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Susan Glasser / New Yorker:

Biden, Back Into the Breach — A year after the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol, the President delivered the speech that he never wanted to give. — He never mentioned Donald Trump by name. He didn't have to. Joe Biden gave the speech of his Presidency on Thursday …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Politico, NBC News, Los Angeles Times, PBS NewsHour, New York Times, The Daily Signal, Associated Press and Washington Post

Jonathan Karl / ABC News:

Dick Cheney comes to Capitol on Jan. 6, says he's ‘deeply disappointed’ in GOP leadership — He spoke with ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl. — While most Republicans were absent on Capitol Hill for the Jan. 6 anniversary Thursday, one of the party's most prominent elder statesmen was there.

Discussion: New York Post, Washington Times, UPI, Daily Kos, HuffPost, HotAir, Breitbart, Discourse Blog, Twitchy, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, Insider, Washington Examiner, Fox News, New York Times and IJR

Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:

Republicans stay away, leaving Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene to play. — The anniversary of the January 6 attack on the Capitol was marked with solemnity, but it wasn't exactly bipartisan. Both President Biden and Vice-President Harris addressed the nation from Statuary Hall.

Discussion: VICE, Washington Examiner, Metro.co.uk, Insider, New York Times, Alternet.org and HuffPost

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

Ted Cruz Begs Tucker Carlson's Forgiveness for Being Mean to Violent Insurrectionists — Senator Ted Cruz has tried to cling to what has become the safest ground in the Republican Party: Denouncing the violent attack on the Capitol one year ago without criticizing either the lies that inspired …

Discussion: Washington Post, Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, The Hill, Newsweek, The Texas Tribune, The Daily Caller, Breitbart and TheBlaze

Yacob Reyes / Axios: Gaetz: “We're proud of the work we did” on Jan. 6

Washington Post:
Dick Cheney returns to the House and receives a warm welcome . . . from Democrats

Discussion: The Hill, New York Times, Breitbart, New York Post, PBS NewsHour, Fox News, Self-Evident and Political Wire

Washington Post:
On Jan. 6 anniversary, Biden calls out Trump for ‘web of lies’ about 2020 election

Jim Acosta / CNN:

Trump did not want to tweet ‘stay peaceful’ during January 6 riot, key former aide says — (CNN)A former Trump White House official said then-President Donald Trump initially refused to tweet the words “stay peaceful” as the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was escalating.

Discussion: Political Wire

Washington Post:

Biden breaks his silence: Inside his decision to forcefully denounce Trump — Throughout the first year of Joe Biden's presidency, Donald Trump was the name that shalt not be spoken. — As the former president solidified control over the Republican Party, spread lies about the 2020 election …

Discussion: CNN and Breitbart

Washington Examiner:

The cult of Jan. 6 — A year ago today, a mob determined to intimidate Vice President Mike Pence and Congress into delaying the certification of the 2020 presidential election descended upon the Capitol from the Ellipse, where President Donald Trump had falsely told them, “We won this election, and we won it by a landslide.”

Discussion: Politico, Newsbusters, Power Line, The Bulwark, The Western Journal and Instapundit

Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Ignoring Trump Didn't Work. Biden Goes After ‘a Defeated Former President.’

Discussion: Associated Press, Daily Mail, CBS News, HuffPost, NBC News, Bloomberg, Voice of America, Oregon Capital Chronicle, CBS Pittsburgh, Patriot Fetch, CNN, Menagerie, the Newsletter, Daily Kos, Los Angeles Times, WRIC-TV and NBC4 Washington

Geneva Sands / CNN:
DHS warns online threats have increased on extremist platforms over past 48 hours with some against lawmakers

Discussion: The Guardian and GovExec.com

Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Capitol Police officer who suffered concussion on January 6 is latest to sue Trump seeking accountability

Discussion: NBC News, New York Times and New York Times

Axios: In photos: An hour-by-hour record of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot

Politico:

Harris was inside DNC on Jan. 6 when pipe bomb was discovered outside — Then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was inside Democratic National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6, 2021, when a pipe bomb was discovered outside the building, according to four people familiar with her movements that day.

Discussion: The Hill, Washington Post, CNN, HuffPost, CBS News, TheBlaze, Washington Examiner, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Fox News, Insider, Mediaite, ABC News, Townhall, Forbes, National Zero and The Atlantic

Politico:
About that unity thing... Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people …

Discussion: HotAir, The Hill, New York Post and CNN

Katelyn Caralle / Daily Mail: SEVENTH aide since Kamala Harris's disastrous June border trip announces he is leaving in staff exodus: Press director Peter Velz heads to the State Department …

NBC News:
Kamala Harris was at DNC on Jan. 6 when pipe bomb was found outside

Discussion: National Review, Washington Examiner and Insider

Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:

White House, USPS finalizing plans to begin shipping coronavirus test kits to U.S. households — The White House is finalizing details with the U.S. Postal Service to deliver 500 million coronavirus test kits to households across the country, according to four people familiar with the plans …

Discussion: Fox News, Wall Street Journal, New York Post and Press Herald

Caitlin McFall / Fox News:
White House backs Dem chances in midterm races amid high turnover: 'we'd rather be us than them'

Discussion: Townhall

Salena Zito / New York Post:

Mike Pompeo tells The Post how he lost 90 pounds in six months — America isn't just seeing less of Mike Pompeo because the Trump administration is no longer in the White House. We are seeing less of the former Secretary of State because there is literally less of him — 90 pounds, to be exact.

Discussion: Insider, TheBlaze, The Daily Caller and Political Wire

Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:

Covid Live Updates: Advisers to Biden's Transition Team Call for Altered U.S. Strategy — Here's what you need to know: — Some health advisers to Biden's transition team call on the administration to change its Covid strategy. — On the day President Biden was inaugurated …

Discussion: Deseret News, Twitchy, HotAir and Screaming into the Void

JAMA Network:
A National Strategy for the “New Normal” of Life With COVID

Discussion: Washington Post, Fox News and PBS NewsHour

David Remnick / New Yorker:

Is a Civil War Ahead? — A year after the attack on the Capitol, America is suspended between democracy and autocracy. — The edifice of American exceptionalism has always wobbled on a shoddy foundation of self-delusion, and yet most Americans have readily accepted the commonplace …

Discussion: Today in Tabs

John F. Harris / Politico:
We Are In a New Civil War ... About What Exactly?

Discussion: New York Times, Kevin Drum and Wrong Side of History

St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Woman tied to Capitol riots was wrong-way driver in fatal crash in Franklin County — FRANKLIN COUNTY — A woman tied to the U.S. Capitol riots a year ago was drunk and driving the wrong way on Interstate 44 on Wednesday night when she killed a woman and seriously injured the man driving another car …

Discussion: Daily Kos, New York Post, Raw Story and Insider

Zoe Richards / The Daily Beast:
Family Fumes After Capitol Rioter Out on Bond Kills Young Mom in Drunken Crash

Discussion: KMOV-TV

Brad Reed / Raw Story:

Mo Brooks was ‘cheering on’ Trump supporters invading the Capitol: Former Kevin McCarthy staffer — A former staffer for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Thursday made an explosive claim about Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) and his reaction to the January 6th Capitol riots.

Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:

Democrats Will Have to Do More to Save Democracy From Trump — As 2022 begins, the risk American democracy faces is not just that Donald Trump supporters will repeat the events of January 6, 2021—attempting to overturn a free and fair election to illegitimately install Trump as president.

Discussion: RedState, Mother Jones and NBC Connecticut

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How the both-sides media would cover a successful Trump coup

Discussion: Chicago Sun-Times, HotAir, Denver Post, WTOP News, The Atlantic and WSVN-TV

Politico:

Ex-Trumpers set to plot how to try and take down Trump — Those involved include Stephanie Grisham, Miles Taylor, Olivia Troye and Anthony Scaramucci. — Then-White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham listens to former President Donald Trump talk to reporters.

Discussion: HuffPost, New York Magazine, Raw Story, TheBlaze, Washington Post and CNN

Associated Press:
Taking on Trump is Biden's reluctant calling

Discussion: New York Post, The American Independent, BuzzFeed News, Todd Starnes, WTOP News, PolitiFact, Metro.co.uk, Insider, The Hill, Election Law Blog, Truthout and Washington Post

Jeremy Stahl / Slate:

We Reviewed All 733 Arrests From the Insurrection. Here Is What We Found. — We reviewed all 733 criminal cases connected to the insurrection. Here is what we found. — Thursday marks one year since a violent mob stormed the Capitol in an attempt to stop the democratic transfer of power.

Discussion: Orange County Register

Ken Bensinger / BuzzFeed News:

The Government Says A Key Informant In The Michigan Kidnapping Case Was A “Double Agent” — Federal prosecutors say a key FBI informant in the alleged plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan was a “double agent” who was “working against the interests of the government” by trying to destroy evidence and prevent arrests.

Washington Post:

In the nation's hospitals, this covid wave is different — The number of Americans hospitalized with covid-19 reached more than 126,000 this week — the highest level in a year. But this wave of the pandemic looks different from what came before, with dueling variants on the move.

Hillary Borrud / Oregonian:

Democratic hopeful Nick Kristof doesn't qualify to run for governor, Secretary of State Shemia Fagan says — Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Nick Kristof does not meet Oregon's residency requirement to qualify to run for governor, Secretary of State Shemia Fagan announced Thursday morning.

Discussion: HotAir, Oregon Capital Chronicle, The Daily Beast, Washington Examiner and Lawyers, Guns & Money

opb:
Oregon election officials say former New York Times columnist Nick Kristof has not been a resident of the state long enough to run for governor.

Discussion: CBS News, HuffPost, WTOP News, Politico, The Daily Caller, Associated Press, New York Magazine, Washington Post and The Hill

Laura Cassels / Florida Phoenix:

DeSantis admits, up to 1 million COVID test kits DID expire in FL — Ag Commissioner Fried, who exposed the issue, blasts governor for unused stockpile — Gov. Ron DeSantis and Kevin Guthrie, director of Florida's Division of Emergency Management, acknowledged Thursday that 800,000 …