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Houston Chronicle:
What went wrong with the Texas power grid? — Millions of Texans were without heat and electricity Monday as snow, ice and frigid temperatures caused a catastrophic failure of the state's power grid. — The Texas power grid, powered largely by wind and natural gas, is relatively well equipped …
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Bloomberg:
Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas's Power Woes — Natural gas, coal and nuclear played bigger role in blackouts — Blaming reduced wind output ‘is really a red herring’ — Don't point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they're not the main reason broad swaths …
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Brad Plumer / New York Times:
A Glimpse of America's Future: Climate Change Means Trouble for Power Grids — Systems are designed to handle spikes in demand, but the wild and unpredictable weather linked to global warming will very likely push grids beyond their limits. — Huge winter storms have plunged large parts …
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
N.A.A.C.P. Sues Trump and Giuliani Over Election Fight and Jan. 6 Riot — The civil rights group brought the suit on behalf of Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, with other Democrats in Congress expected to join as plaintiffs. — WASHINGTON — The N.A.A.C.P. on Tuesday morning filed …
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Jessica Schneider / CNN:
Leading House Democrat sues Donald Trump under a post-Civil War law for conspiracy to incite US Capitol riot — (CNN)Former President Donald Trump and attorney Rudy Giuliani are being accused of conspiring with the far-right groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to incite the January 6 insurrection …
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Maya King / Politico:
NAACP sues Trump and Giuliani after Jan. 6 riots — On the heels of the Senate's acquittal of Donald Trump, the NAACP, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson and civil rights law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll filed a lawsuit against the former president, Rudy Giuliani and two white supremacist groups …
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Democratic congressman sues Trump over role in Capitol riot
Democratic congressman sues Trump over role in Capitol riot
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Russell Contreras / Axios:
NAACP sues Trump for inciting Capitol riot
NAACP sues Trump for inciting Capitol riot
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HuffPost:
Brent Bozell IV, Son Of Prominent Conservative Activist, Charged In Capitol Riot — Online sleuths looked into Bozell because he wore the sweatshirt of a Christian school where he previously served as a girls' basketball coach. — Leo Brent Bozell IV, the son of conservative activist L. Brent Bozell III …
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Trump Emerges From Impeachment Trial With Sturdy Backing From GOP Voters — 54% would support him in a hypothetical 2024 primary, a return to pre-riot numbers — 59% of GOP voters said Trump should play a “major role” in the Republican Party going forward, up 18 points since a Jan. 6-7 survey.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Republicans can't quit Trump — DRIVING THE DAY — While the rest of the country wants less DONALD TRUMP, Republicans just can't quit him. Our flash POLITICO/Morning Consult poll conducted in the days following the Senate trial shows that despite the impeachment …
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
The Trumpiest Republicans Are At The State And Local Levels — Not In D.C.
The Trumpiest Republicans Are At The State And Local Levels — Not In D.C.
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Kamala Harris Disputes Dr. Fauci, Insists Biden Administration Is ‘Starting from Scratch’ on Coronavirus — Kamala Harris, in an interview with Mike Allen of Axios, this weekend: … Dr. Anthony Fauci, speaking at the White House, January 21: … If you look at the daily rate of vaccinations …
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Scoop: Biden to use “more inclusive” immigration terms
Scoop: Biden to use “more inclusive” immigration terms
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Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
The Biden Administration Is Ending The Use Of The Term “Illegal Alien” In Many Government Communications
The Biden Administration Is Ending The Use Of The Term “Illegal Alien” In Many Government Communications
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Marc Rod / Jewish Insider:
David Schoen describes dysfunction within Trump's impeachment team — Despite winning former President Donald Trump an acquittal in his second impeachment trial on Saturday, Trump's defense team was plagued by inconsistent internal communication and coordination, last minute shake-ups …
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Anna Kambhampaty / Politico:
Johnson: McConnell doesn't ‘speak for the conference’ on Trump's culpability for riot — Sen. Ron Johnson said Tuesday that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's excoriation on Saturday of former President Donald Trump put him out of step with the GOP caucus he leads.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Ron Johnson and the emerging hoax-ification of the Capitol riot
Ron Johnson and the emerging hoax-ification of the Capitol riot
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Politico:
GOP tries to weaponize pandemic-exhausted parents against Biden — Distraught and exhausted parents are emerging as a new class of voters that could torment President Joe Biden — and the White House is moving quickly to head off the pain. — Nearing a year into the pandemic …
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Covid wars launch DeSantis into GOP ‘top tier’ — MIAMI — Ron DeSantis once drew national scorn for his stewardship of Florida's Covid-19 response — critics took to referring to the governor as “DeathSantis” for his resistance to restrictive measures. — But that very blowback …
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
The right's grift machine is only growing stronger — The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the grift shall never die. — I speak (with a nod to Ted Kennedy) of the long tradition in which prominent conservatives go around scamming, fleecing, and conning their own rank-and-file.
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HuffPost:
Only Half Of Americans Have Heard Of ‘Cancel Culture’ — A HuffPost/YouGov poll found many Americans are unaware of the idea, which has become a major Republican talking point. — The Republican Party has a new bogeyman: cancel culture. — One of former President Donald Trump's lawyers described …
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Sky Palma / Raw Story:
Bannon thought Trump was suffering from dementia and pushed 25th Amendment behind the scenes: 60 Minutes producer — Speaking on the Skullduggery podcast, veteran “60 Minutes producer” Ira Rosen told the show's hosts that during his time at the White House, Steve Bannon concluded …
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason:
FBI Arrests Activist Daniel Baker Over Posts About Police Abuse and Self Defense — In the wake of the January 6 Capitol riot, many Democratic politicians and left-of-center pundits have been calling for the expanded use of “domestic terror” laws against people whose social media rhetoric seems too radical.
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Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
Pizzagate's violent legacy … Play Video — SALISBURY, N.C. — He slipped out of bed before sunrise and started driving, spurred by the conspiracy theory he would soon help make famous. As he sped the 350 miles from his hometown in North Carolina to the nation's capital …
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The Daily Beast:
Dominion Says It Will Sue MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Over Election Fraud Claims — Dominion sent letters to Lindell in December and January demanding that he retract false claims about their machines, instead the MyPillow CEO doubled down. … MAGA diehard and pillow magnate Mike Lindell …
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Ronald J. Hansen / Arizona Republic:
Rep. Debbie Lesko says Americans, not Hispanics, need vaccine first; draws outrage — Rep. Debbie Lesko said Hispanics are “very good workers” but implied they are not Americans in comments she made last week during a congressional hearing on vaccine distribution plans.
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Amanda Becker / The 19th:
Some Lincoln Project founders knew about sexual harassment allegations as early as March — The revelation comes as the political group's domestic and international associates cut ties, including an Israeli prime ministerial hopeful. — Some of the leaders of the embattled Lincoln Project knew …
Greg Olear / PREVAIL:
Who Owns Kavanaugh #3: The Basketball Coach & The Devil's Triangle — Just as the press begins to dig into Kavanaugh's finances and sketchy work with Bush 43, all hell breaks loose. — Greg Olear and LB — 8 hr ago — This series is written by Greg Olear in collaboration with Lincoln's Bible.
John M. Donnelly / Roll Call:
Pentagon report reveals inroads white supremacists have made in military — A soldier in the Florida National Guard who co-founded a murderous fascist group was chatting with a fellow white supremacist in the extremist “Iron March” online forum in 2016 when the guard member made a remarkable statement.
Keydra Manns / Yahoo Finance:
Sen. Tim Scott says Trump is the 'one person I don't blame' for Capitol attack — The South Carolina senator says Trump is simply not responsible for the protest that left five dead — Many Americans blame former president Donald Trump for the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol but his supporters …
Graham Kates / CBS News:
Subpoenas in Trump criminal probe suggests fresh scrutiny of his Seven Springs estate — Manhattan prosecutors conducting a criminal investigation into possible bank, tax and insurance fraud by former President Donald Trump and his company recently subpoenaed documents from an engineer …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Ugly new attacks on Republicans who defied Trump hint at a dark GOP future — If you believe that the health of our civic life depends in part on having a pro-democracy, pro-empiricism center right in this country, you will be deeply dispirited by some new comments from a Pennsylvania Republican that have now gone viral.
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Dylan Byers / NBC News:
Zucker lieutenant is a top candidate to replace him at CNN's helm — Allison Gollust, a CNN executive and top lieutenant to Jeff Zucker, has emerged as the leading internal candidate to take over the network if Zucker steps down as president, two people at CNN familiar with the matter say.
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Michigan Republicans Who Voted to Impeach Trump Face Backlash — Even after his defeat, Donald Trump is causing fierce infighting among Republicans in a crucial battleground state. Loyalists are rewarded. Dissenters face punishment. — ROCKFORD, Mich. — When Representative Peter Meijer voted …
Robin Bravender / Insider:
Droves of federal employees quit under Trump. Biden wants to bring them back and some say they'd return. … - Biden's transition team found that there was a “gutting” of the federal workforce under Trump. — The depleted staff at federal agencies could hurt Biden's policy priorities.
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Vox Finds Its Next Top Editor at The Atlantic — Swati Sharma, 34, prepares to take over the 90-person newsroom of a digital outlet known for its clearsighted articles on knotty issues in the news. — Swati Sharma, a managing editor of The Atlantic, will be the next editor in chief of Vox.com …
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