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Select Committee to Investigate …:
Select Committee Issues Subpoenas Related to January 6th Stop the Steal Rally at U.S. Capitol  —  Bolton, MS—Chairman Bennie G. Thompson today announced that the Select Committee has issued additional subpoenas seeking testimony and records related to the “Stop the Steal” …
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Washington Post:
Trump lawyer tells former aides not to cooperate with Jan. 6 committee  —  An attorney for former president Donald Trump, in a letter reviewed by The Washington Post, instructed former advisers, including Mark Meadows, Kash Patel, Dan Scavino and Stephen K. Bannon, not to comply …
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Trump tells 4 former aides to defy Jan. 6 committee's subpoena  —  Former President Donald Trump is directing a group of his former aides to ignore a subpoena from the House committee probing the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and signaling he will go to court to block their testimony to the investigators.
Sam LaGrone / USNI News:
UPDATED: Attack Submarine USS Connecticut Suffers Underwater Collision in South China Sea  —  This post has been updated with additional details on the injuries to the crew of USS Connecticut and the location of the collision.  —  Almost a dozen sailors have been injured …
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
Arsonist heroically agrees not to light deadly fire?  Let me rewrite that for you.  —  Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell is getting exactly the kind of coverage he had hoped for — and had every reason to expect — from a press corps that is incapable of holding the Republican Party accountable for anything.
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Politico:
Senate advances short-term debt limit hike after GOP scramble  —  The Senate approved a short-term debt ceiling fix on Thursday night, bringing Congress a huge step closer to staving off an economic debacle until December.  —  The two-month patch overcame a Senate GOP filibuster, 61-38, then passed with all Democratic votes.
Washington Post:
Trump and his allies target McConnell over deal to avoid default
Politico:
Biden DOJ shields ex-Trump officials from testifying about election fraud cases  —  A top career official in President Joe Biden's Justice Department blocked efforts by Senate investigators to probe the handling of voter fraud complaints in the aftermath of the 2020 election, according to transcripts released Thursday.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Using an old bad defense of Trump to build a new bad defense of Trump
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on climate denial content  —  Google and YouTube on Thursday announced a new policy that prohibits climate deniers from being able to monetize their content on its platforms via ads or creator payments.  —  Why it matters: It's …
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Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Google Won't Fund Sites, YouTube Videos That Deny Climate Change
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Fines Prevent Too Many From Voting in Florida  —  Mr. Winter is a staff photographer on assignment in Opinion.  Mr. Wegman is a member of the editorial board.  —  Twenty years ago, Judy Bolden served 18 months in a Florida prison.  She has been free ever since, but she is still barred …
Gordon Lubold / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Troops Have Been Deployed in Taiwan for at Least a Year  —  Small presence of Americans secretly training local forces marks concern over China's yearslong military buildup and recent moves  —  WASHINGTON—A U.S. special-operations unit and a contingent of Marines have been secretly operating …
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Today's deep question: Why does Biden use a stage set instead of the White House?  —  The “fake set” question first came up a week ago, when a few critics speculated that Joe Biden's booster shot was as staged as the environs.  There's not a shred of evidence that Biden didn't get his third dose …
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Emily Crane / New York Post:
Biden mocked for ‘Truman Show presidency’ over fake White House set
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Governor Spencer J. Cox:
Gov. Cox, Lt. Governor Henderson, Attorney General Reyes, President Adams and Speaker Wilson express disappointment in Biden administration's decision to expand Utah monuments
Discussion: HuffPost and CNN
Marisa Guthrie / The Hollywood Reporter:
“I Sleep Well at Night”: Suzanne Scott on Running Fox News  —  Twenty-five years after its founding, a sit-down with the CEO of America's most watched and most polarizing network, whose employees laud her for cleaning up a toxic workplace even as critics assail the channel for spreading misinformation and undermining democracy.
Discussion: Vanity Fair, The Hill and Insider
Ruy Teixeira / The Liberal Patriot:
The Democrats' Hispanic Voter Problem: More Evidence from the 2020 Pew Validated Voter Survey  —  It's a Sobering Picture  —  Joe Biden in 2020 characterized Donald Trump as, among other things, an unapologetic racist who particularly detested immigrants.  This strand of Biden's campaign …
Roger McNamee / TIME:
Facebook Will Not Fix Itself  —  McNamee began his Silicon Valley investing career in 1982.  He was an early investor in Facebook and an advisor to Mark Zuckerberg.  He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe.
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Johana Bhuiyan / The Guardian:
'Facebook can't keep its head in the sand': five experts debate the company's future
Discussion: The Wrap and Breitbart
The Dworkin Report:
Reality Winner's mom calls on President Biden to grant her daughter clemency  —  Scott speaks with Billie Jean Winner-Davis, whose daughter Reality spent years in federal prison for revealing Russia's cyberattack on America's elections in 2016.  Reality's mom shared some of her frustrations …
Discussion: Insider
Liz Peek / The Hill:
Global energy crunch spurs inflation and scares green lobby  —  Environmentalists are terrified.  Not that polar bears will soon go the way of the dodo or that melting ice caps will submerge Iceland in the near future (or is it Greenland?).  —  No, the green lobby is very …
David Weigel / Washington Post:
The Trailer: Andrew Yang's got a new political party — and he wants to change how we vote  —  In this edition: Andrew Yang joins the third-party movement, ballot measure advocates mobilize in the states, and conservatives double down on the schools issue in Virginia.
Keila Szpaller / Daily Montanan:
Paul Kirgis steps down as dean of UM School of Law; Sally Weaver also to resign as associate dean  —  Paul Kirgis stepped down late Wednesday afternoon as dean of the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana.  —  “I have come to the conclusion that the School of Law …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and KECI
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Michael Gableman, the GOP attorney reviewing Wisconsin's 2020 election, is backing off on the subpoenas to cities days after issuing them  —  MADISON - In a dramatic turnaround, an attorney reviewing the 2020 election for Assembly Republicans on Thursday canceled interviews with mayors …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Trump-Loving Cousins IDed By Online Sleuths Are Arrested For Attacking Cops At Capitol  —  #MississippiFlagGuy and #KingstonAsh were identified by online sleuths back in February.  —  The FBI has arrested two cousins who attacked police officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and were identified …
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
NIH's Francis Collins, on covid, science and faith: ‘There is such a thing as truth’  —  It seems like my last memory from a previous life — a life of human interaction without constant precaution.  On the first day of March 2020, I was seated at lunch next to the director of the National Institutes …
New York Times:
What's Delaying Vaccine Mandates?  —  President Biden is making another push for companies to require workers to be inoculated against the coronavirus.  —  The White House makes its vaccine pitch  —  President Biden is headed to Chicago today, where he will make another push for companies to announce coronavirus vaccine mandates.
New York Times:
How Michael P. Farris Tried to Block 2020 Election Outcome  —  Drafts of a lawsuit filed with Supreme Court by Texas' attorney general in December had been circulated by the leader of an anti-abortion group.  —  WASHINGTON — One of the nation's most prominent religious conservative lawyers played …
Discussion: Raw Story
Susan Raff / WFSB-TV:
Guilford GOP school board campaign manager says helping children of color feel like they belong hurts white children  —  GUILFORD, CT.  (WFSB) - Mary Beeman, the campaign manager for the Guilford republican school board candidates, commented, “helping kids of color to feel they belong …
Nick R. Martin / The Informant:
Congressman promotes Holocaust denial website  —  Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona tweeted a link to The Unz Review, a website that traffics in Holocaust denial and neo-Nazism.  —  Congressman Paul Gosar tweeted a link on Wednesday to a website that routinely publishes the work of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and Holocaust deniers.
WRAL-TV:
GOP lawmakers threaten forcible entry into Durham elections office  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — A group of Republican House members announced Thursday that they are launching a fraud investigation into North Carolina elections and said they would start by inspecting voting machines in Durham County …
Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:
Biggs Clings To Big Lie During Cyber Ninjas Hearing: 'We Don't Know' Who Won Arizona  —  Trump diehard Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) clutched onto ex-President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election on Thursday during an Oversight Committee hearing on Cyber Ninjas' shambolic “audit” of the election results in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Jenny G. Zhang / Gawker:
Identity Fraud  —  Sometimes, when I'm having a bad day, maybe in the middle of some stupid argument with a stranger on the internet, the thought briefly crosses my mind: I should just say that whoever is currently driving me up the wall is racist.  Or sexist.  Or, myself being a non-white woman, a combination of the two.
Tal Kopan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Giants vs. Dodgers NLDS is happening, and Kamala Harris has chosen her side  —  WASHINGTON — Former President Abraham Lincoln once said, “a house divided against itself cannot stand.”  Of course, he was talking about democracy.  But Vice President Kamala Harris this week will have to face …
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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