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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
West Virginia's coal miners just made Joe Manchin's life a lot harder — For months, Sen. Joe Manchin III has sold his opposition to the Build Back Better proposal as driven uniformly by a brave and hardheaded assessment of the national interest. He has warned that BBB will fuel inflation …
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Jeff Goodell / Rolling Stone:
Manchin's Coal Corruption Is So Much Worse Than You Knew — The senator from West Virginia is bought and paid for by Big Coal. With his help the dying industry is pulling one final heist — and the entire planet may pay the price — One of the hardest things to grasp about the climate crisis is the connectedness of all things.
Steven Greenhouse / The Guardian:
Bernie Sanders says Democrats are failing: ‘The party has turned its back on the working class’ — In an exclusive interview, the senator says it's time to ‘step up and take on the greed of the ruling class in America’ — enator Bernie Sanders has called on Democrats to make …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Manchin's Choice on Build Back Better: Mine Workers or Mine Owners
Washington Post:
More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation. — The Washington Post has compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
I Spent Insurrection Week Listening to Steve Bannon — For three hours every day, the Republican coup plotters who inspired the domestic terror attack at the U.S. Capitol last year gather to discuss their next move. On their January 6th anniversary program, the Dead Cops Society beseeched …
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Raw Story
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Trump calls GOP senator a ‘jerk’ after he rejects former president's false claims of widespread election fraud — Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said on Sunday that the 2020 election was “as fair as we have seen.” — Former president Donald Trump lashed out Monday at Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) …
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump rips GOP senator who called 2020 election ‘fair’
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Symone Sanders, a Top Strategist for Biden and Harris, Is Joining MSNBC — Ms. Sanders, 32, will host a weekend show on the cable network, one of the first big programming moves by MSNBC's president, Rashida Jones. — Symone D. Sanders, the former chief spokeswoman for Vice President Kamala Harris …
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Max Tani / Politico:
Symone Sanders lands at MSNBC
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Summer Concepcion / Talking Points Memo:
McCarthy Again Threatens To Strip Dems Of Committee Seats If He Becomes Speaker — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in an interview with right-wing outlet Breitbart News doubled down on his threat to remove Democrats from their committee assignments if he becomes House speaker following the midterm elections.
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
So much for ‘nothing to hide’: Jim Jordan balks at Jan. 6 probe
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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Home COVID tests to be covered by insurers starting Saturday — WASHINGTON (AP) — Starting Saturday, private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for people on their plans. The Biden administration announced the change Monday as it looks …
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Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Mitch McConnell's Electoral Count Act offer is a poison pill for voting rights — Fate of voting rights legislation rests on pressure from ‘spotlight of history’ — The Electoral Count Act, the law governing how Congress certifies presidential elections, is filled with gaps and ambiguities.
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Mother Jones and Raw Story
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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
McConnell's office knocks Democrats over 'the left's Big Lie'
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POLITICUSUSA, Politico and The Daily Caller
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Anti-Vax Leader Urges Followers to Drink Their Own Urine to Fight COVID — ‘EVERYTHING WE NEED’ — Anti-COVID-19 “Vaccine Police” leader Christopher Key has a new quarter-baked conspiracy theory for his anti-vax followers to use to cure themselves of COVID-19: Drink their own urine.
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Greg Gutfeld has risen to the top at Fox News — and that's no joke — NEW YORK — Greg Gutfeld is picking through a long, narrow closet. He wrenches a painting from the depth of the clutter. A painting of himself. That familiar arched right eyebrow. That sideways grin.
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Robert Durst, Real Estate Scion Convicted as a Killer, Dies at 78 — He was a suspect in three lurid murders and became a fugitive. In September, he was found guilty in the fatal shooting of a confidante and sentenced to life in prison. — Robert A. Durst, the scion …
Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
An Indiana GOP state senator said teachers ‘need to be impartial’ during lessons about Nazism and fascism — On Wednesday, during an Indiana state Senate committee hearing about a proposed bill that would ban “divisive concepts” in school classrooms, Republican Sen. Scott Baldwin …
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Republicans are waging a war on schools. When will Democrats fight back?
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Why More Americans Are Saying They're ‘Vaxxed and Done’ — Sign up for Derek's newsletter here. — To understand how ideologically scrambling the Omicron wave has been, consider this: Some 2022 Democrats are sounding like 2020 Republicans. In spring 2020, many Republicans …
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Washington Post and Sacramento Bee
Associated Press:
Speaker: Nashville US House seat to split in redistricting — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republicans plan to carve fast-growing Nashville into multiple congressional seats, making it potentially easier for the state's Republican-dominated congressional delegation to flip …
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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Ted Cruz's Humiliation Isn't the Worst Part — Tucker “Patriot Purge” Carlson and the deeper meaning of their clash over Jan. 6th terminology. — By now, you've heard about the clip of Ted Cruz groveling for Tucker Carlson's approval on Fox News. Every last member of the punditocracy …
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Tom Jones / Poynter:
More evidence of Fox News' stranglehold on the Republican Party
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New York Times:
Updates: At Least 19 Dead, Including 9 Children, in Bronx Apartment Fire — Crews entering the building found victims on every floor. Heavy smoke likely prevented victims from escaping. — Here's what you need to know: — ‘The numbers are horrific,’ Mayor Eric Adams said after the city's deadliest fire in decades.
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Gary D. Robertson / Associated Press:
North Carolina voters dispute Cawthorn candidacy over Jan. 6 — A group of North Carolina voters want U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn disqualified as a congressional candidate — RALEIGH, N.C. — A group of North Carolina voters told state officials on Monday they want U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn disqualified …
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Ambassador Daniel Fried / Just Security:
Paul Manafort's Book Deal May Breach His Plea Agreement — News that Paul Manafort has written a book (scheduled to be published later this summer) is not surprising: he had texted about doing so during the Special Counsel investigation. As a result, the government anticipated …
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The Daily Beast, Insider, The Hill and Raw Story
Anatoly Kurmanaev / New York Times:
Haitian Prime Minister Had Close Links With Murder Suspect — New evidence suggests the man who took over from Haiti's murdered president had close links to a prime suspect in the assassination — and that the two stayed in contact even after the crime. — PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti …
Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
U.S. House Jan. 6 committee got Michigan Republicans' claimed electors certificate — Lansing — Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's office provided the U.S. House committee that's investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection a certificate, signed by 16 Republicans, falsely claiming Donald Trump won Michigan's electoral votes.
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Raw Story
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Trump's potential liability for Capitol riot faces major test in court — (CNN)A federal judge in Washington, DC, is set to consider, for the first time, whether former President Donald Trump is immune from liability related to his supporters attacking the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Rochelle Walensky is not good at this — We learned Friday that Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has sought the counsel of a prominent media consultant amid struggles to craft a coherent and consistent message on the coronavirus.
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Washington Examiner, Newsweek, The Daily Caller, The Federalist and Townhall
New York Times:
Live Updates: Russia Plays Down Threat to Ukraine After Meetings with U.S. — Here's what you need to know: — Russia tells U.S. it has no plans to invade Ukraine, and agrees to keep talking. — GENEVA — With Russian troops massing along Ukraine's borders, American and Russian diplomats …
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Treasury warns of ‘enormous challenges’ this tax-filing season that could delay refunds — Officials predict a number of services could be delayed because of issues related to the pandemic and budget constraints. The tax filing deadline this year is April 18.
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Politico, New York Times, Bloomberg, CBS News, New York Post, TaxProf Blog and CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
Melissa Korn / Wall Street Journal:
Yale, Georgetown, Other Top Schools Illegally Collude to Limit Student Financial Aid, Lawsuit Alleges — A new federal suit adds to continuing efforts to change college admissions practices — Sixteen major U.S. universities, including Yale University, Georgetown University and Northwestern University …
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Insider, Washington Examiner, Al Jazeera, Forbes and Yale Daily News
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Are Democrats Trying to Lose Elections? — Would you have predicted that the first big political blunder of 2022 would be committed by the freshly-inaugurated mayor of New York? Would you have thought that Eric Adams, the African-American former cop, political moderate …
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