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Stephanie K. Baer / BuzzFeed News:
The Cop Who Said The Spa Shooter Had “A Bad Day” Previously Posted A Racist Shirt Blaming China For The Pandemic  —  The Georgia sheriff's official who said the man accused of killing six Asian women and two others in shootings at spas in the Atlanta area had “a bad day” previously shared a photo of racist T-shirts on social media.
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The Daily Beast:
Georgia Sheriff Spokesman Posted Racist COVID Shirts on Facebook
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:   'It's race, class and gender together': Why the Atlanta murders aren't just about one thing
Harmeet Kaur / CNN:
Fetishized, sexualized and marginalized, Asian women are uniquely vulnerable to violence
David Leonhardt / New York Times:   Covid's Partisan Errors
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 …
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Reuters:
‘It takes one to know one’ Putin retorts after Biden says he thinks he is a killer  —  MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin retorted on Thursday that it takes one to know one after U.S. President Joe Biden said he thought the Russian leader was a killer and already poor relations between Moscow …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
On the novelty of calling a killer a killer  —  As a parent of a 4-year-old, I am now more keenly aware than ever of the flexibility of language.  If you haven't been asked to explain, for example, what we mean by “cool” in the context of slang, I encourage you to think about the intricacy of the task.
Ben Leonard / Politico:   Zeldin gets testy when asked if Biden won election
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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Politico:
Latest bipartisan gang tries to save Senate from itself  —  As progressives push the Senate into a brawl over nixing the legislative filibuster, a group of senators is setting out to do the impossible: prove that the moribund chamber can still function.  —  A group of 20 senators …
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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
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  —  A Milwaukee County Children's Court judge and former president and CEO of the Cream City Foundation, which runs the city's drag queen story hour program …
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
CBS San Francisco:
Witnesses: Elderly Asian Woman Beats Up Man Attacking Her In San Francisco  —  SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — An elderly woman being attacked on Market St. in San Francisco Wednesday - the latest victim in a wave of attacks on Asians in the Bay Area - spoke to KPIX 5 about turning the tables on her assailant …
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.
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” …
Washington Post:
12 Republicans opposed Congressional Gold Medals for police who protected them on Jan. 6  —  A dozen House Republicans voted against a resolution to award three Congressional Gold Medals to the Capitol Police, the D.C. police and the Smithsonian Institution in recognition of those who protected …
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Politico:
‘Behave like grown-ups’: Conservative rebellion boils over in House
Discussion: The Hill, Fox News and The Week
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 …
New York Times:
Biden Urges Mexico to Do More to Stop Migration  —  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.
Nicholas Grossman / The Bulwark:
Conservative Fanboys  —  Fans of big fictional universes —  Marvel, Star Wars, Star Trek, The Simpsons —  often speak to each other in references.  “I've got a bad feeling about this.”  “Cheese-eating surrender monkeys.”  “BortaSnIvqu' 'oH bortaS'e'.”
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.  —  In May 2019, an agent at the Department of Homeland Security received a trove of unsettling images.
Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Top retired Israeli security officials back Colin Kahl, a Biden nominee on ice for his Israel positions  —  WASHINGTON (JTA) — Three leading Israeli generals who worked with President Joe Biden's nominee for the undersecretary of defense, Colin Kahl, are backing him amid a Republican campaign …
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Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Top national security experts issue letter in support of Biden's Pentagon pick Colin Kahl
Discussion: Townhall
CNBC:
Man wanted by police arrested near residence of Vice President Kamala Harris, gun and ammo found in car  — A Texas man wanted by the police was stopped by the U.S. Secret Service and arrested Wednesday afternoon near the residence of Vice President Kamala Harris.
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J.D. Vance / Newsweek:
True ‘Compassion’ Requires Secure Borders and Stopping Illegal Immigration  —  In June 2015, Donald Trump rode down the infamous escalator at Trump Tower to announce his presidential bid.  Like a lot of people, I didn't know what to think.  From the start, I appreciated his populist instincts …
Hannah Gais / Southern Poverty Law Center:
White Nationalist Who Met With Peter Thiel Admired Terroristic Literature  —  A white nationalist propagandist who met with billionaire investor Peter Thiel has been deeply embedded in the movement for well over a decade, and has provided an ideological bridge between suit-and-tie white nationalism …
CNN:
Controversial House Republican talks to Trump ahead of likely Senate bid  —  (CNN)Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks, who led the House effort to object to the election results on January 6, told CNN he plans to make an announcement on Monday about whether he will run for the Senate.
Seth Ackerman / Informer:
“You Furnish the Poverty Statistics, I'll Furnish the War”  —  Joe Biden has declared a historic one-year war on poverty.  Now comes the hard part: filling for time.  —  23 hr ago  —  “Barack was so modest,” Joe Biden told a recent gathering of House Democrats.  “He didn't want to take, as he said, a ‘victory lap.’”
Hans Nichols / Axios:
The coming corporate tax hike  —  Democrats are zeroing in on raising the corporate tax rate from its current 21% to 28% as one of the easiest ways to find new revenue for an infrastructure package.  —  The big picture: While many senators are signaling that President Biden's next big-ticket bill must come …
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Amazon Labor Fight: Wages May Not Ward Off Union  —  Recent organizing campaigns in the South suggest the company's wage scale may have left it vulnerable to a union.  —  In making the case against a union at its warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., Amazon has touted its compensation package.
Discussion: WSVN-TV and Washington Examiner
Voice of America:
Iranian Proxy Attacks on Americans ‘Not Helping Climate in US’ for Reviving Iran Talks, US Envoy Says  —  WASHINGTON - U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley has indicated that recent attacks by Iranian proxies on U.S. forces in Iraq are making it tougher for the Biden administration …
Discussion: Sputnik News and The Week
 
 
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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
We Need Buses, Buses Everywhere
Audrey Conklin / Fox News:
Biden defense secretary warns US forces ready to ‘fight tonight’ after North Korea warning
Discussion: ABC News
Dennis Anderson / Delta County Independent:
Boebert town hall lands somewhere between a political rally and revival
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
U.S. report warns of threats from white supremacists, militias
Just Security:
Pluses and Minuses of Pelosi's Draft Jan. 6 Commission Proposal
Discussion: Power Line
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Jason Richwine / National Review:
To Preserve the Filibuster, Republicans Need Scarier Policy Threats
Bloomberg:
Russian Backer Halts Funds in New Blow to U.S. Aluminum Project
Reed Richardson / Mediaite:
Oklahoma Diner Customers Tell CNN They Won't Get Vaccinated Even If Trump Told Them to: Why Listen to a ‘Liberal New Yorker’ Like Him?
Discussion: HuffPost and Althouse
 

 
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Financial Times:
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