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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Sam Bankman-Fried, Effective Altruism, and the Question of Complicity</strong> - Leaders of the social movement had no way to know that FTX would collapse. But they also had every incentive to ignore warnings. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/sam-bankman-fried-effective-altruism-and-the-question-of-complicity">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Hacked Newsroom Brings a Spyware Maker to U.S. Court</strong> - When Roman Gressier, an American reporter working in El Salvador, found out that he and his colleagues were being surveilled, he feared persecution and worried for his sources’ safety. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-hacked-newsroom-brings-a-spyware-maker-to-us-court-pegasus">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Wall Street Is Making Jerome Powell’s Job Harder</strong> - By prematurely celebrating a victory over inflation, investors are making it more likely that the Federal Reserve will keep rates higher for longer. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-wall-street-is-making-jerome-powells-job-harder">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The E-Mail Newsletter for the Mogul Set</strong> - The media startup Puck is aiming to build a business by covering power and wealth from the inside. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/the-e-mail-newsletter-for-the-mogul-set">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Right-Wing Zionist Digests Trump’s Anti-Semite Dinner Party</strong> - Can the former President be the “best friend Israel ever had in the White House” while also legitimatizing “Jew-haters”? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-right-wing-zionist-digests-trumps-anti-semite-dinner-party">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-vox">From Vox</h1>
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<li><strong>The Twitter power users who can’t just quit</strong> -
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<img alt="Elon Musk dressed in a gladiator-style costume, holding his arms up and out in a “look at me” gesture." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/oxJIgxOfRuKpCFPnLyQExO15x_Q=/214x0:2881x2000/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71700043/1438052951.0.jpg"/>
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk at a Halloween party. | Taylor Hill/Getty Images
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Under Elon Musk’s leadership, journalists have even more of a love-hate relationship with the platform.
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As Twitter’s new owner and CEO, Elon Musk has been <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589427115157778433">openly hostile</a> toward <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594449361651568640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1594449361651568640%7Ctwgr%5E46435b9f95171dcaeca28977530368b674f09520%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fmedia%2Felon-musk-mocks-media-claiming-neutrality-takeover-freakout-will-have-fact-check">“mainstream media”</a> journalists.
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He has said he plans to strip <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/11/4/23438917/twitter-verifications-blue-check-elon-musk">journalists of their verification check mark badges</a>, mocked major media outlets like <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586871691686223872">the New York Times</a> and <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/28/elon-musk-posts-meme-mocking-cnn-violating-his-own-twitter-rules/">CNN</a>, and allowed thousands of <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/23440075/elon-musk-twitter-layoffs-check-mark-verification">formerly suspended accounts</a> back on the platform to spew misinformation and vitriol, sometimes directed at reporters.
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But while many prominent journalists have raised concerns about Musk’s actions — and some have shifted to new social media platforms like Mastodon and Post — few have abandoned Twitter altogether.
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Since Twitter’s inception, journalists have been some of its biggest power users. They put out a steady stream of reliable information on the platform, for free — particularly around major events, from national elections to sports games — that makes Twitter a lively place for other people finding and discussing the news of the day. Their relationship with the platform tells us not only how the journalism industry is adapting to Musk’s leadership style, but also if the billionaire’s version of Twitter is landing or failing with a key constituency.
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So now that Twitter isn’t exactly courting journalists, why aren’t they leaving?
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“I mean, I’m stuck,” said freelance tech reporter Jacob Silverman, whose work has been published in outlets like the New Republic and the Washington Post. “For my beat on crypto — a lot of that stuff happens on Twitter. And that’s how people tend to find me.”
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Silverman said that, like many journalists he knows, his relationship with Twitter is “sort of tortured” and “self-indulgent.” There’s still an appeal in following whatever public spectacle is unfolding on Twitter at the moment. These days, it’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2022/11/28/23473239/elon-musk-twitter-ceo-leadership">often the chaos around Musk himself</a>.
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“Twitter is still this place sometimes where you can address powerful people or powerful people can address the public,” said Silverman. “Especially now that Musk is as addicted to the platform as anyone — in a very pathetic way — sometimes it does feel mildly cathartic to make a crack at him.”
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Some journalists, like the Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz, haven’t <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-quiet-quit-elon-musks-twitter/">quit Twitter</a>, but they’ve been posting more on other platforms. Lorenz said she moved away from Twitter years before Musk was in charge, when she started noticing more of her audience shifting to Instagram and TikTok.
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Even a reduced Twitter presence still opens journalists up to harassment. Lorenz, who has over 300,000 Twitter followers, has long dealt with hateful comments and stalkers on the platform, but said that when harassment got bad in the past, she could go to Twitter’s Trust and Safety team for support. Now that many members of that team have quit or been fired, she no longer knows whom to talk to. Since it’s part of Lorenz’s job to cover social media, she remains on the platform.
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As journalists face a less welcoming environment under Musk, some have started quietly cutting back on the platform: posting less frequently and without as much detail about their personal lives, and doing so mainly to promote their work.
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“It’s like one of those ‘why I’m leaving New York’ essays,” said Lorenz. “You never want to publicly declare anything.”
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Despite its bugs, Twitter is still an efficient news-gathering source
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One of the main reasons why journalists are still on Twitter is that it hasn’t broken yet.
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After Musk slashed Twitter’s staff by more than 75 percent with <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/18/elon-musk-talked-about-laying-off-75-of-employees-he-may-have-just-gotten-his-wish/">layoffs and resignations</a>, many worried that the platform would crash under the pressure of high usage during the US 2022 midterms and World Cup. That didn’t happen.
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Instead, Twitter has become more buggy in incremental ways. Users have reported slowness, notifications not working, and more irrelevant suggested tweets popping up. But for most journalists who are power users, it’s still usable.
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“I ain’t leaving here until it doesn’t load anymore,” Ben Collins, who reports on disinformation for NBC News, wrote to Recode in a Twitter message. “I cover the info war. This was always the primary battleground,” Collins wrote.
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For reporters whose jobs depend on finding news before it happens, Twitter — despite all its problems — is still one of the most effective ways to track breaking events, get in touch with sources, and find experts quickly.
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“I do a lot of contacting people via DMs, which I think they generally respond to more quickly than email,” said Laura Hazard Owen, editor of Nieman Journalism Lab. “And it’s less creepy than trying to find their phone number and text.”
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While Twitter doesn’t have nearly as large a user base as Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok, it does have an influential set of politicians, academics, business leaders, and other subject matter experts on the platform, who reporters need to talk to on a daily basis.
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Presumably, if the same kind of relevant sources were on another platform, reporters could reach out there. But that gets us to our next point.
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Alternatives are still too niche
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Journalists looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s Twitter who Recode spoke with have largely fled to two new apps — Mastodon and Post — but both have so far struggled to gain the same reach as Twitter.
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Mastodon is an app with similar functionality to Twitter, but with a DIY ethos run on open source technology. It’s become popular with journalists who are concerned about Musk’s leadership on Twitter and formed a “journa.host” server, which has around 2,500 active users.
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But Mastodon’s biggest limitation is its complexity; it requires some technical expertise to set up a new server. Unlike major social media outlets, Mastodon doesn’t have <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/12/musk-is-wrecking-speech-moderation-twitter-theres-an-alternative/">centralized content moderation</a>, so it relies on users to police each other — and there’s already been some infighting among journalists about what’s allowed in the journalism server, as reported in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/style/mastodon-twitter-adam-davidson.html">New York Times</a>.
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You can see how an app like this might be popular with certain crowds but struggle to find mainstream adoption at the same scale as larger social media networks. And that’s a problem for writers seeking a wide audience.
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Post is <a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/11/post-the-latest-twitter-alternative-is-betting-big-on-micropayments-for-news/">another Twitter-alternative app</a>, started by Waze co-founder Noam Bardin, it plans to allow journalists to charge for their content directly from readers. The site has a simple interface and is easy to use. But it’s still in its early beta stages and only available on a web browser. The site is also buggy: After using it for about 10 minutes, I ran into an error page after clicking on another journalist’s profile.
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It’s still too soon to measure both of these apps’ success with journalists. For now, neither has become a true competitor to Twitter.
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Some of the most prominent journalists on Mastodon and Post — like Lorenz, Collins, Kara Swisher, and Mike Masnick — also have active Twitter accounts.
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“Journalists are not there in a vacuum. They’re there to engage with senators, lawmakers, academics,” said Lorenz. “And so I think it’s really hard to rebuild that network effect on a new platform.”
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The Twitter exodus could still be coming
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Jelani Cobb, dean of Columbia Journalism School and a staff writer at the New Yorker, is one of a few prominent journalists who has quit Twitter entirely.
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Cobb first announced his departure on Twitter, and then in an essay in <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-i-quit-elon-musks-twitter">which he argued the platform</a> “now subsidizes a billionaire who understands free speech to be synonymous with the right to abuse others.”
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After he left Twitter in a very public fashion, Cobb said he was flooded with hate mail, including people calling him the n-word. He said other writers may choose to leave the platform more discreetly.
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“My theory is people may quietly quit,” said Cobb. “I also think the sentiment that I’ve heard from people is they’re sticking around to see what happens.”
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At the same time, even as Musk is reinstating some suspended far-right figures, some left-wing journalists and other public figures are being pushed off the platform. Several antifascist organizers and journalists have been suspended since Musk took over, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-ngo-antifascist/">the Intercept reported</a>.
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Andrew Lawrence, deputy director of rapid response for the left-leaning blog Media Matters, <a href="https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1598349520340934662">was suspended for “spam”</a> on Thursday morning, as NBC’s Collins noted — shortly after Lawrence tweeted a comment critical of Musk’s Neuralink project and right-wing media personality Tucker Carlson. A few hours after Lawrence was suspended, his account was reinstated.
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Collins told Recode he doesn’t know why his account was flagged as spam. It’s unclear if his suspension was intentional or a mistake (Musk had posted the night before that Twitter was <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598157971384463360">mass purging bots from the platform</a>, which may have led to some false positives), but if journalists perceive that they’re being unfairly suspended, that could cause even more uncertainty and reason to leave.
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Twitter did not return a request for comment. Under Musk, the company eliminated its communications department — another challenge for reporters trying to verify news about the platform.
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Just because journalists aren’t abandoning Twitter en masse doesn’t mean it won’t happen gradually, particularly if the platform continues to become a less welcoming place for media types.
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Twitter is a platform that at its core was always about news. Journalists provide value to the platform by tweeting reliable new information in real time, often before an article is even published. If journalists gradually start trickling away from the platform or holding back their juiciest scoops, Musk could suffer another setback in his already daunting challenge to make Twitter a financially viable company.
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<li><strong>Why Trump is still the 2024 GOP frontrunner — for now</strong> -
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Donald Trump is less popular now than he was, but he still has his base.
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There is no precedent for Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. It’s not just that it is unusual for a former president to run again after losing — the last one to do so was Grover Cleveland, who ran in 1892, long before the modern presidential primary system — but the circumstances around Trump make it even more bizarre.
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It’s not just that, unlike Trump, Grover Cleveland won the popular vote twice. Trump is also trying to return to the White House while facing multiple criminal investigations, after trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and having become the scapegoat for the GOP’s multitude of failures in the 2022 midterms.
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But he does have one thing in common with Cleveland: As the formal beginning of the nominating process begins, Trump is the frontrunner. The question is whether he can stay there.
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Just how strong is Trump?
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On one hand, Trump is <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html#polls">consistently leading the pack</a> in most public polls of the 2024 primary and has locked up roughly <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/11/17/23464534/gop-congress-trump-announcement-meh-support-2024">two dozen endorsements from members of Congress</a>. A recent nationwide poll from <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000184-a2ea-d1d1-ad8d-affbe2e40000">Politico/Morning Consult</a> showed the former president with 45 percent of the vote; Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, at 30 percent, is his closest rival in a multi-candidate field.
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It’s an enviable position far beyond those enjoyed by past frontrunners for the Republican nomination this far out in a presidential cycle. On the other hand, Trump is mired in a state of perpetual scandal. Most recently, he met with two notorious antisemites, rapper <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/10/kanye-west-presidential-campaign-was-a-warning-sign.html">Kanye West</a> and white nationalist <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/why-gop-doesnt-condemn-paul-gosar-over-nick-fuentes.html">Nick Fuentes</a>, at his private club, Mar-a-Lago. Although Trump claimed he did not know who Fuentes was, the meeting showed a return to some of his worst instincts from 2016. Letting Fuentes into Mar-a-Lago was a clear sign of poor staff work, and meeting with West, who recently threatened to “go death con 3 on Jewish People,” is not an indication of good judgment.
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Trump’s meetings with West and Fuentes aren’t necessarily a breaking point, according to conversations with over half a dozen Republicans. After all, Trump has weathered scandals that would end the career of almost any other politician — from bragging on tape about sexual assault to inciting a mob to storm the United States Capitol. But what made this most recent Trump scandal different is the fact that Trump now appears to be a loser: many of the candidates he <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23450428/donald-trump-midterm-elections-republican-red-wave">endorsed in the 2022 midterms lost</a>, and voters overwhelmingly rejected Republicans who ran on election denialism. In the Morning Consult poll that showed Trump getting support from 45 percent of voters in a GOP primary, only 34 percent of those surveyed actually wanted him to run again.
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It wasn’t necessarily that GOP voters rejected Trump’s policies or even his style. It was simply that Trump had broken one of his key campaign promises. He had long pledged that Americans “would be tired of winning.” Instead, after losing the House in 2018, the Senate and the White House in 2020, and making minimal gains in 2022, Republicans were getting tired of losing.
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What does the 2022 GOP electorate look like?
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Chris Wilson, a top Republican pollster, thought Republican presidential primary voters were still divided into four broad lanes as they were in 2016: the establishment, the Tea Party, libertarians, and evangelicals. In his view, Trump’s winning coalition in 2016 was an odd mishmash of the four categories, and the former president benefited then because he has never really faced a two-person race. In the 2016 primary, there were 17 candidates, with eventual runner-up <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/was-ted-cruz-right-about-russia-and-nord-stream-2.html">Ted Cruz</a> never getting a one-on-one matchup with Trump as a result of what Wilson termed John Kasich’s “death mission to stay in until the absolute end.”
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Wilson argued, “I do think one development that’s occurred since the last competitive primary is that you have candidates who are able to unite those different lanes under things like populism, competence, and maybe just ability to win.”
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In his view, “I think one of the lessons learned out of 2022 is that candidate quality matters a lot. And the one thing that you have to give credit to Republican primary voters for is that they may fall in love, but the one thing they love more than anything else is winning. And that is where I think you’re gonna see competence and electability play a bigger role in 2024 than it ever has before.”
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However, Wilson noted four Republican voter lanes had redefined themselves in some ways as well. He pointed out that while the libertarian lane “was smaller than it used to be in 2016,” he argued that wing of the party’s messaging was also far more resonant than it might have been before because of the pandemic. Wilson pointed to 2022, where he noted governors like DeSantis and Kevin Stitt in Oklahoma ran successful campaigns heralding their resistance to the federal government’s Covid mandates. “So in a sense, that is a libertarian message, but I think it’s almost got to be redefined” for the post-Covid-19 era, he said. In contrast, he thought one of Trump’s biggest weaknesses in a Republican primary was his handling of Covid while president and the fact that he oversaw a near-total shutdown across the country to combat the pandemic.
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What is happening in Iowa and New Hampshire?
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The situation in the two critical early states of Iowa and New Hampshire mirrors that nationally. They have different compositions and different proportions of presidential primary votes in each lane, but there is a general weariness of Trump. There was a sense that Trump had both a high floor and a low ceiling and that, at least for now, the best way to view his prospective support was roughly how he did in the 2016 primary.
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In Iowa, as David Kochel, a Republican operative with long experience in the state, noted, “there still is an active Christian Coalition base” in a state that Ted Cruz won in 2016, and many voters care about the core social conservative issues that Trump has never been the most convincing messenger on.
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Mike Biundo, a veteran Republican operative based in New Hampshire who worked for Trump in 2016, told Vox, “New Hampshire<em> </em>primary voters are very conservative and looking for someone that fights like Trump but doesn’t come with the baggage … There is no swing voter for Trump, he just has to hope to hold on to the people he has.<strong>” </strong>
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The question was whether the field would be splintered like it was in 2016, so Trump<strong> </strong>could win again. As Kochel put it, “there’s probably not a lot of difference between Trump’s floor and ceiling when you’re in early primaries and the people start to drop out and he starts to consolidate.” Soon after that, the rules of the Republican primary shift to allow states to allocate their delegates via the winner-take-all method. Any state that holds its primary after March 15 can hold a winner-take-all contest.
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So what now?
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Trump is at a uniquely weak point right now. Between the poor performance by Republicans in the midterms, his low-energy announcement kicking off his presidential campaign shortly thereafter, and the ongoing controversy over his meeting with West and Fuentes, almost everything that could go wrong for Trump over the past month has gone wrong. Further, his early announcement has left him shadowboxing. There is no opponent against whom he can spar and no contrasts that he can strike with “the Washington Swamp” that he ran against in 2016.
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But much of that will change. In the months to come, other Republicans will enter the race, the disappointment of the 2022 midterms will fade, and it is unlikely that Trump will dine with any more prominent white nationalists. The former president’s base is not what it was, but it is still substantial. The question is whether he will be able to stop the bleeding, or if his potential support will continue to ebb in the months to come.
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<li><strong>What Congress’s same-sex marriage bill actually does</strong> -
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Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), a chief sponsor of a bill protecting marriage equality, walks through the Capitol. | Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images
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It doesn’t go as far as Obergefell, but it still offers important protections.
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/11/16/23463070/senate-same-sex-marriage-vote">Congress could soon pass historic protections</a> for same-sex marriage, offering a critical safeguard if the Supreme Court were to overturn its 2015 decision that established the right.
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The Senate has already passed this legislation, known as the Respect for Marriage Act, and it now heads to the House, which is likely to approve it next week.
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The bill doesn’t go as far as Supreme Court precedent<em> </em>does, though it provides an important contingency in case that ruling, <em>Obergefell v. Hodges</em>, is ever struck down. Notably, the legislation requires states and the federal government to continue to recognize same-sex marriages regardless of what the Supreme Court chooses to do.
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That guarantee, ultimately, means Americans in same-sex marriages are shielded from states invalidating their unions and the federal government discriminating against them if past precedent were to fall.
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With the act’s passage nearing, here are the answers to four key questions about what the legislation does — and doesn’t — do.
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What will be the status of same-sex marriages after the Respect for Marriage Act has passed?
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Currently, the right to same-sex marriage is firmly established across all 50 states by the <em>Obergefell </em>decision issued by the Supreme Court in 2015.
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However, following <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/24/23176750/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-read-dobbs-decision-text">the Court’s overturn</a> of <em>Roe v. Wade </em>in their June <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization</em> decision, some lawmakers worried same-sex marriage protections could be revoked next. A <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/24/23181723/roe-v-wade-dobbs-clarence-thomas-concurrence">concurring opinion</a> from Justice Clarence Thomas in the <em>Dobbs</em> case only raised concerns that the court could revisit this case, prompting Congress to quickly advance the Respect for Marriage Act.
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The act reaffirms some of <em>Obergefell’s</em> protections by mandating that states and the federal government always recognize same-sex marriages as legally valid.
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Prior to that Supreme Court decision, <a href="https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/recognition-same-sex-gay-marriage-32294.html">a provision in the Defense of Marriage Act</a> allowed individual states to decide if they would recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. This bill explicitly targets that loophole. If a couple was married in a blue state that protected same-sex marriage, but moved to a red state that barred it, the red state would still have to recognize their marriage as legally valid.
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What the bill does not do, however, is require states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, something that <em>Obergefell</em> guarantees. Because of that, states, <a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2022/07/07/without-obergefell-most-states-would-have-same-sex-marriage-bans">more than 30 of which still have same-sex marriage bans on the books</a>, would be able to refuse to issue same-sex marriage licenses, forcing couples to travel elsewhere to obtain them.
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“It’s an important first step,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) told Vox, of the bill. “We could go one step further and ensure that every state provides an opportunity for equal marriage, but that will have to wait for another day.”
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The legislation also officially repeals the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as a legal union between a man and a woman and prevented the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages.
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While DOMA’s provisions were struck down in the 2013 <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/united_states_v_windsor_(2013)"><em>Windsor v. United States</em></a> decision and the 2015 <em>Obergefell </em>decision, this bill makes it clear that they can’t be reinstated. In doing so, it codifies federal recognition of same-sex marriages, which is vital for access to more than 1,100 government benefits related to social programs, taxes, and immigration services.
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Could <em>Obergefell</em> actually be overturned? What would happen then?
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Since <em>Obergefell </em>is a precedent established by the Supreme Court, the justices could decide to overturn it<em>. </em>This bill does not prevent them from being able to do so, but it offers protections for people in case that were to happen.
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Civil rights activists have been worried about this possibility given Thomas’s opinion. Other justices, including Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh, however, have stated that the <em>Dobbs</em> decision is not an indication that the court intends to consider other precedents that rest on similar reasoning, as <em>Obergefell </em>does.
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Could this bill get challenged in court?
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Although many legal experts note that the arguments for challenging the Respect for Marriage Act aren’t necessarily the strongest, it could still face legal action.
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According to Katherine Franke, a law professor at Columbia University, states that want to bar same-sex marriage and do not want to recognize marriages that took place in other states could try to claim that Congress does not have the authority to require them to. It would be a longshot for a case like that to be successful, however, she says.
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“It would be a radical step for a court to find the Respect for Marriage Act unconstitutional as an illegal exercise of congressional power,” Franke told Vox. “It’s just that with the radicals on the Supreme Court and in lower federal courts, it can’t be ruled out.” For those interested in undermining the bill, these challenges could be levied even if <em>Obergefell </em>remains intact, says Franke.
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Does all of this apply to interracial marriage as well?
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The legislation states that the same protections it provides for same-sex marriage apply to interracial marriage as well.
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The right to interracial marriage was established by the <em>Loving v. Virginia</em> case in 1967, which overrode state-level bans on interracial marriage, and is another precedent that <a href="https://www.insider.com/roe-wade-loving-virginia-interracial-marriage-scotus-overturns-2022-6">some civil rights advocates</a> worry could be threatened by the Supreme Court following the <em>Dobbs</em> decision.
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Were this precedent rolled back, the Respect for Marriage Act would require states and the federal government to recognize interracial marriages, and give those in such unions the same rights and benefits as those in same-sex marriages. As with same-sex marriages, the law would not require states to issue licenses for interracial marriages if they decide to restrict it.
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>BCCI likely to introduce ‘Impact Player’ in IPL after its success in Syed Mushtaq Ali T20</strong> - BCCI had put the ‘Impact Player’ system on trial during the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament in October and the move was largely welcomed, which could pave the way for its introduction in the IPL</p></li>
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