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Washington Post:
Ahead of Jan. 6, Willard hotel in downtown D.C. was a Trump team ‘command center’ for effort to deny Biden the presidency — They called it the “command center,” a set of rooms and suites in the posh Willard hotel a block from the White House where some of President Donald Trump's …
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Raw Story, Above the Law, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Slate and Alternet.org
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
'Carol's Journey': What Facebook knew about how it radicalized users — In the summer of 2019, a new Facebook user named Carol Smith signed up for the platform, describing herself as a politically conservative mother from Wilmington, North Carolina. Smith's account indicated an interest in politics …
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Inside Facebook, Jan. 6 violence fueled anger, regret over missed warning signs … Relief flowed through Facebook in the days after the 2020 presidential election. The company had cracked down on misinformation, foreign interference and hate speech — and employees believed they had largely succeeded …
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New York Times:
Facebook Papers Show Employees Raised Concerns About Misinformation — Company documents show that the social network's employees repeatedly raised red flags about the spread of misinformation and conspiracies before and after the contested November vote. — Sixteen months before last …
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Bloomberg, New York Post, Variety, Common Dreams and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
Associated Press:
Amid the Capitol riot, Facebook faced its own insurrection
Amid the Capitol riot, Facebook faced its own insurrection
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Financial Times, more at Techmeme »
Peter King / The Hill:
The battle over school boards is a disaster for Democrats — The recent announcement by the Justice Department that the FBI would be looking for coordinated patterns of violence at local school board meetings is a broad overreach and an abuse of power that goes beyond the FBI's jurisdiction.
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ camera crew walked off the set in protest before the fatal shooting — Hours before actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer on the New Mexico set of “Rust” with a prop gun, a half-dozen camera crew workers walked off the set to protest working conditions.
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Wall Street Journal:
Alec Baldwin Film Set Was Hindered by Worker Complaints
Alec Baldwin Film Set Was Hindered by Worker Complaints
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Washington Post:
Biden's critics hurl increasingly vulgar taunts — BOISE — On a quiet street south of downtown Boise, Michael Dick has festooned his front yard with homemade signs, including a large yellow placard that facetiously thanks President Biden for a growing list of grievances — $4-a-gallon gas, inflation, Afghanistan, covid-19.
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Andrew Miller / Fox News:
YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming ‘medical misinformation’
YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming ‘medical misinformation’
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RedState
New York Times:
What Kind of Mayor Might Eric Adams Be? No One Seems to Know. — The vegan, meditating ex-police officer is on the cusp of becoming New York's new mayor. Which version of him would show up at City Hall? — Eric Adams could not resist the story. — In a 2019 commencement address …
Christian Spencer / The Hill:
Bipartisan legislators demand answers from Fauci on ‘cruel’ puppy experiments — “Our investigators show that Fauci's NIH division shipped part of a $375,800 grant to a lab in Tunisia to drug beagles and lock their heads in mesh cages filled with hungry sand flies so that the insects could eat them alive,” White Coat Waste said.
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RedState
Victoria Bekiempis / The Guardian:
Minnesota politician backs fundraiser for alleged Capitol attackers — Republican state senator Mark Koran encourages donations to family after four members charged in 6 January riot — A Minnesota politician has promoted a fundraiser for several constituents who are charged with participation …
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
‘New Democrats’ Break With Their Anti-Welfare Past And Back Biden's Agenda — Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington state is the centrist Democrat at the center of everything. — WASHINGTON ― When a small group of Democrats held up a procedural vote on President Joe Biden's policy agenda in August …
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Bloomberg
Joseph R. Biden Jr / The White House:
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies on the Temporary Certification Regarding Disclosure of Information in Certain Records Related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy — Section 1. Policy. In the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act …
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Washington Post, Insider, New York Post, HotAir, CBS News, Washington Examiner and CBS San Francisco
Alissa Walker / Curbed:
A Federal Transportation Official Deletes Twitter Account to Avoid Elon Musk's Fans — Those who speak out against Elon Musk have come to expect the online pile-ons from Tesla fans. Twitter accounts with $TSLA in the bio are known for launching vicious attacks against anyone who dares criticize …
Sam Baker / Axios:
Anti-abortion activists' Supreme Court dreams are coming true — This is the moment the conservative legal movement has been building toward for decades: The solidly conservative Supreme Court is about to hear two major abortion cases within a month of each other.
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The Pessimistic Electorate Behind Biden's Approval Ratings — In the era of modern polling, only Donald J. Trump has had a lower approval rating than President Biden's at this early stage of his term. — What's dragging down President Biden's approval rating? — Everyone. — And everything.
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Insider and Washington Examiner
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Nevada Republican who claimed someone stole dead wife's ballot is charged with voter fraud — Donald Kirk Hartle looked troubled last November. It was a few days after Election Day and the Las Vegas man was telling a local news station that someone had stolen his late wife's mail-in ballot …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Biden the Dealmaker Finds That Compromise Can Have Consequences — The president pushed for an expansive agenda knowing that he would most likely have to pare it back, leaving a sense of disappointment that could hurt his party at the polls. — WASHINGTON — Joe Biden's pitch during …
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Washington Examiner
Christine Jordan Sexton / Florida Politics:
Surgeon General asked to leave Tina Polsky's office after refusing to wear mask — Polsky will begin radiation therapy treatment for cancer next week. — Florida's top public health official was asked to leave a state Senator's office this week after refusing to don a mask in her office.
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
Residents in decaying public housing see futures on the line as Democrats trim spending bill — BROWNSVILLE, N.Y. — Douglas Covington has had a gaping hole in the ceiling above his toilet for most of the past four years, with the temporary patches from New York City public housing's repairmen typically …
Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal:
The Unlikely Outsiders Who Won the Race for a Covid-19 Vaccine — Uğur Şahin and Stéphane Bancel were long underestimated by investors and scientists. But when Covid-19 threatened the globe, these two unknowns had a solution. — It was early October 2019 and Uğ …
CNN:
US nearing a formal agreement to use Pakistan's airspace to carry out military operations in Afghanistan — (CNN)The Biden administration has told lawmakers that the US is nearing a formalized agreement with Pakistan for use of its airspace to conduct military and intelligence operations in Afghanistan …