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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 …
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 …
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Reuters:
‘It takes one to know one’ Putin retorts after Biden says he thinks he is a killer
‘It takes one to know one’ Putin retorts after Biden says he thinks he is a killer
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Associated Press:
Biden to meet with Stacey Abrams on trip to Georgia — During his visit to Atlanta on Friday, President Joe Biden will meet with former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who has been widely credited with helping flip the former Republican stronghold blue.
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Democrats Need to Move Fast and Fix Things
Democrats Need to Move Fast and Fix Things
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Joe Biden's quietly revolutionary first 100 days
Joe Biden's quietly revolutionary first 100 days
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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.
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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David Dayen / American Prospect:
First 100: Filibuster Reform's Greatest Champion Sees a Moment for Resolution
First 100: Filibuster Reform's Greatest Champion Sees a Moment for Resolution
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Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Elizabeth Warren claims the filibuster is racist amid calls to eliminate it
Elizabeth Warren claims the filibuster is racist amid calls to eliminate it
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Sean Hannity and Politico
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 …
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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
73 House Democrats Push To Expel Marjorie Taylor Greene From Congress
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Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Marjorie Taylor Greene has a new spin on the Jewish space lasers remark
Marjorie Taylor Greene has a new spin on the Jewish space lasers remark
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Raw Story, New York Magazine and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
‘Not racially motivated’?: The Atlanta spa shootings show why the media should be wary of initial police statements — It's inevitable that reporters will have to rely heavily on law-enforcement sources in the first hours after a horrific crime. Amid chaos and wild speculation …
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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 …
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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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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
Senate confirms William Burns to be next CIA director after Cruz lifts hold
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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.
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Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
Showtime, ‘Comey Rule’ Team Developing U.S. Capitol Riot Limited Series — Shane Salerno and Billy Ray are prepping a drama set to examine the final days of the Trump administration and culminate with the attack, the aftermath, and the FBI and congressional investigations.
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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:
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Josefa Velasquez / THE CITY:
FBI Cuomo Probe Seeks Details on Deal to Shield Nursing Homes from COVID Lawsuits — FBI investigators probing the Cuomo administration's handling of nursing homes during the pandemic last spring are seeking information about a state budget provision that gave operators legal immunity, THE CITY has learned.
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Fox News, The Daily Signal and Conservative News Daily
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” …
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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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Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
House passes legislation to legalize millions of undocumented immigrants — The vote to legalize “dreamers” was 228-197, with nine Republicans joining all the Democrats in support — White House limits media contact with Border Patrol amid migrant surge — The House of Representatives …
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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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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 …
Science:
'It's a very special picture.' Why vaccine safety experts put the brakes on AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine — Science's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. — The decision this week by more than 20 European countries to temporarily stop using AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine …
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 …
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Biden administration to rewrite family planning program rules — The announcement comes after the Supreme Court agreed to review the legality of the Trump policy change. — President Joe Biden ordered a review of the Title X program in his first weeks in office. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Not My Party: Boring But Radical — The fact that Republicans have been calling Biden radical and senile tells us more about them than him. — Slightly modified video transcript. Watch the original and subscribe to “Not My Party” on Snapchat. — So it's the middle of March now …
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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Anthony Breznican / Vanity Fair:
Jimmy Kimmel Breaks Down in Emotional Interview With Ady Barkan — The late-night host and the dying healthcare champion shared some laughs—then things took an emotional turn. — Jimmy Kimmel's job is to make people laugh at the end of a long day, but he has become just as well-known for moments of sincerity that break the heart.
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