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7:40 PM ET, February 14, 2021

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Bart Jansen / USA Today:
Lindsey Graham says Mitch McConnell speech slamming Trump could haunt Republicans in 2022  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Sunday he thought Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's speech blasting former President Donald Trump would be used against Republicans in campaign ads …
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New York Times:
Post-Impeachment Live Updates: Republican Leaders Divided Over Trump's Future Influence  —  The backlash against the seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump has begun.  The federal criminal investigations related to the Capitol riot will keep the issue of Mr. Trump's culpability alive for months.
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Graham: Lara Trump is biggest winner of impeachment trial  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) predicted former President Trump's daughter-in-law Lara will benefit from his second acquittal in an impeachment trial this weekend.  —  “The biggest winner of this whole impeachment trial is Lara Trump,” Graham said on “Fox News Sunday.”
George Will / Washington Post:
Now begins McConnell's project to shrink Trump's GOP influence  —  One of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's many admirable traits is that he is uninterested in being admired.  He uses his demeanor to disguise the fact that he has normal feelings and so might welcome public approbation for his decisions.
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:   After impeachment, bipartisanship is dead — and so is the immoral Republican Party
Christina Zhao / Newsweek:
Lisa Murkowski's Impeachment Vote May Lure Sarah Palin Into Primary Challenge
Discussion: CNBC
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Raskin: Trump found guilty in ‘the court of public opinion and the court of history’
New York Times:
McConnell, Denouncing Trump After Voting to Acquit, Says His Hands Were Tied
Glen Johnson / Axios:
McConnell's two-step portends challenge for Biden and Schumer
Devan Cole / CNN:
Plaskett on Trump's acquittal: 'We didn't need more witnesses, we needed more senators with spines'
New York Times:
First They Guarded Roger Stone.  Then They Joined the Capitol Attack.  —  Oath Keepers guarding Roger Stone on Jan. 5 ...  Roger  —  Stone  —  ... and participating in the  —  Oath Keeper  —  Oath Keeper  —  Oath  —  Keeper  —  Oath  —  Keeper
Ido Efrati / Haaretz:
94 Percent Drop in Symptomatic COVID Cases Seen Among Vaccinated, Biggest Israeli Study Shows  —  The Pfizer COVID vaccine, the study found, was equally effective for all age groups, including people aged 70 and older  —  The Pfizer coronavirus vaccine has produced a 94 percent drop …
Elizabeth Spiers / My New Band Is:
Slate Star Clusterfuck  —  On journalism, ideas, “ideas”, free speech, and tech.  —  2 hr ago  —  A while ago, I did a Q&A with a venture capitalist who had formerly worked in media.  The conversation took place on Clubhouse, the explosively growing audio-driven social network.
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Is the GOP's extremist wing now too big to fail?  —  SE Cupp: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene among Trump's awful legacies  —  (CNN)Congressional Republicans have crystallized an ominous question by rejecting consequences for Donald Trump over the January 6 riot in his impeachment trial …
New York Times:
'What's the Point?'  Young People's Despair Deepens as Covid-19 Crisis Drags On  —  Experts paint a grim picture of the struggle with lockdown isolation — a “mental health pandemic” that should be treated as seriously as containing the coronavirus.  —  Life seemed promising last year …
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
CDC head: ‘I think we need a lot more resources in order to get the schools safe’  —  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said on Sunday that despite new guidance from the agency for reopening schools, “I think we need a lot more resources in order to get the schools safe.”
Discussion: cai.burbio.com and HotAir
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Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
First known patient reinfected with South Africa coronavirus variant is in critical condition
Discussion: CBS News
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Postcard From Peru: Why the Morality Plays Inside The Times Won't Stop  —  Other news organizations have their own personnel dramas.  But none attract the spotlight like The Times.  —  In 2012, when The New York Times was panicked about its financial future, this newspaper went into the travel business.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The massive GOP betrayal of our democracy requires a forceful Democratic response  —  Now that the vast majority of Senate Republicans voted to acquit former president Donald Trump of inciting violent insurrection, as we all knew they would, Democrats should immediately respond as follows:
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:   CBS' Margaret Brennan: We Invited on Two Dozen Senate Republicans After Trump Acquitted — ‘No One Accepted’
Michael Powell / New York Times:
Obscure Musicology Journal Sparks Battles Over Race and Free Speech  —  A scholar's address about racism and music theory was met with a vituperative, personal response by a small journal.  It faced calls to cease publishing.  —  A periodical devoted to the study of a long-dead European music theorist …
Sarah Bahr / New York Times:
Indianapolis Museum of Art Apologizes for Insensitive Job Posting  —  The museum wrote that it was seeking a director who would work to maintain its “core, white art audience,” in addition to attracting a more diverse one.  —  INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields …
Discussion: The Hill, WTOP, Althouse and Insider
American Greatness:
The New York Times Retracts the Sicknick Story  —  Like so many fake news stories about Donald Trump and his supporters, millions of Americans believe the Sicknick story as truth; even a correction won't change their minds.  —  In a quiet but stunning correction, the New York Times backed away …
Discussion: RedState, Townhall and The White House
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
Trump's Defense Was an Insult to the Impeachment Proceedings and an Assault on Reason  —  Donald Trump's second impeachment trial was an artifact of his Presidency.  It was a battle of meaning against noise, against nothing-means-anything-and-everything- is-the-same nihilism—and nihilism won.
Joe Concha / The Hill:
The swift death of the media darlings known as the Lincoln Project  —  As quickly as it rose to its perch as a media darling, the Lincoln Project (LP) is crashing down swiftly to its fitting end.  And it has no one to blame but itself.  —  The beginning of the end came a few weeks ago.
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on What She Learned From Battling the Teachers' Union  —  In an interview, Ms. Lightfoot talked about how she hoped to rebuild trust in the system and eventually reopen high schools.  —  After a bitter fight, the Chicago Public Schools reached a deal …
 
 
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Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Eric Metaxas Believes America Is Creeping Toward Nazi Germany
Tom Nichols / USA Today:
Republicans who acquitted Trump put their careers over duty, honor and the Constitution
Jemele Hill / The Atlantic:
The Problem With Mandatory Patriotism in Sports
Discussion: Breitbart and Newsbusters
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
James Ridgeway, Who Exposed Malfeasance and Skulduggery, Dies at 84
New York Times:
A Decade After the Arab Spring, Autocrats Still Rule the Mideast
Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
Breaking the Rule of One  —  After upending a racial norm in the rural South …
Dante Chinni / NBC News:
How the Senate map shift helped Trump win acquittal
Discussion: American Greatness and Salon
 Earlier Items: 
Matt Stieb / New York Magazine:
What Happens to Trump's Wall Now?
Discussion: Washington Post
Kate Santich / MSN:
As COVID variants spread, Florida refuses to release data
Discussion: Raw Story
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Tom Perez on Democrats' Mistakes and Why Iowa Shouldn't Go First
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Axios
The Daily Beast:
FBI Informant Panic Is Ruining Friendships All Over the Far Right
Discussion: Raw Story
Julian Glover / ABC7:
Black CA couple lowballed by $500K in home appraisal, believe race was a factor
 

 
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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New York Times:
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