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Post by mhbruin on Nov 6, 2023 9:16:49 GMT -8
I’m getting fat. It’s because I’ve had a lot on my plate recently.
Judge, It's Your Job to Control the Witness
Donald Trump is testifying in a New York court as he battles a civil fraud trial that threatens his real estate empire
He has repeatedly clashed with the judge, who asked Trump's lawyers to 'control your client'
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 6, 2023 9:22:57 GMT -8
A Few Things to Look For in Tomorrow's Election
6 PM ET: KENTUCKY (Eastern time zone);
• KY-Gov: Democrat Andy Beshear narrowly unseated unpopular Republican Gov. Matt Bevin in 2019, but Republicans are hoping that Kentucky is just too conservative for the incumbent to pull off another victory.
However, both sides are going into Election Day acting like the governor is the frontrunner against Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who would be the state's first Black governor. Even pro-Cameron groups have released surveys showing Beshear ahead, and Democrats have decisively outspent Republicans throughout the race.
7 PM ET: VIRGINIA
• VA Legislature: Every seat in the Virginia legislature is on the ballot, and the stakes are high. Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin spent the first half of his four-year term watching as the Democratic-led state Senate has blocked key parts of his agenda, including a 15-week abortion ban, and he's doing whatever he can to ensure his party wins control of the chamber. Democrats, conversely, are working to defend their Senate majority and flip the GOP-held state House of Delegates. Senators serve four-year terms, while delegates are on the ballot every two years.
Democrats, who hold a 22-18 edge in the Senate, can afford to lose only one seat because Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears can break any deadlocks for her party. Republicans, meanwhile, are defending a 52-48 majority in the state House (any vacant seats are assigned to the party that last held them). There's no tie-breaking mechanism in the House, so a power-sharing agreement would likely be needed if necessary if there's a 50-50 split.
7:30 P.M. ET: OHIO
• OH Ballot: Voters will decide the fate of Issue 1, a proposed constitutional amendment that would safeguard a range of reproductive rights, including the right to abortion. A pair of polls have found a majority in support of the "yes" side, which has enjoyed an advertising advantage.
8 PM ET: MAINE
• ME Ballot: Maine voters will decide Question 3, which would replace the state's current investor-owned energy system with a publicly owned nonprofit led by a board with seven members elected statewide who'd pick six experts to work with them.
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 6, 2023 9:25:25 GMT -8
Cue the Freakout MusicThen Get a Dose of RealityThe poll also says 49 percent of registered voters say there’s “not really any chance” they’ll support Trump, including many of the voters who seem as if they ought to be available to Democrats. But Wait! There's More!The NY Times Polls do not Pass the Sniff Test
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 6, 2023 9:30:41 GMT -8
Wow! His Son Has a Clean SlateSPEAKER OF THE House Mike Johnson admitted that he and his son monitored each other’s porn intake in a resurfaced clip from 2022. During a conversation on the “War on Technology” at Benton, Louisiana’s Cypress Baptist Church — unearthed by X user Receipt Maven last week — the Louisiana representative talked about how he installed “accountability software” called Covenant Eyes on his devices in order to abstain from internet porn and other unsavory websites. “It scans all the activity on your phone, or your devices, your laptop, what have you; we do all of it,” Johnson told the panel about the app. “It sends a report to your accountability partner. My accountability partner right now is Jack, my son. He’s 17. So he and I get a report about all the things that are on our phones, all of our devices, once a week. If anything objectionable comes up, your accountability partner gets an immediate notice. I’m proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate.” Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other’s Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 6, 2023 9:35:44 GMT -8
Russian for the Exits
Russia is suffering from a severe labor shortage. Unemployment in September was a record low of 3%, and while low unemployment sounds good in theory, economists get skittish when unemployment rates drop below 4%. That 4% represents the normal “churn” of businesses going under, people getting laid off, etc. Go much below that, and businesses are faced with having to leave positions unfilled, or filling them with underqualified workers.
How bad is the Russian labor shortage? Bad enough that they are resorting to the old Soviet practice of using widespread prison labor.
"The Russian economy is facing harsh structural challenges, including the lack of a qualified work force," Jamestown senior fellow Sergey Sukhankin said in a note on Monday. "The Kremlin has sought to integrate prison labor with certain sectors of the domestic economy to solve this issue."
The use convict labor isn't new to Russia. The practice dates back to the Soviet era's "Gulag" system, where convicts were assigned to work in the riskiest and most "lucrative" sectors of the Soviet Union's economy, Sukhankin said.
Given that the Russian military is also using convicts as cannon fodder, the question is, will there be sufficient prisoners to supply the demands of both?
Meanwhile, Russia’s lack of scientists has accelerated since the war started.
The number of scientists in Russia has decreased by around 25 percent over the past two decades, and this is hindering the country's ability to achieve "technological independence," a top Russian security official, Nikolai Patrushev, said this week
A large number of scientists and academic staff are believed to have fled the country after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and again after he announced a partial mobilization of the population last fall.
Those losses are going to hurt Russia’s long-term ability to innovate or even remain on par with other countries in scientific fields.
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Post by hasben on Nov 6, 2023 13:49:21 GMT -8
The NY Times Polls do not Pass the Sniff Test
With those poll results so bad and also so questionable why would the NYT of all places even publish it?
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 7, 2023 7:16:46 GMT -8
The NY Times Polls do not Pass the Sniff Test With those poll results so bad and also so questionable why would the NYT of all places even publish it? I don't have any direct knowledge of why, but it sure generated a TON of news coverage. It may have been some form of click bait. The NYT has done a lot of wired stuff in recent years. |
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Post by gainsborough on Nov 7, 2023 8:49:20 GMT -8
I suspect the NYT published that info as a sort of warning flag, not merely for click-bait. Complacency could be fatal, there's too much at stake, so perhaps it's good to get people riled up...
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