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Slate:
COVID Is an Emergency. To SCOTUS's Conservatives, It's Also an Opportunity. — Where the liberal justices see sickness and death, the conservatives see a chance to crush government. — A Trucker Stuck for 14-Plus Hours on a Virginia Highway Explains What It's Like—and How She's Peeing
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court appears ready to slash Biden's vaccine mandate for workers
The Supreme Court appears ready to slash Biden's vaccine mandate for workers
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Today's deep question: Will Twitter suspend Sotomayor for COVID misinformation?
Today's deep question: Will Twitter suspend Sotomayor for COVID misinformation?
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PolitiFact, RedState, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Patriot Fetch, National Review and Twitchy
Robby Soave / Reason:
Justice Sotomayor Exaggerated the Number of Severe COVID-19 Cases Among Children
Justice Sotomayor Exaggerated the Number of Severe COVID-19 Cases Among Children
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Breitbart, TheBlaze and The Dispatch
Noah Garfinkel / Axios:
Lawyers arguing against Biden vaccine mandates test positive for COVID
Lawyers arguing against Biden vaccine mandates test positive for COVID
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SCOTUSblog and Insider
Jeff Coltin / City & State New York:
Can Eric Adams really hire his brother? — Bernard Adams wouldn't be the first family member of a mayor to work in their administration. — New York City Mayor Eric Adams' brother, Bernard Adams, is getting a high level job as deputy commissioner in the New York City Police Department …
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New York Daily News, New York Times, Bloomberg and New York Post
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Craig McCarthy / New York Post:
Eric Adams taps younger brother Bernard as a deputy police commissioner — Mayor Eric Adams has tapped his younger brother to serve as a deputy NYPD commissioner, The Post has learned. — Bernard Adams, a 56-year-old retired NYPD officer, will oversee governmental affairs, he confirmed Friday.
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The Uprising, Washington Examiner, New York Magazine, Associated Press and New York Daily News
Claudia Grisales / NPR:
The chair of the Jan. 6 panel says the committee will ask Mike Pence to appear — Rep. Bennie Thompson, chair of the Democratic-led House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, says they expect to ask former Vice President Mike Pence to voluntarily appear this month.
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NBC News:
Jan. 6 committee indicates it will ask Pence to appear this month — The head of the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot indicated Friday that the panel will ask former Vice President Mike Pence this month to voluntarily meet with lawmakers.
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Ted Cruz Debases Himself for the Base — The Texas senator tries to be all things to all people, and ends up pleasing no one. — hat an extraordinary disappointment Ted Cruz is. On paper, the man should be a star. He's intellectually gifted, he has a remarkable memory, and …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Was the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol an Act of ‘Terrorism’?
Was the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol an Act of ‘Terrorism’?
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USA Today, The Daily Dot and Patriot Fetch
Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Ted Cruz Grovels To Tucker Carlson, Cements New GOP Standard: No Criticism Of Jan. 6
Ted Cruz Grovels To Tucker Carlson, Cements New GOP Standard: No Criticism Of Jan. 6
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
QAnon Star Who Said Only ‘Idiots’ Get Vax Dies of COVID — Cirsten Weldon told her fans not to get vaccinated and wanted Dr. Anthony Fauci executed. She just died of COVID. — A leading QAnon promoter who urged both her followers and strangers she passed on the street …
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David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
America's Omicron Wave Already Looks More Severe Than Europe's — From abroad, where COVID-conscious Americans now look for portents of our near-term Omicron future, nearly all the signs have been positive over the last few weeks. In fact, case numbers aside, the U.K. and continental surges …
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The Atlantic and Digby's Hullabaloo
Janelle Griffith / NBC News:
Three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery sentenced to life in prison — The three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, in Georgia were sentenced Friday to life in prison. — The sentences for Travis McMichael, who shot Arbery; and his father, Gregory McMichael, do not carry the possibility of parole.
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Caroline Downey / National Review:
Three Men Convicted of Murdering Ahmaud Arbery Sentenced to Life in Prison
Three Men Convicted of Murdering Ahmaud Arbery Sentenced to Life in Prison
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Mother Jones, Washington Examiner, CBS News and Raw Story
Bryan Marquard / The Boston Globe:
Lani Guinier, civil rights champion and Harvard law professor, dies at 71 — A leading voice for voting rights long before her nomination to lead the US Justice Department's Civil Rights Division made her nationally known, Lani Guinier died Friday. — Ms. Guinier, the Bennett Boskey professor …
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New York Times, Associated Press and CNN
Angie Schmitt / The Atlantic:
Why I Soured on the Democrats — Until recently, I was a loyal, left-leaning Democrat, and I had been my entire adult life. I was the kind of partisan who registered voters before midterm elections and went to protests. I hated Donald Trump so much that I struggled to be civil to relatives on the other side of the aisle.
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HotAir
wusa9.com:
‘The last straw’ | After months of curfew violations and threats, DOJ wants Proud Boy locked up — Federal prosecutors say Joshua Pruitt has shown he won't abide by court-ordered restrictions while he awaits trial on charges related to January 6. — WASHINGTON — The Department …
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Raw Story
Politico:
Drudge hits ‘mute’ on Biden — Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. With Allie Bice. — The Drudge Report made its name by making life hell for Democrats in the White House. — But over the past several months …
Sam Rosenfeld / Washington Post:
Democracy is on the brink of disaster. For voters, it's politics as usual. … It was the scariest of times, it was the stablest of times. — Contemporary American politics offers an unsettling study in contrasts. On the one hand, Donald Trump's lies about a stolen presidential election …
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Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Biden, funerals and a bygone America — LAS VEGAS — He spoke at a private memorial for the former first lady of Indiana, eulogized two former Republican senators and sat in the audience to honor the life of a onetime GOP secretary of state. — He flew to Delaware to pay homage to the state's former governor.
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Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Mom Who Took Teen Son to Capitol Riot Sentenced to Three Months in Prison — MANIAC MAGA MOMMY — A federal judge said Friday that the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was no time to take a child sightseeing. A woman who brought her 14-year-old son along with her to the attempted insurrection …
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Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Mom who took her child into Capitol during riot gets prison
Mom who took her child into Capitol during riot gets prison
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National Zero
William Bredderman / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon Sought Bizarre Loan as His Jan. 6 Woes Spiraled — Amid mounting legal problems, Bannon seems to have tried to borrow against property linked to a nonprofit he founded with a Chinese billionaire. … Ex-White House strategist Steve Bannon appears to have recently sought a loan …
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Raw Story
Norman Ornstein / Washington Post:
Five myths about the filibuster — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has thrown down the gauntlet, saying he will move to change Senate rules by Jan. 17 if Republicans continue to block the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
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Associated Press, CNN, BizPac Review, Alt-Center's Newsletter, The Hartmann Report and Inside Elections
Liberty Justice Center:
Parents sue to end illegal Chicago Teachers Union strike — A group of Chicago parents have filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Teachers Union, calling this week's school closures an “illegal strike” and demanding that teachers return to school for in-person learning.
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The Hill, National Review, Townhall and Wall Street Journal
Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
Biden, surveying Colorado fire damage, comforts families and promotes agenda — President Joe Biden traveled to Colorado to survey the damage caused by a rare winter fire that tore through a suburban neighborhood before the start of the new year. — In remarks at a Denver County community center …
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Washington Post, Reuters and Al Jazeera
Jasper Scherer / Houston Chronicle:
Texas National Guard struggles to pay soldiers, while slashing tuition help by more than half — As Gov. Greg Abbott mobilizes thousands of Texas National Guard troops to assist with his border initiative known as Operation Lone Star, the state has struggled to pay soldiers on time while slashing …
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Adam Brewster / CBS News:
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson expected to run for reelection — Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson is expected to run for reelection and kick off his campaign next week, according to a source familiar with his decision. — For months, the incumbent Republican declined to say whether …
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WTOP News, Fox News, CNN and The Hill
Human Rights Watch:
UAE: State Security Retaliates Against Ahmed Mansoor — Allies Should Call for Rights Defender's Immediate Release — (Beirut) - United Arab Emirates authorities retaliated against the detained human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor after July 2021, when regional media published a prison letter …
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