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11:45 PM ET, January 7, 2022

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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
Tom Hals / Reuters:
State lawyers arguing against Biden vaccine mandates test positive for COVID-19
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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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 …
Discussion: New York Daily News
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 …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
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Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
Hospitals Are in Serious Trouble  —  When a health-care system crumbles, this is what it looks like.  Much of what's wrong happens invisibly.  At first, there's just a lot of waiting.  Emergency rooms get so full that “you'll wait hours and hours, and you may not be able to get surgery when you need it …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite, Daily Kos and NBC News
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Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Ted Cruz Grovels To Tucker Carlson, Cements New GOP Standard: No Criticism Of Jan. 6
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.
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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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 …
Discussion: CNN and New York Times
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 …
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.
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
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Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Mom who took her child into Capitol during riot gets prison
Discussion: National Zero
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Texas Tribune
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Invites President Biden to Deliver State of the Union Address on March 1  —  Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the following letter today to President Joseph R. Biden inviting him to deliver the State of the Union address on Tuesday, March 1, 2022:
New York Times:
An 85-year-old man in India says he got 12 Covid vaccine shots, and still wants more.  —  There is vaccine hesitancy, but on the flip side, there is Brahmdeo Mandal.  —  Mr. Mandal is so excited about the healing promise of a jab that he says he has received 12 coronavirus vaccine doses — so far.
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 …
Discussion: middleeastmonitor.com
 
 
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Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
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Living In The Florida County That Became A Breeding Ground For Capitol Rioters
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Beijing Games' corporate brand gamble
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Ben Cost / New York Post:
Unvaxxed couple dies of COVID holding hands: ‘True definition of soulmates’
Discussion: Metro.co.uk
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Tech Startup Wants To Gamify Suing People Using Crypto Tokens
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
The rise of a pro-democracy media
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
This is how the Republicans are whitewashing the J6 insurrection out of existence
Discussion: Truthout and The Guardian