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New York Times:
How Pro-Trump Forces Pushed a Lie About Antifa at the Capitol Riot — On social media, cable networks and even in the halls of Congress, supporters of Donald J. Trump tried to rewrite history in real time, pushing the fiction that left-wing agitators were to blame for the violence on Jan. 6.
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Washington Post:
Rewriting January 6th: Republicans push false and misleading accounts of Capitol riot — Instead of an attempt to overturn the election by radicalized Donald Trump supporters, it was a choreographed attack staged by antifa provocateurs. Rather than an armed insurrection, it was a good-natured protest spoiled by a few troublemakers.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Rep. Jim Jordan's false claim that Pelosi denied a request for National Guard troops — “Capitol Police requested National Guard help prior to January 6th. That request was denied by Speaker Pelosi and her Sergeant at Arms.” —Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), in a tweet, Feb. 15, 2021
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IJR, Raw Story and Media Matters for America
Edmund DeMarche / Fox News:
Trump says he requested 10K National Guard troops at Capitol on day of riot
Trump says he requested 10K National Guard troops at Capitol on day of riot
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The National Pulse, HotAir, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Gateway Pundit, BizPac Review and Townhall
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Ron Johnson Says He Still Has Many Unanswered Questions
Ron Johnson Says He Still Has Many Unanswered Questions
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Vanity Fair, Daily Kos and Raw Story
New York Times:
Trump's Republican Hit List at CPAC Is a Warning Shot to His Party — In his first public appearance since leaving office, Donald Trump went through, by name, every Republican who supported his second impeachment and called for them to be ousted. — ORLANDO, Fla. — After days of insisting …
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CNN, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, The Bulwark, Raw Story, Washington Examiner, New York Magazine, National Review, Cyprus Mail, Bloomberg, NBC News, HuffPost, Chicago Sun-Times, RedState, The Hill, Mother Jones, Washington Times, NPR, KYMA-TV, Mediaite, UPI, Just Above Sunset and Washington Post
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump unleashes new threat to American democracy
Trump unleashes new threat to American democracy
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Insider, WINK NEWS, Daily Kos, The Daily Boulder, The American Independent, Reuters, Roll Call, IJR, Bangor Daily News, KYMA-TV and The Daily Beast
NBC News:
Trump mostly avoided Covid relief in his CPAC speech. That speaks volumes
Trump mostly avoided Covid relief in his CPAC speech. That speaks volumes
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Washington Post, Daily Torch, Denver Post and The Spectator
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Trump doesn't sound like he wants to run in 2024
Trump doesn't sound like he wants to run in 2024
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The Federalist, Bangor Daily News and The Dispatch
Donald G. McNeil Jr / Medium:
NYTimes Peru N-Word, Part One: Introduction — On February 5 this year, one week after an article about me appeared in the Daily Beast, The New York Times announced that I would be leaving. — At my departure, I was the paper's lead reporter on the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Daily Beast, The Wrap and Scripting News, more at Mediagazer »
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Donald G. McNeil Jr / Medium:
NYTimes Peru N-Word, Part Two: What Happened January 28? — At 11:17 A.M. on January 28, I got an email from the Daily Beast. It was from Lachlan Cartwright, and said: … I was busy working on a Covid-19 story and didn't even notice it. At the time, I was getting more than 500 emails a day …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What Trump's CPAC speech portends for the GOP — DRIVING THE DAY — Happy Monday, Playbookers. Three big stories from late Sunday before we dive into DONALD TRUMP'S big CPAC speech ... — JOE BIDEN backs Amazon union drive. The president stopped just short …
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Washington Post, Bloomberg, America, America, Washington Examiner, Vox, CNN, CBS News, The National Interest, Rosa Rubicondior, Florida Politics, TheBlaze, Fox News, Raw Story, IJR and Mediaite
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Senior Democrats abandon backup plan on $15 per hour minimum wage hike
Senior Democrats abandon backup plan on $15 per hour minimum wage hike
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CNN, Talking Points Memo, HotAir, Insider, The Hill, Wall Street Journal and Fox News
Jarrell Dillard / Bloomberg:
Progressives Call on White House to Overrule Senate Rules-Keeper
Progressives Call on White House to Overrule Senate Rules-Keeper
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Salon, CNN, The Daily Poster and IJR
Alex Marquardt / CNN:
Three names mysteriously removed from Khashoggi intelligence report after initial publication — U.S. intel report: Saudi Crown Prince approved operation to kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi — (CNN)Shortly after the US intelligence community published its long-awaited report on Friday afternoon …
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Republicans Are Trying to Kill What's Left of the Voting Rights Act — Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. — In 2013, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion gutting Section 5 …
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Wall Street Journal, Law & Crime and The Guardian
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Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Democratic voting bill would make biggest changes in decades
Democratic voting bill would make biggest changes in decades
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Bloomberg, Washington Monthly and Denver Post
Mickey Edwards / The Bulwark:
Mugged by Reality — As the chairman of CPAC during the rise of Reagan, I should have seen the grotesque display at this year's CPAC coming. I failed to do so. — Several years ago, I was mugged and robbed as I took an early-morning walk through Louis Armstrong Park in New Orleans.
Discussion:
The Dispatch and Outside the Beltway
Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez / KQED:
After Leading School Closures, Berkeley Teachers' Union President Spotted Dropping Daughter Off at In-Person Preschool … Parent groups are crying “hypocrisy” after a video surfaced showing the president of the Berkeley teachers union dropping off his two-year-old daughter at an in-person preschool.
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Washington Examiner, Fox News, NBC Bay Area, New York Post, The Daily Caller, BizPac Review, Townhall, Twitchy and Instapundit
Joe Biden:
South Carolina: A Year Later — A year ago, I stood in Columbia, South Carolina, grateful that the voters of the Palmetto State-and especially the backbone of the Democratic Party, the African-American community-had set us on a course to the presidency. — That night, I said that ours …
Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Nancy Pelosi calls Cuomo sexual harassment allegations ‘credible’ — The pair of harassment allegations represent a deepening crisis for Cuomo, who just months ago was at the height of his popularity for his leadership during the coronavirus pandemic. — Second ex-aide accuses Cuomo of sexual harassment
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RedState, Townhall, IJR, Breitbart, National Review and Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Data — The transparency group DDoSecrets says it will make the 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists. — WHEN TWITTER BANNED Donald Trump and a slew of other far-right users …
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Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Boing Boing and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Aurelien Breeden / New York Times:
Ex-President Sarkozy Found Guilty of Corruption in France — Nicolas Sarkozy was accused of trying to obtain confidential information from a judge by offering to help him land a job. — PARIS — The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty on Monday by a court in Paris on charges of corruption and influence peddling.
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Wall Street Journal, Politico, NPR, Forbes, CNN, Al Jazeera and Deadline
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Johnson & Johnson vaccine deepens concerns over racial and geographic inequities — Governors weigh ease of use against perception of a two-tiered system if new coronavirus vaccine is deployed primarily to harder-to-reach communities. — The nation has a third weapon to wield against the coronavirus …
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Warren Revives Wealth Tax, Citing Pandemic Inequalities — A tax on the net worth of America's wealthiest individuals remains popular with voters, but has yet to be embraced by President Biden. — WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, plans to introduce legislation …
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CNN
Lara Seligman / Politico:
Duckworth urges Biden admin to release intel on Russian bounties — The senator pointed to public reports showing possible evidence that GRU bounty offers had been made. — Sen. Tammy Duckworth talks to reporters during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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CNN
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The Facts of Life — The country takes priority over conservative navel gazing. — My suggestion last week that perhaps the best way some of us who've been conservatives can now help the country is to help the Biden administration succeed, and help the Democratic party move to the center …
Leia Idliby / Mediaite:
John Oliver Takes a Flamethrower to ‘Famously Unpleasant’ Andrew Cuomo for His List of Controversies: He's a ‘Colossal A**hole’ — John Oliver went after Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) for the several scandals he is facing, including two sexual harassment accusations — calling the governor a “colossal asshole.”
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Fox News and The Daily Beast
Issues & Insights:
Biden Lied And 105,334 People Died — During one of his presidential debates last year when about 220,000 people had died from COVID-19, Joe Biden said that “anyone who's responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of America.”
Arian Campo-Flores / Wall Street Journal:
Fearing Covid-19 Surge, Florida Officials Crack Down on Spring Breakers — Miami Beach beefs up rules on social distancing, alcohol and noise; ‘Go to Vegas’ — MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—Nearly a year after some Florida spring breakers refused to let the coronavirus interrupt their parties …
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Biden won't release White House virtual visitor logs — Few bars have been set lower than the one Joe Biden has had to clear when it comes to bringing transparency back to the White House. Donald Trump has been an easy act to follow. — But five weeks into office, Biden has fallen short …
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NBC News, New York Post, American Thinker, Insider and PinkNews
Washington Examiner:
A case of racism that the Supreme Court can stop — “We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest” of diversity in the student bodies of universities. So wrote Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in 2003, 18 years ago …
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Talking Points Memo
Associated Press:
Biden to meet with Mexican president amid migration issues — WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden is planning a virtual meeting Monday with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador — a chance for the pair to talk more fully about migration, confronting the coronavirus …
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Fox News, Reuters, NBC News, BizPac Review, New York Times, UPI and Jacobin
Financial Times:
Rupert Murdoch at 90: Fox, succession and ‘one more big play’ … By his own reckoning, Rupert Murdoch was supposed to die a fortnight ago, on a Tuesday afternoon. — The media mogul scribbled the moment of his demise on a piece of paper in 2001 and flourished it during an interview taking stock …
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Biden's Ratings Show Hardening Polarization — For years, the out-party would usually reserve judgment on new presidents. Not now. — One month ago, Joe Biden's initial approval ratings were pretty normal for recent presidents — worse than Barack Obama's, better than Donald Trump's, but otherwise unremarkable.