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Andrew Solender / Axios:
The infrastructure Republicans  —  Some of the swing-district House Republicans who crossed party lines to help Democrats pass the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill told Axios they believe they can survive the political fallout from their own party — and that their vote strengthens …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
GOP erupts over its House members bailing out Biden  —  In Tuesday's election, Republicans served notice that the clock is ticking on Democrats' slim majorities in Congress.  On Friday, 13 House Republicans delivered the decisive votes to rescue a key part of President Biden's agenda — an agenda endangered by those in his own party.
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Patience, persistence pay off as Biden brings infrastructure package across finish line
The White House:   Fact Sheet: The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal
Elizabeth Faddis / Washington Examiner:
13 Republicans under fire for breaking ranks on infrastructure bill
Ricochet:
13 Republican Congressmen Save Pelosi, Biden on $1.2T Infrastructure Vote
Discussion: Vox and Insider
New York Times:
Election Results in Virginia Prove Things Can Get Worse for Democrats  —  Republicans ran up the margins in rural Virginia counties, the latest sign that Democrats, as one lawmaker put it, “continue to tank in small-town America.”  —  HOT SPRINGS, Va. — The increasingly liberal politics …
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Politico:
Rural Democrats stare into the abyss after Virginia
Discussion: Fox News and HuffPost
New York Times:
F.B.I. Searches James O'Keefe's Home in Ashley Biden Diary Theft Inquiry  —  Authorities carried out a court-ordered search at the New York apartment of the Project Veritas founder two days after searching the homes of his associates.  —  Federal authorities on Saturday searched the home of James O'Keefe …
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
'It's a walkout!' … BRADFORD, Pa. — Dustin Snyder was tired of the low wages, the 60-hour workweeks and the impossible-to-please customers, and so in early September the assistant general manager at a McDonald's here drafted a petition that laid bare months of building anger and frustration.
New York Times:
The Congressional Black Caucus Was Key to the Infrastructure Vote  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the chairwoman of the caucus, Representative Joyce Beatty of Ohio, to announce a key deal, understanding that the lawmaker had more influence at that point than she did.
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Grace Segers / New Republic:
The Democrats Finally Get Their Act Together on Infrastructure
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
GOP-appointed judges freeze Biden vaccine requirement after federal lawsuit  —  The federal appeals court in New Orleans is giving the Biden administration until Monday to respond to a lawsuit filed by GOP-led states and businesses.  —  A federal appeals court suspended the Biden administration's …
Discussion: Financial Times and We Love Trump
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Glen Owen / Daily Mail:
Joe Biden or the new Mr Trump?  Camilla 'hasn't stopped talking about' hearing the President ‘break wind’ during chat at Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow  — President Joe Biden met Duchess of Cornwall during reception on Monday  — They made polite small talk and Camilla was shocked to hear Biden break wind
Discussion: The Right Scoop and NOQ Report
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Susan Estrich / New York Post:   Terry McAuliffe's doom: Joe Biden and the price of eggs
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
House 6 January panel to issue new round of subpoenas for Trump allies  — Focus on events at Willard hotel ‘command center’  — John Eastman among about 20 individuals in committee's sights  —  The House select committee investigating the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Merrick Garland is caught in a pickle with Steve Bannon
New York Times:
Georgia Grand Jury Looms in Trump Inquiry  —  An Atlanta D.A. is said to be likely to impanel a special grand jury in her criminal investigation of election interference by the former president and his allies.  —  As the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot fights …
Discussion: Raw Story
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
Americans Are Flush With Cash and Jobs.  They Also Think the Economy Is Awful.  —  The psychological effects of inflation seem to have the upper hand.  —  Americans are, by many measures, in a better financial position than they have been in many years.  They also believe the economy is in terrible shape.
Discussion: Washington Post
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Wokeness Derails the Democrats  —  WASHINGTON — In Shakespeare, when characters want to fulfill their desires, they escape to what's been called the Green World.  —  And that's what Democrats promised voters: that they could leave behind the vitriol and aggravation of Donald Trump's America …
New York Times:
How Police Justify Killing Drivers: The Vehicle Was a Weapon  —  A Times investigation into a common defense for shooting motorists found that some officers had put themselves in danger.  Others appeared to face no peril at all.  —  PHENIX CITY, Ala. — On a Sunday in May 2017 …
Rachel Ramirez / CNN:
Generation Climate: How the crisis made young people the adults in the room  —  (CNN)Vanessa Nakate was 21 when deadly floods inundated vast swaths of East Africa in 2018.  She didn't consider herself a climate activist at the time, but soon after that disaster she and her younger siblings …
Jake Cordell / The Moscow Times:
Russia Faces $2T in Stranded Hydrocarbon Assets in Net Zero World  —  Researchers say more than half of Russia's oil and gas infrastructure could be worthless within the next 15 years.  —  Russia could be left with almost $2 trillion in worthless hydrocarbon assets if major economies hit …
New York Times:
Infrastructure Bill Makes First Major U.S. Investment in Climate Resilience  —  The measure includes $47 billion to help communities prepare for the new age of extreme fires, floods, storms and droughts that scientists say are worsened by human-caused climate change.
Discussion: The Hill and Florida Politics
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Wall Street Journal:   How the $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Aims to Affect Americans' Lives
Matt Bonesteel / Washington Post:
Aaron Rodgers lashes out against NFL, ‘woke mob’ in defense of vaccination status  —  Decrying the “woke mob,” “cancel culture” and what he described as a “witch hunt” against him, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers vigorously defended his decision not to be vaccinated …
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Kylee Zempel / The Federalist:
9 Truths From Aaron Rodgers' Explosive Vaxx Interview You Aren't Allowed To Say
Discussion: SBNation.com, NBC News and CBS News
Kimberley Strassel / New York Post:
Inside the Clinton dossier and the con behind the Russiagate scandal  —  The nation argued for five years over the infamous Steele dossier, the document on which the FBI relied to investigate Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.  It should have been called the Clinton dossier.
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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
A spin doctor with ties to Russia allegedly fed the Steele dossier before fighting to discredit it
Discussion: Raw Story and Reason
Jason Farago / New York Times:
Hunter Biden: Emotionally Honest, Generically Smooth  —  The president's son has turned to art as a career.  “The Journey Home” is his first solo exhibition.  —  The Journey Home  —  Hunter Biden is an emerging artist from Wilmington, Del. He is now, like no shortage of emerging artists …
Discussion: Real Climate Science
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Graham Bowley / New York Times:
At Hunter Biden's Art Show, Line, Color and Questions
Discussion: Breitbart
 
 
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Moms who voted for Biden explain why they voted for a Republican in Virginia
Melissa Gomez / Los Angeles Times:
UC Hastings College of the Law to rename school after reviewing founder's role in mass killings of Yuki Indians
City Journal:
Goodbye, MIT  —  As the university increasingly caves to “wokeness,” two alumni explain …
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What Collective Narcissism Does to Society
Hadley Freeman / The Guardian:
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The White House:
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Michelle R. Martinelli / USA Today:
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Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
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