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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Mike Pence asks judge to block subpoena for Jan. 6 testimony — Former Vice President Mike Pence has filed a motion asking a judge to block a federal grand jury subpoena for his testimony related to January 6 on the grounds that he is protected by the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause …
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ABC News:
Trump fighting to bar use of White House lawyers' grand jury testimony in special counsel probe: Sources — Trump wants to bar the use of testimony from Pat Cipollone and Patrick Philbin. — White House Counsel Pat Cipollone waits for the beginning of a cabinet meeting in the East Room of the White House …
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Politico:
Once an albatross around Trump's neck, Jan. 6 is now taboo in the GOP primary
Once an albatross around Trump's neck, Jan. 6 is now taboo in the GOP primary
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
How a New DOJ Memo Sets Up Two Potential Trump Indictments
How a New DOJ Memo Sets Up Two Potential Trump Indictments
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Trump Has Become the Thing He Never Wanted to Be — One thing can be said for the proprietors of the MAGA Mall: They know their brand. — The right-wing-merch retailer's setup was among the most impressive at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference—a gargantuan display …
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Donald Trump's Recipe for Electoral Failure — The former president portrays any attempt to appeal to voters beyond his core base as a sign of weakness. — Despite his preferred approach to politics having been responsible for grievous Republican losses in the last three national elections …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
What is Fox News hiding in the Dominion lawsuit? — A Feb. 16 filing by Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation lawsuit in Delaware against Fox News has kicked up a media firestorm: Outlet after outlet described how internal email and text messages quoted in the document …
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Platformer:
How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday — The high cost of cutting expenses — Twitter's website is breaking in novel new ways — and while the company managed to recover from its latest outage within a couple hours, the story behind how it broke suggests there are likely to be similar problems in the near future.
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Alec Karam / The Daily Beast:
Feds Ensnare Jan. 6 Rioter Dubbed ‘Spider-Nazi’ — Brandon Kelly Dillard donned a Supreme sweatshirt with a spider-web pattern, leading online sleuths to give him the “Spider-Nazi” nickname. — The Jan. 6 rioter dubbed “Spider-Nazi” has gotten himself caught in the FBI's web.
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Alanna Durkin Richer / Associated Press:
2 Capitol riot defendants sought by FBI after disappearing
2 Capitol riot defendants sought by FBI after disappearing
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New York Times:
U.S. Is Said to Consider Reinstating Detention of Migrant Families — President Biden has turned to increasingly restrictive measures as his administration prepares for the end of Title 42, which has allowed border authorities to swiftly expel migrants. — WASHINGTON — The Biden administration …
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Tyler O'Neil / The Daily Signal:
SPLC Lawyer Arrested in Atlanta Molotov Cocktail Riot, Faces Terrorism Charges — A staff attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-leaning civil rights group notorious for branding mainstream conservative and Christians nonprofits “hate groups,” was arrested Sunday on terrorism charges …
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David Klepper / Associated Press:
Digital foot soldiers: Pro-Trump bots swarm DeSantis, Haley — Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump. Besides posting adoring words about the former president …
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
New emails show Dr. Anthony Fauci commissioned scientific paper in Feb. 2020 to disprove Wuhan lab leak theory — New emails uncovered by House Republicans probing the COVID-19 pandemic reveal the deceptive nature of Dr. Anthony Fauci. — They show he “prompted” or commissioned …
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New York Times:
Protests Over Netanyahu's Judiciary Overhaul Spread to Israel's Military — The military leadership is concerned that anger over the government's plan, with some pilots saying they will skip some training sessions and operations, could diminish military capabilities.
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New York Times:
Hope Hicks Meets With Manhattan Prosecutors as Trump Inquiry Intensifies — At least seven witnesses have met with prosecutors in what now appears to be a fast-moving investigation into a 2016 hush-money payment to a porn star. — Hope Hicks, a trusted aide to Donald J. Trump during …
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Trump ethics lawyer facing disbarment after allegedly trying to tamper with Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony — Donald Trump's White House ethics lawyer is looking at seeing his livelihood taken away over accusations that he tried to influence staffer Cassidy Hutchinson from giving truthful testimony to House Jan. 6 investigators.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Group Seeks Disbarment of a Trump-Aligned Lawyer for a Key Jan. 6 Witness
Group Seeks Disbarment of a Trump-Aligned Lawyer for a Key Jan. 6 Witness
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Talking Points Memo and Law & Crime
Tom Lutey / Billings Gazette:
Rosendale calls neo-Nazi photo op a mistake — U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale said he unwittingly posed for a photo with high profile members of the neo-Nazi movement last week walking between congressional hearings. — The photo taken March 1 in front of the Capitol, shows Rosendale posing with Ryan Sanchez …
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Thomas Barrabi / New York Post:
Walmart to close remaining Portland stores as crime-ridden city battles shoplifting wave — Walmart will close its last two stores in crime-plagued Portland, Ore., as the city contends with a relentless wave of shoplifting that has hammered retailers. — The closures, set for March 24 …
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Philippe Naughton / The Daily Beast:
Bodyguards Follow Elon Musk Everywhere at Twitter HQ, Even to Restroom, Says Engineer — CHIEF TWIT — Billionaire Elon Musk is routinely followed around Twitter headquarters by two “bulky” bodyguards—even when he goes to the restroom, according to a Twitter engineer.
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
The Lie Behind Amazon's HQ2 Sweepstakes Becomes Clear — With the company pausing construction on its ‘second headquarters’ in Virginia, we can see the HQ2 bidding war for what it was: a mass intelligence-gathering operation. — Protesters carry anti-Amazon signs during a rally …
Reuters:
California to not do business with Walgreens over abortion pills issue, Governor says — California would not do business with Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA.O), state Governor Gavin Newsom said in a tweet on Monday, days after the pharmacy chain said it will not dispense abortion pills in some Republican states.
Miles Parks / NPR:
3 more Republican states announce they're leaving a key voting data partnership — The Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, is a multi-state partnership that experts across the political spectrum say is the only reliable, secure way for states to share voter registration data with each other.
Damian Carrington / The Guardian:
Revealed: 1,000 super-emitting methane leaks risk triggering climate tipping points — Vast releases of gas, along with future ‘methane bombs’, represent huge threat - but curbing emissions would rapidly reduce global heating — More than 1,000 “super-emitter” sites gushed …
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Vivek Ramaswamy says he received an offer to buy his way into the CPAC straw poll — Shortly after Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur and anti-woke crusader, announced he was seeking the Republican nomination for president, a political consultant with ties to the Conservative Political …
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Ryan Teague Beckwith / Bloomberg:
Trump's Threat of a Third-Party Run Is Undercut by ‘Sore Loser’ Laws — Donald Trump hates losing so much that he has suggested he will mount a third-party campaign if he doesn't win the Republican presidential nomination. — But he can't win that way either, thanks to “sore loser” …
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Kevin B. Blackistone / Washington Post:
Baseball can no longer ignore Ron DeSantis's culture wars — There was a time when America's pastime showed a weariness of Florida's hostile approach to inclusiveness, which in some ways is being reconstituted by its current governor, Ron DeSantis. — It was not necessarily coincidental …
CNN:
4 US citizens were kidnapped by gunmen in Mexico in case of mistaken identity, US official says — Four US citizens were assaulted and kidnapped by gunmen in northeastern Mexico on Friday in a case of mistaken identity, a US official with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.
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Washington Post:
The bewildering descent of Scott Adams and ‘Dilbert’ — ‘I shook the box intentionally,’ Scott Adams told The Post about the comments that prompted newspapers to drop his comic strip — Scott Adams sat for his regular YouTube show last month with a plan to stir a hornet's nest.
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Kirsty Hatcher / People.com:
Michelle Obama Describes Trump's Inauguration from Her Point of View — and Shares Why She Sobbed After — In an exclusive clip from her upcoming Audible podcast, the former first lady reflects on the range of emotions she felt on Jan. 20, 2017 — and addresses the true size of Donald Trump's inauguration crowd
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NBC News:
U.S. transfers Border Patrol agents to northern border as migrant crossings from Canada into U.S. rise — U.S. Customs and Border Protection has detailed 25 extra agents to a busy section of the northern border, effective Monday, as the number of migrants, particularly those from Mexico …
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The Hill, The Western Journal, RedState, The Daily Caller and Breitbart
Tim Miller / The Triad:
CPAC: Taste the Sadness — Go ahead and laugh. They deserve it. — As I pulled into Matt Schlapp's preferred Gaylord Hotel in suburban Washington for the latest rendition of CPAC, ghosts of past selves flashed through my head. I remembered 2015, my last time at the gathering.
Wired:
Inside the Suspicion Machine — Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world. Here, for the first time, we reveal how one of these systems works. — DHRUV MEHROTRA, JUSTIN-CASIMIR BRAUN, EVA CONSTANTARAS, AND GABRIEL GEIGER
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Department of Transportation:
Airline Customer Service Dashboard — Secretary Buttigieg has called upon airlines to improve their customer service commitments to passengers, which all have done to varying degrees. The dashboards below provide information for air travelers on airlines' commitments to families flying …
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Asian Americans, Shifting Right — The new politics of class in America. — The Chinatown area of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, was long a Democratic stronghold. The party's candidates would often receive more than 70 percent of the vote there. Last year, however, the neighborhood underwent a political transformation.
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