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Robert Reich:
Scott Colom has already scored a remarkable victory
Democrat Scott Colom hasn’t yet won Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race. The state is still tallying ballots that could make Colom the first Black senator from Mississippi since …1881.
We’ll probably know by Friday. It will depend on a process playing out in election offices across Mississippi’s 82 counties, where local officials are receiving and examining absentee and provisional ballots. As of Monday morning, Colom’s lead over Republican incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith had grown to nearly 2,600 votes.
Hyde-Smith has not appeared publicly since election night, when she essentially declared victory despite a razor-thin margin with ballots still uncounted. “We are not backing down,” she posted on social media Friday. “This election is not over. Our team is working across Mississippi to monitor the remaining ballots and protect the integrity of the process. We will see this through to the very end!”
Mississippi’s counties can count absentee ballots if they are received by today — five business days after the election. Voters with identification issues also have until today to address them in person at their local elections office. Counties have until this Friday to certify complete results to the secretary of state.
During the campaign, Colom emphasized that he would represent all Mississippians, and he charged that Trump’s policies — the war with Iran and tariffs, especially — harmed everyone equally, cutting across all demographic lines.
But Colom and his Black supporters have not ignored the significance of his candidacy as a Black man. He ended his campaign with an ad set at the Jackson home of Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader who was gunned down in 1963 in his own driveway, dying in front of his wife and children.
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Heather Cox Richardson:
Letters from an American – November 10, 2026… Democrats have announced they are going to move the plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who defended the Congress and the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021—including 250 who were injured—to a more prominent spot. Congress authorized the plaque, but House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) refused to put it up, and Republicans in the Senate finally buried it on a basement wall.
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Maggie HabermanJonathan SwanJulian E. BarnesAna Swanson, Tripp Mickle @ NY Times:
Before Jensen Huang boarded Air Force One en route to Beijing, the president was reminded of intelligence showing that he was in a relationship with a woman believed to be a Chinese spy.…
The message was delivered by Marco Rubio, his secretary of state and national security adviser, shortly before the Nvidia leader, Jensen Huang, joined the presidential trip to Beijing at Mr. Trump’s invitation. It marked at least the second time in seven months that the president had been told of intelligence about Mr. Huang’s involvement with the woman.The existence of the previously unreported update given to Mr. Trump contradicts the president’s assertion on Monday that he had not known at the time of the trip about Mr. Huang’s relationship with the woman, who U.S. officials had concluded was working for China’s Ministry of State Security.
(Maggie HabermanJonathan SwanJulian E. BarnesAna Swanson, Tripp Mickle @ NY Times more…)Ian Duncan, Nitasha Tiku, Cat Zakrzewski @ Washington Post:
Nvidia CEO’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy could be a problem for the economyJensen Huang and Nvidia have propelled the AI boom that has lifted the stock market and driven data center construction.
Jesse Weber @ News Nation:
Jensen Huang’s case was ‘honey trap operation,’ says ex-Russian recruit
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Jason Easley:
Trump family has wiped out any of their supporters who invested in their now-crashed-out crypto
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Heather Delaney Reese:
“What about impeaching the people that ran the Vietnam War?”
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Paul Waldman:
Despite what Trump says, his movement was never that popularIn the stunning rebuke voters delivered to Donald Trump and his party in the midterm elections, some of the biggest losers were the most MAGA-friendly candidates who ran Trumpian campaigns, from Ken Paxton to Vivek Ramaswamy to Mike Collins to Darline Graham.
It was a timely reminder as the Trump era begins its final chapter: For all the profound effects the MAGA movement has had on American politics and culture, it was never particularly popular.
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Associated Press:
U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington says it no longer has the staffing to defend every habeas corpus case and will let judges rule without government opposition
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Jason Koebler @ 404 Media:
AI companies crack down on ‘reverse engineer anything.’
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Katelyn Jetelina @ Your Local Epidemiologist:
Measles elimination decision brewing, where is the fall vaccination data, and good news you might have missedApoorva Mandavilli @ NY Times:
Measles is once again endemic in the United States
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar:
The Times They Are a-Changin’“Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), 1st Black President of South Africa
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James Eagle:
Alphabet’s intriguing income statement
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Sarah Jones:
Trump’s WH Was Connecting to Company Owned by Russian Tied to Cyberattack of 2016 ElectionBefore we launch into this, I want to caution everyone not to fall into the conspiracy rabbit hole. This is potentially part of a larger story surrounding the larger Trump-Russia saga, and therefore compels coverage, but it is not evidence of any wrongdoing, but the story touches on Donald Trump’s White House and Elon Musk’s Starlink.
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Jack Buckby @ National Security Journal:
Russia Has a Problem: Researchers Have Documented a Steady Rise in ‘Double-Tap’ Strikes Since the Invasion Began
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Dan Boguslaw, Ken Klippenstein:
Hopeless? Despairing? You might be an extremist, according to the government.Shortly before the midterm election, “national security” decided that being pessimistic made you a domestic terrorist.
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Nick Clegg @ Atlantic:
For Silicon Valley leaders, cozying up to the Trump administration has led to a series of spectacular failures
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