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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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The Texas Tribune:
“We're in it alone”: Power outages leave millions of Texans desperate for heat and safety  —  Texas residents said the storm — and ensuing partial collapse of the state's power system — sapped what mental reserves they had left after eleven months of a global health crisis that has cost thousands …
The Texas Tribune:
No, frozen wind turbines aren't the main culprit for Texas' power outages  —  Lost wind power makes up only a fraction of the reduction in power generating capacity that has brought outages to millions of Texans across the state during a major winter storm.  —  Copy link
Will Englund / Washington Post:
The Texas grid got crushed because its operators didn't see the need to prepare for cold weather  —  Republicans blame frozen wind turbines, but the problem was much bigger than that  —  When it gets really cold, it can be hard to produce electricity, as customers in Texas and neighboring states are finding out.
Jamie Burch / KTXE-LP:
Colorado City mayor resigns, responds to his controversial Facebook post  —  Colorado City Mayor Tim Boyd has resigned.  Boyd acknowledged the resignation Tuesday afternoon while responding to criticism he received for a controversial Facebook post.  Tuesday morning, Boyd voiced his frustrations …
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott blames wind turbines, Green New Deal policies for outages.  Critics call that ‘a lie.’  —  As millions of people across Texas struggled to stay warm Tuesday amid massive cold-weather power outages, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) directed his ire at one particular failure …
Erin Douglas / The Texas Tribune:
Texas largely relies on natural gas for power. It wasn't ready for the extreme cold.
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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HuffPost:
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 …
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 …
Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson's Confessions …:   My Friend Rush Limbaugh, RIP
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Rush Limbaugh, the Human Megaphone Who Hijacked the GOP, Dead at 70
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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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN's Chris Cuomo is reminding us why conflicts of interest poison the news  —  On his Monday night CNN program, host Chris Cuomo provided an update on the biggest story of the past year.  “Now, good news: When it comes to coronavirus, we've had the best week we've seen so far, in terms of getting people vaccinated.
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.
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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Andrew C. McCarthy / The Hill:
Graham's ‘impeach Kamala’ drumbeat will lead Republicans to a 2022 defeat
Discussion: FactCheck.org and SFGATE
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.
Discussion: KSAT-TV, Raw Story and Political Wire
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
The GOP Is Now the Party of Thugs, Terrorists, Racists and Dopes  —  DOING THE WRONG THING … They don't see the attempted insurrection of Jan. 6 as a crime, or even a loss of control to the most extreme elements of the party.  They see it as a failure to seize control.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Biden's town hall comments on defunding police, student loans, minimum wage could upset left wing  —  Progressive movement leader warns Biden's comments could damage grassroots support for COVID relief  —  Biden contradicts WH press secretary on message of school reopenings
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Katie Lobosco / CNN:
Biden again rejects $50,000 student loan debt forgiveness plan pushed by other top Democrats
Bill Glauber / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry enters U.S. Senate race with endorsements from several top Milwaukee Democrats  —  Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry, who helped lure the 2020 Democratic National Convention to Milwaukee, entered the race for U.S. Senate Wednesday with a vow to bring …
Discussion: CBS News, CNBC and WTOP
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Emily Brooks / Washington Examiner:
NBA politics shoots for Washington: Alex Lasry launches Wisconsin Senate bid
Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and UPROXX
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 …
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 …
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 …
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Biden's point man on Israel-Palestine isn't aiming for a Nobel Prize  —  The man holding the Israel-Palestine file at the State Department, Hady Amr, isn't working on a sweeping plan for peace, but on incremental steps to improve the situation on the ground, several Israeli, Palestinian and U.S sources tell me.
Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
The Crisis Candidate Maya Wiley believes she can be a better progressive mayor for our traumatized city than her former boss Bill de Blasio.  —  Maya Wiley's parents, both activists, raised her and her brother, Dan, to be resilient.  In 1973, when Maya was 9 and her brother 10, their father, George Wiley, bought a small boat.
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
COVID-19 Cases Are Dropping Fast.  Why?  —  Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers.  Find the collection here.  —  One month ago, the CDC published the results of more than 20 pandemic forecasting models.
Hollywood Reporter:
Behind Disney's Firing of ‘Mandalorian’ Star Gina Carano  —  The ouster of Carano from the show draws the ire of the political right-wing and marks an inflection point for Lucasfilm, whose star was warned repeatedly about her social posts.  —  It's a plot twist that no studio relishes …
Fox News Channel Press:
FOX NATION TO LAUNCH NEW EXCLUSIVE CONTENT WITH TUCKER CARLSON  —  Carlson to Host New Video Podcast and Long-form Documentary Series “Tucker Carlson Originals”  —  NEW YORK - February 17, 2021 — FOX Nation, FOX News Media's on demand subscription-based streaming service, has signed a new …
Heather Long / Washington Post:
Millions of jobs probably aren't coming back, even after the pandemic ends  —  The United States needs to invest more in retraining workers, economists warn.  —  Millions of jobs that have been shortchanged or wiped out entirely by the coronavirus pandemic are unlikely to come back …
News Corp:
News Corp and Google Agree To Global Partnership On News  —  Long-term Deal Involves Payment For Premium Content For Google News Showcase;  —  Will Yield Substantial Benefits For Journalism And Society  —  News Corp announced today that it has agreed to an historic multi-year partnership …
 
 
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J.D. Prose / Beaver County Times & Allegheny Times:
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