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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>In the Queue to Say Goodbye to the Queen</strong> - The Queen was waited on, and waited for, every moment of her life. In death, the tradition continues. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/in-the-queue-to-say-goodbye-to-the-queen">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Dubious Wisdom of “Smart Brevity”</strong> - The Axios founders’ new book makes the case for condensed communication—in an increasingly complex world. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/the-dubious-wisdom-of-smart-brevity">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Second Trump Term Would Be a Scary Rerun of the First</strong> - Remember those “Jurassic Park” velociraptors learning how to open the door? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/a-second-trump-term-would-be-a-scary-rerun-of-the-first">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Crowds at the Queen’s Funeral</strong> - On Monday morning, Hyde Park was like a sombre festival ground as masses gathered to pay their final respects. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/the-crowds-at-the-queens-funeral">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Legal Fight for Democracy</strong> - The attorney Marc Elias is working on two critical Supreme Court cases challenging voter suppression. He talks with The New Yorker’s Sue Halpern about the battle ahead. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/politics-and-more/the-legal-fight-for-democracy">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>The profound pessimism of Clarence Thomas</strong> -
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Associate Justice Clarence Thomas sits during a group photo of the justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on April 23, 2021. | Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images
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How “the sense of defeat over the Black freedom struggle” shaped the Supreme Court justice’s thinking.
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What does Clarence Thomas really believe?
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Thomas was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1991, after a contentious confirmation hearing, where he was accused of sexual misconduct by Anita Hill. He’s now been on the Court for three decades — longer than any other sitting justice.
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From the bench, Thomas’s hardline positions have bedeviled the left and made him a hero of the American right. Which means lots of people have strong feelings about him. But the strange thing about Thomas is that he seems to be mostly misunderstood by both his supporters and detractors — at least according to political theorist Corey Robin.
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I invited Robin to join me for an episode of <a href="https://tools.applemediaservices.com/podcast/1081584611?country=us"><em>Vox Conversations</em></a>. (Our discussion aired last month.) Robin’s a professor at Brooklyn College and he wrote a fascinating book on the life and thought of Thomas back in 2019 called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Enigma-Clarence-Thomas-Corey-Robin/dp/1627793836?ots=1&slotNum=1&imprToken=0ac15109-a8bd-9d4c-214&ascsubtag=%5B%5Dvx%5Bp%5D20657778%5Bt%5Dw%5Br%5Dgoogle.com%5Bd%5DD"><em>The Enigma of Clarence Thomas</em></a>. This past summer, he wrote <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-self-fulfilling-prophecies-of-clarence-thomas">a New Yorker piece</a> on Thomas in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn <em>Roe v. Wade</em>.
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We talk about the many contradictions in Thomas’s life, how he became an unlikely champion of modern conservatism, and why he still doesn’t believe in racial progress.
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Below is an excerpt, edited for length and clarity. As always, there’s much more in the full podcast, so listen and follow <em>Vox Conversations</em> on <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vox-conversations/id1215557536">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/search/vox%20conversations">Google Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6NOJ6IkTb2GWMj1RpmtnxP">Spotify</a>, <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/show/vox-conversations">Stitcher</a>, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Anyone who thinks they have a grip on Clarence Thomas’s worldview will likely be surprised to hear you make the claim that he’s a “Black nationalist.”
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Corey Robin
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I should say that the term “Black nationalism,” like any other political term, is very contested. People have a lot of romantic associations with the term — Third World revolution, belief in Black self-determination, belief in an authentic, distinct Black culture. And historically that has been true of some Black nationalists, but it is a very complex intellectual political tradition.
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I basically follow the Harvard philosopher Tommie Shelby’s definition, who understands it as a pragmatic tradition of Black organization that sees the fate of Black people in America as apart, as separate from, the fate of white America and even America as a whole. And that’s the form Clarence Thomas’s Black nationalism takes. It’s the belief that there’s a fundamental, irreconcilable difference that sees no end in sight.
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Sean Illing
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When Thomas was in college, he was involved with leftist Black nationalist movements, and then he pivots to the right in the ’70s. What happened?
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Corey Robin
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A couple of things: The first thing to note is that when he becomes politically active in the late 1960s, the Black freedom struggle is already in recession. 1968 is, of course, the year that Martin Luther King is assassinated. Malcolm X has been assassinated. Bobby Kennedy has been assassinated.
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And it’s also the final year where there’s really big legislative achievements for African Americans. And everything that happens after that is always less than what had come before. So the specter of defeat, the specter of loss, hangs over Clarence Thomas’s engagement with Black nationalism from the very beginning. This is not an optimistic, upward-looking movement. This is a movement that’s trying to come to terms with defeat. That’s the first thing.
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The second thing relates to this belief in a grim future. A lot of Black nationalists at this point start to focus more on the local level. They begin to experiment with what we would call forms of capitalism. They no longer believe in the power of politics. And when I say politics, I mean that broadly defined, whether it’s electoral politics, social movements, protests, radical action. What they think is that they have to find some way to achieve economic sovereignty.
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And so that is really the backdrop to Thomas’s move to the right. It’s the sense of defeat over the Black freedom struggle. And also the beginning of his engagement with forms of economic capitalist activity, which has a long history in the Black nationalist tradition, from Marcus Garvey to Malcolm X. There are parts of Malcolm X’s autobiography that talk about the importance of Black ownership of businesses and Black hiring and all that kind of stuff.
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Thomas is deeply, almost instinctively, opposed to anything that smacks of what you call, or maybe what he calls, “white paternalism.”
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Corey Robin
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You can see echoes of Malcolm X here. And I should say that he read Malcolm X’s autobiography in his freshman year of college. He had posters of Malcolm X all around his dorm room. He memorized the speeches of Malcolm X by listening to recordings.
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So Malcolm X was a really formative influence on him. And Malcolm X, like many Black nationalists, had this distinction between two types of white people. There’s the overt racist, “the wolf,” as Malcolm X calls him, who is completely honest and open in his or her racism and makes no pretense about his or her assumption of Black racial inferiority. That’s the kind of racist Thomas would’ve encountered in the South.
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Then there’s the white liberal, who’s not overtly hateful, who’s sympathetic and wants to help. But in the act of offering help will always remind you of the help that he or she has offered, will never let you forget that there but for the grace of me go you. And Malcolm X called this person “the fox.”
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Thomas has his own animal iconography that he used. He compares the copperhead to the water moccasin. But it’s the same typology. And that is the white paternalist, somebody who wants to help, but will never let you forget that he or she has helped you. And that with the helping hand that they extend with one hand, they take away with the other.
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And Thomas has this very vivid moment in his memoir where he says that he got as far as he did in the South in spite of his race. And it was very clear that everything he achieved, and not only that he achieved, but that the Black community achieved, was ours because it was in spite of our race.
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When he comes to the North, he says the message is clear: You got here because of your race. Race is a helping hand. And then he says, this is just this obfuscation, this lack of clarity, whereby we are no longer the authors of our own achievement. We have co-authors, we have helpers, we have editors, we have facilitators, and they’re all white. And this is a devastating moment of existential crisis for Thomas. It leads him to forever loathe anything that smacks of white paternalism, which he thinks is, in the end, more dangerous than white racism.
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Sean Illing
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I have a hard time understanding his belief that it’s impossible — foolish, really — to reimagine or even improve race relations. Like, I accept that racism has been a recurring feature of human life nearly everywhere, and I don’t imagine a racism-free future, but one doesn’t have to believe in that kind of fantasy to believe in the reality of progress—
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Corey Robin
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There are a couple of things I’d say about that. The first is to remember that he’s an ideologue. I don’t mean that in a pejorative sense. This is somebody who takes an idea all the way to the end. And he’s always been that way. He believes in following an idea to its logical conclusion. So that’s the first thing.
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The second thing is that we really can’t underestimate the impact of being part of a moment of social and political hope, making tremendous sacrifices, and I’m not talking about Thomas himself so much as all the Black activists and all the people who created the Black freedom struggle of which he was a part, and then seeing it defeated. And it’s a corrosive defeat. It’s the drip, drip, drip of seeing the gains go down slowly. To me, this makes it at least understandable and intelligible.
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I mean, I’ve been involved in left political circles since I was in graduate school and on a much smaller scale. And I think it’s hard to sustain hope in the face of defeat — not in the face of oppression, not in the face of injustice, but in the face of mobilizing all these people and thinking history is about to be made in a certain way. And to then see it stop.
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Destroying the legal basis of Jim Crow was obviously a massive social victory, but that was supposed to be just the beginning, that wasn’t supposed to be the end goal. And so I think it’s hard to underestimate the impact of that on people.
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He’s not just pessimistic about race, though. He’s extremely pessimistic about the very idea of government. He doesn’t believe in it. He doesn’t believe it can protect citizens.
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Right, and that’s connected with his ideas about race, because he thinks the government is always going to be government of the white majority. And if you believe that the white majority is incurably racist, there are not many possibilities here.
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How would you describe his influence on the Court since he got there more than three decades ago? I mean, this is a guy who’s often caricatured on the left, like he’s some kind of conservative patsy or something. But that is so comically wrong and misses how serious and consequential he is.
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Corey Robin
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That’s part of the enigma of Clarence Thomas to me. It’s not just that he’s this Black nationalist or conservative Black nationalist — we’ve seen that before. It’s that he’s on the Supreme Court and he’s achieved all this power and nobody seems to know it or see it.
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Sean Illing
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You said something to me a couple years ago about Thomas’s conservatism and how it’s an example of where real racial pessimism leads. This is something you thought the political left needed to wrestle with. We’re both on the left and I have to say that I think you were right to be worried. To the extent the American left is even a remotely coherent thing, I’m not sure it’s interrogated Thomas’s ideological journey and thought about how that kind of racial despair is a political dead-end—
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One of my favorite books, which you may have also read, is Albert Hirschman’s <em>The Rhetoric of Reaction.</em> Hirschman was a social scientist and economist. And he said there were three main kinds of reactionary arguments.
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One was perversity. And that is, if you try to make things better, you’re gonna make them the opposite. You’re gonna make it worse. So if you try to solve poverty, you’re just going to create more poverty.
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A second argument is jeopardy. And that is, you try to do one thing, you may achieve it, but you’re gonna jeopardize something else. So again, you try to solve the problem of poverty, but you end up destroying the Black family.
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But he said there’s a third argument. He called it “futility” and said this is the most dangerous, most toxic, most lethal conservative argument there is, in part because the left has its own version of it. And the futility argument says, you can have every revolution you want. You can have every Civil Rights Bill, every Voting Rights Act. You can have every Inflation Reduction Act you want, every Climate Change Act. But in the end, you can’t do a damn thing. It is absolutely futile. It’s hopeless. Because politics is really not a sphere that can either transform or ameliorate the human condition.
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And what Hirschman said is that the left has its own version of that argument, which we call structural arguments. A certain kind of Marxist loves to throw this gauntlet down against liberal reformers. <em>You think this bill is blah, blah, blah, but look at the structure of power!</em> I mean, I’m being very crude here and deliberately provocative, but the basic argument is that unless you deal with structure, everything is just window dressing, right? That’s the version of the argument on the left.
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And it’s not just about race. It can apply to a great many things. But I think that in the United States, at least, which is what I know best, race was always the master explainer of political futility. And so I think the left has to be really, really careful. Knowing these dangers that Hirschman talks about, knowing the role of race as a master explainer. It often carries the edge of futilitarianism.
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That’s my concern today. There’s a tendency to elevate melancholy, elevate persistence and survival — but not transformation. And I don’t think you can will hope into being. But we have to be careful on the other end. Like there’s a reason why these discourses are so prominent and persuasive and powerful. They mirror a world that we live in. And it’s hard to believe in getting yourself out of that world.
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But I think that’s where it’s not just a kind of optimism of the will. You have to start identifying chinks in the armor. Marx was always very interested in the points of vulnerability. This is why he spoke so much about crises in capitalism. And we have to do a version of that today. Because I’ve never been part of a political movement that got anywhere by telling people that nothing’s gonna change, but boy you really ought to try and go down fighting. You get some people, but you’re not gonna get the kind of power you need from it.
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<em>To hear the rest of the conversation, </em><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/4FQVBBDIQG7Tf6GH1ouFXY?si=4v4gX_-iSW2I7QwFqWOUgg"><em>click here</em></a><em>, and be sure to subscribe to </em>Vox Conversations<em> on </em><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vox-conversations/id1215557536"><em>Apple Podcasts</em></a><em>, </em><a href="https://podcasts.google.com/search/vox%20conversations"><em>Google Podcasts</em></a><em>, </em><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6NOJ6IkTb2GWMj1RpmtnxP"><em>Spotify</em></a><em>, </em><a href="https://www.stitcher.com/show/vox-conversations"><em>Stitcher</em></a><em>, or wherever you listen to podcasts.</em>
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<li><strong>The power and potential of Latino voters</strong> -
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Latino voters’ growing power, what the parties get right and wrong about them, and a brash Congress member on what Democrats need to do better.
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Throughout this edition of <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight">The Highlight</a>, Vox hopes to provide a better understanding of the complexities, contradictions, and future of the country’s 32 million Latino voters.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/lEUMltWUwyjMt9w2msjbM-9Islk=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24002452/OpenerLede.jpg"/> <cite>Katty Huertas for Vox</cite>
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23277397/latino-voters-america"><strong>America’s fastest-growing, frequently misunderstood voting bloc</strong></a>
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Every election year, plenty of Americans, especially political pundits, rediscover the “sleeping giant” that is the Latino electorate.
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<em>By Christian Paz</em>
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/LWqmw5m4CwgD9GkZzIJM291opec=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24030746/gallego.png"/> <cite>Alberto Mariani for Vox</cite>
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23323231/ruben-gallego-arizona-latino-voters"><strong>Ruben Gallego’s ready for a fight — even if the Democratic Party isn’t</strong></a>
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</h3>
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Inside the Arizona’s representative’s restless, highly online, and seriously combative plan to transform the Democratic Party.
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</p>
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<em>By Christian Paz</em>
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/X6NFnAvgutK8cGgTfVHtPbOX7Ik=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24030745/What_Happened_Border_16_9_2.png"/> <cite>Gabriella Trujillo for Vox</cite>
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<h3 id="w3zozg">
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23327900/latino-hispanic-voters-republican-2020"><strong>Democrats lost ground with Latino voters in 2020. Will the midterms be worse?</strong></a>
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</h3>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="oMWa7w">
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Republicans are slowly winning over Latino voters. Democrats may not have learned from their 2020 mistakes.
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</p>
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<em>By Ray Suarez</em>
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/hpPmiF8uelndH3tjvGs7LMpKupo=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24030748/GettyImages_1202652802.png"/> <cite>Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty Images</cite>
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<h3 id="acVenh">
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23331025/hispanic-voter-power-10-charts-midterms-2022"><strong>The power of Hispanic voters, in 10 charts</strong></a>
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</h3>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="xKYDsw">
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Hispanic voters could swing the 2022 midterms. Here’s how that might happen.
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<em>By Youyou Zhou</em>
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/4qF8buSs8q7YXxZWCquoyehq6RE=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24030750/GettyImages_1241445542.png"/> <cite>Nathan Howard/Getty Images</cite>
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<h3 id="5RvR6W">
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23329428/latina-republican-candidates-2022-red-wave"><strong>How 2022 became the year of the Latina Republican </strong></a>
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</h3>
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If there’s a red wave in 2022, it will be powered by Latina candidates.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="zIwa8N">
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<em>By Li Zhou</em>
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Pbl0bNcxRaLpJrCwEbQy75rY0NY=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24030753/AP22169027904526a.png"/> <cite>Rogelio V. Solis/AP</cite>
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23322487/abortion-latino-voters-roe-midterms-election"><strong>Yes, most Latinos are Christian. No, that doesn’t make them anti-abortion.</strong></a>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="fbi9SH">
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Why Latino voters have such a misunderstood stance on abortion.
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<em>By Nicole Narea</em>
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/tk7OG3IgQXDBOrvOe1YjT3AJlJo=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24030757/Misinformation_No_Border.png"/> <cite>Gabriella Trujillo for Vox</cite>
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<h3 id="7axv9c">
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23329139/latino-voters-misinformation-2022"><strong>Latino voters are being flooded with even more misinformation in 2022</strong></a>
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</h3>
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Democrats blamed misinformation for some of their losses with Latino voters in 2020. But the problem is getting more entwined with the party’s failures with Latinos.
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</p>
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<em>By Christian Paz</em>
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/e/23119168"><em>Esta historia también está disponible en español.</em></a>
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/snTCjuTwegPNWnli-3p4FJAWFCE=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24025853/PortraitsLede.jpeg"/> <cite>Katty Huertas for Vox</cite>
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<h3 id="wMZKDr">
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23331662/latino-voters-how-to-win-democrats-republicans"><strong>A practical guide to winning Latino voters</strong></a>
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</h3>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="cLpk8L">
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So what now? 5 experts in Latino politics weigh in.
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<em>By Natalie Jennings and Christian Paz</em>
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<strong>CREDITS </strong><br/><strong>Editors:</strong> Natalie Jennings, Sean Collins, Ryan McCarthy, Libby Nelson<br/><strong>Copy editors:</strong> Kim Eggleston, Elizabeth Crane, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Colleen Barrett, Tanya Pai<br/><strong>Art direction: </strong>Bita Honarvar, Dion Lee<br/><strong>Audience:</strong> Gabriela Fernandez, Shira Tarlo, Agnes Mazur<br/><strong>Production/project editors:</strong> Susannah Locke, Nathan Hall<br/><strong>Translation:</strong> Julie Schwietert Collazo
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<li><strong>A practical guide to winning Latino voters</strong> -
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<img alt="Illustrated portraits of the 5 experts in this piece" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/keN_l9DwepmMo9kogW9BmmjuJQ4=/600x0:4200x2700/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71356233/PortraitsLede.0.jpg"/>
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So what now? 5 experts in Latino politics weigh in.
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<em>Part of </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/e/23117070"><em><strong>The power and potential of Latino voters</strong></em></a><em>,</em><em><strong> </strong></em><em>from </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight"><em><strong>The Highlight</strong></em></a><em>, Vox’s home for ambitious stories that explain our world.</em>
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<br/>As we’ve covered throughout <a href="https://www.vox.com/e/23117070">this edition of The Highlight</a>, Democrats and Republicans recognize the urgency of appealing to the burgeoning Latino electorate. And both are still grappling with their recent successes and shortcomings with Latinos — even as they scramble to harness their potential in the upcoming midterms.
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Some common theories emerged across all of our reporting for this project: Republicans feel they have a solid strategy to keep eating into Democrats’ margins of victory with Latino voters, as they did in the 2020 election. And Democrats have a few ideas on how to course-correct — primarily by working harder to earn the support of a bloc many in the party acknowledge they’ve taken for granted.
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We asked politicians, strategists, and political scientists from across the political spectrum for their analysis of what their parties have done right and wrong with those voters, and what they should do next. Below are their theories, as described in interviews and emails with Vox staff.
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<h3 id="jaiDw3">
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What Republicans are doing better than Democrats
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<em>Giancarlo Sopo, Republican | </em><a href="http://twitter.com/giancarlosopo"><em><span class="citation" data-cites="GiancarloSopo">@GiancarloSopo</span></em></a><br/><em>Communications strategist and founder of Visto Media</em>
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<img alt="Illustrated portrait of Giancarlo Sopo" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/jbgLAxn8hiH1Dw1g8_5Vv0ZFvhI=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24002669/Vox_GiancarLosopo.jpg"/>
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The Republican National Committee’s Hispanic outreach in recent years has been strong — it made great investments in community centers across the country and they made very smart personnel decisions.
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While Democrats draw Latino talent from liberal organizations, Republicans attract Hispanic staffers and advisers with diverse backgrounds from communities across the country. This dichotomy helps explain why Republicans are demonstrating far greater cultural fluency and sophistication in their Hispanic outreach than the Democrats.
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It also helps explain why Republicans have a better grasp of where most Hispanics are at this moment. Positioning the GOP as the party of economic prosperity — while, concurrently, the Democrats were shifting away from <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/bill-clintons-recipe-for-economic-stability-inflation-poverty-incomes-biden-growth-nafta-11652802036">Clintonian “pro-growth”</a> messaging to a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/03/magazine/thomas-piketty-interview.html">Piketty-inspired focus</a> on income inequality and racial equity — is smart when you consider that from 2010 to 2019, the Hispanic poverty rate dropped by about 40 percent and Hispanics led the country <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/tedknutson/2019/10/07/latinos-taking-lead-in-small-business-start-ups/?sh=429398b63338">in the creation of new small businesses</a>.
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In politics, you have to meet people where they’re at, not where you want them to be or where you think they are. Hispanics are upwardly mobile, hard-working, and ambitious. We don’t view ourselves as “victims” in this country — on the contrary. Polling shows that Hispanics believe in the American dream and that this is the best country in the world.
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To be clear, there is still room for improvement in our Hispanic outreach. The biggest mistake Republicans make with Hispanics is not engaging us. For instance, the GOP was unlikely to ever win the 2021 California recall, but the effort could have made inroads with Hispanic voters with an eye toward the future with modest investments. That was a missed opportunity.
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Democrats need to get over their 2020 hangover
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<em>Ruben Gallego, Democrat | </em><a href="http://twitter.com/rubengallego"><em><span class="citation" data-cites="RubenGallego">@RubenGallego</span> </em></a><br/><em>U.S. Representative, Arizona’s Seventh District</em>
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<img alt="Illustrated portrait of Ruben Gallego" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Qur-OVkkrSDLIc6L4EUQfHgjO6Y=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24002686/Vox_RubenGallego.jpg"/>
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Democrats get into these loser mentalities. It freaking drives me nuts — just kind of circling the drain like, “Oh, man, we suck. We suck.” No, we won, accept the fact that we won [in 2020]. Governing is hard. We’ll have to govern. Maybe [moderate Democratic Sens.] Sinema and Manchin are screwing us now. But one or two more senators and we’re in a different territory.
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Even with this thinking that we’ve lost the Latino vote.<strong> </strong>Everyone calm the fuck down. We didn’t lose the Latino vote. We didn’t win by as much. That’s the difference. We’re not losing the Latino vote. We’re not winning it by as much as we want to.
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Now, could we do better? Absolutely. So let’s work on it, right? But let’s not doom ourselves into this, “Oh, man, we’re not going to win, and therefore we’re just not gonna invest anymore.” And then we’re just gonna really fail. Because guess what? If you’re not gonna invest in Latinos to get you over the hump and African Americans and Asian Americans, are you going to really go back to white voters that have not voted Democrat? I still think it’s important to talk to them, but you can’t give up on Latino voters. Because if you do, your task only gets harder and harder.
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Democrats can win on policy if they invest in telling Latinos where they stand
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<em>Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez, Democrat | </em><a href="https://twitter.com/cristinanextgen"><em><span class="citation" data-cites="CristinaNextGen">@CristinaNextGen</span></em></a><br/><em>President, NextGen America </em>
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<img alt="Illustrated portrait of Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/DM_wFII9foVuynWU2QqaSmhi1BY=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24002690/Vox_ChristinaTzintzunRamirez.jpg"/>
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People always ask me: “Are Latinos Republicans or Democrats?” and I say, “We’re neither. We’re poor.” And I say that whoever invests in our community and speaks to our pain and power will win our vote.
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We are the ethnic group that is the least likely to go to college. Pre-Covid, 60 percent of us were making under $15 an hour. We are the ethnic group in many states with the highest number of people that are uninsured. The policies and positions that Democrats have taken address the greatest amount of pain for the greatest number of Latino families, which is why they overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.
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The shift [toward Republicans] that you have seen is because Democrats take the Latino vote for granted. They need to invest their resources in reaching the Latino population about where they stand on the policies that most Latinos care about.
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The other thing Democrats need to do is invest in young Latinos in particular. The most common age for a white American is 55, for an African American, it’s 27. And for Latinos, it’s 11. So much of our voting power is being realized in young, new voters. That’s a whole population that Democrats can win, but they’ve got to spend the time and money reaching that electorate, and can’t just assume it’s going to come to their side.
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The No. 1 reason Latinos say they don’t vote is that no candidate ever contacted them and they didn’t know who to vote for. The data is very clear that there is underinvestment. So there’s a cyclical problem with the Latino population: Campaigns and candidates don’t invest in them because they don’t vote, and round and round we go.
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I’ll give you an example: In South Texas, which is considered to be a very traditional Latino population, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/864383155/bernie-sanders-campaign-could-provide-lessons-for-biden-latino-outreach">Bernie Sanders won</a> the 2020 Democratic primary because he spent millions of dollars and time and energy with volunteers, going out and reaching the Latino population. … Then in the general, Trump did make major gains because the Republican Party spent time and money reaching out to Latino voters.
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I don’t see it as a bad thing that a portion of the population in our community is up for grabs. I think it’s up to elected officials and the parties to make sure that they’re spending the time and money on our community that we deserve.
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Treat Hispanic voters like “normies”
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<em>Ruy Teixeira, Democrat </em><br/><em>Nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of the forthcoming book, “</em>Where Have All the Democrats Gone? The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes<em>” </em>
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Democrats would be well-served with this population by moving to the center on a variety of socio-cultural issues, from crime and immigration to ideological approaches to race and gender, assuring voters that, in fact, everyone’s free to believe what they want to believe. … We’re a patriotic party. We believe America is fundamentally good, not a racist country, and just generally do a lot of signaling that, “hey, we get it, we understand you’re normie voters, we understand what you want. We understand what you’re comfortable with.” And we as Democrats are willing to draw some lines in terms of the necessity for public safety, in terms of security for the border, in terms of the necessity to keep ideology out of the schools. We are a tolerant party, but we are not intending to push ideology to the extent that it affects your kids or your community or your safety.
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I think that would be well-received among most Hispanic voters, especially Hispanic working-class voters. That’s really what they want. They want upward mobility, they want safe communities, they want their kids to get a great education, they want good health care.
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Which brings me to another point that the Democrats should be emphasizing: what they’re doing on health care. I think an unfortunate thing about the reconciliation bill is, though it included some health care stuff, that’s getting lost in all the coverage of the climate. Climate is a low-salience issue for voters as a whole, definitely for Hispanics … even though Hispanics, like most other voting groups, are generally supportive of doing something about climate change. But in the real world, when inflation is hitting them as it is, real wages are continuing to go down and health care is even more of a problem, [Democrats should]<strong> </strong>at least emphasize the things that are a material benefit and solve real problems that Hispanic voters, particularly working-class voters, have.
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<em>Lorna Romero Ferguson, Republican | </em><a href="http://twitter.com/Lornaromero"><em><span class="citation" data-cites="LornaRomero">@LornaRomero</span></em></a><br/><em>Campaign strategist and owner of Elevate Strategies </em>
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<img alt="Illustrated portrait of Lorna Romero Ferguson" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/t16eozXqQWaUEl23JQ2dVdete5g=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24002714/Vox_LornaRomero.jpg"/>
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For Republicans to continue to make gains with Latinos, I think there are three key strategies moving forward. First, we need to continue to recruit more Republican Latinos to run for office. Representation matters for any minority group. There is a different level of motivation and engagement when someone running for office is from your community, understands your culture and upbringing, and has a similar origin story as you. …
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Second, hire more Latinos as advisers to campaigns and as official staff. Latino staffers provide critical insight and experience for community engagement. A diverse staff can better inform candidates and elected officials about effective messaging strategies and help avoid any cultural missteps (i.e. first lady Jill Biden and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94hdP5lNkg4">breakfast tacos</a>).
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Third, Latino outreach should be a consistent strategy deployed in non-election years. In order to build strong and meaningful relationships, Latino outreach cannot be an afterthought during a campaign, or something done just to “check the box.” To gain real traction, outreach efforts and relationship building must be done year-round.
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I believe Republicans will make gains this year in certain states but nothing seismic nationally. It will take time to continue to build support, but Republicans are making a real effort by opening Latino outreach field offices and building a grassroots network to inform voters about the Republican Party platform. It may not yield huge results this election cycle, but the party is investing in the infrastructure, and it will be a game changer for future elections.
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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>Preakness, Rubert, Dominant, Eyes Of Falcon and Amore work well</strong> -</p></li>
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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>Ascoval, Ashwa Magadheera, Knotty Dancer and Royal Glory please</strong> -</p></li>
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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>Rasputin and Arbitrage show out</strong> -</p></li>
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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>Kabaddi players served food stored in toilet; official suspended</strong> - Video showed the athletes who participated in the sub-junior girls' kabaddi tournament in Saharanpur being served rice and “poori” in the toilet</p></li>
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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>India aims for rare series win in England since 1999</strong> - In 1999, the Indian team had won the ODI series 2-1 with Anjum Chopra striking a hundred and a half-century.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</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>Scindia says will look into allegations that Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann was deplaned for being ‘drunk’</strong> - Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann returned from his eight-day trip from Germany on Sept. 19 where he had gone to attract investments</p></li>
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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>Anti-rabies vaccination drives on in many local bodies: Minister</strong> - ‘State has approached Supreme Court against HC order banning Kudumbashree ABC centres’</p></li>
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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>India continues to be supportive of Sri Lanka in ‘all possible ways’: High Commission</strong> - The Indian government's assistance to crisis-hit Sri Lanka has reached almost $4 billion since January this year</p></li>
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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>One farmer dying every hour in BJP rule: Congress</strong> - A farmer, who allegedly killed himself, had written that PM Modi was concerned only with himself, Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said</p></li>
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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>Security environment in neighbourhood far from ideal; must prepare for hybrid warfare: IAF chief</strong> - Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari said it is important for the Indian Air Force to enhance its capabilities across the conventional, sub-conventional and non-conventional domains.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</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>Turkey’s Erdogan: Russia’s Putin willing to end war</strong> - As Ukraine reclaims more land, the Turkish leader says Russia aims to end the war as soon as possible.</p></li>
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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>Sri Lankans freed from Russian brutality in Ukraine</strong> - Seven Sri Lankans say Russian soldiers in Ukraine subjected them to beatings and other abuse.</p></li>
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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>UK considers joining new European nations club</strong> - French President Emmanuel Macron is championing a summit of EU and non-EU countries next month.</p></li>
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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>Italy elections: Far-right Meloni scents power in a divided country</strong> - Giorgia Meloni has surged in the polls ahead of Sunday’s vote with promises on taxes and migration.</p></li>
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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>Madeleine McCann’s parents lose court challenge over detective’s book</strong> - Madeleine McCann’s parents lose a legal challenge over handling of a row involving a detective’s claims.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Big gaming companies get DHS help to keep players from becoming terrorists</strong> - Researchers target online gaming companies like Activision and Roblox. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1882731">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Apple plans a fix for “grinding,” “vibrating” iPhone 14 Pro Max cameras next week</strong> - Bug is most likely an issue with the optical image stabilization system. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1882678">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>After strong interest, VW plans to build 130,000 ID Buzzes a year</strong> - Production of the EV for European customers has already begun in Hannover. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1882707">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>iPhone 14 teardown: One key change makes it much easier to repair</strong> - iFixit calls it the biggest redesign since the iPhone X—but only on the inside. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1882610">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>AI software helps bust image fraud in academic papers</strong> - Proofig and ImageTwin software help detect fudged “Western blot” image data in academic papers. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1882596">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>A boomer, a millennial and a zoomer walk into a bar</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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Judge asks, “what’s she doing?”
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“There is nothing that could help get us out of poverty now,” says the dad as he shoots himself.
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“I can’t live without my husband,” she says as she shoots herself with her husband’s gun.
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The daughter walks outside and sees her mother, father and cow dead.
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“I can’t live any longer without my family,” she says as she jumps into the river and kills herself.
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The oldest son, 23 years old, walks outside looking for the family and sees them all dead.
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“I will bring your whole family back to life, even the cow,” she says, “if you can fuck me 5 times in a row. If not I get to kill you.”
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“I will bring your whole family back to life, even the cow,” she says, “if you can fuck me 5 times in a row. If not I get to kill you.”
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