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Major News in Wake County Schools in North Carolina, the largest school district in the state. Moms For Liberty-aligned candidates running on an anti-LGBTQ+ platform were mostly swept, with only Ng winning to retain his seat. North Carolina has rejected anti-trans politics.

One of the few exceptions to a wretched night for progressives: paid-sick day ballot measures passing in Nebraska, Missouri and (likely) Alaska. Will be the three reddest states with such mandates. huffpost.com/entry/paid-sic…

A frank assessment you don't often hear publicly from Dems' union allies. Painters union IUPAT: "the Democratic Party failed to offer a compelling working class agenda and the election results show as much." IUPAT is the most progressive union in the building trades

Hochul has no plans to revive congestion pricing before second Trump administration crainsnewyork.com/transportation…

A classic in the ‘offset blame from powerful to powerless’ genre 1) faux populist 2) evergreen; was a popular scapegoat in 2016 3) fairly powerless constituency so wont upset Comcast’s corporate sponsors 4) gets Scarborough and his rich consultant friends totally off the hook

New: Private prison executives gleeful over mass deportation - "unique moment in our company’s– country’s history" - "a theoretical potential doubling of all of our services" - potential "need for some soft-sided facilities around the country" huffpost.com/entry/trump-de…

"Soft-sided" detention facilities (think fancy tents with jail cells in them) are cash cows for private prison contractors. A single 500-bed facility in San Diego cost $118 million to build. Keeping a 1,000 bed facility in Eagle Pass open costs taxpayers $143.6 million a year.

So today this guy in DC was taunting people in Navy Yard by shouting pro-Trump messages out of a barely open window in a building, so I asked why he was doing that and it turns out he's a J6 defendant waiting for Trump to pardon him. huffpost.com/entry/jan-6-de…

I totally had missed this: Dems made a big jump in the state legislature in Montana (despite heavy top of ticket losses). GOP firmly in control, but: House went 68-32 to 59-41. Senate went 34-16 to 32-18. Concrete reason to care: montanafreepress.org/2024/11/07/new…

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>> The ages most represented among the dead were five to nine-year-olds. >> About 80% of victims were killed in residential buildings or similar housing. [per UN Human Rights Office]

I don’t understand how cable news can be taken seriously if they’re living in an alternate reality. Philippe Reines has literally never been associated with a winning campaign in his life, right? (Gore, Clinton, Harris). He repels winning. Bizarre.

New: He went to a white supremacist conference, then refused to denounce the white supremacists who organized it. Now, as “border czar,” he’ll oversee Trump’s mass deportations huffpost.com/entry/tom-homa…

Our reporter in Gaza just filed a dispatch describing how his family has resorted to eating pet food, cooking with bug infested flour and paying exorbitant prices for rotten vegetables (when they are even available).

"It is exponentially worse [here] than [what] any vague clip can actually put out there. And there is this sense that the world doesn't care if Gazans and Palestinians are eliminated."

"The northern Gaza Strip has been devastated and destroyed. People are dying in the streets and no one can evacuate the dead or the wounded." Ahmad al-'Askari, 36 year-old hairdresser and father of three describes the inhumane conditions in northern Gaza, where Israel has