memeorandum: Minneapolis Voters Reject Plan to Disband City's Police Department (Ryan Mills/National Review)

11:00 PM ET, November 2, 2021

Top Items:

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 …

Discussion: Public Notice, The Federalist, Deadline, Press Watch, Mother Jones, Digby's Hullabaloo, HotAir, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Triad, Insider, Crooks and Liars, ABC7, NBC News, YouTube, Townhall, RedState and Eschaton

New York Times:

Virginia Election Results — Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime fixture in the national Democratic Party, is seeking a new term in a race widely viewed as a bellwether for the midterm elections. His opponent, Glenn Youngkin, a former private equity executive, has made hot-button cultural issues central to his campaign.

Discussion: Forbes, Rolling Stone, Reason and The Atlantic

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.

Discussion: Breitbart, Ace of Spades HQ and Townhall

Allahpundit / HotAir:
Newt Gingrich: If it's close in Virginia, Democrats will steal it

Discussion: YouGov, The American Independent and Media Matters for America

CBS News:
Election Day 2021: Polls close in Virginia and New Jersey governors' races

Discussion: Associated Press, CNBC, Washington Examiner, BuzzFeed News, NBC News, Washington Times, New York Post, Breitbart, WTOP and Financial Times

Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Youngkin's crowds dwarf McAuliffe's on election eve

Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Carville: Blame Beltway Dems if McAuliffe loses today

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: VICE, Raw Story, The Daily Beast, POLITICUSUSA, Forbes, WGN-TV, Digby's Hullabaloo and Texomashomepage.com

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 …

Discussion: Newsweek, Daily Kos, Washington Examiner, D Magazine 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

Discussion: Crooks and Liars

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 …

Discussion: NBC News, THE CITY, Mediaite, Associated Press and Insider

Thomas Barrabi / Fox News:

NYC mayoral election: Democrat Eric Adams soundly defeats Republican Curtis Sliwa — Adams, the current Brooklyn borough president, was overwhelmingly favored to win the election — We aren't as vigilant as we should be: Curtis Sliwa — Democratic candidate Eric Adams won …

Discussion: Bloomberg, Politico, Washington Examiner, ABC News, Townhall, The Guardian, New York Post, Deadline and Associated Press

Annabelle Timsit / Washington Post:
NYC police unions warned vaccine mandates would pull 10,000 officers off streets. So far, the number is 34.

Discussion: Politico, The official website …, The Hill and Daily Kos

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 …

Discussion: Reason, Slate, Politico and New York Magazine

Patrick Hauf / Washington Free Beacon:
Supreme Court Orders Review of New York Abortion Mandate

Discussion: New Republic, National Review and The Texas Tribune

Ellena Erskine / SCOTUSblog:
We read all the amicus briefs in New York State Rifle so you don't have to

Discussion: Alternet.org and UPI

Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Constitutional law professor: SCOTUS “pretty blatant”, will allow abortion clinics to challenge SB 8

Discussion: The Texas Tribune, UPI, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, The Intercept, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Daily Kos, Off the Kuff and Washington Times

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 …

Discussion: New York Post and Insider

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 …

Discussion: The Hill, statements.ufl.edu and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Miami Herald: UF restricted five more professors in cases against the state

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.

Discussion: The Dispatch

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 …

Discussion: Meta, Reuters, Alternet.org, Fortune, Protocol, WWLP-TV, Mediaite, CyberScoop, The Verge, Mashable, HotAir, Common Dreams, Reason, Metro.co.uk, The Daily Dot, The Western Journal and The Daily Wire, more at Techmeme »

Allison Prang / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook to Shut Down Facial Recognition in Photos, Videos

Discussion: Gizmodo, CNBC, We Love Trump, East Idaho News, Financial Times, The Daily Caller, Variety, UPI, Washington Examiner and Voice of America

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:

Discussion: Washington Examiner

Wall Street Journal:

Democrats Reach Deal on Prescription Drug Pricing, Schumer Says — Provision was left out of White House's $1.85 trillion framework on spending and climate plan — WASHINGTON—Democrats reached an agreement on provisions designed to lower the price of some prescription drugs …

Discussion: New York Post, Slate and The Daily Wire

New York Times:
Democrats Reach Deal to Control Drug Prices in Social Policy Bill

Discussion: CNBC, NPR, Politico, CNN, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Bloomberg, STAT and CBS News

Politico:
Dems aim to squeeze immigration into social spending bill — without path to citizenship

Discussion: Washington Post, Roll Call, Washington Times and UPI

The Virginia Public Access Project:

Election Results … 2021 General Election

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.

Discussion: Insider and Raw Story

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” …

Discussion: Washington Examiner and WTOP

Kyle Cheney / Politico:

Trump urges judge to slow down Jan. 6 investigators' access to records — Former President Donald Trump is pleading with a federal judge in Washington to slow down the Jan. 6 committee's effort to obtain his White House records, instead asking her to order a document-by-document review that could take months.

Discussion: Insider, CNN, Alternet.org and Lawfare

Argus Leader:

Jean Rounds, South Dakota's former first lady, dies from cancer — Jonathan Ellis Joe SneveSioux Falls Argus Leader — The wife of U.S. Senator and former South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds has passed away. — Jean Rounds, 65, succumbed to sarcomacancer in her Fort Pierre home Tuesday morning …

Discussion: The Hill

Andrew Miller / Fox News:
Sen. Rounds' wife dead after two-year battle with cancer

Discussion: Associated Press and Washington Examiner

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!

Discussion: Committee for a …, CBS News, HuffPost, New York Times, Washington Times, Washington Free Beacon, Washington Examiner, The Hill, National Review, Roll Call, The Daily Caller and CNN

Ryan Mills / National Review:

Minneapolis Voters Reject Plan to Disband City's Police Department — Minneapolis voters on Tuesday rejected a progressive plan to do away with the city's police department and to replace it with a vaguely defined “Department of Public Safety,” which would not have been required to employ any actual police officers.

Discussion: ABC News, Washington Free Beacon and USA Today

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.

Discussion: Raw Story, Political Wire, Daily Kos, BizPac Review, The Daily Caller, Alternet.org and The Philadelphia Inquirer

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.

Discussion: Breitbart

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 …

Andrew Desiderio / Politico:

Josh Hawley blocks confirmation of several State Dept. nominees — Sen. Josh Hawley on Tuesday blocked swift confirmation of several State Department nominees, in a continuation of the unprecedented GOP-led campaign to slow-walk most of President Joe Biden's picks for top foreign policy posts.

Discussion: Raw Story

John Sexton / HotAir:

NY Times on ‘backlash and bewilderment’ over the left's wokespeak (and Times' commenters weigh in) — Yesterday the NY Times published a piece on the left's focus on changing the language to suit their outlook. The Times piece isn't hostile to the new language or the people who enforce usage …

Discussion: Instapundit and New York Times