Late Wednesday Afternoon Tabs
- Via The Down Ballot: Morning Digest: In stunning turnaround, Democrat takes lead in North Carolina Supreme Court race.
- Via WRAL: NC House votes to strip power from incoming Democratic governor, AG as part of Helene aid bill.
- Via Matthew Shugart at F&V: SF mayor 2024: A fragmented RCV election.
- Via the AP: Trump names Brendan Carr, senior GOP leader at FCC, to lead the agency. Carr is qualified for the position, but it is it worth nothing that he wrote the FCC chapter of Project 2025.
- Via National Review: Pete Hegseth Is a Disruptive Choice for Secretary of Defense. That’s a Good Thing. In case anyone was wondering where NR is these days, intellectually speaking.
- Even the NY Post: Please, Mr. President, ditch this dreadful duo — Gabbard and Gaetz.
- What a shame, via Mediaite: Morning Joe Hemorrhaged Viewers After Announcing Meeting With Trump.
- Via WaPo: Trump’s education pick once incorrectly claimed to have education degree.
- Via The Texas Tribune: Texas offers Starr County ranch to Trump for mass deportation plans.
The Texas General Land Office is offering President-elect Donald Trump a 1,400-acre Starr County ranch as a site to build detention centers for his promised mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, according to a letter the office sent him Tuesday.
Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said in the Tuesday letter that her office is “fully prepared” to enter an agreement with any federal agencies involved in deporting individuals from the country “to allow a facility to be built for the processing, detention, and coordination of the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation’s history.”
The state recently bought the land along the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley and announced plans to build a border wall on it. The previous owner had not let the state construct a wall there and had “actively blocked law enforcement from accessing the property,” according to the letter the GLO sent Trump.
So, inquiring Luddite’s want to know,
1. did the State pay fair market value, seize via eminent domain, or otherwise obtain this property by a sweetheart deal with the previous owner’s kin?
2. will the camp feature the sign arbeit mach frei over the gate?