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More than 353,000 North Carolina voters cast ballots in strong first day of early voting – UPI.com

North Carolina’s elections board said Friday that 353,166 people cast ballots in the state’s first day of early voting.

It exceeded the 348,599 votes cast on the first day of early voting in the 2020 presidential election and was more than double the number cast on the first day in 2016.

Source: More than 353,000 North Carolina voters cast ballots in strong first day of early voting – UPI.com

Heather Cox Richardson: Harris Won the Debate with FOX News | Diane Ravitch’s blog

…Control of the interview changed abruptly when Harris called out Trump for referring to the “enemy within” and talking about using the American military against those he considers enemies. Baier used that opportunity to show a clip of Trump saying he wasn’t threatening anyone, but the clip was edited to remove his threats against “sick,” “evil,” “dangerous” “Marxists and communists and fascists” including Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) and “the Pelosis”—presumably former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and her husband, who was attacked by a man with a hammer in 2022 by a man who wanted to force Nancy Pelosi to renounce the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. 

Harris had had enough propaganda.

“Bret, I’m sorry, and with all due respect, that clip was not what he has been saying about the enemy within that he has repeated when he’s speaking about the American people. That’s not what you just showed…. You and I both know that he’s talked about turning the American military on the American people. He has talked about going after people who are engaged in peaceful protest. He has talked about locking people up because they disagree with him. This is a democracy. And in a democracy, the president of the United States in the United States of America should be… able to handle criticism without saying he’d lock people up for doing it. And this is what is at stake, which is why you have someone like the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff saying what Mark Milley has said about Donald Trump being a threat to the United States of America.” 

Simply by going on the right-wing network, Harris was demonstrating dominance. Then, by answering as thoroughly as she did, she undercut the right-wing narrative that she is stupid and inarticulate. By calling out the FNC for deliberately misleading its viewers, she took command. Baier, rather than Harris, was the one doing the post-interview spinning.

Writer Peter Wehner, who worked for presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush, wrote: “Bret Baier has rarely looked as bad (or tendentious) as he did in his interview with Kamala Harris. On the flip side, this was one of her best interviews. She dominated Bret. All in all it was quite a bad day for MAGA world’s most important media outlet…”

Source: Heather Cox Richardson: Harris Won the Debate with FOX News | Diane Ravitch’s blog

New York Times: Trump Administration Approved Gender-Affirming Care to Prisoners! | Diane Ravitch’s blog

…the Trump administration’s record on providing services for transgender people in the sprawling federal prison system, which houses thousands of undocumented immigrants awaiting trial or deportation, is more nuanced than the 30-second spot suggests.

Trump appointees at the Bureau of Prisons, a division of the Justice Department, provided an array of gender-affirming treatments, including hormone therapy, for a small group of inmates who requested it during Mr. Trump’s four years in office…

Source: New York Times: Trump Administration Approved Gender-Affirming Care to Prisoners! | Diane Ravitch’s blog

नया सबेरा / New Dawn

हर रोज़ वही सुबह और शाम होती है,  पर खुशी और गम से जो छान होती है… वही दे देती है इतनी ताकत और सपने, कि हर सुबह लगती है कुछ नई सी लगने… 🌄🌄🌄🌄🌄🌄 …

नया सबेरा / New Dawn