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By Hugh Jackson | Editor
The Nvidia guy has resigned and in case you haven’t noticed the kids on the internets quickly declared the obvious choice to replace him is Dana White.
IN THE NEVADA CURRENT
Mail madness. “I didn’t do heroin until I was in the Nevada Department of Corrections and never used a syringe until I was in the Nevada Department of Corrections … That heroine and that syringe did not come through the mail,” a former inmate told state prison officials. Michael Lyle reports: Inmates’ families, advocates plead with state not to block delivery of physical mail
Keystone Cops. Some of the Democratic House members who missed the Hegseth impeachment vote Tuesday said a traffic jam made them do it. Umm, ok. And Nevada’s own Steven Horsford, taking to the House floor yesterday, reiterated he had a “personal emergency,” but added “I take full responsibility.” Whatever that means (presumably he didn’t mean for the Iran war). Jeniffer Solis reports: Horsford addresses missed Hegseth impeachment vote
Well looky here. “Democrat Scott Colom has won a hard-fought U.S. Senate race in Mississippi, breaking Republicans’ dominance of statewide offices, ousting one of the state’s sitting senators for the first time since the 1940s and becoming the state’s first Black senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction.” Via Mississippi Today: Democrat Scott Colom and Mississippi voters make history, flip U.S. Senate seat
Is his heart really in it though? Guess we’ll find out. Via the D.C. bureau: Election denialism losing steam as Trump flip flops on accepting midterm results
Good Luck
ICYMI
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