thedailywhat:

This x That:

Know This:

• President Obama releases 10 states from requirements of No Child Left Behind.

• House joins Senate in banning lawmakers from conducting insider trading.

Read This:

• Bradley Manning arraignment date set for February 23rd.

• Giffords aide Ron Barber, injured in the Tucson shooting, will run for his former boss’s vacated seat.

• Report: Iranian dissident group trained by Israel to carry out attacks on Iran’s nuclear scientists.

• Today’s Big Read: James Fallows explains Obama.

• Tom Hanks’s daughter Elizabeth Ann interviews Tom Hanks-themed Banksy satirist Hanksy.

Listen To This:

• President Obama’s put his 2012 campaign playlist on Spotify.

The Other:

• NewsFeed: Justice Sonia Sotomayor Settles a Fairy-Tale Dispute on Sesame Street.

• Tea x Time List: 10 People Whose Warnings Went Unheeded.

• Above: Over 15,000 individual books about Abraham Lincoln, arranged to form a three-story tower inside the lobby of Ford’s Theatre Center for Education and Leadership.