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9:20 AM ET, January 7, 2022

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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 …
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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: Washington Examiner and Breitbart
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden finds a new Manchin whisperer  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  The White House is looking to Sen. MARK WARNER (D-Va.) to help thaw out its frosty relationship with Sen. JOE MANCHIN (D-W.Va.) in hopes of resurrecting President JOE BIDEN's Build Back Better plan.
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Placeholder President  —  Column: When Trump is the issue, Biden wins.  And Biden's troubles begin.  —  The most impassioned speech of Joe Biden's presidency was about events that took place before it began.  I'm talking about the president's remarks on the first anniversary of the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
Discussion: Al Jazeera
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 …
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Joseph Klein / Front Page Magazine:
Biden's January 6 Anniversary Speech - and His Big Lies
Discussion: Small Dead Animals
Yacob Reyes / Axios:   Gaetz: “We're proud of the work we did” on Jan. 6
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Capitol Police officer who suffered concussion on January 6 is latest to sue Trump seeking accountability  —  Biden tears into Trump during January 6th speech  —  (CNN)US Capitol Police Officer Briana Kirkland is suing former President Donald Trump for the physical and emotional pain she endured …
Discussion: NBC News and New York Times
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Geneva Sands / CNN:
DHS warns online threats have increased on extremist platforms over past 48 hours with some against lawmakers
Discussion: The Guardian
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 …
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Should the filibuster stay or go?  Here's how to argue about it.  —  On the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, President Biden pledged to defend democracy: “I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy.”  —  The next logical step …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Bill Clinton, Oprah and his fellow centrists: Dems go all-out to sway Manchin
Discussion: HotAir
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.
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Biden's Speech on the Jan. 6 Riot, Annotated
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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Zoe Richards / The Daily Beast:
Family Fumes After Capitol Rioter Out on Bond Kills Young Mom in Drunken Crash
Discussion: KMOV-TV and Insider
Washington Post:
Kazakhstan president gives shoot-to-kill order against protesters, dismissing calls for negotiations  —  MOSCOW — Kazakhstan's president said Friday he had ordered his troops to “shoot to kill without warning” in an effort to quash anti-government protests that have been raging since the weekend.
JAMA Network:
A National Strategy for the “New Normal” of Life With COVID  —  Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD1; Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH2; Celine R. Gounder, MD, ScM3  —  As the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 demonstrates, COVID-19 is here to stay.  In January 2021, President Biden issued the …
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JAMA Network:
A National Strategy for COVID-19
Discussion: TracingCOVID and HotAir
Washington Post:
Ten questions for retiring Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.)  —  Good morning, Early Birds.  President Biden heads to Colorado today to survey fire damage, and the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases challenging the Biden administration's vaccine mandates for companies and health care workers.
Laura Cassels / Florida Phoenix:
DeSantis admits, up to 1 million COVID test kits DID expire in FL  —  Quality Journalism for Critical Times  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis and Kevin Guthrie, director of Florida's Division of Emergency Management, acknowledged Thursday that 800,000 to a million COVID tests had expired in a state stockpile …
Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
The Biden Boom  —  We kept ourselves out of debt, so now we're enjoying a speedy recovery.  —  The official numbers aren't in yet, but In the 4th quarter of 2021, the United States economy is believed to have grown by about 5.5% or 6%.  That's a pretty incredible number …
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.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Battle over Biden's vaccine rules for workers arrives at Supreme Court  —  The Supreme Court convenes in a special session Friday to consider challenges to the Biden administration's most significant intervention to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus and its public health impacts …
 
 
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Katie Glueck / New York Times:
With Criminal Cases Fading, Will Cuomo Try to Make a Comeback?
Donald J. Trump:
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and HotAir
David Brooks / New York Times:
Democrats Are Failing to Defend Democracy
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Kos
Ursula Perano / The Daily Beast:
There Are No More Frenemies in Congress. Just Enemies.
Discussion: Raw Story
Stacey Matthews / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Retrospective: The Disruption of Congressional Proceedings During Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Democrats Will Have to Do More to Save Democracy From Trump
Discussion: CounterPunch, RedState and Mother Jones
 Earlier Items: 
Caitlin McFall / Fox News:
White House backs Dem chances in midterm races amid high turnover: 'we'd rather be us than them'
Discussion: Townhall and Daily Kos
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 …
Discussion: IJR
Jeremy Stahl / Slate:
We Reviewed All 733 Arrests From the Insurrection. Here Is What We Found.
Selene San Felice / Axios:
Florida leads nation in Jan. 6 Capitol riot cases
Discussion: Palm Beach Post and National Zero
Haley Talbot / InStyle:
I Was in the Capitol on Jan. 6, and I Won't Stop Telling My Story
Shannon Bond / NPR:
Kicked off Facebook and Twitter, far-right groups lose online clout
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Is a Civil War Ahead?
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