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11:30 AM ET, February 16, 2022

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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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San Francisco Chronicle:
2022 San Francisco Special Election Results: School Board Recall  —  Each board member is individually up for a recall, which would require the support of a majority of voters.  —  The Department of Elections is currently reporting votes out of a possible registered voters (0%).
Discussion: Breitbart
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  —  Thousands of frantic text messages that might have otherwise been lost to history are now key to piecing together a picture of the events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack.  —  The panicked texts started landing in Mark Meadows's phone long before thousands …
Discussion: Raw Story
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jan. 6 panel seeks phone records of security official employed by Alex Jones
Discussion: Election Law Blog and Raw Story
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Trump campaign staffers, GOP operatives who challenged 2020 results in key states
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Is Sleepy Joe Biden Making Vladimir Putin Blink?  —  The Ukraine story is far from over.  But if Vladimir Putin opts to back away from invading Ukraine, even temporarily, it's because Joe Biden — that guy whose right-wing critics suggest is so deep in dementia he wouldn't know Kyiv from Kansas …
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Laura Kelly / The Hill:
Blinken warns ‘swift and firm response’ if Russia recognizes ‘independent’ eastern Ukraine  —  Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday warned of a “swift and firm response” from the U.S. and its allies if Russian President Vladimir Putin moved to recognize territories in eastern Ukraine …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and CW39 Houston
Washington Post:
Russia aims to ward off NATO in the event of a Ukraine invasion
Associated Press:
Ukraine shows unity as West sees no sign of Russian pullback
Politico:
GOP culture war attacks ‘alarmingly potent,’ DCCC warns  —  The campaign committee has been showing House Democrats new polling about how to counter GOP attacks on police funding and other issues.  —  Democrats' own research shows that some battleground voters think the party is “preachy …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Exclusive poll: Answers to the midterm's 2 big questions  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  We have some news in our latest POLITICO-Morning Consult poll that we can share with you this morning.  —  The results get to the heart of two big questions about 2022:
Burgess Everett / Politico:   A bipartisan deal to stop Trumpian election subversion? Not so fast.
Wall Street Journal:
A Strange Defense of Spying on Trump  —  A tech executive's response to Durham raises more questions.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  The press corps doesn't usually support government spying, but when it comes to Donald Trump they are making an exception.
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Las Vegas Sun:
Escalating hateful rhetoric leads nation down a dark, chaotic path  —  A terrifying incident in Louisville, Ky., this week revealed the dangers of the talk coming from the right about civil war and political violence.  —  Early Monday, mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg and his staff were busy …
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Matt Bai / Washington Post:   I reject both parties' ideas of Americanism. And I'm not the only one.
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:   The truth won't speak for itself
Patricia McKnight / Newsweek:
'People's Convoy' of Truckers Reportedly Heading to DC for Mandate Protest  —  While truck drivers protest COVID-19 restrictions in Canada, American truckers are following suit with their own cross-country convoy heading to Washington, D.C., with a message: “Government has forgotten its place.”
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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New York Times:
Jeff Zucker's Downfall at CNN: Ethical Lapses and Falling Ratings  —  The network's top-rated host and its president were forced out following ethical lapses, an office romance and a letter from a lawyer for “Jane Doe.”  —  Late in the day on Nov. 30, Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN Worldwide …
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Inner Circle Freaks That His Tax Firm ‘Screwed’ Him  —  “If he gets away from this, there's no God and no reason to live,” said Barbara A. Res, a former construction executive at the Trump Organization.  —  Predictably, Donald Trump wants you to think his longtime accounting firm's decision …
Neil Genzlinger / New York Times:
P.J. O'Rourke, Conservative Political Satirist, Dies at 74  —  In articles, in best sellers and as a talk show regular he was a voice from the right skewering whatever in government or culture he thought needed it.  —  P.J. O'Rourke, the conservative satirist and political commentator …
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Seth Stevenson / Slate:
The Most Chilling Thing I Heard at the Sarah Palin-NYT Trial Came Before the Verdict  —  The former Alaska governor lost her libel suit against the New York Times.  But others were watching—and learning.  —  At about 2:30 on Tuesday afternoon, after roughly a dozen hours of deliberation …
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 …
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Would Turkey's president have leverage over ‘Senator Doctor Oz’?  —  Members of the U.S. Senate often have conflicts of interest, both business and personal.  But never before has our country experienced a senator who has dual citizenship, served in a foreign military and maintains deep ties …
Discussion: Raw Story
Eliza Strickland / IEEE Spectrum:
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported  —  Barbara Campbell was walking through a New York City subway station during rush hour when her world abruptly went dark.  For four years, Campbell had been using a high-tech implant in her left eye that gave her a crude kind of bionic vision …
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Vince Coyner / American Thinker:
Why Nearly 40 Percent of Gen Z Identify as LGBTQ  —  I was shocked not long ago when I read a piece on the Newsweek website.  The headline read “Nearly 40 Percent of U.S. Gen Zs, 30 Percent of Young Christians Identify as LGBTQ, Poll Shows.”  That, aside from Joe Biden providing free crack pipes …
 
 
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Daniel Bice / JSOnline:
Bice: Mandela Barnes distances self from increasingly unpopular, left-wing defund police and abolish ICE movements
Discussion: Morning Shots
New York Times:
Florida Woman Used Pandemic-Relief Loan to Pay a Hit Man, Police Say
Discussion: The Hill
Abigail Adcox / Washington Examiner:
Arizona Senate passes bill banning abortion after 15 weeks
Joseph O’Sullivan / The Seattle Times:
Bill that would make it a crime for some to lie about election results dies in WA Senate
Discussion: Political Wire
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Poll: Rubio leads Demings by 7 points in Florida
Discussion: Washington Examiner
The Intercept:
Biden's Afghanistan Counsel Left the White House in January. Now He's Poised to Reap Financial Windfall From Billions in Seized Afghan Assets.
Discussion: Common Dreams
 Earlier Items: 
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
U.S. ‘excess deaths’ during pandemic surpassed 1 million, with covid killing most but other diseases adding to the toll, CDC says
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Suspension of Afghan Fulbright Program shatters dreams for 140 semifinalists now stuck under Taliban rule
Norimitsu Onishi / New York Times:
In France, a Racist Conspiracy Theory Edges Into the Mainstream
Washington Post:
New critical race theory laws have teachers scared, confused and self-censoring
Alex Kane / Jewish Currents:
Jamaal Bowman Withdraws Co-Sponsorship of Bill Backing Israel's Abraham Accords
Emily Green / VICE:
Inside a Massive Human Smuggling Ring Led by US Marines
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts
 
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