“No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot” — Mark Twain
Deaths
US: 245,799 (+1351)
World: 1,279,184 (+9879)
Cases
US: 10,559,184 (+137,228)
World: 51,805,339 (+561,920)
Countdown: 71 days.
These are the states that have agreed to a plan to replace the Electoral College. Called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, the agreement calls for states to award their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, once enough states join the agreement. So far, 15 states and the District of Columbia have approved the pact, covering 196 electoral votes of the required 270 to win the presidency.
Republicans are laying the groundwork to make it harder to vote.
President Will Start 'Breaking Things... With A Vengeance,' Mary Trump Warns. He’ll also “go as far as he can to delegitimize the new administration, then he’ll pass pardons that will demoralize us — and sign a flurry of executive orders,” Mary Trump predicted. Though Donald Trump faces ongoing investigations into suspect finances and taxes, that’s not what the narcissist-in-chief is most concerned about, Mary Trump said. The “worst thing Donald’s looking at isn’t financial difficulties or the prospect of jail,” she said. “It’s becoming irrelevant. I don’t think he would ever recover from that.”
Multiple government agencies warned not to cooperate with Biden: report. Trump's administration has instructed senior agency officials to not cooperate with President-elect Joe Biden's transition team amid the Trump campaign's legal challenge to election outcomes in multiple battleground states.
US surpasses 1 million virus cases in November. The U.S. has surpassed 1 million new confirmed coronavirus cases in just the first 10 days of November, with more than 100,000 infections each day becoming the norm in a surge that shows no signs of slowing. -- And over 71 million people voted for Trump.
Utah, Illinois and Montana break coronavirus records.
CDC report says masks now protect wearer as well as the public. In its strongest endorsement to date about the effectiveness of masks, the CDC said "adopting universal masking policies can help avert future lockdowns, especially if combined with other non-pharmaceutical interventions such as social distancing, hand hygiene, and adequate ventilation."
Lawyers can't find the parents of 666 migrant kids, a higher number than previously reported. Nearly 20 percent, or 129, of those children were under 5 at the time of the separation, according to a source familiar with the data.
Vatican finds Pope John Paul II and others downplayed or dismissed sex abuse by ex-Cardinal McCarrick. A Vatican investigation into ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has found that a series of bishops, cardinals and popes downplayed or dismissed reports that he slept with seminarians, and determined that Pope Francis merely continued his predecessors' naive handling of the predator until a former altar boy alleged abuse.
What A Biden Presidency Could Mean For Education. Here's our overview of his policy priorities for K-12 and higher education:
A record number of Republican women will serve in the House after the GOP ate into Democratic majority.
How Corporations Force Their Way Into America’s Public Schools. In the expanding effort to privatize the nation’s public education system, an ominous, less-understood strain of the movement is the corporate influence in Career and Technical Education (CTE) that is shaping the K-12 curriculum in local communities.
Our Future: Amazon is Coming to a School Near You (Part 2). CTE, Career and Technical Education, is a rebranding of what has been traditionally called vocational education or voc-ed, only in the souped-up version, course offerings emphasize science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)...Even if the curriculum is of better quality than what these parents anticipate, the imposition of these labor market zones makes it clear to educators what the objective of their work is, Clark told me in a phone interview. “In a state like Virginia where privilege has long played a role in determining children’s futures, the expectation seems to be to steer students into programs that others have determined they are ‘suited’ for,” she said...“At the very core of the issues,” he stated, “is the question over what public schools are for. There’s an old debate over the purpose of schools as preparation for work versus the purpose of schools as preparation for children to become adults who are capable of self-governance and full public participation.”...And when Amazon announces, as it did in early 2018, that it has invested another $50 million to boost computer science education, taken steps to “grow its footprint in classrooms across all grade levels in America,” and rolled out a new comprehensive program to promote computer science from “kindergarten to career,” we should be wary. -- The ‘free-market’ is not the answer to everything.
NYPD will now allow people to wear religious head coverings in booking photos.
Kids have regressed due to COVID-19 restrictions, with some potty-trained kids going back to diapers, experts say.
Report sounds an alarm on ongoing decline of US coral reefs. A first of its kind assessment of coral reefs in U.S. waters is again sounding the alarm over the continued decline of these sensitive underwater ecosystems, which scientists deem essential to the health of the world’s oceans amid the environmental effects posed by human activity and climate change.
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