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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 — DRIVING THE DAY — TERRY MCAULIFFE wanted GLENN YOUNGKIN and DONALD TRUMP to campaign together so badly that when it didn't happen, McAuliffe simply invented a Youngkin-Trump event that didn't exist.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump, the billionaire family and the bull semen baron who divides them — Pete Ricketts, the governor of Nebraska and scion of one of the most powerful megadonor families in the Republican Party, had a pressing request for Donald Trump: Please stay out of my home-state politics.
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Raw Story
Olivier Knox / Washington Post:
Democrats fret about an enthusiasm gap in Virginia's gubernatorial contest
Democrats fret about an enthusiasm gap in Virginia's gubernatorial contest
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Carville: Blame Beltway Dems if McAuliffe loses today
Carville: Blame Beltway Dems if McAuliffe loses today
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CNN, National Review and Townhall
Washington Examiner:
For Democrats, all Republicans are Trump
For Democrats, all Republicans are Trump
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Reason, Insider, The Atlantic, One America News Network, Raw Story, Real Clear Politics, The Guardian, National Review, Rolling Stone and Al Jazeera
Politico:
Not it: Democrats dodge blame for stalled agenda as McAuliffe teeters
Not it: Democrats dodge blame for stalled agenda as McAuliffe teeters
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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 …
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Scoop: FEC lets foreigners finance U.S. ballot fights — The Federal Election Commission has ruled foreign donors can finance U.S. referendum campaigns, opening the door to foreign spending on fights over high-profile policy issues, Axios has learned. — Why it matters: Foreign nationals …
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Washington Post, Insider and Common Dreams
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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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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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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Manchin didn't sign off on framework, no ‘rush’ to get deal — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said he didn't sign off on a framework for a $1.75 trillion social spending and climate bill before it was released from the White House, and that he didn't think there was a “rush” to get a deal.
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Photos show QAnon believers gathering in Dallas — where they believe JFK Jr. will reveal he's still alive — On Monday night, believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory congregated for a mass gathering at the AT&T Discovery Plaza in Dallas, Texas. — According to reporter Steven Monacelli …
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Crooks and Liars
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Jonathan Edwards / Greenwich Time:
Sen. Josh Hawley says liberals' attacks on manhood are driving men to pornography and video games — Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley on Sunday night told fellow conservatives they must stop liberals from attacking masculinity and creating a nation of “idle men” who watch pornography …
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Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Republican senator Josh Hawley worries feminism has driven men to ‘pornography and video games’
Republican senator Josh Hawley worries feminism has driven men to ‘pornography and video games’
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USA Today, Alternet.org, POLITICUSUSA, Forbes, Daily Kos, Crooks and Liars and Mediaite
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Actor Kristy Swanson, Who Spread Virus Misinformation, Is Hospitalized With COVID-19 — The pro-Trump actor, best known for her titular role in “Buffy The Vampire Slayer,” said she's developed pneumonia. — Actor Kristy Swanson, the original “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” …
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New York Post, NOQ Report and UPI
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
House GOP demands answers from all 93 US attorneys on Garland's controversial school boards memo — House Republicans are demanding answers from all 93 U.S. attorneys about what steps they've taken since Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo ordering them to help police parents angry at their local school boards.
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Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Signal, Townhall, The Daily Caller and Just The News
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
DOJ misses deadline to provide Senate info on basis for school board memo
DOJ misses deadline to provide Senate info on basis for school board memo
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RedState and The Federalist
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
Jeff Amy / Associated Press:
Georgia official: Trump call to ‘find’ votes was a threat — ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump was threatening Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger when he asked him to help “find” enough votes to overturn his loss in Georgia to Democratic President Joe Biden, Raffensperger writes in a new book.
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Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Breitbart has outsized influence over climate change denial on Facebook, report says — A new report suggests 10 publishers, including Russia Today and the Federalist Papers, are responsible for nearly 70 percent of interactions with climate change misinformation on the platform
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Gizmodo, Mashable, Forbes and POLITICUSUSA, more at Mediagazer »
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.
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Yale Law Diversity Director at Center of ‘Traphouse’ Controversy Got an Anti-Semite Invited to the Yale Law Journal — The Yale Law School administrator caught on tape pressuring a student to apologize for an allegedly racist party invitation pushed the Yale Law Journal to host a diversity trainer …
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Law & Liberty, Power Line and Reason
Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Constitutional law professor: SCOTUS “pretty blatant”, will allow abortion clinics to challenge SB 8 — If Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's line of questioning during the court's three hours of arguments on Texas' fetal heartbeat law is any indication, at least one legal challenge will be allowed to move forward.
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Washington Free Beacon, The Intercept, The Atlantic, The Nation, Daily Kos, Rolling Stone, Off the Kuff and Washington Times
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Shutting Down Historical Debate, China Makes It a Crime to Mock Heroes — Under a new law, China has zealously prosecuted even the perceived slander of Communist figures, broadening Xi Jinping's campaign to dominate party orthodoxy. — The young woman in Beijing began her post complaining …
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's not vaccinated, rips ‘vaccine Nazis’ — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who apologized earlier this year for comparing mask mandates to the Holocaust, ripped “vaccine Nazis” on Tuesday while saying she's not vaccinated.
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Crooks and Liars, Raw Story and NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Tim Mak / Rolling Stone:
The NRA's ‘First Lady’ Thought Donald Trump Owed Her a Favor. Here's How That Went — A new book chronicles how Wayne and Susan LaPierre used his gun lobbying job as their ticket to high society, bizarre elephant hunting safaris, and millions in questionable spending
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Raw Story
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 …