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9:25 PM ET, February 16, 2022

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Christopher Nardi / National Post:
My Pillow's Mike Lindell barred from entering Canada to support convoy protestors  —  Lindell, as well as a truck full of 10,000 pillows destined for protesters, were denied entry into Canada Tuesday evening  —  OTTAWA - My Pillow CEO and staunch Donald Trump supporter Mike Lindell …
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Blair Crawford / ottawacitizen:
Threats close Stella Luna Gelato Café after owner's name appears in GiveSendGo data leak  —  Tammy Giuliani says that she now regrets making her $250 donation.  —  Ottawa's Stella Luna Gelato Café was forced to close Tuesday after receiving threats when owner Tammy Giuliani's name appeared …
Washington Post:
Ryan Zinke broke ethics rules while leading Trump's Interior Dept., keeping improper ties with land developers, watchdog finds … While serving as Interior Department secretary under Donald Trump, Ryan Zinke broke federal ethics rules repeatedly by improperly participating in real estate negotiations …
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Matthew Brown / Associated Press:
Investigation: Zinke misused position as Interior secretary  —  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Former U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke misused his position to advance a development project in his Montana hometown and lied to an agency ethics official about his involvement, according to a report from federal investigators released Wednesday.
Thomas Fuller / New York Times:
In Landslide, San Francisco Forces Out 3 Board of Education Members  —  The recall, which galvanized Asian Americans, was a victory for parents angered by the district's priorities during the pandemic.  —  In a recall election fueled by pandemic angst and anger, San Francisco voters ousted three members …
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Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
From liberal San Francisco, school board recall is a three-alarm warning for Democrats  —  San Francisco is quite familiar with earthquakes and what happened Tuesday — the ouster of three extreme lefties from the Board of Education — was not one of those.  —  Earthquakes are sudden and unexpected.
Melanie Mason / Los Angeles Times:
Feinstein's approval ratings hit an all-time low; Harris underwater, poll says  —  Views of Sen. Dianne Feinstein's job performance have tumbled to the lowest point in her three-decade Senate career, with just 30% of California voters giving her positive marks in a new UC Berkeley Institute …
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Biden Rejects Trump's Claim of Privilege for White House Visitor Logs  —  The president informed the National Archives that it should turn over the logs sought by the Jan. 6 committee within 15 days.  —  President Biden is opposing another effort by former President Donald J. Trump …
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Washington Post:
Texting through an insurrection
Discussion: Raw Story, IJR and The Hill
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
US says Russia has added 7,000 troops along Ukraine border, despite claims of pullback  —  Russian Ministry of Defense releases video of armor crossing Crimea bridge  —  (CNN)Russian forces massed along Ukraine's borders have increased by approximately 7,000 troops in recent days …
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Axios:
GOP tensions boil over Trump's fundraising tactics  —  Donald Trump's spamming of Republican donors could kneecap party efforts to build a steady funding stream for future elections and compete with Democratic fundraising, top GOP officials are privately warning.
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike McIntire / New York Times:
Trump Makes New Claims About His Wealth After Accountants Drop Him  —  The former president has spent decades inventing facts and figures to suit his needs.  Now, dropped by his accountants, he is making new claims.  —  On Tuesday evening, former President Donald J. Trump …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump's Inner Circle Freaks That His Tax Firm ‘Screwed’ Him
Discussion: The Bulwark, Raw Story and Salon
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
‘Do we want to live in a world where Putin calls the shots?’  —  Patriots say no. Rightwingers say maybe.  —  Americans used to worry about communists.  We thought they were under and behind every bush and tree.  Our anxiety came in two waves.  Red Scare 1 (the early 1920s) and Red Scare 2 (the early 1950s).
Discussion: Overtime and Bloomberg
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Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal:   Beijing Weighs How Far to Go in Backing Putin on Ukraine
Houston Chronicle:
We asked all 143 Texas GOP congressional candidates about Biden's win.  Only 13 call it legitimate.  —  The debate had been underway for less than 10 minutes before the top Republican candidates in a MAGA-friendly Houston congressional district reached a consensus: each believed the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.
Discussion: Raw Story and MyNorthwest.com
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Teaganne Finn / NBC News:
Democratic group launches super PAC to counter election deniers running for office
Discussion: The Hill, CNN and New York Times
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Twitter allows hacked info of Canadian Freedom Convoy donors after suppressing Hunter Biden laptop story  —  The tech giant has yet to enforce its own policies on those sharing the hacked data  —  ‘Freedom Convoy’ is dangerous to liberals because it 'doesn't fit the narrative': Terrell
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Allison P. Davis / The Cut:
A Vibe Shift Is Coming Will any of us survive it?  —  One morning in June, while I was puffing away on my stationary bike — fine, a Peloton — pretending I had enough time to get my body ready for the “hot vaxx summer” that never really was, my friend Ellen messaged me: “Okay, please let me know if this person is dumb.
Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
The Millions of People Stuck in Pandemic Limbo  —  When the coronavirus pandemic began, Emily Landon thought about her own risk only in rare quiet moments.  An infectious-disease doctor at the University of Chicago Medicine, she was cramming months of work into days, preparing her institution …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Jury in Sarah Palin v. New York Times libel trial learned of judge's plan to throw out suit  —  Jurors' having knowledge of the ruling in the middle of deliberations could bolster the ex-governor's case for a new trial or appeal.  —  Jurors in former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's libel trial …
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Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Palin Jurors Knew Judge Dismissed N.Y. Times Case Before Verdict
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The worst Ukraine take yet  —  It's not clear if Russia will invade Ukraine.  It is clear that it is ready, with sufficient forces positioned close enough to Ukraine's borders to quickly strike should it choose to do so.  That is obvious not just from government reports …
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Kira Lerner / The States:
State judges across the U.S. face growing GOP pushback against rulings in election cases  —  In mid-December, Texas' highest criminal court revoked the state attorney general's ability to use his office to prosecute election-related cases without the request of a district or county attorney.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Wary of Economic Neoliberalism, Groups Fund Research on Alternatives  —  Two foundations committed funding for economic and policy research focused on alternatives to traditional economic thinking.  —  Wages have been stagnant for most Americans for decades.  Inequality has increased sharply.
Discussion: Associated Press
Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou / Bloomberg:
Money That Won Melania Trump NFT Came From Melania Trump Wallet  —  The source of funds for the winning bid in Melania Trump's first NFT auction appears to be the creators of the project themselves.  —  A series of blockchain transactions show that the cryptocurrency used …
Jason Koebler / VICE:
LEAKED AUDIO: Amazon Union Buster Warns Workers ‘Things Could Become Worse’  —  An Amazon union avoidance official told unionizing workers in New York City that it is possible negotiations would begin with minimum wage pay as a starting point.  —  An Amazon union avoidance official told employees at JFK8 …
Axios:
Scoop: House GOP moves to tank Biden's Iran diplomacy  —  Nearly 200 House Republicans have written to President Biden warning any nuclear deal made with Iran without Congress' approval “will meet the same fate” as the 2015 agreement by President Obama later abandoned by President Trump.
Brian Baxter / Bloomberg:
NFL Taps Ex-Attorney General Loretta Lynch to Fight Flores' Race Bias Suit  —  The National Football League has hired former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to defend it in a high-profile race discrimination case filed earlier this month by former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores.
Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Ken Kurson, Kushner Ally Pardoned by Trump, Takes Plea Deal  —  Mr. Kurson, a former newspaper editor, was accused of cyberstalking his former wife both before and after their 2016 divorce.  —  Ken Kurson, a former editor of The New York Observer who was charged with unlawfully spying on his former wife …
Myah Ward / Politico:
Biden names 2 people to replace Eric Lander in top science roles  —  President Joe Biden has tapped two people to temporarily fill Eric Lander's dual roles as the president's top science adviser and the head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the White House announced on Wednesday.
Discussion: CNN, Washington Post and WTOP News
Laura Spinney / Nature:
Pandemics disable people — the history lesson that policymakers ignore … Laura Spinney is the author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World.  She writes about science, medicine and history from Paris.  —  You can also search for this author in  —  PubMed Google Scholar
Wall Street Journal:
U.S., Russian Aircraft Flew Perilously Close to Each Other Amid Ukraine Tensions  —  Pentagon says it expressed concern to Russian officials through diplomatic channels  —  WASHINGTON—U.S. and Russian military aircraft flew dangerously close to each other in three separate weekend incidents …
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Justin Trudeau Has Disgraced His Office  —  He's also exposed a massive flaw in Canada's constitutional order.  —  n a famous 1889 letter to A. S. Gruzinsky, the playwright Anton Chekhov proposed that “one must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off” at some point later in the play.
 
 
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Politico:
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Mike Stone / Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Biden to seek more than $770 billion in 2023 defense budget, sources say
Discussion: Politico and Common Dreams
Alexander Sammon / New Republic:
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Kara Voght / Rolling Stone:
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