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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury Over Racist Tweets  —  The hiring of Alexi McCammond, who was supposed to start at the Condé Nast publication next week, drew complaints because of racist and homophobic tweets she had posted a decade ago.  —  Alexi McCammond, who made her name …
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The Daily Beast:
Teen Vogue's New Top Editor Out After Backlash Over Old Racist Tweets  —  The Condé-owned outlet's new editor has exited the job just days before she was set to take on the gig. … Just days before she was set to begin the job, Teen Vogue's new editor-in-chief is out at the publication …
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:   If Teen Vogue staffers want to prove their wokeness, they should quit their classist company
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Intel revelations raise difficult questions for several Republicans  —  The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) this week released a declassified intelligence community assessment on foreign threats to our 2020 elections, and the top-line takeaway was important …
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William Saletan / Slate:
A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset  —  Donald Trump was a tool in a long-running Russian campaign to weaken the United States.  That's been documented in Republican-led investigative reports, and now it has been updated with new evidence, thanks to the U.S. Intelligence …
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Russia Erupts in Fury Over Biden's Calling Putin a Killer  —  The Kremlin described the U.S. president's response to an interview question as “very bad,” and recalled its ambassador to “analyze what needs to be done” about the countries' relations.  —  MOSCOW — Russia recalled its ambassador …
Reuters:
‘It takes one to know one’ Putin retorts after Biden says he thinks he is a killer
Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
A Private Jet of Rich Trumpers Wanted to “Stop the Steal”—But They Don't Want You to Read This  —  These powerful Memphis figures reveal the rift in a segregated society.  —  At 12:11 p.m. on January 5, an eight-seat Bombardier Challenger 300 jet took off from Memphis International Airport.
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Irin Carmon / New York Magazine:
Are the Atlanta Killings a Hate Crime?  The Suspect Doesn't Get to Decide.  —  On August 24, 1874, 22 Chinese women were held on a ship in San Francisco's harbor.  They had papers, but when inspected by California's immigration commissioner and found to be traveling without male companions …
CNN:
House Democrats weigh ejecting GOP winner of contested Iowa race, dismissing comparisons to Trump's efforts to overturn election  —  (CNN)House Democrats are undeterred by the mounting GOP criticism over their review of a contested congressional race that could potentially overturn …
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Andrew Solender / Forbes:
73 House Democrats Push To Expel Marjorie Taylor Greene From Congress
Discussion: Washington Times
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Elizabeth Warren calls Senate filibuster racist  —  Signaling a coming case by progressives, Sen. Elizabeth Warren told Axios the Senate's legislative filibuster, which requires 60 votes for most legislation, wasn't a creation of the founding fathers.  —  What she's saying …
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Federal Bureau of Investigation:
FBI Washington Field Office Releases Videos of Assaults on Officers at U.S. Capitol, Seeks Public's Help to Identify Suspects  —  The FBI's Washington Field Office has released new information and videos of suspects in the most egregious assaults on federal officers during the riots …
Washington Post:
Trump faces an onslaught of legal problems, as investigations and dozens of lawsuits trail him from Washington to Florida  —  The district attorney is sifting through millions of pages of his tax records.  The state attorney general has subpoenaed his lawyers, his bankers, his chief financial officer — even one of his sons.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
GOP Rep. Extols Lynchings During Hearing on Anti-Asian American Violence  —  “There's an old saying in Texas about find all the rope in Texas and get a tall oak tree.  You know, we take justice very seriously.  And we ought to do that.  Round up the bad guys.”
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Politico:
Ted Cruz releases holds on Biden nominees as administration looks to get tough on Russia pipeline  —  Sen. Ted Cruz lifted his holds on two of President Joe Biden's top nominees on Thursday after the State Department indicated it would punish entities involved in the construction of a controversial Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline.
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Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Senate confirms William Burns to be next CIA director after Cruz lifts hold
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Democrats Need to Move Fast and Fix Things  —  Joe Biden isn't going to have an “FDR-size presidency.”  —  Or, at least, the odds that Biden will fundamentally transform the role of the state in the U.S. economy, more than double America's union membership rate, lead the U.S. to victory in a world war …
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Politico
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:   Not My Party: Boring But Radical
Rod Dreher:
Damon Young: To Stop White Supremacy, Eliminate Whites  —  Damon Young, a black writer for The Root, a black-oriented commentary site owned by the same people who own Jezebel, Gizmodo, and The Onion (their parent company is Univision), had this to say at The Root about the Atlanta massage parlor mass murders:
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
The GOP's Political Nightmare: Running Against a Recovery  —  President Barack Obama's 2009 stimulus bill may have helped avoid a second Great Depression, but it was a political fiasco.  As then-congressman Barney Frank liked to say: “Things Would've Sucked Even Worse Without Us” …
Joey Roulette / The Verge:
Biden to tap former Senator Bill Nelson as NASA chief  —  If confirmed, the former senator from Florida would helm NASA's return to the Moon  —  President Biden has tapped former Democratic Senator Bill Nelson for NASA administrator, according to three people familiar with the decision.
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Santi Ruiz / Washington Free Beacon:
Biden Taps Controversial Ex-Senator to Be NASA Administrator
Discussion: Politico, USA Today and CNN
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
‘Comey Rule’ director working on Jan. 6 insurrection miniseries  —  The writer-director who brought “The Comey Rule” to Showtime last year is preparing an intensively reported dramatic series depicting the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection — its causes, its intense violence and the aftermath …
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Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline:
Showtime Series On January 6 U.S. Capitol Assault Set With ‘The Comey Rule’ Duo Billy Ray & Shane Salerno
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
U.S. to Send Millions of Vaccine Doses to Mexico and Canada  —  The Biden administration has been quietly pressing Mexico to ramp up its efforts to limit the flow of migrants, clinging to a Trump policy of relying on southern neighbors to enforce America's immigration agenda.
Ben Leonard / Politico:
Zeldin gets testy when asked if Biden won election  —  “If you would like to give my answer for me, you can go ahead and do that.  But I thought I was going to be here to answer my own questions,” Zeldin said.  —  Rep. Lee Zeldin got testy with POLITICO Playbook authors Ryan Lizza …
Annalee Newitz / The Hypothesis:
Here's why Substack's scam worked so well  —  They paid a secret group of writers to make newsletter authorship seem lucrative  —  I think of myself as having decent critical faculties, but somehow I got suckered again by a bog-standard publishing venture masquerading as a useful communications tool.
U.S. Department of Justice:
Louisiana Man Indicted for Attempted Murder of a Gay Man and Plot to Kidnap and Murder Other Gay Men  —  A Louisiana man was indicted and charged today in federal court in the Western District of Louisiana on six counts, including hate crime, kidnapping, firearm and obstruction charges.
Discussion: The Hill and New York Post
Sinéad Baker / Insider:
Dan Bongino says Biden is ‘boring’ and ‘a disaster for talk radio’ but that he'll do his best against him anyway  —  The letter F. An envelope.  It indicates the ability to send an email.  An image of a chain link.  It symobilizes a website link url.  A stylized bird with an open mouth, tweeting.
Discussion: The Hill, Mediaite and Raw Story
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Covid's Partisan Errors  —  Republicans tend to underestimate Covid risks — and Democrats tend to exaggerate them.  —  Americans on the right half of the political spectrum have tended to underplay the risk of Covid-19.  They have been less willing to wear masks or avoid indoor gatherings …
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy / Arizona Mirror:
Paul Gosar plans to go on a popular QAnon talk show  —  Weeks after Republican Congressman Paul Gosar gave a speech to a gathering of white nationalists, he is scheduled to appear on Patriots' Soapbox, a leading QAnon talk show.  —  “He has taken a stand against the conservative establishment …
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Kyle Horan / WTVF-TV:
Bill would remove all members of the historical commission  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Not even two weeks after the historical commission voted to remove the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest from the state capitol, state senators are trying to vote to remove all members from the commission.
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
David Bixenspan / MEL Magazine:
The Strange Saga of Lauren Boebert's Pro Wrestler Paternity Case  —  The gun-toting Colorado congresswoman rarely mentions her father, but in a trail of YouTube comments, she and her mother have singled out one man: 1980s journeyman tag-team specialist ‘Sweet’ Stan Lane
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Joe Biden's quietly revolutionary first 100 days  —  US president's opening spell has been the most productive and ego-free in recent memory  —  It took about 50 days for US president Joe Biden to fulfil his 100-day vow of 100m vaccinations.  The trick is as simple as it is old: under-promise and over-deliver.
J.D. Vance / Newsweek:
True ‘Compassion’ Requires Secure Borders and Stopping Illegal Immigration  —  OPINION DONALD TRUMP IMMIGRATION 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION  —  In June 2015, Donald Trump rode down the infamous escalator at Trump Tower to announce his presidential bid.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Lia Eustachewich / New York Post:
Nursing home administrator was ‘petrified’ by Cuomo's order to take in COVID-19 patients  —  A Staten Island nursing home executive says that he argued against a controversial, state mandate to accept COVID-19 patients from hospitals- and that he saved many lives by locking down his facility instead.
 
 
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Maroosha Muzaffar / The Independent:
Outrage as 172 Republicans vote to oppose Violence Against Women Act
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge tosses journalist's surveillance lawsuit against Rod Rosenstein
Emily Oster / The Atlantic:
Your Unvaccinated Kid Is Like a Vaccinated Grandma
Discussion: HotAir
USA Today:
Business owner, Army veteran, woman on a date: The victims of the deadly rampage through 3 spas in Georgia
Discussion: Vox, AsAmNews, WAGA-TV and NPR
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Republicans Block Bill To Protect Stimulus Checks From Debt Collectors
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
ANALYSIS: De Blasio's Freakish Twig Arm Raises Questions About Alleged Gym Addiction
Discussion: Fox News and Reason
 Earlier Items: 
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Court reinstates guilty verdicts against Flynn partner over Turkey lobbying
Discussion: Law & Crime and The Daily Caller
Mike Freeman / USA Today:
NAACP to NFL: Don't ‘fund Fox News’ hatred, bigotry, lies and racism'
Discussion: The Hill and TheBlaze
Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN:
Seriously, stop sharing your vaccine cards on social media
American Prospect:
John Kerry Must Choose: Wall Street or the Planet
Cassandra Fairbanks / The Gateway Pundit:
BREAKING: Former President of Drag Queen Story Hour Foundation and Children's Court Judge Arrested on Seven Counts of Child Porn
Nicholas Grossman / The Bulwark:
Conservative Fanboys  —  Fans of big fictional universes —  Marvel, Star Wars …
Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open.
CBS San Francisco:
Witnesses: Elderly Asian Woman Beats Up Man Attacking Her In San Francisco
 

 
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Christopher Grimes / Financial Times:
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
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