Nets may have been used to trap large numbers of fish during migrations.

We are used to the idea that imagery and language used in adverts can be used to shape gender norms, but what about music and sound?

When seeking to explain why Donald Trump won on Tuesday, it would make sense to have a more diverse set of guests than a left-wing “antiracist” author and a Republican for Harris. However, MSNBC’s Wednesday morning election coverage was determined to stay in their bubble as co-host Ana Cabreara asked author W. Kamau Bell why Americans accepted Trump’s “mean” campaign of “racism, misogyny, [and] xenophobia.” Cabrera began, “Meanwhile, there are some questions about how Trump was able to win this second term in office and the rhetoric he used as part of his campaign, as part of his pitch to the American people.”     After introducing Bell and Olivia Troye, Cabrera proceeded to ask Bell, “Donald Trump has been impeached twice, he was indicted four times, convicted on 34 felony counts, he's been found liable of sexual abuse. His campaign spewed a lot of racism, misogyny, xenophobia, but voters seem to overlook all of that. I mean, just on the last part, the kind of language we heard. It was mean. Why has that seemingly become acceptable in America?” Bell replied, “Respectfully I don't think voters overlooked it. I think voters ran towards it. I think voters loved it. I think we have found out after much want for the contrary, we live in a right-wing country. This is what it is. He's going to win the popular vote, it looks like, if I'm correct in understanding that.” The Democratic autopsy should be rather short. It should urge Democrats to get out of their bubbles and stop insulting the kind of voters they need to win, but Bell was determined to keep banging his head against the wall, “This is the country we live in. People at this point want a strong man who’s a bully, and they got a strong man who is a bully, and we, if you have any understanding of history, you're going to find out that doesn't work well, and also immigrants who you claim want to come to this country, don't go to countries with strongman bullies. They are going to find places to go, all the immigrants you claim you want and the ones you don’t want. They will find other places to go where they don’t have strongman bullies in charge.” As Cabrera said, Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts and voters still viewed him as the normal one, so what does that say about Democrats? A party that can’t deliver on economics and runs candidates who support taxpayer-funded sex changes for illegal immigrant prisoners is going to be looked at as, to use Tim Walz’s favorite word, weird, and calling people racists for the umpteenth time isn’t going to endear you to them. Here is a transcript for the November 6 show: MSNBC Reports: Decision 2024 11/6/2024 11:42 AM ET ANA CABRERA: Meanwhile, there are some questions about how Trump was able to win this second term in office and the rhetoric he used as part of his campaign, as part of his pitch to the American people and with us now is W. Kamau Bell, TV host and author of Do the Work, an antiracist activity book, and Olivia Troye, former adviser to Mike Pence, she was a member of Republicans for Harris. Kamau, Donald Trump has been impeached twice, he was indicted four times, convicted on 34 felony counts, he's been found liable of sexual abuse. His campaign spewed a lot of racism, misogyny, xenophobia, but voters seem to overlook all of that. I mean, just on the last part, the kind of language we heard. It was mean. Why has that seemingly become acceptable in America? W. KAMAU BELL: Respectfully I don't think voters overlooked it. I think voters ran towards it. I think voters loved it. I think we have found out after much want for the contrary, we live in a right-wing country. This is what it is. He's going to win the popular vote, it looks like, if I'm correct in understanding that.  This is the country we live in. People at this point want a strongman who’s a bully and they got a strongman who is a bully and we, if you have any understanding of history, you're going to find out that doesn't work well and also immigrants who you claim want to come to this country, don't go to countries with strongman bullies. They are going to find places to go, all the immigrants you claim you want and the ones you don’t want. They will find other places to go where they don’t have strongman bullies in charge. 

During the overnight hours of Tuesday into Wednesday, CBS was in the midst of an epic, hours-long meltdown over what was then the impending reelection of Donald Trump to the presidency.  Over the course of eight hours, CBS journalists heaped scorn on Americans for refusing to accept “the facts” about the Biden-Harris economy, unfairly blamed Biden for “the cost of your rent,” claimed voters lack the wherewithal to believe the president “has nothing to do with” the price of basic necessities smeared voters for refusing to take January 6 as seriously as they do, and support scary mass deportations. Below is a Notable Quotables-style complication of the worst moments (with a few quotes replaced by tweets) from CBS between the 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. Eastern hours, presented in chronological order. Whining Latinos Still Back Trump Despite His “Rhetoric” “[The Latino vote projection] sounds counterintuitive — right — given the rhetoric that we have heard from Donald Trump...One of the polls that has been the most illustrative for me from this entire campaign is the one that said that two thirds of Latinos who were surveyed, said that they believe that Donald Trump was not referring to people like them when he spoke about immigrants. And half of foreign-born Latinos said the same thing. Broadly speaking, Latinos are still overwhelmingly Democrat, but Donald Trump successfully started to get into this — this population. Many Latinos seem to find a sense of belonging in Trump’s other-ism because he talks to them the same way he talks to white supporters.” — 60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega, 10:52 p.m. Eastern.   Melting Down Over Trump Winning Despite His “Vulgarity,” Arnold Palmer Comments Vega: “I’m thinking about some of the things that we have heard over the course of this campaign and you have to give me on some of these, but, from the former president, the vulgarity that we’ve heard, talking about Arnold Palmer — we all remember that comments and the locker and doing all the Joe Rogan podcasts, and the Hulk Hogan ripping his shirt at MSG and all of this —” CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell: “The gesticulating with the microphone.” Vega: “— the gesticulation at the microphone, that — that so much of America went, um — I’m sorry, what is happening? How is that possibly going to appeal to people? And what we’re seeing tonight that it actually is not a turnoff to many people, to many of the male supporters, particularly who sat at MSG and cheered it on and that was particularly a very bro-y feel, a very dark rally that we talked about in the wake of it. And the question, was is this going to help Trump expand his base? And what you just said right now, it actually, very well may be?” O’Donnell: “Right.” Dickerson: “He won bros in North Carolina by 21 points.” — Being hit with their sad reality, 11:52 p.m. Eastern.   Kamala Donor Gayle King Laments What Trump Pick Says About America, Him Being a Babysitter CBS's Gayle King -- who donated to Kamala when she was back running in California -- argues at 12:05 a.m. that Trump appearing poised to win speaks volumes "about us as a country" and what we value and "your morals, your integrity, and your character." pic.twitter.com/enHOwMeSrU — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2024   Seething Over America Going Dangerous, Sexist Route Opposing Kamala CBS's Margaret Brennan lets the mask slip, lashing out at American voters for falling behind the world in electing a female leader when "a third of the world" already has and lamenting "as a planet," we'll have to "figure out what's next" pic.twitter.com/gp28n8wWqH — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2024 “There is a disorientation. There is, from the commander in chief question, you know, who is going to take office at the time when the world is watching this election tonight...to see who they will be dealing with when they are looking at the largest land war in Europe underway, when they are looking at the expansion of it, they’re looking at a Mid-East on fire. They’re looking at an aggressive China. And it — we are going to be digesting this as a planet when we wake up tomorrow morning to figure out what’s next. A third of the world has had a female leader. This country has not. And tonight, this was also a test of whether a woman could be a commander of chief of this country elected in a very short runway of an election against a — a man who has presented himself, despite what his national security advisers say, is about strength, as about he puts fear in other people, therefore you won’t see that realignment or that threat around the world come to these shores. That’s the package that he’s selling in the national security argument. And it’s — it’s just something to chew on tonight as we would wait to see who will get to 270. There are some major test that go, I think, beyond this moment when we talk about gender, when we talk about projections of power, and America’s role in the world.” — Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan, 12:05 a.m. Eastern.   Bonkers Discussion Dismissing Economic Pain as....Fake? A Mirage? Misplaced? King: “But it didn’t seem to matter how often you heard the economy is doing well, the job report is doing well. None of that seemed to matter. People would still say I’m paying too much for milk. I’m still paying too much for bread.” Brennan:“Well, I mean —” King: “If you can’t feel it at home, it doesn’t matter what you say.” Brennan: “— you look at this: Since Biden took office, rents in the battleground states are up 20 percent.” White House and election correspondent Ed O’Keefe: “Mmhmm.” Brennan: “That’s not because Joe Biden was elected. The cost of your rent is affected by a number of different factors, but people blame the boss. I mean, the grocery inflation, 22 percent. We were on the back end of the pandemic that completely upended the supply chains and global economy.” Dickerson: “And what the political science — what the political scientists will tell you is also voters don’t give you credit for the good things that are happening.” Brennan: “Right.” King: “Yes.” Dickerson: “The unemployment rate was lower in six of the seven battleground states under Joe Biden than under Donald Trump, leaving aside Covid. Pre-Covid, Trump unemployment was — was higher in every battleground state but Nevada. But voters don’t give you credit for things that happen. They are concerned about the plenty of things that they legitimate feel about their own economic position.” Vega: “Much to great frustration from the Biden White House. Almost from day one, they would complain to you behind the scenes that they never felt like they were never getting credit for the advancements in the economy that were happening. Even underneath him, they would scream from the rooftop. I mean, he would do press conferences or go to the battleground states, and talk about housing and they felt he never got the credit for it. There was nothing they could do to vocally challenge the microphone that Trump had on that platform.” — Conversation divorced from reality, 12:41 a.m. Eastern.   Huffing About Trump’s Plan to Secure the Border “You know, this mass deportation plan was perhaps Donald Trump’s biggest policy proposal throughout this campaign and I think a lot of folks were surprised over the course of the last few months to see how much support got among the American public and the overwhelming majority, according to a lot of polls, more than 50 percent supported this idea of mass deportation. For 60 Minutes, we sat down with the man who could end up being tasked with the carrying out of this plan, Tom Homan, who ran ICE under Donald Trump for the first year and a half. Look, there are very serious questions as we found out about whether they can actually pull this off. By some estimates, we are talking about $88 billion a year the American taxpayer would have to fund to deport him as Donald Trump has wanted to do, a million plus people a year. They say they want to start with criminals but, Norah, make no mistake, what we found in this investigation is this will end up involving people who have lived in this country for a very long time, people in the interior of the country, not just at the border.” — Vega, 1:23 a.m. Eastern.   What in the World? CBS Implies Elon Musk Is a Tool for China, Russia CBS's Margaret Brennan sounds off just after 1:30 a.m. insinuating @ElonMusk is a tool of China and Russia, adding calls to cut government regulations is "hot how our government is built" to act pic.twitter.com/3kwqIdEI6p — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2024   Tiresome Trope: Did Kamala Lose Because of Racism and Sexism? “I even hate to ask this question and I am asking this as I’m clutching my pearls, could it be a women — woman issue? When, Barack Obama suggested it, people thought — some people were offended that he even raised that issue. But do we have to realistically think about that? We’ve Hillary Clinton now and maybe even Kamala Harris. Is it — do you feel this country isn’t ready for a woman president?” — King to CBS News political contributor/former Obama official Joel Payne, 2:03 a.m. Eastern. Projection, Much? Vega Frets Trump Being Tough on Border Has Left Many “Very Scared” CBS’s Cecilia Vega melts down over Trump’s immigration plans right before he took the stage: “A lot of people are very scared tonight. When you look at the proposals that Donald Trump has laid out for a second term when it comes to just immigration alone — I’ll do this really… pic.twitter.com/5fRPpANZr0 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2024 — Vega, 2:24 a.m. Eastern. This Is How It Is: Robert Costa Doing Teaching on the Working Class In which CBS's election night crew finally admits at 336am Eastern that Republicans for Harris was not, in fact, a real thing. Bob @CostaReports also was given space to explain how voters in his native Bucks County, Pennsylvania think pic.twitter.com/vWLirWUUyq — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2024 Chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa: “What’s so notable about this election is that former President Trump believes he has not taken a election but he affirmed a movement in this country that I think back — and the Democrats are going to have a moment for the next four years when they think about their future — I — I remember sitting over breakfast with Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator 10 years ago and he told me that the future in this country would come down to the issue of class. Class more than anything — how people feel economic pain and he said it’s either going to be the Democrats or Republicans who speak to the economic pain people feel in this country and he still believes, based on my reporting, that he would have been victorious against Trump in 2016, Biden believes he would have beat Trump in 2016 because they believe they speak to that economic pain. Biden wins in 2020 with a similar coalition, trying to speak to working people but the question now is can the Democrats get back some of these people. And as — it may not be appealing to the Liz Cheney Republicans, but appealing to those like Senator Bernie Sanders, who are — who are search — we encounter in our reporting, people in this country who are not seeing themselves as political but feel pain about the future of their well-being, their families, opportunity.” King: “But Kamala Harris always talked about the working class and middle class and what she wanted to do with them.” Costa: “But it was a compressed campaign.” King: “Okay.” Costa: “Just a few weeks.” King: “Did they not believe her?” Costa: “It’s not that they didn’t believe. So many voters I met feel like they did not fully know her in terms of speaking to her — their grievances. They respected her as a Vice President of the United States, but she was a relatively low vice president — low-profile with — working with President Biden[.]” — Costa explaining American politics to King, 3:19 a.m. Eastern.   Hilarious: Dickerson Lampoons “Republicans for Harris,” Costa Explains PA Politics Dickerson: “Can I just say one other thing — one other dog that didn’t bark? Republicans for Harris. Kamala Harris spent a lot of time — campaigned a lot with Liz Cheney, only five percent of Republicans in exit polls voted for Harris. It was six percent in 2020 for Biden. All of those Republicans that were going to come over to — to the Harris campaign.” O’Donnell: “Well, she brought — she brought them all to Pennsylvania and Bucks County, weren’t they?” King: “Yes.” O’Keefe: “Yeah.” O’Donnell: “They were all on stage with her.” Costa: “I was there. I was there.” O’Donnell: “Yeah, yeah, I remember that.” Costa: “I grew up in Buck County. Look, you got to understand about the traditional Republican and Bucks County. I grew watching these people — is that they vote with their wallet. They are economically driven. They have business jobs at suburban office parks in Princeton, New Jersey, they go to New York City on New Jersey Transit everyday or down to Philadelphia on SEPTA.” O’Donnell: “Bring bagels back on the weekend.” Costa: “Everything bagel, toasted with cheese, maybe a pork roll and cheese. These are people that care about the Eagles and care about their financial interests and they care about their communities, but they are Republicans and they are Republicans because they want to pay lower taxes and they moved to Bucks County, not to Philadelphia — the city, or to New York because they want to have a good standard of living and they want to pay lower taxes. They want to not have to spend a lot of money. And so —” King: “But, Bob, where was the secret women Republican vote we kept hearing about? That they’re going to say one thing to their friends and spouses, but they’re going to get in the booth and they’re going to make another decision.” Vega: “The Post-Its on the bathroom.” Costa: “I never saw it.” Vega: “Yeah.” Costa: “I never saw it.” — Intriguing back-and-forth, 3:36 a.m. Eastern.   One Guess of What Was Kamala’s Version of Hillary’s Wisconsin? North Carolina HBCUs CBS's @EdOKeefe: "[T]here are nine HBCUs in North Carolina. Do you know how many of them she visited? One. Imagine if she had spent time doing that instead of hanging out with Liz Cheney in the Midwest? It could be a different story tonight and there will be conversations about… pic.twitter.com/mofXHMCVtP — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2024 — O’Keefe prognosticating, 3:38 a.m. Eastern.  Attempt to Admit Emphasizing January 6 Had Blow Back Goes Haywire CBS's Robert Costa admits the need for "some self-awarness here" that many voters of all persuasions view January 6 differently than he does along with journalists and the January 6 Committee. Gayle King's reaction: "How is that possible, Bob when you look at those pictures?" pic.twitter.com/po51lvqh2h — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2024 Costa: “The democracy point, I’ll show some self-awareness here. I spent a year of my life digging into January 6. I believe based on my reporting it was a serious moment in American history. You had a president of the United States work to pressure his party and his Vice President to overturn the election. Working with Bob Woodward, we reported that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff believed President Trump was in serious mental decline and was in threat of misusing the military in the final days in a way that was somewhat comparable to Nixon in concerns of August ‘74 but worse in the eyes of Milley and others. January 6, for Congresswoman Cheney, for others who have studied, the January 6 committee was a explosion in American democracy but, as a reporter, I must acknowledge even if I found it to be serious, based on my reporting, when I was on the campaign trail in 2024 and in 2022 when I was talking to Republican voters, centrist, Democratic voters even though Democrats took a bit of a different view, many voters did not process January 6, 2021 as a grave moment in American democracy. And because of that, a lot of Republican voters are not turning on the character and conduct question.” King: “Yeah.” Dickerson: “But, of course, both can be true.” King: “How is that possible, Bob, when you look at those pictures? I think that’s what many people are grappling with. You look at January 6. He characterized it as a protest of love, he characterized it as patriots yet you’re — you’re right when you say that is not how people saw it. How is it possible?” Costa: “It is possible because there are many people who amplify Trump’s point of view.” King: “Yeah. Brennan: “They thread the needle between separating him —” King: “Him.” Brennan: “— Donald Trump, from the people that carried out the violence.” — Liberal media showing more disconnect from ordinary Americans, 3:39 a.m. Eastern.   Smearing Americans Concerned About Groceries, Insist Presidents Can’t Fix Them CBS's Margaret Brennan offers deep thoughts at 405am, almost shouting at the camera mocking the American people for believing Donald Trump and his team that a president can do anything to lower the price of basic necessities at the grocery store or gas pump She then went onto… pic.twitter.com/aQPdL5ORts — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2024 Brennan: “[A]ny country I have ever covered, anywhere in the world, people vote on the three feet in front of them and the kitchen table they sit down at every day and the economic issues are just so fundamental, and the experience of that, and, you know, Norah, you said earlier, maybe we overly focused on grocery prices, it’s — I think you know, Donald Trump campaigned saying he’s going to lower the price of bacon, United States. The president of the United States has nothing to do with the price of bacon, but —” Dickerson: “Or eggs for that matter.” Brennan: “— or eggs or any of it, but it — it — it’s promising —” Dickerson: “Or gas.” Brennan: “— I get that you are comfortable —” Dickerson: “Yeah.” Brennan: “— even though the head of the Federal Reserve and those guys quite know what they are doing in Washington but they’re making your house more expensive, because they are hiking up mortgage — you know, you don’t get that, you don’t get the national number, where Joe Biden is telling you, look, inflation is moderating and coming down, but you understand your grocery cart or the gas tank and that personal experience just seems to be what, at least people are using to justify their vote for Donald Trump when they are citing the economy.” — Brennan flashing her liberal credentials, 4:05 a.m. Eastern.   Pitching Mini-Fit Over Americans Being Uneasy with Hundreds of Millions for Ukraine Brennan: “And Ukraine arguably almost became a proxy, I would — I would say, for some Republicans, as a way to argue that they were economically frustrated. Why are you spending money there? I need it here, which is — as if it were —” O’Keefe: “Which is the inverse of 20 years ago when it was as the left saying why are you spending all this money in Iraq, and holding it against George W. Bush.” Costa: “What was JD Vance’s famous word or infamous word on Steve Bannon radio show podcast? I don’t care about Ukraine. In terms of a political or foreign-policy project for the United States.” Brennan: “Whereas, we have Joe Biden and Kamala Harris arguing that this is, in many ways an existential threat to the entire western order, to democracy itself. Vladimir Putin is marching across.” Costa: “But even that phrase, western order.” Brennan: “I know.” Costa: “It’s maybe something maybe people in Washington continue to articulate is important to them, but I never hear it. The — the concept of the west, Europe, these things that galvanized American policies since World War II, you never hear it on the lips of voters.” — Back-and-forth defending Ukraine, 4:18 a.m. Eastern.   Wild Claims Americans Ignored “The Facts” on Economy to Elect Trump Here's five minutes in the 5am hour on CBS just before they finally called the election for Donald Trump in which Margaret Brennan, Norah O'Donnell, and John Dickerson smeared Americans for refusing to believe "the facts" about the economy and accepting inflation was "transitory" pic.twitter.com/OschhItcvn — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2024 — Insensitive idiocy, 5:10 a.m. Eastern.   Closing Thoughts: Linking Trump to Reagan, Fearing Fallout Among Young Girls Dickerson: “He’s a political giant, eclipsing Reagan in the Republican Party in terms of his influence. He has the — he is probably the greatest ego and sense of impulse of any president in the modern era and has fewer checks now on him when he’s in office.” O’Donnell: “Margaret Brennan?” Brennan: “The irony of it, we are talking about women's rights at the center of a campaign and we are now seeing the second woman to lose to Donald Trump in eight years and it’s something that I think will resonate with a lot of young girls and people around the world and we’re waiting to see if a female could be commander-in-chief of the most powerful country in the world.” — Final closing takes before signing off, 5:52 a.m. Eastern. To see the relevant CBS transcript from November 5 and 6 (including even more surprising and/or stupid moments), click here.

In their first broadcast since Donald Trump took back the White House overnight in a resounding victory over Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, the co-hosts of "The View" — some dressed in black as though they were attending a funeral — as expected harped and complained Wednesday morning about Trump's win.Whoopi Goldberg at one point acknowledged that Trump is "now the president" — however, she added a caveat: "I'm still not gonna say his name."'I'm profoundly disturbed that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution did not prevent someone who participated in an insurrection from becoming president of the United States.'Ana Navarro lamented that America failed to elect "the first black, Asian woman president. History slipped through our fingers again. I worked hard as hell for Donald Trump not to be president. But today, unlike Donald Trump and his followers, I acknowledge that he won."Sunny Hostin said, "I'm profoundly disturbed. I think if you look at the New York Times this morning, the headline was ‘America Makes a Perilous Choice.’ I think that in 2016 we didn’t know what we would get from a Trump administration. But we know now. And we know now he will have almost unfettered power. And so I worry — not about myself actually, I don’t worry about my station in life — I worry about the working class. I worry about my mother, a retired teacher. I worry about our elderly and their Social Security and their Medicare. I worry about my children’s future, especially my daughter who now has less rights than I have.”Hostin added: "I'm profoundly disturbed that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution did not prevent someone who participated in an insurrection from becoming president of the United States. I think that going forward that the convicted felon box on employment applications better be taken off because if you can be the president of the United States, then you should not be prevented from employment in this country."Hostin also wrung her hands about a health care system that's "now at risk" — and then she looked down and appeared to read from a screen and noted that economists say Trump will "increase the [national] debt by $7.75 trillion." She also noted concerns about "mass deportations and internment camps."“I'm surprised at the result, but I'm not surprised. As a woman of color, I was so hopeful that a mixed-race woman married to a Jewish guy could be elected president of this country,” Hostin concluded. “And I think that it had nothing to do with policy; I think this was a referendum of cultural resentment in this country.”Sara Haines and even Joy Behar — a dyed-in-the-wool Trump-hater — were more measured in their reactions. Alyssa Farah Griffin has been touted for a while as the lone Republican at the table — although she said she didn't vote for Trump — and seemed the most understanding of them all."We need to bring down the temperature, the name-calling, the demonizing," she said before adding that "it is a moment to listen to the voters. ... I didn't expect [Trump's win] to be this resounding, and I think there are some lessons from it. ... I think we forget about rural America. I think the working class feels left behind. They feel like the powerful, the elite only care about them and their power. And [Trump] spoke to them. We may not have liked his words, but they turned out for him."You can view a longer segment from Wednesday's episode of "The View" here.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Californians tired of watching thieves and drug addicts overrun their communities voted overwhelmingly to pass a measure to impose harsher penalties for certain crimes.Proposition 36, otherwise known as the Drug and Theft Crime Penalties and Treatment-Mandated Felonies Initiative, is not so much a new proposal as a means of modifying a previous one.Proposition 36 seeks to alter Proposition 47, which passed a decade ago. Under Proposition 47, theft of items worth under $950 could not be prosecuted as a felony, effectively allowing thieves to smash-and-grab their way through drug and big-box stores with little more than a slap on the wrist.'Retailers were only concerned about their bottom lines and not true criminal sentencing reform.'Prop 36 promised to change the law to increase the penalties for theft and certain drug crimes, in some cases imposing sentences of up to three years behind bars, depending on a defendant's prior criminal history. It would also make certain drug crimes "treatment-mandated felonies," which means convictions for them can be dismissed in the event an offender completes treatment, the New York Post reported.Though failed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, a former U.S. senator from California, declined to say whether she voted in favor of Prop 36, other Democrat leaders and liberal outfits in her home state previously voiced opposition to the measure."Prop 36 takes us back to the 1980s, mass incarceration — it promotes a promise that can’t be delivered," Gov. Gavin Newsom claimed.The LA Times insisted that Prop 36 would be "disastrous" for the state.KTLA revealed its disapproval of the bill by suggesting that Californians merely "perceived" a recent increase in crime in their state. The outlet also indicated that those who backed the measure had impure motives."Big box stores like Walmart were among the major financial backers of Prop 36—some argued that the retailers were only concerned about their bottom lines and not true criminal sentencing reform," it said.Still, the measure did enjoy some support from other liberals, including San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who claimed it would "make targeted but impactful changes to our laws around fentanyl and help us tackle the chronic retail theft that hurts our retailers, our workers, and our cities."The vast majority of California voters likewise supported Prop 36, which passed with nearly 71% of the 7.6 million ballots cast, according to current totals.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Democratic incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin narrowly won re-election Wednesday against Republican challenger Eric Hovde. Baldwin secured 49.4% of the vote, while Hovde brought in 48.5%, according to Politico. Although Democrats held on to the contested Wisconsin seat, Republicans have already managed to flip three seats, securing their Senate majority. Although Baldwin has won her seat by comfortable margins in the past, this race was much narrower. "The voters have spoken and our campaign has won," Baldwin said in a Wednesday post on X. "Wisconsinites chose someone who always puts them first, shows up, listens, and works with everyone to get the job done. I'm proud to head back to the Senate to keep fighting for our workers, farmers, and families that make our state great."Although Baldwin has won her seat by comfortable margins in the past, this race was much narrower. Leading up to the race, Hovde closed in on Baldwin's lead, turning her near eight-point advantage from July into less than a single-point victory on Election Day. While the votes were being counted, Hovde expressed skepticism about the election's integrity. "We’re watching the final precinct results come in," Hovde said in a Wednesday post on X. "We’re certainly disappointed that the Democrats’ effort to siphon votes with a fraudulent candidate had a significant impact on the race, with those votes making up more than the entire margin of the race right now. We will continue to monitor returns and make sure that every vote is counted."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Department of Justice has moved to end the legal cases brought against President-elect Donald Trump following his victory on Wednesday. The DOJ reportedly cannot prosecute a sitting president, requiring the agency to disband any ongoing legal cases against Trump before Inauguration Day. Special counsel Jack Smith is expected to be "gone from his post" before Inauguration Day, meaning the cases will be dropped before January 20. 'I call on Attorney General Garland, Alvin Bragg, and Fani Willis to immediately terminate the politically-motivated prosecutions of President Donald Trump.'Trump's electoral victory was announced early Wednesday morning after he successfully won North Carolina and flipped Georgia and Pennsylvania. As of this writing, Trump has also flipped Wisconsin and Michigan. Following his victory, prominent Republican voices have called for an end to the lawfare.In the aftermath of his historic victory, several Republicans called for Trump's criminal cases to be dismissed, arguing that the "American people have spoken." "The American people have rendered their verdict on President Trump and decisively chosen him to lead the country for the next four years," former Attorney General Bill Barr said in the aftermath of the election. "They did that with full knowledge of the claims against him by prosecutors around the country, and I think Attorney General Garland and the state prosecutors should respect the people’s decision and dismiss the cases against President Trump now."Trump also received bids of support from members of Republican leadership. "The American people have spoken: the lawfare must end," House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said in a post on X following Trump's victory. "I call on Attorney General Garland, Alvin Bragg, and Fani Willis to immediately terminate the politically-motivated prosecutions of President Donald Trump."In the past few years, Trump has been the subject of an onslaught of legal battles. Most recently, Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts in New York and is scheduled to be sentenced on November 26. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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