| | | | | | | Presented By Facebook | | | | Axios AM | | By Mike Allen ·Nov 26, 2020 | | 🦃 In this generation's hardest year, we wish you peace for a day. - Something that costs nothing, but will make your day better: Cheer up someone who's lonely or frazzled. Give a sincere compliment. Tell someone they matter.
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Today's Smart Brevity™ count: 1,171 words ... 4½ minutes. | | | | | | 1 big thing ... Shutdown Thanksgiving winners: Thai food, turkey rookies |  | | | Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios | | | | The biggest companies are lapping smaller players in pandemic America, deepening inequities in business as in other areas of life, Erica Pandey writes. Winners: - Online groceries: Orders are up 560% in the past week (compared with October) as most people do their Thanksgiving dinner shopping online, according to Adobe Analytics.
- Small turkeys: There's a shortage of 8- to 16-pound birds in America as people prepare to celebrate the holiday with just their immediate families this year.
- Thai restaurants: Thai food seems to be Americans' top pandemic-era takeout choice, says marketing analytics company Zenreach. Thai restaurants are operating at 45% of normal capacity, compared with the industry average of 35%.
Losers: - Small businesses: Hundreds of thousands of small, independent businesses remain closed around the country, and close to 60% of them have now shuttered for good, according to Yelp data.
- Malls: 74% of people plan to shop online this weekend to avoid crowds, per a Deloitte survey.
- "Turkey first-timers": With so many people staying put, those who typically are dinner guests (and just show up with a bottle of wine) will attempt to cook a feast themselves, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Share this story. |     | | | | | | 2. Biden sees hard winter but promises: "This will not last forever" |  | | | President-elect Biden speaks yesterday in Wilmington. Photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP | | | | In a Thanksgiving address in Wilmington yesterday, President-elect Biden spoke bluntly but hopefully: [W]e find ourselves again, facing a long, hard winter. ... I know the country has grown weary of the fight. We need to remember we're at war with the virus, not with one another ... This is the moment where we need to instill our spines, redouble our efforts and recommit ourselves to the fight. Biden pointed out that the U.S. is now averaging 160,000+ new cases a day: No one would be surprised if we hit 200,000 cases in a single day. Many local health systems are at risk of being overwhelmed. That's the plain and simple truth. ... And I believe you always deserve to hear the truth ... from your president. ... America's not going to lose this war. We'll get our lives back. Life is going to return to normal, I promise you. ... This will not last forever. Read the speech. ... Video. | | | | | | | | 3. Our weekly map: Cases rose in 28 states |  Data: The COVID Tracking Project, state health departments. Map: Andrew Witherspoon, Sara Wise/Axios A handful of states did better this week. But for the most part, they're states that had astronomical increases this fall, Sam Baker and Andrew Witherspoon write. ⚡The Supreme Court early today ruled that pandemic restrictions on places of worship by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) violated the First Amendment. - Why it matters: The 5-4 decision is the first significant action by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who cast the deciding vote in favor of the Catholic Church and Orthodox Jewish synagogues.
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| | | | | | | | A message from Facebook | | Celebrate the ways people are giving back this holiday season | | |  | | | | We're inspired by people who show up for each other on Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. Over 45 million people have used our fundraising tools to raise more than $3 billion. This GivingTuesday, December 1st, let's celebrate the holiday season and consider giving back. Explore more ways to give | | | | | | 4. Pic du jour: Where Brussels sprouts begin |  | | | Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images | | | | Workers in Dunbar, Scotland, yesterday harvested a field of Brussels sprouts being grown for Christmas. | | | | | | | | 5. 🍽️️ If you're able to help another family today ... |  | | | How to watch. (Free today and tomorrow.) Photo: Apple via AP | | | | ... Feeding America is a quick way (1 click). - I love the "Find a Food Bank" feature: Put in your state or ZIP, and help your neighbors. I gave to D.C.'s Capital Area Food Bank that way.
- Axios data-viz editor Danielle Alberti reminds us food banks need donations all year: Setting a small recurring donation is a great way to help.
🎁 An easy, "within five minutes" gift for someone you know: Amazon has email delivery for Albertsons, Whole Foods, UberEats and more. - Play Thanksgiving Santa: Use a mutual friend to anonymously pass a grocery gift card to a family that could use the boost.
| | | | | | | | 6. Georgia is front line of GOP fight for Latinos | | Photo illustration by Justin Metz for The New York Times "Nearly one million Latinos now live in Georgia," where Senate control will be decided with a pair of runoffs on Jan. 5, "and more than 8 percent of Georgians speak Spanish at home," Marcela Valdes writes in the cover story of this weekend's New York Times Magazine: - "[T]his year, for the first time in a presidential election, the number of eligible Latino voters was greater than the number of eligible African-American voters," The Times reports.
- "In Arizona, Florida, Nevada and Texas, they may have accounted for 20 percent of the vote, and their percentages also at least doubled in Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia and Wisconsin."
Keep reading. | | | | | | | | 7. Tweet of the day | | | | | | | | | | 8. 🍗 Our Thanksgiving idea buffet | | Courtesy Ralph Tieleman Axios AM reader Ralph Tieleman shares this pic of smoked salmon from Tofino, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada: - "I usually roll up a halibut fillet, put stuffing in it and bake it for Thanksgiving. Served with wild cranberries that grow here."
Beverly Swartz writes from Fountain, Fla.: "My sister & brother live in the same house & like me are both retired. Since I can't drive they are coming to my forest, (yes, I said forest) and enjoy our typical get-together dinner — a shrimp boil with onions, potatoes & corn. Plus lemon butter." - "The shrimp are actually soaked, not boiled, in the precooked veggies with the shrimp boil spices. That's a true New Orleans Shrimp Boil, done in the forest of North Bay County, Fla."
Steve White of Silver City, N.M., writes: "My wife and I live in a rural community in New Mexico's 'boot heel.' We have been longtime volunteers at The Commons, our local food pantry." - "In mulling over how to navigate Thanksgiving during these COVID times, we decided to prepare a traditional meal for 8-10 guests. However, instead of inviting them to our home, we will be delivering Thanksgiving to theirs. At day's end, my wife and I will really enjoy our dinner!"
💬 Have some fun at dinner: On Twitter and Instagram, Axios posted ideas for non-political debates, including: - Will we have March Madness in 2021?
- Should 2020 sports championships carry asterisks?
- Is Black Friday dead?
- PS5, Xbox Series X or Switch?
| | | | | | | | 9. Remembering El Diego: The "Hand of God" goal | | Photo: El Grafico via AP On June 22, 1986, Argentina's Diego Maradona — who died yesterday at 60 — knocks a high ball past England's goalkeeper Peter Shilton, scoring his first of two goals at the World Cup quarterfinal in Mexico City. - Maradona was quoted as saying the goal came "a little with the head of Maradona and a little with the hand of God."
- Read the original AP story: 'Although there was a dispute about his first goal, which England claimed went in off of Maradona's hand, not his head, there was no arguing about his other score. It was a thing of beauty."
The globe mourned after Maradona died of a heart attack in his native Buenos Aires, two weeks after being released from a hospital following brain surgery. - Argentina's president decreed three days of national mourning,
Pelé, 80, who feuded with Maradona, said: "I have lost a dear friend, and the world has lost a legend. One day, I hope, we will play football together in the sky." 📹 See video of the "Hand of God" goal. (hat tip: Fabricio Drummond) | | | | | | | | 10. 1 smile to go | Via The Underground Grammarian, on Twitter | | | | | | | | A message from Facebook | | Support a cause like The Magic Yarn Project on GivingTuesday | | |  | | | | The Magic Yarn Project helps kids battling cancer and is one of more than 1 million nonprofits you can donate to on Facebook. On GivingTuesday, December 1, we will match up to $7 million in qualifying donations to U.S. nonprofits. See how you can make an impact | | | | 📬 Thanks for starting your holiday with us. Please invite your friends to sign up for Axios AM/PM. | |
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