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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Andrew Cuomo's War Against a Federal Prosecutor  —  A call to the Obama White House that some legal experts say is impeachable fits a pattern of the Governor smearing those who scrutinize him.  —  In April, 2014, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo placed a call to the White House and reached Valerie Jarrett …
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Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Live Updates: Governor Cuomo Says He Will Resign
Washington Post:
How Cuomo's flexing of political power became his undoing
New York Times:   'A Publisher's Worst Nightmare': How Cuomo's Book Became a Cautionary Tale
New York Post:
Andrew Cuomo resigns as governor of New York
Wall Street Journal:
Most GOP Senators Sign Pledge to Not Help Democrats on Debt Ceiling  —  Unless Congress steps in, the Treasury could begin to miss payments on its obligations and default  —  WASHINGTON—Most Republican senators have signed on to a pledge to force Democrats to raise the debt ceiling through procedures …
Discussion: National Review
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NBC News:
Senate passes massive infrastructure package that is centerpiece of Biden agenda
Politico:
Trump asked his AG about legal strategy to overturn election, Rosen tells senators  —  Donald Trump asked the country's top legal official in late December about a conspiratorial draft complaint aimed at overturning the 2020 election results, according to a previously unreported account …
Discussion: Raw Story
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CNN:   Senate Judiciary chairman wants to interview former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Chuck Grassley's bad defense of Trump's DOJ scheme
Discussion: Raw Story and Crooks and Liars
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Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
U.S. government sends hundreds of ventilators to Florida as Covid surge continues  —  WASHINGTON — The federal government has sent hundreds of ventilators and other equipment to Florida this week to help the state respond to a record-breaking number of Covid hospitalizations.
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WPLG-TV:
Florida requests 300 ventilators from federal government as COVID cases keep rising
Joe Hagan / Vanity Fair:
“All Roads Lead to Mar-a-Lago”: Inside the Fury and Fantasy of Donald Trump's Florida  —  It's late afternoon, and the palms of Fort Lauderdale are swaying as Roger Stone—dirty trickster, convicted felon—glides across the boulevard in short sleeves and a linen jacket, ready for his first cocktail of the day.
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Shellenberger:
Why I Am Not A Progressive  —  And Why, From Climate Change to Homelessness, Liberal People Are Giving Up  —  For all of my adult life I have identified as a progressive.  To me, being a progressive meant that I believed in empowerment.  In 2002, when I co-founded a labor-environmental coalition …
Discussion: HotAir
New York Times:
See the Data on Breakthrough Covid Hospitalizations and Deaths by State  —  Serious coronavirus infections among vaccinated people have been relatively rare since the start of the vaccination campaign, a New York Times analysis of data from 40 states and Washington, D.C., shows.
New York Post:
Biden ‘checking’ if he can overrule states and order universal masks in schools  —  President Biden said Tuesday that his administration is examining whether he can order universal masking in public schools, overriding Republican governors in states like Florida and Texas.
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Allahpundit / HotAir:
Psaki warns DeSantis: We're looking for ways to help the Florida public schools that are resisting you on masks
Jim Abbott / Daytona Beach News-Journal Online:
WNDB official: Radio host Marc Bernier hospitalized with COVID-19  —  Jim AbbottThe Daytona Beach News-Journal  —  DAYTONA BEACH — Longtime radio talk-show host Marc Bernier has been hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a top official at WNDB (1150 AM, 93.5 FM).
Discussion: The Wrap and Crooks and Liars
Politico:
An inconvenient truth (about weed)  —  Federal laws bar cannabis from crossing state lines, driving up the cost — and the emissions — of an industry using indoor grow operations.  —  Nationally, 80 percent of cannabis is cultivated indoors.  Ethan Miller/Getty Images
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The con is winding down  —  Allow me to present to you the evidence that China stole the 2020 election.  Please sit down; I don't want you to be injured when you faint.  —  So: voilà.  —  Yes, you're reading that right.  Looks like you owe MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell an apology.  —  Hm?
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Walker's wife voted in Georgia as couple lives in Texas, records show  —  Potential U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker and his wife live in Texas, but she voted in Georgia's election for president last fall.  —  The absentee ballot cast by Julie Blanchard raises questions about whether …
James Barragán / The Texas Tribune:
Gov. Greg Abbott, House Speaker Dade Phelan, ask Texas Supreme Court to overturn ruling blocking arrest of Democrats  —  The Democrats had left the state to block the passage of a Republican elections bill they say would restrict voting rights in the state.  —  Copy link
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Chuck Lindell / Austin American-Statesman:
Legislation that would end quorum breaks advances in Texas Senate
Discussion: Fox News and The Hill
Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
Dominion Sues Newsmax, One America News Network, Others Over Election Claims  —  Voting-machine company seeks billions of dollars in damages, citing lost profit and other costs  —  WASHINGTON—One of the largest voting-machine companies in the U.S. on Tuesday sued two conservative media networks …
Jennifer Szalai / New York Times:
‘Reign of Terror’ Brilliantly Traces the Course From 9/11 to President Trump … When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.  —  Spencer Ackerman's barnburner of a new book, “Reign of Terror,” reminded me of that moment in 2015 …
Niara Savage / Atlanta Black Star:
‘It Was Just Disbelief’: Parent Files Complaint Against Atlanta Elementary School After Learning the Principal Segregated Students Based on Race  —  An Atlanta mom filed a federal complaint against her daughter's Atlanta elementary school after she learned that the school was separating students on the basis of race.
Discussion: Twitchy
Amanda Mull / The Atlantic:
The Vaccine Cards Are the Wrong Size  —  This spring, as New York City warmed up and the local vaccination rate surged, I met my best friend for our first restaurant meal together in months.  As soon as we sat down, she began rifling through her purse.  “I have something for you,” she told me.
Max Boot / Washington Post:
America has a long history of vaccination mandates.  Why should the worst plague in a century be any different?  —  Coronavirus vaccination mandates are spreading.  So is resistance to them.  A number of red states, including Texas and Florida, not only refuse to mandate vaccinations …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Tami Luhby / CNN:
Inflation wiped out America's pay raises  —  New York (CNN Business)Companies big and small are raising wages to attract workers and hold onto employees as the economy revs back into gear.  —  But those fatter paychecks aren't going as far, thanks to rising inflation.
Discussion: Twitchy and Marginal REVOLUTION
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The Cheap & Easy Sanctimony of Ben & Jerry  —  Ben & Jerry's last month announced to controversy and fanfare that it would no longer sell its ice cream in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, though it says it will continue selling it elsewhere in Israel.  “Ending the sales of ice cream …
Katherine J. Wu / The Atlantic:
Delta Is Bad News for Kids  —  Two and a half weeks ago, as the next school year approached, a pediatric cardiologist from Louisiana headed into the Georgia mountains with her husband, their three young children, and their extended family.  It was, in many ways, a fairly pandemic-sanctioned vacation …
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
Aimee Green / Oregonian:
Oregon to resume statewide indoor mask mandate, Gov. Kate Brown says  —  Gov. Kate Brown announced Tuesday that Oregonians will be required to start wearing masks in all indoor public spaces regardless of their COVID-19 vaccination status — a move that comes as the pandemic spirals out of control …
Discussion: The Hill
 
 
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Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Progressive Opposition to Jerome Powell Clouds His Chances for Second Term as Fed Chairman
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Justin Hendrix / Just Security:
GAO Faults DHS for Failing to Designate Jan. 6 as a Protected Event in Advance of Attack
Sean Illing / Vox:
Marty Baron on truth, democracy, and the press in an age of distrust
Fred Ryan / Washington Post:
Austin Tice is turning 40. Can this president finally bring him home?
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
A Misleading Narrative about the Unvaccinated
 Earlier Items: 
David Gilbert / VICE:
These Women Helped Incite the Capitol Riot. Now They Want to Steal Georgia for Trump.
Discussion: Raw Story
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Tucker Carlson's Spying Allegations Being Investigated by National Security Agency Watchdog
CNN:
Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene's account for one week
Monica Buchanan Pitrelli / CNBC:
Vaccines are being required for travel — here's how unvaccinated people feel about that
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Deceptions and lies: What really happened in Afghanistan
Discussion: Political Wire