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2:45 AM ET, November 3, 2021

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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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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 …
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.
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Virginia Results: Giving Up on Rural America Is Proving a Nightmare for Democrats  —  Margins matter.  —  About a year ago I wrote about the big “trade” that had taken place in our politics.  Democrats were picking up former Republican “red dogs” who live in the suburbs.
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Takeaways from Tuesday's elections: Bad omens for Democrats
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump gloats as Virginia results come in
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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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 …
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
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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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
Star Tribune:
Minneapolis voters reject plan to replace Police Department  —  Nearly 18 months after George Floyd was filmed pleading for breath under an officer's knee, community groups remain divided on how to change the system.  —  TEXT SIZE  —  MORE  —  Minneapolis voters on Tuesday rejected …
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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
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
The Virginia Public Access Project:
Election Results … 2021 General Election
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
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, Raw Story and Political Wire
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Trump's Odds of Escaping Criminal Charges in Georgia Do Not Look Good  —  Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger confirms the ex-president threatened him over the 2020 election results while demanding he magically come up with enough votes to beat Biden.
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Raw Story and The Hill
Mike Carter / The Seattle Times:
Republican Ann Davison leads police abolitionist Nicole Thomas-Kennedy in Seattle City Attorney race  —  Republican Ann Davison held a strong 58% to 41% lead in the race for Seattle City Attorney, with returns Tuesday showing voters rejecting the brash language of her police abolitionist opponent …
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
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!
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Cincinnati elects its first Asian American mayor, Aftab Pureval  —  Aftab Pureval won Cincinnati's race for mayor on Tuesday, according to unofficial results, making the 39-year-old lawyer the first Asian American elected to lead the city.  —  Pureval defeated David Mann …
Discussion: WXIX-TV and emptywheel
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 …
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
Glenn Greenwald:
To Protect Fauci, The Washington Post is Preparing a Hit Piece on the Group Denouncing Gruesome Dog Experimentations  —  For years, the White Coat Waste Project was heralded by The Post as what they are: an activist success story uniting right and left.  But now its work imperils a liberal icon.
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 …
Southern Poverty Law Center:
Judicial Watch Investigations Director Listed As Dues-paying Oath Keeper, Leak Shows  —  Christopher Farrell, the director of investigations and a board member at prominent right-wing nonprofit Judicial Watch, was included on a membership roster of the antigovernment extremist Oath Keepers …
 
 
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Daniel Beekman / The Seattle Times:
Bruce Harrell takes commanding lead over M. Lorena González in Seattle's mayoral race
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
New 2020 Autopsy: Demographics Won't Save Democrats
Lawrence Kudlow / New York Sun:
The Secret Democrats Refuse To Acknowledge: America's Emissions Are Dropping Faster Than Paris Targets
Matt Friedman / Politico:
Shocker in New Jersey: Governor's race a nail-biter
Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Alvin Bragg Wins, Becoming First Black D.A. in Manhattan
New York Times:
Shahana Hanif makes history as the first Muslim woman elected to the New York City Council.
Allahpundit / HotAir:
How journalism abandoned the working class
 Earlier Items: 
Farnoush Amiri / Associated Press:
Lawmakers demand apology for border detention of Iranians
Discussion: The Hill
Associated Press:
US gives final clearance to COVID-19 shots for kids 5 to 11
Argus Leader:
Jean Rounds, South Dakota's former first lady, dies from cancer
Discussion: The Hill
John Sexton / HotAir:
NY Times on ‘backlash and bewilderment’ over the left's wokespeak (and Times' commenters weigh in)
Discussion: Instapundit and New York Times
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
X raises US Premium+ prices by 37.5% to $22 per month, starting on December 21, and EU prices from €16 to €21 per month; the basic subscription still costs $3

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP
 
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