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7:15 PM ET, February 14, 2021

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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.
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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 …
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.”
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
After impeachment, bipartisanship is dead — and so is the immoral Republican Party  —  The Republican Party was born on March 20, 1854, the green shoots of a political spring.  Unlike America's other parties that were often shotgun weddings of convenience, the Republicans burst forth around moral ideas …
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New York Times:
McConnell, Denouncing Trump After Voting to Acquit, Says His Hands Were Tied
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Raskin: Trump found guilty in ‘the court of public opinion and the court of history’
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 …
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
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 …
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: Townhall, The White House and HotAir
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 …
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’
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 …
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, Insider and Althouse
Tom Nichols / USA Today:
Republicans who acquitted Trump put their careers over duty, honor and the Constitution  —  Trump's acquittal proved with final certainty that Republicans are driven only by ambition, comfort and self-interest — and the Constitution be damned.  —  The second Senate trial of Donald Trump is over.
Discussion: The Week
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Tom Perez on Democrats' Mistakes and Why Iowa Shouldn't Go First  —  In an interview, the former D.N.C. chairman discussed a possible bid for Maryland governor and said Iowa and New Hampshire starting the presidential nominating process was “unacceptable.”  —  For the past four years …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Axios
 
 
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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
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Matt Stieb / New York Magazine:
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Kate Santich / MSN:
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