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Zachary D. Carter / The Atlantic:
The Democratic Unraveling Began With Schools  —  Republican Glenn Youngkin's victory in Tuesday's Virginia gubernatorial election was about schools.  It wasn't about Donald Trump, or inflation, or defunding the police, or Medicare for All, or President Joe Biden's infrastructure agenda.
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Virginia Results: Giving Up on Rural America Is Proving a Nightmare for Democrats  —  Margins matter.  —  About a year ago I wrote about the big “trade” that had taken place in our politics.  Democrats were picking up former Republican “red dogs” who live in the suburbs.
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Takeaways from Tuesday's elections: Bad omens for Democrats  —  The off-year elections for governor in Virginia and New Jersey tend to receive outsize attention, and the results are mined for deeper meaning about what they portend for the midterm elections the following year that determine which party controls Congress.
Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
How McAuliffe Lost Virginia  —  An uninspiring candidate with no big ideas and terrible messaging.  —  Going into the 2021 gubernatorial election in Virginia, a state that Joe Biden won by ten points, former governor Terry McAuliffe likely reasoned that he had a good chance of repeating his remarkable feat from eight years earlier:
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Let the Democratic freakout begin  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE NAIL BITER — New Jersey's gubernatorial race is still too close to call as you wake up this morning.  With 88% of the expected vote in, incumbent PHIL MURPHY is trailing Republican JACK CIATTARELLI by just over 1,000 votes.
New York Times:
Virginia Election Results  —  Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime fixture in the national Democratic Party, is seeking a new term in a race widely viewed as a bellwether for the midterm elections.  His opponent, Glenn Youngkin, a former private equity executive, has made hot-button cultural issues central to his campaign.
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
5 takeaways from Republicans' big win in Virginia and the shocker in New Jersey  —  Republican Glenn Youngkin pulled off the upset in Virginia, defeating Terry McAuliffe in the governor's race.  And in perhaps and even bigger stunner in New Jersey, Republican Jack Ciatarelli leads …
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump gloats as Virginia results come in
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
Another American Revolution in Virginia
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
With Terry McAuliffe's defeat in Virginia, the Clinton brand means basically nothing now
Discussion: National Review and Fox News
Washington Post:
Trump campaign payments for ‘command centers’ at D.C. hotels could undermine executive privilege claim in Jan. 6 investigation  —  It was a month after the 2020 presidential election, and Bernard Kerik was starting to panic.  The former New York City police chief and his friend Rudolph W. Giuliani …
Matt Friedman / Politico:
Shocker in New Jersey: Governor's race a nail-biter  —  New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli remained locked in a neck-and-neck battle early Wednesday, with the outcome too close to call in a race Democrats had long been confident about winning.
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Dem disaster: Did they lose ... *New Jersey*?
Discussion: Washington Post
Washington Post:
Biden administration blacklists NSO Group over Pegasus spyware  —  The Commerce Department said the action is part of the Biden administration's ‘efforts to put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy, including by working to stem the proliferation of digital tools used for repression.’
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Amitai Ziv / Reuters:
U.S. Blacklists Israeli Cyberarms Firms NSO, Candiru for Harming ‘National Security and Interests’  —  NSO Group and Candiru developed and supplied spyware ‘to maliciously target government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics, and embassy workers,’ the U.S. Commerce Department said in a statement
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
Eric Adams's Victory Tour Is Underway  —  The last day of a 15-month long race for mayor of New York was not boring, even the outcome of the contest was not in doubt.  Eric Adams, the Democratic nominee, made his final public appearance on a radio show — in this case, one hosted …
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Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Incoming pro-cop NYC Mayor promises a more “business-friendly environment”
Discussion: New York Post
Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
Why hundreds of QAnon supporters showed up in Dallas, expecting JFK Jr.'s return  —  In rainy Dallas with temperatures dipping into the low 60s, hundreds huddled with umbrellas, flags and signs to wait for history to be made on Tuesday.  Some even brought folding chairs.
Zach Williams / City & State New York:
Byron Brown's write-in gambit apparently worked  —  The former state Democratic Party chair worked with the GOP to seemingly defeat socialist India Walton.  —  Byron Brown at his election night party on Nov. 2.  —  When India Walton won the June Democratic mayoral primary for Buffalo mayor …
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American Greatness:   Democrats Need to Start Losing Elections—For Their Own Sake
David French / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
The Threat From the Anti-Woke Right  —  America is confronting two powerful illiberal movements.  Where you stand on their relative threats depends on where you live. … Late last week, my friends Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt published an important piece in the online journal Persuasion that contained a startling statistic.
Discussion: New York Times and The Dispatch
Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:
Widespread Coronavirus Infection Found in Iowa Deer, New Study Says  —  The analysis by Penn State and Iowa researchers strongly indicates that deer are getting the virus from humans, worrying experts about a deep wild reservoir for the virus.  —  A new study of hundreds of white-tailed deer infected …
Discussion: bioRxiv and New York Post
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Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Trump's Odds of Escaping Criminal Charges in Georgia Do Not Look Good  —  Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger confirms the ex-president threatened him over the 2020 election results while demanding he magically come up with enough votes to beat Biden.
Star Tribune:
Minneapolis voters reject plan to replace Police Department  —  Nearly 18 months after George Floyd was filmed pleading for breath under an officer's knee, community groups remain divided on how to change the system.  —  TEXT SIZE  —  MORE  —  Minneapolis voters on Tuesday rejected …
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
House GOP campaign arm expands target list after brutal night for Dems  —  The National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee expanded its offensive target list on Wednesday morning following Democrat Terry McAuliffe's loss in Virginia's gubernatorial contest and a must closer …
Jason Stanley / Rolling Stone:
Tucker Carlson's ‘Patriot Purge’ Is Too Crazy to Believe — and Too Dangerous to Ignore  —  The Fox News host's series on the Jan. 6 insurrection is a piece of fascist propaganda that wouldn't be out of place in 1930s Berlin  —  Patriot Purge, Tucker Carlson's new three-part series …
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Cincinnati elects its first Asian American mayor, Aftab Pureval  —  Aftab Pureval won Cincinnati's race for mayor on Tuesday, according to unofficial results, making the 39-year-old lawyer the first Asian American elected to lead the city.  —  Pureval defeated David Mann …
Justin Sherman / Tech Policy Press:
Facebook's Only Logic is Its Own Power  —  At the ongoing Web Summit in Lisbon, former British politician Nick Clegg, Facebook's (now Meta's) vice president of global affairs and communications, spoke Tuesday about his company's role in propagating extremism and harmful content.
Steve Leblanc / Associated Press:
Boston elects Wu, first woman and Asian American as mayor  —  BOSTON (AP) — Boston voters, marking a key milestone in the city's long political history, for the first time elected a woman and an Asian American as mayor on Tuesday, tapping City Councilor Michelle Wu to serve in the city's top political office.
 
 
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Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Administration to Order Federal Agencies to Fix Hundreds of Cyber Flaws
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Bloomberg:
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Daniel Beekman / The Seattle Times:
Bruce Harrell takes commanding lead over M. Lorena González in Seattle's mayoral race
Discussion: NPR, Fox News and Ballotpedia News
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
New 2020 Autopsy: Demographics Won't Save Democrats
Mike Carter / The Seattle Times:
Republican Ann Davison leads police abolitionist Nicole Thomas-Kennedy in Seattle City Attorney race
Glenn Greenwald:
To Protect Fauci, The Washington Post is Preparing a Hit Piece on the Group Denouncing Gruesome Dog Experimentations
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Lawrence Kudlow / New York Sun:
The Secret Democrats Refuse To Acknowledge: America's Emissions Are Dropping Faster Than Paris Targets
New York Times:
Shahana Hanif makes history as the first Muslim woman elected to the New York City Council.
Southern Poverty Law Center:
Judicial Watch Investigations Director Listed As Dues-paying Oath Keeper, Leak Shows
Miami Herald:
UF restricted five more professors in cases against the state
Philip Klein / National Review:
The Absurd Twitter Suspension of Quin Hillyer
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Hot new idea for Dems' reconciliation bill: A huge tax cut for the very rich; Update: “Beyond unacceptable”
Washington Post:
About 400 D.C. jail inmates will be transferred to a federal penitentiary in Pennsylvania because of unacceptable conditions, officials say
Discussion: Washington Examiner and WTOP
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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