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2:40 PM ET, January 8, 2022

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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Capitol attack panel investigates Trump over potential criminal conspiracy  —  Messages between Mark Meadows and others suggest the Trump White House coordinated efforts to stop Joe Biden's certification  —  The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack is examining whether Donald Trump oversaw …
Discussion: Raw Story, CNN and National Zero
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Claudia Grisales / NPR:
The chair of the Jan. 6 panel says the committee will ask Mike Pence to appear
NBC News:   Jan. 6 committee indicates it will ask Pence to appear this month
Eugene Daniels / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Civil rights leaders see a turning point for Biden  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  SPOTTED: Speaker NANCY PELOSI, Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER and wife, IRIS WEINSHALL, Sens. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-Minn.) and DICK DURBIN (D-Ill.) dining together at Le Diplomate on Friday night.
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Bryan Marquard / The Boston Globe:
Lani Guinier, civil rights champion and Harvard law professor, dies at 71
New York Times:
Conflict Quickly Emerges Between Top Prosecutor and Police Commissioner  —  A memo by New York City's new police leader sharply questioned Manhattan's new district attorney over his strategy for prosecuting crime.  —  New York City's new police commissioner has expressed severe dissatisfaction …
Discussion: NBC New York and Bloomberg
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Ninfa Saavedra / Click2Houston.com:
Cy-Fair ISD teacher put 13-year-old son in her trunk while driving to testing site for fear of COVID-19 exposure, documents reveal  —  Ninfa Saavedra, Digital Content Specialist  —  HOUSTON - A mother has been charged after her 13-year-old son was found in the trunk of her car …
Amanda Prestigiacomo / The Daily Wire:
Matt Walsh Suspended From Twitter Over Transgender Tweets.  Here's What Twitter Has Censored.  —  The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh on Friday night was suspended from Twitter over tweets he posted recognizing biological realities and not so-called “gender identity.”
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Where was Justice Neil Gorsuch's mask?  —  Where was Justice Neil M. Gorsuch's mask?  If you think this sounds like a trivial question, I dissent.  I believe it goes to the heart of our fraying social fabric.  —  When the Supreme Court justices took their seats Friday morning …
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Slate:
COVID Is an Emergency. To SCOTUS's Conservatives, It's Also an Opportunity.
New York Times:
As More Teachers' Unions Push for Remote Schooling, Parents Worry.  So Do Democrats.  —  Chicago teachers have voted to go remote.  Other unions are agitating for change.  For Democrats, who promised to keep schools open, the tensions are a distinctly unwelcome development.
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Kansas City Star:
Mike Pompeo didn't lose all that weight the way he claims  —  OPINION AND COMMENTARY  —  Editorials and other Opinion content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters.  —  BY THE KANSAS CITY STAR EDITORIAL BOARD
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
The racist 1890 law that's still blocking thousands of Black Americans from voting  —  Revealed: Fewer than 200 of those affected have been able to regain their voting rights in the last quarter-century  —  The Mississippi officials met in the heat of summer with a singular goal in mind: stopping Black people from voting.
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
The ongoing mortification of Ted Cruz  —  Have you ever watched a wind sock deflate until it is just a sad polyester shell crumpled on the pavement?  Have you ever left some soft cheese near a hot stove and come back to find a demoralized puddle in its place?
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Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Ted Cruz Grovels To Tucker Carlson, Cements New GOP Standard: No Criticism Of Jan. 6
Matt Labash / Slack Tide:
Was January 6 an Inside Job?  —  Have you been asking yourself some tough questions lately?  You sound like you're not rowing with both oars in the water.  Stop talking to yourself, and start asking Matt Labash.  That's why we call this Slack Tide feature “Ask Matt Labash.”
Washington Post:
U.S. plans to discuss missile deployments with Russia as part of effort to defuse Ukraine crisis  —  Negotiators for the United States are planning to show up to talks with their Russian counterparts Monday with proposals to discuss the placement of missiles and scope of military exercises in Europe …
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune, an ally of McConnell who has been criticized by Trump, will seek reelection  —  Sen. John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, announced Saturday he will run for reelection in 2022, ending months of speculation about whether he would seek to remain in the Senate.
Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook's Former Elections Boss Now Questions Social Media's Impact on Politics  —  Katie Harbath says she left Facebook disillusioned; now she pushes for more online guardrails  —  Katie Harbath joined Facebook more than a decade ago as the first Republican employee in the company's Washington …
Austin Jenkins / Northwest News Network:
Inslee says lying about elections should be a crime  —  In a surprise announcement Thursday, the anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced that he's drafting legislation to make it a crime for elected officials and candidates …
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
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 …
Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
Covid may raise the risk of diabetes in children, C.D.C. researchers reported.  —  Children who have recovered from Covid-19 appear to be at significantly increased risk of developing Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday.
Discussion: Forbes
 
 
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Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Congressman's memoir corrected to remove reporter criticism
Washington Post:
CDC director, under fire for confusing guidance, seeks to reshape messaging
Discussion: NPR
Lexi Lonas / The Hill:
Amazon shortens paid leave policy for employees infected with COVID-19
Discussion: Breitbart, UPI and Mother Jones
Natalie Swaby / KING-TV:
Just 1% of the 7 million US climbers are African American, study finds
Jasper Scherer / Houston Chronicle:
Texas National Guard struggles to pay soldiers, while slashing tuition help by more than half
Discussion: The Texas Tribune
 Earlier Items: 
William Bredderman / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon Sought Bizarre Loan as His Jan. 6 Woes Spiraled
Discussion: Raw Story
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Ted Cruz Debases Himself for the Base
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Biden, funerals and a bygone America
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
America's Omicron Wave Already Looks More Severe Than Europe's
Politico:
Drudge hits ‘mute’ on Biden
Vladimir Kara-Murza / Washington Post:
The West has enabled Putin long enough. It is time to stop.
 

 
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