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11:50 AM ET, March 9, 2021

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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Biden German Shepherd has aggressive incident and is sent back to Delaware  —  Washington (CNN)The two German Shepherds belonging to President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden were returned to the Biden family home in Delaware last week after aggressive behavior at the White House involving Major Biden …
Washington Post:
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was in direct contact with rioters before and during Capitol breach, U.S. alleges  —  U.S. prosecutors alleged Monday that Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was in direct contact before, during and immediately after the Jan. 6 Capitol breach …
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Washington Post:
Man charged in Capitol riot is linked to Oath Keepers, seen with Roger Stone on Jan. 6, prosecutors say
Patrick Freyne / The Irish Times:
Harry and Meghan: The union of two great houses, the Windsors and the Celebrities, is complete  —  Patrick Freyne: After Harry and Meghan, the monarchy looks archaic and racist.  Well duh  — Video  — Images  —  Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle have hit out at the British monarchy …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and spiked
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
‘Bad news’: Wave of GOP retirements signals battles ahead  —  This is not the way Republicans wanted to begin the year.  —  Missouri's Roy Blunt on Monday became the fifth Republican senator to announce he will not seek reelection, a retirement wave that portends an ugly campaign season next year …
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   Blunt's retirement deals blow to McConnell inner circle
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
What the GOP voting restrictions actually do vs. what proponents claim  —  “The ultimate voter suppression is a very large swath of the electorate not having faith in our election systems,” Iowa state Rep. Bobby Kaufmann (R) said recently, as his state joined many others in taking up new voting restrictions.
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Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Georgia Republicans Pass the Most Restrictive Voting Laws Since Jim Crow
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Making Senators Orate Won't Blunt the Filibuster  —  Can obstructionism be deterred by forcing politicians to give long speeches?  The question answers itself.  —  Oy, Frank Capra.  We're back to chattering about the “talking” filibuster — the idea that filibusters should be performed …
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David Litt / The Atlantic:   We Already Got Rid of the Filibuster Once Before
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Bush and Clinton portraits are back on display in White House's Grand Foyer  —  Washington (CNN)The White House has rehung the official presidential portraits of former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton after they were removed last July during the Trump administration, an official tells CNN.
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Emily Goodin / Daily Mail:
White House returns portraits of Bill Clinton and George W Bush to prominent place in foyer after Trump hid them in room used for storage
Discussion: Fox News
Howard Gleckman / TaxVox:
Pandemic Bill Would Cut Taxes by An Average of $3,000, With Most Relief Going to Low- And Middle-Income Households  —  According to a new analysis by the Tax Policy Center, the Senate version of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) would reduce federal taxes in 2021 by an average of $3,000 and raise after-tax incomes by 3.8 percent.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC brushes back Trump team on cease-and-desist demand  —  The Republican National Committee is denying a cease-and-desist demand from Donald Trump's attorneys, who asked the party organization to stop using the former president's name and likeness in fundraising appeals.
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Newlines Institute:
The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China's Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention
Discussion: The National Pulse
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
House Democrats end controversial consultant ban  —  House Democrats' campaign arm is officially ending its controversial ban on political consultants who work with candidates challenging sitting Democratic incumbents in primaries, clinching a major victory for progressives.
Discussion: The Hill
Laura Reiley / Washington Post:
Relief bill is most significant legislation for Black farmers since Civil Rights Act, experts say  —  $5 billion would go to farmers of color, who have lost 90 percent of their land over the past century because of systemic discrimination and a cycle of debt
Discussion: Bloomberg, Civil Eats and fb.org
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
The Internet Doesn't Have to Be Awful  —  This article was published online on March 8, 2021.  —  To read the diary of Gustave de Beaumont, the traveling companion of Alexis de Tocqueville, is to understand just how primitive the American wilderness once seemed to visiting Frenchmen.
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Rare trial of U.S. journalist arrested on the job begins in Iowa  —  Prosecutors in Iowa began their case Monday against a Des Moines Register reporter arrested during racial justice protests last summer, in a rare trial of a U.S. journalist charged with a crime while reporting.
Mark Joyella / Forbes:
Politico's Eugene Daniels: ‘We Are Changing Who Is Allowed To Talk About Politics And Who Is Allowed At The Table’  —  Eugene Daniels says he's a “big, huge history nerd and a big news nerd,” and last fall he told his bosses at Politico what he wanted to do after the 2020 election.
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Dan Crenshaw Decided Pandemic Was Perfect Time to Buy and Not Disclose Stocks  —  “Members of Congress should not be actively trading securities in the middle of a crisis,” said Ben Edwards, a securities law expert at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Pam Belluck / New York Times:
Many ‘Long Covid’ Patients Had No Symptoms From Their Initial Infection  —  An analysis of electronic medical records in California found that 32 percent started with asymptomatic infections but reported troubling aftereffects weeks and months later.  —  Many people who experience long-term symptoms …
Ben Montgomery / Axios:
DeSantis faces deepening controversy over vaccines for ultra-rich Florida community  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said “the state was not involved” in helping to vaccinate 1,200 residents of the super-rich Ocean Reef community in January.  — But both the hospital system that supplied …
Discussion: Raw Story
Zachary Faria / Washington Examiner:
Identity-obsessed liberals and social justice are the roots of ‘cancel culture’  —  “Cancel culture” is the popular phrase of the times, with everything from Dr. Seuss books to cartoon characters being forced out of circulation.  But cancel culture is simply the next logical point in the brain rot …
Discussion: Mediaite, Breitbart and RedState
Rachel Cohrs / STAT:
With the ear of Joe Manchin, West Virginia hospitals helped secure billions in new Covid relief funds  —  WASHINGTON — West Virginia University Health System doesn't have the name recognition of the Mayo Clinic or Massachusetts General Hospital.  It doesn't have the lobbying firepower in Washington, either.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Biden taps another Big Tech trustbuster  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — President JOE BIDEN has decided to nominate LINA KHAN, a Columbia University legal scholar championed by anti-Big Tech activists, to the Federal Trade Commission.
Paul Gowder / Chronicle of Higher Education:
Humanists, Want to Attack Originalism?  Learn About Law.  —  A recent effort to debunk the legal theory misses badly.  —  THE REVIEW … Originalism Has Many Problems.  Its Imagined Religious Origin Is Not Among Them.  —  By Paul Gowder  —  A  —  dam Shapiro's unfortunate effort …
The Daily Beast:
Inside Team Trump's New Plot to Suppress the Vote Under Biden  —  Multiple state-level efforts to curb voting have made Democrats' consideration of voting rights legislation in Congress, like H.R. 1, feel even more urgent.  —  Donald Trump has made it clear that he wants election crackdowns …
Paul Hannon / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Growth Surge Could Unbalance Fragile Global Economy  —  OECD doubles its growth forecast for world's largest economy; warns that surge could suck capital away from faltering emerging markets  —  The U.S. will drive a sharp rebound in the world economy this year, but the strength …
USA Today:
CDC misinterpreted our research on opening schools.  It should loosen the rules now  —  Keeping schools closed or even partially closed, based on what we know now is harming children.  —  “The only thing we have to fear is...fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror …
Leana Wen / Washington Post:
The CDC is missing a critical opportunity to get Americans vaccinated  —  After much delay, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued interim guidance on Monday for what fully vaccinated people can do.  While some guidance is better than no guidance, the guidelines are too timid and too limited …
New York Times:
Publisher Halts Promotion of Cuomo Book, Citing Nursing Homes Inquiry  —  “American Crisis” was supposed to be a triumphant account of New York's coronavirus fight.  But as scandals swirl, sales have dramatically slowed.  —  The publisher of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's book on his leadership during …
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
House Democrats introducing bill to limit transfer of military-grade gear to police  —  Dozens of House lawmakers are reintroducing a bill Tuesday to limit the Pentagon program that sends military-grade equipment to local police departments.  —  The bill, sponsored by Rep. Hank Johnson …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
New York Times:
Biden Faces Challenge From Surge of Migrants at the Border  —  The president's promise of a more humane policy is being tested as more unaccompanied children seek to enter the United States from Mexico.  —  WASHINGTON — Thousands of migrant children are backed up in United States detention facilities along …
 
 
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox Corp. chief advances fiction that Fox News is just a mirror image of MSNBC
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Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
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Washington Examiner:
The numbers are in, and the states don't need a bailout
Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
Cornel West Leaves Harvard for Union Theological Seminary
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