The publisher of the conservative online site The Federalist violated federal labor law by threatening staff who tried to organize a union for employees, Bloomberg News reports.

FDRLST Media publisher Ben Domenech tweeted that he would send any employer who tried to form a union “back to the salt mine” when he learned there was an organizing movement at the business.

“We find that employees would reasonably view the message as expressing an intent to take swift action against any employee who tried to unionize the Respondent,” the National Labor Relations Board said in a ruling Tuesday. “In addition, the reference to sending that employee ‘back to the salt mine’ reasonably implied that the response would be adverse.”

Should President Trump concede to Biden? Poll Results: No: 190,593 (98.9%) Yes: 2,181 (1.1%) Total Votes: 192,774. @gregkellyusa @newsmax For the good of our Country we must prevail!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 25, 2020

The Republican candidate for the Michigan Senate seat, John James, has finally conceded the race, ensuring that incumbent Democrat Gary Peters keeps the seat, the Detroit News reports.

Peters had a 92,000 vote lead in the state with less than 2% of the vote reportedly still outstanding.

Control of the Senate will fall to the outcome of two Georgia runoff elections.  Currently, the GOP holds a 50-48 advantage in the Senate.

The social media app Parler, which has become the home for wayward Red Hats in the wake of their anger over Facebook and Twitter factchecking the lies of Trump and his ilk, has been hacked.

https://twitter.com/kevinabosch/status/1331339530318843911

Reportedly, the hack occured because the Parler developers didn’t encrypt its database credentials, allowing anyone with access to its API to find the passwords to its servers.  Direct messages and other personal information have been released. (A “zero day exploit” means that the hack occurred the same day it was discovered, likely by the hacker.)

According to the New York Times election tracker, Democratic President-elect Joe Biden has now tallied more than 80 million votes nationally in the November 3rd presidential election.  He holds a 6.2 million vote advantage over lame duck president Donald Trump, as well as a “historic” 306-232 advantage in the Electoral College.

The 80 million votes is the most cast for any candidate in American history.  Biden holds 51.0 of the popular vote versus 47.1 for Trump.  Trump earned a lower percentage of the vote than Mitt Romney got in his losing 2012 campaign.

Washington Post: “The Trump campaign legal team claimed that GOP-led legislatures in three Biden-won states are holding hearings on possible voter fraud, but Arizona lawmakers say no such hearing is scheduled.”

“The campaign said Arizona would hold a hearing on Nov. 30, but spokesmen for the Arizona GOP caucuses confirmed that neither the House speaker nor the Senate president had authorized any such hearing. The other two states, Pennsylvania and Michigan, have previously scheduled hearings on the election, though both have already certified Biden the winner. Arizona is expected to certify Biden’s win on Nov. 30.”

According to Reuters reporter Brad Heath, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has filed a motion in federal court seeking to toss out the Trump campaign’s lawsuit to enjoin the election certification, which happened Tuesday afternoon.

Noting that “no court has ever enjoined a state’s certification,” lawyers for the Commonwealth dismantled the Trump camp’s arguments, noting that they were all claims without evidence, not to mention they were improperly filed with the court.

The motion from the Commonwealth notes that Trump doesn’t assert a concrete claim, the campaign has only “the rough outline of a potential statistical analysis – and theories about an elaborate conspiracy – precedent requires much more than hypotheticals to justify injunctive relief.”

I hate Joe Biden. I hate him because he and his party are trying to destroy people’s lives and make them go homeless with more lockdowns. I hate him because he wants to force people to take a vaccine. I just hate everything about him and his family. I mean it in the strongest sense of the word hate. I hate that everyday I wake up and see innocent people suffering because Joe Biden and the Democrats are such selfish people who want to perpetuate lies about the severity of COVID in an effort to destroy small businesses and our god given rights. I hate Joe Biden because he is trying to destroy America. I can’t say enough just how much I hate that man with a passion.

— Laura Loomer LauraLoomer Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Let’s take you back to those dark days of November 2016.  Donald Trump had secured the Electoral College on Election Day, November 8th.  Hillary Clinton conceded the election the next day.  And the day after that, Trump visited President Obama at the White House.

Virtually everything after Election Day, according to the Red Hatted horde, was compliments of President-elect Trump.  Remember them (and Trump) boasting “How’s your 409(k) [sic] doing?” as stocks skyrocketed, according to them.

So exactly three weeks after Election Day, have the markets embraced an upcoming Biden Administration?  Oh, hell, yeah… even more than the prospective Trump Administration.

In 2016, three weeks after the election, the DJIA had increased just 4.3%.  This year, three weeks after Democrat Joe Biden won the White House, it’s up more than double that:  9.5%.

New York Times: “Town officials in Bedminster, N.J., have the plans for a possible Trump family future, or at least the blueprints: a major addition to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s ‘cottage’ on the grounds of the Trump National Golf Club, four new pickleball courts, a relocated heliport, and a spa and yoga complex. As Manhattan awaits word of the Trump family’s return, the first daughter and her husband appear to be making preparations elsewhere: a Garden State refuge behind guarded gates, perhaps, or Florida, where President Trump is renovating his Mar-a-Lago estate.”

“But New York now seems inhospitable and nowhere in their plans. ‘In an odd way, they will even have a harder time than Trump himself’ in New York, said Donny Deutsch, a brand management mogul in Manhattan and no-holds-barred critic of Mr. Trump on cable TV. ‘He’s despicable but larger than life… Those two are the hapless minions who went along.’ Wherever they alight, Ms. Trump and Mr. Kushner seem poised for a quick departure from Washington, where they always struggled to fit in. The couple had already expanded their ‘cottage’ in New Jersey by 2,500 square feet in 2016, adding a basement and a fireplace sitting room, all documented by Ms. Trump on Instagram. The new plans before the Bedminster Township call for an expanded master bedroom, bath and dressing room, two new bedrooms, a study and a ground floor veranda, making it more comparable to the $5 million house they rent for $15,000 a month in the gilded D.C. enclave of Kalorama.”

The Office of the First Lady will host a traditional media preview of the White House holiday decorations, but you know who won’t be there?

The Third First Lady.

The White House will unveil the decorations during a press event next Monday, but announced “The First Lady will not be in attendance,” according to TheWrap.  There was no announcement on where Melania Trump will be instead of the White House event.

The third Mrs. Trump has told friends she doesn’t like the trappings of her office.  “I’m working … my ass off at Christmas stuff that you know, who gives a fuck about Christmas stuff and decoration? But I need to do it, right? Correct?” she said in a conversation taped by a former friend.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Gov. Brian Kemp Tuesday decried attacks against him made by a supporter of President Donald Trump who sought to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the presidential race. Attorney Sidney Powell on Saturday made unsubstantiated claims that Republicans Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger were implicated in alleged voting fraud. ‘Georgia’s probably going to be the first state I’m gonna blow up,’ Powell told Newsmax. ‘We don’t know who bought their election. I’m sure it crosses party lines.'”

“The next day, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said Powell did not work for the campaign – though she had been introduced last week as a member of Trump’s “elite strike force” to combat election fraud. On Tuesday, Kemp responded at a press conference otherwise devoted to his COVID-19 response. Though he did not name Powell, he decried ‘misinformation’ and ‘baseless attacks that are absolutely absurd.’ ‘These are ridiculous,’ the governor said. ‘They only seek to breed fear, create confusion and sow discord amongst our citizens… Now, more than ever, we must stand up for the truth, and we need to unite around our shared values,’ Kemp said. ‘We must ignore those who want to divide us and find a way to overcome the challenges that we all face together. I’m committed to doing that.'”

“A House Democratic lawmaker is requesting a federal investigation into Sen. David Perdue’s (R-GA) purchase and sale of stock in a U.S. Navy contractor while he was chairman of a Senate subcommittee with jurisdiction over Navy spending, first reported by The Daily Beast last week. On Tuesday, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee’s subpanel on economic policy, sent a letter to Jay Clayton, chairman of the federal Securities and Exchange Commission, requesting he probe Perdue’s investment in BWX Technologies for any evidence of wrongdoing.”

“In December 2018, a month before he was announced as the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower, Perdue began purchasing thousands of dollars worth of shares in BWX, which makes nuclear reactors and other parts for submarines. As his committee worked to pass the annual defense spending bill in 2019—which set aside $4.7 billion for a new submarine that the company specialized in—Perdue sold off his shares in BWX at a profit, with sales totaling as much as $385,000, according to his official financial disclosures” – Daily Beast.

New York Times: “As the coronavirus swept across the world, it picked up random alterations to its genetic sequence. Like meaningless typos in a script, most of those mutations made no difference in how the virus behaved. But one mutation near the beginning of the pandemic did make a difference, multiple new findings suggest, helping the virus spread more easily from person to person and making the pandemic harder to stop.”

“The mutation, known as 614G, was first spotted in eastern China in January and then spread quickly throughout Europe and New York City. Within months, the variant took over much of the world, displacing other variants. For months, scientists have been fiercely debating why. Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory argued in May that the variant had probably evolved the ability to infect people more efficiently. Many were skeptical, arguing that the variant may have been simply lucky, appearing more often by chance in large epidemics, like Northern Italy’s, that seeded outbreaks elsewhere. But a host of new research — including close genetic analysis of outbreaks and lab work with hamsters and human lung tissue — has supported the view that the mutated virus did in fact have a distinct advantage, infecting people more easily than the original variant detected in Wuhan, China.”

Watch Biden try to take credit for the DOW hitting 30,000.

That was the work of @realDonaldTrump and his administration.

— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) November 24, 2020

“Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty Tuesday to three criminal charges, formally admitting its role in an opioid epidemic that has contributed to hundreds of thousands of deaths over the past two decades. In a virtual hearing with a federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, the OxyContin maker admitted impeding the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s efforts to combat the addiction crisis. Purdue acknowledged that it had not maintained an effective program to prevent prescription drugs from being diverted to the black market, even though it had told the DEA it did have such a program, and that it provided misleading information to the agency as a way to boost company manufacturing quotas. It also admitted paying doctors through a speakers program to induce them to write more prescriptions for its painkillers” – Bloomberg.

Washington Blade: “First lady Melania Trump said she wanted to light up the White House in rainbow colors for LGBTQ Pride Month in June, but the plan never came to fruition at a time when Mark Meadows as chief of staff played a role in blocking any sign of solidarity with the LGBTQ community, according to two Republican sources familiar with her plans who spoke exclusively to the Washington Blade. Meadows had a significant role, one Republican source said on condition of anonymity, in ensuring the Trump White House ignored Pride Month, which is why President Trump didn’t send out a tweet to recognize the annual LGBTQ celebration as he did in 2019.”

“It wasn’t immediately clear whether Meadows weighed in specifically on shutting down the rainbow lighting proposal at the White House. Had the first lady succeeded in lighting the White House in rainbow colors, it would have been the first time that occurred since the Obama administration lit up the building after the Supreme Court ruling for same-sex marriage in 2015. Such a move by Trump would have symbolized a tremendous change for the Republican Party, which has a long history of animosity toward LGBTQ people. Melania Trump ended up signaling support for the LGBTQ community months later just before the election in a video for Outspoken, the media project for Log Cabin Republicans, in contrast to Meadows, who has publicly railed against same-sex marriage and built an anti-LGBTQ record in Congress.”

“The Nevada Supreme Court has accepted the states election canvass results, paving the way for the Governor to sign the formal election certification” reports Dem elections attorney Marc Elias.

The markets really love Biden. DJIA 30,032.26 at 11:44 EST Tuesday per CNBC.