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7:05 PM ET, January 17, 2022

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Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Insiders Reveal What Went Wrong in Biden's Voting Rights Push  —  Allies say the White House has been MIA  —  WASHINGTON — In mid-November, Vice President Kamala Harris joined a video call with a coalition of nearly 250 groups trying to pass new legislation to protect the right to vote …
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Senate Democrats Press Ahead With Debate on Voting Rights Bill
Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Rep. Burgess Owens: Biden agenda doesn't represent MLK's hopes, ‘dreams’
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
How Manchin and Sinema Completed a Conservative Vision
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Harris: “Not going to absolve” Manchin, Sinema on voting rights
Discussion: BizPac Review
Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
Martin Luther King Jr. on the filibuster
Discussion: Los Angeles Times, TheGrio and VTDigger
Martin Robinson / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE ‘You get picked up in the US for walking on cracks in a pavement!’  Security services are accused of ‘intelligence failure’ after British synagogue siege terrorist, 44, evaded officials despite criminal convictions and 9/11 rant  — FBI identifies Texas synagogue shooter …
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Ruth Graham / New York Times:   Texas Rabbi Recounts Dramatic Escape From Synagogue
Jack Newman / Daily Mail:
FBI finally admits Texas synagogue siege WAS an anti-Semitic terror attack after first claiming it was ‘not specifically related to the Jewish community’
Reuters:
Texas synagogue hostage-taker was a British citizen; two arrested in England
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
U.S. Political Party Preferences Shifted Greatly During 2021  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — On average, Americans' political party preferences in 2021 looked similar to prior years, with slightly more U.S. adults identifying as Democrats or leaning Democratic (46%) than identified as Republicans or leaned Republican (43%).
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Ron DeSantis Is Going to Get Trump Trucked  —  1. Fake Versus Real  —  I wrote about the brewing Trump-DeSantis feud back in July, when it was clear that DeSantis was Single White Female-ing Trump to a degree that was going to get super uncomfortable.  —  Now the fight is almost out in the open …
Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
Dem Megadonor: I Don't Care About the Uyghurs  —  Billionaire liberal megadonor Chamath Palihapitiya said he does not care about China's genocide of its Uyghur ethnic minority and argued that the “narrative” around the issue “may not be true.”  —  Palihapitiya's remarks came during a Saturday episode of his podcast All-In.
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Amanda Macias / CNBC:
Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says ‘nobody cares’ about Uyghur genocide in China  — Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya said during a recent podcast episode that “nobody cares” about the ongoing human rights abuses against the Uyghurs in China.
Reuters:
No vaccine, no French Open for Djokovic as rules tighten  —  Novak Djokovic risks being frozen out of tennis as he chases a record 21st Grand Slam title, with rules on travellers who are unvaccinated against COVID-19 tightening in the third year of the pandemic and some tournaments reconsidering exemptions.
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
The C.D.C.'s New Challenge?  Grappling With Imperfect Science  —  The Omicron coronavirus variant is moving much faster than researchers can, worsening a longstanding problem: The agency must make tough decisions with scant data.  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
Discussion: Breitbart and Eschaton
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Scoop: Lara Logan Dropped By UTA Over Fauci Nazi Doctor Comments  —  Lara Logan, the former 60 Minutes correspondent who as of late has earned a reputation for pushing conspiracy theories at Fox News, has been dropped by talent agency UTA over controversial comments she made about Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
The left dreamed of remaking America.  Now, it stares into the abyss as Biden's plans wither.  —  In 2020, prominent liberals promised major changes to the safety net and climate policy  —  Just three years ago, as they vied to lead the country, the Democratic Party's presidential candidates competed …
Beth LeBlanc / Detroit News:
Michigan Democratic Party deletes post questioning parents' role in schools  —  The Michigan Democratic Party has deleted a weekend Facebook post that questioned the role parents have in deciding what is taught in public schools and drew criticism from conservative and school choice groups.
Brendan Murray / Bloomberg:
Union Pacific Weighs Avoiding Los Angeles as Cargo Theft Rises  —  Union Pacific is considering changes to rail operations including avoiding Los Angeles County as a rise of cargo theft in the area hurts business.  —  It's not exactly clear how the Omaha, Nebraska-based company would carry …
West Virginia State Treasury:
Treasurer Moore Announces Board of Treasury Investments Ends Use of BlackRock Investment Fund  —  CHARLESTON, W.Va. - State Treasurer Riley Moore today announced the Board of Treasury Investments, which manages the state's roughly $8 billion operating funds, will no longer use …
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
‘Morning Joe’ hosts mock Trump  —  “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski mocked former President Trump for sending a statement Monday morning attacking the MSNBC show.  —  “Will ‘Morning Joe’ be canceled?  He and Mika's ratings are very low—they are having an extremely hard …
Discussion: Raw Story and Twitchy
Terrence McCoy / Washington Post:
More enslaved Africans came to the Americas through this port than anywhere else.  Why have so few heard of it?  —  RIO DE JANEIRO — When tour guide Pedro Andres arrived at the site historians call the most important physical evidence of the arrival of enslaved Africans to the Americas, the scene he found was familiar.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
School Closures Were a Catastrophic Error.  Progressives Still Haven't Reckoned With It. … Recently, Nate Silver found himself in the unenviable role of main character of the day on Twitter because he proposed that school closures were a “disastrous, invasion-of-Iraq magnitude (or perhaps greater) policy decision.”
Discussion: Joanne Jacobs and Mediaite
Catherine Porter / New York Times:
A Fighter for Press Freedom Is Expanding Her Battle  —  Jodie Ginsberg, a veteran British journalist and advocate, will become the president of the Committee to Protect Journalists at a time when attacks on the press are at an all-time high.  —  Jodie Ginsberg was leading a small …
BBC:
Eric Zemmour: Far-right candidate found guilty of hate speech  —  Far-right French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour has been fined €10,000 (£8,350) by a Paris court for hate speech.  —  The case was launched over a TV appearance, where he described unaccompanied migrant children as “thieves”, “rapists” and “murderers”.
The Guardian:
Revealed: the Flint water poisoning charges that never came to light  —  The former criminal prosecution team investigating the Flint water crisis was building a racketeering case against state officials.  Then the team was dismantled  —  A team of prosecutors and investigators leading …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Why Were Authorities So Evasive About the Synagogue Gunman's Motive?  —  Actual statements from our president, midday Sunday: … Biden says the gunman's motivation was a mystery, and then mentions that he was “using anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli comments.”
Washington Post:
A small step toward solving our social media woes  —  Our social media struggles are motley and complex, but finding a solution to almost every one of them requires starting in the same place: data access.  Thankfully, lawmakers are finally catching on.  —  Sens. Christopher A. Coons …
 
 
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
BREAKING BIG: Judge Gableman Issues Subpoenas to Voting Machine Companies Including Dominion Voting Machines in Wisconsin 2020 Election Investigation
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
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David Reaboi / Newsweek:
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Discussion: The Guardian and Raw Story
Elizabeth Cohen / CNN:
CDC's suggestion to cancel football, band in nearly every US school called ‘unrealistic’
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Russell Contreras / Axios:
Book bans are back in style
Discussion: The Left Place
Philip Rotner / The Bulwark:
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Discussion: Al Jazeera, Raw Story and Alternet.org
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
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Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
Jordan Schachtel / The Dossier:
‘270 doctors’ called out Joe Rogan, but the authors of the letter and the vast majority of its signatories are not medical doctors
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
The Trump Org Stiffed a Hotel. His Kids May Pay the Price.
Discussion: Raw Story and HillReporter.com
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats see good chance of Garland prosecuting Trump
Discussion: The Federalist and HotAir