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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Revealed: Trump reviewed draft order that authorized voting machines to be seized — Then president, during contentious December 2020 meeting, also agreed to appoint Sidney Powell as special counsel to investigate fraud — Weeks after the 2020 election, Donald Trump reviewed a draft executive order …
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Robert Draper / New York Times:
Michael Flynn Is Still at War — The general tried to persuade Donald Trump to use the military to overturn the 2020 election. A year later, he and his followers are fighting the same battle by other means. — On Nov. 25, 2020, President Donald J. Trump announced via Twitter …
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Salon, Raw Story, Washington Examiner and Washington Post
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Republicans rebuke Liz Cheney in unprecedented moves — Party leaders meeting in Salt Lake City move a censure resolution against the congresswoman from Wyoming and prepare to fund her primary opponent — SALT LAKE CITY — Republican leaders forged an agreement this week to potentially fund …
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Wall Street Journal:
Cyberattack on News Corp, Believed Linked to China, Targeted Emails of Journalists, Others — The attack, discovered on Jan. 20, affected publications including The Wall Street Journal, New York Post and the company's U.K. news operation — News Corp was the target of a hack that accessed emails …
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Politico:
Why Stephanie Cutter says Dems need a new SCOTUS strategy — As Justice Stephen Breyer prepares to retire, the White House is racing to select his replacement. Names of successors have been floated, the vetting-by-press has begun, members of Congress are already moving to push for their favored picks.
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Christine Rosen / Commentary Magazine:
The Masking Regime Is Coming Apart — This week, the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit asking the courts to overturn Governor Glenn Youngkin's executive order rescinding the state's mask mandates in schools. — Youngkin's order does not prevent students from wearing masks.
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Douglas Murray / New York Post:
Don't hold your breath for end of mask insanity — I trust that everyone has got the latest health advice from Los Angeles? It comes after the emergence of a photo of the city's mayor, Eric Garcetti, with NBA legend Magic Johnson. What was wrong with the photograph? Well everybody in it was maskless.
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Cafe Hayek, Washington Post, Reason and The Right Scoop
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
CNN staffers grill WarnerMedia boss over Jeff Zucker resignation — The sudden resignation of Jeff Zucker as president of CNN has shaken up the troops at the cable news network. — Jason Kilar, chief executive of the cable news channel's parent firm, WarnerMedia, heard it firsthand during …
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Noreen Malone / Slate:
Jeff Zucker's Resignation From CNN Doesn't Add Up—Until You Notice How It Happened
Jeff Zucker's Resignation From CNN Doesn't Add Up—Until You Notice How It Happened
Armin Rosen / UnHerd:
Profile14:30 Jeff Zucker, inventor of centrist panic-porn
Profile14:30 Jeff Zucker, inventor of centrist panic-porn
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Axios:
The making of a modern Republican — Paths to power and winning elections inside the GOP are changing rapidly and radically, spawning a new generation of kingmakers while diminishing the clout of many who lorded over the party for years. — Why it matters: Fourteen of the Republican Party's top consultants …
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Occidental Dissent
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Payrolls show surprisingly powerful gain of 467,000 in January despite omicron surge — January jobs report exceeds estimates with nonfarm payrolls surging by 467,000 — Payrolls rose far more than expected in January despite surging omicron cases that seemingly sent millions of workers to the sidelines …
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Wall Street Journal, Reason, Al Jazeera, New York Post, The Guardian and The Daily Caller
HuffPost:
Pence To Rebut Trump's ‘Could Have Overturned The Election’ Lie In Orlando Speech — The former vice president is expected to respond to Trump's continued attacks at a Federalist Society conference in Florida. — By S.V. Date — ORLANDO, Fla. ― Former Vice President Mike Pence …
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POLITICUSUSA, New Republic and Raw Story
Gary Fineout / Politico:
DeSantis' Supreme Court connection — Presented by Floridians for Affordable Rx — Good Friday morning. — A legal matter — Gov. Ron DeSantis, who went to Yale and Harvard Law School, has of course, lots of strong opinions about the law and what's constitutional, and what's not.
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CNN:
Arizona Republican House speaker effectively dooms GOP bill to allow state legislature to reject election results — (CNN)A Republican bill that would have overhauled elections in Arizona — including giving the state legislature the power to reject election results — proved to be too much even for state GOP leaders this week.
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Talking Points Memo, Rolling Stone, Digby's Hullabaloo and National Zero
Bloomberg:
Zuckerberg Tells Staff to Focus on Video Products as Meta's Stock Plunges — Mark Zuckerberg quipped that if he started to cry, it wasn't because of the day's news. — His red, teary eyes were the result of a scratched cornea, the Facebook founder said Thursday, attempting to lighten …
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Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Fulton DA details next stage of Trump probe — In an interview, Fani Willis discusses plans for special grand jury, recent threats — The Fulton County investigation examining former President Donald Trump's push to overturn Georgia's 2020 presidential election results is entering a new phase, District Attorney Fani Willis said.
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Reeves Wiedeman / Vulture:
The Talented Mr. Bernardini … Filippo Bernardini was just a high-school student when he published his first novel. It was 2008, and Bernardini, who lived in a small town an hour north of Rome, wrote it for an independent publishing house in Milan using a thinly veiled pseudonym …
American Greatness:
Was Hillary Clinton Paying Michael Avenatti? — As the creepy porn lawyer faces fines and jail time, questions about his operation—and who was financing it—linger. — Did Hillary Clinton or the Democratic National Committee ever pay Michael Avenatti? — The question isn't exactly new.
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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Mail:Bag:3 — There was a question about the Habsburg Empire in the mix that I wanted to answer but it just kept spinning out of control and I had to skip it. Sorry! But maybe on some rainy day we'll get a post about it holding together and “the martians” turning Austria-Hungary into the scientific superpower of the 20th century.
Ana Swanson / New York Times:
President Biden extends solar tariffs, with major caveats. — The Biden administration extended tariffs on imported solar products but made changes to exempt many more products from the levies, a decision that angered some domestic producers. — WASHINGTON — President Biden announced Friday …
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Financial Times and Wall Street Journal
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Paul promises investigation of Fauci if Republicans take Senate — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says he plans to subpoena Anthony Fauci's records if Republicans retake the Senate in November's midterm elections and he becomes chairman of a committee. — Paul stands to become chairman …
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Insider, POLITICUSUSA and Coronavirus War Room
Politico:
‘Ground up and spit out’: Inside the Hill staffer Instagram rebellion — Pay so low that aides survive on food stamps. Office cultures that drive committed employees to seek mental health support. Staffers of color feeling cut off from pursuing senior roles.
Gita Jackson / VICE:
Dystopic TikTok Trend Demands Amazon Workers Dance for Surveillance Cameras — TikTok users leave a note for their delivery drivers asking that they dance for the camera. Then, they put it online for the enjoyment of strangers. — GJ — Amazon drivers have to endure many indignities on the job.
John Nichols / The Nation:
We Need a 92 Percent Tax on Pandemic Profiteers — Let's tax billionaires—and übermillionaires— back to where they stood when Covid-19 hit. — Even before the Covid pandemic supercharged economic inequality, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced as a 2020 presidential candidate that “billionaires should not exist.”
Ken Moritsugu / Associated Press:
Russia, China push back against US in pre-Olympics summit — BEIJING (AP) — The leaders of Russia and China pushed back against U.S. pressure on Friday, declaring their opposition to any expansion of NATO and affirming that the island of Taiwan is a part of China, as they met hours before the Winter Olympics kicked off in Beijing.
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Eric Holder's ‘Democracy’ Con — He campaigns against gerrymandering, then says not a word about New York's map. — To understand the political con that is the Democrats' “voting rights” push, look at the bait-and-switch that preceded it. Eric Holder this week cemented his party's ruthless …
Lawrence H. Summers / Washington Post:
On inflation, we can learn from the mistakes of the past — or repeat them — A year ago I warned that “there is a chance that macroeconomic stimulus on a scale closer to World War II levels than normal recession levels will set off inflation pressures of a kind we have not seen in a generation.”
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Sam Levine / The Guardian:
The Black woman sentenced to six years in prison over a voting error — Pamela Moses was sentenced to six years in prison for trying to register despite a felony conviction but officials admitted making a series of mistakes — For the last few months, I've been following the case of Pamela Moses …