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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
The Washington Post suspends reporter David Weigel over sexist retweet  —  New York (CNN Business)The Washington Post has suspended reporter David Weigel without pay for retweeting a sexist joke, a person familiar with the matter told CNN on Monday.  —  Weigel did not respond to a request for comment …
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Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Proud Boys leader Tarrio, four others, charged with seditious conspiracy
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Lauren Hirsch / New York Times:
Elon Musk threatens to pull out of Twitter deal without more information about fake accounts.  —  In a filing, Mr. Musk's lawyers said that Twitter was “actively resisting” his requests for more information.  —  Elon Musk is threatening to pull out of his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter …
Associated Press:
Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Jan. 6 committee's secret adviser  —  The House's Jan. 6 committee has turned to a renowned former network news executive to hone a mountain of explosive material into a captivating multimedia presentation for a prime-time hearing Thursday.  — James Goldston — former president of ABC News …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Georgetown Abandons Its Free-Speech Policy Over Ilya Shapiro … Everybody supports freedom of speech for ideas they agree with.  The concept only has meaning if it's applied to ideas you don't agree with.  —  I don't agree with the idea conservative lawyer Ilya Shapiro expressed in January …
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Ilya Shapiro / Wall Street Journal:
Why I Quit Georgetown  —  The university didn't fire me, but it abandoned free speech and created a hostile environment.
Ross Barkan / New York Magazine:
The Limits of San Francisco Liberalism  —  If Chesa Boudin is recalled, it will be because his city has never been its left-wing caricature.  —  In San Francisco, the signs are everywhere.  Near the famed Lombard Street, one is affixed to a lamppost.  Several of them, picturing menacing men …
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Emily Brooks / The Hill:
Milo Yiannopoulos is an intern for Marjorie Taylor Greene  —  Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is working as an unpaid intern in the congressional office of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).  —  Yiannopoulos, 37, announced the job on his Telegram account Monday with a photo of his official intern congressional badge.
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The GOP's ‘Glenn Youngkin Model’ Stalls Out on the Pennsylvania Turnpike  —  David McCormick loses to Dr. Oz as the donor class's post-Trump pivot fails.  —  Last fall, the members of the old guard GOP consultant class and their friends in the conservative media gushed about a new playbook …
Discussion: Overtime
Zachary Leeman / Mediaite:
AOC Blasts Fellow Democrats for Resisting Term Latinx: ‘Not About Your Reelection Prospects’  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blasted critics of the term Latinx, including fellow Democrats who resist using it and think it's “bad for the party.”  —  After a brief discussion of the term …
Mark Follman / Mother Jones:
The Most Shocking New Statistic on Mass Shootings  —  Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter.  Support our nonprofit reporting.  Subscribe to our print magazine.  —  With the recent spate of mass shootings, a wave of public opinion polling has reaffirmed Americans' well-known views on gun violence.
Discussion: CNN, Ian Haworth and Twitchy
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Garcetti allies tried to put the screws to Mark Kelly.  It may have backfired.  —  Democratic powerbrokers close to Eric Garcetti privately pressured Sen. Mark Kelly to support the Los Angeles mayor's ambassadorial nomination, according to five people familiar with the outreach.
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Legal claims shed light on founder of faith group tied to Amy Coney Barrett  —  Examination of People of Praise comes as supreme court seems poised to reverse Roe v Wade  —  The founder of the People of Praise, a secretive charismatic Christian group that counts supreme court justice Amy Coney Barrett …
Discussion: Raw Story
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
The Institutionalist  —  Dianne Feinstein fought for gun control, civil rights, and abortion access for half a century.  Where did it all go wrong?  —  From left, 1971: The first female president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.  2022: The oldest sitting U.S. senator.
Joshua Rhett Miller / New York Post:
Packin' heat: Nude Hunter Biden cavorts with hooker, illegal gun in latest mess for president  —  Hunter Biden shows himself to be a real first son-of-a-gun in the latest embarrassing personal video leak for President Biden's scandal-scarred offspring.  —  A naked Hunter casually waves around …
Discussion: RADAR, Breitbart, OutKick and Twitchy
CNN:
Manchin wants to raise age to 21 for gun purchases, doesn't see need for AR-15s  —  (CNN)Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia voiced his support Monday for raising the age to 21 for purchasing semi-automatic weapons and questioned why individuals need to own high-powered AR-15-style weapons …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
With Cornyn in the Room, Senate Gun Talks Focus on Narrow Changes  —  The conservative Texan's involvement in bipartisan talks means that an agreement, if there is one, is likely to include incremental steps.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  WASHINGTON — Facing a national crisis …
Dan Pfeiffer / Vanity Fair:
Why Do Democrats Suck at Messaging?  —  It's a question Dan Pfeiffer, the former Obama communications director and Pod Save America cohost, recalls getting many times.  In his new book, Battling the Big Lie, Pfeiffer diagnoses the party's messaging troubles—and calls for building a bigger megaphone.
Washington Post:
Cisneros asks for recount in Democratic primary runoff against incumbent Cuellar  —  Attorney Jessica Cisneros will request a recount of the runoff election between her and Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar.  —  “Our community isn't done fighting, we are filing for a recount,” Cisneros said in a statement.
Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Michigan widens probe into voting system breaches by Trump allies  —  State police in Michigan have obtained warrants to seize voting equipment and election-related records in at least three towns and one county in the past six weeks, police records show, widening the largest known investigation …
Discussion: Raw Story
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
Opinion Princeton's warning to its campus community: Speak at your own risk  —  If Princeton classics professor Joshua Katz had kept his mouth shut in 2020, would he still have a job?  —  To weigh that question, first we have to back up.  In the mid-2000s, Katz did a very bad thing: He had a sexual relationship with an undergraduate.
Jennifer Senior / The Atlantic:
American Rasputin  —  I sometimes look at the long ribbons of texts I've gotten from Steve Bannon and wonder whether they couldn't tell the whole story all on their own.  —  There are certainly enough of them.  He says he has five phones, two encrypted, and he's forever pecking away …
Jessica Pishko / Bolts:
California Prosecutions for Pregnancy Loss Spark Outrage, and a Bill to Stop Future Investigations  —  The charges over two stillbirths are a window into a country where pregnancy outcomes are already policed.  —  The Superior Court of Kings County in Hanford, California.  (courts.ca.gov)
Washington Post:
China secretly building PLA naval facility in Cambodia, Western officials say  —  China is secretly building a naval facility in Cambodia for the exclusive use of its military, with both countries denying that is the case and taking extraordinary measures to conceal the operation, Western officials said.
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
GOP ads are pulled from the airwaves for being dishonest (again)  —  The National Republican Senatorial Committee has had two television ads pulled over the course of three weeks.  That's both unusual and embarrassing.  —  Every election cycle, American voters see plenty of attack ads.
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Grunwald / Canary Media:
What's the most climate-friendly way to eat?  It's tricky  —  Plus, why climate hawks should heed the Chick-Fil-A cows and eat more chicken. … There are not a lot of nice things to say about the destructive, exploitative, sadistic, oligopolistic chicken industry.
 
 
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Jim Defede / CBS News:
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Maysoon Khan / Associated Press:
NY governor signs law raising age to own semiautomatic rifle
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
DOJ moves to seize 2 planes worth more than $400 million from Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich
Wall Street Journal:
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