Today’s Update Journal is taking you on a rollercoaster — the kind where one minute you’re debating childcare policy and the next you’re suddenly emotional over cranberry sauce. Buckle up. First, we dive into The Childcare Question: the promise, the price tag, and the collective New York skepticism of “Okay… but can we actually do this, or are we all just pretending?” It’s ambitious, it’s inspiring, and it’s giving very much “group project where only one person is doing all the work.” Then, we fully pivot — because that’s how this show works — into the Thanksgiving memory I always come back to. You know the one. Parade balloons soaring overhead, me on video chat with Tommie while she’s off in Delaware, and me trying not to burn anything in the kitchen because I was unsupervised. A true holiday classic.

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, New York Jets cornerback and special teams standout Kris Boyd was critically injured in a shooting in midtown Manhattan, according to Mayor Adams’ office.

Two people have been killed, including a 10-year-old boy, and three others wounded in a mass shooting in Newark.

And in Charlotte, North Carolina, a top Border Patrol commander touted dozens of arrests in North Carolina’s largest city as Charlotte residents reported encounters with federal immigration agents near churches, apartment complexes and stores.