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5:30 PM ET, January 28, 2022

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Robby Soave / Reason:
Georgetown Should Not Fire Ilya Shapiro for a Bad Tweet  —  Georgetown University's Black Law Students Association is demanding the firing of Ilya Shapiro, a director of constitutional studies at the Cato Institute, from his brand new position at the university.
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Poor, Misunderstood Mark Joseph Stern  —  One has to feel sorry for Slate's Mark Joseph Stern, who is being criticized on Twitter and beyond for what was clearly just a big ol' misunderstanding.  There he was on Twitter, minding his own business, when he came across some tweets he disliked …
Timothy Johnson / Media Matters for America:   New York Times cites conservative legal pundit with history of smearing the competence of women jurists of color
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Let's Be Real: The Supreme Court Is Political and Always Has Been.
Discussion: National Review, Insider and Reason
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Fox News Abandons the GOP on Russia  —  Night after night, the host of the top-rated show on Fox News repeats Vladimir Putin's talking points justifying aggression against Ukraine and opposing U.S. aid to that threatened sovereign country.  Tucker Carlson's influence is felt across right-wing social media …
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Sergei Kuznetsov / Politico:
Lukashenko warns Belarus will go to war if Russia is attacked  —  Russia has sent thousands of troops into Belarus, but the country's authoritarian leader said Friday there will only be war if “aggression is committed against Belarus” or “our ally Russia.”  —  “If our country faces an aggression …
Politico:
Why ‘imminent’ pisses Zelenskyy off  —  With help from Paul McLeary, Nahal Toosi, David Herszenhorn, Oriana Pawlyk and Daniel Lippman  —  In November, Ukrainian President VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY couldn't ring alarm bells loudly enough.  “There is a threat today that there will be war tomorrow.
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Scoop: Ukraine gives U.S. senators 4 specific asks on Russia sanctions, military aid
Discussion: The Bulwark
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CNN:
January 6 committee subpoenas individuals tied to fake elector push
Discussion: The Hill, Bloomberg and CNBC
Washington Post:
Biden gives infrastructure speech after visiting Pittsburgh bridge that collapsed hours earlier  —  After an impromptu trip to a bridge that crumpled hours earlier, injuring 10 people, President Biden on Friday gave his scheduled speech about infrastructure in Pittsburgh …
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
‘A boom, then a monster sound’: 10 hurt after bridge over Pittsburgh's Frick Park collapses  —  This story was updated at 11:10 a.m. on Friday, January 28, 2022.  —  Ten people were injured Friday morning when a bridge that carries Forbes Avenue over Frick Park in Pittsburgh collapsed …
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Pennsylvania court tosses state's mail voting law  —  A Pennsylvania court struck down the state's mail voting law on Friday morning, saying that voters must amend the state constitution before such legislation is legal.  —  “No-excuse mail-in voting makes the exercise of the franchise …
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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Pennsylvania court declares state's mail-in voting law unconstitutional, in win for Republicans
Mother Jones:
We Uncovered How Many Georgians Were Disenfranchised by GOP Voting Restrictions.  It's Staggering.  —  Fight disinformation.  Get a daily recap of the facts that matter.  Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.  —  “States are not engaging in trying to suppress voters whatsoever …
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David Corn / Mother Jones:   Ted Cruz Is Fundraising Off a Debunked 1/6 Conspiracy Theory
Lacie Pierson / Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Justice touts achievements, tells haters to kiss Babydog's hiney in delayed State of the State address  —  NATIONALLY-RECOGNIZED, QUALITY LOCAL JOURNALISM..  —  Gov. Jim Justice on Thursday used his second State of the State address as a victory lap for economic development and tourism in West Virginia …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Let Kids Take Their Masks Off After the Omicron Surge  —  Elissa Perkins, the director of infectious disease management in the emergency department of the Boston Medical Center, told me she spent most of 2020 “imploring everybody I could in every forum that I could to mask.”
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Anya Kamenetz / NPR:
After 2 years, growing calls to take masks off children in school
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Fox News
Lexi Lonas / The Hill:
Human rights activists call on Olympic athletes to speak out against ‘genocide games’  —  Human rights activists are calling on Olympic athletes and sponsors to speak out against the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.  —  In a press conference Friday hosted by Human Rights Watch …
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Anthony Man / Sun-Sentinel:
Republicans may prevent Broward's new Democratic lawmaker from participating in annual legislative session after all  —  Republicans who control most of state government aren't prepared to let Broward's newly elected Democratic state representative, Daryl Campbell, take office during the current legislative session.
Discussion: Florida Politics and Raw Story
Jonathan Blitzer / New Yorker:
The Disillusionment of a Young Biden Official  —  Andrea Flores's efforts to roll back Trump's immigration policies faced opposition inside and outside the White House.  —  In the spring of 2019, Andrea Flores, then a thirty-one-year-old associate at a law firm in Washington, D.C. …
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
‘Quick Reaction Forces’ And The Lingering Mysteries Of The Plot Against The Capitol  —  The Oath Keeper “QRFs” show how things could have been a lot worse, and how much more there is to learn.  —  The Comfort Inn location just off the interstate has three stars on Yelp …
Discussion: Raw Story
Christopher Ingraham / The Why Axis:
New data shows Americans more miserable than we've been in half a century  —  The latest release from the General Social Survey shows the toll the pandemic has taken on our mental health  —  When I worked at the Pew Research Center back in the mid-2000s one of our pollsters …
Melody Schreiber / New Republic:
The Big-Name Journalists Who Are Trying to “Both Sides” Covid  —  There is a movement afoot just as insidious as right-wingers refusing to wear masks and get vaccinated.  It's progressives who are fully vaccinated but whose overcautious attitude toward Covid-19 is harming a generation …
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
This Wisconsin Lawmaker Is Ready to Quit the GOP Over Trump  —  “He is lying.  He did not win Wisconsin.  And he has provided no proof otherwise.”  —  CJ  —  Kathy Bernier has been a stolidly conservative voice in the Wisconsin Legislature for more than a decade.
Discussion: CNN, Washington Post and Raw Story
David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
Claiming partisan fairness models are proprietary, Princeton Gerrymandering Project won't show their work  —  An algorithm used by the Princeton Gerrymandering Project to determine the partisan fairness of New Jersey congressional districts won't be made public because the group says their redistricting analysis formula is proprietary.
YouTube:
Police Shooting Critical Incident Video-January 27, 2022  —  A critical incident briefing of Thursday afternoon's police shooting on I-65 involving the MNPD, Tennessee Highway Patrol & Mt. Juliet Police.
The Hill:
Biden ‘hot mic’ with Fox's Doocy fuels speculation  —  Did President Biden have an accidental “hot mic” moment this week when he was heard insulting a Fox News reporter?  Or did the president intend for his comments to be picked up?  —  A number of observers have speculated about the latter.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Salt Lake Tribune alerts police to threats to staffers after covid  —  The Salt Lake Tribune alerted police to threats that the newspaper received after publishing a Jan. 15 editorial that ripped state leaders for their response to covid-19, according to an email from executive editor Lauren Gustus to subscribers.
 
 
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Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
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Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
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Cyber Ninjas CEO participates in contentious deposition, says he's not ready to turn over audit records
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Rachel Bovard / The Federalist:
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