MSNBC contributor Maria Teresa Kumar asked “what didn’t we do?” as she admitted “every single poll” missed the “tide” towards former President Donald Trump in the election.

Teresa Kumar, also the CEO of Voto Latino, said on MSNBC on Wednesday that Democrats’ message did not land with working class Americans with Trump winning out with a “populist” message based on the economy. Kumar blasted Trump for his views on climate change and his promise to put Robert F. Kennedy Jr. somewhere in his administration to deal with “health.”

Kumar said:

When Trump was elected the first time in 2016, we all were kind of on pins and needles, saying, he will not do what he said he was going to do, and then he went ahead and did exactly what he was going to do. Coming in today, I have to say, it was more of a recognition that we have to have better conversations with the country on what this means because he implications are not just for the most marginalized but abroad is very well. There’s any realignment happening that I don’t know if folks will completely comprehend. We can look at how he doesn’t believe in climate change. Those are really big issues that not only will impact us here in the United States but globally. He doesn’t believe in vaccines if he puts Kennedy Jr. in there.

She added Kennedy could be “decimating” to vaccination levels around the world. Kennedy told NBC News’ Vaughn Hillyard in an earlier interview on Wednesday that he would not plan on taking away any vaccines off the market in whatever role he ends up serving in.

Kumar admitted Trump’s message broke through to working class people of different races and she asked how polls could not have seen the positive shifts towards Trump in Latino voters and others:

What didn’t we do? What did we miss? Every single poll missed this tide of the American public. I think that when we talk about where we are, there is a new realignment of a coalition of folks not getting by. You have massive amounts of Americans that are living paycheck to paycheck, and they are not getting the economic relief to feel like they will be better off tomorrow than their parents. You Look at the Latino community, 70% of that community work in construction, are farm workers, or hospitality. Those aren’t union jobs. They are trying to say, you are telling me I need to care about X, but what I need to figure out is, how do I pay rent? And Trump, whether you like him or not, he had that populist message, while the Democrats have actual material policies for them, that populist message didn’t break through.

Watch above via MSNBC.

OpenAI has been pushing out new features for ChatGPT at a steady clip, and one of the latest updates to arrive is a small but useful one: the ability to search back through the conversations you've had with the AI chatbot.

If you want to get back to a chat you were having about party ideas for kids, or you want to pick up on a debate about the ethics of an AI, or you want to continue using ChatGPT to liven up your emails to your boss—whatever it is you need to get back to, it's now easier to do with the search tool.

The feature is available now, on the web and on mobile, to ChatGPT Plus users paying $20 a month. OpenAI says the roll out to free users will take a few weeks, so if you're not a paying subscriber, you might not see it yet.

How to search through your ChatGPT conversations

The new search tool for ChatGPT on the web. Credit: Lifehacker

Once the search feature goes live in your ChatGPT account, you can access it either on the web or in the mobile apps for Android and iOS—though at this stage it's not particularly advanced in what it can do. All of your conversations with the bot get synced between the web and mobile, if you're signed in with the same account.

On the web, click the magnifying glass icon up in the top left corner (if you can't see it, click the icon that's two joined rectangles to show the side panel). A new dialog box pops up, and you can type in the words you're looking for: As you type, matches for both the titles of chats and the text within them start appearing.

You'll see the dates next to the chats in the results, and to visit a previous chat, you can just click on it. You're also able to create a New chat from the search dialog box, as long as the search box is clear. For now, there are no advanced options—for combining search terms together, for example, or searching for one word while excluding another.

Over on the mobile app, the search box is up in the top right corner of the interface, but you need to tap the sidebar button (two horizontal lines, top left) in order to see it. The same search functionality applies here, and you'll see matching results as you type out your search terms—you can also just tap ChatGPT to start a new chat.

Managing your ChatGPT conversation history

You can manage what ChatGPT remembers about you. Credit: Lifehacker

Being able to search through your ChatGPT conversations might make you more inclined to keep them around for future reference, but you can delete a chat at any point on the web: Click the three dots next to the chat in the left-hand side panel, then choose Delete. To wipe everything, click your account picture (top right), then Settings, General, and Delete All.

There's also ChatGPT's memory, which is managed separately to your conversation history: Whether or not you keep or delete your chats, the bot can remember details about you, such as your profession or whereabouts you're from, so its answers are more personalized. For example, if you ask for film recommendations, the AI would remember what you've already seen and liked.

To manage this on the web, click your account picture (top right), then Settings and Personalization. You can enable or disable the memory feature using the toggle switch, and click Manage to see individual memories ChatGPT has retained, and delete them individually if needed. To delete everything ChatGPT has ever remembered about you, click Clear ChatGPT's memory from the Personalization screen.

Should you want to keep your chats around so you can search them, but not have OpenAI use the conversations to further refine its AI models, this is another separate setting: Click your profile picture (top right) and Settings, then select Data controls and turn off the Improve the model for everyone toggle switch.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday ahead of an expected attack from Iran. Axios reporter Barak Ravid broke the news and reported on Gallant’s replacement, ” Netanyahu appoints foreign minister Israel Katz as minister of defense and Gideon Saar as foreign minister.”

Iran has threatened “a crushing response” in recent days to Israel’s military operations in Lebanon and Gaza. “The enemies, whether the Zionist regime or the United States of America, will definitely receive a crushing response to what they are doing to Iran and the Iranian nation and to the resistance front,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a video released by Iranian state media over the weekend.

CNN reported late last week that an Iranian attack was believed to be coming within days. “A high-ranking Iranian source told CNN that Iran is planning a “definitive and painful” response that will likely come before the election,” reported Axios last week. Israeli officials have been preparing to defend against what would be a third attack from Iranian territory so far this year.

Ravid offered some commentary on what he sees as being behind Netanyahu’s surprise decision to remove Gallant, who has been critical of Netanyahu in the past and called his  “absolute victory” promise in the war in Gaza “gibberish.” “Why it matters: Netanyahu’s move in the middle of a multi-front war is being driven mostly by domestic political consideration and the need to pass laws that benefits ultra-orthodox students who don’t serve in the military. Gallant opposes the laws, while the ultra-orthodox parties in the coalition threaten to topple the government if the laws doesn’t pass in the coming days,” wrote Ravid.

“Unfortunately, although in the first months of the war there was trust and there was very fruitful work, during the last months this trust cracked between me and the Defense Minister,” said Netanyahu in a video statement explaining his decision to remove Gallant.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

I didn’t realize just how good I am at the process of quickly and thoroughly clearing out a hotel room until I vacationed with someone who isn’t. (This person shall remain nameless, but full disclosure: I happen to be married to him.)

He does things like fill a suitcase and bring it out to the car, while its intended contents languish on a table. Or he won’t notice that one of our kids’ toys is with the takeout containers we need to trash.

We can do better than this! And I will show you how. Ideally, the magic begins long before you need to begin packing up—but you can start any time. 

When you arrive: Designate “your” spaces

I am not going to tell you to avoid using drawers. You should absolutely use the drawers, if your hotel has them. Specifically, you should take your packing cubes out of your suitcase. leave them full of clothes, and put each cube directly into a drawer. 

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The key is that you must claim the spaces you’ll use. Consider certain areas of the hotel room “your” spaces, in that they will be home to your items. (That drawer you just plopped your packing cube into? Yours.) Then designate other areas as being for items that are disposable or that belong to the hotel. 

Here are some examples of how you might do this during a trip. You can tailor them to your needs.

• The nightstand is mine. The TV stand is the hotel’s. So I keep my phone and charging cables on the nightstand, and move all the little hotel items (informational cards, etc) to the TV stand. I’ll also put the TV remote on the TV stand when I don’t need it within reach.

• The area under the table, where the garbage bin is, belongs to the hotel. I’ll put garbage and recycling there. I will not kick off my shoes and leave them under the table. 

• “My” bathroom space is the counter. The shower is not one of my spaces. So after I shower, I’ll remove my razor and my personal shampoo bottle and put them on the counter. (The hotel soap can stay.)

• The bed belongs to the hotel. After I wake up, I grab any items I had in bed with me (a sweatshirt I took off during the night, a book I was reading when I passed out) and move them to one of my spaces. 

I like to stick to this division of spaces during any short stay (up to three days), or during the latter few days of a long stay. Obviously if you have multiple people staying in the same room, you can each have your own space. For example, you take the table and your roommate takes the desk. You take the top drawer and they take the second drawer. You take the left side of the bathroom counter and they take the right side. 

Get in the habit of checking the “hotel’s” spaces regularly and moving things out of them and into the proper space. This way, nothing will be left behind under the blankets, because you've been checking the bed every morning. This is also good practice for when you’re finally packing up—but more about that in a minute.

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On your second-to-last day: Shrink those spaces

As your departure time draws nearer, start collecting your things. You don’t have to pack them into bags yet, but check all of the “hotel” spaces and see if you can bring anything over into one of “your” spaces. 

It’s also time to start converting some of your spaces back to hotel spaces. Let’s say you hung some clothes in the closet. Well, if it’s your last night and you’re done wearing those clothes, take them off the hangers and put them in your suitcase, or with your other clothes in the drawer.

This is also a good time to separate things that belong to different people. If some of your stuff is on your roommate’s side of the bathroom sink, or vice versa, rearrange them appropriately. 

Check “hotel” spaces as you pack

As you and your traveling companions begin to pack up, continue this process of removing things from hotel spaces. You’ll get into a habit of looking around: “Nothing on the desk, nothing in the closet, nothing on the floor over here, how about the drawers? Nope, nothing in the drawers. OK, let’s see what I can pack from the bathroom.” 

On a solo trip where you have one or two bags, this is a fast and easy process. It’s more complicated if you have more people and more luggage. In that case, start clustering things according to the bag they’ll be packed in, or however it is you organize for the road. All the clothing together. All the toys together. All the food together. 

The idea is that you should be able to glance at a space and know whether you’re done packing it. If it’s empty, great, you’re done with that space. But if you have, say, some groceries in a half-unpacked shopping bag, that needs to be separated into garbage (put in the garbage) and things you still want (put them with the food if they are food, and so on). 

Designate staging areas

Most hotel rooms will have an entryway with room for a few suitcases and pairs of shoes. (If yours doesn’t, designate a suitable space.) You may be tempted to also put garbage near the entryway, but make sure it’s completely, visually separate. 

When a bag is packed, don’t take it out to the car just yet. Put the bag in your staging area. This way, if you find an item that needs to go in the green suitcase, you don’t need to go out to the car for it, or pack it in a different bag—the green suitcase is still right here. 

It goes without saying that you’ll continue your scan of hotel spaces. The drawers are empty by this point, the desk is clear, there are only a few things left on the table, and you have obsessively checked the shower, the hooks behind the door, and the space under the bed roughly 1,000 times. 

You may also reclaim some “hotel” spaces as staging areas. Judiciously, of course. A good strategy is to check the bed for any of your things, remake the bed (it doesn’t have to be pretty), and then use the bed for the things you will grab on your way out of the room. Your jacket, for example. Or your wallet. It’s a lot harder to forget your jacket when it’s right smack in the middle of the bed, versus draped over a chair at the back of the room. 

Review your packing list

To make sure you don’t forget any essentials, refer to the same packing list you used when you left home. Pajamas, toothbrush, passport? Check. 

Make sure to add two things to your mental packing list: (1) Souvenirs you purchased (or really anything you acquired) during the trip; and (2) Food in the fridge. The fridge is one of the spaces that is hardest to clear because food needs to stay in there until the last minute, but it’s also out of sight. If you have a cooler, leave it open in front of the fridge as a reminder. 

Have everyone do one last check

Of course you’re going to do one last check of the room before you close the door for the last time. But if you’re in a family group, especially with kids, make sure everybody does their own walkthrough—no waiting in the car while Dad grabs the “last few things.” Teach kids how to check the “behinds and unders,” as I tell them (it sounds dirty now that I have typed it out—I mean behind the bed, under the table, that sort of thing).

This works well because each person will naturally pay a bit more attention to the places they personally spent time. My kid is a lot more likely to find that doll under the bed than I am. 

Tucker Carlson made an absurd claim that electronic voting machines serve no purpose other than to assist Democrats in stealing elections Monday during an interview with Steve Bannon.

Carlson joined Bannon’s WarRoom podcast a day before the 2024 election to discuss a number of topics, including demonic forces, human sacrifice, and Tuesday’s vote.

On the subject of electronic voting machines, the former Fox News host recalled being deposed by Dominion after the company sued Fox for airing false claims that its machines were used to rig the election against former President Donald Trump.

While addressing Bannon’s audience, Carlson called for the machines to be banned:

What I’m really struck by is how virtually every Trump voter I talk to and maybe even some on-the-fence voters, says basically the same thing. You know, it’s just a question of how much the Democratic Party cheats in this election, which is another way of saying the whole country seems to have accepted the reality that, you know, one of the two big political parties doesn’t believe in democracy, is willing to cheat and ignore the will of the population – of the citizenry. That’s really dark.

You know, you hate to think you live in a place where people just, you know, accept that is normal. It’s not normal. It’s criminal; it’s immoral. And we should do everything we can to fix it. Right. And the last thing I would say is, as someone who spent, you know, I don’t know, something like 15 hours in depositions imposed on me by voting machine companies. And I was never named in any suit by a voting machine company, but they went out of their way to harass me, I think funded by Reid Hoffman, stole my text messages, leaked them to The New York Times.

Carlson said he was still “bitter” about the 2020 election fallout before he ripped conservative media for being afraid to call for a ban on voting machines:

They don’t work. They’re not more efficient. They’re not better at counting and they don’t produce the result faster. The only reason to have electronic voting machines is if, you know, you want to subvert them. It’s insane that we have them and no one feels free to say that. So I just want to I want to – I think I’ve been proven right on this. And we have every reason to be suspicious of electronic voting machines, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Carlson was deposed by Dominion during its successful lawsuit against Fox News, which ended in a $787.5 million payout by Fox to Dominion over the lies it aired about the company. Fox fired Carlson soon after the settlement.

The discovery process of the lawsuit unearthed texts Carlson sent about the election – including several in which he admitted privately that it was not stolen.

In one sent to then-Trump attorney Sidney Powell, a chief purveyor of election lies, Carlson demanded she provide evidence to support her claims.

“You keep telling our viewers that millions of votes were changed by the software. I hope you will prove that very soon,” Carlson wrote to Powell. “You’ve convinced them that Trump will win. If you don’t have conclusive evidence of fraud at that scale, it’s a cruel and reckless thing to keep saying.”

Powell never provided evidence in support of her claims.

Welcome to The Cheater’s Guide to Thanksgiving. While there are plenty of tips out there for folks making scratch desserts and artisan loaves, the Cheater’s Guide focuses on the person who could use a helping hand—even from some unconventional sources. Some might call it “cheating” (like that’s a bad thing), but there’s nothing wrong with using modern technology and supermarket know-how to help you make a bangin’ traditional feast—with much less of the traditional work.

There’s no real need to make scratch bread for Thanksgiving dinner. You have way too much to do already, and unless you’re a seasoned bread-baker, making a loaf or rolls can be risky. Rise times are unpredictable, there’s limited flexibility, shaping skills don’t come overnight, and after all that, bread can still turn out badly after the bake. However, you can buy bread that comes in multiple stages of doneness—fully baked, partially baked, or ready-to-bake frozen dough—at the grocery store. Regardless of which level of packaged bread you choose, here are some easy ways to make them holiday ready.

Butter-up your fully baked rolls

There are a lot of decent-to-great quality rolls available in the market. I’m a huge fan of King’s Hawaiian rolls. Those little buns are way too tasty for anyone to resist. If you can’t find those, any small, soft buns or rolls, sometimes marketed as slider buns, will be great. Since these rolls are done, the only things that can improve them is warmth to soften any fats in the dough, and a slather of salty butter. 

Unpack your rolls and nestle them into a buttered casserole dish, one where the fit is pretty snug. If you only have huge casserole dishes, make a fake one out of foil. Melt a couple tablespoons of salted butter in the microwave or in a pot, and brush the buns with the butter. Thoroughly coat the rolls in butter so the tops are gleaming, and sprinkle with flaky salt. Pop these in a 350°F oven for about five to seven minutes. You’re just warming them up. Remove them from the oven and give them a few minutes to cool. Take the warmed rolls out of the pan and tear them into individual rolls if they aren’t already. Pile the rolls up in a bread basket loosely covered with a tea towel to serve.  

Crisp and brown par-baked bread

Par-baked, or partially baked, bread is how a lot of grocery stores receive their artisan loaves from their larger commissary bakeries. A partially baked loaf of bread is completely cooked, but it’s taken out of the oven maybe 90% finished. The bread is fully risen and even has beautiful open score marks, but the crust hasn’t really developed, so the loaf appears rather pale and feels soft. 

The point of making bread like this is so stores can receive nearly completed bread, freeze and thaw it as needed, and crisp it in the oven without over-browning or burning the crust. You can ask the bakery section of the store to sell you their par-baked bread, but a lot of the loaves in my local ShopRite are sold in this condition already. (There are actually a lot of things your local grocery store can help you with.) This is usually done with larger loaves, like sourdoughs, olive batards, or farmhouse boules, but occasionally you’ll see par-baked rolls too.

To finish off the cooking process at home, preheat your oven to 400°F. Put the dinner loaves on a baking sheet; there’s no need to line it with anything. Slide the tray of bread into the hot oven and let it crisp up for 10 to 20 minutes, depending on how dark you like your bread. Something I like to do is swipe a salty water solution over my bread to give it a flavorful salty crust. If you want to try this, just dissolve a teaspoon of salt in a quarter cup of hot water. Use a pastry brush to brush the water over the crust of the bread. Bake it like I mentioned above. The crust will crisp and the water will evaporate leaving behind a thin coating of salt. Slice the bread and serve it in a bread basket alongside soft salted butter. 

Proof and polish frozen dough

If you check the freezer section, or sometimes stand alone freezers in the aisle, you might see completely raw dough that’s already been beautifully braided or shaped into perky loaves. They are similar to how you might see pizza dough, but these breads are ready to be baked without further shaping. I always see pre-braided challah loaves in aluminum tins at my grocery store, and they normally come with directions on how to thaw, proof, and bake them.

This type of bread is lovely to bring home for a sit-down dinner like Thanksgiving because you get the added benefit of freshly baked bread aroma, which you miss out on with the other two levels of store-bought bread. 

Generally, you’ll just follow the directions on the bread's packaging. It should give you instructions on how to do the second proof and what signals to look for when the dough is ready to be baked. Usually the thawed dough will need at least 30 to 45 minutes at room temperature to proof. If it’s a soft bread, like challah or brioche, give the top of the loaf a swipe of egg wash just before baking. This egg wash will develop into a rich, shiny brown finish, and your loaf will look that much more lovely. Always allow freshly baked bread to cool completely before slicing with a serrated knife.

A Texas news anchor broke down in tears on the air Thursday as she informed her station’s viewers that her longtime colleague at the desk had died a day earlier.

Veteran KCEN-TV anchor Kris Radcliffe of Temple died on Wednesday at the age of 51, his co-anchor Lindsay Liepman announced on Thursday during an emotional broadcast.

“This is an incredibly sad day for our KCEN family,” Liepman said to open Thursday’s newscast. “My co-anchor, Kris Radcliffe, died unexpectedly and we received the news today.”

Liepman noted her late colleague anchored at the Texas station for two decades and fondly remembered working alongside him,

“Kris sat in the chair right beside me, and he was the best,” she said. “He was simply the best. Funny, genuine, and smart. I looked forward to working with Kris every single night. And I think you could tell at home we had fun here.”

Overcome by emotion, she continued:

Kris loved this community and never took his role for granted. If I had known yesterday was going to be our last newscast together, I would have ignored the cues to rap from our producers and just laughed a little longer at all of his jokes. He always has lots of jokes. I would have thanked him for all that he’s taught me and given to all of you, the viewers. But that is not how life works out.

What you don’t get to see on air is the time spent talking about our families. And our group chats. He loved talking about sports and politics. It was important for me to share what he meant to us here at KCEN right now, because I know he would have done the same for me. My thoughts and sincere prayers are with Kris’s wife, daughters, and especially his grandchildren who idolized their papa

Liepman offered condolences to the Radcliffe family and announced she would be leaving early and handing off the evening’s anchor duties to a colleague.

“I simply can’t get through the newscast tonight, and I hope you understand,” she said.

KCEN honored Radcliffe in the following statement:

For over two decades at KCEN, Kris shared the most important headlines across Central Texas and gave a voice to its community members. Kris began his journey in Central Texas as a sports anchor before he became a morning anchor for Texas Today for nine years. Kris later joined the evening team as co-anchor for 6 News at 5, 6 and 10.

Watch above via KCEN.