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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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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.
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 …
Discussion: Insider, Raw Story and Law & Crime
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.
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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.
Washington Post:
Trump and his allies target McConnell over deal to avoid default  —  Thursday's debt-limit deal has prompted a new round of attacks on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell by former president Donald Trump and his supporters, highlighting McConnell's beleaguered role in a party where Trump remains the most powerful force.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Why McConnell backed down
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 …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Using an old bad defense of Trump to build a new bad defense of Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
Katie Benner / New York Times:
Report Cites New Details of Trump Pressure on Justice Dept. Over Election
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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
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
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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
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 …
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 …
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  —  SALT LAKE CITY (Oct. 7, 2021) - Gov. Spencer J. Cox, Lt. Gov. Deidre M. Henderson, Attorney General Sean Reyes …
Discussion: HuffPost and CNN
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
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.
Matt Labash / Slack Tide:
Welcome to Slack Tide  —  Konnichiwa.  Or as my English-speaking readers prefer, “hello.”  I'm Matt Labash, and welcome to Slack Tide, my brand spanking-new Substack.  Just saying those words makes me feel like a honking cliché.  Not the Matt Labash part.  There aren't many of us.
Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
Woody Harrelson involved in altercation at Watergate Hotel, police say  —  Actor Woody Harrelson was involved in a physical altercation Wednesday night and struck a man who lunged at him at the rooftop bar of the Watergate Hotel, a D.C. police spokesman said.
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.
Johnny Diaz / New York Times:
Colonial Williamsburg Project Unearths Foundation of First Baptist Church  —  Since last year, archaeologists have been excavating the foundation of the First Baptist Church, one of the nation's oldest Black churches, in Colonial Williamsburg.  —  Archaeologists believe they have uncovered …
Sammy Westfall / Washington Post:
Mussolini's granddaughter wins most votes, second term in Rome city council elections  —  When Benito Mussolini came to power in 1922, he did it through a coup d'etat, the March on Rome — and remained in power by turning Italy into a one-party, totalitarian state.
Discussion: Newsweek, The Guardian and The Hill
 
 
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Associated Press:
Former U.S. Senate candidate Max Linn accused of pointing gun in cryptocurrency dispute
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
The White House:
FACT SHEET: Biden Administration Releases Agency Climate Adaptation and Resilience Plans from Across Federal Government
Washington Post:
Cuomo aides sought post for Hochul in Biden administration before the N.Y. governor was engulfed in sexual harassment crisis
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Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Neal Sher, Nazi hunter and former AIPAC director, dies at 74
Julie Watson / Associated Press:
Dad who fled Afghanistan sues US to reunite with young sons
Discussion: The Daily Caller
CNBC:
Ozy Media got $5.7 million in relief loans to help pay employees, but ex-staffers say they didn't see any of it
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
America Is Running Out of Everything
Discussion: CBS News
Jeff Brady / NPR:
We need to talk about your gas stove, your health and climate change
Burgess Everett / Politico:
The foul-mouthed farmer sticking his neck out for Democrats' agenda
Discussion: Washington Post and Insider