memeorandum: House Democrats pile on to scrutinize DeVos (Michael Stratford/Politico)

8:20 PM ET, November 24, 2018

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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:

Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers — Parliament has used its legal powers to seize internal Facebook documents in an extraordinary attempt to hold the US social media giant to account after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly refused to answer MPs' questions.

Discussion: Global Investigative … and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »

Kara Swisher / New York Times:

Lean Out — Perhaps it's only fair that, as women like Sheryl Sandberg rise to power, they pay the price for failure. But why is everyone so ready to forgive the man who really runs Facebook? — Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer. — Suddenly, everyone wants Sheryl Sandberg to lean out.

Discussion: WTOP, Boing Boing and The Week, more at Techmeme »

Jennifer Senior / New York Times: Sheryl Sandberg Can't Have It All — The burdens and perils of the pedestal.

Ashton Pittman / Jackson Free Press:

Hyde-Smith Attended All-White ‘Seg Academy’ to Avoid Integration … JACKSON, Miss. — U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith attended and graduated from a segregation academy that were set up so that white parents could avoid having to send their children to schools with black students, a yearbook reveals.

Discussion: Raw Story, HuffPost, Mother Jones, Splinter, Washington Press, ThinkProgress, Law & Crime, Talking Points Memo and Washington Post

Jonathan Martin / New York Times:

Across South, Democrats Risk Speaking Boldly and Alienating Rural White Voters — JACKSON, Miss. — When Mike Espy, the Democrat challenging Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, faced his opponent at a debate ahead of this Tuesday's runoff election, he had to make a choice …

Quint Forgey / Politico:

Mississippi newspaper: Hyde-Smith attended segregation academy — Cindy Hyde-Smith's embattled bid for another two years in the Senate hit another race-related hurdle this weekend, as a report in a Mississippi newspaper revealed the Republican incumbent graduated high school at a segregation academy.

Discussion: Sludge and ThinkProgress

Washington Post:

Deal with Mexico paves way for asylum overhaul at U.S. border — MEXICO CITY — The Trump administration has won the support of Mexico's incoming government for a plan to remake U.S. border policy by requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims move through U.S. courts …

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Daily Mail:

Parents were ‘dismissed as racist’ by school officials when they complained about 6ft 1ins Iranian migrant posing as a 15-year-old who appeared in their children's classroom — A couple of weeks after the start of this term, pupils at Stoke High School in Ipswich were told that a new boy was joining their GCSE class.

Discussion: Daily Wire

Paul Kane / Washington Post:

Want Congress to look more like the people it serves? Provide member housing, pay staff more — Sometimes a tumultuous election creates the elements in which both sides can come together to make some common-sense decisions that might seem unpopular. — Two of those possibilities …

Discussion: Politico

Heather Caygle / Politico: It's not just Ocasio-Cortez: Here are 7 freshman Democrats to watch

Michael Stratford / Politico:

House Democrats pile on to scrutinize DeVos — For two years, Democrats watched with fury as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos sought to dismantle nearly every significant Obama administration education policy. — Now, they're gearing up to fight back. Lots of them.

Discussion: Raw Story

Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:

Texas Democrats won 47% of votes in congressional races. Should they have more than 13 of 36 seats? — Updated Saturday at 4:20 p.m. with more examples of lopsided congressional delegations in other states. — WASHINGTON — Texas Republicans collected half of the votes statewide in congressional races this month.

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:

New book by Trump advisers alleges that the president has ‘embedded enemies’ — Two of the president's longest-serving advisers allege in a new book that scores of officials inside the White House, Congress, the Justice Department and intelligence agencies are “embedded enemies of President Trump” …

New York Times:

The Website That Shows How a Free Press Can Die — BUDAPEST — Hungary's leading news website, Origo, had a juicy scoop: A top aide to the far-right prime minister, Viktor Orban, had used state money to pay for sizable but unexplained expenses during secret foreign trips.

Discussion: 444, more at Mediagazer »

Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:

Trump Claims He Already Shut Down The Border In Puzzling Exchange With Reporters — “Actually two days ago we closed the border. We said nobody's coming in because it was out of control,” president insisted. — President Donald Trump insisted — twice — in an odd exchange with reporters Thursday …

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA

The Bell — Eng:

Russia's national airline is revoking air miles from those who criticize its CEO — LIKE — Hello! Find out this week why venting on Twitter about your delayed Aeroflot flight may not be such a good idea, and what this tells us about the country's national airline.

Arthur C. Brooks / New York Times:

How Loneliness Is Tearing America Apart — When people have a hole in their life, they often fill it with angry politics. — Mr. Brooks is the president of the American Enterprise Institute. — America is suffering an epidemic of loneliness. — According to a recent large-scale survey …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and Althouse

Morgan Evans / Fox News:

Monica Lewinsky reveals Bill Clinton urged her to lie under oath: ‘I did feel uncomfortable about it’ — Monica Lewinsky has opened up for the first time about how Bill Clinton convinced her “to break the law” and lie under oath. — In the final part of the A&E docuseries “The Clinton Affair …

Discussion: Townhall, Conservative News Today and IJR

Daniel Block / Washington Monthly:

The Democrats of Trump Country — How liberals in the reddest parts of America are starting to get their groove back. — I met Frank Nolen at Armstrong's Restaurant, an unassuming grill in Verona, Virginia, located in the Shenandoah Valley near the state's western border. It was early September.

Discussion: Raw Story

J. David Goodman / New York Times:

New York State's Lawsuit Against Trump Foundation Can Proceed, Judge Rules — A state judge ruled on Friday that a lawsuit by the New York State attorney general could proceed against President Trump and the Trump Foundation over allegations of misused charitable assets …