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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Glenn Youngkin's repulsive final push reveals a dark truth for Democrats — With Virginia voters set to elect a governor, Republican Glenn Youngkin's final messages are positively overflowing with sunny calls for unity. One closing ad features footage of African American families smiling …
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POLITICO Playbook: Youngkin's crowds dwarf McAuliffe's on election eve
POLITICO Playbook: Youngkin's crowds dwarf McAuliffe's on election eve
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Allahpundit / HotAir:
Newt Gingrich: If it's close in Virginia, Democrats will steal it
Newt Gingrich: If it's close in Virginia, Democrats will steal it
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The American Independent, Media Matters for America and YouGov
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Carville: Blame Beltway Dems if McAuliffe loses today
Carville: Blame Beltway Dems if McAuliffe loses today
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National Review, CNN, Townhall and The Hill
Rolling Stone:
On the Ground With the QAnon Believers Who Flocked to Dallas for the Grand Return of JFK Jr. — Though the Kennedy scion failed to appear at Dealey Plaza this afternoon, some are hopeful he might make an appearance at a Rolling Stones concert later — DALLAS — QAnon true believers gathered en masse …
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Dallas Morning News:
QAnon supporters gather in downtown Dallas expecting JFK Jr. to reappear — Some believe the reappearance of John F. Kennedy's son, who died in a plane crash in 1999, will bring about the reinstatement of Donald Trump as president. — Scores of QAnon believers gathered Tuesday afternoon …
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Washington Examiner, Newsweek, D Magazine, Pharyngula and Raw Story
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Photos show QAnon believers gathering in Dallas — where they believe JFK Jr. will reveal he's still alive
Photos show QAnon believers gathering in Dallas — where they believe JFK Jr. will reveal he's still alive
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Crooks and Liars
Kevin T. Dugan / Curbed:
We Staked Out Eric Adams's House in Brooklyn And he came home. Twice! — Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Getty Images, Kevin Dugan, Willy Blackmore — Where the hell does Eric Adams live? For anyone trying to get a grip on the notoriously hard-to-pin-down Democratic candidate …
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Insider and New York Post
Lindsay Ellis / Chronicle of Higher Education:
U. of Florida Doctor Says Administrators Blocked Him From Participating in Lawsuits About Masking — A fourth University of Florida professor says administrators rejected his request to testify in litigation against state leaders this year, and denied him the opportunity to share his expertise …
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Miami Herald:
UF restricted five more professors in cases against the state — Last year, four University of Florida law professors who wanted to sign a “friend of the court” brief in a lawsuit challenging a new felons voting law were told that they could not identify themselves as university faculty members …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Prominent Conservatives Back Letting States Limit Guns in Public — A brief filed in a major gun control case to be heard on Wednesday by the Supreme Court argued that limits on the public carrying of weapons were consistent with the Second Amendment. — WASHINGTON — When the Supreme Court hears …
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Patrick Hauf / Washington Free Beacon:
Supreme Court Orders Review of New York Abortion Mandate
Supreme Court Orders Review of New York Abortion Mandate
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New Republic, National Review and The Texas Tribune
New York Times:
Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System — Saying it wants “to find the right balance” with the technology, the social network will delete the face scan data of more than one billion users. — Facebook plans to shut down its decade-old facial recognition system …
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Allison Prang / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook to Shut Down Facial Recognition in Photos, Videos
Facebook to Shut Down Facial Recognition in Photos, Videos
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Politico:
Dems aim to squeeze immigration into social spending bill — without path to citizenship — Democrats are closing in on a deal that would add immigration reform to their social spending bill before it hits the House floor, but without a long-sought goal: a pathway to citizenship.
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Philip Klein / National Review:
The Absurd Twitter Suspension of Quin Hillyer — In any ranking of dumb Twitter suspensions, Quin Hillyer's has to land pretty high up there. Full disclosure, Quin is a former colleague of mine at the Washington Examiner as well as a former National Review author. He recounts his story:
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Election Day Live Updates: Polls Close in Virginia; Result Is Expected to Signal Nation's Mood — Voters are deciding governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey, several key mayor's races across the country and a referendum on policing in Minneapolis. Follow along for the latest results and analysis.
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Virginia Election Results
Virginia Election Results
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Rolling Stone, Ace of Spades HQ, The Atlantic and Just The News
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Curtis Sliwa tried to bring his cat to vote. It got weirder from there. — Curtis Sliwa brought a special guest with him to vote on Tuesday: Gizmo, one of the 17 cats he lives with in a studio apartment. — But Gizmo was denied entry to the polling site, on Manhattan's Upper West Side …
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CNBC:
Trump ally Rudy Giuliani seeks to block feds from getting 3 items of thousands seized under search warrant — Rudy Giuliani is seeking to prevent prosecutors from seeing just three items out of the more than 2,000 items contained on electronic devices seized from him as part of a criminal probe, a court filing revealed.
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Raw Story
Andrew Miller / Fox News:
Sen. Rounds' wife dead after two-year battle with cancer — Rounds was diagnosed with cancer in 2019 — Fox News Flash top headlines for November 2 — Jean Rounds, wife of Republican South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds, has passed away from cancer at the age of 65.
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Allahpundit / HotAir:
Hot new idea for Dems' reconciliation bill: A huge tax cut for the very rich; Update: “Beyond unacceptable” — They said if Republicans voted for Trump in 2020, America would end up with an administration devoted to lining the pockets of rich people. — And they were right!
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Washington Post:
About 400 D.C. jail inmates will be transferred to a federal penitentiary in Pennsylvania because of unacceptable conditions, officials say — The U.S. Marshal's Service plans to move about 400 inmates out of the D.C. jail after a recent surprise inspection found evidence of “systemic” …
Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain:
Galaxy Brain Is Moving! — (Not going to the metaverse...yet) — Before I get extra self-indulgent, I'll lead with the news. I'm moving Galaxy Brain from Substack over to The Atlantic. The newsletter will exist in the same form with the promise of the same amount of editorial freedom.
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ProPublica:
Poison in the Air — Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution … From the urban sprawl of Houston to the riverways of Virginia, air pollution from industrial plants is elevating the cancer risk of an estimated quarter of a million Americans to a level the federal government considers unacceptable.
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The Verge
David French / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
The Threat From the Anti-Woke Right — America is confronting two powerful illiberal movements. Where you stand on their relative threats depends on where you live. … Late last week, my friends Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt published an important piece in the online journal Persuasion that contained a startling statistic.
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The Dispatch
Reuters:
INSIGHT-From Boeing to Mercedes, a U.S. worker rebellion swells over vaccine mandates — In Wichita, Kansas, nearly half of the roughly 10,000 employees at aircraft companies Textron Inc and Spirit AeroSystems remain unvaccinated against COVID-19, risking their jobs in defiance of a federal mandate, according to a union official.
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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg / The Appeal:
A Homeless Man Has Spent 800 Days At Rikers After Stealing Cold Medicine. Now His Prison Sentence May Be Beginning. — Blind in one eye and at risk of losing vision in the other, 58-year-old Reginald Randolph is now on the verge of being sent to state prison to serve out a maximum of four years.
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Sean Parnell's fiction thriller features graphic violence against women — Sean Parnell's military thriller “Man of War” contains graphic scenes of violence against female characters, raising additional questions about his attitude toward women in the wake of court testimony that he physically and verbally abused his estranged wife.
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Annabelle Timsit / Washington Post:
NYC police unions warned vaccine mandates would pull 10,000 officers off streets. So far, the number is 34. — The heads of the five major unions representing members of the New York City Police Department warned that 10,000 unvaccinated police officers were “set to be pulled from [the] …
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Politico, The official website …, Daily Kos and The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Federal Judge Files Recusal Notices in 138 Cases After WSJ Queries — Rodney Gilstrap initially argued he didn't violate financial-conflicts law — One of America's most prominent federal judges acknowledged in court notices that he may have violated the law in 138 lawsuits identified …