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1:05 PM 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 …
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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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
Jon Walker / American Prospect:
The Almost Big F*cking Deal in the COVID Relief Bill  —  The bill corrects the ‘subsidy cliff,’ which made health insurance unaffordable for millions and frustrated reform efforts.  But the fix only lasts two years.  —  Getting rid of the ACA's ‘subsidy cliff’ can open the door to a whole spectrum …
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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
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: spiked and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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
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.
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 …
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
BuzzFeed Announces Deep Cuts To HuffPost Staff After Acquisition  —  BuzzFeed acquired HuffPost from Verizon Media in February.  —  BuzzFeed announced layoffs for the HuffPost newsroom on Tuesday, three weeks after acquiring HuffPost from Verizon Media in February.
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Brood X cicadas are about to put on one of the wildest shows in nature.  And D.C. is the main stage.  —  “We are at the epicenter of an event that happens nowhere else on the planet,” an entomologist said.  “It blows your mind.”  —  They've been buried — alive — for 17 years.
Derrick Bryson Taylor / New York Times:
Maker of Dove Soap Will Drop the Word ‘Normal’ From Beauty Products  —  Unilever, which owns brands like Dove and Sunsilk, said a study had found that the word “normal” makes most people feel excluded.  A spokeswoman said it would remove it from more than 200 products.
Discussion: KYMA-TV and Althouse
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
How to Put Out Democracy's Dumpster Fire  —  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.
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Some GOPers Want To Run An Old Playbook On Vanita Gupta.  It May Not Work This Time.  —  The civil rights leader has a ton of support from law enforcement organizations.  Some Republicans want to paint her as anti-cop anyway.  —  Two decades ago, a former rodeo cowboy went undercover in Tulia, Texas.
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
Reuters:
Republican donations surge despite corporate boycott after Capitol riots  —  (Reuters) - Right after the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, dozens of U.S. companies announced they would halt political donations to the 147 Republican lawmakers who voted to overturn Donald Trump's presidential election loss.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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 …
Tampa Bay Times:
DeSantis' political fortunes a focus of Manatee vaccine event, texts show  —  Text messages between a Manatee County commissioner and a developer show that DeSantis' office asked county officials to bypass its regular selection process in favor of a handpicked list.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
John Nichols / The Nation:
Democrats Refusing to Fight for $15 Are the Best Allies Republicans Have  —  When eight members of the Senate Democratic Caucus blocked a wage hike, they endangered Democratic prospects in 2022.  —  The Republican Party is in chaos.  Defeated former President Donald Trump remains …
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
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
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.
Discussion: Raw Story, Fox News, Insider and Law & Crime
William Turton / Bloomberg:
Ayn Rand Devotee and Never Trumper Drives Parler's Reboot  —  Amy Peikoff is a blogger, lawyer, PhD and unabashed Objectivist  —  A few years ago, a lawyer with a PhD in philosophy named Amy Peikoff appeared on Fox News and defended Amazon.com Inc.'s pay practices.
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Victor Morton / Washington Times:
Sen. Tim Scott: ‘Woke supremacy is as bad as White supremacy’  —  Sen. Tim Scott called the current left-wing control of the culture, and its racial attacks on him and other Black conservatives, comparable to America's history of racism.  —  “Woke supremacy is as bad as White supremacy,” …
Discussion: Fox News
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 …
 
 
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Biden's Justice Dept. already has split from Trump. Merrick Garland will go even further.
Discussion: Instapundit and NPR
Eliza Shapiro / New York Times:
Lawsuit Challenging NYC School Segregation Targets Gifted Programs
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
How Biden's Solidarity Emboldened a Liberal Push for Power in Alabama
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox Corp. chief advances fiction that Fox News is just a mirror image of MSNBC
Discussion: CNN
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The G.O.P. Isn't Going to Split Apart Anytime Soon
Washington Examiner:
The numbers are in, and the states don't need a bailout
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Paul Hannon / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Growth Surge Could Unbalance Fragile Global Economy
Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
Cornel West Leaves Harvard for Union Theological Seminary
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