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5:25 PM ET, February 11, 2021

Top Items:

Trump Was Sicker Than Acknowledged With Covid-19 — When hospitalized with the coronavirus in October, his blood oxygen levels had plunged and officials feared he was on the verge of being placed on a ventilator. — WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump was sicker with Covid-19 in October …

Discussion: The Hill, CNBC, HotAir, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story

Kyle Cheney / Politico:

Tuberville says he informed Trump of Pence's evacuation before rioters reached Senate — Sen. Tommy Tuberville revealed late Wednesday that he spoke to Donald Trump on Jan. 6, just as a violent mob closed in on the the Senate, and informed the then-president directly that Vice President Mike Pence …

Discussion: USA Today, ABC News, The American Independent, The Guardian, Axios, The Intellectualist, Orange County Register, Washington Post, Truthout, Magnolia State Live, Washington Examiner, The Root, Raw Story, Daily Kos, CNN and NBC News

Wall Street Journal:

The Trump Impeachment Evidence — He might be acquitted, but he won't live down his disgraceful conduct. — By The Editorial Board — Whether a former President ought to be subject to an impeachment trial is a matter of constitutional debate. Whether it's prudent, if acquittal appears likely, is a related question.

Discussion: Media Matters for America, CNN, IJR, The Hill, Reason, Raw Story, CNBC and Washington Post

Kaitlan Collins / CNN:

Trump's defense team expected to finish its arguments in one day — Conway on Trump's lawyers: This is the best he can do? — Washington (CNN)Former President Donald Trump's defense team expects to finish its arguments in the Senate's impeachment trial by Friday night, two sources tell CNN.

Discussion: Mediaite, CNBC, The Week, HotAir, NBC New York, The Daily Caller, UPI and Mercury News

HuffPost:

Trump's Tweet Attacking Pence Came Right After Learning His VP's Life Was In Danger — A statement from Sen. Tommy Tuberville shows Trump turned his mob against Pence minutes after hearing his vice president had to be hustled from the Senate. — WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump posted …

Discussion: NPR, The Hill, Reason, Insider, The Week, IJR, Mediaite, Common Dreams, Washington Post, Raw Story and Political Wire

Aaron Blake / Washington Post:

4 takeaways from Day Three of Trump's impeachment trial — Day three of former president Donald Trump's impeachment trial features the remainder of Democratic House impeachment managers' case against Trump. — Below, some takeaways. — 1. An appeal to GOP senators about the consequences of acquittal

Discussion: Washington Examiner, New York Times, Forbes, Occupy Democrats and Deadline

Kimberly Wehle / The Bulwark:
Damning Evidence in Impeachment Trial Clarifies Trump's Guilt

Discussion: The Week, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Slate, CNN, Morning Shots, The Daily Caller, Crooks and Liars and Raw Story

Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Not My Party: Guilty, Guilty — Not My Party is back with a new episode on Trump's second impeachment trial.

Discussion: CNN, The Daily Caller, NewsHounds blog, The American Independent, Fox News, Instapundit, New York Post, littlegreenfootballs.com, Townhall and Washington Times

Politico:
Managers say acquittal could embolden pro-Trump extremists

Discussion: USA Today, CNN, The Hill, JONATHAN TURLEY, Associated Press, Washington Post, Insider, Bloomberg, Denver Post, Power Line, New York Times, Al Jazeera, Los Angeles Times and Raw Story

Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
What Sen. Mike Lee told me about Trump's call the day of the Capitol riot

Discussion: Associated Press, Raw Story, The Independent, HotAir, The Gateway Pundit, Fox News, Deseret News, Breitbart, Townhall, Mediaite and Politico

CBS News:
Live Updates: Democrats tie Trump to mob that stormed Capitol at Senate trial

Discussion: The Hill, CNN, Associated Press, Mother Jones, The Independent, IJR, The Mary Sue, The Dickinson Press, Mediaite and Twitchy

Peter Baker / New York Times:
If Convicting Trump Is Out of Reach, Managers Seek a Verdict From the Public and History

Discussion: The Hill, New York Times, Fox News, Daily Kos and Jewish Insider

Martin Gould / Daily Mail:

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled QAnon congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘openly cheated’ on her husband of 25 years with a polyamorous tantric sex guru and then moved on to another affair with the manager at her gym — Marjorie Taylor Greene had affairs with tantric sex guru Craig Ivey …

Discussion: The Intellectualist, UPROXX, Occupy Democrats and Boing Boing

Katelyn Polantz / CNN:

Justice Department says an Oath Keepers leader waited for Trump's direction before Capitol attack — The extremist Oath Keepers who planned attack on Capitol — (CNN)The Justice Department is now making clear that a leader among the Oath Keepers paramilitary group …

Discussion: Axios, The Week and Raw Story

Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Prosecutors Say A Member Of The Oath Keepers Conspiracy Was “Awaiting Direction” From Trump Before The Capitol Attack

Discussion: The Daily Beast

Washington Post:

Biden to announce his administration has secured 200 million additional vaccine doses — The promised purchases would increase available supply by 50 percent, but not immediately. — President Biden is expected to announce Thursday afternoon that his administration has secured deals …

Discussion: The Hill, Fox News and Raw Story

Tom Gjelten / NPR:

A ‘Scary’ Survey Finding: 4 In 10 Republicans Say Political Violence May Be Necessary — Toggle more options — The mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol may have been a fringe group of extremists, but politically motivated violence has the support of a significant share of the U.S. public …

Discussion: The Hill, The Survey Center …, Washington Post, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Slate, TheBlaze and Boing Boing

Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service:

Survey: More than a quarter of white evangelicals believe core QAnon conspiracy theory — Flip — (RNS) — A new survey reports more than a quarter of white evangelical Protestants believe a QAnon conspiracy theory that purports former President Donald Trump is secretly battling a cabal …

Discussion: Political Wire

David Shortell / CNN:

Five people associated with Proud Boys arrested for Capitol riot on conspiracy charges — (CNN)The Justice Department unsealed conspiracy charges against five people associated with the Proud Boys on Thursday in the latest and largest move against the far-right group's coordinated role in the insurrection last month.

Discussion: CNBC, Forbes, Truthout, Boing Boing and Raw Story

Laurin-Whitney Gottbrath / Axios:
More people affiliated with Proud Boys arrested over deadly Capitol riot

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Talking Points Memo

Tim Reid / Reuters:

Exclusive: Dozens of former Republican officials in talks to form anti-Trump third party — (Reuters) - Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are in talks to form …

Andrea Salcedo / Washington Post:
Dozens of former GOP officials reportedly met last week to discuss mounting a new anti-Trump party

Discussion: Bloomberg, TheGrio and the way of improvement …

Associated Press:

How a leading anti-Trump group ignored a crisis in its ranks — WASHINGTON (AP) — Last June, the Lincoln Project was on a high. — Led by several prominent former Republican consultants, its slickly produced ads attacking President Donald Trump made it perhaps the best known of the so-called Never Trump organizations.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, RedState, Breitbart, HotAir, National Review, NOQ Report, Discourse Blog, The Daily Caller, Fox News, Mediaite and Twitchy

Lyz Lenz / Columbia Journalism Review:

Thread Man — Seth Abramson's viral meta-journalism unreality — For four years, America has been ruled by the tyranny of tweets, and the news media has been tangled in threads. Twitter threads are a way for journalists to gather information and to promote their work …

Alexander Nazaryan / The Atlantic:

I Was an Enemy of the People — Thrilling, without a single boring day: That's how I'd describe my four years as an enemy of the people, a lanyard-wearing member of the “Lügenpresse,” a term some Donald Trump supporters borrowed from the Nazis to refer to insufficiently flattering coverage …

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Townhall, Mediaite, Washington Times, Instapundit and Twitchy

The Daily Beast:

Even for the Trumpist Conspiracy-Peddler Sidney Powell, This Was ‘Weird as Shit’ — It was bound to get a little odd when Dominion Voting Systems tried to serve the ‘Kraken’ legal mind with a defamation suit for demonizing the firm. But this was extra. — There was a time when Sidney Powell …

Discussion: The Asheville Citizen Times

Kevin Drum:

Barely Anyone Believes In QAnon's Conspiracy Theories — A few days ago Morning Consult released a poll showing that 18% of American adults believed in QAnon's conspiracy theories. Shazam! That might be down a bit from previous polls, but 18% is still a lot. It's one out of six Americans.

Discussion: HotAir and Outside the Beltway

Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:

For decades Donald Trump bullied Palm Beach to get his way. Now he's determined to make it his home. — One night in late January 1994, fireworks sparkled in the sky above Mar-a-Lago, a grand estate in Palm Beach, Fla., with a gilded ceiling, an entry gate clad in antique Spanish tiles …

Discussion: Raw Story, Political Flare, Sun-Sentinel, Palm Beach Daily News, Fox News and CBS Miami

Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:

The GOP Cheat Code to Winning Back the House — Democrats face a daunting future of severe Republican gerrymandering that could flip control of the House in 2022 and suppress diverse younger generations' political influence for years to come, according to a new study released today.

Discussion: Insider and Brennan Center for Justice

Mia Cathell / The Post Millennial:

SPLC removes Black Separatist listing on hate map: 'Black dissent isn't black violence' — Join the ranks of independent, free thinkers by supporting us today for as little as $1. … The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has removed the Black Separatist listing on its extensive hate map …

Simon Shuster / TIME:

Exclusive: New York Tells Hospitals In Leaked Email That Staff ‘Must’ Come Before the Elderly In COVID-19 Vaccination Drive — The state of New York has warned hospitals that they cannot start giving COVID-19 vaccines to elderly people until they finish vaccinating hospital staff members …

Discussion: The Hill and Fox News

Reuters:

U.S. trade body rules that blueberry imports do not harm industry — WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled on Thursday that blueberry imports are not causing serious injury to domestic producers and will not recommend further action to reduce foreign supplies …

Bloomberg:

MacKenzie Scott's Remarkable Giveaway Is Transforming the Bezos Fortune — As MacKenzie and Jeff Bezos, the couple's donations were mostly unremarkable. Then came a divorce and her $6 billion gift—a true feat—which upstaged her ex-husband, who has pledged big numbers but has been slower to spend.

Amanda Holpuch / The Guardian:

US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies — The country began the pandemic with a degraded public health infrastructure, leading to more deaths than other high-income countries — The US could have averted 40% of the deaths from Covid-19 …

Discussion: VICE, The Lancet, Mother Jones, Insider, Forbes, UPI, Truthout and Slate

globaltimes.cn:

China bars BBC World News over false reports — BBC World News has been barred from airing in China, the National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) announced, saying some BBC's reports on China infringed the principles of truthfulness and impartiality in journalism.

Discussion: Reuters, Forbes, news.cgtn.com, The Hill, Fox News, New York Times, Breitbart, Deadline, NPR and Variety, more at Mediagazer »

Amanda Meade / The Guardian:

Kevin Rudd says Sky News is using Fox model to radicalise politics in Australia — The former prime minister tells a media inquiry News Corp's ‘template for America’ is also its ‘vision for Australia’ — Rupert Murdoch's Sky News will radicalise politics in Australia within a decade …

Asbury Park Press:

Springsteen blew 0.02 - quarter of legal limit, source says — Kathleen Hopkins Ken SerranoAsbury Park Press — New Jersey rock icon Bruce Springsteen's blood-alcohol content was .02 - just a quarter of New Jersey's legal limit - when he was arrested on Sandy Hook in November and charged …

Discussion: Vulture, New York Post, Rolling Stone, The Gateway Pundit, CNN, Ad Age, TheBlaze, USA Today, Vanity Fair, ABC News, Variety, Fox News and TMZ.com

bellingcat:

Vladimir Kara-Murza Tailed by Members of FSB Squad Prior to Suspected Poisonings — In a December 2020 investigation, we disclosed the existence of a clandestine unit within the FSB's Criminalistics Institute, members of which - having medical and chemical weapons training …

Discussion: Bloomberg, The Daily Beast and Radio Free Europe/Radio …

Jesselyn Cook / HuffPost:

‘I Miss My Mom’: Children Of QAnon Believers Are Desperately Trying To Deradicalize Their Own Parents — Here's what it's like to lose the person who raised you to a far-right cult. — Shortly before Joe Biden was inaugurated, Sam's mother began stocking up on food in a panic.

Discussion: Raw Story

Poynter:

Factually: What will fact-checkers find on Clubhouse? — This is the Feb. 11, 2021 edition of Factually. Live audio and no recording might complicate the work of fact-checkers on this new platform. … A fact-checker lands on Clubhouse — There is a new social media platform trending worldwide.

Discussion: Vox, 9to5Mac and Mashable

Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:

Stop Calling It an ‘Insurrection’ — So, I was out at dinner with my old battalion commander - literally outside, because dining inside apparently is super deadly if you live under blue tyranny - and we were laughing at this whole “Muh Insurrekshun” nonsense.

Discussion: pjmedia.com

CBO Publications:

The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2021 to 2031 — The Congressional Budget Office regularly publishes reports presenting projections of what federal budget deficits, debt, revenues, and spending—and the economic path underlying them—would be for the current year and for the following 10 years …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, NPR, Axios, Breitbart, Washington Times and UPI

Benjamin Parker / The Bulwark:

GOP Senators Support the ‘January Exception’ — By voting to halt the impeachment trial, 44 Republicans showed they believe misdeeds in a president's last weeks in office are unpunishable. — In their presentation on Tuesday, the House impeachment managers introduced the concept of the “January exception.”

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Fox News, New York Times, TheGrio and RedState