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Zachary B. Wolf / CNN:
Donald Trump fever may be breaking — Jennings: Youngkin gives GOP a blueprint on how to talk to voters again — (CNN)In Tuesday's elections, Republican candidates surged in blue states, cities rejected major police reform and suburban voters showed their independence. The major takeaways?
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
How the Democrats Lost Virginia — The pollster Sean Trende believes that the outcome of the gubernatorial election has less to do with debates about critical race theory than with the economy and the typical disadvantages of the party in power. — On Tuesday, the Republican businessman Glenn Youngkin won …
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Virtually Normal — The morning after the election, the Democratic candidate concedes and wishes his opponent well.
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Youngkin's Dance With Trump Was Pivotal. But Is It Repeatable?
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Politico:
House Dems' suburban foundation at risk of crumbling after Tuesday's results
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Brad Polumbo / Washington Examiner:
No, Glenn Youngkin won't be the ‘most homophobic’ governor ‘in Virginia history’
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New York Times:
Reeling From Surprise Losses, Democrats Sound the Alarm for 2022 — Party officials say the White House and Congress must do more to address the electorate's deep malaise or risk watching voters lurch back toward the G.O.P. by default. — WASHINGTON — Reeling from a barrage of unexpected losses …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: For Dems, it's ‘2009 all over again’ — DRIVING THE DAY — DEMOCRATS' UGLY REALITY SETS IN — Following an embarrassing election night for Democrats, Speaker NANCY PELOSI and her caucus have redoubled their efforts to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill (BIF) …
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Washington Post:
After loss in Virginia, Democrats look to speed up their stalled $3 trillion spending agenda
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden hits the gas
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Michael Vasquez / Chronicle of Higher Education:
3 U. of Florida Experts Couldn't Testify on a Voting-Rights Law. This Professor Had No Trouble. — The University of Florida is embroiled in controversy this week following revelations that, in at least four cases, it denied professors' requests to testify in lawsuits that challenged policy set …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The case of Ron DeSantis and the muzzled professors takes another dubious turn — Last week, we learned that the University of Florida barred three professors from testifying as expert witnesses in a lawsuit challenging the voter suppression law that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed earlier this year.
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Gary Fineout / Politico:
DeSantis calls for new Florida police force to go after election crimes
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Hunter Walker / Rolling Stone:
Top Trump Allies Set Up A ‘Legal Fund’ For Jan. 6 White House Rally Organizers — The fund will defend former Trump aides who were involved in planning his speech that day and have been subpoenaed by the House committee investigating the Capitol attack — Top allies of Donald Trump …
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Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Trump Allies Set Up Legal Fund for Jan. 6 Elite, but Leave Protesters on Their Own — RULES FOR ME — A legal fund is being set up by allies of former President Donald Trump to support his former top aides who have been subpoenaed for a congressional investigation, Rolling Stone reports.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Carper comes out in support of nixing filibuster on voting rights — Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) announced on Thursday that he supports nixing the filibuster on voting rights legislation, marking the latest Senate Democrat to back changing the Senate's rules. — “I do not come to this decision lightly …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Senate Republicans block debate on a third major voting rights bill
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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Internal Emails Show How a Lincoln Project Tiki Torch Stunt Went Wrong — When Lauren Windsor, a Democratic operative working with the Lincoln Project, sent five young people dressed in khakis, white shirts, and sunglasses to hold tiki torches in front of Glenn Youngkin's campaign bus …
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Nick Shook / NFL.com:
Packers QB Aaron Rodgers tests positive for COVID-19, will not play in Week 9 vs. Chiefs — The NFL's hottest team will be without its most important player Sunday. — Aaron Rodgers tested positive for COVID-19 and is out for Green Bay's showdown with the Kansas City Chiefs, NFL Network's Tom Pelissero reported.
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Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News:
A Renowned Holocaust Historian Testified That Charlottesville Rally Organizers' Messages Were A “Call To Arms” — Neo-Nazis Christopher Cantwell and Matthew Heimbach on Wednesday seemed almost to forget for a moment that they were in a court of law and defendants in a civil case …
Zeke Hausfather / Carbon Brief:
Global CO2 emissions have been flat for a decade, new data reveals — Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels and cement have rebounded by 4.9% this year, new estimates suggest, following a Covid-related dip of 5.4% in 2020. — The Global Carbon Project (GCP) …
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Wajahat Ali / The Daily Beast:
You Damn Karens Are Killing America — OOPS, THEY DID IT AGAIN … Democrats aren't going to win over the majority of white women, and they need to stop trying and instead court the diverse coalition that can save this country from itself. — As a student of American history and a person of color …
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Ellen Barry / New York Times:
For Progressives, Michelle Wu Points to a Way Forward — As a Boston mayoral candidate, she had plenty of opportunity to pivot away from her more liberal ideas. She didn't, and it paid off. — BOSTON — For progressives, Tuesday's elections brought a litany of bad news and one conspicuous bright spot …
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New York Times:
Philip Murphy Wins Narrowly in N.J. Governor's Race — The victory over Jack Ciattarelli, which ended Democrats' 44-year re-election losing streak in the state, was far tighter than polls had predicted. — Philip D. Murphy, a New Jersey Democrat whose aggressive approach to controlling …
Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Fauci Staffers Flagged Potential Gain-Of-Function Research At Wuhan Lab In 2016, Records Reveal — Two subordinates of Dr. Anthony Fauci raised concerns in May 2016 that taxpayer dollars may be funding gain-of-function experiments on bat coronaviruses at a Wuhan lab …
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Matthew Stanmyre / New Jersey Online:
How a truck driver spent $153 on his N.J. election campaign to likely dethrone a political kingpin — 1,143 — The man who is poised to topple one of New Jersey's most feared political kingpins has never held public office, he has been a commercial truck driver for 25 years and he claims …
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ProPublica:
Here's Why Rapid COVID Tests Are So Expensive and Hard to Find — Months-long silences. Mysterious rejections. Here's what's behind the shortages of a critical tool for ending the pandemic. — Coronavirus — The U.S. Response to COVID-19 … A few weeks ago, a ProPublica reporter decided to test his kids for COVID-19.
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Guidance Counselor Once Honored at White House Is Charged for Child Porn — Todd Roatsey tried to blame Airbnb guests for videos uploaded from his WiFi network, a criminal complaint says. — An elementary school guidance counselor once honored at the White House for his work with kids …
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Raw Story
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
USA Today snubs Winsome Sears, Jason Miyares from report on ‘candidates of color’ who won historic elections — Much of the media have downplayed, ignored the diverse GOP ticket in Virginia — Winsome Sears: You're looking at the American Dream — USA Today raised eyebrows …
East Bay Times:
Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan dies after being hit by vehicle — ALAMEDA — Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan, 72, a trailblazing Asian American politician, died Wednesday after she was hit by a car on the city's South Shore, authorities said. — In a statement from Chan's office …
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Choire Sicha / Curbed:
Welcome to the Boom Boom Room of Chaos, New York City! — There's nothing as briskly refreshing as starting over. Like any downtown hottie prowling on the rebound, we have careened from Captain Dullsville to someone way more unpredictable and more powerful — our new mayor-elect, Eric Adams …
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Disgraced Papa John's Founder Ate 800 Pizzas in 18 Months to Fight the ‘Elite Progressive Left’ — CALL A DOCTOR — Excommunicated Papa John's founder John Schnatter needed fuel for his fight against the “progressive elite left.” So what better way to do that than to eat 800 Papa John's pizzas in 18 months?
Politico:
2 federal judges are poised to quietly begin unlocking reams of Jan. 6 secrets for Congress — Most Americans haven't heard of Beryl Howell and Tanya Chutkan. Yet these two federal judges are poised to help deliver troves of hidden information to congressional investigators over the next few weeks …
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Adam Lucente / Al-Monitor:
Senate committee advances Biden nominee for Middle East policy — Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had a fiery debate over the confirmation process, which touched on US policy toward Egypt, Israel and Lebanon. — The US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations confirmed …
Ed Cunningham / Time Out Worldwide:
9 cities that could be underwater by 2030 — With sea levels rising worldwide, several major metropolises are at risk of being submerged — Global warming can be difficult to properly visualise. If you're not directly threatened by rising sea levels, suffering water shortages or ravaged by wildfires …
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