The City takes measure of the genius of Chirlane McCray (Mayor De Blasio's wife) in spending mucho taxpayer funds on "mental health".

We took a peek inside a shuttered Bronx facility where NYPD cops are supposed to take emotionally distressed New Yorkers to get help. Another center in East Harlem has served just 45 people — coming out to $1.1 million per visit.

@ Politico.com/Congress Minutes, Nov. 8

It's recess week on Capitol Hill. But there's an intense to-do list for the rest of the year: the debt limit, government funding bills and the social spending package.

Let's take a look at the basic governance tasks that lawmakers still have to do. 

@ TheHill.com, Nov. 8, CHARTS AT THE LINK

An overwhelming majority of voters said cancel culture has gone too far, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds. Seventy-one percent of registered voters said they strongly or somewhat believe that cancel culture has gone too far. By contrast, 29 percent of respondents said they believe a little or not at all.

The Hill-HarrisX poll used the Merriam-Webster definition to define cancel culture: Cancel culture is defined as “the practice or tendency of engaging in mass canceling as a way of expressing disapproval and exerting social pressure."

Seventy-six percent of Republicans, 70 percent of Democrats, and 68 percent of independents said they either strongly or somewhat agree cancel culture has gone too far.

 The Hill-HarrisX poll was conducted online among 930 registered voters between Nov. 2 and 3. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points. 

@ Axios.com, 48 min. ago

President Biden called Nicaragua's elections a "sham" Sunday evening, ahead of the expected win of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo.

Details: Biden said the "pantomime election" was "neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic," as he pointed to the imprisonment of nearly 40 opposition figures since May — "including seven potential presidential candidates, and the blocking of political parties from participation rigged the outcome well before Election Day."[....]

Of note: The U.S. State Department, European Parliament and Organization of American States had warned before the vote that it would "lack all credibility."

The big picture: Ortega's expected win would mark his third consecutive re-election to a five-year term, which would keep him in power for 20 years.

• His ongoing crackdown has made thousands of others flee the Central American country in the past few months, write Marina E. Franco and Russell Contreras for Axios Latino [....]

These were the only Democrats voting no. 200 Republicans, partisan obsessed hypocrites, most of which represent states to receive billions for infrastructure, also voted no. Thirteen House Republicans voted with Pelosi and the Democrat majority.  Without the Republican votes the legislation would not have passed.

The Squad:  Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York
Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York
Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota
Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts
Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan

@ Twitter Events, developing news, 20 minutes ago

Houston police confirm at least eight people have been killed and multiple injured at Astroworld festival in Houston, a sold-out event run by rapper Travis Scott. At least 23 have been transported to the hospital and over 300 were treated throughout the day.

This sounds like Nazi stuff.