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Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Rep. Mo Brooks says he can't be sued for inciting Capitol riot because he is a federal employee  —  Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) has asked to be dismissed from a federal lawsuit alleging that he incited the Jan. 6 mob assault on the U.S. Capitol, claiming that he can't be held liable because was acting …
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Mo Brooks throws Trump under the bus in response to lawsuit that accuses him of inciting MAGA mob  —  Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) claims in a new court filing that he was asked by a White House official to speak at former president Donald Trump's infamous “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and BizPac Review
Washington Post:
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ta-Nehisi Coates to join Howard University faculty  —  Hannah-Jones said she would not join faculty of UNC-Chapel Hill after tenure controversy  —  Journalists Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates are joining Howard University's faculty, school officials announced Tuesday …
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Mariel Fernandez / NAACP Legal Defense …:
Nikole Hannah-Jones Issues Statement on Decision to Decline Tenure Offer at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and to Accept Knight Chair Appointment at Howard University  — HOME - > - News - > - Nikole Hannah-Jones Issues Statement on Decision ...  Today, award-winning journalist …
Bloomberg:
Russia ‘Cozy Bear’ Hackers Breached GOP as Ransomware Attack Hit  — Hackers part of ‘Cozy Bear,’ people familiar with matter say  — RNC official says ‘no indication’ computer systems hacked  —  Russian government hackers breached the computer systems of the Republican National Committee last week …
American Prospect:
Meet the Consulting Firm That's Staffing the Biden Administration  —  WestExec represented major corporations throughout the Trump years.  Now it's in the White House.  —  This piece has been co-published with The Intercept  —  From its headquarters just blocks from the White House …
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Examiner
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The Daily Wire:
Majority Of Americans Believe That ‘Others,’ Not Biden, Are Calling The Shots In The White House: Poll
Discussion: RedState and Ace of Spades HQ
CNBC:
Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract that Amazon and Microsoft were fighting over  —  The Department of Defense announced Tuesday it's calling off the $10 billion cloud contract that was the subject of a legal battle involving Amazon and Microsoft.
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Luis Martinez / ABC News:
Pentagon cancels $10B JEDI cloud contract involving Amazon, Microsoft
Discussion: Politico
Joe Trippi / USA Today:
I'm joining the Lincoln Project to make sure Republicans don't win Congress in 2022  —  Donald Trump is fueling an authoritarian movement abetted by far too many Republican senators and House members.  We must unite to preserve democracy.  —  America is exhausted.
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Joshua Tait / The Bulwark:
The Paradox of Trumpist Patriotism  —  Claiming to love America while believing that it is broken and that many of your fellow citizens are your enemies.  —  How is it that we hear the loudest jingoistic yelps from dismal patriots who cannot stand the state of the nation and half the people in it?
Eric Kaufmann / National Review:
Political Discrimination as Civil-Rights Struggle  —  Viewpoint neutrality should be legally mandated  —  When a sample of nearly 1,500 female Ivy League students was asked whether they would date a Trump supporter, only 6 percent said yes (after excluding the small minority of the sample who support him).
David Faris / The Week:
The GOP's main voter bloc is shrinking  —  The electorate is shifting — and not in the Republican Party's favor  —  A new deep dive into the 2020 electorate by Pew Research contains mostly bad news for Republicans, whose approaching demographic doom is less racial than it is generational.
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Republicans weigh ‘cracking’ cities to doom Democrats  —  Kentucky's GOP congressional delegation entered the redistricting cycle with an unusual request for their state legislative counterparts: leave Democratic Rep. John Yarmuth alone.  —  The group, which includes Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell …
Discussion: CBS News, The Daily Caller and CNN
John Whitehouse / Media Matters for America:
Fox's Kayleigh McEnany blatantly lies about the Founding Fathers and slavery  —  Fox's Kayleigh McEnany, a liar who served as White House press secretary under former President Donald Trump, lied about slavery and the founders of the United States during Tuesday's Outnumbered.
Discussion: HuffPost
CNN:
GOP Sen. Ron Johnson mouths to GOP luncheon that climate change is ‘bullsh*t’  —  (CNN)Sen. Ron Johnson insisted again last week that he is not a climate change denier, but CNN's KFile found video of him from just weeks earlier telling a Republican group that it is “bullsh*t.”
Discussion: Political Wire
Federal Bureau of Investigation:
FBI Washington Field Office Releases New Videos of Suspects in Violent Assaults on Federal Officers at U.S. Capitol, Seeks Public's Help in Identifying Them  —  The FBI's Washington Field Office has released 11 new videos of suspects in violent assaults on federal officers during the riots …
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
We Still Won't Admit Why So Many People Believe the Big Lie  —  CLUELESS … Six months after the insurrection it triggered, it's clear that the stolen-election nonsense is just a drop in a tidal wave of bullshit.  —  How could so many Americans believe in “the Big Lie?”  We see the numbers and we shake our heads.
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
Sarah Leah Whitson / Washington Post:
New Khashoggi revelations show we don't have the full story about his killing.  The Biden administration must disclose what it knows.  —  Sarah Leah Whitson is the executive director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), the organization founded by Jamal Khashoggi.
Ankush Khardori / Politico:
What the DOJ Isn't Telling Us About Jan. 6  —  Today marks six months since the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and the effort to find, investigate and prosecute the people responsible is moving forward on many fronts—including just last week, with the House voting along party lines to create …
Kat Rosenfield / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
April Powers Condemned Jew-Hate.  Then She Lost Her Job.  —  The inclusion officer's identity as a black Jew should have made her unassailable.  Instead, it was used to discredit her.  —  1 hr ago … On first viewing, it looked like a Tik-Tok riff on The Purge: a caravan of cars rolls down La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Christopher Bedford / The Federalist:
Why Saving Comedy Is So Crucial To Saving America  —  People aren't dumb.  They've looked around, and they see that telling the wrong joke — or even simply laughing at one — is a quick way to destroy your life.  —  Conan O'Brien did his final late night show last week, after 28 years on air.
Peter Nicholas / The Atlantic:
What Does Mitch McConnell Do Now?  —  To visit Mitch McConnell at his office in the Capitol, you must first pass through a faded world that he has meticulously preserved.  A fireplace in the reception room still bears a crack left by a fire British soldiers set during the War of 1812.
Discussion: Raw Story and ABC News
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Fox's New Channel Changes the Climate for Weather TV  —  As viewers tune out cable news, Rupert Murdoch is preparing the debut of Fox Weather, a potentially powerful new player in a sphere long dominated by the Weather Channel.  —  Weather is taking the media industry by storm.
Nicole Russell / Washington Examiner:
No, children don't need to see kink at Pride parades  —  If I didn't know better, I'd think a post titled, “Yes, kink belongs at Pride.  And I want my kids to see it,” was such an outrageous invitation to spar in the public square that it was not worthy of a response.
Discussion: Front Page Magazine and Townhall
Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
A horn-wearing ‘shaman.’ A cowboy evangelist.  For some, the Capitol attack was a kind of Christian revolt.  —  Late last month, one of the accused Jan. 6 Capitol insurrectionists told a D.C. judge that she didn't recognize his authority and was making a “divine special appearance.”
Discussion: Raw Story
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Biden Admin Deletes References to Palestinian Terror Incitement From Congressional Report  —  The State Department deleted references to the Palestinian government's terror incitement in a report sent last week to Congress, highlighting what some see as an effort by the Biden administration …
Blake Douglas / Tulsa World:
Sen. Lankford responds to ‘unheard of’ lack of neutrality from state GOP chairman  —  In addition to challengers in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate next year, incumbent Sen. James Lankford said he is contending with opposition from a high-ranking member of his own party.
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Fox News Makes Excuses For US Women's Soccer Team Lies  —  Rather than issue a correction, Fox makes excuses for the right-wing lie fest regarding women's soccer and the flag.  —  Views:  —  I wrote earlier about the hyperventilating lies the right-wing media promoted about the US Women's Soccer National Team.
 
 
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Julie O'Donoghue / Louisiana Illuminator:
Louisiana has three new abortion laws: Here's what they do
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Jason Stanford / Washington Post:
Texas Republicans rush to guard the Alamo from the facts
Discussion: Salon and The Root
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Despite pledge, Google's campaign cash flows to Republican objectors
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
He says he helped his country. A decade later, the government accused him of fraud.
Claire Atkinson / Insider:
Megyn Kelly on switching from NBC to SiriusXM and why she'd rather interview Donald Trump Jr. over Donald Trump
Discussion: The Hill
Jessica Glenza / The Guardian:
‘It shakes you to your core’: the anti-abortion extremists gaining ground on the right
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Tim Lister / CNN:
An American lawyer went on a lunch date in Moscow. Now he's languishing in a jail cell in Belarus
Nick R. Martin / The Informant:
Rep. Paul Gosar's history of extremism
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Trump sees Walker as ‘unstoppable’ candidate, but many in GOP are wary
Discussion: New York Magazine and Fox News
Gary Ginsberg / The Daily Beast:
When Bill Clinton's Veep Vetting Process Revealed That Al Gore Had No Friends
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
It's Morning in Joe Biden's America
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