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12:45 PM ET, January 5, 2022

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Francis Fukuyama / New York Times:
One Single Day.  That's All It Took for the World to Look Away From Us.  —  Mr. Fukuyama is the author of the forthcoming book “Liberalism and Its Discontents.”  —  The Jan. 6 attack on Congress by a mob inspired by former President Donald Trump marked an ominous precedent for U.S. politics.
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Matt Fuller / The Daily Beast:
The Real Tragedy of Jan. 6 Is That It's Still Not Over  —  I had a front-row seat to the riot.  A year later, one thing is clear: Nothing has changed. … It was around noon on Jan. 6, 2021, and I was already late.  —  I was supposed to be covering the counting of the electoral votes …
CNN:
Ex-White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham to meet with 1/6 committee  —  (CNN)Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham will meet Wednesday evening on Capitol Hill with the select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, according to multiple sources familiar with the meeting.
Discussion: Insider
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Did the January 6 Coup Fail?  —  By warping the Republican party, Trump made another coup attempt possible.  —  January 6th should have been the point of no return, the pivot point at which even the most blinkered sugarcoaters of Trumpism recoiled in disgust from what they had wrought.
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Prosecutors Move Quickly on Jan. 6 Cases, but One Big Question Remains
New York Times:
How Trump Kept His Grip After Jan. 6
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Republicans dodge and deflect ahead of Jan. 6
Discussion: Good Faith, Poynter and IJR
CNN:
Fact check: Five enduring lies about the Capitol insurrection
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell cracks door to Electoral Count Act reform  —  Mitch McConnell is signaling he's open to reforming the Electoral Count Act, one year after Senate and House Republicans objected to certification of President Joe Biden's win ahead of an attempted insurrection.
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Washington Post:
How Congress can fix the Electoral Count Act  —  Edward B. Foley is a professor of constitutional law at Ohio State University, where he heads the university's election law program.  Michael W. McConnell, formerly a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit …
Discussion: Election Law Blog
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Omicron, snowstorm thwart Schumer's midterm year quick start  —  The D.C. snowstorm and Omicron variant have crushed plans by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to begin the 2022 midterm year with a legislative flurry.  —  Why it matters: Congress has a long list of priorities that carried over from last year.
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
2022 House Overview: Still a GOP Advantage, but Redistricting Looks Like a Wash  —  The surprising good news for Democrats: on the current trajectory, there will be a few more Biden-won districts after redistricting than there are now — producing a congressional map slightly less biased in the GOP's favor than the last decade's.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Surprise: Democrats dodged a gerrymandering fiasco.  A top analyst explains why.  —  The long-awaited, long-feared Gerrymandering Apocalypse of 2021 has not materialized for Democrats after all.  —  Throughout last year, many analysts and panicked Democrats alike concluded that Republicans …
Discussion: Sacramento Bee
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Lawmakers begin early talks about another round of coronavirus relief targeting businesses  —  Democrats and Republicans have discussed setting aside billions to help restaurants, gyms and performance venues, though GOP concerns about spending could scuttle the effort
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Politico:
White House embraces a manage-not-contain Omicron game plan
Marty Makary / New York Post:
Colleges take COVID testing way too far and spread hysteria
Discussion: Cafe Hayek and Common Sense
Leila Abboud / Financial Times:
Macron says his strategy is to ‘piss off’ France's unvaccinated as Covid surges  —  Parliament suspends vaccine pass debate and rivals criticise president for ‘vulgar’ expression and ‘lack of empathy’  —  President Emmanuel Macron has come under fire from political rivals for saying he wanted to …
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Reuters:
Boos, cheers greet Macron pledge to ‘piss off’ unvaccinated
Alejandro Alvarez / WTOP News:
I-95 in Va. reopens as motorists battle bailout traffic jam on Route 1  —  Have you or someone you know been stuck on I-95?  Tell WTOP about your experiences.  —  Listen to WTOP live online and on the radio at 103.5 FM.  Download the free WTOP News app for Android and Apple phones to sign up for custom traffic and weather alerts.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The GOP isn't even trying to sound coherent anymore  —  We must stop pretending the GOP is a real political party made up of coherent adults.  To understand why, let's examine a single day this week.  —  On Tuesday, former president Donald Trump, the undisputed head of the party …
Discussion: The Texas Tribune
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Sanctions Milorad Dodik and Associated Media Platform for Destabilizing and Corrupt Activity  —  Dodik's Destabilizing and Corrupt Activities Undermine 26 years of Progress Since the Dayton Peace Accords  —  WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control …
Discussion: OFAC, Politico and Al Jazeera
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Omicron Is Milder  —  How should that affect your behavior?  —  The details of the Omicron variant are becoming clearer, and they are encouraging.  —  They're not entirely encouraging, and I will get into some detail about one of the biggest problems — the stress on hospitals …
Discussion: HotAir, Bloomberg and The Racket News
Brooke Staggs / Orange County Register:
Husband: Kelly Ernby wasn't vaccinated when she died of COVID-19 complications  —  GOP leaders say Ernby's death won't deter them from speaking out against coronavirus vaccine mandates.  —  Deputy District Attorney and GOP activist Kelly Ernby wasn't vaccinated when she died early this week …
American Greatness:
The Ridiculous Fantasy of a National Divorce  —  The solution is not some sort of secession or civil war.  The solution is for the Right to stop being rank amateurs when it comes to politics and governance.  —  Every now and then an absurd idea enters the discourse and picks up a sort of memetic traction in spite of itself.
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Don't Look Up Doesn't Get the Climate Crisis  —  Don't Look Up is an obscenely overlong, occasionally funny satire of American media and politics.  But it aspires to be something more.  —  As he has emphasized in interviews, director Adam McKay conceived of the film as an allegory for the climate crisis.
Discussion: The Dispatch
Oma Seddiq / Insider:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene urges Republicans to leave Twitter and says the platform ‘attacked our country as a whole’ by banning her  — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted Twitter for banning her personal account from its website.  — The company is “completely out of bounds,” she said in a Newsmax interview on Tuesday evening.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Try Canceling Joan Didion  —  If it's really true, as Michael Wolff reported on Monday for Richard Rushfield's Hollywood newsletter The Ankler, that Random House will not be releasing a planned compilation of Norman Mailer's writings on some sort of political-correctness grounds …
Clare Malone / New Yorker:
Ben Smith Can't Say What His New Media Venture Is  —  The departing Times media columnist and former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News wants to push the envelope but isn't yet ready to say just how.  —  Ben Smith had a hundred-and-forty-four unread text messages when we talked …
 
 
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Emily Allen / Mountain State Spotlight:
Despite years of devastating floods, state still hasn't implemented plan to protect West Virginians
Nathanael Blake / The Federalist:
Leaked Biden Plan Would House Violent Men In Women's Prison Cells
TIME:
January 6th May Have Been Only the First Wave of Christian Nationalist Violence
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeremy Herb / CNN:
How January 6 changed what it means to be a Republican in one Pennsylvania county
Discussion: Raw Story
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Reuters:
Kazakhstan government resigns after violent protests over fuel price
Jim Newell / Slate:
Aw, Apple Made Me a “Memory” of the Time I Hid From Rioters in the U.S. Capitol
New York Post:
Manhattan DA to stop seeking prison sentences in slew of criminal cases
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
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