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Rush Limbaugh, Bigoted King Of Talk Radio, Dies At 70 — Limbaugh saturated America's airwaves with cruelty and conspiracies, amassing millions of listeners and transforming the Republican Party. — Rush Limbaugh, a talk radio pioneer who saturated America's airwaves with cruel bigotries …
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Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio provocateur and cultural phenomenon, dies at 70 — Rush Limbaugh, who deployed comic bombast and relentless bashing of liberals, feminists and environmentalists to become the nation's most popular radio talk-show host and lead the Republican Party into a politics …
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio's Conservative Provocateur, Dies at 70 — A longtime favorite of the right, he was a furious critic of Barack Obama and a full-throated cheerleader for Donald J. Trump. — Rush Limbaugh, the relentlessly provocative voice of conservative America who dominated talk radio …
Mark Steyn / Steyn Online:
The Indispensable Man — It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of Rush Limbaugh, a giant of American broadcasting, a uniquely talented performer, and a hugely generous man to whom I owe almost everything. — Rush died this morning, after a year-long struggle with lung cancer.
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Joe Walsh / TIME:
Rush Limbaugh Leaves Behind a Conservative Movement No Longer Interested in Truth. That Alarms Me as a Conservative — Walsh is a former Republican Congressman and former Republican candidate for President. He hosts the podcast F*ck Silence and is the author of the book F*ck Silence …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Rush Limbaugh Taught Republicans to Love an Angry, Racist Bully
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Charles Sykes / Washington Post:
We're living in the world Rush Limbaugh created
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Zachary Halaschak / Washington Examiner:
‘Our greatest champion’: Pence cites Limbaugh as a personal inspiration
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National Review:
Remembering Rush — a Conservative Messenger Who Changed the Dialogue
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Rush Limbaugh, the Human Megaphone Who Hijacked the GOP, Dead at 70
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Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson's Confessions …:
My Friend Rush Limbaugh, RIP
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CNN:
Cuomo said ‘he can destroy me’: NY assemblyman alleges governor threatened him over nursing homes scandal — (CNN)New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been pleading with lawmakers for support and even threatening political retribution against Democrats who have criticized him in an aggressive effort …
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Brendan J. Lyons / Albany Times Union:
FBI, U.S. attorney in Brooklyn probing Cuomo administration on nursing homes — Investigation is in its early stages; no allegations of wrongdoing have been made — ALBANY — The FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn have launched an investigation that is examining, at least in part …
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Cuomo Attacks a Fellow Democrat Over Nursing Home Criticism — Gov. Andrew Cuomo lashed out at Assemblyman Ron Kim, both publicly and in a private phone call, as a war intensified over the state's handling of nursing home deaths during the pandemic. — For months, Assemblyman Ron Kim …
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James Osborne / Houston Chronicle:
Perry says Texans willing to suffer blackouts to keep feds out of power market — WASHINGTON - Former Texas governor Rick Perry suggests that going days without power is a sacrifice Texans should be willing to make if it means keeping federal regulators out of the state's power grid.
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Dionne Searcey / New York Times:
What Caused the Blackouts in Texas?
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Andrew Exum / The Atlantic:
I'm Freezing Cold and Burning Mad in Texas
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New York Times:
Promotions for Female Generals Were Delayed Over Fears of Trump's Reaction — Under a Biden administration, the nominations are expected to go from the Pentagon to the White House within weeks and then to the Senate for approval. — WASHINGTON — Last fall, the Pentagon's most senior leaders agreed …
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Antonia Noori Farzan / Washington Post:
Texas mayor tells residents to fend for themselves during power outage: ‘Only the strong will survive’ — By Tuesday morning, the residents of Colorado City, Tex., were getting anxious. More than 24 hours had passed since a deadly Arctic blast knocked out power across the state …
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National Review:
Trump v. McConnell — The former president slammed the Senate minority leader in a long, angry, personally insulting statement. — WHITE HOUSE — Biden's Confusion on How to Talk about Genocide — By JIMMY QUINN — A flubbed answer on Communist China's concentration camps exposes …
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Eliza Relman / Insider:
Fox News hosts didn't correct Trump's lie that he won the election in his first interview post-insurrection
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Manu Raju / CNN:
McConnell's plan to deal with Trump: Ignore him
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Pete Souza / Jewish Insider:
Ben Rhodes cites ‘very aggressive, pro-Likud media’ in the U.S. for intensity on Israel — PODCAST PLAYBACK — Rhodes joined Peter Beinart on his podcast, Occupied Thoughts — Peter Beinart, a fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace and editor-at-large of Jewish Currents …
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Former Obama Foreign Policy Hand Disappointed in Biden's Pro-Israel Posture
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Skyler Swisher / Sun-Sentinel:
'I wouldn't be complaining.' Gov. DeSantis threatens to pull coronavirus vaccine from communities that criticize distribution — Gov. Ron DeSantis suggested Wednesday that he would divert COVID-19 vaccines from communities that criticize his distribution methods, sparking complaints that he is playing politics with lifesaving medicine.
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Tracey Tully / New York Times:
Watch the Trump Era in Atlantic City End With 3,000 Sticks of Dynamite — The implosion of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, the last vestige of the former president's once-dominant brand in Atlantic City, N.J., took place Wednesday morning. — ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — It was not the biggest or the best implosion ever.
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Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
News Analysis: The tragedy of Dianne Feinstein — If Dianne Feinstein hadn't lived the life she had, her story might be the product of a screenwriter's over-fertile imagination. — The synopsis: After surviving an abusive childhood, Feinstein overcomes personal loss — she is widowed at age 45 …
QU Poll:
Half Of Americans Approve Of The Job President Biden Is Doing, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Most Say Conspiracy Theories In The U.S. Are Out Of Control — Four weeks after being sworn into office, President Joe Biden receives a positive job approval rating as Americans approve 50 …
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Wall Street Journal:
Biden Allies to Launch Advocacy Group to Promote Covid-19 Relief Plan, Other Policies — The nonprofit's working name is ‘Building Back Together,’ expected to launch next month — WASHINGTON—President Biden's allies are preparing to create a new nonprofit advocacy organization …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
“Politically isolating”: White House issues obstruction warning to GOP
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate Dems take a page from GOP in judicial nominee battles — Senate Democrats are planning to continue the GOP's approach to giving home-state senators veto power over lower court nominees — while granting freer rein to President Joe Biden's circuit court nominees.
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About Facebook:
Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia — In response to Australia's proposed new Media Bargaining law, Facebook will restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content. — The proposed law fundamentally misunderstands …
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Charlie Sykes / Bulwark+:
Crenshaw Reloaded — The Texas Congressman wants it both ways — Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw has some deep thoughts about what ails right-wing politics these days. — There is, he says, way too much “performance,” rather than persuasion. Too much much grift; too much talking about …
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Steve Israel / The Hill:
How Democrats can ensure Trump never runs again — The second impeachment of former President Donald Trump ended as predictably as the first: an acquittal based on evidence that was never actually presented. Even when their eyes were riveted to the grotesque footage of armed insurrectionists invading …
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Spare us: After Trump, seven Republican lectures Democrats never need to hear again — It probably would be easier to list what Republicans are still qualified to pontificate on. Why the federal deficit is a huge problem? Hmmm. Never mind. — There's nothing like a new Democratic administration …
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Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times:
UCLA student with extremist views who FBI says sat in Pence's chair is charged in Capitol riot — A UCLA student who posted white supremacist views online and founded an ultra-right campus organization has been charged with federal crimes for his alleged role in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection.
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Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Allegations of sexist cyberstalking by Trump's top advisor roils secretive paternity case — The key advisor in Donald Trump's post-presidency is an often-deadbeat dad who just sent a grave threat to opposing counsel, upending the extraordinarily lengthy Florida paternity case he's spending a fortune to fight.
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