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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.
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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 …
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Prosecutors Move Quickly on Jan. 6 Cases, but One Big Question Remains — 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.
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Did the January 6 Coup Fail?
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Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Psaki says Biden will address Trump's role in Capitol riot
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Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
More than 1,000 US public figures aided Trump's effort to overturn election
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John Nichols / The Nation:
To Avert Another January 6, Expel Coup Plotters From Congress
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New York Times:
A Long, Hard Year for Republicans Who Voted to Impeach After Jan. 6
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Associated Press:
Images of chaos: AP photographers capture US Capitol riot
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Democratic group launches six-figure ad buy tying Trump and GOP allies to Jan. 6 insurrection
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Bloomberg Law:
Up-to-Date Shots Encouraged Over ‘Fully Vaccinated’: Fauci
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
More than 1,000 public figures exposed as accomplices to Trump's effort to overturn democracy
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Rochester Beacon
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 a mass of 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 …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Fixing the Electoral Count Act is no substitute for voting reform — If you are suspicious that Sen. Joe Manchin III is unserious about filibuster reform required to pass essential election reform, you are not alone. With every utterance, the West Virginia Democrat sounds more like he does …
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Omicron, snowstorm thwart Schumer's midterm year quick start
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Alex Nester / Washington Free Beacon:
Chicago Schools Close After Teachers' Union Votes for Remote Learning — Kids shut out of classrooms as union clashes with district officials — More than 290,000 kids in Chicago Public Schools were shut out of the classroom Wednesday after the city's teachers' union voted against returning to in-person learning.
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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.
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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 …
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Sacramento Bee
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 …
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HotAir, Bloomberg and The Racket News
Jim Heintz / Associated Press:
Report: Kazakh president's home ablaze as protests escalate — MOSCOW (AP) — Protesters in Kazakhstan's largest city stormed the presidential residence and the mayor's office on Wednesday and set both buildings on fire, according to new reports, as demonstrations sparked by a rise in fuel prices …
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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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Matthew Dalton / Wall Street Journal:
France's Macron Rails Against Unvaccinated People
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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 …
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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 …
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The Texas Tribune
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Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Anti-Trump group targeting top Republicans on Jan. 6 anniversary
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CBS Los Angeles:
LA's First Case Of Flurona Detected At COVID Testing Site Near Getty Center — LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The first case of flurona - the combination of both influenza and coronavirus - has been detected at the COVID-19 testing center across the street from the Getty Center.
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Sonny Bunch / The Bulwark:
J.D. Vance Versus Film Twitter — How film critics helped send the ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author off the cliff. — I'd be remiss if I didn't note, briefly, that the online collective known as Film Twitter—critics, Letterboxd users, and sundry others—managed to completely break Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance's brain.
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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 …
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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.
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The Dispatch
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.
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