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Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Biden Team Preparing Up to $3 Trillion in New Spending for the Economy  —  A pair of proposals would invest in infrastructure, education, work force development and fighting climate change, with the aim of making the economy more productive.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden's economic advisers …
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Washington Post:
White House prepares massive infrastructure bill with universal pre-K, free community college, climate measures  —  White House officials are preparing to present President Biden with a roughly $3 trillion infrastructure and jobs package that includes high-profile domestic policy priorities …
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Scoop: Inside a crowded border patrol tent in Donna, Texas  —  Exclusive photos from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary overflow facility in Donna, Texas, reveal the crowded, makeshift conditions at the border as the government's longer-term child shelters and family detention centers fill up.
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Marcia Brown / American Prospect:
Did CNN Air a Staged Migrant Crossing of the Rio Grande?  —  An unusual video has been flagged by activists as deliberately manufactured to present a story of a border crisis, possibly with the participation of the Border Patrol.  —  CNN correspondent Ed Lavandera gestures toward …
NBC News:
Amid surge, border agents in Rio Grande Valley now releasing migrants without court dates  —  WASHINGTON — Border agents in the Rio Grande Valley, the epicenter of the current migrant surge, were authorized on Saturday to begin releasing adult migrants and families from custody …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Trump predicted news ratings would 'tank if I'm not there.' He wasn't wrong.  —  Of all Donald Trump's prophecies and predictions — that Mexico would pay for a border wall, that coronavirus would spontaneously disappear, that he would be easily reelected — at least one wasn't entirely wrong.
Freddie deBoer:
It's All Just Displacement  —  Blue checkmarks are mourning bad careers in a broken industry … Media Twitter does not hate Substack because it's pretending to be a platform when it's a publisher; they don't hate it because it's filled with anti-woke white guys; they don't hate it because of harassment or any such thing.
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Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Sovereign Writers and Substack  —  Manage your Stratechery subscription.  —  There has been a bit of controversy around Substack over the last week; I'm not going to get into the specifics of various accusations made about various individuals, or their responses; however …
Heritage Foundation:
Heritage Foundation President, Executive Vice President Announce Resignations … WASHINGTON — After serving as The Heritage Foundation's leadership team for the last three years, President Kay C. James and Executive Vice President Dr. Kim R. Holmes have announced their resignations.
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Holly Brewer / Backbencher:   The divine right of wingnuts
Jesse Singal / Singal-Minded:
GLAAD Took False, Previously Disproven Internet Scuttlebutt And Used It To Justify Putting Me On A List Of Anti-LGBT Bigots (Updated)  —  This is infuriating  —  I should be able to keep this short because these are not difficult errors to correct.  In fact, anyone who has read my work at all wouldn't have made them.
Discussion: HotAir
Adrian Kemp / AstraZeneca:
AZD1222 US Phase III trial met primary efficacy endpoint in preventing COVID-19 at interim analysis  —  79% vaccine efficacy at preventing symptomatic COVID-19  —  100% efficacy against severe or critical disease and hospitalisation  —  Comparable efficacy result across ethnicity and age,
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New York Times:
AstraZeneca's Covid-19 Vaccine Is Found to Be 79% Effective in U.S. Study
Aída Chávez / The Nation:
How Kyrsten Sinema Sold Out  —  The origin story of the Senate's newest super villain.  —  In 2002, The Arizona Republic published a letter from Kyrsten Sinema, then a social worker preparing to run for a seat in the state House of Representatives, putting forth a critique of capitalism.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Raw Story
Associated Press:
Cops' posts to private Facebook group show hostility, hate  —  PITTSBURGH (AP) — In a private Facebook group called the Pittsburgh Area Police Breakroom, many current and retired officers spent the year criticizing chiefs who took a knee or officers who marched with Black Lives Matter protesters …
Sophie Lewis / CBS News:
Krispy Kreme will you give you a free doughnut every day this year — if you've been vaccinated  —  In case you needed another reason to get your COVID-19 vaccination, Krispy Kreme is sweetening the deal — it's giving free doughnuts to anyone with proof of vaccination, all year long.
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Cuomo responds to shout from supporter amid scandals: 'I'm not going anywhere, darling'  —  Cuomo continues to resist pressure to resign as he faces multiple scandals  —  New York state senator: Cuomo is no longer in capacity to govern amid pandemic, misconduct allegations
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Nikolas Lanum / Fox News:   Cuomo had staffers document which networks covered his press briefings and for how many minutes a day: Report
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The dumbing down of the D.C. statehood debate  —  There are valid, philosophical reasons to argue that Washington, D.C., should not be a state or have voting rights in Congress — chief among them being that it was created as a federal district.  —  But as the House held a hearing on the topic Monday …
Washington Post:
Justice Dept. prepares to engage in plea talks with many Capitol riot defendants  —  Two months into one of the biggest criminal investigations in U.S. history, prosecutors are preparing to start plea discussions as early as this week with many of the more than 300 suspects charged in the U.S. Capitol riot …
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Peter Stone / The Guardian:
Roger Stone faces fresh scrutiny as Capitol attack investigation expands
Discussion: Raw Story
Mitch McConnell / Courier-Journal:
The filibuster is Kentucky's veto.  It stops radical ambitions like Yarmuth's  —  Congressman John Yarmuth likes to pretend he knows me.  He talks to reporters and writes in these pages as if he's some sort of “McConnell-whisperer.”  That's a full day's drive from reality.
Sinéad Baker / Insider:
A police detective filed for divorce from his wife after she was photographed with another man at the Capitol riot  — A police detective filed for divorce from his wife after she took part in the January Capitol riot.  — The FBI said Jennifer Heinl was inside the Capitol rotunda and was photographed with another man.
Discussion: New York Post and The Sun
KUSA-TV:
WATCH LIVE: Boulder Police responding to active shooter situation at King Soopers  —  The King Soopers is located at 3600 Table Mesa Drive, the Boulder Police Department (BPD) said.  —  BOULDER, Colo. — Emergency crews are responding to an active shooter situation Monday afternoon at a King Soopers in Boulder.
Wall Street Journal:
Hospitals Hide Pricing Data From Search Results  —  Webpages for hundreds of hospitals require users to click through to find prices, undermining federal transparency rule, Journal analysis shows  —  Hospitals that have published their previously confidential prices to comply with a new federal rule …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
The rioter next door: How the Dallas suburbs spawned domestic extremists  —  FRISCO, Tex. — Sunlight gleamed off the tiled roofs of the taupe mini-mansions and walkable shopping centers as March 4 dawned in this corner of North Texas.  According to specious speculations online …
Discussion: Raw Story
CREW:
Betsy DeVos made at least $225 million while education secretary … Betsy DeVos reported at least $225 million — and potentially well over $414 million — in outside income while working as Donald Trump's education secretary, according to an analysis of DeVos's financial disclosures by CREW.
Discussion: Forbes
Shawna Chen / Axios:
Sidney Powell moves to dismiss Dominion lawsuit  —  Sidney Powell, the pro-Trump lawyer who spread baseless claims of election fraud, moved Monday to dismiss Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against her.  —  What she's saying: Powell argues in her motion that “no reasonable person” …
Discussion: Law & Crime
Ben Steverman / Bloomberg:
Richest 1% of Americans Hide a Fifth of Their Income From the IRS  —  A new study found that the IRS can miss earnings hidden in sophisticated ways.  It could support calls to give the agency more funding after years of budget cuts.  —  More than 20% of the wealthiest Americans' income …
Discussion: New York Post and Balloon Juice
Ali Watkins / New York Times:
Meet Wyoming's New Black Sheriff, the First in State History  —  The appointment is symbolic for both Wyoming and the Mountain West, which has been insulated from much of the national reckoning over race and policing.  —  LARAMIE, Wyo. — Ask Aaron Appelhans if he ever wanted to be a sheriff, and he'll say no.
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Federal Judge: ‘One-Party Control Of The Press And Media Is A Threat To A Viable Democracy’  —  In a blistering dissent, Judge Laurence Silberman said The New York Times and Washington Post are ‘Democratic Party broadsheets.’
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Democrats' Immigration Problem  —  We explain the Biden administration's early struggles on immigration policy.  —  For most of the past few decades, the Democratic Party had a pretty clear stance on immigration.  It favored a mix of enforcement (like border security and the deportation …
Jonathan Guyer / American Prospect:
The Saudi Expert Who Hides Foreign Funding When Testifying to Congress  —  A former Trump official sidestepped a new ethics rule.  —  Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed in 2019  —  The Biden administration has pledged to hold Saudi Arabia accountable …
Heather Digby Parton / Salon:
Coverage of the migrant surge at the border shows how easily the media can be trolled by Republicans  —  Media can educate the public without ratcheting up the hysteria by calmly providing the historical context  —  It was inevitable that a crisis at the U.S. border with Mexico would refocus …
Discussion: Fox News, Daily Kos, HotAir and The Mahablog
Max Moran / Revolving Door Project:
Keystone XL Investor Susan Rice Has Kept Up Her Fossil Fuel Investments — And Now Oversees Tribal Relations Across The Executive Branch  —  Appointing Susan Rice to lead the Domestic Policy Council in December made no sense from a policy perspective, but perfect sense from a political perspective.
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
How Biden quietly created a huge social program  —  Sen. Michael F. Bennet (D-Colo.) tapped out the longest text messages he'd ever written one night last January, urging Susan Rice, a top Biden aide and a friend, to include a full-scale anti-child poverty measure in the coronavirus rescue plan to be unveiled within days.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Democrats are dead serious about taking back that Iowa seat  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Big vaccine news overnight ... CNN: “AstraZeneca vaccine is 79% effective against symptomatic Covid-19, company says”  —  Just weeks after blasting DONALD TRUMP for trying to overturn …
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Hice launches challenge to Raffensperger in race for Secretary of State  —  U.S. Rep. Jody Hice announced a primary challenge on Monday to unseat Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and the four-term Republican is expected to land the endorsement of former President Donald Trump in his bid …
Justin Fox / Bloomberg:
Wow, We Sure Drank a Lot Last Year  —  Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business.  He was the editorial director of Harvard Business Review and wrote for Time, Fortune and American Banker.  He is the author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”
Brian Faler / Politico:
Average corporate tax rate plunged by more than half after GOP overhaul  —  The average tax rate on U.S. corporations fell by more than half, to 7.8 percent, in the wake of Republicans' 2017 tax overhaul, according to a new government analysis.  —  In a report sure to inflame the debate …
Discussion: TaxProf Blog and Political Wire
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Republican Dan Crenshaw goes down in flames during debate with MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan  —  MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan went after Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) on Twitter this week after a Fox News appearance in which he twisted data about border crossings to score points.
 
 
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Thomas Novelly / Post and Courier:
Securing a presidential pardon is rare. But SC's Sen. Tim Scott landed one for his cousin.
Discussion: Raw Story
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
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Kyle Chayka / New Yorker:
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Foreign Policy:
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Eliza Relman / Insider:
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James T. Areddy / Wall Street Journal:
Rights Group Asks FCC to Punish Chinese State Broadcaster
Discussion: The Hill
Politico:
Vaccine mystery: Why J&J's shots aren't reaching more arms
Discussion: HotAir and National Review
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Trump: Republicans need ‘stronger’ and ‘better’ leadership than McConnell
Discussion: Mediaite
Rachel Bitecofer / The Cycle:
Survey Finds Republican Voters' Views On Democratic “Fragility” May Contribute to Rise in Radicalism Within Party-Increased Support of Anti-Democratic Attitudes/Policies.
Jonathan Cohn / The Atlantic:
The Real Reason Republicans Couldn't Kill Obamacare
Discussion: CNN and Daily Kos
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Riot Games says it spent $250M on an unusual deal to finance two seasons of League of Legends show Arcane on Netflix; sources: there was no plan to recoup costs

Jon Phillips / PCWorld:
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