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4:45 PM ET, February 11, 2021

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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 …
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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.
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 …
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.
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
Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
What Sen. Mike Lee told me about Trump's call the day of the Capitol riot
CBS News:
Live Updates: Democrats tie Trump to mob that stormed Capitol at Senate trial
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 …
New York Times:
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: Raw Story and Political Wire
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
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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
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 …
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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
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 …
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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.
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: Raw Story
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 …
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.
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
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Media Matters for America:
Once again, Tucker Carlson is lying about why George Floyd died  —  On February 10, Tucker Carlson claimed that Black Lives Matter (BLM) had exploited the death of George Floyd to radically alter the United States and that “there was no physical evidence that George Floyd was murdered by a cop.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Tucker Carlson Goes Full Conspiracy Theorist, Ties Insurrection to George Floyd's Death
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 …
Dan Barry / New York Times:
Houston Doctor Fired for Giving Away Doses of Covid Vaccine  —  Ten doses of the Covid-19 vaccine would expire within hours, so a Houston doctor gave it to people with medical conditions, including his wife.  What followed was “the lowest moment in my life,” Dr. Hasan Gokal said.
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 …
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.
Nicholas Reimann / Forbes:
Georgia Sen. Warnock Under Investigation For Voter Registration Misconduct  —  The Georgia State Election Board voted unanimously Wednesday to move forward with an investigation of U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) for his role serving as board chairman of a voter registration organization founded …
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
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Jennifer Jett / New York Times:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is barred from Instagram over false coronavirus claims.  —  Instagram took down the account of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the political scion and prominent anti-vaccine activist, on Wednesday over false information related to the coronavirus.
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.”
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
Biden Is Planning To Bring Back Immigrants Who Were Forced To Wait In Dangerous Mexican Border Towns  —  Immigrants who were forced by former president Donald Trump to wait in dangerous conditions in Mexico while they tried to gain asylum will soon start being allowed to enter the US …
Discussion: CNN, ImmigrationProf Blog and Jacobin
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
 
 
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Simon Shuster / TIME:
Exclusive: New York Tells Hospitals In Leaked Email That Staff ‘Must’ Come Before the Elderly In COVID-19 Vaccination Drive
Discussion: Fox News
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Republican Leaders Slam Biden for Not Calling Israeli PM Netanyahu
Discussion: Breitbart
The Daily Beast:
Even for the Trumpist Conspiracy-Peddler Sidney Powell, This Was ‘Weird as Shit’
Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
TV Ratings: Trump's Second Impeachment Trial Opens With Sizable Audience
Discussion: Deadline
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The next insurrection  —  The January 6 siege of the United States Capitol was not an isolated incident.
 Earlier Items: 
Jesselyn Cook / HuffPost:
‘I Miss My Mom’: Children Of QAnon Believers Are Desperately Trying To Deradicalize Their Own Parents
Discussion: Raw Story
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
California Is Making Liberals Squirm
Melanie Mason / Los Angeles Times:
New poll finds sharp decline in support for Sen. Dianne Feinstein in California
Discussion: Opinion Today
Washington Post:
Now out of office, Trump may have to face tax questions
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