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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 — WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic congressman accused Donald Trump in a federal lawsuit on Tuesday of inciting the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and of conspiring with his lawyer and extremist groups to try to prevent …
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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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Fox News and Washington Examiner
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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Ars Technica, Bloomberg, The Hill and KHOU-TV
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 …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Ugly new attacks on Republicans who defied Trump hint at a dark GOP future
Ugly new attacks on Republicans who defied Trump hint at a dark GOP future
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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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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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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story, CNN and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
NBC News:
OpenOurSchools: GOP targets teachers unions in bid to retake suburbs — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says the main obstacle standing in the way of reopening schools is “the rich, powerful unions that donate huge sums to Democrats and get a stranglehold over education in many communities.”
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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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BuzzFeed News and The Hill
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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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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Washington Post and Political Wire
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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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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Washington Post and Balloon Juice
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 …
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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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The truth about Cuomo — As the pandemic took hold of the United States last March, upending life as Americans knew it, Trump offered little consolation. The president claimed COVID would magically disappear in a few weeks, promoted miracle cures, and dismissed any criticism of his chaotic response as a “hoax.”
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Marina Watts / Newsweek:
Joe Biden, Playing as Luigi, Wins in Mario Kart Race Against Granddaughter at Camp David — How did Joe Biden relax during his first Presidents Day weekend as president? By playing MarioKart with his family. — During his weekend retreat at Camp David, Biden and his granddaughter Naomi played the racing video game, and he won.
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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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HotAir, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Week
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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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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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.
Trace William Cowen / Complex:
Hasbro Reportedly Canceling Production of Cara Dune ‘Mandalorian’ Figures After Gina Carano's Firing — Trace William Cowen is a writer based in Los Angeles. He tweets with dramatic irregularity here. — Hasbro is ditching plans to make additional Cara Dune action figures following …
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
GOP senator to propose minimum wage hike coupled with immigration enforcement — As Democrats try to plot a way forward to raise the minimum wage to $15-an-hour, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, announced Tuesday that he's working on a separate bill to increase the long stagnant minimum wage while …
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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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Laura Bassett / Elle:
Jennifer Carroll Foy Almost Died After Childbirth Because—Like Many Black Women—Her Pain Was Dismissed — Her personal experience is part of why she's running to be the nation's first Black woman governor — Jennifer Carroll Foy, a public defender and mother of twins who's running …
Katie Dowd / SFGATE:
Lindsey Graham threatens impeachment of Kamala Harris on Fox News appearance — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) threatened Vice President Kamala Harris with a potential impeachment trial in an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.” — The interview, conducted one day after President Donald Trump …
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HotAir, The Root and The Daily Caller
Brakkton Booker / NPR:
Sen. Ben Sasse: GOP Must Persuade Voters It Has A Vision Beyond Donald Trump — Sen. Ben Sasse is one of seven Republicans who crossed party lines to vote to convict former President Donald Trump during his historic second impeachment trial. — The effort fell 10 votes short of the 67 needed …
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Talking Points Memo and The Hill
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Don't Care for This Impeachment? Wait Until Next Year — Leaders of both political parties suggest that impeachments, Electoral College standoffs and Supreme Court nomination blockades may become frequent fights in American politics. — WASHINGTON — The second season of impeachment …
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