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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 …
New York Post:
Cuomo aide admits they hid nursing home data so feds wouldn't find out  —  Governor Cuomo's top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state's nursing-home death toll from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fear the true numbers would “be used against us” …
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Tracey Alvino / USA Today:
COVID nursing home deaths: Andrew Cuomo is running from his part in my dad's death
Discussion: National Review
CNN:
Military officials were unaware of potential danger to Pence's ‘nuclear football’ during Capitol riot  —  Chilling new security footage shows Pence and family rushed to safety  —  (CNN)Military officials overseeing the authorization process to launch nuclear weapons were unaware on January 6 …
Discussion: Raw Story, Slate, HuffPost, Insider and TheBlaze
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Washington Post:
Mounting evidence suggests Trump knew of danger to Pence when he attacked him as lacking ‘courage’ amid Capitol siege  —  Mounting evidence emerging as former president Donald Trump's impeachment trial unfolds in the Senate this week indicates Trump may have been personally informed …
Marc Thiessen / Washington Post:
Biden owes the Capitol Police an apology  —  Watching never-before-seen video of the mob assaulting the U.S. Capitol presented by the House impeachment managers was infuriating.  For the first time, Americans saw surveillance footage that showed just how close the rioters got to senators, congressmen and Vice President Mike Pence.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“We Lost the Line”: Trump Is on the Brink of Yet Another Senate Acquittal  —  Republican senators ran for their lives, but they will not run from the former President.  —  A few hours into the presentation of the House managers' case against Donald Trump, for inciting the mob that stormed …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
GOP senators praise impeachment managers but say Trump will be acquitted
Discussion: NBC News, Breitbart and New York Post
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Republicans warned about Trump and violence ... five years ago
Discussion: New Republic and HotAir
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:
Officers' Injuries, Including Concussions, Show Scope of Violence at Capitol Riot  —  The impeachment trial of former President Donald J. Trump has heightened attention on the rioters' attacks on officers, some of which resulted in serious damage.  —  One officer lost the tip of his right index finger.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
What Happened to Officer Sicknick?  —  Democratic impeachment managers have a duty to explain how Officer Sicknick died.  —  n its article of impeachment, the Democrat-controlled House alleged that former president Donald Trump, by his “incitement of insurrection,” was responsible for murder.
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Washington Post:
Former FBI official, a Navy veteran, is ‘key figure’ in Jan. 6 riot, prosecutors allege
Bret Stephens / New York Post:
Read the column the New York Times didn't want you to read  —  Last weekend, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens wrote a piece criticizing the rationale behind the forced ouster of Times reporter Donald J. McNeil, but it was never published.  Stephens told colleagues the column was killed by publisher A.G. Sulzberger.
Miranda Green / New York Magazine:
The Predator in the Lincoln Project John Weaver used his power to get jobs for young men he allegedly harassed.  His colleagues were warned.  —  Alex Johnson was a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, pursuing a career in politics, when he first heard from John Weaver, the legendary Republican operative living nearby.
The Texas Tribune:
Former top aides say Attorney General Ken Paxton received assistance with home remodel, job for alleged girlfriend in return for helping political donor  —  A court filing documents what Paxton's whistleblowers believe led to an alleged “bizarre, obsessive use of power.”  —  Copy link
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Dallas Morning News:
Lawsuit: Texas AG Ken Paxton swapped political favors for home remodel, job for alleged ‘mistress’  —  The new allegations offer up the most detailed theory to date about why Paxton helped Austin real estate developer Nate Paul even as his top aides balked at his behavior.
Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed News:
Charges Were Dropped Against The Buffalo Police Officers Who Violently Shoved A 75-Year-Old Protester  —  Felony charges were dropped Thursday against two police officers in Buffalo, New York, who violently shoved a 75-year-old protester, causing him to fall, hit his head on the sidewalk, and bleed from his ear, officials said.
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Ben Feuerherd / New York Post:
Charges dismissed against Buffalo cops who shoved elderly protester
Discussion: Raw Story
Samantha Melamed / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Nation's oldest juvenile lifer, Joe Ligon, leaves Pa. prison after 68 years  —  Leaving the State Correctional Institution Phoenix in Montgomery County on Thursday morning, his white hair peeking out below a prison-issue hat, Joe Ligon was accompanied by a dozen large file boxes.
Josh Hammer / Newsweek:
Overwrought Nazi Analogies for Me, but Not for Thee?  —  Earlier this week, Lucasfilm severed ties with “The Mandalorian” actress Gina Carano after a hyperbolic social media post in which she compared current political imperiousness and cancel culture in the United States—and the treatment of …
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Robby Soave / Reason:
Disney Cancels The Mandalorian Star Gina Carano Over Provocative Social Media Posts
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 …
New York Times:
Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo: How to Turn Your Red State Blue  —  It may take 10 years.  Do it anyway.  —  Ms. Abrams was the Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia in 2018.  Ms. Groh-Wargo was her campaign manager.  They opened Fair Fight Action in late 2018.  — Feb. 11, 2021
Discussion: wabe.org
Axios:
Scoop: Biden considering prominent Republicans for ambassadorships  —  Biden administration officials are weighing nominating prominent Republicans to ambassadorships — including Cindy McCain and former Republican Sen. Jeff Flake — to highlight the importance of bipartisanship in U.S. foreign policy …
MSNBC:
'That doesn't exist': Joy Reid debunks claims by GOP Senator comparing BLM protests to Capitol riot  —  On Senator Roy Blunt's claims saying that Black Lives Matter protests looked similar to the Capitol Hill Insurrection, Joy Reid asked the team for some of that footage …
Erin Hawley / Fox News:
The recent assault on our home and attacks on my family are not civil discourse  —  I walked upstairs to see approximately 20 protestors standing in front of our house shouting through bullhorns  —  Hawley: Left, ‘woke capitalists’ allied to seek ‘complete control’
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Biden administration to move Friday to rescind Medicaid work requirements  —  The Biden administration is planning Friday to wipe out one of the core health policies of the Trump era, taking actions that will immediately rescind permission for states to compel poor residents to work in exchange for receiving Medicaid benefits.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Politico
Catharine Smith / The Guardian:
'If white people were still here, this wouldn't happen': the majority-Black town flooded with sewage … Supported by  —  About this content  —  Sharon Smith has to plunge her toilet to get it to flush.  On rainy days, wastewater spills into her yard from nearby drainage ditches.
Emma Colton / Washington Examiner:
Project Veritas permanently suspended from Twitter as James O'Keefe faces temporary lock for violating rules  —  Project Veritas was permanently suspended from Twitter, and its founder, James O'Keefe, was temporarily locked from his account for violating the tech giant's “private information policy.”
Ryan Grenoble / HuffPost:
Desperate OAN Blames City Planning, Not Trump, For Capitol Violence  —  One America News claims an architect hired by George Washington is responsible for the mob.  —  In an ongoing and desperate attempt to absolve former President Donald Trump of any responsibility for the seditious …
Discussion: NPR
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Bombshell Unearthed As Trump Spent At Least $3.5 Million To Organize Capitol Attack  —  Newly unearthed financial disclosures reveal that the Trump campaign spent at least $3.5 million organizing the rally that turned into the Capitol attack.  —  OpenSecrets found the disclosures:
CNN:
North Carolina man charged with threatening to kill President Biden  —  (CNN)A North Carolina man has been charged with making threats to kill President Joe Biden, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed in court Thursday.  —  David Kyle Reeves, 27, of Gastonia, North Carolina …
Discussion: Insider, New York Times and WTOP
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 …
Shia Kapos / Politico:
NRCC will ‘absolutely’ support Republicans who backed impeachment, finance chair says  —  CHICAGO — Rep. Darin LaHood, a vocal ally of Donald Trump, said Thursday that the campaign arm of House Republicans won't seek to punish members of the conference who supported impeaching the former president.
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.
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
ICE ‘Deep State’ is blocking Biden's quest for justice for refugees  —  It was the kind of horror story that Americans had grown painfully used to reading during the four years of Donald Trump's presidency: More than 100 U.S. asylum seekers from strife-torn Haiti, suddenly deported across …
Discussion: New York Times
Steven Perlberg / Insider:
Bloomberg News has begun layoffs and nearly 100 people will be affected — read the full memo to staff … - Bloomberg News began laying off staffers on Thursday.  — About 90 people in a newsroom of about 3,100 will be affected.  — The shrinking comes as the company has been expanding its subscription business.
 
 
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Axios:
The trial turns to Republicans
Discussion: The Week and Politico
Thomas Barrabi / Fox News:
RNC invests $250G to assist California Gov. Newsom recall push
Jessica Xiao / aaja.org:
AAJA Condemns Anti-Asian Racism and Challenges Newsrooms to Prioritize Coverage of Anti-Asian Violence
Discussion: NBC New York and Vox
New York Times:
Democrats Push to Borrow More Money as Deficit Is Set to Shrink Slightly in 2021
Bloomberg:
Miami Pushes Crypto With Proposal to Pay Workers in Bitcoin
Discussion: The Hill
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Jeremy Schultz / Reuters:
U.S.-Mexico border views in the Biden era
Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
Pelosi Banned Congresswoman's Military Officer Son From Attending Her Swearing-In
Discussion: Twitchy
Todd Richmond / Associated Press:
Judge declines new arrest warrant for Kyle Rittenhouse
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Schumer leaves door open to 14th Amendment measure to bar Trump from office
Kevin Drum:
Barely Anyone Believes In QAnon's Conspiracy Theories
Discussion: HotAir and Outside the Beltway
Tom Gjelten / NPR:
A ‘Scary’ Survey Finding: 4 In 10 Republicans Say Political Violence May Be Necessary
 

 
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