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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 …
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
No amount of disaster can shake the GOP loose from Trump — Five years ago, Donald Trump seized control of the Republican Party by attacking conservative icons, insulting former GOP presidents and disregarding Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment that warned against criticizing other party members.
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The Week, Occupy Democrats, Real Clear Politics, Esquire, The Hill, Florida Politics and Raw Story
Douglas Schoen / The Hill:
Republicans face an identity crisis
Republicans face an identity crisis
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National Review and Liberty Unyielding
Politico:
Security officials in charge on Jan. 6 tell Congress conflicting stories — The officials in charge of securing the Capitol on Jan. 6 say a tangled mess of conflicting orders and unanswered calls culminated in an hourslong delay by the Pentagon in deploying National Guard troops to quell …
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Emily Singer / The American Independent:
GOP senator pushes lie that police caused Capitol insurrection — Ron Johnson suggested Capitol Police officers instigated the Jan. 6 insurrection — a blatant lie to try to absolve Donald Trump of culpability in the deadly attack. — Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Tuesday pushed …
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Washington Post, The Hill and The Intellectualist
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Former Capitol Police chief says his staff didn't show him FBI intel on potential for violence
Former Capitol Police chief says his staff didn't show him FBI intel on potential for violence
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Insider, Talking Points Memo and Fox News
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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Law & Crime, Talking Points Memo, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
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Jacob Shamsian / Insider:
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell says he's losing $65 million over election-fraud claims and it proves he's not pushing conspiracy theories for the money
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell says he's losing $65 million over election-fraud claims and it proves he's not pushing conspiracy theories for the money
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The Hill, Mic, Talking Points Memo, Sun-Sentinel, New York Post, Raw Story, CBS Miami, New York Times and Above the Law
Politico:
‘A double standard going on’: Democrats accuse GOP and Manchin of bias on Biden nominations — Women's rights activists and allied Democrats are growing increasingly vocal about what they call the unfair targeting of women and people of color nominated by Joe Biden to top posts in his administration.
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Manchin'd — FOR JOE MANCHIN, IT'S ‘NOT PERSONAL’: The Democratic Senate has hit …
Manchin'd — FOR JOE MANCHIN, IT'S ‘NOT PERSONAL’: The Democratic Senate has hit …
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Washington Post, Florida Politics, CNN and Wall Street Journal
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 …
Santi Ruiz / Washington Free Beacon:
Amazon Pulls Bestseller on Transgender Issues From Store Without Explanation — Amazon pulled a bestseller on transgender issues from its online store on Sunday without explanation. — Author Ryan T. Anderson tweeted on Sunday that his book, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, had been removed.
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Jeremy Beaman / Washington Examiner:
Amazon: Buy anything you could ever want, except this book challenging transgenderism
Amazon: Buy anything you could ever want, except this book challenging transgenderism
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The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna pledge massive boost to U.S. supply after sluggish rollout — The increases needed to meet March delivery targets will be steep, however, and Biden administration officials expect the companies could come up slightly short — Drug companies told lawmakers Tuesday …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Informed Comment, Democrats … and Political Wire
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Cassidy Morrison / Washington Examiner:
Johnson & Johnson prepared to ship out 20M COVID-19 vaccines as it nears FDA authorization
Johnson & Johnson prepared to ship out 20M COVID-19 vaccines as it nears FDA authorization
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Bloomberg, Politico, WISC-TV and Deseret News
Twitter:
Disclosing networks of state-linked information operations — Today we are disclosing four networks of accounts to our archive of state-linked information operations; the only archive of its kind in the industry. The networks we are disclosing relate to independent, state-affiliated information operations …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz's latest Cancún spin shows the rot of GOP victimization runs deep — Mark it down. Republicans have hit on a new way to spin away their own screw-ups and scandals: By claiming the media focus on their political travails is driven by the press' search for a new Republican victim …
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HuffPost, The Week, The Hill, Talking Points Memo and POLITICUSUSA
New York Times:
Slate Suspends Podcast Host After Debate Over Racial Slur — Mike Pesca of “The Gist” said he was suspended after defending, in a Slack discussion with colleagues, the use of the slur in some contexts. — The online publication Slate has suspended a well-known podcast host after he debated …
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
David Perdue pulls himself out of 2022 Georgia Senate race — Former Sen. David Perdue has opted not to mount a comeback in Georgia, with the Republican saying in an email to supporters that he will not challenge Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in 2022. — Perdue, 71, was ousted …
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
David Perdue won't mount comeback bid for US Senate in 2022
David Perdue won't mount comeback bid for US Senate in 2022
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New York Times, HuffPost, Bloomberg, The Hill, Talking Points Memo, Forbes and National Review
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Future of Conservatism Is Flight 93 Elections Forever — Michael Anton has been confronted with a dilemma few writers have ever contemplated: how to handle catastrophic success. Anton's 2016 essay, “The Flight 93 Election,” made a then-shocking case to the right-wing intelligentsia in favor of Donald Trump's election.
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
The battle over climate change is boiling over on the home front — Municipalities want new buildings to go all electric, spurning gas-fired stoves and heating systems. The gas industry disagrees — A new front has opened in the battle over climate change: The kitchen.
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Bloomberg's 2020 aides got an unwelcome surprise in their tax forms — Nearly a year after Mike Bloomberg's $1 billion presidential campaign crashed into Super Tuesday, his staffers are still dealing with the aftershocks. — In recent weeks, aides to the former Democratic candidate started …
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HotAir
The Bulwark:
Wisconsin Republicans Refuse To Condemn Political Violence — Nothing that might be taken as criticism of Donald Trump can be allowed. — We are long-time Republicans who have served in GOP leadership at the county, district, and state levels in Wisconsin.
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Raw Story
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 …
Benjamin Wermund / Houston Chronicle:
President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden to travel to Houston on Friday — WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden are heading to Houston on Friday as Texas recovers from winter storms that left millions without power and water. — The White House announced the trip on Tuesday with no additional details.
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Mediaite, IJR and Political Wire
Ben Casselman / New York Times:
For Women in Economics the Hostility is Out in the Open — Studies have found that the field is plagued by a singular problem of gender bias. The latest evidence comes from the types of questions posed at seminars. — A few years ago, the economists Alicia Sasser Modestino and Justin Wolfers sat …
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 …
Bonchie / RedState:
Does Merrick Garland Even Know What Day It Is? — Merrick Garland had his confirmation hearing yesterday. The formerly deceased (ok, not really) Supreme Court nominee from the Obama era is being seen as a shoe-in for Attorney General. The expectation is that many Republican Senators will vote to confirm …
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Liberty Unyielding, The Daily Wire, Crooks and Liars and The Gateway Pundit
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Blinken asks for Israeli help in facilitating COVID vaccines to the Palestinians — Secretary of State Tony Blinken asked his Israeli counterpart in their phone call on Monday for Israel to facilitate the transfer of COVID-19 vaccines to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, Israeli officials told me.
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Washington Examiner and Doctors Without Borders
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.
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Two Supreme Court cases could destroy what remains of the Voting Rights Act — A 6-3 Republican Court will hear one of the most aggressive attacks on voting rights since Jim Crow. — Next Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear two cases that could shred much of what remains of the right …
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SCOTUSblog and Election Law Blog
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Biden's OMB Plan B — House Democratic leaders are quietly mounting a campaign for Shalanda Young, a longtime congressional aide, to replace Neera Tanden as nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget, people familiar with the matter tell Axios.
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Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and Talking Points Memo
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Woke Me When It's Over — In the humorless world of Woke, the satire is never funny and the statute of limitations never expires, even when it comes to hamantaschen. — In 2015, Bon Appétit ran an article by the food writer Dawn Perry about hamantaschen, the triangular cookies …
United States Department of State:
Secretary Blinken's Call with Egyptian Foreign Minister Shoukry — The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry. The Secretary and the Foreign Minister highlighted the importance …
Julia Wick / Los Angeles Times:
Vaccine access codes for Black, Latino communities improperly used in affluent L.A. areas — A California program intended to improve COVID-19 vaccine availability to people in hard-hit communities of color is being misused by outsiders who are grabbing appointments reserved for residents of underserved Black and Latino areas.
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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 …
Silvia Foster-Frau / Washington Post:
First migrant facility for children opens under Biden — CARRIZO SPRINGS, Tex. — Dozens of migrant teens boarded vans Monday for the trip down a dusty road to a former man camp for oil field workers here, the first migrant child facility opened under the Biden administration.
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CNN:
‘Where is everyone?’: Inside Trump's DC hotel post-presidency — Washington (CNN)A sprawling lobby and bar with only a handful of people. Confused guests asking where everybody went. Elegant, but empty hallways. These are the scenes CNN observed inside the Trump International Hotel in Washington …
Nathan Bernard / Mainer:
Anti-Maskers Waging “Spiritual War” Statewide — A network of far-right activists organized on social media, including anti-maskers and anti-vaxx conspiracists, has been raising hell in communities all over Maine, staging armed protests and becoming increasingly aggressive on the streets.
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Raw Story