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Mamdani’s win just turned politics upside down, and certainly within the Democratic Party itself, which now has a chance to reinvent itself. / Garbage Day
See also: Following Pelosi’s announcement that she won’t seek reelection, some guesses as to who might fill her San Francisco-based House seat. / The Hill
“None of this is good for Republicans.” How states’ gerrymandering efforts played out on Election Day. / The Atlantic [$]
Spencer Ackerman: “Cheney, 84, picked an appropriate time to die,” tying the moment to Cheney’s actions to make the president an “elected monarch.” / The Nation
See also: Dick Cheney and the sanitizing of a war criminal. / Al Jazeera
Detainees at the Broadview ICE facility are denied counsel while they’re lied to about the consequences of deportation papers they are forced to sign. / Capital News Illinois
How the replica of the collapsible coat hanger from Raiders of the Lost Ark happened. / Gizmodo
“We are taught that a thing’s success in the marketplace directly corresponds to its value.” Shane Hilton on why he gives his books away for free. / Literary Hub
Unrelated: Internal Slack messages at OpenAI show the company deleted a pirated data set of copyrighted books, which could be intentional destruction of evidence. / Futurism
Whether or not delivery robots will reduce car pollution and accidents, they’re already on track to increase robot collisions with unsuspecting pedestrians. / Los Angeles Review of Architecture
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Scientists have various theories as to why only some leaves turn red in the fall, but if the red had always been there, we’d also get purple leaves. / NPR
A science parody of Morrissey’s “The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get” from a 1994 Bill Nye the Science Guy episode’s closing credits. / Laughing Squid
First as tragedy, then as farce, McMansion edition: Kate Wagner reflects on how once-loathsome McMansions now seem whimsical, even fantastic. / Untapped
The Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris is holding a lottery for a chance to be buried adjacent to the likes of Jim Morrison or Frédéric Chopin. / Quartz
Visitors to a Balkan cave may have discovered the world’s biggest spider web, a “colonial web formation” home to species slowly deviating from their aboveground peers. / Phys.org
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