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10:40 AM ET, March 12, 2021

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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Can Cyrus Vance, Jr., Nail Trump?  —  Insiders say that the Manhattan District Attorney's investigation has dramatically intensified since the former President left office.  “It's like night and day,” says one.  According to another, “They mean business.”  —  On February 22nd …
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Sonia Moghe / CNN:
New York prosecutor investigating Trump announces he won't seek reelection  —  What Trump's released tax records mean for DA's criminal case  —  New York (CNN)The New York prosecutor leading the most significant criminal probe against Donald Trump and his business announced Friday …
Discussion: CBS News
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Trump's time in White House could end up benefiting New York prosecutors  —  Legal analyst: NY prosecutors signal a Trump fraud probe (2020)  —  New York (CNN)Former President Donald Trump's time in the White House helped shield him from investigations and some lawsuits but it might open …
Discussion: Raw Story
Meet Cy Vance / Manhattan District Attorney's Office:
D.A. Vance Will Not Seek Reelection  —  Vance will continue strengthening Manhattan communities, reforming the justice system, and combating 21st-century crimes through end of 2021  —  Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr. today announced that he will not seek reelection for a fourth term in office, which would begin January 2022.
Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Cyrus Vance Will Not Run Again for Manhattan D.A.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Marco Rubio / USA Today:
Sen. Marco Rubio: Amazon should face unionization drive without Republican support  —  Amazon is waging a culture war against working-class values and is not helping workers or our economy.  —  For the past several years, Amazon has waged a war against working-class values.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Rubio sides with Alabama warehouse workers in Amazon union battle
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
The Political Weapon Biden Didn't Deploy  —  Perhaps the most surprising element of President Joe Biden's first presidential speech on Thursday night was what it did not include.  —  A day after the passage of the most far-reaching domestic piece of legislation in decades …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
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Conrad Black / The National Interest:
Joe Biden's Stimulus Speech Was a Complete and Total Failure  —  President Biden demonstrated his and his party's dependence upon the coronavirus pandemic for the achievement of office and their conduct in office.  —  President Joe Biden's first address to the nation was at least coherent …
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CNN:
Biden leaves Trump's dystopia in the dust
Discussion: Insider, HuffPost and New York Times
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
7 takeaways from Joe Biden's prime-time Covid-19 speech
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
How Biden Pushes Both Unity and Partisanship
Discussion: The Hill and USA Today
Ronald J. Hansen / Arizona Republic:
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick won't seek reelection: 'I'm sort of term-limiting myself'  —  Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick says her fifth term in Congress will be her last.  —  Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz., is expected to announce Friday that she will not seek another term representing the Tucson area …
Discussion: The Hill and Roll Call
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Associated Press:
Longtime Arizona Rep. Kirkpatrick won't seek 2022 reelection
Discussion: Politico
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Prosecutors seek a slowdown in Capitol attack cases, calling probe the ‘most complex’ in history  —  Federal prosecutors have begun seeking 60-day delays across a series of Capitol riot cases, calling the probe “likely the most complex investigation ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice.”
Discussion: Raw Story, Inquirer News and The Week
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Jim Garamone / U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Press Secretary Smites Fox Host That Dissed Diversity in U.S. Military  —  The United States military is the greatest the world has ever seen because of its diversity, Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said during a news briefing this morning.  —  Kirby addressed this because a Fox …
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Parliamentary Politics Has Killed Bipartisanship  —  Much of the conversation around bipartisanship (or the lack thereof) is rooted in the belief that it is a product of personal relationships.  During the Obama-era, many GOPers blamed the president's aloofness for the lack of Republican-buy in to his policies.
American Greatness:
One Year Later, Vindication for Lockdown Skeptics  —  The overwhelming majority of Americans last March acted in good faith to do what we were told was in the best interest of our country.  That faith has been abused and squandered. … They want people stripped of wealth, isolated, and terrified.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
It's Morning (and Mourning) in Biden's America  —  Fifty-one days into his Presidency, on the first anniversary of our collective quarantine, Joe Biden pivoted to optimism.  He spoke of “finding light in the darkness,” vaccines for everyone by the end of May, and a country open for barbecues by the Fourth of July.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Last night is why Joe Biden won the presidency  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Every president is eventually called upon to help us collectively grieve.  —  JOE BIDEN may be the first president elected to do so.  —  His speech Thursday night had some important policy promises …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Lauren Boebert's tall tale about a man's death that led her to pack heat  —  “When I became a business owner, I needed to protect myself.  There was an altercation outside of my restaurant where a man was physically beat to death.  There were no weapons involved.  He was beat to death by another man's hands.”
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
After 50 days as president, Biden still hasn't given a news conference.  Critics and allies wonder why.  —  Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both did their first one after just nine days in office.  —  Barack Obama waited 20 days.  —  And Donald Trump had been president for only a week …
Discussion: Vox
New York Times:
The U.S. Is Sitting on Tens of Millions of Vaccine Doses the World Needs  —  Those tens of millions of doses from AstraZeneca are waiting for trial results, while countries that authorized the vaccine beg to have them.  —  WASHINGTON — Tens of millions of doses of the coronavirus vaccine …
David Brooks / New York Times:
Joe Biden Is a Transformational President  —  We're seeing a policy realignment without a partisan realignment.  —  This has been one of the most quietly consequential weeks in recent American politics.  —  The Covid-19 relief law that was just enacted is one of the most important pieces of legislation of our lifetimes.
Discussion: Michael-In-Norfolk and RedState
Bloomberg:
Want to Get Vaccinated in NYC?  Try Living on the Upper East Side  —  A third of Upper East Side residents are vaccinated against Covid-19; a 10th in parts of Harlem  —  In New York City, location is everything.  It matters for schools, homes and hot-dog carts.  Now, it defines access to Covid-19 vaccines.
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Won't Sell Books Framing LGBTQ+ Identities as Mental Illnesses  —  Company states policy in response to several Republican senators' inquiry over recent removal of book by conservative author  —  Amazon.com Inc. said it recently removed a three-year-old book about transgender issues …
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
States with Republican governors had highest Covid incidence and death rates, study finds  —  States with Democratic governors had the highest incidence and death rates from Covid-19 in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, but states with Republican governors surpassed those rates …
Discussion: Forbes and Political Wire
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Biden has options for the border.  They're just politically painful.  —  President Joe Biden has a plan to tackle the rush of migrants at the southern border.  But the White House knows implementing it will be political torture, sparking anger from left, told-ya-sos from the right, and endangering any slim hope for immigration reform.
Archie Bland / The Guardian:
HuffPost UK staff face redundancy as news operation closes down  —  Exclusive: Owner BuzzFeed's move leaves more than half of editorial staff at risk  —  BuzzFeed has told the UK staff of its recently acquired HuffPost website that it is shutting down its news operation …
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Wall Street Journal:
Andrew Cuomo Aides Called Former Staffers to Discredit Accuser  —  Some recipients of the calls said that the outreach felt like attempts to intimidate them  —  In the days after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was first accused of sexual harassment by a former aide, the governor's office called …
The American Mind:
Dear Conservative, Inc.: Follow or Get Out of the Way  —  The New Right is the captain now.  —  When the old guard goes out of its way to crush a new endeavor, you have to wonder what's at stake.  Nick Solheim and Saurabh Sharma of American Moment are young, devoted, and driven to …
Discussion: National Review
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
“Election Integrity” Means Restriction  —  You can't have a reasonable debate about voting rights with people who wanted to cancel votes.  —  In the 2020 presidential election, more than 158 million Americans cast ballots and shattered voter turnout records.
Discussion: Al Jazeera, The Hill and Insider
Glenn H. Reynolds / New York Post:
To defeat woke tyrants, the rest of us must treat them like the monsters they are  —  Most Americans hate woke politics — and most minorities don't share “woke” priorities.  Indeed, according to pollster David Shor, woke excesses are causing black voters to flee the Democratic Party.
Stephanie K. Baer / BuzzFeed News:
Mississippi Is Banning Trans Girls And Women From School Sports  —  Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed into law Thursday a ban on transgender student-athletes playing girls' and women's sports, part of a wave of Republican-led efforts to exclude trans people from athletics.
 
 
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Lawmaker Demands Investigation Into ActBlue
Ketan Joshi:
Bitcoin is a mouth hungry for fossil fuels
Philippe Lemoine / Wall Street Journal:
The Lockdowns Weren't Worth It  —  There's a reason no government has done a cost-benefit analysis: The policy would surely fail.
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
DeJoy asks House panel for more USPS money to support plan that includes slower mail delivery
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Fauci's star rises as relationship with Biden deepens
Discussion: New York Times
Justine Coleman / The Hill:
Judge rules Texas can remove Planned Parenthood from Medicaid program
 Earlier Items: 
Kim Chandler / Associated Press:
Alabama House Votes to Overturn Ban on Yoga in Schools - But ‘Namaste’ Is Still Forbidden
Discussion: New York Post
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The Biden administration is willing to take a calculated risk to end our longest war
Mike Ives / New York Times:
Drone Video of Bowling Alley Wins Praise From Hollywood
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
The Lessons of One of the Worst Years in American Life
Discussion: Washington Post
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jan. 6 aftershocks worsen as ‘Cold War’ in the House escalates
Lauren Lumpkin / Washington Post:
Georgetown Law professor terminated after ‘reprehensible’ comments about Black students
Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
The Republican Freshman Class Is a Tribute to Our Nation's Notorious Local Bozos
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Disney said Disney+ Q4 ARPU in the US and Canada, down 1% QoQ to $7.70, was affected partly by new wholesale arrangements with some distributors

The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney expects to spend $24B on content in 2025, up from $23.4B in 2024, due to sports programming expenses rising after NFL rate increases and NBA contracts

Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Reporters Without Borders sues X in France for “complicity in disseminating false information”, after X failed to block a fake video with RSF's logo
 
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