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President-elect Joe Biden is set to nominate retired Army general Lloyd Austin as Defense Secretary. After retiring from the military in 2016, Austin joined the board of Raytheon. The defense manufacturer has sold billions of dollars worth of weapons to the Saudi coalition that’s been pummeling Yemen with bombs for years.

Joe Biden has already received more votes than any other presidential candidate in the history of the country, but we maintain an electoral system that was designed to empower white voters in slave states more than two centuries ago, so no one has won at the time I’m typing this.