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11:10 AM ET, February 7, 2021

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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Liz Cheney Says GOP Shouldn't Be ‘Embracing’ Trump: ‘Does Not Have a Role as the Leader of Our Party Going Forward’  —  As Liz Cheney defended her impeachment vote on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace asked her about the current state of the Republican party.  —  Wallace brought up the two issues …
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Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Cheney on Trump impeachment vote: 'The oath I took ... doesn't bend to partisanship'  —  Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is standing by her vote to impeach former President Trump, saying on Sunday that despite Republican backlash, she felt “compelled” to support impeachment.
Mead Gruver / Associated Press:
Wyoming GOP censures Rep. Liz Cheney over impeachment vote
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Democrats' big shift in Trump's second impeachment  —  Democrats made a push for witnesses central to President Donald Trump's first impeachment trial.  But not this time.  —  Senate Democrats are making it clear they're taking a different approach than they did for Trump's infamous Ukraine call.
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Majority of Americans say Trump should be convicted, barred from holding federal office in impeachment trial: POLL  —  The Senate is set to begin Trump's second impeachment trial on Tuesday.  —  2nd Impeachment Trial: What this could mean for Trump  —  Donald Trump will be the first president …
Discussion: The Hill, Bloomberg and Political Wire
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Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Two-thirds of Americans approve of Biden's COVID-19 response: POLL
Discussion: Ipsos
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Analysis: The end of the road for Lou Dobbs  —  (CNN)Nothing unusual happened when Lou Dobbs hosted his Fox Business show on Thursday evening.  His hour was full of Fox's usual themes about “radical Dims” (Democrats) and Big Tech “abusing their power.”  —  “Join us here tomorrow,” he said at the end of the show.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Lawsuits Take the Lead in Fight Against Disinformation  —  Defamation cases have made waves across an uneasy right-wing media landscape, from Fox to Newsmax.  —  In just a few weeks, lawsuits and legal threats from a pair of obscure election technology companies have achieved what years …
Zachary Petrizzo / Mediaite:   Lou Dobbs Retweets Daily Beast Reporter Trolling Him In Donald Trump's Voice
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
How San Francisco Renamed Its Schools  —  Last month, San Francisco's Board of Education voted, 6-1, to change the names of forty-four schools, including schools named after Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.  A committee formed by the board in 2018, in the wake of the white-supremacist rally …
Zachary Petrizzo / Mediaite:
WATCH: Mike Lindell Has Sudden ‘Epiphany’ And Says He Will Sue Dominion And Smartmatic  —  MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell pledged on Saturday to take legal action against voting technology companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic if they don't agree to meet with him about his Absolute Proof documentary …
Washington Post:
‘An easy choice’: Inside Biden's decision to go it alone with Democrats on coronavirus relief … Partway through a two-hour Oval Office meeting with President Biden about his coronavirus relief package, several Republican senators thought they might have finally reached a breakthrough.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘The Democratic version of John McCain’
Discussion: HuffPost and NPR
Emily Brooks / Washington Examiner:   Warren has new Senate committee perch to Democrats further left
Lawrence Summers / Washington Post:
My column on the stimulus sparked a lot of questions.  Here are my answers.  —  My recent Post column — admiring the ambition of the Biden stimulus bill, while identifying some possible risks — generated discussion and a number of questions that I did not directly answer in the piece itself …
Discussion: Politico and HuffPost
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
I Spent 11 Hours Inside the MAGA Bubble  —  Last Monday in Washington, the news was President Joe Biden's attempt to pass a massive $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package through Congress, the agita over Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's old Facebook posts calling for the assassination of Democratic leaders, the coup in Myanmar.
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox News
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Senior Democrats to unveil new $3,000-per-child benefit as Biden stimulus gains steam  —  Under the proposal, the Internal Revenue Service would begin sending $250 per month to millions of families in July  —  Senior Democrats on Monday will unveil legislation to provide $3,000 per child …
Wall Street Journal:
As Covid-19 Vaccines Raise Hope, Cold Reality Dawns That Illness Is Likely Here to Stay  —  Ease of transmission, new strains, limits of vaccination programs all mean Covid-19 will be around for years—and a big business  —  Vaccination drives hold out the promise of curbing Covid-19 …
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
How Lindsay Graham's Petty Partisan Decision Stalled the DOJ  —  At the center of the imbroglio is a figure who is accustomed to being collateral damage of partisan warfare on Capitol Hill: Merrick Garland.  —  What first seemed like a petty partisan power play in the U.S. Senate has escalated …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jerry Lambe / Law & Crime:
Judge Orders OAN to Pay Rachel Maddow and MSNBC $250,000 in Attorney Fees For Filing Frivolous Defamation Lawsuit  —  A federal judge in California has ordered Herring Networks, the parent company of far-right conservative media organization One America News Network (OAN) …
Melissa Klein / New York Post:
NYC's COVID vaccine hubs are ghost towns as DOH mum on distribution  —  The city's 15 vaccination hubs were ghost towns last Saturday, and the city Department of Health is refusing to reveal just how bad distribution went.  —  One DOH staffer stationed at the Hillcrest High School hub in Queens on Jan. 30 said he did nothing all day.
John Harwood / CNN:
Biden needs to figure out what kind of GOP opposition he's facing  —  Ex-GOP gubernatorial candidate: I can't be a Republican anymore  —  (CNN)The collision of the new President's agenda with the old one's impeachment trial this week sharpens the question: Just what kind of Republican opposition does …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
They may be at odds now.  But Trump and CNN's Jeff Zucker have always had one thing in common.  —  Just a few years ago, CNN seemed intent on giving Donald Trump as much help as possible for his presidential run.  —  The network obsessively covered the candidate's raucous speeches in the Republican presidential primary.
Celine Castronuovo / The Hill:
Twitter permanently suspends Gateway Pundit founder's account  —  Twitter on Saturday issued a permanent suspension for the account run by Jim Hoft, founder and editor-in-chief of far-right news website Gateway Pundit, for violations of its “civic integrity policy.”
Financial Times:
Oxford/AstraZeneca jab fails to prevent mild and moderate Covid from S African strain, study shows  —  Impact on hospitalisations and deaths caused by variant not yet determined, according to preliminary findings  —  The Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine does not appear to offer protection …
Discussion: Al Jazeera, The Sun and Balloon Juice
CNN:
Fake N95 masks have flooded the market.  Here's how to tell the difference  —  (CNN)There's one mask guideline that hasn't changed throughout the pandemic — you definitely should be wearing one.  —  But what happens when you're not sure if your mask is real?
Claire Anderson / The College Fix:
Facebook censors Catholic professor's book on ‘toxic femininity’  —  Told seller that it violated a rule against selling ‘adult products’  —  Facebook has censored posts promoting a book from a Catholic professor that criticized feminism.  —  Facebook removed posts that advertised …
Discussion: Breitbart
 
 
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New York Times:
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Discussion: The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
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Michael Tarm / Associated Press:
Big challenge: Biden is pressed to end federal death penalty
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
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National Review:
Democrats Will Regret Their Move against Marjorie Taylor Greene
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