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7:30 PM ET, February 17, 2021

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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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.
Charles Sykes / Washington Post:
We're living in the world Rush Limbaugh created
Discussion: CBS News, Snopes.com and Twitchy
Joe Walsh / TIME:
Rush Limbaugh Leaves Behind a Conservative Movement No Longer Interested in Truth. That Alarms Me as a Conservative
Discussion: spectator.us and The Hill
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Rush Limbaugh, the Human Megaphone Who Hijacked the GOP, Dead at 70
Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson's Confessions …:
My Friend Rush Limbaugh, RIP
Discussion: TheBlaze
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 …
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?  —  The state's widespread electricity failure was largely caused by freezing natural gas pipelines.  That didn't stop advocates for fossil fuels from trying to shift blame.  —  As his state was racked by an electricity crisis that left millions …
Discussion: ercot.com, CNBC and Washington Post
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott blames wind turbines, Green New Deal policies for outages. Critics call that ‘a lie.’
Andrew Exum / The Atlantic:
I'm Freezing Cold and Burning Mad in Texas
Discussion: CNN, Jacobin and Joe.My.God.
Bloomberg:
Texas Was Warned a Decade Ago Its Grid Was Unready for Cold
Discussion: Washington Post
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 …
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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Tom Steele / Dallas Morning News:
Texas mayor says he had already resigned after writing ‘only the strong will survive’ amid cold, power outages
Jamie Burch / KTXE-LP:
Colorado City mayor resigns, responds to his controversial Facebook post
Eliza Relman / Insider:
Fox News hosts didn't correct Trump's lie that he won the election in his first interview post-insurrection … - Trump repeated the false claim that he won re-election in his first interview since the Jan. 6 insurrection.  — Fox News hosts Harris Faulkner and Bill Hemmer didn't correct Trump's false claims on live TV.
Discussion: TVNewser
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National Review:
Trump v. McConnell
Discussion: The Federalist and Political Wire
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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Politico:
DeSantis defends opening vaccine pop-up site in affluent, mostly white community
Discussion: Axios, Sarasota Herald-Tribune and CNN
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 …
Discussion: Twitchy
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Former Obama Foreign Policy Hand Disappointed in Biden's Pro-Israel Posture
Discussion: Washington Post and RedState
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.
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 …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Hill
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.
Discussion: Bulwark+, Jacobin and Washington Post
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: UPI, WTOP, KTLA, Raw Story and Law & Crime
 
 
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Christy Leung / South China Morning Post:
Jimmy Lai arrested in connection with case of 12 fugitives who fled city
Discussion: Reuters and Breitbart
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Netanyahu allies with Jewish supremacists ahead of Israeli election
Aditya Kalra / Reuters:
Amazon documents reveal company's secret strategy to dodge India's regulators
Bloomberg:
Mnuchin Joins Speech Circuit at $250,000 for Live Address
Wall Street Journal:
Biden Allies to Launch Advocacy Group to Promote Covid-19 Relief Plan, Other Policies
Discussion: CNN
Jordan Williams / The Hill:
Ex-Sanders aide: Biden trying to find ‘most unsympathetic character’ to avoid cancelling student loan debt
Kate Aurthur / Variety:
‘Paddington 3’ Officially in the Works
Discussion: Paste and UPROXX
New York Times:
Stop Worrying About Inflation
Discussion: National Review
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Greg Ip / Wall Street Journal:
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Joe Klein / The Bulwark:
What We Mean When We Talk About “Unity”
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Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:
A Macedonian misinformation site dominated Parler before the Capitol riot
Heather Long / Washington Post:
Millions of jobs probably aren't coming back, even after the pandemic ends
Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Why So Few Absentee Ballots Were Rejected In 2020
Ben Makuch / VICE:
Department of Homeland Security Confirms Neo-Nazi Leader Used to Work For It
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK
 
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