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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Trashes Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: 'He's Not Just a Pig, He's Stupid'  —  On Thursday, Tucker Carlson slammed Gen. Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, calling him “a pig” and “stupid.”  —  The Fox News host took particular issue with Milley's testimony …
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:   Trump Wanted Military to ‘Beat the F*ck’ Out of George Floyd Protesters, ‘Just Shoot Them,’ Says New Book
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Graham: Biden made GOP look like ‘f—ing idiots’  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION — President JOE BIDEN, Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER and Speaker NANCY PELOSI unveiled a rather daring new strategy Thursday for getting the president's agenda passed.
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National Review:
Republicans Shouldn't Fall for Biden's Infrastructure Charade  —  Last month, we warned Republicans about the pitfalls of indulging President Biden's infrastructure fantasies.  The bipartisan framework announced Thursday isn't causing us to change our mind.
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. to file lawsuit against state of Georgia over new voting restrictions  —  The Justice Department will file a federal lawsuit Friday against the state of Georgia for its efforts to enact new voting restrictions that federal authorities allege discriminate against Black Americans …
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Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Justice Department Is Suing Georgia Over Voter Suppression Law  —  Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.  —  In its first major action to combat GOP voter suppression laws …
ProPublica:
New Details Suggest Senior Trump Aides Knew Jan. 6 Rally Could Get Chaotic  —  Text messages and interviews show that Stop the Steal leaders fooled the Capitol police and welcomed racists to increase their crowd sizes, while White House officials worked to both contain and appease them.
New York Times:
Pence, Diverging From Trump, Says He Was ‘Proud’ to Certify Election  —  In a speech, former Vice President Mike Pence went the furthest he has gone yet in distancing himself from Donald Trump and the Capitol riot.  But he still praised the former president and his agenda.
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Zachary Evans / National Review:
Pence ‘Proud’ of Rejecting ‘Un-American’ Demand That He Overturn Election Results  —  Former vice president Mike Pence said he would remain “proud” that he and members of Congress completed the certification of the Electoral College results, in remarks at the Reagan Library on Thursday evening.
Discussion: CNN, Bloomberg, Washington Post and CBS News
Quint Forgey / Politico:
‘Almost no idea more un-American’: Pence breaks with Trump on Jan. 6
New York Times:
They Seemed Like Democratic Activists.  They Were Secretly Conservative Spies.  —  Operatives infiltrated progressive groups across the West to try to manipulate politics and reshape the national electoral map.  They targeted moderate Republicans, too — anyone seen as threats to hard-line conservatives.
Politico:
Trump set to reemerge on the trail with revenge on his mind  —  Former President Donald Trump is bronzed, rested and politically bloodthirsty.  —  Having spent months in semi-retirement after his election loss in 2020, Trump is set this weekend to kick off a series of political events.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Daniel McGraw / The Bulwark:
Brace Yourself: Trump Starts Up His Rallies Again This Weekend
Discussion: Raw Story and MSN
Felix Salmon / Axios:
America's continued move toward socialism  —  Just half of younger Americans now hold a positive view of capitalism — and socialism's appeal in the U.S. continues to grow, driven by Black Americans and women, according to a new Axios/Momentive poll.  —  Why it matters: The pandemic …
Discussion: Reason and The Daily Caller
USA Today:
Florida building collapse: At least 4 people dead, 159 unaccounted for; ‘We still have hope that we will find people alive,’ mayor says  —  Elinor Aspegren Ryan W. Miller Wendy RhodesUSA TODAY … SURFSIDE, Fla. — Almost 160 people are unaccounted for Friday morning, a day after a 12-story …
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CNN:
More than 50 unaccounted for in deadly Surfside, Florida, building collapse, official says
Thomas Page McBee / New York Times:
What I Saw in My First 10 Years on Testosterone  —  Mr. McBee is the author of “Amateur: A Reckoning With Gender, Identity, and Masculinity” and “Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness, and Becoming a Man.”  He writes for TV and film.  —  Ten years ago this month …
Discussion: KVIA-TV
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
Obama and the Broken Nation He Made Come Of Age  —  A generation doesn't remember life before the crises he created.  —  Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Florida cracks down on Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn's “deceptive” fundraising  —  A nonprofit run by the former president's lawyer Sidney Powell, pardoned felon former National Security Advisor Gen. Michael T. Flynn, and Flynn's brother Joseph all just got hit with an Administrative Complaint by Florida's statewide charity regulator.
Jackson Richman / Washington Examiner:
Chicago Dyke March chooses antisemitic hate  —  The Chicago Dyke March, on Saturday, is not about promoting Pride but rather a far-left agenda that includes antisemitism.  —  One poster promoting the event includes a woman standing on top of a burning police car while holding burning American and Israeli flags.
Discussion: Algemeiner.com
Ali Breland / Mother Jones:
How Amazon Bullies, Manipulates, and Lies to Reporters  —  Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.  —  It was a slow news day at Gizmodo, the tech website where Dell Cameron worked.
Associated Press:
Nearly all COVID deaths in US are now among unvaccinated  —  Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren't vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been and an indication that deaths per day — now down to under 300 — could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the vaccine.
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Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
White farmer wins court relief from race-based Biden farm-aid program  —  The racially biased relief programs buried in the American Rescue Plan continue to fall like dominos.  The latest challenge to the $4B farm relief fund arose in Florida, where a white farmer named Scott Wynn went …
Discussion: UPI and NBC News
John Rose / Wall Street Journal:
How I Liberated My College Classroom  —  I created a special seminar to discuss controversial issues freely, and the results were eye-opening.  —  Durham, N.C.  —  The conservative critique of American higher education is well known to Journal readers: The universities are run by intolerant progressives.
Kyle Sammin / The Federalist:
Censuring China Would Help The Earth Far More Than Banning Steak, Gasoline, And Cow Flatulence  —  Every hindrance on industry made in the name of the Earth is a lie if it does not include similar restrictions on imports from countries without laws like ours.
U.S. Department of Justice:
Illinois Man Arrested for Assault on Law Enforcement, and First to be Arrested for Assault on Members of News Media during Jan. 6 Capitol Breach  —  Defendant Tripped and Pushed Officer to the Ground, Breached Media Staging Area and Tackled Cameraman  —  An Illinois man was arrested today …
Jon Styf / Washington Examiner:
Tennessee locales rank poorly in analysis of best-run cities  —  A new report from WalletHub ranks Chattanooga, Tennessee, as the fourth-worst run large city in the country, behind Washington, D.C., San Francisco and New York.  —  Not far behind, at No. 133, was Memphis while Knoxville was 113th and Nashville ranked 111th.
 
 
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Adam Sabes / Campus Reform the #1 Source …:
EXCLUSIVE: UNC Wilmington prof posts ‘Blow Up Republicans’ on Facebook
Andrea Mitchell / MSNBC:
Officer Fanone: Saying Jan. 6 was like a tourist visit is ‘just an out and out lie’
Discussion: The Hill
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Biden Doesn't Have an Answer to America's Crime Spike
Courtney Mares / Catholic News Agency:
Vatican ‘foreign minister’ doubts speaking out on Hong Kong ‘would make any difference whatever’
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How to call the GOP's bluff on its ‘election integrity’ talking point
Discussion: New Republic and New Yorker
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Democrats need to show they can be trusted with power
Dan De Luce / NBC News:
Even the Taliban are surprised at how fast they're advancing in Afghanistan
Discussion: CNN
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Yascha Mounk / Persuasion:
The Perils of 180ism  —  Stop blindly opposing your adversaries.  Stick to your values and think for yourself.
Rogerlsimon / theepochtimes.com:
No Joke: Joy Behar Reveals Hidden Truth of Leftist Bigotry
Discussion: Instapundit
New York Times:
U.S. to Search Former Native American Schools for Children's Remains
Lindsay Kornick / Fox News:
Biden's bizarre behavior at press conference causes ‘Creepy Joe’ to trend on Twitter
Matt Fuller / The Daily Beast:
Congressmen Squirm as ‘World-Class Sleazeball’ Gaetz Continues to Roam
Discussion: Raw Story
Caity Weaver / New York Times:
Meetings.  Why?  —  Does this conversation need to be a meeting?  Does anything?