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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.
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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Alayna Treene / Axios:
A “nuclear winter” foretold — A Senate operating in the “nuclear winter” Minority Leader Mitch McConnell promises if the filibuster is eliminated is one in which lawmakers face incessant roll calls and other inconveniences turning their comfortable lives into a living hell.
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Talking Points Memo, The Guardian and HotAir
Sinéad Baker / Insider:
Mitch McConnell promised a ‘nuclear winter’ of contrarian tactics if Democrats get rid of the filibuster
Mitch McConnell promised a ‘nuclear winter’ of contrarian tactics if Democrats get rid of the filibuster
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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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Wall Street Journal, Talking Points Memo and New York Times
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Every Democrat who fears filibuster reform should read these two new works
Every Democrat who fears filibuster reform should read these two new works
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The Hill, Bloomberg and New York Times
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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Insider, The Hill, Washington Post and ABC News
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden should fact-check the White House press corps — The White House press corps, ginned up by Republican hype, has for weeks hounded White House press secretary Jen Psaki and anyone else from the Biden administration who comes into the briefing room about what is happening at the border.
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Columbia Journalism Review, Hackwhackers, HotAir and Media Matters for America
Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
Harris pivots away from gun control executive action two days after Boulder massacre
Harris pivots away from gun control executive action two days after Boulder massacre
Marcus Weisgerber / Defense One:
That Settles That: White House Is Keeping Space Force
That Settles That: White House Is Keeping Space Force
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Washington Examiner
Washington Post:
White House promises AAPI liaison after ultimatum from Sens. Duckworth, Hirono
White House promises AAPI liaison after ultimatum from Sens. Duckworth, Hirono
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, CBS News, USA Today, Roll Call, CBS Chicago, Talking Points Memo, NPR, Washington Times, HuffPost, Associated Press, Outside the Beltway, Mediaite, Insider, ABC News, The Week, Fox News, NBC News and Slate
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
How Interest-Group Politics Works for All
How Interest-Group Politics Works for All
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Washington Examiner, CNN and spectator.us
Omer Benjakob / Haaretz:
Israel Election, the Day After: The Right Gears Up for Massive ‘The Left Stole the Vote’ Campaign — Israel elections 2021: Haaretz reveals how Benjamin and Yair Netanyahu, Likud officials and their media proxies have been using the Trump (and QAnon) playbook to cast doubt over election results since April 2019
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Haaretz:
Israel Election Live: With Nearly 90 Percent of Vote Counted, Netanyahu Lacks Clear Path to Majority
Israel Election Live: With Nearly 90 Percent of Vote Counted, Netanyahu Lacks Clear Path to Majority
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Jerusalem Post, Foreign Policy and The Times of Israel
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 »
Anna Edney / Bloomberg:
Carcinogen Found in Hand Sanitizers That Plugged Pandemic Gap — Benzene found by online quality-assurance pharmacy Valisure — Lesser-known products filled U.S. void caused by Covid rush — Some widely available hand sanitizers that American consumers snapped up last year …
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.
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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The American Constitution, Instapundit, Fox News, Boston Herald and The Gateway Pundit
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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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Fox News, New York Post, Poynter, Colorado Newsline, UPI, The Week, Daily Camera, Breaking911, Daily Montanan, The Daily Caller, HillReporter.com, The Sun, Breitbart, Crime Online, Orange County Register, Washington Examiner, Big League Politics, New York Times, Religion News Service and The Spectator
Mike Allen / Axios:
C-SPAN's 2024 election coverage officially kicks off with Mike Pompeo in Iowa — C-SPAN tells me “Road to the White House 2024” coverage begins Friday with Mike Pompeo in Iowa, speaking to the Machine Shed in Urbandale to the Westside Conservative Club, to be shown later that day.
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The Week
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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The Daily Poster and Political Wire
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 …
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
New York Times:
Daniel Snyder to Buy Out Other Owners of Washington NFL Team — The league is expected to approve a measure that will allow Daniel Snyder to buy total control of the team. — Seeking to move past a year of tumult over the team's former name and a sexual harassment investigation of its front office …
Politico:
Don't expect a @realDonaldTrump comeback — Sad news for loser @jack (chocker?) and all the haters. Despite what many people are calling “heavy demand,” @realDonaldTrump will not be returning — like a dog — to his once Favorite part of The Big, Beautiful internet.
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Raw Story
Charlie Sykes / Bulwark+:
The Future of Conservatism? — Scott Walker is no Bill Buckley — Back in July 2019, our colleague, Jim Swift, asked “Can Scott Walker Save the Future of Conservatism?” — The former Wisconsin governor had just been named the president of the Young America's Foundation …
Philip Klein / National Review:
Unlike Obama, Biden Doesn't Even Pretend to Care about Tackling Our Historic Debt — The new president is gambling that our extraordinary deficits will never matter. — n the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden proudly ran as an “Obama-Biden Democrat.” — But there is already one important …
Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:
Israeli Spy Pollard Betrays America Yet Again — The traitor's latest self-serving lie adds another burden to minorities in US national security agencies — Jonathan Pollard, his grandiosity, narcissism and disingenuousness undiminished, cannot stop hurting the country that gave his Holocaust-ravaged family a life.
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Diplopundit
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles Times receives $10-million PPP loan — The Los Angeles Times has received a $10-million loan through the federal Paycheck Protection Program — money that will help cover payroll and other employee-related costs amid a dramatic plunge in advertising revenue, the company said Tuesday.
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The Hill, more at Mediagazer »
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
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
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
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
New evidence suggests ‘alliance’ between Oath Keepers, Proud Boys ahead of Jan. 6 — A key member of the Oath Keepers militia told associates he had coordinated alliances with the Proud Boys and other paramilitary groups in advance of Donald Trump's Jan. 6 rally, according to new evidence filed by the Justice Department.
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CNN, New York Post, The Intellectualist and Raw Story
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 …
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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HuffPost and Big League Politics
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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HuffPost, Washington Examiner, Fox News, The Daily Caller and Washington Times
Peter Holley / Texas Monthly:
They Just Moved Into an Austin Neighborhood. Now They Want to End One of Its Traditions. — Car clubs have gathered for decades at “Chicano Park” in the East Cesar Chavez neighborhood. But residents of a new luxury apartment building have started calling the police to stop them.
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Twitchy
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% …
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.
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.