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Payrolls increased 227,000 in November, more than expected; unemployment rate at 4.2%

Project 2025 backers will spend $1 million to pressure GOP senators to confirm Pete Hegseth
One might think that the far-right, religious radicals behind Project 2025 would take issue with Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth's well-documented track record of epic boozing, serial philandering, and sexual misconduct, what with all the dogmatic piety they drape themselves in, but said transgressions are curiously immaterial in this case. Why? Perhaps it has something to do with the former Fox News talking head's weird obsession with ushering in a new round of Christian crusades and his deeply troubling connection to the TheoBros, a group of ultra-conservative men hellbent on turning America into a 19th-century theocratic state ruled by biblical law. Deeply weird, deeply troubling stuff.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: GOP pulls shocking ploy to undo Democratic win in North Carolina
Brian Tyler Cohen and Democracy Watch co-host Marc Elias break down the especially nefarious chicanery Republicans are currently engaged in to upend the will of voters in North Carolina, where a vanquished GOP candidate is trying to disenfranchise more than 60,000 voters AFTER their ballots were cast to steal a seat on the state Supreme Court won by his Democratic opponent.

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Trump plots disastrous Day 1 attack on Biden legacy
350.org: A new POLITICO report shows that Donald Trump is planning to revive the destructive Keystone XL pipeline project as soon as he gets back into office — even though no companies are trying to build it anymore! This kind of short-sighted nihilism is exactly what we can expect from a Trump administration intent on extracting every last drop of profit out of the land, no matter how many people get hurt or how much permanent damage is done — which is why we need to start fighting back ASAP! Will you add your name to let him Trump know we won’t stand for the revival of the Keystone XL pipeline or the rest of his destructive, regressive fossil fuel agenda?

House GOP blocks release of Gaetz ethics report detailing allegations of sex with minor
The GOP-controlled House of Representatives predictably voted down two efforts by Democrats to force the chamber to release a report on former congressman-turned-Cameo-hustler Matt Gaetz from the House Ethics Committee. The full scope of the report was a mystery, but it is known to have looked into allegations that Gaetz had sex with a minor while serving as a member of Congress. The Florida gasbag has repeatedly denied the accusations he faces, which state that he had repeated sexual encounters with a then-17-year-old girl. Gaetz is seen now as a likely candidate for governor in Florida as Ron DeSantis is term-limited. Take all the time you need with that.

Anthem reverses plans to put time limits on anesthesia coverage
Welp, that didn't last long. But it does raise a few burning questions: how many bone-headed, quarterly profit-worshipping vampires had to sign off on this remarkably stupid, life-endangering policy, and will anyone be held accountable for greenlighting it? We aren't holding our breath.

Elon Musk spent a quarter-billion dollars electing Trump, including financing mysterious "RBG PAC"
A cool $250,000,000 bought the billionaire ketamine enthusiast a cushy seat at Donald's table, and he clearly has no plans to vacate it anytime soon. We can't wait to see what moronic and deeply undemocratic policies that gets him and how badly it hurts the 99%.

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How measles, whooping cough and worse could roar back on RFK Jr.'s watch
Absolutely none of this needs to be inevitable, which makes it all the more head-scratching and heartbreaking.

BTC leads collective of progressive creators with plan to take back the internet from Joe Rogan and the right-wing machine
Chorus: This election has made it painfully clear that Democrats' messages are just not getting through the tsunami of right-wing propaganda and lies flooding through social media, and we have no real answer to a Joe Rogan or a Ben Shapiro...until now! Chorus Collective is a new collaborative founded by creators like Brian Tyler Cohen, Leigh McGowan (Politics Girl), Roland Martin, David Pakman, Elizabeth Booker Houston, and Adam Mockler, who are bringing their audience of 40 million people together to create a new infrastructure to scale their voices and build support for more creators like them. Chorus aims to not only amplify progressive voices but also uplift new creators and build a left-wing social media ecosystem that supports its voices ALL the time, not just in the months leading up to an election. Will you chip in to help Chorus get off the ground and help break the right-wing stranglehold on social media?