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Philip Klein / National Review:
Disgraceful House Republicans Rescue Biden's Flailing Agenda  —  Just before midnight on Friday, we witnessed an utterly disgraceful act by a group of 13 House Republicans.  Given the chance to deal a severe blow to President Biden's flailing agenda, they instead rescued him by providing Speaker Nancy Pelosi …
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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.
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 …
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Patience, persistence pay off as Biden brings infrastructure package across finish line  —  Bipartisan deal would have ramifications for roads, bridges, ports, and broadband access across the entire country, delivering on a campaign promise.  —  Less than 10 months after taking office …
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.
Elizabeth Faddis / Washington Examiner:
13 Republicans under fire for breaking ranks on infrastructure bill
Discussion: New York Times and Alternet.org
Axios:
House passes $1.2T bipartisan infrastructure bill, sending it to Biden's desk
New York Times:
House Passes $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, Putting Social Policy Bill on Hold
Thomas Barrabi / Fox Business:
House passes bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill after progressives drop opposition
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 …
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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: HuffPost and Conservative Brief
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 …
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Merrick Garland is caught in a pickle with Steve Bannon  —  (CNN)It's been 16 days since the Democratic-controlled House approved a contempt resolution against former Trump White House political Svengali Steve Bannon for his refusal to provide testimony to the January 6 committee.
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  —  'For the media out there taking shots at me, you don't know my story.  Now you do.  So quit lying about me.'
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.
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
U.S. federal appeals court freezes Biden's vaccine rule for companies  —  A U.S. federal appeals court issued a stay Saturday freezing the Biden administration's efforts to require workers at U.S. companies with at least 100 employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 or be tested weekly, citing …
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.
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Wall Street Journal:   How the $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Aims to Affect Americans' Lives
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
A spin doctor with ties to Russia allegedly fed the Steele dossier before fighting to discredit it  —  Charles Dolan Jr., a PR executive who cut his teeth in Democratic politics, provided anti-Trump information, according to the special counsel probing the Russia investigation
Discussion: Raw Story, Reason and Fox News
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Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. Supervisor Dean Preston invited YIMBYs to look at his housing record.  They panned it.  —  In the middle of a city grappling with a major housing shortage sit 15 parcels of land now occupied by garbage-strewn parking lots, auto shops, a car wash and old government buildings.
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Bill Maher, liberal professor clash on CRT in schools: It's ‘disingenuous’ to say parents oppose Black history  —  The HBO star told Michael Eric Dyson that parents were ‘not objecting to Black history being taught’  —  Rufo calls media denial CRT exists in schools a ‘deliberate strategy’: ‘They have no choice’ but to lie
Discussion: The Daily Caller and RedState
 
 
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New York Times:
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Op-Ed: When politicians claim professors like me are the enemy, what are they really attacking?
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
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