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Zachary Donnini / Decision Desk HQ:
The US House Was Biased Toward Democrats in 2022: Why Republicans Are Developing a Geography Problem  —  In the 2012 Presidential Election, Democrat Barack Obama decisively defeated Republican Mitt Romney.  Obama won 332 electoral votes and the national Presidential popular vote by nearly 4%.
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Herschel Walker Only Recently Stopped Renting Out Georgia Home He Claims as His Residence
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
The inside story of Trump's explosive dinner with Ye and Nick Fuentes  —  Just two days before Thanksgiving, Donald Trump was planning to have a private, uneventful dinner with an old friend: Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.  —  The two had arranged to break bread Tuesday night …
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Semafor:
‘Immoral,’ ‘Disgusting,’ ‘Ass Clown’: Republicans rage against Trump's antisemitic dinner party  —  Sign up for Semafor Principals: An insider's guide to power in D.C.  —  Your Email addressSign Up  —  Donald Trump faced a deluge of criticism from across the Republican party spectrum …
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Trump's Jewish Allies Denounce Dinner With Kanye West and Nick Fuentes
Philip Klein / National Review:
Trump's Reckless Dinner with Kanye Is a Window into a Second Term
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Jason D. Greenblatt / CNN:
Former Trump White House envoy: Dinner with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes should not have happened
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC commissions ‘review’ of party tactics after disappointing midterm  —  The Republican National Committee is launching a review of the party's performance in the midterm election and bringing on a team of outside advisers to help guide strategy, as the GOP reckons with its disappointing performance in the election.
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Cami Mondeaux / Washington Examiner:
Rick Scott slams McConnell and GOP leadership for ‘compromising our principles’  —  Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) defended his decision to release a 12-point midterm agenda earlier this year and promised his leadership challenge to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is just the beginning …
Discussion: The Hill and Fox News
Sen. Rick Scott / Washington Examiner:
Washington liars will not stop us from rescuing America
Discussion: The Hill
Nick Catoggio / The Dispatch:
Aren't You Embarrassed? … It's become immensely embarrassing to be a conservative in the United States.  —  Many of us have coped with that embarrassment by reregistering as independents.  A few found it so intolerable that they changed their views on policy altogether.
New York Times:
New York City Will Hospitalize More Mentally Ill People Involuntarily  —  Mayor Eric Adams directed city agencies, including the Police Department, to take people who appear mentally ill and seem likely to harm others to hospitals for psychiatric care.  —  Mayor Eric Adams announced …
Discussion: Gothamist
Chris Buckley / New York Times:
With Intimidation and Surveillance, China Tries to Snuff Out Protests  —  Communist Party officials are using decades-old tactics, along with some new ones, to quash the most widespread protests in decades.  But Xi Jinping is silent.  —  After China's boldest and most widespread protests in decades …
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Associated Press:
Students sent home, police on patrol as China curbs protests
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Democrats prepare to upend presidential primary calendar  —  The list of states with the biggest say in Democratic presidential contests could get a big shake-up this week.  —  A flurry of public and private lobbying to reformat the longtime early-state lineup of Iowa, New Hampshire …
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
A Letter to the DeSantis Fan-Boys From a Real Never Trumper  —  Level-setting on the New Precious.  —  In 2024, the chosen one will be Gov. Ron DeSantis.  It has thus been decreed by the old-guard members of Conservative Inc. Or at least the ones calculating enough to have survived the MAGA takeover.
Discussion: Raw Story
Morgan Meaker / Wired:
Layoffs Have Gutted Twitter's Child Safety Team  —  Just one person remains to enforce the company's ban on child sexual abuse content across Japan and the Asia Pacific region.  —  Removing child exploitation is “priority #1”, Twitter's new owner and CEO Elon Musk declared last week.
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Bloomberg:
Elon Musk's Job Cuts Decimated Twitter Team Tackling Child Sexual Abuse
Discussion: The Daily Dot
New York Times:
Russian Retreat Reveals Signs of an Atrocity in a Ukrainian Village  —  In the southern Kherson region, the pattern seen in eastern Ukraine is repeating: The withdrawal of Russian forces yields evidence of possible war crimes.  —  PRAVDYNE, Ukraine — First came small pieces of bone.
Discussion: Associated Press and Defense One
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Associated Press:
NATO commits to future Ukraine membership, drums up aid
Reuters:
The yuan's the new dollar as Russia rides to the redback  —  Chinese entrepreneur Wang Min is delighted about Russia's embrace of the yuan.  His LED lights company can price contracts to Russian customers in yuan rather than dollars or euros, and they can pay him in yuan.  It's “win-win”, he says.
Discussion: Insider and TrackRecord Daily
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Congressional Leaders Say They Will Act to Prevent Rail Strike  —  Democratic and Republican leaders prepared to intercede as President Biden warned the prospect of a strike next month had put the U.S. economy “at risk.”  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress vowed …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Why ‘Union Joe’ put the screws to rail workers
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Carlos Lozada / New York Times:
Mike Pence Is Having a Moment He Doesn't Deserve  —  Mike Pence had a go-to line during his time as vice president of the United States.  When his boss would ask him to carry out some task or duty — say, take an overseas trip or run the response to a pandemic — Pence would look President Trump in the eye …
Anuj Chopra / The Guardian:
‘The Godfather, Saudi-style’: inside the palace coup that brought MBS to power  —  Not long ago, Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Nayef, was all set to assume power.  But his ambitious young cousin had a ruthless plan to seize control for himself  —  he Saudi prince was detained all night.
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
US courts ruling in favor of justice department turns legal tide on Trump  —  The ex-president's supporters will no longer be able to avoid testifying before grand juries in Washington DC and Georgia  —  spate of major court rulings rejecting claims of executive privilege and other arguments …
Discussion: Raw Story and Bloomberg
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Why some tech CEOs are rooting for Musk  —  They're skeptical of their workers, too.  PLUS: New details on Musk's ‘general amnesty’ for banned Twitter users  —  and Zoë Schiffer  —  After a long weekend away, today let's talk about the largely positive reception that Elon Musk's radical remaking …
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Washington Post:
Elon Musk says Apple threatened to remove Twitter from App Store
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Twitter is no longer enforcing its Covid misinformation policy  —  New York CNN Business —  Twitter said it will no longer enforce its longstanding Covid misinformation policy, yet another sign of how Elon Musk plans to transform the social media company he bought a month ago.
NBC News:
Arizona secretary of state sues GOP-controlled county over refusal to certify election results  —  Cochise County has repeatedly refused to certify its results from the Nov. 8 election.  The deadline for certification is Nov. 28.  —  Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs sued …
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Lizzie Presser / New York Times:
She Wasn't Ready for Children.  A Judge Wouldn't Let Her Have an Abortion.  —  As abortion access dwindles, America's ‘parental involvement’ laws weigh even more heavily on teenagers — who may need a court's permission to end their pregnancies.  —  To hear more audio stories from publications …
 
 
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Sarah Krajewski / CEPA:
Light Flares in Ukraine's Darkness
Discussion: The Hill and Bloomberg
Sam Kiley / CNN:
Iran threatened families of national soccer team, according to security source
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Discussion: Fox News and RedState
Allie Griffin / New York Post:
Non-binary Biden nuclear official charged with stealing woman's $2.3K luggage at airport
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Even Pat Boone Is Praying Trump Doesn't Run Again
Discussion: Raw Story