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Timothy Johnson / Media Matters for America:
New York Times cites conservative legal pundit with history of smearing the competence of women jurists of color — The pundit, Ed Whelan, was also responsible for smearing Christine Blasey Ford by promoting a conspiracy theory that she mistook Brett Kavanaugh for a doppleganger
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
The race-baiting response to Biden's Supreme Court pledge
The race-baiting response to Biden's Supreme Court pledge
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The Hill, ABC News and Washington Examiner
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Let's Be Real: The Supreme Court Is Political and Always Has Been.
Let's Be Real: The Supreme Court Is Political and Always Has Been.
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National Review, Insider and Reason
Chris Geidner / Grid News:
Biden's Supreme Court pick won't change many votes, but she will change the court
Biden's Supreme Court pick won't change many votes, but she will change the court
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Washington Post, Bloomberg, Townhall and newsroom.co.nz
Irin Carmon / New York Magazine:
What can Stephen Breyer's successor accomplish?
What can Stephen Breyer's successor accomplish?
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New York Times and The Gateway Pundit
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
‘Who cares ... call them racists’: Explaining the dishonest attacks on legal scholar Ilya Shapiro
‘Who cares ... call them racists’: Explaining the dishonest attacks on legal scholar Ilya Shapiro
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Washington Post, Politico and Outside the Beltway
Washington Post:
Pittsburgh bridge collapse injures 10 on day Biden visits city to talk infrastructure — A Pittsburgh bridge collapsed early Friday, injuring 10 people just hours before President Biden visited the city to talk about infrastructure. — Pittsburgh Public Safety said a “confirmed bridge collapse” …
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CBS Pittsburgh, Insider, CBS News, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner, Townhall, WTAE, The Western Journal, HotAir, Associated Press, NBC News, Metro.co.uk, New York Times, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, CNBC, The Right Scoop, Bloomberg, Fox News, TheBlaze, Associated Press, Twitchy, WTOP News and Political Wire
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
‘A boom, then a monster sound’: 10 hurt after bridge over Pittsburgh's Frick Park collapses — This story was updated at 11:10 a.m. on Friday, January 28, 2022. — Ten people were injured Friday morning when a bridge that carries Forbes Avenue over Frick Park in Pittsburgh collapsed …
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Fox News Abandons the GOP on Russia — Night after night, the host of the top-rated show on Fox News repeats Vladimir Putin's talking points justifying aggression against Ukraine and opposing U.S. aid to that threatened sovereign country. Tucker Carlson's influence is felt across right-wing social media …
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The Week, Washington Post, Raw Story, Alternet.org and Courier-Journal
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Scoop: Ukraine gives U.S. senators 4 specific asks on Russia sanctions, military aid — The chairman of Ukraine's parliament has sent a letter to eight U.S. senators outlining four specific requests for security assistance and sanctions that Kyiv believes will help deter a Russian invasion, Axios has learned.
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The Bulwark
Sergei Kuznetsov / Politico:
Lukashenko warns Belarus will go to war if Russia is attacked
Lukashenko warns Belarus will go to war if Russia is attacked
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ABC News, Politico, EEAS, Washington Examiner and Voice of America
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Pennsylvania court declares state's mail-in voting law unconstitutional, in win for Republicans — The state's Democratic attorney general promised a swift appeal and insisted that the court's action won't have an immediate impact on elections this year — A Pennsylvania court struck …
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fox43.com, RedState, One America News Network, Greensburg Tribune-Review, Politico, Ace of Spades HQ, The Right Scoop and Townhall
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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Pennsylvania court tosses state's mail voting law
Pennsylvania court tosses state's mail voting law
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The Hill, CBS News, Washington Times and Spotlight PA
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Pennsylvania Court Says State's Mail Voting Law Is Unconstitutional
Pennsylvania Court Says State's Mail Voting Law Is Unconstitutional
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CNN, UPI, The Daily Caller, Forbes, CBS Philly and Spotlight PA
CNN:
January 6 committee subpoenas individuals tied to fake elector push — (CNN)The January 6 Select Committee has issued subpoenas for 14 Republicans from seven states who served on bogus slates of Trump electors in 2020 as part of the Trump campaign's scheme to subvert the Electoral College.
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Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Hill, CNBC and The Guardian
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Let Kids Take Their Masks Off After the Omicron Surge — Elissa Perkins, the director of infectious disease management in the emergency department of the Boston Medical Center, told me she spent most of 2020 “imploring everybody I could in every forum that I could to mask.”
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HotAir, Townhall, NRCC, National Review and Althouse
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Anya Kamenetz / NPR:
After 2 years, growing calls to take masks off children in school
After 2 years, growing calls to take masks off children in school
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Washington Examiner
Mother Jones:
We Uncovered How Many Georgians Were Disenfranchised by GOP Voting Restrictions. It's Staggering. — Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. — “States are not engaging in trying to suppress voters whatsoever …
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Alternet.org, GitHub and Raw Story
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Lacie Pierson / Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Justice touts achievements, tells haters to kiss Babydog's hiney in delayed State of the State address — NATIONALLY-RECOGNIZED, QUALITY LOCAL JOURNALISM.. — Gov. Jim Justice on Thursday used his second State of the State address as a victory lap for economic development and tourism in West Virginia …
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Washington Free Beacon, Fox News, Insider, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, Louder With Crowder, WV MetroNews, RedState, Politico and National Review
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Poor, Misunderstood Mark Joseph Stern — One has to feel sorry for Slate's Mark Joseph Stern, who is being criticized on Twitter and beyond for what was clearly just a big ol' misunderstanding. There he was on Twitter, minding his own business, when he came across some tweets he disliked …
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Chris's Newsletter, Twitchy, TaxProf Blog and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Anthony Man / Sun-Sentinel:
Republicans may prevent Broward's new Democratic lawmaker from participating in annual legislative session after all — Republicans who control most of state government aren't prepared to let Broward's newly elected Democratic state representative, Daryl Campbell, take office during the current legislative session.
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Florida Politics and Raw Story
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
‘Quick Reaction Forces’ And The Lingering Mysteries Of The Plot Against The Capitol — The Oath Keeper “QRFs” show how things could have been a lot worse, and how much more there is to learn. — The Comfort Inn location just off the interstate has three stars on Yelp …
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Raw Story
Christopher Ingraham / The Why Axis:
New data shows Americans more miserable than we've been in half a century — The latest release from the General Social Survey shows the toll the pandemic has taken on our mental health — When I worked at the Pew Research Center back in the mid-2000s one of our pollsters …
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
This Wisconsin Lawmaker Is Ready to Quit the GOP Over Trump — “He is lying. He did not win Wisconsin. And he has provided no proof otherwise.” — CJ — Kathy Bernier has been a stolidly conservative voice in the Wisconsin Legislature for more than a decade.
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CNN, Washington Post and Raw Story
Melody Schreiber / New Republic:
The Big-Name Journalists Who Are Trying to “Both Sides” Covid — There is a movement afoot just as insidious as right-wingers refusing to wear masks and get vaccinated. It's progressives who are fully vaccinated but whose overcautious attitude toward Covid-19 is harming a generation …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Salt Lake Tribune alerts police to threats to staffers after covid — The Salt Lake Tribune alerted police to threats that the newspaper received after publishing a Jan. 15 editorial that ripped state leaders for their response to covid-19, according to an email from executive editor Lauren Gustus to subscribers.
Victoria Bekiempis / New York Magazine:
Stormy Daniels Sees a Ghost — Michael Avenatti, her onetime sidekick, returns to grill her in court on the supernatural. — Just after 9 a.m. Friday, Michael Avenatti stood behind a plexiglass-enclosed lectern in a downtown courtroom and questioned Stormy Daniels about her encounters with the undead.
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The Daily Beast, Bloomberg, New York Post, New York Times and IJR
Rachel Bovard / The Federalist:
This Senate Rule Could Stop Democrats From Confirming Biden's SCOTUS Nominee — With the Senate split 50-50, the provision of Rule 26 that saved Lindsey Graham in 2020 could now doom a similar Democratic effort in 2022. — With Justice Stephen Breyer officially announcing his retirement on Thursday …
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Axios, The Hill and Washington Post
Ryan Randazzo / Arizona Republic:
Cyber Ninjas CEO participates in contentious deposition, says he's not ready to turn over audit records — Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan says he will not turn over records from the review of Maricopa County's 2020 election until he has a “clear” ruling he can appeal to the highest court.
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Raw Story
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
VMI's first Black superintendent blasts White critics of diversity and equity reform — A scathing Facebook post from VMI leader Cedric T. Wins exposed the battle over the future of the nation's oldest state-supported military college — Retired Army Maj. Gen.Cedric T. Wins had a message he wanted to send.
Jonathan Blitzer / New Yorker:
The Disillusionment of a Young Biden Official — Andrea Flores's efforts to roll back Trump's immigration policies faced opposition inside and outside the White House. — In the spring of 2019, Andrea Flores, then a thirty-one-year-old associate at a law firm in Washington, D.C. …
Brett Tingley / The Drive:
A Chinese Satellite Just Grappled Another And Pulled It Out Of Orbit — A Chinese satellite was observed grabbing another satellite and pulling it out of its normal geosynchronous orbit and into a “super-graveyard drift orbit.” The maneuver raises questions about the potential applications …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
In J.D. Vance's primary, nonstop Trump-worship shows the perils of populism — Here's an unsettling thought: In GOP primaries, declaring unshakable fealty to the mythology that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump is becoming a bedrock condition of political survival.
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Raw Story
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
And Now Dan Bongino Gets Booted From Google Ads — ‘DEMONSTRABLY FALSE’ — Fox News host Dan Bongino's website has been temporarily suspended from monetizing with Google ads over “persistently” breaching the company's guidelines on publishing COVID-19 misinformation.
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