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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
One of Marjorie Taylor Greene's verified Twitter accounts permanently suspended from Twitter — (CNN)Twitter has permanently suspended Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Twitter account @mtgreenee, the company confirmed to CNN Sunday morning. — A Twitter spokesperson said the company …
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Davey Alba / New York Times:
Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene's Account — The social media service said the Republican congresswoman had violated its policy on coronavirus misinformation. — Twitter on Sunday permanently suspended the personal account of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene …
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The Hill
Insider:
Twitter permanently suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene's account for spreading COVID-19 misinformation — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal Twitter account has been suspended, per a statement from Twitter. — Twitter said that it was suspending Greene “for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy.”
David Siders / Politico:
At time of Capitol prayer service Jan. 6, Trump will deliver remarks doubling down on the ‘Big Lie’ — Donald Trump has already telegraphed the remarks he plans to give at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. — If he follows the script laid …
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Lauren Hodges / NPR:
Trump still says his supporters weren't behind the Jan. 6 attack — but I was there — Editor's note: This story contains language that may be offensive. — “I was standing amid thousands of Trump supporters on the lawn rising up to the Washington Monument,” says NPR's Tom Bowman.
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
Republicans and Democrats divided over Jan. 6 insurrection and Trump's culpability, Post-UMD poll finds — One year after the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, Republicans and Democrats are deeply divided over what happened that day and the degree to which former president Donald Trump bears responsibility …
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The Guardian, The True American, Althouse, Politico and Wide World of News
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Brittany Shepherd / ABC News:
Majority of Americans think Jan. 6 attack threatened democracy: POLL — Most Americans condemn it and believe Trump is at least partially to blame. — Nearly a year after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a strong majority of Americans condemn it and believe former President Donald Trump is at least partially to blame.
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CBS News and Political Wire
Richard Milne / Financial Times:
Finland insists has right to join Nato, defying Russia's demands — Moscow's military build-up on Ukraine border and its security conditions fires up debate in Baltics — Russia's sabre-rattling in Ukraine has reignited the debate in Finland as to whether the Nordic country should join Nato …
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Chilling Trump Letter Calling For ‘Seizure’ Of Election Material Revealed In Log To Jan. 6 Probers — The letter was created a day before Trump discussed naming conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell “special counsel” to probe baseless election fraud claims. — A chilling item in a document log provided …
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The Hill and Election Law Blog
Hyonhee Shin / Reuters:
South Korean crosses armed border in rare defection to North — A South Korean has crossed the heavily fortified border in a rare defection to North Korea, South Korea's military said on Sunday. — The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it carried out a search operation after detecting …
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
The New Political Cry in South Korea: ‘Out With Man Haters’
The New Political Cry in South Korea: ‘Out With Man Haters’
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The Full Belmonte
Zahra Tayeb / Insider:
Former general urges Trump supporters in the military to stop listening to ‘the pillow guy’ Mike Lindell — A former military general took aim at MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell in a recent CNN interview. — Steven M. Anderson suggested that Trump supporters should “stop listening to the pillow guy.”
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RedState
Dan Wang:
2021 letter — (This piece is my year in review; here's my letter from 2020) — I've by now lived in each of China's main megaregions. It is time to make assessments. — Everything that can go wrong in urban design has gone wrong in Beijing. The climate is arid and prone to northerly sandstorms.
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Marginal REVOLUTION
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
The Return of the Urban Firestorm — What happened in Colorado was something much scarier than a wildfire. — On Thursday afternoon, in the space of a few hours just a day before the new year, 100-plus mile-per-hour winds carried the most destructive fire in Colorado history through …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jake Wallis Simons / Spectator:
Inside Joe Biden's disastrous negotiations with Iran — One of the West's great foreign policy failures of 2021 was the Iran nuclear negotiations, which remained bitterly unresolved as the clock passed midnight. — Having spoken to a number of diplomatic sources on different sides in recent weeks …
Douglas Belkin / Wall Street Journal:
K-12 Schools Press to Reopen as Omicron Variant Surges — Systems nationwide seek Covid-19 tests to return students to the classroom after winter break — K-12 schools around the country are pressing forward with tentative plans to reopen after the holiday break in the midst of a surge in Covid-19 cases.
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