Must-read Axios via Jim VandeHei / Mike Allen: 'Here's a wild thought experiment: What if we've been deceived into thinking we're more divided, more dysfunctional and more defeated than we actually are?

On almost every topic of monthly outrage, it's a fringe view — or example —…

US Supreme Court abortion pill fight brings claims of distorted science (via Andrew Chung) reuters.com/world/us/us-su…

“I’m ashamed!” Nehls told rioters as they tried to break into the chamber on Jan. 6.

People throwing flowers at the hearse carrying Navalny’s body. After so many waves of repression it’s amazing that so many of his supporters have turned out.

Pay attention. This is the playbook for another Russian “special military operation” and expansion of Putin’s Russia as it attempts to gobble up more territory and erase borders in Europe.

🧵Masha Gessen to WNYC 🎙: Putin obsessively talked about Poland in his interview with Carlson. He mentioned Poland more than 30 times. He blamed Poland for starting WWII, for…inciting Hitler’s aggression against Poland, using the exact same words as he uses when he talks about

The Supreme Court has declined to block the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the prestigious Army school, from considering race as a factor in admissions decisions while a legal battle over the practice proceeds in lower courts. ⁦John Kruzel⁩ reuters.com/legal/us-supre…

Scoop: The University of North Carolina has agreed to pay $4.8 million to cover the fees and expenses of a group founded by affirmative action critic Edward Blum that won a U.S. Supreme Court challenge to the school's consideration of race in admissions. reuters.com/world/us/unc-p…

Ron DeSantis announces he’s suspending his campaign

Worth recalling the front pages after Jan. 6, 2021👇

This is the type of behavior you expect from the Chinese government.

JUST IN: New Jan. 6 stats for 3rd anniversary of the attack

-1,265 arrests
-452 charged w assaulting/impeding officers
-332 charged w obstruction

-718 guilty pleas; 171 guilty at trial
-749 senences handed down

Then-President Trump personally pressured two GOP members of the Wayne Co Board of Canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to recordings reviewed by The Detroit News and revealed publicly for the first time detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…

BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, revealing debts of as much as $500 million and assets between $1m-10m.
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D.C. really is experiencing a very large spike in crime. Homicide is up by one-third, robbery two-thirds, and carjackings have nearly doubled.

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Political arc of Rudy Giuliani

BREAKING: Plans unveiled for new Wizards and Capitals arena on the banks of the Potomac River in Virginia. 70 acre entertainment district w/ arena, performing arts venue, and more. See pix: axios.com/2023/12/13/wiz…

Our investigation into the Oct. 13 strike that killed our beloved Issam Abdallah, & wounded 6 other journalists, has found an Israeli tank fired 2x at them, with munition produced by Israel, from within Israel. The Israeli military killed Issam Abdallah.

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Amnesty International said on Thursday that Israeli strikes that killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and wounded six others in south Lebanon on Oct. 13 were likely to have been a direct attack on civilians and must be investigated as a war crime. reuters.com/world/middle-e…

The threats are horrifying. The vulnerability of the federal judges targeted is stunning. And the system the US Marshals Service is using to track them is inadequate.
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