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11:20 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.
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 …
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Wall Street Journal:
Omicron Makes Biden's Vaccine Mandates Obsolete  —  There is no evidence so far that vaccines are reducing infections from the fast-spreading variant.  —  Federal courts considering the Biden administration's vaccination mandates—including the Supreme Court at Friday's oral argument—have focused on administrative-law issues.
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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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 …
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 …
Joe Kinsey / OutKick:
Penn's Transgender Swimmer Lost To Yale's Transgender Swimmer In A Hotly Contested Women's Ivy League 100 meter Race … Penn transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, who had been crushing her competition since joining the women's swim team after three years swimming as a biological male …
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
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
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 and Raw Story
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 …
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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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
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 …
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 …
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Raskin: Ex-Trump press secretary gave “a lot of names” in Jan. 6 conversation  —  Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham named “a lot of names” during their phone call about the events of Jan. 6, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told CNN.  —  Catch up quick: Raskin …
Discussion: The Hill and Talking Points Memo
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.
Discussion: CTV News
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
Politico:
Rep. Jim Jordan says he won't cooperate with Jan. 6 committee's interview request  —  HIs decision follows a similar rejection by Rep. Scott Perry, the only other lawmaker whose testimony the panel has requested so far.  —  Rep. Jim Jordan, one of former President Donald Trump's closest allies …
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 …
 
 
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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 and BBC
Ali Velshi / MSNBC:
Mary Trump: Donald Trump has found people weaker than he is whom he can bend to his will
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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
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
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
How a Simple Twist of Fate Could End Democrats' Control of the Senate
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
How the Trump Social-Media Ban Paid Off for Trump, Platforms
Discussion: Raw Story and Mother Jones
 

 
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute

CBS News:
Greg Gumbel, a CBS Sports anchor and commentator who covered the NFL and college basketball for more than 20 years, died at 78 of cancer

Youkyung Lee / Bloomberg:
Shares of South Korean entertainment companies related to Squid Game drop 20%+ following a less-than-perfect debut for the new season of the series on Netflix

 
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