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10:20 AM ET, February 6, 2023

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Washington Post:
Americans not feeling impact of Biden agenda, Post-ABC poll finds  —  More than 6 in 10 say the president has not accomplished much, despite the passage of numerous bills  —  Two years into a presidency that the White House casts as the most effective in modern history …
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Politico:
Playbook: China deflates Biden's SOTU swagger  —  With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE WEEK AHEAD — Tomorrow: President JOE BIDEN's State of the Union address ... House Financial Services Committee hearing on the economic threat from China …
Discussion: NPR, Fox News, The Dispatch and USA Today
Max Moran / American Prospect:   Whatever Happened to ‘Helping the Sh*t’ out of People?
Associated Press:
Biden 2024? Most Democrats say no thank you: AP-NORC poll
Politico:
Biden, the balloon, and the age of anti-China one-upmanship
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Record numbers of people are worse off, a recipe for political discontent: POLL
Hans Nichols / Axios:
China crashes Biden's State of the Union speech
Natasha Bertrand / CNN:
Chinese spy balloons under Trump not discovered until after Biden took office  —  The transiting of three suspected Chinese spy balloons over the continental US during the Trump administration was only discovered after President Joe Biden took office, a senior administration official told CNN on Sunday.
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Pentagon reports past Chinese surveillance balloons near Florida, Texas
Daniel Greenfield / Frontpage Mag:   The UFO Craze is a Chinese Spy Balloon Crisis
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
US intel assesses Chinese spy balloons transited US several times, went ‘undetected’: Senior admin official
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Chinese spy balloons over US during Trump admin ‘discovered after’ he left office: senior Biden official
Discussion: Raw Story
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP critic dials up pressure on McConnell: ‘Tired of caving’  —  Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) says he is “tired of caving” on the debt limit and is dialing up the pressure on Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) not to swoop in to strike a last-minute deal with President Biden.
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David M. Drucker / The Dispatch:
Ranks of Republicans Refusing a ‘Clean’ Debt Ceiling Hike Grows
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Suzan Fraser / Associated Press:
Powerful quake kills more than 230 people in Turkey, Syria  —  A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit southern Turkey and northern Syria early Monday, toppling buildings and triggering a frantic search for survivors in the rubble in cities and towns across the area.
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Washington Post:
Deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Turkey, Syria … Updated just now  —  ISTANBUL — A powerful earthquake in southern Turkey early Monday leveled residential buildings in nearby Turkish cities and in northern Syria.  Video of the aftermath showed residents trapped under rubble.
New York Times:
Musk Pledged to Cleanse Twitter of Child Abuse Content.  It's Been Rough Going.  —  Child sexual abuse imagery spreads on Twitter even after the company is notified: One video drew 120,000 views.  “Sewer rats,” as one regulator described bad actors, remain.  —  Over 120,000 views of a video showing a boy being sexually assaulted.
Semafor:
Inside Harvard's misinformation meltdown  —  The highest-profile scholar of misinformation is being forced out at Harvard's premier public policy school, and interviews and internal documents reviewed by Semafor illustrate the institution's discomfort with her high-profile and politically charged work.
Discussion: Breitbart and Althouse
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Ben Smith / Semafor:
Welcome to Semafor Media, where we break the news behind the news.
New York Times:
Kamala Harris Is Trying to Define Her Vice Presidency.  Even Her Allies Are Tired of Waiting.  —  Ms. Harris is struggling to carve out a lane for herself in what may be one of the most consequential periods in the vice presidency.  —  WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris was frustrated.
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
How a Grassroots Revolt in the Iconic Retirement Community Ended With a 72-Year-Old Political Prisoner  —  The trouble began in 2019 when residents of The Villages were suddenly hit with a 25 percent hike in their property taxes.  Historically, nobody under 55 has been allowed to move to The Villages …
Discussion: Kevin Drum
David Patrikarakos / UnHerd:
The madness behind the battle for Bakhmut  —  “The objective for today is to come back alive.”  Yevgeny is a young commando from the “Mad Pack”, a special forces unit that has been fighting in Bakhmut since November.  His words are familiar — lacquered with that mix of emotions common …
Michelle Toh / CNN:
Disney won't show ‘Simpsons’ episode in Hong Kong that mentions ‘forced labor’  —  Hong Kong CNN —  An episode of “The Simpsons” that includes a line about “forced labor camps” in mainland China has been pulled from Disney's streaming platform in Hong Kong.
Politico:
Trump's '24 game plan: Be the dove among the hawks  —  Donald Trump is settling on a simple foreign policy pitch in his second bid for the White House: Want World War 3?  Vote for the other guy.  —  Over the past week, Trump has assailed President Joe Biden's handling of Afghanistan.
Discussion: Townhall and Raw Story
Nicole Asbury / Washington Post:
Montgomery County schools report another spate of antisemitic acts  —  Around the same time a vandal wrote “Jews Not Welcome” on Walt Whitman High School's entrance sign in December, two students from the Bethesda high school's debate team allegedly joked about using challah to lure Jewish people …
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump documents: Congress offered briefing on records kept at Mar-a-Lago  —  Closed-door session could provide insight into the sensitivity of the documents Trump retained and possibility of indictments  —  US officials have offered to provide a closed-door briefing to congressional leaders …
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Ezra Klein / New York Times:
The Story Construction Tells About America's Economy Is Disturbing
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Brian Broome / Washington Post:
Why does ‘The 1619 Project’ worry people? It offers a peek at the truth.
Discussion: National Review
Haaretz:
Far-right Settler Leader Becomes MK Under Law to Expand Size of Government
Discussion: middleeastmonitor.com
Vatican News:
Pope: ‘Entire world is at war and in self-destruction’
Discussion: Metro.co.uk and Breitbart
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The San Francisco Standard:
Man Accused of Firing Blanks at Synagogue Linked to Nazi Imagery
Discussion: The Times of Israel
New York Times:
In China's Covid Fog, Deaths of Scholars Offer a Clue
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
AR-15 lapel pin is a perfect symbol for a GOP that's become a death cult
 

 
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
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New York Times:
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