ Ducklo, a White House deputy press secretary, says of Axios' Alexi McCammond.  “We're both really happy, and we wanted to do it the right way.”
Discussion: New York Post
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump compares impeachment to ‘The Apprentice’  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  As Republicans get ready to beat back a DONALD TRUMP impeachment conviction for the second time, sources close to the former president say he's already imagining his comeback.
Jack Evans / Tampa Bay Times:
Someone tried to poison Oldsmar's water supply during hack, sheriff says  —  Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said the attacker tried to raise levels of sodium hydroxide, also known as lye, by a factor of more than 100.  —  Local and federal authorities are investigating after an attempt Friday …
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Arian Campo-Flores / Wall Street Journal:
Hacker Changed Chemical Level in Florida City's Water System
New York Times:
‘Dangerous Stuff’: Hackers Tried to Poison Water Supply of Florida Town
Discussion: WGN-TV
New York Times:
‘Its Own Domestic Army’: How the G.O.P. Allied Itself With Militants  —  Actions taken by paramilitary groups in Michigan last year, emboldened by President Donald J. Trump, signaled a profound shift in Republican politics and a national crisis in the making.
Discussion: Raw Story
Norimitsu Onishi / New York Times:
‘Woke’ American Ideas Are a Threat, French Leaders Say  —  Politicians and prominent intellectuals say social theories from the United States on race, gender and post-colonialism are a threat to French identity and the French republic.  —  PARIS — The threat is said to be existential.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Partner Exploring Ways to End Relationship With Ex-President's Company  —  Vornado considers step after efforts to sell, refinance office towers misfired, possibly due to Trump stake  —  One of the nation's biggest real-estate investors, which is run by a longtime friend of Donald Trump …
New York Times:
Georgia Officials Review Trump Phone Call as Scrutiny Intensifies  —  The office of Georgia's secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, has initiated a fact-finding inquiry into Donald Trump's January phone call to Mr. Raffensperger pressuring him to “find” votes.
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American Greatness:
What Happened to Officer Brian Sicknick?  —  No one should discount the idea that Democrats and the news media would intentionally promote a totally fabricated story to destroy Donald Trump and vilify his supporters.  —  The claim is so pervasive as not to be questioned …
Richard Ruelas / Arizona Republic:
Jake Angeli, who wore a fur hat with horns while raiding U.S. Capitol, apologizes  —  The Phoenix man who took part in the Jan. 6 raid on the U.S. Capitol wearing a fur hat with horns, apologized on Monday for entering the building and expressed disappointment in former President Donald Trump, at whose behest he had traveled to D.C.
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox News
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
This New York Times profile on Kamala Harris is why the media so often earn the ‘fake news’ title  —  Reporters in Washington to this day act like they've just come out of a war zone because former President Donald Trump called them “fake news.”  It escapes them that they might have earned the title.
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Hayes Brown / MSNBC:   Vice President Kamala Harris could kill the filibuster herself
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
New York Times Meltdown Plays Out in Private Facebook Group  —  The “resignation” of star New York Times science writer Donald McNeil Jr. has sparked a furious back-and-forth among Times staffers, many of whom are outraged over the Gray Lady's handling of his departure.
Discussion: Twitchy and Fox News
Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
Hold Them All Accountable  —  The people who stormed the Capitol are facing the music.  It's up to us to make sure that the people who incited them do, too.  —  “Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?
Lauren Oyler / New York Times:
The Case for Semicolons  —  There are very few opportunities in life to have it both ways; semicolons are the rare instance in which you can; there is absolutely no downside.  —  For several years I have returned, frequently, to a vague memory of reading an article in which a woman recommended eating dessert after every meal.
Tevi Troy / City Journal:
Experts Topics … Secretary for America  —  George Shultz, R.I.P.  —  Economy, finance, and budgets  —  Politics and law  —  Other  —  Economist, academic, business leader, diplomat, and patriot George Shultz has just died at 100.  He is one of only two Americans …
Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Manafort Can't Be Prosecuted in New York After Trump Pardon, Court Rules  —  The Court of Appeals let stand a lower-court ruling that the Manhattan district attorney's prosecution of Paul Manafort was barred by the double jeopardy rule.  —  The Manhattan district attorney's attempt …
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Kara Scannell / CNN:   Paul Manafort can't be prosecuted on state charges, New York court rules
John Bowden / The Hill:
Germany, Poland and Sweden expel Russian officials in diplomatic tit-for-tat  —  Three European countries have expelled Russian diplomats in response to the expulsion of European Union (EU) officials who were part of a delegation to Moscow headed by Josep Borrell, the EU's High Representative.
Discussion: HotAir and The Guardian
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“I Think People Will Get Tired of Him”: For Donald Trump, Sarah Palin's Fall Shows the Limits of Media Obsession  —  The former Alaska governor dominated coverage while she was seen as a GOP kingmaker and potential presidential candidate—until reality (or at least reality TV) set in.
Discussion: Raw Story
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
Sorry Politico, impeachment's not “lost cause” for Dems — it's a home run  —  If you've been enjoying ad-free PRESS RUN since its launch, or have just recently become a reader, please consider subscribing for $6 a month.  Thanks!  —  Stay healthy. Be kind.  —  Subscribe to PRESS RUN
Kristen Holmes / CNN:
Trump's Postmaster General wants to stay on the job, but his days in the Biden administration may be numbered  —  Washington (CNN)Embattled Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has told those close to him he wants to stay in his role under the new president, two sources tell CNN …
Discussion: Slate
Joe Gould / Defense News:
Senate confirms Hicks as DoD's No. 2  —  WASHINGTON ― The Senate confirmed Kathleen Hicks as deputy defense secretary on Monday evening, making her the first woman to be confirmed by the Senate to the position.  —  Hicks, who led President Joe Biden's transition team at the Pentagon …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
The Senate's coming crisis over majority rule  —  Harris casts tie-breaking vote to pass budget resolution  —  (CNN)The early lines of division between the parties during Joe Biden's presidency point toward rising confrontation, sooner rather than later, over rules and traditions in the Senate …
Discussion: New York Times, Raw Story and USA Today
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Lacking a Lifeline: How a federal effort to help low-income Americans pay their phone bills failed amid the pandemic  —  An estimated 33 million U.S. households are eligible for assistance under a program known as Lifeline, but poor service and years of government mismanagement and neglect mean few use it.
 
 
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Carlos Greer / Page Six:
CNN's Van Jones felt ‘ambushed’ by hosts of ‘The View’
Discussion: National Review
Brian Bennett / TIME:
How Joe Biden Has Changed the ‘Toxic Tone’ in the Oval Office
Discussion: UncoverDC, Washington Post and HotAir
Associated Press:
82 advocacy groups call on Biden to end federal executions
Discussion: The Hill, The Daily Caller and Reason
The Appeal:
California Voters Demand Police Accountability from Next State Attorney General
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Trump supporters want us to believe the Framers were fools
Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
Newly reelected Michigan GOP official seeks help investigating Wayne County voters
Kyle Daly / Axios:
How to deprogram America's extremists
Discussion: Raw Story
Walter Russell Mead / Wall Street Journal:
The Antidote to Trump Isn't Obama Redux
Discussion: The Wrap and Fox News
 Earlier Items: 
Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet:
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Discussion: NPR and Bloomberg
Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
Andrew Yang's campaign is cutting ties with a fundraiser once accused of sexual misconduct
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Biden's CIA Pick, William Burns, Leads A Think Tank With Close Ties To China
Discussion: The Lid
Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
Why QAnon Followers Think Donald Trump Will Be Sworn Back In as President on March 4
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg:
Harvard's Sunstein Joins Biden's DHS to Shape Immigration Rules
Discussion: Foreign Policy and Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Democratic lawmakers splinter over criteria for $1,400 stimulus payments as Biden relief bill advances