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Liz Hoffman / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter Weighs Poison Pill to Prevent Musk From Increasing Stake Significantly  —  Tesla CEO's $43 billion offer contains as many questions as answers  —  Twitter is weighing a poison pill that would prevent Elon Musk from increasing his stake in the company significantly, a person familiar with the situation said.
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Felix Salmon / Axios:
Elon Musk goes into full goblin mode  —  The goblin is serious. … - In a 138-word offer letter to Twitter board chair Bret Taylor that includes the words “I” or “my” 11 different times, Musk writes that “Twitter has extraordinary potential. … - You're going to hear much more about this bid …
Bloomberg:
Elon Musk Makes $43 Billion Unsolicited Bid to Take Twitter Private  —  Elon Musk has made a “best and final” offer to buy Twitter Inc., saying the company has extraordinary potential and he is the person to unlock it.  —  The world's richest person will offer $54.20 per share in cash …
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
Twitter's Chickens Come Home to Roost  —  The Great Elon Musk panic of 2022 is revealing a big fat boatload of blue-check hypocrites  —  Elon Musk has reportedly attempted to purchase Twitter, and I have no idea whether his influence on the company would be positive or not.
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Twitter CEO tells employees the board is still evaluating an Elon Musk takeover  —  'Tell me why / Ain't nothin' but a heartache'  —  Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal told employees Thursday that the company was still evaluating a $43 billion offer by Elon Musk to buy the company and take it private …
George Stahl / Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk Offers to Buy Rest of Twitter at a Valuation of More Than $43 Billion
PR Newswire:
Twitter Confirms Receipt of Unsolicited, Non-Binding Proposal from Elon Musk
New York Times:
Musk wants to ‘unlock’ Twitter's potential for free speech.
San Francisco Chronicle:
Colleagues worry Dianne Feinstein is now mentally unfit to serve, citing recent interactions  —  WASHINGTON — When a California Democrat in Congress recently engaged in an extended conversation with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, they prepared for a rigorous policy discussion like those they'd had with her many times over the last 15 years.
David Averre / Daily Mail:
Putin's defence minister Sergei Shoigu has had a ‘massive heart attack not from natural causes’ and TWENTY generals ‘have been arrested’ over bungled invasion  — Shoigu is thought to have suffered a heart attack possibly caused by foul play  — Russia's defence minister, 66, has been a close ally of Putin ever since 2012
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Guy Faulconbridge / Reuters:
Russia warns of nuclear, hypersonic deployment if Sweden and Finland join NATO
Cora Engelbrecht / New York Times:
Ukraine Live Updates: Russian Warship ‘Seriously Damaged,’ in Setback to Moscow's Forces
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
As two U.S. lawmakers visit Kyiv, the trip's organizer says he hopes more officials, and weapons, will follow.
Discussion: Insider
CNN:
US Capitol rioter who said he believed he was following Trump's orders found guilty on all charges  —  (CNN)A January 6 rioter who claimed he was following “presidential orders” when he stormed the US Capitol and stole liquor and a coat rack was convicted Thursday on all charges by a jury in Washington, DC.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jury convicts Jan. 6 defendant who blamed Trump for Capitol breach  —  A jury on Thursday convicted the Jan. 6 defendant Dustin Thompson on all six charges he faced — including felony obstruction of Congress — rejecting his effort to blame Donald Trump's campaign of disinformation about the election results for his conduct.
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Trump plans J.D. Vance endorsement in crowded Ohio senate race, sources say  —  Former President Trump is planning to endorse J.D. Vance in Ohio's crowded senate GOP primary, according to three sources with knowledge of his decision.  —  In recent days, Trump began calling donors and advisers …
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Does Trump's endorsement matter in Georgia? It depends, says UGA poll
Discussion: capitol-beat.org
John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
RNC to Require GOP Presidential Candidates to Sign Debate Pledge  —  Party has long complained about the Commission on Presidential Debates handling of general election debates  —  The Republican National Committee voted Thursday to require GOP presidential candidates to attest in writing …
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Alyssa Lukpat / New York Times:
Ed Buck Is Sentenced to 30 Years for Fatally Drugging 2 Men  —  Mr. Buck, 67, was once a Democratic political donor and activist who led a double life in which he lured men to parties at his apartment and drugged them with methamphetamine.  Two of those parties turned fatal.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Matthew Ormseth / Los Angeles Times:
Ed Buck to face judgment for injecting two men with fatal doses of drugs in sexually deviant pattern
Discussion: The Guardian
Kara Scannell / CNN:
US says three Russians offered congressman a free trip as part of a propaganda and disinformation campaign  —  (CNN)Federal prosecutors in New York on Thursday unsealed an indictment charging a member of Russia's legislature and two of his staffers with orchestrating a propaganda and disinformation campaign targeting US lawmakers.
Discussion: Bloomberg
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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
Does the mainstream media want Trump to run again and win?  —  The obvious answer to the question in the headline is no. Reporters and editors at establishment news organizations are mostly reality-based, generally anti-totalitarian, quite fond of the First Amendment, reasonably tolerant …
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Washington Post:
Jared Kushner strikes a dubious deal with Saudi Arabia's dictator
The Guardian:
Russian warship Moskva on fire but afloat, Pentagon says  —  US defence officials say it is unclear what caused blast which Ukraine claims to be result of missile strikes  —  Russia's flagship cruiser Moskva is on fire but still afloat and moving across the Black Sea, the Pentagon has confirmed …
Aaron Sanderford / Nebraska Examiner:
GOP state senator, seven other women say Charles Herbster groped them; he denies allegations  —  Charles Herbster, a Nebraska Republican gubernatorial candidate, speaks to a crowd Wednesday at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds in North Platte.  Donald Trump Jr. was his guest at the event.
Cincinnati.com:
Ohio Supreme Court rejects 4th set of legislative maps  —  For the fourth time, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected state House and Senate maps drawn by Republicans, sending mapmakers back to the drawing board.  —  Time is of the essence because Ohio needs legislative maps by Wednesday to conduct …
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Emily Singer / The American Independent:
Tennessee Republican praises Hitler for leading a ‘life that got him in the history books’  —  Tennessee state Sen. Frank Niceley used the false claim that ‘Hitler decided to live on the streets for a while’ as an illustration of someone who turned his life around after homelessness.
Discussion: Mediaite, Insider and WZTV
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Ryan Grenoble / HuffPost:
Tennessee Lawmaker Praises Hitler's Work Ethic In Speech About Homeless People
Todd Bensman / CIS.org:
Texas Governor's Unprecedented Trade Disruption Strategy Yields First Fruit  —  Mexican State of Nuevo Leon will ‘prevent illegal immigration’ on its side of the border, but details are scant  —  AUSTIN, Texas - Gov. Greg Abbott's week-old “enhanced safety inspections” operation at border bridges …
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Texas Gov. Abbott predicts Title 42 repeal will see more people enter state in one year than live in any of it
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
If Trump Was Still President, Ukraine Would Be So Screwed Right Now … Counterfactuals always involve guessing.  But one counterfactual proposition that seems increasingly obvious is that if Donald Trump had secured a second term in office, Ukraine would be losing the war right now.
Discussion: Vanity Fair, Mediaite and HuffPost
 
 
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Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy planning to step down -sources
Discussion: Washington Post
Politico:
GOP hopeful sold tear gas used on Black Lives Matter protesters
Jan Murphy / PennLive:
Pa. Senate passes legislation banning ballot drop boxes, private funding of elections
Nick Vachon / The American Independent:
Office of Virginia attorney general denies it gave pedophile cop a plea deal. But it did.
August Erbacher / WKBW-TV:
USS The Sullivans partially sinking at Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park
David Ng / Breitbart:
Watch: Parents March on Disneyland to Protest Studio's Woke LGBTQ+ Agenda for Children
Discussion: Big League Politics
Heritage Foundation:
Heritage Announces 2025 Presidential Transition Project, Hiring of Paul Dans to Direct New Initiative
 Earlier Items: 
Grayson Quay / The Week:
Poll: Biden approval rating hits all-time low of 33 percent
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
New Pa. U.S. Senate poll: John Fetterman pulling ahead as Democratic favorite, GOP race still wide open
CNN:
Atrocities are piling up across Ukraine. CNN witnessed some of the horrors.
Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
FBI Documents Expose Bureau's Big Jan. 6 ‘Lie’
Discussion: Raw Story
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Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
Hiding in Plain Sight, a Soviet-Era Air Defense System Arrives in Ukraine
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