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Axios:
Biden's New Deal: Re-engineering America, quickly — President Biden recently held an undisclosed East Room session with historians that included discussion of how big is too big — and how fast is too fast — to jam through once-in-a-lifetime historic changes to America.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What the Duckworth-AAPI episode revealed — DRIVING THE DAY — For months, Sen. TAMMY DUCKWORTH (D-Ill.) had been nudging the Biden administration to appoint more Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to the Cabinet — to no avail. When she brought up the issue again …
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Washington Post, Washington Examiner, ABC News and New York Times
Sinéad Baker / Insider:
Mitch McConnell promised a ‘nuclear winter’ of contrarian tactics if Democrats get rid of the filibuster — McConnell said Senate negotiations would be a “nuclear winter” if Democrats bin the filibuster. — Senate aides told Axios he isn't bluffing, and would use other rules to frustrate Democrats.
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HuffPost, Raw Story and The Philadelphia Inquirer
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Voting rights clash hurtles Senate toward nuclear breakdown
Voting rights clash hurtles Senate toward nuclear breakdown
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Associated Press
New York Times:
Officer Brian Sicknick Died After the Capitol Riot. New Videos Show How He Was Attacked. … New videos obtained by The New York Times show publicly for the first time how the U.S. Capitol Police officer who died after facing off with rioters on Jan. 6 was attacked with chemical spray.
Ev Williams / Medium:
Medium Editorial Team Update — We announced a buyout and leadership change to the Medium editorial team today. Below is the email I sent to the company. — Team, — We are making some changes to our editorial strategy and leadership and giving a voluntary exit option to employees who would like to take a different path.
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New York Times, Althouse, The Wrap and Scripting News, more at Mediagazer »
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Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE:
Medium Tells Journalists to Feel Free to Quit After Busting Union Drive — After what workers describe as a successful union-busting campaign, Ev Williams has announced to journalists who work for him that they should feel free to go. — EO — On Tuesday night, billionaire Medium CEO …
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New York Magazine, more at Techmeme »
Washington Post:
White House promises AAPI liaison after ultimatum from Sens. Duckworth, Hirono — The White House agreed late Tuesday to add a senior-level Asian American Pacific Islander liaison after two Democratic senators threatened to vote no on nominees because of what they said was a lack …
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
How Interest-Group Politics Works for All
How Interest-Group Politics Works for All
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CNN, spectator.us and Axios
New York Post:
The Post says: Get weapons of war off America's streets — Eight slain in Atlanta, now 10 in Boulder. Your town could be next. Can the nation finally do something about weapons of war on our streets? — President Joe Biden called Tuesday for Congress to move immediately to “ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.”
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Big League Politics
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Denver Post:
Boulder shooting suspect Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was short-tempered, violent, former teammates say
Boulder shooting suspect Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was short-tempered, violent, former teammates say
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CNN:
Trump's presidency was a disaster for his business — Michael D'Antonio is the author of the book “Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success” and co-author, with Peter Eisner, of the book “High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump.”
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Paul Davidson / USA Today:
'I don't want to be the one who gives it to people': Many Americans won't eat out, fly until herd immunity arrives — A growing share of Americans would feel safe resuming activities like dining out or flying within a few weeks of their second dose of COVID-19 vaccine, but about 25% to 30% …
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
An Unusually Optimistic Conversation With Bernie Sanders — I'm Ezra Klein and this is “The Ezra Klein Show.” — There were times, so many times during 2020 election when I was pretty certain Senator Bernie Sanders was going to win the Democratic primary and then win the presidential …
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IJR, NBC News, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Mediaite, Insider, The Daily Caller and New York Magazine
Politico:
Steyer polls the Newsom recall — offering himself as an alternative — Tom Steyer is polling the California recall. — And the billionaire environmental activist and erstwhile presidential hopeful has included his own name among the list of possible contenders to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom …
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NBC News
Madison Hahamy / Yale Daily News:
Former professor says Yale fired her over tweet on Trump, Dershowitz — Bandy Lee MED '94 DIV '95, a formerly Yale-affiliated faculty member in the School of Medicine and Yale Law School, filed a complaint against the University on Monday alleging “unlawful termination …
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Outside the Beltway, DCReport.org, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story and HillReporter.com
Ezra Marcus / New York Times:
Man Says He Found Shrimp Tails in Cinnamon Toast Crunch — Crave those crazy ... shrimp tails? — Cereal is a staple of the American breakfast table, consumed by millions of people every day and tied, for many, with memories of childhood. So when a story began circulating this week …
Wall Street Journal:
Jim Crow Is Not on the Georgia Ballot — Here are the actual proposals being cast as ‘voter suppression.’ — The battle over voting rules is erupting again, and Georgia is back as political ground zero. It's “a redux of Jim Crow, in a suit and tie,” says Democrat and media favorite Stacey Abrams with her usual understatement.
Haaretz:
Israel Election Live: In Reversal, Updated Exit Polls Now Show Netanyahu Losing Majority — Israel elections 2021: Kahanist party makes major gains, according to exit polls ■ Gantz, Meretz spring back from brink of demise ■ Coronavirus regulations may delay vote count ■ Voter turnout lowest since 2013
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Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Breitbart, Power Line, The Times of Israel, The Atlantic, The Daily Caller, Forbes and UPI
Angus King / Washington Post:
What happens to the filibuster depends on how Republicans play their hand — Opinion by Angus King — Angus S. King Jr., an independent, represents Maine in the U.S. Senate. — I first came to the Senate eight years ago, at the beginning of President Barack Obama's second term and when the Democrats were in the majority.
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Wall Street Journal, The Daily Poster and Political Wire
Politico:
EU moves toward six-week vaccine export cut — The European Commission is proposing controversial new rules that would let the EU slash vaccine exports for six weeks to places like the U.K. and U.S. — countries that are either receiving EU-made vaccines but not sending other shots back …
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Bloomberg, New York Times and Political Wire
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Matina Stevis-Gridneff / New York Times:
E.U. Set to Curb Covid Vaccine Exports for 6 Weeks
E.U. Set to Curb Covid Vaccine Exports for 6 Weeks
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Politico
Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Blue-state Republicans slump without Trump as foil — BOSTON — As recently as October, Massachusetts Republican Gov. Charlie Baker was basking in his typically stratospheric poll ratings. More than 70 percent approved of his job performance. Roughly the same amount felt the same way about his handling of the Covid-19 crisis.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Bad News Bias — The U.S. media is offering a different picture of Covid-19 from science journals or the international media, a study finds. — Bruce Sacerdote, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, noticed something last year about the Covid-19 television coverage that he was watching on CNN and PBS.
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
The IRS Should Do More to Nab Wealthy Tax Dodgers — Timothy L. O'Brien is a senior columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. — President Joe Biden has big, ambitious plans that will continue to ring up unwieldy bills for the federal government. His administration will have to fund a significant …
pulseoftheprimary.com:
New poll finds voters cautiously optimistic about City's future, though half are presently undecided in the upcoming race for mayor — Pulse of the Primary: 2021 NYC Mayor's Race, presented by Fontas Advisors and Core Decision Analytics (CODA), released its second set of poll results on March 24th.
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Hamodia
The National Pulse:
All 10 Boulder Colorado Victims Were White. It's Time to End Anti-White Race Hate. — The following ten people perished in the recent shooting in Boulder, Colorado carried out by Ahmad Al-Issa. All of them appear to be white, but neither the media nor politicians have bothered to resurrect …
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Instapundit, Fox News, Boston Herald, Daily Camera and The Gateway Pundit
Associated Press:
AP journalist Thein Zaw released from detention in Myanmar — YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Thein Zaw, a journalist for The Associated Press who was arrested more than three weeks ago while covering a protest against the coup in Myanmar, was released from detention on Wednesday.
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The Hill and Associated Press, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
G.O.P. and Allies Draft ‘Best Practices’ for Restricting Voting — As Republican legislatures seek to usher in a raft of new voting restrictions, they are being prodded by an array of party leaders and outside groups working to coordinate the efforts. — In late January …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Washington Post
Philip Reeves / NPR:
Brazil Is Looking Like The Worst Place On Earth For COVID-19 — RIO DE JANEIRO — Cinthia Ribeiro knew she had a fight on her hands when COVID-19 arrived in her hometown in Brazil. What she didn't know was that, one year on, humans would be out to kill her too.
Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News:
National Guardsmen transporting Covid-19 vaccines held at gunpoint in Texas … National Guardsmen transporting Covid-19 vaccines through Texas on Monday were held at gunpoint, police said. — Larry Harris is accused of following a convoy of National Guard soldiers before attempting to run …
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Task & Purpose, KWTX-TV and Juanita Jean's
Washington Examiner:
The Iowa steal: To Democrats, ‘democracy’ means unbridled majority power — Democratic candidate Rita Hart is trying to steal a U.S. House seat in Iowa. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is helping her do it. — Pelosi wants to overturn Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks's very narrow win in Iowa's 2nd Congressional District.
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The Federalist, Florida Phoenix and The American Independent
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
Sidney Powell does an about-face on her Stop the Steal claims — Now she tells us. — Attorney Sidney Powell, you may recall, was the Madame Defarge of the recent attempt to overturn the election results. She knitted elaborate lawsuits from the yarns of unreliable witnesses …
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Washington Examiner and Axios
James Clark / Task & Purpose:
No, the ‘presidential salute’ isn't a thing — and neither is the ‘vice presidential salute’ … The hotly debated issue of the “presidential salute” is once again making the rounds online, except this time it has broadened in scope to include the “vice presidential salute.”
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Washington Examiner, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Times and RedState
The Daily Beast:
Georgia Prosecutors Eye ‘False Statement’ Charges for Rudy Giuliani and Team Trump — Charging the ex-president's lawyer with lying to officials would be unusual. But so were Rudy Giuliani's antics after the election. … Local prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia …
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The Intellectualist, Raw Story and Fox News
Sophia Eppolito / Associated Press:
Utah governor signs divisive measure to require porn filters — SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah is a step closer to requiring all cellphones and tablets sold in the conservative state to automatically block pornography after the Republican governor signed legislation Tuesday that critics call a significant intrusion of free speech.
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The Hill, Courthouse News Service and The Week