Republicans trounced incumbent Democrats Claire McCaskill, Heidi Heitkamp, and Joe Donnelly on their way to retaining the Senate majority.
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👓 Good early sign for Democrats: Jennifer Wexton unseats GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock in Virginia | CNBC
Voters in the affluent Northern Virginia suburban district have sent Republicans to Congress for 60 of the past 66 years.
Breathing a tad easier in math class tonight now…
🎧 The Daily: The Paradoxes of John McCain | New York Times
“The Daily” looks at the senator’s complex legacy through his half-century of public life.
🎧 The Daily: Special Episode: The Last ‘Year of the Woman’ | New York Times
We speak to Senator Dianne Feinstein about why 2018 has been called the Year of the Woman, a moniker that comes from the historic elections of 1992.
🎧 The Daily: The Man Who Wrote Mueller’s Rules | New York Times
The regulations for investigating a president were devised with checks and balances in mind. That’s why Congress may have the final say.
🎧 The Daily: Implicating the President | New York Times
One former confidant entered a guilty plea. Another received a guilty verdict. Both events may have significant consequences for President Trump.
🎧 The Daily: ‘Divided,’ Part 2: The Chaos of Reunification | New York Times
The U.S. government denied that it had planned to separate migrant families. It also had no plans to bring them back together.
🎧 The Daily: ‘Divided,’ Part 1: How Family Separations Started | New York Times
“The Daily” examines the repercussions of a U.S. policy that led to more than 2,000 migrant children being separated from their parents.
🎧 The Daily: Robert Mueller’s Unlikely Witness | New York Times
Concerned that he was being set up to take the blame for possible acts of obstruction, the White House counsel started talking to investigators.
👓 Big Changes Ahead for FMA | Free Music Archive
We regret to inform you that due to a funding shortage, the FMA will be closing down later this month. The future of the archive is uncertain, but we have done everything we can to ensure that our files will not disappear from the web forever. The full audio collection will be backed up and available at https://archive.org/details/freemusicarchive (some of the collection is already there; feel free to go browse).
Internet related archives are important but fragile things. It’s sad to see when archives like this go down, particularly due to funding reasons.
👓 fisking | IndieWeb
fisking is the practice of reposting an article and interpolating commentary on between lines of it, often to mock or rebut the arguments in it..
👓 Fox News, NBC, and Facebook pulled Trump’s racist campaign ad. He’s not happy about it. | Vox
The latest controversy over Trump’s final campaign ad, explained.
👓 Election Update | Facebook Newsroom
US law enforcement contacted us about online activity that they recently discovered and believe may be linked to foreign entities.
This seems like a lot of lip service to me. I can’t imagine they’re doing much more than scratching the surface of what they should be doing.
🎧 The Daily: Nancy Pelosi’s Dilemma | New York Times
Under fire from both parties, the longtime House Democratic leader faces an uncertain political future.
🎧 The Daily: A Culture of Secrecy That Perpetuated Abuse | New York Times
A sweeping report issued by a grand jury in Pennsylvania sheds new light on the systemic nature of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.