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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:
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
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 …
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Balloon Juice and The American Independent
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 …
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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 …
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Media Matters for America, Axios, NPR, The Independent, Crooks and Liars, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, CNN, Raw Story and McSweeney's
Will Englund / Washington Post:
The Texas grid got crushed because its operators didn't see the need to prepare for cold weather
The Texas grid got crushed because its operators didn't see the need to prepare for cold weather
Tom Steele / Dallas Morning News:
Texas mayor says he had already resigned after writing ‘only the strong will survive’ amid cold, power outages
Texas mayor says he had already resigned after writing ‘only the strong will survive’ amid cold, power outages
Erin Douglas / The Texas Tribune:
Texas largely relies on natural gas for power. It wasn't ready for the extreme cold.
Texas largely relies on natural gas for power. It wasn't ready for the extreme cold.
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Alec Dent / The Dispatch:
Is the Texas Power Grid ‘Totally Reliant’ on Windmills?
Is the Texas Power Grid ‘Totally Reliant’ on Windmills?
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Fox News, Washington Post and Grand Forks Herald
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Beto O'Rourke: ‘We are nearing a failed state in Texas’ due to Republican leaders
Beto O'Rourke: ‘We are nearing a failed state in Texas’ due to Republican leaders
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The Texas Tribune, Austin American-Statesman, Sean Hannity, KTAB and Mock Paper Scissors
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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Media Matters for America, Washingtonian, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy and Pharyngula
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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 …
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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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The Hill, Bloomberg, Big League Politics, Talking Points Memo, Althouse, Outside the Beltway, Patterico's Pontifications and The Week
Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson's Confessions …:
My Friend Rush Limbaugh, RIP
My Friend Rush Limbaugh, RIP
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TheBlaze
Kadia Goba / Axios:
Rush Limbaugh dies at 70 after battle with lung cancer
Rush Limbaugh dies at 70 after battle with lung cancer
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Washington Examiner, Fox News, Politico, RedState, The Federalist, KNSD-TV, Crooks and Liars and Mock Paper Scissors
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Rush Limbaugh, the Human Megaphone Who Hijacked the GOP, Dead at 70
Rush Limbaugh, the Human Megaphone Who Hijacked the GOP, Dead at 70
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Moderate Voice and Political Wire
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Era of Limbaugh — Editor's Note: This post was originally published on Feb. 7, 2020.
The Era of Limbaugh — Editor's Note: This post was originally published on Feb. 7, 2020.
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Washington Examiner, Fox News and National Review
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Talk Show Host Rush Limbaugh, A Conservative Lodestar, Dies At 70
Talk Show Host Rush Limbaugh, A Conservative Lodestar, Dies At 70
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Media Matters for America, Wall Street Journal and Orange County Register
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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Spectrum News NY1, National Review, Washington Post, The Hill, IJR, Forbes, Bloomberg and Sean Hannity, more at Mediagazer »
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Cuomo Vowed to ‘Destroy’ a Fellow Democrat Over Nursing Home Criticism — Gov. Andrew Cuomo attacked 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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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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Washington Examiner, Insider, Law & Crime, Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
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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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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Human Events, The Daily Caller, The Western Journal, Raw Story, Washington Post and Washington Examiner
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Andrew C. McCarthy / The Hill:
Graham's ‘impeach Kamala’ drumbeat will lead Republicans to a 2022 defeat
Graham's ‘impeach Kamala’ drumbeat will lead Republicans to a 2022 defeat
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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.
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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.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
“Politically isolating”: White House issues obstruction warning to GOP
“Politically isolating”: White House issues obstruction warning to GOP
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ABC News, The Nation, Washington Examiner, Insider and Off the Kuff
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
If There Was a Republican Civil War, It Appears to Be Over
If There Was a Republican Civil War, It Appears to Be Over
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The Dispatch, NBC News and USA Today
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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The Hill
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.
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John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
Mitch McConnell Has Learned Nothing And Forgotten Nothing — The idea that McConnell is the right man to decide who is ‘electable’ is a joke. — The Senate impeachment trial of former President Trump is over, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to move on.
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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 …
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Emily Brooks / Washington Examiner:
NBA politics shoots for Washington: Alex Lasry launches Wisconsin Senate bid
NBA politics shoots for Washington: Alex Lasry launches Wisconsin Senate bid
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Washington Free Beacon and UPROXX
Perry Beeman / DeWitt Observer:
Grassley: Decision on another run may be a few weeks away — Longtime U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said he may decide in a few weeks whether to seek another term in 2022. — Grassley, 87, would be 95 at the end of what would be his eighth term. A Republican, he is Iowa's senior senator.
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 …
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 …
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Political Wire
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.
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.
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 …
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