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Republicans baffled by Katie Britt’s State of the Union response: ‘One of our biggest disasters’ (www.theguardian.com)

Biden says he'll ban TikTok if Congress passes bill, but he's campaigning on it until then (www.cnbc.com)

Biden Threatens ‘Come to Jesus Moment’ for Netanyahu on Hot Mic (www.thedailybeast.com)

Ad campaign targets conservative groups’ opposition to abortion, IVF (thehill.com)

So, my thought here is that I really feel like this should be leading the effort to get Joe Biden returned to office in 2025. This shit really does scare me – how efficiently the GOP has planned to do this shit, and how abjectly bad the Democrats are at bringing this up. Maybe it’s because I’m not a political campaign...

Proposed Missouri bill would make teachers register as sex offenders if found supporting transgender students who socially transition (www.cnn.com)

What Idiot Backed Trump’s Bond in E. Jean Carroll Trial? This One. (newrepublic.com)

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Schumer says Senate will pass spending bill and avert shutdown (www.reuters.com)

Columbia’s New “Antisemitism Task Force” Won’t Say What It Thinks Antisemitism Is (theintercept.com)

A recent listening session hosted by Columbia University’s new Task Force on Antisemitism devolved into chaos, with a task force leader yelling at students who questioned the group’s refusal to define “antisemitism,” according to sources at the university. Meanwhile, the school is preparing to spend up to $135,000 to...

538 drops Rasmussen Reports from its analysis (wapo.st)

The NYPD is using social media to target critics. That brings its own set of worries (apnews.com)

Michael Hallett, a professor of criminology at the University of North Florida who studied the effects of “Cops,” said he viewed the NYPD’s forays into social media as a natural response to a digital media ecosystem that rewards speed and sensationalism....

Biden on hot mic: ‘Come-to-Jesus meeting’ with Netanyahu on the way (thehill.com)

President Biden told a Democratic lawmaker and members of his Cabinet after the State of the Union address that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that they will need to have a “come-to-Jesus meeting.”...

What the Supreme Court Got Wrong in the Trump Section 3 Case (www.lawfaremedia.org)

Trump deserved to lose on all these points, and the Colorado Supreme Court correctly rejected his arguments on them. But I think he did have a plausible argument on the issue of whether his involvement in the Jan. 6 attack was extensive enough to qualify as “engaging” in insurrection. At the very least, he had a better...

RNC installs Trump’s chosen leaders in merger with his campaign (wapo.st)

Katie Britt’s kitchen-table rebuttal to SOTU baffles fellow Republicans (www.washingtonpost.com)

the setting undermined Britt’s stature as a senator and questioned her halting, theatrical delivery. The speech swiftly began drawing jokes and parodies.

Analysis: Trump election win could add 4bn tonnes to US emissions by 2030 (www.carbonbrief.org)

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Republicans complain Joe Biden had too much energy at SOTU (www.newsweek.com)

'Disappointing': Biden's reference to 'an illegal' during SOTU upsets some Democratic allies (www.nbcnews.com)

Father of Marine killed in 2021 suicide bomb attack at Afghanistan's Kabul airport arrested at SOTU (www.yahoo.com)

During Biden’s speech, Nikoui could be heard yelling, “Abbey Gate, Abbey Gate” at approximately 10:15 p.m. ET. Abbey Gate is the entrance to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, where a single explosive device was detonated by an ISIS-K terrorist. The blast killed 13 U.S. service members and at least...

Senator Todd Young says he will not support Trump in 2024 (www.wevv.com)

Trump posts nearly $92 million bond in E. Jean Carroll defamation case | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)

Wow, someone actually finally managed to force Trump to pay a bill.

Tlaib, Bush Raise 'Stop Sending Bombs' Signs as Biden Pledges More Aid for Gaza (www.commondreams.org)

Progressive Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush raised signs calling on President Joe Biden to “stop sending bombs” to the Israeli military as he pledged during his State of the Union address Thursday night to provide more humanitarian aid to Gazans and decried the war’s grisly death toll....

'Remember Abbey Gate' Man yelling interrupts State of the Union (www.usatoday.com)

Reporting from, ahem, “elsewhere”, identifies the man and states he was arrested....

Donald Trump has to raise a half billion dollars in a hurry | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)

Biden Vows to ‘Save the Planet From the Climate Crisis’ | In his speech to Congress, the president spoke in sweeping terms about global warming, and contrasted his record with that of Donald Trump. (www.nytimes.com)