Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Monday, November 14th. I'm Nailibu. Here's

what you need to know today. What recent layoffs mean for Big Tech? Plus, Black Panther

will condo forever, smashes a box office record. But first, today's one big thing, the rise

of the independent voter. We spent a lot of time last week talking about what these midterm

elections mean, but maybe we should have just waited until today. Almost a week after

the election, we clearly know the Democrats have not only retained control of the Senate,

but might pick up another seat. We're still waiting on the House, but we've got a lot

more information on state houses and other local elections. That's why I asked Axios' Margaret

Taliv to join me again. Good morning, Margaret. Good morning, Naila. First, let's talk about

control of the Senate. We don't have to wait until the runoff in Georgia next month

to know the outcome there. No, if you happen to decide you wanted to tune out politics

for the weekend, which would be completely understandable, you might have missed that

over the weekend. Nevada Senate race was decided in favor of the incumbent, who is a Democrat.

And that seals it for the Democrats. They will hold the Senate. The only question now is

whether they can up it by one control the Senate matters for a couple of reasons. And one

is confirmation of judges. Democrats realize how far behind they were when Donald Trump

was president and they are fiercely trying to make up for it. The second is it does stave

off Republican senators ability to just watch political investigation after investigation

and make president Biden's life miserable. So these are two big things right off the bat

that holding control would do. But if Warnoch keeps his seat and if Democrats majority goes

to 51, it's very interesting. A big thing that it does is it weakens Joe Manchin's potential

power or Kiersten Sinema's power. You know, we spent a lot of time over the course of 2022

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