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vpr.org:
He's In For 2020: Bernie Sanders Is Running For President Again  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders has confirmed to VPR that he is seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
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vpr.org:
He's In For 2020: Bernie Sanders Is Running For President Again … Sen. Bernie Sanders has confirmed to VPR that he is seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.  —  His official announcement video is expected to stream online Tuesday morning.  —  “I wanted to let the people …
Discussion: Common Dreams and FiveThirtyEight
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Announces 2020 Presidential Run  —  Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent and 2016 Democratic primary runner-up whose populist policy agenda has helped push the party to the left, announced on Tuesday that he was running for president again, embarking on a bid …
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Sen. Bernie Sanders will seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, whose 2016 presidential campaign grew from a left-wing insurgency to a force that reshaped the Democratic Party, announced Tuesday that he will seek its nomination for president again in 2020.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Balloon Juice
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
Bernie Sanders announces 2020 run: “We're gonna win”  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont, announced Tuesday he is launching a bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, hoping to reignite the ardent progressive support of his insurgent 2016 campaign.
Discussion: Okayplayer and The Source
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:   Bernie Sanders enters 2020 presidential race: ‘Complete the revolution’
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:   Bernie Sanders's 2020 policy agenda: Medicare for All; action on climate change; $15 an hour minimum wage
John DiStaso / WMUR:
Key Bernie Sanders supporter says presidential announcement coming Tuesday
Washington Post:   Sen. Bernie Sanders, Democrats' 2016 runner-up, to make another presidential bid
Melissa Brown / The Montgomery Advertiser:
Alabama newspaper editor calls for Klan return to ‘clean out D.C.’  —  The editor of a small-town Alabama newspaper published an editorial calling for “the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again” against “Democrats in the Republican Party and Democrats [who] are plotting to raise taxes in Alabama.”
Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
Adam Schiff: The Jussie Smollett of Trump-Russia Collusion  —  He helped conceive a hoax so outlandish that only the most gullible, craven, or witless person could believe it.  —  The attack, as he called it, allegedly was executed by mysterious and politically motivated thugs with the intent to inflict harm.
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Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
On January 29, Two Hate Crimes Occurred.  The Media Only Covered The Fake One.  Here's Why.  —  On January 29, 2019, Chicago Police opened a hate crime investigation into the alleged assault of Empire actor Jussie Smollett.  Smollett, who is black and gay, alleged that two men approached …
Discussion: New York Times
Byron York / Washington Examiner:   Much talk that something is up with Mueller. Too bad nobody knows.
Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein expected to leave Justice Department in mid-March  —  (CNN)Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expected to leave the Justice Department in mid-March, according to a Justice Department official who spoke to CNN Monday.  —  The official disputed the idea …
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Washington Post:
Trump suggests Rosenstein, McCabe are ‘treasonous,’ citing Fox News  —  President Trump suggested Monday night that former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe committed treason, making his case in a tweet that cited Fox News's Sean Hannity, hours after lobbing similar claims at Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein.
Discussion: Politico, NBC News, Axios and The Week
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Rosenstein plans to leave Justice Department next month
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Howard Schultz:
Our path  —  Howard SchultzBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing  —  It's been three weeks since we began this journey with the launch of my new book on 60 Minutes and the announcement that I am seriously considering running for president as a centrist independent.  The reaction has been beyond any expectation I had.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Howard Schultz's 2020 promise: “I will do nothing to re-elect Donald Trump”
New York Times:
16 States Sue to Stop Trump's Use of Emergency Powers to Build Border Wall  —  WASHINGTON — A coalition of 16 states, including California and New York, on Monday challenged President Trump in court over his plan to use emergency powers to spend billions of dollars on his border wall.
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The Daily Caller:
Don Trump Jr. Slams Instagram After Smollett Post Deleted: 'Why Don't You Want The Truth Out There?'  —  Donald Trump, Jr. slammed Instagram on Monday after he said the social media platform forced him to delete a post he made about reports that Jussie Smollett's alleged attack might have been staged.
Discussion: The Wrap and CBS Chicago
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CBS Chicago:
Jussie Smollett Case: Clues Into Potential Motive Behind The Attack
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Andrew McCabe Couldn't Believe the Things Trump Said About Putin  —  In the months before President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, FBI counterintelligence agents investigating Russian election interference were also collecting evidence suggesting that Trump could be compromised by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Elizabeth Warren To Unveil Sweeping Plan For Universal Child Care  —  The proposal could put the issue on top of the 2020 campaign agenda.  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will unveil a major new initiative on Tuesday designed to make sure every family can afford high-quality child care …
Discussion: Axios
BuzzFeed News:
Roger Stone Posted A Photo Of The Judge Presiding Over His Case Next To Crosshairs  —  Roger Stone, a longtime Republican operative and adviser to President Donald Trump who was charged with lying to Congress, posted a photo Monday on Instagram of a judge presiding over his case in which she appears to be next to a crosshairs symbol.
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David French / National Review:
Stephen Miller's Own Words Show the Weakness of the Trump Legal Argument on the Wall  —  One of the first rules of effective litigation is that you don't want your client to make statements out loud that reveal the weakness of your legal case.  On Sunday morning, Trump adviser Stephen Miller violated that rule.
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Whiny feminism on display
Bret Hayworth / Sioux City Journal:
Steve King urges crowd to pray for Kevin McCarthy to restore committee assignments  —  ROCK RAPIDS, Iowa — In front of another friendly audience Monday, U.S. Rep. Steve King urged his supporters to pray for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to restore King's committee assignments …
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Europe to Mike Pence: No, Thank You  —  The Trump administration manages to turn Germans into Gaullists, ready to flirt with Russia and contemplate strategic independence.  —  MUNICH — A French ambassador observed to me that, “The Trump Administration has achieved the extraordinary feat of turning the Germans into Gaullists.”
Molly Hensley-Clancy / BuzzFeed News:
Kamala Harris Says She'd Support Changing “Columbus Day” To “Indigenous Peoples' Day”  —  PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Sen. Kamala Harris told a crowd Monday that she would push for the federal government to rename Columbus Day “Indigenous Peoples' Day,” a focal point for some progressives who say the holiday …
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
CBS's Lara Logan Calls Media ‘Mostly Liberal’ in Scorched Earth Interview: I'm Committing ‘Professional Suicide’  —  In a recent interview, CBS News Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan critiqued the international “liberal” media while holding up outlets like Breitbart as the opposite side of the coin.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
‘Are you with us?’:  Bloomberg calls in his chits  —  From shuttering coal-fired power plants to fighting the gun lobby, obesity and Big Tobacco, Michael Bloomberg's philanthropy has given away $6.4 billion and earned the love and respect of progressive-minded activists across the country.
Discussion: Splinter
 
 
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Tanya Snyder / Politico:
Emails reveal coordination between Chao, McConnell offices
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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Trump the pundit handicaps 2020 Democratic contenders
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Washington Post:
‘He just picks up’: Trump and the lawmakers he loves to talk to on the phone
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Billy Perrigo / TIME:
How This Politician Put Britain at the Forefront of the War Against Facebook
Jacqueline Klimas / Politico:
Trump to approve lean Space Force
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Politico
Axios:
Republicans want to push “socialism vs. freedom” as an opening 2020 message
New York Times:
The Democrats and Israel  —  The Democratic Party has a long history …
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Here's A List Of Hoax ‘Hate Crimes’ In The Trump Era
Discussion: RedState and The Federalist
Philg / Philip Greenspun's Weblog:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes an anti-immigration position?
Ian Austen / New York Times:
Justin Trudeau's Political Crisis Widens as Top Aide and Friend Resigns
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
What America really needs to do is abolish Congress
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Post.News, the news-focused social platform launched in 2022 that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow “fast enough”

Ruth La Ferla / New York Times:
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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