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Obamacare enrollment opening with millions more uninsured, law’s future in doubt
The sign-up season begins amid an intensifying pandemic and shortly before the Supreme Court will weigh Obamacare’s fate.
China shapes a new U.S. economic era: The return of industrial policy
The latest episode of POLITICO’s Global Translations podcast explores the new industrial policy emerging in America to counter China’s ascent.
Fox survey finds 63 percent say country heading in wrong direction
The economy weighs heavily on voters’ minds.
Wall Street notches second-best Election Day of trading
The gains are a sign of positive trader sentiment, although it’s unclear if that has to do with hopes of a clear winner emerging.
GDP rebounds at record pace, but dark clouds reappear
Trump got a great economic report to use on the campaign trail. But behind the surface, giant risks are looming.
Retail in NYC gets option of outdoor shopping
The new Open Storefronts program — modeled on the city’s popular outdoor dining initiative — will allow 40,000 businesses to set up open air operations.
Puerto Ricans Vote to Narrowly Approve Controversial Statehood Referendum & Elect 4 LGBTQ Candidates
As most eyes were focused on the race for the White House, Puerto Rican voters on Tuesday narrowly approved a nonbinding statehood referendum. We get analysis from Democracy Now! co-host Juan González and speak with Afro-Puerto Rican human rights, feminist and LGBTQI activist Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, who was elected to the Puerto Rican Senate.
Biden Pulls Ahead in Georgia: Blue Shift Follows Years of Community Organizing to Expand Electorate
We go to Atlanta for an update, after Joe Biden pulled ahead of Donald Trump for the first time in Georgia. The 2020 presidential election could hinge on this extraordinarily tight race.
Labor Organizer: I Witnessed Bush Steal 2000 Election in Florida. We Can’t Let Trump Steal This One
We look at Donald Trump’s attempts to undermine the U.S. presidential election with Jane McAlevey, a union organizer, negotiator and senior policy fellow at UC Berkeley’s Labor Center who was an eyewitness to the 2000 Florida recount. She says the 2000 election holds lessons for today, when Democrats allowed Republicans to claim a controversial victory. “We have to have a counternarrative. We have to have very large numbers of people in the streets,” she says.
Allan Nairn: Trump and Republicans Use Legal & Physical Means in Attempted Coup Against Democracy
As President Trump is doubling down on unsubstantiated claims of election rigging as election workers continue counting ballots in several states, concern is growing that some Trump supporters may use violence to disrupt the process.
Sunday Night Owls: Schreiber: ‘How Biden Can Beat Covid-19.’ It obviously won’t be easy
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
At The New Republic, Melody Schreiber write—How Biden Can Beat Covid-19. Getting the pandemic under control won’t be easy. But health experts basically know what has to happen:
The choice to address the pandemic didn’t have to be political. It was made so by the Trump administration’s decisions to downplay Covid-19 and appropriate safety measures.
The cast of ‘Mogul Mowgli’ on representation and breaking barriers through an immigrant narrative
Pause that Netflix binge and make space at the top of your movie list because Mogul Mowgli is a must-see. Breaking barriers while touching on a number of themes including illness, spirituality, religion, identity, relationships, separation, immigrant parents (the list goes on), the film is sure to captivate any audience.
Weeping for joy on election night: ‘We get to keep our Social Security and our Medicare’
While many in the media class are giving a lot of airtime to middle-of-the-road and conservative BS about President-elect Joe Biden’s need to be … a Republican(?), the joy being felt across the country is not simply the result of ending the Donald Trump nightmare. It’s about righting a ship the Republican Party has directed away from the majority of American citizens’ needs.
President Will Start ‘Breaking Things… With A Vengeance,’ Mary Trump Warns
Donald Trump’s waning days in the White House will include “meltdowns upon meltdowns,” his niece warned.
Rick Santorum pitched the government on a tiny, one-person company run by a political backer
It is going to take approximately half of forever to sort out the corruption of the Trump years—presuming we eventually get to that point. A new scandal of the sort that would in past years result in weeks of televised outrage seems to crop up every few days.
The Associated Press brings us yet another.
Buttigieg once again hits it out of the park on Fox News, this time talking about Mitch McConnell
Former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg made yet another stellar appearance on Fox News Sunday. This time, Buttigieg talked to host Chris Wallace about what President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris plan to do for the United States, especially when it comes to the novel coronavirus pandemic, because, as we know, COVID-19 numbers are once again skyrocketing.
Conservative Washington Times Shuts Down Trump Campaign Aide’s Literal Fake News
In a now-deleted tweet, Tim Murtaugh tried to mock the media with a doctored photo purporting to show a “President Gore” headline from 2000.
Biden Seeks To Move Quickly And Build Out His Administration
President-elect Biden faces key staffing decisions in the days ahead.
Mr. Trump, Tear Down This Wall
Do not say that Donald Trump failed to build his wall. He built it. But he built it in Washington, D.C., not along the southern border, and he built it to shield himself from his fellow citizens, not to shield his fellow citizens from the existential threat posed by Mexican job-seekers.The White House today is hidden behind a welter of barricades, anti-scale fencing, bollards, and Jersey barriers. The tens of thousands of people who flooded downtown D.C.
Disability Advocates Express Joy After Biden Name-Checks Them With Important Word
In President-elect Biden’s victory speech, advocates recognized a word he used that draws a stark contrast between him and Trump, who had mocked them.
New York: Images of the Empire State
New York has the fourth-largest population of any U.S. state, and is home to the most populous city in the country, New York City. From Buffalo, through the Finger Lakes, to the Hudson Valley, Manhattan, and more, here are a few glimpses of the landscape of New York, and some of the wildlife and people calling it home.This photo story is part of Fifty, a collection of images from each of the United States.An earlier version of this photo essay misidentified the location of one of the photos.
Total Landscaping: A Masque
America is loose as a gooseIt avoided becoming Belarus.But that sulking Caesar, POTUS—where’s he gone?Is he watching Fox News with a big frown on?We’ll seize the cycle. We’ll make allegations.Reverse these numerical humiliations.A major press conference, that’s the thing.At the Four Seasons … Total Landscaping.So the gods of bathos displayed us allon pickled asphalt, by a lumpy green wall.
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham Pushes Voter Fraud Claims, Urges Trump Not To Concede
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, another Republican, also called into question Joe Biden’s projected victory.
Dave Chappelle Doesn’t Think America Is Saved
Dave Chappelle had the same thing on his mind when he came out onto the Saturday Night Live stage in 2016 and 2020, both times hosting the show right after the U.S. presidential election. “Don’t forget all the things that are going on … all these shootings in the last year,” he said in 2016, invoking the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub.
New record high for U.S. coronavirus cases Saturday
It marked the fourth day in a row that new cases topped more than 100,000.
How to Tell the Story of a Cult
Not 20 minutes into The Vow, HBO’s enthralling-then-ultimately-gasbaggy docuseries, things started to feel concerningly familiar to me. Sarah Edmondson—an engaging Canadian actor with big valedictorian energy who had joined the Albany-based organization NXIVM (pronounced nex-ee-um)—was describing how she was first drawn into a group that she would later expose as a sex cult. Edmondson’s career had stalled, and she was looking for a sign from the universe.