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Reuters:
Half of Republicans believe false accounts of deadly U.S. Capitol riot: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have pushed false and misleading accounts to downplay the event …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The eruption of fake GOP outrage at MLB is actually very clarifying  —  Opinion by  —  Here's a juxtaposition that neatly captures the state of today's GOP: Republican lawmakers are telling their voters to get angry at corporations that express support for the voting rights of African Americans …
Rep. Matt Gaetz / Washington Examiner:
The swamp is out to drown me with false charges, but I'm not giving up  —  Washington scandal cycles are predictable, and sex is especially potent in politics.  Let me first remind everyone that I am a representative in Congress, not a monk, and certainly not a criminal.
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Katie Hill / Vanity Fair:
Matt Gaetz Defended Me When My Nudes Were Shared Without My Consent.  Now He's Accused of Doing Just That  —  Matt and I forged an unlikely friendship in Congress, and he was one of the few colleagues who spoke out after a malicious nude-photo leak upended my life.
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Gaetz defends himself: I'm ‘not a monk’
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Google wins big in Supreme Court clash with Oracle  —  The dispute was called the “copyright case of the century.”  —  Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.  —  Shwan Thew/EPA via Shutterstock  —  In the multi-billion Supreme Court clash between two titans of tech, Google emerged as the victor on Monday.
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Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Supreme Court erases ruling against Trump over his Twitter account
Discussion: UPI, CBS News and Outside the Beltway
USA Today:
Supreme Court dismisses as moot case questioning Donald Trump's blocking of critics on Twitter
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Bloomberg
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
‘60 Minutes’ Ignores Democrat Governors' Scandals, Invents One About DeSantis  —  As with the pushing of anti-Bush forgeries, CBS News continues to push partisan propaganda at the expense of the truth.  —  Rather than cover actual scandals involving Democrat governors and their botched responses to COVID …
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Sharyn Alfonsi / CBS News:
How the wealthy cut the line during Florida's frenzied vaccine rollout
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Why Is Major League Baseball Expected to Boycott Georgia, While Other Businesses Aren't?  —  This Thursday, the PGA Tour and Masters Tournament will begin in Augusta, Ga., despite the National Black Justice Coalition calling upon the PGA Tour and Masters Tournament to pull the upcoming event …
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U.S. Senator for Florida, Marco Rubio:
Rubio Asks MLB Commissioner if He'll Give Up Augusta Golf Membership
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Arkansas Online:
Governor vetoes transgender bill, calls measure a ‘product of the cultural war’  —  Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Monday afternoon he vetoed a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth.  —  Hutchinson, a Republican, said he believed House Bill 1570 interfered with the relationship between doctors and patients.
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
Arkansas Gov. vetoes bill banning gender-affirming care for trans kids, calling it “extreme”
Discussion: The Hill
republicanleader.senate.gov:
McConnell: Corporations Shouldn't Fall for Absurd Disinformation on Voting Laws  —  'There is no consistent or factual standard being applied here.  It's just a fake narrative gaining speed by its own momentum... Businesses must not use economic blackmail to spread disinformation and push bad ideas …
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Corporations gave over $50M to voting restriction backers  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — When executives from Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines spoke out against Georgia's new voting law as unduly restrictive last week, it seemed to signal a new activism springing from corporate America.
Discussion: The Root, Daily Kos and Common Dreams
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The New York Times Company:
Frank Bruni Stepping Down as Columnist; Named Endowed Chair at Duke University  —  Frank is joining Duke University as an endowed chair in journalism in June.  He will no longer be a columnist but will continue to write his newsletter and will remain a contributing Opinion writer.
Discussion: The Hill
Washington Post:
A QAnon revelation suggests the truth of Q's identity was right there all along  —  The extremist movement's leader had purported to be a top-secret government operative.  But a possible slip-up in a new documentary about QAnon suggests that Q was actually Ron Watkins, the longtime administrator of the 8kun message board.
Discussion: Raw Story and Althouse
New York Times:
White Evangelical Resistance Is Obstacle in Vaccination Effort  —  Millions of white evangelical adults in the U.S. do not intend to get vaccinated against Covid-19.  Tenets of faith and mistrust of science play a role; so does politics.  —  Stephanie Nana, an evangelical Christian in Edmond …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Facebook pledged to suspend political donations, then quietly funneled $50,000 to GOP group pushing voter suppression laws  —  On January 11, Facebook announced that “following last week's awful violence” it was suspending donations from its political committee “for at least the current quarter, while we review our policies.”
Bloomberg:
Manchin Balks at Biden's Corporate Tax Increase, Favors 25% Rate  — Key lawmaker threatens to complicate infrastructure plans  — ‘As the bill exists today, it needs to be changed,’ he says  —  President Joe Biden's $2.25 trillion economic plan ran into trouble Monday with a key Senate Democrat …
Discussion: The Hill, New York Post, Forbes, IJR and Townhall
Ryan Mills / National Review:
Small-Time Landlords Struggle to Keep the Lights on as ‘Devastating’ Eviction Moratorium Continues  —  Stephanie Graves had a decision to make: buy new signage so she could open the pool at one of her apartment complexes, or pay the electric bill.  She couldn't afford both.  —  Ultimately, it wasn't a hard decision.
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
‘The 45th’: Why Trump is abandoning his iconic brand for a number  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump spent a lifetime putting his name on steaks to skyscrapers to stimulus checks, but now, the former president appears to be replacing the gold-plated surname with a number: 45.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans Love Infrastructure, Unless It's Paid For, or Not Paid For  —  Republican Senators say they would love to pass a big infrastructure bill.  They are publicly begging Joe Biden to stop his partisan strategy and sit down with them to negotiate a bill both parties can support.
Nick Paton Walsh / CNN:
Satellite images show huge Russian military buildup in the Arctic  —  (CNN)Russia is amassing unprecedented military might in the Arctic and testing its newest weapons in a region freshly ice-free due to the climate emergency, in a bid to secure its northern coast and open up a key shipping route from Asia to Europe.
Washington Post:
Time back home with voters only emboldens Republicans to oppose Biden's agenda  —  A lifelong railroad aficionado, 74-year-old retiree Tony Benz has volunteered for nearly two decades helping passengers at the Amtrak station in the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood, Mo.
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Cheney snags victories ahead of her next battle with Trumpworld  —  Rep. Liz Cheney took on the Trump wing of her party and survived its attempt to politically kneecap her.  But it's only the beginning of what looks like a yearslong fight for her place in the GOP.
Discussion: Washington Post and Breitbart
Lara Jakes / New York Times:
Gayle Smith, who helped lead the U.S. response to Ebola, will run Biden's vaccine diplomacy.  —  An ardent advocate of protecting some of the world's poorest countries from Covid-19 has been selected to lead the Biden administration's vaccine diplomacy, which will be a new post at the State Department.
Discussion: The Week
Newsweek:
McDonald's, Other CEOs Tell Investors $15 Minimum Wage Won't Hurt Business  —  Big restaurant chains are telling investors that a national minimum wage hike wouldn't be a big deal—even as their corporate lobbying groups in Washington fight plans for a $15 minimum wage.
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Philly may have just revolutionized evictions |  Editorial  —  Philadelphia is on the verge of upending evictions as we know them.Last Wednesday, the Municipal Court of Philadelphia, which houses landlord-tenant court, released a new order following the extension of the CDC's nationwide eviction moratorium through June.
Karen Weise / New York Times:
Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds  —  The two employees had publicly pushed the company to reduce its impact on climate change and address concerns about its warehouse workers.  —  SEATTLE — Amazon illegally retaliated against two of its most prominent internal critics …
 
 
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Kate Gibson / CBS News:
Feds propose banning foreclosures across U.S. until 2022
Discussion: Political Wire
Daniel Kreiss / Wired:
Polarization Isn't America's Biggest Problem—or Facebook's
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg / The Appeal:
D.A.s Are Asking Biden to End the Death Penalty. But Some Are Still Wielding It Themselves
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
The pandemic crime surge is a policing problem
David Roth / Defector:
Private Choices Have Public Consequences
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Jewish Currents:
How Not to Fight Antisemitism  —  Responsa is an editorial column written by members …
Tyler Buchanan / Ohio Capital Journal:
Ohio politicians condemned for pandemic comparisons to Nazi Germany
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Biden and the waning of the ‘neoliberal’ era
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Exclusive: Soros group pledges $20 million to pass Biden plan
Discussion: Fox News, Newsbusters and Breitbart
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Study: Republican control of state government is bad for democracy
Discussion: Raw Story
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
An Extraordinary Winning Streak for Religion at the Supreme Court
 

 
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