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Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
'It's race, class and gender together': Why the Atlanta murders aren't just about one thing — Here is how local law enforcement on Tuesday bafflingly explained its thinking about the Atlanta-area shooting suspect who had confessed to killing eight people, including six Asian women …
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Harmeet Kaur / CNN:
Fetishized, sexualized and marginalized, Asian women are uniquely vulnerable to violence
Fetishized, sexualized and marginalized, Asian women are uniquely vulnerable to violence
Aaron Smith / Forbes:
More Asian-Americans Are Buying Guns For Protection From Hate Crimes
More Asian-Americans Are Buying Guns For Protection From Hate Crimes
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Adia Robinson / ABC News:
Anti-Asian hate hearing gets emotional: ‘Congress sees you, we stand with you’
Anti-Asian hate hearing gets emotional: ‘Congress sees you, we stand with you’
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Biden, Harris to meet with Asian-American leaders in Atlanta during Friday's visit
Biden, Harris to meet with Asian-American leaders in Atlanta during Friday's visit
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New York Times:
Asian-Americans Are Being Attacked. Why Are Hate Crime Charges So Rare?
Asian-Americans Are Being Attacked. Why Are Hate Crime Charges So Rare?
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Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
The long, ugly history of anti-Asian racism and violence in the U.S.
The long, ugly history of anti-Asian racism and violence in the U.S.
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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
Georgia Sheriff Spokesman Posted Racist COVID Shirts on Facebook
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Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Can you care about Asian Americans if white supremacy isn't the issue?
Can you care about Asian Americans if white supremacy isn't the issue?
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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 …
Isabelle Khurshudyan / Washington Post:
Putin responds to Biden comment that he's a killer: ‘I know you are, but what am I?’
Putin responds to Biden comment that he's a killer: ‘I know you are, but what am I?’
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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 …
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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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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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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
On the novelty of calling a killer a killer
On the novelty of calling a killer a killer
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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.
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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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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Washington Post:
Biden will send Mexico surplus vaccines, as U.S. seeks help on immigration enforcement — The Biden administration has agreed to supply Mexico with excess doses of the coronavirus vaccine, and Mexico is moving to help the United States contain a migration surge along its southern border …
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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
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 …
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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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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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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 …
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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 …
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.
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'.”
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 …
Washington Post:
Postal Service finds no evidence of mail ballot fraud in Pa. case cited by top Republicans — Letter carrier Richard Hopkins told federal agents he “assumed” supervisors discussed backdating ballots and then recanted his claim, inspector general's report says
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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
We Need Buses, Buses Everywhere — Better service would improve millions of Americans' lives. — In America, nobody loves the bus. Lots of people ride the bus — we took about 4.6 billion trips by bus in 2019, more than by any other mode of public transportation.
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.
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June Kreml / Vox:
What Biden's new child benefit would have meant for me growing up — I grew up in a “nonworking” family. Biden's child benefit would've been a godsend. — SHARE All sharing options — This story is part of a group of stories called — Shortly after I turned 8, my father died, leaving my mother a widow.
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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.’”
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 …
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
‘Do not come’: Mayorkas attempts to clean up border messaging — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas took a slightly tougher tone in his latest plea with migrants, asking them to wait weeks to months before traveling to the southern border. — “Do not come,” Mayorkas …
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