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In honor of Shalanda Young’s confirmation as Deputy OMB Director, here is my favorite picture of her putting her vaunted negotiating skills to work.

Please stop for a moment and watch this, with the sound on. Share with others. An unflinching rebuttal to all those who are politicizing studies of race and injustice courtesy of Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

It's a sad statement on modern politics that Senate Democrats feel that they can more easily sell a budget claiming to have no tax hikes but which increases the public debt $4.1T, instead of their real plan to increase taxes by around $3T and only increase debt by $0.5-6T.

The press conference equivalent of thoughts and prayers

Reminder: When Republicans controlled the government in 2017-18, Pelosi and Schumer facilitated debt limit increases both before and after enactment of debt-financed tax cuts. McConnell is wholly inconsistent here and I am being generous. So glad I don’t have to cover this.

Perspective | For one Capitol reporter, Jan. 6 was the final straw — but he had watched a crisis brew for years washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…

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Or one might frame this as important legislation that only 13 Republicans supported. Peter Baker and the NYT always provide good examples of how you can frame a story to help shape the narrative you prefer.

We are seeing more evidence that maybe it wasn’t such a great idea to reduce the number of classes in America that teach civics, democracy and history.

ICYMI - David Roberts, Rachel Maddow MSNBC, All In with Chris Hayes Dark power: How FPL, other utilities neutralize opponents, grow profits orlandosentinel.com/news/os-ne-mat…

Extraordinary white moose was spotted taking a dip in a pool in Sweden's Varmland County 🎥 Hans Nilsson

A master class in grit wrapped up in grace