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| Axios AM |
| By Mike Allen ·Nov 14, 2020 |
| ☕ Happy Saturday! Today's Smart Brevity™ count: 983 words ... 4 minutes. |
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| 1 big thing: Majority of Americans find schools unequal |
 Data: Axios/Ipsos poll (±2.4% margin of error). Chart: Andrew Witherspoon/Axios Eight in 10 Americans say public education is unequal, with different outcomes based on where you live. An Axios/Ipsos poll confirms what academic studies have shown — wide disparities in access to high quality education, funding, college prep courses and counseling services. - That gap has only grown during the pandemic, as online learning has exposed the haves and have nots of America's K-12 system, with poorer districts struggling. Meanwhile, most private schools are providing in-person classroom learning.
While a majority of Americans rate their own educational experience as "good" or "excellent," they also say the time has come to provide a more accurate picture of our nation's history. - White Americans were most likely to say what they learned in school about American history was accurate (84%). Just 55% of Black Americans think so.
📱 Later today, you'll receive an Axios AM Hard Truths Deep Dive about education and race in America— the second in our series. |
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| 2. Democracy's machinery worked |
| Mail-in ballots are counted in the city clerk's office in Lansing, Mich., on election night. Photograph by Philip Montgomery for The New York Times 'The machinery of American democracy is working," Emily Bazelon writes in tomorrow's issue of The New York Times Magazine, in the conclusion of "Democracy by Mail,"a three-part series following the absentee-ballot process from printing to mailing to counting. - "About 60 million people put their ballots in a mailbox or a drop box, doubling previous totals and contributing to what is likely to be the highest turnout rate since 1900, according to estimates by the U.S. Elections Project."
Bazelon notes this remarkable truth: "[F]or the most part, mail-in balloting — and balloting at the polls, too — went smoothly." - "And yet at the same time, the administration of elections — as well as the right to vote — is fragile and facing renewed threat."
What's next: "This year's election could well be a turning point for voting by mail in America," Bazelon writes. "If election officials can begin processing ballots early, ... they have time to get in touch with voters to address mistakes on ballots and also complete the count on or close to Election Day." - "[S]mall steps, technocratic rather than visionary, ... can help increase participation and trust. Congress could set national standards and fund states to implement them."
Keep reading (subscription). - Go deeper: "The election security nightmare that wasn't," by Zach Dorfman.
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| 3. He still can't say it |
| President Trump walks into the Rose Garden yesterday. Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images In his first public remarks in eight days, President Trump gave a vaccine update in the Rose Garden and almost acknowledged the coming Biden administration, but couldn't quite do it: I will not go — this administration will not be going to a lockdown. Hopefully, the — the — whatever happens in the future — who knows which administration it will be? I guess time will tell. But I can tell you, this administration will not go to a lockdown. Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images 📺 Trump effect: President Trump continues to needle Fox News — as Axios reports he's yearning to "wreck Fox" with his own direct-to-consumer channel. It looks like it's working: CNN's Brian Stelter tweeted about a record night for Newsmax, a Fox rival and possible partner in a future Trump media venture: - For the first time, a Newsmax show "topped the 1 million viewer mark, according to Nielsen TV ratings. 'Greg Kelly Reports' averaged 1.06 million viewers at 7pm last night. Fox News averaged 2.06 million at the same hour."
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| A message from Bank of America |
| Contributing to the national conversation on race |
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| A new program from the Smithsonian Institution, supported by $25 million from Bank of America, will include online town halls featuring civil rights and social justice leaders discussing pressing topics, including the critical need for greater economic opportunity in communities of color. |
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| 4. ⚾ Baseball barrier broken |
| Kim Ng (pronounced ANG), 51, who spent three decades in MLB front offices, broke one of sports' biggest glass ceilings when the Miami Marlins hired her as GM, the Miami Herald writes. - "She is the highest-ranking woman in baseball operations among MLB's 30 teams and the second person of Asian-American descent to run a baseball team, joining the San Francisco Giants' president of baseball operations Farhad Zaidi."
Ng is believed to be "the first woman hired to a general manager position by any professional men's sports team in North America's major leagues." |
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| 5. Historians will be baffled |
| Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who rose to national prominence for her QAnon support, posted this from freshman orientation on a day when the virus was breaking records. - More than 181,100 new cases were reported nationwide yesterday, per the N.Y. Times: "It was only eight days ago that the U.S. reported its first 100,000-case day. Now the seven-day average of new daily cases is more than 140,000."
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| 6. California gov attended fancy dinner for 12 |
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| California Gov. Gavin Newsom conducts his weekly news conference on Monday. Photo: Office of the Governor via AP |
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| California Gov. Gavin Newsom admits he shouldn't have attended a birthday party with a dozen people at the French Laundry, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Napa County. - "While our family followed the restaurant's health protocols and took safety precautions, we should have modeled better behavior and not joined the dinner," Newsom said in a statement. (L.A. Times)
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the Nov. 6 event was a 50th birthday party for Newsom friend and adviser Jason Kinney. |
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| 7. 60 years ago today |
| Lucille Bridges in 2006. Photo: Steve Ueckert/Houston Chronicle via AP On November 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges — age six — integrated a white Southern elementary school when she was escorted to class in New Orleans by her mother (in the photo above) and U.S. marshals, past a mob shouting racist slurs. - The milestone was immortalized in this 1964 Norman Rockwell painting, "The Problem We All Live With."
On Tuesday, Lucille Bridges, mother of Ruby Bridges, died at age 86. - Ruby Bridges — who became an activist, author and speaker — said on Instagram: "She helped alter the course of so many lives by setting me out on my path as a six year old little girl. Our nation lost a Mother of the Civil Rights Movement."
Go deeper: RubyBridges.com. |
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| 8. 1 quiet thing: The Masters, unplugged |
| Tiger Woods tees off on the 18th hole during the first round on Thursday. Photo: Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP Not only does this year's Master's have no spectators — or "patrons," as they're called here — but also there are no ropes, the L.A. Times' Sam Farmer writes from Augusta, Ga.: - "[Y]ou're so close to the players you can hear them flipping through pages of their yardage books — yet ... you're far more likely to be disoriented and, if not careful, a distraction."
- "[Y]ou can hear the drop of a pinecone two fairways away."
Taiwan's C.T. Pan walks down the fairway on the second hole during the second round yesterday. Photo: Brian Snyder/Reuters |
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| A message from Bank of America |
| Race, community and our shared future |
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| "Our commitment to the Smithsonian will support conversations that can advance economic and social progress. Now is the time. We all must do more," says Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan about why the bank is supporting the institution's new program Race, Community and Our Shared Future. |
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