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10:15 AM ET, January 5, 2022

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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 …
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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 Big Questions Remain  —  In the year since the assault on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, more than 700 people have been arrested, with little public indication from the Justice Department of how high the investigation might reach.
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
More than 1,000 US public figures aided Trump's effort to overturn election  —  Insurrection Index identifies those who acted as accomplices by participating in 6 January attack or spreading Trump's ‘big lie’  —  More than 1,000 Americans in positions of public trust acted as accomplices …
Associated Press:
Images of chaos: AP photographers capture US Capitol riot  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — When supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, The Associated Press had nine photographers inside and outside the building.  —  As the chaotic day unfolded …
Discussion: Election Law Blog, WAMU and Forbes
Francis Fukuyama / New York Times:
One Single Day. That's All It Took for the World to Look Away From Us.
Discussion: CounterPunch, Mediaite, HotAir and RedState
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Jan. 6 committee to request Sean Hannity's cooperation
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Republicans dodge and deflect ahead of Jan. 6
Discussion: Good Faith, Mediaite and HuffPost
Emily Davies / Washington Post:
Another U.S. Capitol Police officer sues Trump for damages from Jan. 6
Discussion: New York Times, CBS News and Forbes
Politico:
Sean Hannity tried to dissuade Trump from Jan. 6 strategy, texts show
Washington Post:   Biden still doesn't have a U.S. ambassador in Ukraine — and it's not the Senate's fault
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
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Sophia Cai / Axios:
Top Senate Republican signals support for election reform  —  A top Republican is signaling his party isn't necessarily opposed to joining with Democrats to clarify an existing federal law to reduce the potential for election subversion.  —  Driving the news: While broader federal voting …
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Democrats haven't learned from Harry Reid's mistakes
Courtland Milloy / Washington Post:
Radio host Joe Madison is on a hunger strike for voting rights
Discussion: Daily Kos
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
Discussion: CNN, Breitbart and Twitchy
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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
Sophia Tareen / Associated Press:
Chicago cancels classes after union backs remote learning
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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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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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.
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Punchbowl News
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 …
Ben Winslow / KSTU:
Entrata founder emails Utah tech CEOs, claiming COVID vaccine part of extermination plot by ‘the Jews’  —  SALT LAKE CITY — The founder and chair of Entrata, a Silcon Slopes tech firm, sent an email to a number of tech CEOs and Utah business and political leaders, claiming the COVID-19 vaccine …
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
Jack Healy / New York Times:
How Gunfire Is Killing More American Children  —  Toddlers are discovering guns under piles of clothes and between couch cushions.  Teenagers are obtaining untraceable ghost guns made from kits.  Middle school students are carrying handguns for protection.
Reuters:
Kazakhstan government resigns after violent protests over fuel price  —  Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev accepted the government's resignation on Wednesday, his office said, after a fuel price increase in the oil-rich Central Asian country triggered protests in which nearly 100 police were injured.
 
 
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