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2:30 PM ET, March 10, 2021

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Scott Wong / The Hill:
40 Republicans vote against Greene motion  —  Forty House Republicans on Wednesday voted against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's latest motion to adjourn, yet another sign her party is growing increasingly frustrated with the Georgia Republican's procedural delay tactics.
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Washington Post:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been gunking up the works. She says she's not backing down.
Discussion: Fox News, VICE and Insider
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Somebody's Taking a Huge Risk on Biden's Bill.  It's Not Biden.  —  Try to imagine we are living in the following hypothetical world: A popular Republican president quickly passes emergency legislation that has the support of two-thirds of the country, while Democrats in Congress refuse to vote for it.
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Daniel Friedman / Mother Jones:
Roger Stone's Latest Mess: His Oath Keeper Bodyguards Arrested in Capitol Attack  —  Roger Stone has an Oath Keeper problem.  —  In recent days the FBI arrested two men, Joshua James, the owner of a cleaning services company in Alabama, and Roberto Minuta, a Newburgh, New York, tattoo artist …
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Associated Press:   US narrows in on organized extremists in Capitol siege probe
NBC News:
Susan Collins fires back at ‘bizarre’ Schumer remarks blaming her for 2009 stimulus  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, fired back at Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer after he pointedly said it was a “big mistake” to shrink the 2009 economic stimulus package in order to win her vote.
Discussion: The Hill
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Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Democrats Are Rapidly Evolving On The Filibuster
Discussion: National Review, ABC News and Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's latest explosion of rage against the GOP bodes badly for our future  —  Opinion by  —  In recent days, a few die-hard Republicans have struggled to concoct a way for the GOP to purge itself of Trumpism's worst excesses while retaining its political benefits.
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New York Times:
Trump, Hungry for Power, Tries to Wrestle Away G.O.P. Fund-Raising
Shadi Hamid / The Atlantic:
America Without God  —  The United States had long been a holdout among Western democracies, uniquely and perhaps even suspiciously devout.  From 1937 to 1998, church membership remained relatively constant, hovering at about 70 percent.  Then something happened.
NBC News:
Biden to announce deal for additional 100 million Johnson and Johnson Covid vaccine doses  —  WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will announce plans Wednesday to purchase an additional 100 million doses of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, giving the U.S. more than enough supply to vaccinate the entire U.S. population.
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Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Arrested journalist pleaded with officer: ‘This is my job’  —  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa journalist recounted getting pepper-sprayed and arrested while covering a protest for racial justice last year, testifying in her own defense Tuesday at her trial on charges stemming from the incident.
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William Morris / Des Moines Register:
‘This is my job!’: Register reporter Andrea Sahouri testifies in her own defense in her second day on trial
Discussion: FOREIGN PRESS USA and Techdirt
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate revs its confirmation engine to fill Biden's Cabinet  —  After slow early progress on approving President Joe Biden's Cabinet nominees, the Senate is finally on track to catch up to its pace of confirmations at the beginning of the Trump and Obama administrations.
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Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Biden Got the Vaccine Rollout Humming, With Trump's Help  —  Trump administration officials grumble that they laid the groundwork for surging vaccinations, but some hard work in the trenches has helped pick up the pace of production.  —  WASHINGTON — When President Biden pledged last week …
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Marcia Fudge confirmed as Biden's HUD secretary  —  Fudge first woman to lead HUD in more than 40 years  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for March 10  —  The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Marcia Fudge to be President Biden's new secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by a vote of 66-34.
Discussion: ABC News and CNN
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Tracy Jan / Washington Post:
Marcia Fudge confirmed as first Black woman to lead HUD in more than 40 years
Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:
For Creators, Everything Is for Sale  —  Digital stars are coming up with new ways to make money.  Yet fans still hold the power.  —  A rash of new start-ups are making it easier for digital creators to monetize every aspect of their life — down to what they eat, who they hang out with and who they respond to on TikTok.
United States Department of State:
Restarting the Central American Minors Program  —  As another concrete step in implementing our comprehensive regional migration management strategy, we are expanding legal pathways to enter the United States by reopening the Central American Minors (CAM) program.
Discussion: BuzzFeed News, Bloomberg and Twitchy
Mariam Khan / ABC News:
House poised to vote on $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill  —  Democrats “110% confident” they have the votes to pass the bill.  —  Texas businesses reopen amid COVID concerns … J. Scott Applewhite/AP  —  House Democrats intend to pass a massive $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill …
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:
House set for final passage Wednesday of Biden's $1.9T Covid aid plan
Biba Adams / Yahoo News:
Sen. Scott: ‘Woke supremacy is as bad as White supremacy’  —  The South Carolina Senator is falling in line with his Republican counterparts by taking aim at “cancel culture.”  —  Republican Senator Tim Scott told Fox News host Trey Gowdy that “woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy.
Discussion: Insider, BizPac Review and TheGrio
Corinne Ramey / Wall Street Journal:
Manhattan Prosecutors Advance Probe Into Trump's Seven Springs Estate  —  Subpoenas center on Trump Organization's failed efforts to develop the 213-acre property into a luxury subdivision  —  Manhattan prosecutors are intensifying their investigation into Donald Trump's businesses …
Bari Weiss / City Journal:
The Miseducation of America's Elites  —  Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children's private schools, organize in secret.  —  Education  —  The Social Order  —  The dissidents use pseudonyms and turn off their videos when they meet for clandestine Zoom calls.
Bloomberg:
Wall Street A-Listers Fled to Florida.  Many Are Eyeing a Return  — USPS data shows few New Yorkers moved to Miami, Palm Beach  — New Jersey, California and Connecticut were most popular moves  —  The “Upper East Side” cocktail at Sant Ambroeus is just the same as in Manhattan …
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Piers Morgan's Meghan Markle Comments Being Investigated by U.K. Media Regulator Ofcom … U.K. media regulator Ofcom has launched an investigation after more than 41,000 people wrote in to complain about ITV's “Good Morning Britain” host Piers Morgan's comments on Meghan Markle.
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Stacey Abrams Has a Plan to Dismantle the Filibuster and Protect Voting Rights  —  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.  —  As Republicans in the Georgia state legislature passed a series …
Associated Press:
Governor Newsom says 'we're not going back to normal' after pandemic  —  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will say during his State of the State address that the pandemic will end soon.  But when it does, Newsom will say that “we're not going back to normal” because “normal accepts inequity.”
Raf Sanchez / NBC News:
As U.K. strips citizenship from ISIS members, other children of immigrants decry ‘two tier’ citizenship  —  LONDON — Shamima Begum was 15 when she and two friends left their home in east London to join the Islamic State in Syria.  —  She was 19 when she emerged from the terrorist group's collapsing …
Leah Nylen / Politico:
Facebook denies being a monopoly as it asks judge to toss antitrust suits  —  The company took aim at how the FTC and states have defined its alleged monopoly — as a free social networking product.  —  Because Facebook is free to users, the government also can't show that the company …
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Vaccinated lives: 5 health experts revel in simple pleasures  —  They talk about navigating risk and the joys of hugging friends, dining out and even getting their hair cut by professionals  —  Millions of Americans wonder how they can emerge safely from their pandemic cocoons after getting coronavirus vaccines.
Daniel Drezner / Washington Post:
What is the point of Josh Hawley?  —  What to make of media interest in the junior senator from Missouri.  —  Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a regular contributor to PostEverything.
Discussion: TheBlaze
Fox News:
Top U.S., China officials to meet next week in Alaska on range of issues  —  Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan will travel to Alaska for meetings.  —  Where does Biden secretary of state nominee Antony Blinken stand on the issues?
Discussion: Politico, CNBC, The Hill and CNN
 
 
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Adele M. Stan / New Republic:
Insurrectionist in Chief … In February's Senate trial to impeach and convict Donald Trump …
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Will Wilkinson / Model Citizen:
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Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Democrats Are Anxious About 2022 — and 2024  —  The fretting starts with the party's declining share …
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The Warped Vision of “Anti-Racism”
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
What has gotten into Ron Johnson?
Discussion: Raw Story
Bill Baxley / Washington Post:
As a former Alabama attorney general, I do not say this lightly: An innocent man is on our death row
Clay Risen / New York Times:
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