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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Hits Back at Daughter's Account That She Accepted His Election Loss  —  The former president, responding to videotaped testimony played at the Jan. 6 hearing, said Ivanka Trump had been “checked out” and was not involved in studying the election results.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Cheney leaves Trump and his GOP apologists reeling  —  Constitutional democracies are rarely destroyed by a single blow.  Their citizens often sleepwalk into catastrophe, discovering too late that a degree of timely vigilance could have preserved their system of self-rule.
New York Times:
Jan. 6 Panel Puts Focus on Cabinet Discussions About Removing Trump  —  Other reports verify Representative Liz Cheney's assertion that cabinet members considered using the 25th Amendment to oust Donald Trump after the assault on the Capitol.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
History will accept only one Jan. 6 narrative.  This committee has it.  —  The Jan. 6 committee's riveting televised opening night might not have converted the pro-Trump revisionists, but it has left them without excuses.  The evidence is overwhelming that a sitting president gathered …
New York Post:
Donald Trump, Democrats are obsessed with 2020 — GOP should look to the future  —  The Jan. 6 Commission is a Democratic campaign ad, a thinly veiled partisan exercise — aired in primetime, with the cooperation of a liberal press — to bolster a failed Joe Biden presidency.
Discussion: Raw Story and National Review
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Why It Matters That the Jan. 6 Hearings Put ‘a War Scene’ on Display
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Here's What the World's Media Thinks of the Jan. 6 Hearings
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump's Truth Social Is Banning Users Who Post About Jan. 6 Hearings, According to Reports … The irony is rich: Truth Social, Donald Trump's Twitter copycat claiming it is “free from political discrimination,” has reportedly banned users who posted information from Thursday's congressional hearing …
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Washington Post:
How the Jan. 6 hearing played out on the pro-Trump web  —  Ironically, online accounts that helped organize the insurrection tried to debunk the evidence the Jan. 6 committee presented Thursday  —  Former president Donald Trump's supporters scrambled to defend him online in the hours …
Washington Post:
Ivanka Trump's Jan. 6 testimony exposes family strain  —  The former president called his daughter ‘checked out’ after investigators showed her accepting that his election fraud claims were false  —  Former president Donald Trump has demanded that many of his aides and advisers claim privilege …
Jason Easley / politicususa.com:
Trump Is Banning People On Truth Social For Posting About 1/6 Committee Hearing  —  Max Burns tweeted: … Trump and his cronies, like former Rep. Devin Nunes, who is an executive with Truth Social, seem desperate to his supporters in the dark about the former president's activities before, during, and after 1/6.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
John Koblin / New York Times:
More Than 19 Million Watched Jan. 6 Hearing, Early Tally Shows  —  The number, which will grow as the count adds more networks, is in the ballpark of big television events like a “Sunday Night Football” game.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  More than 19 million people watched …
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Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
Resistance Porn Ratings Fail: Jan. 6 Committee Hearing Crushed by ‘Young Sheldon’ Rerun  —  CBS opted to bump a Young Sheldon rerun from its 8 p.m. primetime slot in favor of the Jan 6th committee hearing on Thursday evening.  The decision backfired.  —  Just 3.24 million people watched the network's …
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Nearly 20M watched Jan. 6 hearing: Nielsen  —  Nearly 20 million people watched Thursday night's first hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol across broadcast and cable news, according to preliminary ratings figures from Nielsen.
Bill D'Agostino / Newsbusters:
Broadcast Networks' Jan 6 Hearings Drew Smaller Audiences than Nightly Newscasts Last Week
Discussion: Twitchy and Just The News
Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Ginni Thomas pressed 29 Ariz. lawmakers to help overturn Trump's defeat, emails show  —  Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed 29 Republican state lawmakers in Arizona — 27 more than previously known — to set aside Joe Biden's popular vote victory and …
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Emily Hernandez / The Daily Beast:   Clarence Thomas' Wife Pressured 29 Arizona Republicans to Overturn 2020 Election
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Giuliani hit with ethics charges by Washington D.C. authorities over false election claims  —  The District of Columbia office that polices attorneys for ethical misconduct filed charges on Friday against President Donald Trump's former attorney, Rudy Giuliani, over baseless claims …
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Misty Severi / Washington Examiner:
Trump endorses Britt in Alabama Senate runoff months after dumping Brooks  —  Former President Donald Trump endorsed Katie Britt in Alabama's Senate runoff, months after he dropped the endorsement of Rep. Mo Brooks (R).  —  Britt, who served as the chief of staff for retiring Sen. Richard Shelby …
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Todd Stacy / Alabama Daily News:   Poll shows Britt leading Brooks in Senate runoff
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
How low will the Supreme Court go on guns?  —  The Constitution is not a suicide pact, Justice Robert H. Jackson wisely observed in a 1949 free-speech case.  As the Supreme Court prepares to decide its first gun rights case in a dozen years, an updated version of Jackson's motto should be: The Constitution is not a mass suicide pact.
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Washington Post:
With shooter inside Uvalde classrooms, officials say secure doors kept police out  —  Designed for safety, the metal-framed doors became another barrier between police and the gunman, according to briefed experts and officials  —  When Border Patrol tactical agents and police officers arrived …
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The Daily Beast:
Hannity Proposed Hunter Biden Pardon to ‘Smooth Over’ Jan. 6  —  The Jan. 6 Committee revealed a weird text message during its first hearing Thursday night.  A person familiar with negotiations confirmed that it's as weird as you think. … As some of then-President Donald Trump's closest allies hit …
Discussion: Insider and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Ukraine is running out of ammunition as prospects dim on the battlefield  —  Hopes that Ukraine will be able to reverse Russian gains are fading in the face of superior firepower  —  SLOVYANSK, Ukraine — The euphoria that accompanied Ukraine's unforeseen early victories against bumbling Russian troops …
Discussion: New York Times
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Taylor Lorenz said an editor was to blame.  Is that okay?  —  UPDATE: The fallout from the Lorenz story continues: On Thursday, members of The Post's features staff held a meeting with Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee, Senior Managing Editor Cameron Barr, Managing Editor of Diversity …
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The Democratic Party Is an Inflation Machine  —  Joe Manchin should keep doing what he can to jam the gears.  —  Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has said that each morning he receives a text message bearing the latest inflation numbers.  One can only assume that today's update provoked him into a loud and unyielding shriek.
Kipp Jones / Mediaite:
Newsmax Moves Eric Bolling to Prime Time: 'Tucker, I'm Coming After You, Pal'  —  Newsmax TV's Eric Bolling is moving to 8 p.m. in prime time next week, the host announced Friday afternoon on his daily show.  —  “This show is moving to a brand new time slot, starting Tuesday,” Bolling told his audience.
Discussion: Big League Politics
 
 
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The Nevada Independent:
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Discussion: Breitbart and NBC News
NPR:
The Capitol siege: The cases behind the biggest criminal investigation in U.S. history
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Jan. 6 rioter sentenced after his GoPro showed him on front line rushing police
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