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11:30 AM ET, January 29, 2022

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Ellise Shafer / Variety:
Joni Mitchell Says She's Removing Music From Spotify: ‘Irresponsible People Are Spreading Lies’ … Joni Mitchell has pledged to remove her music from Spotify, just a few days after fellow singer-songwriter icon Neil Young did the same.  —  In a note on her official website titled …
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Joni Mitchell:
News Item  —  I Stand With Neil Young!  —  I've decided to remove all my music from Spotify.  Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives.  I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.  —Joni Mitchell
Timothy Snyder / Washington Post:
Putin's case for invading Ukraine rests on phony grievances and ancient myths … Last July, Vladimir Putin supplied the mythical basis for Russian war propaganda in an essay titled “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians.”  The essential idea is that Russia has the right to Ukraine …
Discussion: NPR, Fox News, TL;DR'd and The Fog
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Washington Post:
U.S. says Russia ‘clearly’ now has capability to attack as Ukraine complains of Western panic  —  The United States does not think Russian President Vladimir Putin has reached a decision on whether to attack Ukraine again, but Moscow “clearly now has that capability” to seize important territories from Kyiv …
Phil Stewart / Reuters:
Exclusive: Russia moves blood supplies near Ukraine, adding to U.S. concern
Andrew Miller / Fox News:
Biden sending troops to Eastern Europe soon as Ukraine turmoil intensifies
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Wicker: Black Woman Supreme Court Pick An Affirmative Action ‘Beneficiary’  —  The first Black woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court in history will be a “beneficiary” of affirmative action, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker told a radio show this afternoon.  The senior Republican senator from Mississippi …
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Mostly dead or slightly alive?  Democrats don't yet know if Build Back Better can be revived  —  The fate of Democrats' top agenda item will not only have major policy repercussions for the country but also the party's political prospects in the midterm elections.
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Washington Examiner:
Shovel more dirt onto Build Back Better
Discussion: Chalkbeat Tennessee
CNN:
Trump WH spokesman is sent subpoena by January 6 committee  —  (CNN)The House Select Committee investigating January 6 has issued a subpoena Friday for a former White House spokesman with firsthand knowledge of Donald Trump's behavior before and during the January 6 attack on the Capitol …
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Michael Cavna / Washington Post:
Art Spiegelman sees the new ban of his book ‘Maus’ as a ‘red alert’  —  Art Spiegelman didn't set out to write an educational aid for young-adult readers.  A half-century ago, he simply wanted to better know his own origin story, discover more about his parents' histories — and hear from his father …
Discussion: Forbes
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Jared Malsin / Wall Street Journal:
Turkey's Erdogan Fires Statistics Chief After Record Inflation  —  President also appoints another member of ruling party as justice minister  —  ISTANBUL—Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan replaced the head of the state statistics agency weeks after it reported record inflation …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
New York Police Officers Remember Jason Rivera  —  We don't hear much about good cops these days.  —  Their stories get lost amid the scalding episodes with trigger-happy, racist and sadistic cops.  —  The good ones get tarred with the same brush, even though the last person who wants …
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump facing legal, political headwinds as he eyes comeback  —  CONROE, Texas (AP) — As he prepared to tee off at one of his Florida golf courses, a fellow player introduced Donald Trump as the “45th president of the United States.”  —  “45th and 47th,” Trump responded matter-of-factly, before hitting his drive.
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Vikrant Thardak / TFIGlobal:
Top Chinese scientist working in Hypersonic program flees China with critical secrets  —  Vikrant Thardak  —  Reading Time: 4 mins read  —  Become a Patron!  —  The US officials were left stunned when a Financial Times report revealed that Beijing had tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August last year.
Zach Everson / Forbes:
The Secret Service Is Watching Former Ambassador John Bolton's House  —  Secret Service Police vehicles have been monitoring the home of John Bolton, a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, for at least the past two days.  —  On Wednesday and Thursday, two white SUVs …
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Kansas Man on ‘Mission From God’ Charged With Threatening Biden's Life  —  ‘BLOOD OF THE LAMB’  —  A Kansas man claiming he had been told by God to travel to Washington, D.C., to “lop off the head of the serpent in the heart of the nation” has been charged with threatening …
Discussion: Insider, CNN and New York Post
Nate Gartrell / Mercury News:
Federal judge bucks prosecutors, jails CA man who mailed 75 racist death threats to anti-Trump politicians  —  Cards included racist language, ‘KKK’ signature  —  SAN FRANCISCO — In a rare rebuke of prosecutors, a federal judge handed down a jail sentence to a California man who spent …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Adriana Cohen / New York Post:
Why hasn't Fauci been fired and put under FBI investigation yet?  —  Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House top medical adviser, shouldn't be on TV; he should be under federal investigation answering serious questions about his knowledge of the National Institutes of Health's reckless funding …
William Saletan / Slate:
What I Learned in 25 Years of Writing for Slate  —  In 1996, Michael Kinsley called me with an offer.  He was starting a magazine and wanted somebody to write a column, “The Horse Race,” tracking the presidential campaign.  The race was boring—Bob Dole never had a shot against Bill Clinton—but the magazine, Slate, was exciting.
Discussion: The Other McCain
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
White House confirms South Carolina judge is under consideration for Supreme Court  —  The White House on Friday confirmed that President Biden is considering a South Carolina federal judge and favorite of House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) as a potential candidate for the Supreme Court.
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Twitter says it has quit taking action against lies about the 2020 election  —  (CNN)Twitter quit taking action to try to limit the spread of lies about the 2020 election, the company said on Friday — a day after another social media platform, YouTube, removed a Republican congressman's campaign ad because it included a 2020 lie.
Jesse Wegman / New York Times:
The Equal Rights Amendment Is Now the Law of the Land.  Isn't It?  —  Mr. Wegman is a member of the editorial board.  —  Even if you are a political junkie, there's a good chance you didn't realize that the United States Constitution grew 58 words longer this week.
Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Trump Tower Lawyer Veselnitskaya Accused of Brand New Crime in Leaked Docs  —  NEVERENDING STORY … New court papers accuse the notorious Trump Tower lawyer of a clandestine effort to tamper with official government papers.  —  LONDON—Trump Tower lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya has been accused …
Discussion: Raw Story
Kyle Morris / Fox News:
Washington trooper who defied state vaccine mandate and told gov to ‘kiss my a—’ dies from COVID-19  —  Former Trooper Robert LaMay was 51 years old  —  Ivy League parents take stand over college vaccine booster mandates  —  A Washington State Patrol officer who defied a statewide vaccine mandate …
Discussion: Mediaite
 
 
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Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
How Trump Coins Became an Internet Sensation
John McWhorter / New York Times:
It's Time to End Race-Based Affirmative Action
Discussion: Althouse and HotAir
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Michigan Detective Pleads Guilty to Selling Fentanyl-Laced Heroin on the Job
Discussion: Raw Story
Alexandra S. Levine / Politico:
Suicide hotline shares data with for-profit spinoff, raising ethical questions
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Mel Leonor / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Youngkin's charter schools agenda gets the backing of university leaders
The Hill:
Biden ‘hot mic’ with Fox's Doocy fuels speculation
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Victoria Bekiempis / New York Magazine:
Stormy Daniels Sees a Ghost
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Pennsylvania court declares state's mail-in voting law unconstitutional, in win for Republicans
 

 
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