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The Democrats' National Popular Vote Push Is About Fear, Not Fairness Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact into law this week, adding her state's 13 electoral votes to a growing coalition that wants to effectively render the Electoral College a ceremonial relic. The move is strategically transparent, and it tells you almost everything you need to know about the Democratic Party's relationship with electoral math right now. The compact now covers 18 states and the District of Columbia, totaling 222 electoral votes - 82% of the...

Meanwhile, In England... Idiocy Knows No Bounds Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Mindless arson for online clout is torching farmers' livelihoods across England. Hay and straw stacks - vital winter feed and hard-earned harvest - are being deliberately set alight in a suspected TikTok challenge that treats the countryside like disposable content. West Mercia Police have circulated an urgent warning to farming groups after a string of overnight attacks. The force stated: "Following a recent spate of overnight arson attacks on hay stacks in the north of England there appears to...

Futures Drop As Yields, Oil Prices Keep Rising Futures are lower - but well off session lows thanks to some well-time oil sell orders just before US traders walked in to work - as bond yields continue to make new highs, with both Nasdaq and Russell lagging the S&P which feels like more de-risking into tomorrow's Fed release. AS of 8:15am ET, S&P and Nasdaq futures are down 0.1% amid premarket weakness in Mag7 with GOOG / META / MSFT all down at least 90bp but NVDA in the...