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8:00 PM ET, February 7, 2022

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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
How Mike Pence just doomed his 2024 chances  —  (CNN)Mike Pence just crashed his political career into Donald Trump — and the former President's ongoing claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent and should have been overturned on January 6.  —  “President Trump is wrong,” Pence said in a speech to a conservative group in Florida.
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Marc Caputo / NBC News:
DeSantis refuses to take sides in Trump-Pence clash as 2024 speculation grows  —  MIAMI — Eyeing a possible White House bid, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declined on Monday to weigh in on one of the most divisive issues in the GOP: Could then-Vice President Mike Pence have “overturned” the 2020 presidential election?
Discussion: HuffPost, The Hill and Raw Story
Christine DeSanctis / FOX News Radio:   Chris Christie: ‘Inexperienced’ DeSantis Gets ‘Too Cute’ In Avoiding Questions on Trump, Vaccines
WordPress / Renew America Movement:
Statement of Republican Leaders and Former Officials on the RNC's Censure of Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger  —  Last week the Republican National Committee (RNC) made clear that it would rather be the “Big Lie” party than the “Big Tent” party by condemning two principled elected leaders …
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
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William Saletan / The Bulwark:
Lies Are the Building Blocks of Trumpian Authoritarianism  —  Deceit and the danger to democracy.  —  Americans like to think our country is immune to authoritarianism.  We have a culture of freedom, a tradition of elected government, and a Bill of Rights.  We're not like those European countries that fell into fascism.
Max Boot / Washington Post:
The GOP has become the Jan. 6 Party. It stands for insurrection and authoritarianism.
Discussion: emptywheel, Raw Story and National Memo
Washington Post:   Heritage Foundation, former powerhouse of GOP policy, adjusts in face of new competition from Trump allies
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The RNC turns into an Orwellian horror show
Discussion: Salon, The Status Kuo and New Republic
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
‘Precipitous decline’: J.D. Vance pollster issues warning on Ohio Senate race  —  Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance “needs a course correction ASAP” — and that's according to the well-funded super PAC supporting him.  —  A 98-page PowerPoint presentation produced by Tony Fabrizio …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court, in 5-4 Vote, Restores Alabama's Congressional Voting Map  —  A special three-judge court had ordered lawmakers to redraw the lines, saying Black voters “have less opportunity” than other Alabamians to elect their favored candidates.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court …
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New York Times:
Peter Thiel to Exit Meta's Board to Support Trump-Aligned Candidates  —  The tech billionaire, who has been on the board of the company formerly known as Facebook since 2005, is backing numerous politicians in the midterm elections.  —  Peter Thiel, one of the longest-serving board members of Meta …
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Tarpley Hitt / Gawker:
We Have Kyrsten Sinema's Social Security Number  —  Last month, we filed a public records request for Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's divorce papers.  The request came back with many enlightening insights, such as that the Congresswoman — who wrote the book Unite and Conquer …
Discussion: National Review and Twitchy
Washington Post:
National Archives had to retrieve Trump White House records from Mar-a-Lago  —  The recovery of multiple boxes from Trump's Florida resort, including letters from Barack Obama and Kim Jong Un, underscores the previous administration's cavalier handling of presidential records
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why it matters that Trump literally tore up White House documents
Discussion: Politico, Washington Post and Mediaite
Mark S. Wrighton / Office of the President:
Message Regarding Posters Displayed on Campus  —  Dear Members of the George Washington University Community,  —  Last week, the university learned of posters on campus depicting images that alarmed some members of our community, and we began to receive a number of concerns through official …
Discussion: The Federalist and lewrockwell.com
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Jonah Goldberg Joins CNN as a Contributor After Leaving Fox News … Jonah Goldberg, one of the two conservative political analysts who resigned from Fox News Channel in colorful fashion over its coverage, is joining CNN as a contributor, the WarnerMedia network confirmed Monday.
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Jonah Goldberg joins CNN
Discussion: TVNewser, Deadline and lewrockwell.com
Dylan Byers / Puck:
Kilar Comes Back for More...  After a series of off-the-rails newsroom conversations last week to address Jeff Zucker's ouster, the likely outgoing WarnerMedia C.E.O. returned to the barrel today via an emotional virtual meeting with select high-level staff.
CNN:
US intel indicates Russian officers have had doubts about full scale Ukraine invasion  —  (CNN)Intercepted communications obtained by the US have revealed that some Russian officials have worried that a large-scale invasion of Ukraine would be costlier and more difficult than Russian President Vladimir Putin …
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Peter Beinart / The Beinart Notebook:   Biden's CIA Director Doesn't Believe Biden's Story about Ukraine
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Biden's top science adviser bullied and demeaned subordinates, according to White House investigation  —  President Joe Biden's top science adviser, Eric Lander, bullied and demeaned his subordinates and violated the White House's workplace policy, an internal White House investigation recently concluded …
Margaret Talbot / New Yorker:
Amy Coney Barrett's Long Game  —  The newest Supreme Court Justice isn't just another conservative—she's the product of a Christian legal movement that is intent on remaking America. … On December 1st, the Supreme Court had its day of oral argument in a landmark abortion case …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
IRS to End Use of Facial Recognition for Identity Verification  —  The tax collection agency will transition away from using a service from the authentication service ID.me amid bipartisan backlash.  —  WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service plans to stop using facial recognition software …
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Internal Revenue Service:
IRS announces transition away from use of third-party verification involving facial recognition
Associated Press:
Air Force ordered to pay more than $230M in church shooting  —  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The U.S. Air Force must pay more than $230 million in damages to survivors and victims' families of a 2017 Texas church massacre for failing to flag a conviction that might have kept the gunman from legally buying …
CNBC:
Trump SPAC stock Digital World Acquisition Corp. plunges after news spreads of delayed app launch  — The stock price of the blank-check company that has partnered with ex-President Donald Trump's social media app firm plunged as news of the delay in the app's launch spread on Twitter.
Discussion: Raw Story
Joe Lonsdale / Wall Street Journal:
The Case for Splitting Amazon in Two  —  Cloud-computing division AWS subsidizes Prime, harming consumers in the long run.  —  If the price of a service seems too good to be true, it probably is.  —  Amazon's most recent earnings report sent the stock price soaring, up nearly 14% …
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
NRA Silent as Amir Locke Slain by Police for Having a Gun He Legally Owned … The first gun control organization in the United States was formed after the Civil War by white Southerners bothered by the fact that enslaved people were now free, entitled to vote, and arming themselves to defend that freedom.
Discussion: Insider
Tracey Tully / New York Times:
N.J. Governor to End School Mask Mandate in Move to ‘Normalcy’  —  For the first time since the start of the pandemic, New Jersey districts will be permitted to allow students and teachers to stop wearing masks.  —  Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey, a Democrat who has imposed …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Why Americans Are Slow to Get Booster Shots  —  Why are Americans slow to get booster shots?  —  The United States has a vaccination problem.  And it is not just about the relatively large share of Americans who have refused to get a shot.  The U.S. also trails many other countries …
Erin Banco / Politico:
Biden officials trying to recalculate U.S. Covid-19 hospitalizations  —  The Biden administration is working on recalculating the number of Covid-19 hospitalizations in the U.S., according to two senior officials familiar with the matter.  —  A task force comprised of scientists …
Discussion: bad cattitude
R. Albert Mohler Jr / WORLD:
Saving evangelicalism?  —  New York Times columnist David Brooks  —  Verily, verily, I say unto you, The New York Times is very concerned about saving evangelicalism.  Yesterday, the nation's newspaper of record devoted three entire print pages of its “Review” section to a massive essay …
 
 
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Sam Ray / DemCast:
How Psychiatry Is Failing America
Randall D. Eliason / Washington Post:
Yes or no on Mueller report criminal charges? Don't let Trump just run out the clock.
Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:
Black Workers Say Racism Is Rampant Inside Tesla. Now California Could Sue.
Discussion: Raw Story
Sabrina Rodriguez / Politico:
The GOP is gaining among Texas Hispanics. Women are leading the charge.
Steve Contorno / CNN:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signals support for 'Don't Say Gay' bill
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Martz / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Virginia Supreme Court rejects Chesapeake parents' challenge of Youngkin school mask order
Rick Rouan / USA Today:
New book details how Palin felt uncomfortable after 2010 meeting with Fox News CEO Ailes
Discussion: The Guardian
Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
Why Trucking Can't Deliver the Goods
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
See the 1960 Electoral College certificates that the false Trump electors say justify their gambit
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

 
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