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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Most Damning Jan 6th Revelation Yet — New Emails Show Trump and Eastman Saw the Insurrectionists as the Foot Soldiers of the Coup. They Cheered Them on and Used Them in Real Time. — As I have noted in other recent posts, much of the recent ‘news’ about the insurrection has not been terribly new.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Call logs, speech drafts among records Trump is trying to block from Jan. 6 investigators — Donald Trump is seeking to prevent Jan. 6 investigators from accessing daily presidential diaries, drafts of election-related speeches, logs of his phone calls, handwritten notes and files of top aides …
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
John Eastman Blamed Pence for Violence at Jan. 6 Riot — John Eastman, the author of a memo that some in both parties liken to a blueprint for a coup, sent a hostile email to the vice president's chief counsel as the mob attacked. — WASHINGTON — As a mob was attacking the Capitol chanting …
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Washington Post:
Read: Pence aide Greg Jacob's draft opinion article denouncing Trump's outside lawyers — Below is the text of a draft op-ed Greg Jacob wrote in January 2021, when he was chief counsel to Vice President Mike Pence, but ultimately decided not to publish. The Washington Post obtained a copy …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The most shocking new revelation about John Eastman
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Rolling Stone and Raw Story
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
New January 6 court filings reveal what Trump is trying to keep secret from Congress
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New York Times and Digby's Hullabaloo
Washington Post:
During Jan. 6 riot, Trump attorney told Pence team the vice president's actions caused attack on Capitol
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Trump wants call logs, aide's notes hidden from Jan. 6 panel
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Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
‘A deliberate, orchestrated campaign’: the real story behind Trump's attempted coup
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New Republic, Associated Press, Washington Post, Raw Story and Washington Examiner
Dan Merica / CNN:
McAuliffe says Virginia election ‘is not about Trump’ after making former President central figure in campaign — Trump has been relatively hands off. Smerconish has a theory why — Virginia Beach, Virginia (CNN)Terry McAuliffe claimed on Saturday that the Virginia gubernatorial election is …
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Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
Group of anti-Trump Republicans was behind tiki torches in Virginia campaign — A group of mostly Republican critics of former U.S. President Donald Trump claimed responsibility on Friday for a demonstration in the Virginia governor's campaign that recalled an infamous 2017 rally in the state.
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The Right Scoop, Associated Press and Twitchy
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Today's deep question: Just how badly will the tikis torch Terry?
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Washington Post:
Fearful Democrats look at Virginia and worry about 2022
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New York Times, Fox News, HotAir, Daily Kos, Townhall and New York Post
Steven Shepard / Politico:
The 5 key groups fueling Youngkin's rise
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Conservative Brief and Breitbart
Isaac Schorr / National Review:
Lincoln Project Claims Credit for Racial Hoax at Youngkin Event
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Ruth Serven Smith / al.com:
Samford disinvites historian Jon Meacham after student anti-abortion protest — Want more state education news? Sign up for The Alabama Education Lab's free, weekly newsletter, Ed Chat. — Samford University has uninvited Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham from inauguration ceremonies …
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Washington Post:
Biden, other G-20 world leaders formally endorse groundbreaking global corporate minimum tax — The new global minimum tax of 15 percent aims to reverse the decades-long decline in tax rates on corporations across the world — ROME — President Biden and the other national leaders gathered …
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Associated Press and Digby's Hullabaloo
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
G-20 leaders endorse global minimum tax
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The White House:
Joint Statement by the President of France Emmanuel Macron, Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland Boris Johnson, and President of the United States Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on Iran — We, the President of France, Chancellor of Germany …
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Joe.My.God., Radio Free Europe/Radio … and Washington Times
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David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
Western leaders warn Iran on nuclear deal
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Washington Examiner
Kate McGee / The Texas Tribune:
911 transcripts filed in updated “Trump Train” lawsuit reveal San Marcos police refused to send escort to Biden bus — The highway confrontation between a Biden bus and Trump supporters made national news in the final days of the heated 2020 presidential campaign.
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Joe.My.God.
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Merrick Garland Plays Dumb on a DOJ Atrocity — There is no doubt that he grasps how wrong he is. — NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE — M — errick Garland turns out to be a political hack. — The attorney general very much enjoys his reputation as a distinguished former federal appellate judge …
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HotAir
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
‘This is a powder keg’: AR-15-loving church aligning itself with the far right as it grows — According to a report from Business Insider, the Rod of Iron ministry that worships the AR-15 and is decidedly pro-Donald Trump, is increasingly aligning itself with far-right figures as evidenced by a recent …
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Frank Stoltze / LAist:
LA Sheriff Warns Of ‘Mass Exodus’ Of Deputies Because of Vaccine Mandate — LAist relies on your reader support, not paywalls. — Freely accessible local news is vital. Please power our reporters and help keep us independent with a donation today. — Donate Now
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HuffPost, Los Angeles County … and Townhall
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Trump Making ‘Last Ditch’ Effort to Skip Deposition, Zervos Says — Former President Donald Trump is making a “last ditch” effort to avoid being deposed in a defamation lawsuit filed by a former “Apprentice” contestant who claims he sexually assaulted her, a judge was told.
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Raw Story
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Inside the last-ditch effort by Democratic women to pressure Manchin and salvage paid family and medical leave — The party's still-forming $1.75 trillion economic package jettisoned the long-time priority to win over the West Virginia moderate. But many Democrats aren't yet ready to give up the fight.
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The Hill
Colleen Long / Associated Press:
How 'Let's Go Brandon' became code for insulting Joe Biden — WASHINGTON (AP) — When Republican Rep. Bill Posey of Florida ended an Oct. 21 House floor speech with a fist pump and the phrase “Let's go, Brandon!” it may have seemed cryptic and weird to many who were listening.
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Kieran Healy:
The Polarization of Death — I'm continuing to update the covdata package in anticipation of a Data Visualization for Social Science course I'll teach next semester. I revisited the Partisan Trajectories graph, as it seems there's more that could be done with it. More on that in the future, I hope.
New York Times:
Curtis Sliwa Has New York's Attention Again. Was That Always the Point? — The founder of the Guardian Angels has sought the spotlight for decades. With his long-shot bid to become the city's next mayor, he has found it again. — When New Yorkers feared their subway and streets amid …
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Washington Examiner
Washington Post:
U.S. announces deal with European Union to ease steel and aluminum tariffs enacted under Trump — ROME - The Biden administration has struck a deal with European Union officials to lift some tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, resolving at this year's Group of 20 summit a bitter trade stand-off …
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