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NBC New York:
Retired NYPD Cop Once Assigned to Secure City Hall Accused of Pipe Attack on Capitol Police — What to Know — Thomas Webster surrendered Monday at the FBI's Hudson Valley office on charges filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. related to the deadly U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6
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The Hill, Fox News, CBS New York, Law & Crime, Crooks and Liars, Talking Points Memo and Eschaton
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Sky Palma / Raw Story:
Notorious ‘eye gouger’ who allegedly beat Capitol police with a pipe revealed to be a former NYPD cop — A retired NYPD officer turned himself in to the FBI this Monday for his role in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, after being accused of using a pipe to attack Capitol police officers.
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Gothamist, The Intellectualist and FREEDOMNEWS.TV
David Brand / Queens News:
Queens Republican district leader arrested for role in Capitol insurrection — A Republican district leader from Queens was arrested Tuesday and charged with various offenses for storming the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6. — FBI agents arrested Philip Grillo, a former candidate …
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The Hill, Forbes, New York Post, Law & Crime and NBC New York
Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Retired N.Y.P.D. Officer Who Guarded City Hall Charged in Capitol Riot
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Retired NYPD cop and Queens ‘Republican Messiah’ arrested in Capitol riot probe
Retired NYPD cop and Queens ‘Republican Messiah’ arrested in Capitol riot probe
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New York Daily News, Gothamist, The Intellectualist and Crooks and Liars
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
McConnell to support Garland for attorney general — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will support Merrick Garland's nomination for attorney general, five years after blocking the judge's path to the Supreme Court. — “I do,” McConnell told POLITICO Tuesday afternoon when asked if he plans to back Garland.
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RedState, CBS News, New York Post, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, Political Wire, National Review, POLITICUSUSA, National File and Sean Hannity
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Biden shifts his operation to DNC ahead of 2022 midterm elections — President Biden has shifted the remnants of his campaign operation, including the donor and volunteer network that got him elected and several key staff members, over to the Democratic National Committee as part of a broader effort …
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Honest Graft
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The people concerned about Neera Tanden's incivility sure didn't seem to mind the Trump era's — It has become a rite of the modern presidential transition: The gods of politics demand a human sacrifice, the Senate torpedoes a nomination, the new administration takes a hit, and everyone moves on.
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CNN, HuffPost, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The opposition to confirming Neera Tanden is based on a lie — Opinion by — There are numerous reasons to mock the opposition to confirming Neera Tanden as the director of the Office of Management and Budget, which is supposedly rooted in anger over her harsh tweets about Republicans.
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Vox, The Intellectualist, Digby's Hullabaloo and The Nation
Politico:
How the White House botched the Neera nomination
How the White House botched the Neera nomination
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Roll Call, The Daily Caller, Raw Story and CNN
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Garland, Tanden and the application of double standards by GOP lawmakers
Garland, Tanden and the application of double standards by GOP lawmakers
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Big League Politics, Politico, Vanity Fair, Newsbusters and IJR
CNN:
Takeaways from the Senate hearing on the US Capitol attack — This is what we learned from Capitol riot hearing — (CNN)Former officials who were responsible for security at the US Capitol testified Tuesday at the first congressional hearing about the failure to prevent the deadly insurrection …
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Washington Post:
FBI alert about possible ‘war’ against Congress reached D.C. and Capitol Police on eve of attack, deepening security questions
FBI alert about possible ‘war’ against Congress reached D.C. and Capitol Police on eve of attack, deepening security questions
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Washington Examiner and The Intellectualist
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
'You can't just push send': 20 years after 9/11, FBI accused of intel failure before Capitol riot
'You can't just push send': 20 years after 9/11, FBI accused of intel failure before Capitol riot
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MSNBC
Emily Singer / The American Independent:
GOP senator pushes lie that police caused Capitol insurrection
GOP senator pushes lie that police caused Capitol insurrection
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New Republic, Vox, HuffPost, CNN, Washington Post, Raw Story, BuzzFeed News, Talking Points Memo, The Hill and New York Magazine
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Ron Johnson's extreme effort to distance Trump supporters from the Capitol Riot
Ron Johnson's extreme effort to distance Trump supporters from the Capitol Riot
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Crooks and Liars and Slate
Alex Shephard / New Republic:
The Sunday Shows Are Hopelessly Broken — Jonathan Karl, the guest host of ABC's This Week, knew exactly what he was doing on Sunday when he asked Republican Representative Steve Scalise if the 2020 election was stolen. This was, on its face, a simple and straightforward question.
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Melissa Healy / Los Angeles Times:
California's coronavirus strain looks increasingly dangerous: ‘The devil is already here’ — A coronavirus variant that emerged in mid-2020 and surged to become the dominant strain in California not only spreads more readily than its predecessors, but also evades antibodies generated …
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Deadline, HotAir, Digby's Hullabaloo, The Week and KTLA
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Jerry Iannelli / The Appeal:
CALIFORNIA'S D.A. ASSOCIATION MISSPENT $3 MILLION. ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS WANT IT REPAID. — A coalition of environmental groups urges the legislature to force the repayment and dissociate from the CDAA. — In order to fund prosecutions against major environmental polluters …
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Orange County Register
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Al Jazeera to launch rightwing media platform targeting US conservatives — Rightly will be led by a former Fox News journalist and is aimed at Republicans who ‘feel left out of conservative media’ — Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based news network that has previously sought to become …
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The Hill, TheBlaze, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, NPR, The Week and HotAir, more at Mediagazer »
NRSC:
NRSC CHAIRMAN RICK SCOTT: REPUBLICAN CIVIL WAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED — MEMO — TO: REPUBLICAN VOTERS, ACTIVISTS, LEADERS, DONORS — FROM: SENATOR RICK SCOTT, NRSC CHAIRMAN — RE: REPUBLICAN CIVIL WAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED — DATE: FEBRUARY 23, 2021 — The long running impeachment show is now over.
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Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, literary citadel of San Francisco, dies at 101 — Lawrence Ferlinghetti, an acclaimed poet and longtime proprietor of City Lights, the San Francisco bookstore and avant-garde publishing house that catapulted the Beat Generation to fame and helped establish the city …
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Associated Press, Japan Times and Raw Story
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet Who Nurtured the Beats, Dies at 101
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet Who Nurtured the Beats, Dies at 101
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Variety, Slate, The Guardian, Associated Press, The Week, First Draft and Rolling Stone
The Texas Tribune:
Four ERCOT board members who live outside of Texas resign in the aftermath of the power outage, winter storm — Sally Talberg, board chair; Peter Cramton, vice chair; Terry Bulger, finance and audit chair; and Raymond Hepper, human resources and governance committee chair …
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, The Week, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, Law & Crime, ABC13, Forbes, Associated Press and New York Post
Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
Inside the new $65 million push from progressives to compete with conservative media — It's called the Project for Good Information, and it raises big questions about the future of the information wars. — A prominent Democratic strategist is planning a new $65 million effort …
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Raw Story
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: Studies Examine Variant Surging in California, and the News Isn't Good — The East Coast of the United States is still a hot spot as new coronavirus cases have declined across the country and the nation surpassed 500,000 deaths. Around the world, new cases have declined …
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GeekWire
Politico:
‘Bad politics for them’: GOP sneers at Dem Covid bill — Republicans are making a risky but calculated bet: that voters won't punish them for opposing a popular $1.9 trillion coronavirus bill. — With President Joe Biden and Democrats barely even seeking their input …
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Washington Post
Will Wilkinson / Model Citizen:
Climbing the Bell Curve to the Cathedral — Notes on reactionary sea lions — Some folks aren't thrilled about my previous post, “Grey Lady Steel Man.” It seemed to distress Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug) in particular. He penned a defensive, typically catty ad hominem response in his inimitably hysterical prose style.
Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post:
Elon Musk moved to Texas and embraced celebrity. Can Tesla run on Autopilot? — Investors fear a world where Musk no longer leads the company. But his attention is already going elsewhere. — SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk says he is stretched too thin. — The chief executive …
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RedState, Instapundit, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy, HotAir, Big League Politics and The Daily Caller
Johnny Diaz / New York Times:
Arizona Man Is Accused of Faking Own Kidnapping to Evade Work — When the police arrived, they found the man with his hands bound behind his back by a belt and a bandanna “stuffed in his mouth” in Coolidge, Ariz. — The authorities in Arizona accused a man of going to extreme lengths …
Washington Post:
Trump's former treasury secretary expected to launch investment fund, seeking backing of Persian Gulf state funds — Steven Mnuchin has begun hiring staff for an investment fund likely to focus on the financial technology and entertainment sectors, people familiar with the plans said.
Tavi Gevinson / The Cut:
Britney Spears Was Never in Control Why did I ever believe a teen girl could hold all the power? — The New York Times's Framing Britney Spears documentary casts a spell. I am thinking specifically of the stretch that chronicles Spears's rise as a teen idol, starting with the “Baby One More Time” video.
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New York Times and Gothamist
Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
Two charged with making threats to Michigan public officials, including Debbie Stabenow — U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin and Michigan Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Stephens were the targets of threatening communications related to the run-up to the Nov. 3, 2020 …
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SOM, CNN, Washington Examiner and The Hill
Washington Post:
Moderate Senate Democrats target state aid fund in Biden covid relief bill — Disputes grow over minimum wage, aid to states and other issues — Even as the House prepares to pass President Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill this week, divisions are growing among Senate Democrats …
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CBS Denver, Bloomberg and CNBC
Insider:
We identified the 125 people and institutions most responsible for Donald Trump's rise to power and his norm-busting behavior that tested the boundaries of the US government and its institutions … - Insider compiled this database of the 125 people and institutions essential to Donald Trump's rise …
Farai Chideya / Medium:
It's Bigger than Fox News: Time for Mainstream Journalism to Reckon with Monetizing Disinformation and Eroding Truth — “Anti-Black racism is a national security threat.” Those were the simple, direct words of disinformation specialist Mutale Nkonde, CEO of AI for the People, on a listserv of journalists and academics recently.
Maria Cramer / New York Times:
Illinois Becomes First State to Eliminate Cash Bail — Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law that he said would end a system that disproportionately hurts the poor and favors wealthier defendants. — Illinois has become the first state to completely eliminate cash bail, a result of a push …
Glenn Greenwald:
House Democrats, Targeting Right-Wing Cable Outlets, Are Assaulting Core Press Freedoms — Democrats' justification for silencing their adversaries online and in media — “they are spreading fake news and inciting extremism” — is what despots everywhere say. — 5 hr ago
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The Hill and The Daily Wire
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
We Have PTSD About COVID Reality — We don't have to undersell our COVID future now just because people oversold it in the past. — 1 hr ago — 1. 500,000 — Half a million dead Americans. Does that even register for people? — I want to show a couple tweets from a conservative gentleman …
Sam Stein / Politico:
Biden's slow start — With help from Renuka Rayasam and Tyler Weyant — TIME KEEPS ON SLIPPING — For the past few weeks, Democrats have comforted themselves about the slow clip of Joe Biden's cabinet confirmations by noting he was on track to get all of his nominees confirmed.
Laura Bradley / The Daily Beast:
French Actor Gérard Depardieu Charged With Rape: Report — ALLEGATIONS — Gérard Depardieu, the prolific and highly decorated French actor whose most famous titles include Cyrano de Bergerac, The Last Metro, and Green Card, has been charged with rape, French news agency AFP reported Tuesday, citing a judicial source.
Ryan T. Anderson / First Things:
When Amazon Erased My Book — My book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment was released exactly three years ago. It was attacked twice on the New York Times op-ed page. The Washington Post ran a hit piece on it that was riddled with errors. It was obvious the critics hadn't read the book.
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Wall Street Journal, Washington Free Beacon, Breitbart and Power Line
Stephen Rex Brown / New York Daily News:
Rudy Giuliani tried dodging getting served with $1B Dominion Voting Systems suit: source — Rudy Giuliani spent a week dodging service of a $1.3 billion lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems after publicly declaring he was ready for the legal fight, a source told the Daily News.
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Talking Points Memo, Above the Law, POLITICUSUSA, Law & Crime, Raw Story and The Daily Boulder
Politico:
Top Senate Republican has ‘serious concerns’ over Pentagon policy pick — The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee has “serious concerns” over the nomination of Colin Kahl, President Joe Biden's pick to run the Pentagon's policy shop. — The news comes as the committee plans …
Tracey Tully / New York Times:
This 105-Year-Old Beat Covid. She Credits Gin-Soaked Raisins. — Lucia DeClerck, the oldest resident of her New Jersey nursing home, tested positive for the virus on her 105th birthday, one day after her second vaccine shot. — Ask Lucia DeClerck how she has lived to be 105, and she is quick with an answer.
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CBS News and CBS Philly