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12:45 PM ET, February 17, 2022

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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
‘The brand is so toxic’: Dems fear extinction in rural US  —  SMETHPORT, Pa. (AP) — Some Democrats here in rural Pennsylvania are afraid to tell you they're Democrats.  —  The party's brand is so toxic in the small towns 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh that some liberals have removed bumper stickers …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Operation ‘Stop Greitens’ goes awry  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  SCOOP: TRUMP MEETS BRITT — Former President DONALD TRUMP met with Alabama GOP Senate candidate KATIE BRITT at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, two sources familiar told Playbook.  The former president has been having buyer's remorse …
John F. Harris / Politico:
What AOC Learned From Trump  —  The divide in the Democratic Party is less about ideology than state of mind.  —  Altitude is a column by POLITICO founding editor John Harris, offering weekly perspective on politics in a moment of radical disruption.  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sat …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Ibram X. Kendi Does Not Run the Democratic Party  —  Republicans would like to make the Democratic Party indistinguishable from the left's most divisive figures and policy demands.  —  During his first year in office, Joe Biden exploited emergency public-health rules to effectively suspend migrants' right …
CBS News:
Ukraine, Russian-backed rebels accuse each other of shelling in Donbas region, where war has already simmered for years  —  Kyiv — Ukraine's military and the Russian-backed separatists it has battled for eight years in the country's eastern Donbas region both accused the other side of opening fire …
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Reuters:
Kyiv, West fear ‘pretexts for invasion’ after shelling in east Ukraine
Rachel Pannett / Washington Post:
U.S. says Russian claim of pullback around Ukraine is ‘false,’ accuses Moscow of adding troops instead
Lauren Dake / opb:
Oregon Supreme Court will rule on whether Nick Kristof can run for Oregon governor  —  The Oregon Supreme Court says Nick Kristof, the former New York Times columnist who quit his newspaper job to run for Oregon governor, cannot appear on the state's May primary ballot.The justices' decision …
Discussion: How Appealing
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Hillary Borrud / Oregonian:
Nick Kristof can't run for Oregon governor, Supreme Court rules
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 …
Discussion: CNN and New Republic
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Los Angeles Times:
San Francisco is usually seen as a lefty outlier.  The school board recalls may make it a bellwether  —  San Francisco is so famous for its liberalism that the city has become shorthand for eccentric political sensibilities far to the left of most Americans.
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Benjamin Oreskes / Los Angeles Times:
Karen Bass takes early lead in L.A. mayor's race, poll finds
Discussion: The Hill, Bloomberg and Words & Deeds
Alexander Sammon / American Prospect:
Michelle Childs Sentenced a Man to 12 Years for Selling Eight Ounces of Weed  —  ‘I had more time than people in there who killed somebody,’ says Willie Roy Goodwin, who received the harsh sentence from the Supreme Court hopeful.  —  Since Willie Roy Goodwin's 2009 sentencing …
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Washington Post:
Jim Clyburn saved Biden's candidacy — and now has the president's ear on Supreme Court picks
Washington Post:
Trump endorses Texas congressional candidate accused of abusive behavior toward her estranged husband's daughter  —  Former president Donald Trump on Thursday offered his “Complete and Total Endorsement” of Monica De La Cruz, a Republican congressional candidate in Texas whose campaign …
Discussion: Breitbart and Political Wire
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
US Capitol attack panel discusses subpoena for Ivanka Trump  —  House select committee is considering best way to get evidence from ex-president's daughter about his efforts to cling to power  —  The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack is considering issuing a subpoena …
Discussion: Raw Story and Insider
Reuters:
Exclusive: Iran nuclear deal draft puts prisoners, enrichment, cash first, oil comes later - diplomats … A U.S.-Iranian deal taking shape to revive Iran's 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers lays out phases of mutual steps to bring both sides back into full compliance …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Bloomberg
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
The regrettable death of the Slatepitch  —  We've lost a lot as every publication has become the same  —  Katie Robertson of the New York Times recently wrote about my former employer Slate and its “struggles to find identity and profit” in the modern world.
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: Townhall, Raw Story and Political Wire
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
The MyPillow Guy Is Seriously Planning to Drop Pillows From the Sky Over Canada  —  PREPARE THE TEENY TINY PARACHUTES!  —  After his initial Tuesday shipment of MyPillow products was denied entry into Canada, Mike Lindell now has a backup plan to get free pillows to Canadian truckers: drop them from the sky via a helicopter.
Steven Rattner / New York Times:
Biden Keeps Blaming the Supply Chain for Inflation.  That's Dishonest.  —  Mr. Rattner served as counselor to the Treasury secretary in the Obama administration.  —  In an interview with Lester Holt of NBC last week, President Biden hewed closely to his talking points on inflation …
Washington Post:
D.C. police lieutenant suspended over alleged ties to right-wing group  —  A D.C. police lieutenant in the intelligence branch has been put on leave amid an investigation into alleged improper contacts with a prominent member of the extremist group Proud Boys, according to four law enforcement officials with knowledge of the case.
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
White House economists push back against pressure to blame corporate power for inflation … When the prepared congressional testimony of a senior administration official was circulated inside the White House in recent weeks, it included a passage tying inflation to corporate consolidation and monopoly power.
Rhodes Cook / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The “Big Sort” Continues, with Trump as a Driving Force  —  Dear Readers: UVA Center for Politics Director Larry J. Sabato recently interviewed Jonathan Karl of ABC News and Rep. Ro Khanna (D, CA-17) about, respectively, their new books Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show and Dignity in a Digital Age …
Discussion: HuffPost
David Siders / Politico:
‘My clients are going RINO hunting’: How the 2022 primaries will rewire the GOP  —  Evidence of the party's unrest is everywhere.  Nearly a half-dozen Republican governors alone are facing competitive primary challenges.  —  Republicans are embarking on a primary season that is poised …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Delta passenger tried to open emergency door as attention-grab to share vaccine views, feds say
Discussion: New York Post and Fox News
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
The RNC Thinks Phony Electors Engaged in ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’
Zaid Jilani / Tablet Magazine:
The Racist Joe Rogan
Michael Lind / Tablet Magazine:
The Borscht Belt Theory of Immigration
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Steve Rhodes / The Fine Print:
Havana Syndrome and the Search for a Smoking Ray Gun
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Florida politicians behind “Don't Say Gay” bill backed by corporations that claim to support LGBTQ rights
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Gregg Gonsalves / New York Times:
The Moral Danger of Declaring the Pandemic Over Too Soon
Hunter Walker / Rolling Stone:
Domestic-Abuse Allegation Haunts Law-and-Order MAGA Candidate
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
New York Times:
Vulnerable to the Virus, High-Risk Americans Feel Pain as the U.S. Moves On
Discussion: National Review and The Atlantic
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
The Rise of Big Tech May Just Be Starting
Graham Vyse / Washington Post:
The Fall of the Capitol Steps
Ed Whelan / National Review:
Leading Senator Threatens Filibuster of First Black Female Supreme Court Nominee
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