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Florida proved an outlier state for the Republican Party on Tuesday. While GOP candidates—particularly those with far-right platforms—underperformed to expectations nationally, Florida Republicans turned out at much higher rates than Democrats, allowing the GOP to dominate the state. In Manatee County, the overall turnout was 62 percent. Turnout for registered Republicans, however, was a whopping 72 percent. Meanwhile, Democratic turnout was only 59 percent, while NPA and third-party voters turned out at just 47 percent. Statewide, Republicans turned out at 64 percent, while Democrats turned out at just 50 percent. Republicans now hold a majority of registered voters in Florida...

Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD) joined CBS’s “Face the Nation” to discuss the midterm elections with host Margaret Brennan. The Democrats stole the senate with ballot harvesting in Pennsylvania and post-Election Day ballot counting in Arizona and Nevada. The race for control of the US House is not over. By Sunday morning CNN showed the Democrats gained another seat on Saturday while the GOP stayed at 211. Rep. Raskin discussed Kevin McCarthy, the Freedom Caucus and the Republican leadership moving forward. Raskin said Republicans in the Freedom Caucus are looking for new leadership and could vote for Trump to be...

The “crypto winter” that hit earlier this year walloped digital asset prices and served as a healthy reminder that cryptocurrencies are highly risky, volatile investments. But now, in the wake of crypto exchange FTX’s implosion, crypto investors were reminded of another risk they face: Crypto accounts lack guaranteed protections when the exchange or platform provider goes belly up. Traditional savings and investment accounts can never be 100% safe in the event an institution becomes insolvent, either. But most banks and brokerages, as well as 401(k) plans, do provide federally guaranteed protections and other insurance. Crypto custodial accounts, however, do not...

In many places, searching the web is a gateway to a wider world of information, but in Russia, it is part of a system that helps trap people in an alternative reality. Shortly after 20 people were killed in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk in June, Lev Gershenzon - a former manager at Russian tech company Yandex - typed the city's name into its search engine to find out more. The results he got back shocked him. "The sources that ranked at the top of the page were strange and obscure," he told the BBC....

Crypto.com just admitted to making another very large and concerning clerical error: it mistakenly sent 320,000 in Ethereum (~$416 million USD) to another cryptocurrency exchange, called Gate.io, about three weeks ago (via Web3 Is Going Just Great). In a post on Twitter, Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek says the company was supposed to send the crypto to one of its cold, or offline, wallets, but accidentally sent it to a “whitelisted” address belonging to its corporate account at Gate.io. [competitor] Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao appeared to allude to the situation in a tweet on Sunday morning, stating: “If an exchange...

Today, we discuss updates from across the war zone; analyse the latest diplomatic news from the U.S. and Europe; and we speak about the rise and development of Russian fascism with historian Dr Ian Garner.

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the Republican Party does not have a single leader when asked if former President Donald Trump should remain as the head of the GOP. Partial transcript as follows: [cut] BRENNAN: Sure, but you lost the ballgame in the Senate. Karl Rove blamed...Should Mr. Trump remain the leader of the Republican Party? COTTON: Well, Margaret, when the party- when any party is out of power, as Republicans are now, we don’t have a single leader. The former president is obviously very popular with many of our voters– BRENNAN: He’s...

Climate activist Harrison Ford has been photographed yet again piloting one of his gas-guzzling private jets, this time on a cross-country trip to Los Angeles to celebrate his wife Calista Flockhart’s birthday. The Raiders of the Lost Ark star piloted his $18.8 million Cessna Citation Sovereign jet from New York to Tennessee to pick up his mother-in-law and then onto L.A. to celebrate his wife’s 58th birthday, according to a Daily Mail report. The three were reportedly seen disembarking from the plane in L.A. and boarding an SUV. The cross-country plane trip gave off an estimated 10.8 metric tonnes of...

House district 3 51% in R up 53-47 CA-9 Dem up but only 36% in CA-13 tied 46% in CA-21 Dem up 49% in CA-22 Rep up 39% in CA-27 Rep up 53% in CA-41 Rep barely up 53% in 3 other key races with 60-75 percent in

Democrats took a page right out of the Newt Gingrich playbook. They nationalized the midterms, and made it about abortion and losing democracy. Secondary reasons, ballot harvesting and extreme lack of funds in significant races.

RED (Retired Extremely Dangerous) is a wonderful spy drama with Bruce Willis. A retired spy's simple life is interrupted at Christmas when he's put on an Exterminate! list.

Kari Lake War Room @KariLakeWarRoom Five days now. Our team knew we won on election night. Our models showed no statistical path for @katiehobbs to overcome the margins we knew we'd gain in @maricopacounty . Five days later, they still haven't counted Maricopa County. Does this seem right to you?

The declassification and release today (November 9, 2022) of the interview with President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney conducted by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission) follows recommendations long advocated by the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB). The release of the transcript addresses one of the Boards mandates, to release records and materials of extraordinary public interest. The declassified transcript of the interview is now available at: https://www.archives.gov/files/declassification/iscap/pdf/2012-163-doc-1-release-material.pdf. “The release of this historical record regarding then President Bush and Vice President Cheney’s actions in the period leading up to and...

Maggie Hassan had an amazing night on Tuesday. The unpopular Democrat Senator routed her Republican opponent. She had such a good night that she won 1,100 votes in a community with a population under 700. It was another Democrat miracle! Granite Glok reported: We’ve got something for you if you’re looking for irregularities in your local elections. Columbia, New Hampshire. It’s way up north. A tiny little town that, according to the 2020 US Census, had 695 residents. But according to the Secretary of State, Maggie Hassan received 1,106 votes from the same town. Don Bolduc had 193 votes. The...

Republican Candidate Derrick Van Orden beat Democrat competitor Brad Pfaff in a tight competition to represent Wisconsin’s Third Congressional District. This was a Republican flip, as incumbent Representative Ron Kind (D-WY) announced he would not run for re-election.The Trump-backed Van Orden is a retired Navy Seal. He received Trump’s endorsement back in August, with Trump offering high praise as he did so:“Derrick Van Orden is running for Congress in Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District. Derrick is a former Navy SEAL Senior Chief who bravely served and defended our Country. He strongly supports our Military, Veterans, Law Enforcement, and he will always...

The new Kingston Rent Guidelines Board made history Wednesday for the second time this year, approving New York state’s first rent rollback for stabilized tenants. The 15 percent reduction applies to renters of 1,200 apartments in 64 rent-stabilized buildings with leases between Aug. 1 of this year and Sept. 30 of next. On top of that cut, the board set a three-year lookback period for tenants to challenge their base rent if they believe it was higher than the fair market price. If a challenge succeeds, future adjustments would be applied to that lower rent. In July, Kingston became the...

Maricopa County dumped another ballot drop of about 85,000 ballots at 6 pm, with 51.8% favoring Kari Lake. Charlie Kirk tweeted that this would be the last “ugly drop” from Maricopa County. In other words, according to Kirk, Lake won the “ugly drop.”

Mary Trump predicted Sunday on MSNBC’s “Velshi” that if her uncle, former President Donald Trump, were not the leader of the Republican Party, he would “burn everything down.” Anchor Ali Velshi said, “What do you think happens here?” Donald Trump wants to be relevant in the face of an election that has done something for him he never wanted: it has proved that he is potentially less relevant, and he thinks he is. How do you square those things? You maintain that he maintains the dangerousness in the Republican Party, by extension, the most dangerous person in America.”

Robert Kern, the son of a Baptist minister from Iowa, set up shop with five employees in a garage in Wales, Wis., in 1959 to make portable generators. Early customers for his Generac Corp. included farmers and construction crews. Soon all kinds of people were buying his generators under the Craftsman brand at Sears stores. Mr. Kern diversified his range to include permanently installed generators for homeowners worried about power outages. Generac also developed equipment providing backup electricity for telecom networks, hospitals and other facilities. The Y2K scare yielded a rush of demand, as did hurricanes and tornadoes. In 2006,...