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9:40 PM ET, January 9, 2022

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Ezra Klein / New York Times:
Steve Bannon Is Onto Something  —  In his 2020 book “Politics Is for Power,” Eitan Hersh, a political scientist at Tufts, sketched a day in the life of many political obsessives in sharp, if cruel, terms.  —  To Hersh, that's not politics.  It's what he calls “political hobbyism.”
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TMZ.com:
Comedian Bob Saget Dead at 65, Found in Orlando Hotel Room  —  BOB SAGET DEAD AT 65  —  EXCLUSIVE  — 741.5K … 5:59 PM PT — Bob's longtime friend and costar John Stamos just tweeted the following, “I am broken.  I am gutted.  I am in complete and utter shock.  I will never ever have another friend like him.
Elizabeth Spiers / New York Times:
A Defense of Jeremy Strong (and All the Strivers With No Chill)  —  Ms. Spiers is a writer and digital media strategist.  She was the editor in chief of The New York Observer, and the founding editor of Gawker.  —  In a December New Yorker profile of the actor Jeremy Strong …
New York Post:
Horrific Bronx fire leaves at least 19 dead, dozens more critically injured  —  At least 19 people are dead, including nine children, after a horrific fire broke out in a Bronx apartment building Sunday morning, according to a police official.  —  The five-alarm blaze broke out at 333 E 181st St …
Ron Johnson / Wall Street Journal:
Why I'm Seeking a Third Senate Term  —  I'd like to retire, but I think the country is in too much peril.  —  I decided to run for the U.S. Senate in 2010 because growing entitlements and out-of-control federal spending had exploded our national debt to $14 trillion.
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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
How a Simple Twist of Fate Could End Democrats' Control of the Senate
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Raw Story
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Ron Johnson, G.O.P. Senator From Wisconsin, Will Seek Re-election
Discussion: The Hill, NBC News and NRSC
New York Times:
Early Data Hints at Omicron's Potential Toll Across America  —  The extremely transmissible Omicron variant is spreading quickly across the United States, making up a vast majority of U.S. cases after becoming dominant in the week before Christmas.  —  The Centers for Disease Control …
Dawn Fallik / Washington Post:
They bought a blender.  Three weeks later, their cats continue to hold it hostage.  —  On Black Friday, Jessica and Nikii Gerson-Neeves bought a blender.  It was a Vitamix blender, a professional-grade splurge, and the couple was looking forward to a winter of smoothies and soups.
Gabriel Pogrund / The Sunday Times:
Alan Dershowitz asked Donald Trump to grant Ghislaine Maxwell a pre-emptive pardon  —  Jeffrey Epstein's former lawyer lobbied Donald Trump to pre-emptively pardon Ghislaine Maxwell during the final days of his presidency after talks with her family.  —  Alan Dershowitz, 83 …
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Adams caves, won't oppose bill to let non-citizens vote in NYC elections after 30 days' residence  —  Remember that this guy has loudly proclaimed himself the moderate new face of the Democratic Party, the pragmatist with the guts to tell the wokesters to pipe down.
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Bobby Caina Calvan / Associated Press:
Watershed moment in NYC: New law allows noncitizens to vote
Hannah Allam / Washington Post:
A rural Washington school board race shows how far-right extremists are shifting to local power … EATONVILLE, Wash. — On the morning she met her opponent for coffee, Sarah Cole walked in with a front-runner's confidence.  —  To Cole, the school board seat in this rural red district about an hour outside Seattle was all but hers.
Discussion: Rigid Thinking
Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Chicago teachers go door to door to sign families up for COVID testing while students are shut out of classrooms  —  Chicago teachers are participating in an illegal strike, according to Mayor Lori Lightfoot.  With free time on their hands, some teachers are walking door to door signing families up for COVID-19 testing.
Discussion: Breitbart
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Sandra E. Garcia / New York Times:
What New Yorkers See in This Portrait of the Mayor's Mother  —  Dorothy Mae Adams-Streeter posed for a portrait at her 75th birthday party.  Her image, floating in a brandy snifter, has a powerful resonance.  —  On New Year's Day, when Eric Adams was sworn in as the 110th mayor of New York City …
Washington Post:
Trump's cable cabinet: New texts reveal the influence of Fox hosts on previous White House  —  Stephanie Grisham, former press secretary to President Donald Trump, remembers the challenges that came from so many Fox News hosts having the direct number to reach Trump in the White House residence.
Discussion: Rolling Stone, Raw Story, Slate and Insider
Kevin Tober / Newsbusters:
ABC's ‘This Week’ Uses Jan 6 Anniversary to SMEAR Military As ‘Extremists’  —  Text to Speech Font Size  —  On Sunday's This Week, former Clinton administration hack turned anchor George Stephanopoulos and ABC chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz decided to trash …
Discussion: Instapundit
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Andrew Harnik / ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 1-9-22: Secretary Antony Blinken, Sen. Mike Rounds, Rep. Jamie Raskin & Dr. Ashish Jha
Discussion: Washington Post and POLITICUSUSA
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The Cheneys can't do it alone.  We need Republican all-stars for democracy.  —  The tableau of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and her father, former vice president Richard B. Cheney, standing on the floor of the House as the sole Republicans to honor the police officers who died as a result …
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Dems on Manchin: “Like negotiating via Etch A Sketch”  —  President Biden, Democratic leaders and their emissaries are trying to convince Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to pass a sweeping federal elections bill with a menu of filibuster alternatives.  The problem is speaking with him is …
Discussion: Insider
Joseph Wilkinson / New York Daily News:
Vaccine appointments multiply after Quebec requires shots for weed, alcohol stores  —  They're going shots for shots.  —  First-dose vaccine appointments quadrupled in Quebec after the Canadian province required vaccine passports to buy alcohol and marijuana.
Anna Phillips / Washington Post:
Biden faces delays in undoing Trump's war on efficient dishwashers, dryers and lightbulbs that made him ‘look orange’  —  Nearly three dozen efficiency standards are overdue for an update, and further delays could undercut Biden's climate goals  —  Before Donald Trump launched his war …
Gregory S. Schneider / Washington Post:
‘A wounded healer’: Ralph Northam wraps up extraordinary term in office, forged by scandal into a governor of lasting consequence  —  RICHMOND — The angry calls and emails began flooding in after a blackface photo from Gov. Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook page appeared on the Internet.
Discussion: Fox News and Instapundit
Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Saudi Princess Is Released, but Other Royals Are Still Locked Up  —  The Saudi government has not said why it detained or freed Princess Basmah bint Saud, a daughter of a former king who has criticized the country's policies.  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon — A Saudi princess, a critic of her country's government …
 
 
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Chay Quinn / Daily Mail:
Finland and Sweden are ‘closer than ever’ to joining NATO after Putin's demands that US ban them from the military alliance backfire
Discussion: The Guardian
Jenna Stocker / Newsweek:
Liberal Elites Want Us to Care About Jan. 6. But They Don't Care When Our Cities Burn
Ali Velshi / MSNBC:
Mary Trump: Donald Trump has found people weaker than he is whom he can bend to his will
Jevans Nyabiage / South China Morning Post:
'China's now a big player': why Beijing is doing more in Horn of Africa
Dan Diamond:
A couple Sunday-morning thoughts on where we are now in the nation's covid fight …
 Earlier Items: 
David Cohen / Politico:
GOP senator says Trump's election allegations are unfounded
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
Wall Street Journal:
Taliban Detain Prominent Critic, Intensifying Crackdown on Dissent in Afghanistan
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Erin Douglas / The Texas Tribune:
Texas GOP's voting meme shows how Trump-style messaging wins internet's attention
Discussion: Daily Kos
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
White Supremacist Group Patriot Front Heckled Out of Chicago March for Life
Discussion: Insider and Chicago Tribune
Wall Street Journal:
How the Trump Social-Media Ban Paid Off for Trump, Platforms
Discussion: Raw Story and Mother Jones
 

 
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