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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets — It's also planning a groups feature — Twitter announced a pair of big upcoming features today: the ability for users to charge their followers for access to additional content, and the ability to create and join groups based around specific interests.
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Trish Intel:
Manhattan DA Gets Trump's Tax Returns — Manhattan's District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. now has possession of the tax records of former President Donald Trump. — The records from 2011-2018 arrived at the DA's office as a result of the Supreme Court refusing to intervene in the DA's subpoena for the documents.
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Trump's tax returns and related records turned over to Manhattan district attorney — (CNN)Tax records that former President Donald Trump tried to keep secret for years are now in the hands of the New York district attorney. — Prosecutors obtained the records on Monday, according to a source …
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Trump plots future — and revenge — from sunny Florida links
Trump plots future — and revenge — from sunny Florida links
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Raw Story
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
A Capitol rioter texted his ex during the insurrection to call her a ‘moron,’ feds say. She turned him in. — Standing on the Capitol steps on Jan. 6, Richard Michetti allegedly took a break from the rioting to argue with his ex-girlfriend over text message.
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Washington Post:
Biden's chief of staff at center of controversy over White House budget pick — White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain has adamantly defended Neera Tanden, both in public and internally — White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain is at the center of the controversy over President Biden's choice …
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
The day I saw Neera Tanden's bipartisan side — What if Neera Tanden is not who many Republicans seem to think she is? What if her caustic tweets are not the whole story? — There's a side of Tanden, President Biden's embattled nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget …
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New York Times, Slate and Twitchy
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Capitol Police chief: Security will remain high due to State of the Union threat — The Capitol Police is keeping its security posture high in response to intelligence that indicates some extremists who joined the Jan. 6 insurrection have discussed plans to attack the building during the State of the Union …
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Capitol law enforcement heads to detail intelligence failures leading up to Jan. 6 riot
Capitol law enforcement heads to detail intelligence failures leading up to Jan. 6 riot
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Washington Post:
House votes to pass Equality Act, prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity — The House on Thursday voted to pass the Equality Act, a far-reaching measure that has been decades in the making and would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
House passes Equality Act to boost LGBTQ protections
House passes Equality Act to boost LGBTQ protections
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The Hill, Washington Post, Forbes, LGBTQ Nation, KTLA, Deseret News, UPI, Political Wire and The Signorile Report
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted for attacking colleague's transgender daughter: ‘Sickening, pathetic, unimaginably cruel’
Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted for attacking colleague's transgender daughter: ‘Sickening, pathetic, unimaginably cruel’
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Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal:
House Vote Over Discrimination Divides Lawmakers
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Chip Roy Is A Cowardly Goldfish — Butching up with MAGA by condemning people who hold the same position you did six weeks ago. — Here's a take on Donald Trump that sounds like something you might've read here in The Bulwark or heard on MSNBC: … Hard to argue with, right?
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HotAir, The Daily Caller, IJR, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill:
Conservatives go after Cheney for Trump CPAC remarks
Conservatives go after Cheney for Trump CPAC remarks
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Washington Post, Breitbart, Palmer Report and CNN
Liat Kaplan / New York Times:
My Year of Grief and Cancellation — What was I trying to accomplish with my anonymous Tumblr? — If you were on Tumblr in the early 2010s, you may remember a blog called Your Fave Is Problematic. If not, its content should still sound familiar to you.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Kennedy: I'm sorry for calling Haaland a ‘whack job’ — Sen. John Kennedy apologized on Thursday for calling President Joe Biden's Interior Department nominee, Deb Haaland, a “whack job.” — The Louisiana Republican said he regretted the remark about Haaland, explaining that he was searching …
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Power Line and Fox News
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Andrew Kaczynski / Washington Post:
My baby daughter died of brain cancer. Here's what we can do to save other kids. — Opinion by Andrew Kaczynski — Andrew Kaczynski is an investigative reporter and founder of CNN's KFile Team. — It was a beautiful September day that began with a long, relaxing walk across Brooklyn …
Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN:
Costco raises its minimum wage above rivals like Amazon, Target and Best Buy — New York (CNN Business)Costco will raise its starting rate for hourly store workers in the United States to $16 an hour, putting its starting wage above rivals such as Amazon, Target and Best Buy.
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NBC News, Politico, USA Today, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner, UPI, New York Post, CBS Pittsburgh and KRON4
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Alina Selyukh / NPR:
Costco To Raise Minimum Wage To $16 An Hour: 'This Isn't Altruism'
Costco To Raise Minimum Wage To $16 An Hour: 'This Isn't Altruism'
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The Hill, CBS News, Al Jazeera and The Daily Caller
John McCormack / National Review:
Sasse Blasts Becerra: ‘Hell of a Lot More Dangerous Than Tanden’ — While Democratic senator Joe Manchin and most moderate GOP senators are opposing the nomination of Neera Tanden to serve as Joe Biden's OMB director because of insulting tweets she posted about various senators …
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Washington Examiner, Breitbart, New York Post, HotAir and Politico
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Why Biden Prefers Politicians Over Experts
Stephen Fowler / Georgia Public Broadcasting:
Georgia Senate Committee Considers Walking Back Proposal To Limit Absentee Voting — An omnibus proposal in the Georgia Senate could end no-excuse absentee voting. — Republicans in the Georgia Senate are considering walking back some of the proposals in an omnibus voting bill that could end …
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Breitbart, Tennessee Star and Democratic Party of Georgia
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Alan I. Abramowitz / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Assessing the Impact of Absentee Voting on Turnout and Democratic Vote Margin in 2020
Assessing the Impact of Absentee Voting on Turnout and Democratic Vote Margin in 2020
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New York Magazine, Des Moines Register, FiveThirtyEight and Washington Post
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The GOP is not even trying to disguise its racism anymore — This week, Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.) played up White victim mentality during the confirmation hearing for attorney general nominee Merrick Garland. Kennedy took issue with Garland's use of the term “implicit bias,” …
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Raw Story, EXPOSEDbyCMD and Forbes
New York Times:
Nursing Homes, Once Hotspots, Far Outpace U.S. in Covid Declines — 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 120% of weekly deaths compared with start of vaccinations July Sept. Nov. Jan. 2021 Feb. 7Vaccinationrollout begins — Deaths among nursing home residents have dropped significantly since vaccinations began.
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“You've Made the Post Swashbuckling Once Again”: Marty Baron Receives a Star-Studded Farewell and Dishes in a Wide-Ranging Exit Interview — Stars from Hollywood (Spielberg, Schreiber) and the news biz (Baquet, Blitzer) toasted the legendary editor, who recalls angry calls from Trump …
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Washington Post
wusa9.com:
Dozens of Capitol rioters have been granted public defenders. Their trials could cost us millions — The majority of suspects in the January 6 insurrection could wind up with court-appointed attorneys. That's the cost of our justice system, experts say.
Harriet Alexander / Daily Mail:
Student was not victim of racism for ‘eating while black’ at $80k Smith College and made up details that ruined the lives of four campus workers and led to controversial anti-bias training that employee resigned over — Oumou Kanoute claimed she was targeted in July 2018 for ‘eating while black’
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Washington Examiner, Fox News, Breitbart, New York Post and The Daily Caller
Maura Judkis / Washington Post:
The joy of vax: The people giving the shots are seeing hope, and it's contagious — The happiest place in medicine right now is a basketball arena in New Mexico. Or maybe it's the parking lot of a baseball stadium in Los Angeles, or a Six Flags in Maryland, or a shopping mall in South Dakota.
Alex Paterson / Media Matters for America:
Sen. Rand Paul parrots right-wing media lies about trans youth during Dr. Rachel Levine's confirmation hearing — Paul lied that kids are undergoing “genital mutilation” and cited junk science from discredited anti-LGBTQ group American College of Pediatricians
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ABC News, VICE, National Review, LGBTQ Nation and PinkNews
NBC News:
Lawyers have found the parents of 105 separated migrant children in past month … WASHINGTON — The lawyers working to reunite immigrant parents and children separated by the Trump administration reported Wednesday that they have found the parents of 105 children in the past month.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
The GOP's choice in 2024: Trump Ultra, Trump Lite or Trump Zero — At least eight 2024 hopefuls will speak at CPAC, the conservative movement's premier conference this weekend in Florida, giving Republicans their clearest look yet at who's competing in the traditional GOP presidential lanes.
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Associated Press, Democrats, Washington Post, Fox News and Raw Story
Laurence Tribe / The Hill:
Justice Thomas is out of order on 2020 election — The 2020 election revealed rot in this country's institutions. Donald Trump degraded the presidency; senators like Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) degraded the Congress. And, in a direct shot at the legitimacy of Joe Biden's election …
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American Greatness and Broad + Liberty
Joe Walsh / The Bulwark:
It's Time to Plant a New Flag — America needs a “radically centrist, common sense, let's get shit done party.” — Ok, here's the easy part: The Republican Party is what it is, it's the Trump/Trumpy party, it's the party of nationalism, protectionism, authoritarianism, wall-building …
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