Новости за 18.11.2022

Republicans are doubling down on the strategy that helped the red wave crash.

Evangelical Christians who previously backed Donald Trump are now accusing him of using them to further his own goals, after he gave them everything on their agenda.

Colorado Democrat Adam Frisch conceded to Lauren Boebert on Friday, in what came to be a shockingly close race for the House seat in Colorado’s third congressional district. While Frisch has conceded, the race is still subject to a required recount given how tight it is.

Twitter’s implosion isn’t the only astonishing story in the tech world this week. There’s also the collapse of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange led by its 30-year-old founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, who is now under investigation by federal regulators for multiple wrongdoings and by the public for reportedly being a member of what may now be the world’s most despised polycule. What’s made the FTX unraveling so shocking is that Bankman-Fried was thought to be special—the reasonable voice of a Wild West industry. Читать дальше...

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham’s relationship with Herschel Walker is, simply put, a little weird.

You probably watched or heard or saw all or some of Nancy Pelosi’s farewell speech on Thursday. If you’re a political junkie and had the time, you may have taken a few moments out of your day to lay work to the side and tune in. It was a legitimately historic moment: The woman called by many, and not without justification, the most effective speaker in the country’s history, and a historymaker at that since she was the first woman speaker, deserved a few minutes of your time.

Kari Lake is not backing down from the race for Arizona governor, but she will have to stop using Tom Petty’s music.

Picture this. You spent $44 billion on Twitter, which serves around 400 million people worldwide. Upon acquisition, you, for some reason, feel the need to haphazardly lay off half the around 7,500-person staff. Some of your ensuing made-on-a-whim decisions lead to even more staff leaving. You become fed up and decide to offer workers an ultimatum: Stay to work “extremely hardcore” hours or leave the company.

There was one notable absence from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s farewell speech: the man next presumed to take the gavel, Kevin McCarthy.

After two and a half years of the so-called Title 42 policy being used to summarily expel would-be asylum-seekers, Judge Emmet Sullivan of the D.C. District Court finally laid out in an order something that has long been painfully clear to everyone: Since its inception, this policy had nothing to do with public health and everything to do with blocking access to the asylum system.

You may have heard that Taylor Swift is going out on tour this spring for the first time in five years. When tickets for Swift’s “Eras Tour” went on sale Tuesday, computer glitches tied up Swift fans for hours, and some of these Swifties ended up having to pay more than $22,000 per ticket.

President Biden’s closing arguments for the midterms, the first national election since the January 6, 2021, insurrection, were about protecting democracy and freedom. Pundits predicted a wipeout for Democrats, blaming what they saw as excessive attention to threats to democracy.

In September 2022, a music critic named Anthony Fantano received a string of angry Instagram D.M.s from Drake. Fantano reviews new albums in short YouTube posts, in which he monologues directly at the camera, standing in front of stacked, cherry-red record shelves. In a recent post, he had likened Drake’s latest release, Honestly, Nevermind, to “a sad solo dance party.” “Your existence is a light 1,” the Canadian rapper clapped back, a reference to Fantano’s practice of rating records on a 1–10 scale. Читать дальше...

Germany is trying to save the Rhine. “Save,” in this case, means keep the river navigable for cargo ships.

As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn all step down from leading the Democratic caucus, a new trio of Democrats prepares to step up: Representatives Hakeem Jeffries of New York, Katherine Clark of Massachusetts, and Pete Aguilar of California.