Ten Commandments Judge Faces Runoff In Alabama Senate Race

“Donald Trump intends to narrow the shortlist of candidates for treasury secretary this week and is leaning toward someone with a Wall Street pedigree for the job,” Bloomberg reports.

Gabriel Sherman: “Come January 20, 2025, Trump will once again control the full force of the executive branch to carry out this threat. While that thought has raised anxiety levels the nation over, it’s caused a pronounced spike among the many veterans of Trump’s first White House who publicly broke with him.

Daniel Block: “The real problem for Democrats is that the 2024 map was only slightly harsher than usual. Going forward, every Senate election is going to be brutal. The institution is so skewed in favor of the current Republican coalition that Democrats need at least a few red-state seats to win consistent majorities.

John Heilemann: “For Democrats, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance—are typically preceded by five other stages: second-guessing, finger-pointing, blame-casting, shit-talking, and backstabbing.” “Given the enormous stakes of this year’s race, the severity of the drubbing the party took, and the unprecedented plot twists that led to Kamala Harris’s last-minute elevation to the top of the ticket, it’s no surprise that in the five days since the Democratic Armageddon, intraparty invective and inculpation has been garishly and voluminously on display—with a great deal more to come (trust me).” “But not far beneath the gratuitous nastiness are the first stirrings of the crucial but painful endeavor that most Democrats now believe, or say they believe, their party must undertake to regain its relevance in this new era: a process of deep, candid self-scrutiny, involving reform to its policies, messaging strategies, and not least, its leadership.”

OpenAI estimates that ChatGPT rejected more than 250,000 requests to generate images of the 2024 U. S. presidential candidates in the lead up to Election Day, NBC News reports.

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be “border czar” is ready to execute his boss’ immigration agenda come hell or high water, Politico reports. Tom Homan, who oversaw Trump’s controversial family separation policy as acting ICE director, said the enforcement will be the “same as it was during the first administration” but Americans can expect “a hell of a lot more” deportations this time. Homan told the Sunday Times of London: “We’re going to concentrate on the worst of the worst… It’s going to be a lot different to what the liberal media is saying it’s going to be.”