The Daily Rundown - November 21th, 2025
🏎️ Action in the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix is scheduled to continue this afternoon with practice sessions at 4:30 and qualifying at 8 p.m. The race will take place tomorrow, also starting at 8 p.m. It’s the only nighttime race on the F1 circuit, taking advantage of the glitz and glitter of the Las Vegas Strip, which forms part of the track.
Early Tomorrow will be the finale of the F1 Academy season, the all-female series, on the same circuit. There’s a chance of rain today, but tomorrow is expected to be dry. Las Vegas was added to the F1 schedule in 2023 on a three-year contract, which has since been extended through 2027. As race day approaches, current F1 points leader Lando Norris is set to tie the record for the most tenured driver in McLaren history when the lights go out for the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
🔔 The Biggest Little Action Group in Reno is providing community members with whistles to alert others of possible immigration raids. Organizer Mark Pritchard says the tool is a fast way to protect vulnerable residents, KUNR reports. Each whistle comes with a bilingual instruction booklet and guidance on what to report to a hotline.
A single whistle blow indicates possible ICE activity; three rapid blows signal potential detentions. About 1,000 packets have been distributed at community events, and the group hopes to expand distribution through partnerships with activist organizations like Indivisible. Pritchard said the project was inspired by grassroots work in Chicago and his community safety experience in San Francisco.
🌐 You might expect someone who routinely wrestles with such pervasive issues as race and gender discrimination to take philosophical questions in stride. Yet when I asked KB Brookins, who frequently ponders the sources of their own discrimination on multiple fronts, whether they felt it was futile to fight for justice within a system that is itself inherently corrupt, they paused. “That’s a large question.” Not that they didn’t want to answer — as you’ll see below (or hear in the podcast), the response is a doozy. Hear the full conversation with KB Brookins here.
📦 Tariffs on food or agricultural products would require congressional approval under a bill proposed by Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen. She said the legislation responds to President Trump’s tariffs on groceries, household goods and other products that have increased consumer costs. Rosen cited reports showing higher household spending this year, with rising prices for items such as chicken, beef, lettuce and potatoes. She called the tariffs “reckless.”
Concerns about food insecurity in Nevada predate the recent worries over SNAP funding during the government shutdown. KNPR’s Paul Boger examined reports showing that nearly one in six Nevadans are considered food insecure.
🔊 On Friday and Saturday, artists across the country are participating in Fall of Freedom — an effort they describe as creative resistance to authoritarianism. More than 600 events have been announced across more than 40 states.
“I think the reality is that both artists and institutions right now are feeling this fear, and we’re feeling unmoored about what we are supposed to do. And the fear, I think, of being silenced starts right here — starts in our heads,” said Eric Gottesman, a Washington, D.C.–based visual artist and co-executive director of For Freedoms, an arts organization promoting civic engagement.
Gottesman and others say many peers at cultural institutions feel scared and isolated following sweeping grant cuts at the National Endowment for the Arts, staff firings at the Kennedy Center, and an executive order from President Trump requiring an audit of Smithsonian museums. In August, Trump posted on social media that museums nationwide are “the last remaining segment of WOKE.” Hear the full story.
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