Results in Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida show Trump slightly ahead of his Democratic challenger.
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Burst water pipe interferes with ballot counting in Fulton County, Georgia; no ballots damaged
Ben Brasch of The Atlanta Journal Constitution has details on an a burst water pipe that is impairing one of Georgia’s biggest counties from counting ballots tonight.
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So far, few surprises
None of the states called so far are particularly surprising, but the major swing states continue to count ballots.
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Strap yourselves in for our election night coverage!
Here we go! Polling places have begun closing across the East Coast, and we can soon expect results to begin trickling in.
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SNL: “This daylight savings time, let’s gain an hour and lose a president”
Watch highlights from the fifth episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by John Mulaney, with The Strokes as musical guest, including the spooky Biden Halloween cold open.
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The Atlantic profiles NPI alum Garlin Gilchrist II’s work to deliver a Democratic victory in Michigan
Writer Edward-Issac Dovere takes a look at the Democratic Party’s plan to win the Wolverine State in 2020 after losing to Donald Trump by less than 11,000 votes in 2016, which emphasizes facets of big organizing and local control.
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SNL satirizes final presidential debate; Adele dazzles in hosting debut
Watch highlights from the fourth episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by Adele at 30 Rock’s Studio 8H, with H.E.R. as the musical guest.
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President Barack Obama shreds Donald Trump in major speech from Philadelphia
On October 21st, 2020, President Barack Obama delivered a scathing and unsparing indictment of Donald Trump’s disastrous presidency from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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SNL spoofs dueling presidential town halls with October 17th cold open
Watch highlights from the third episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by Issa Rae at 30 Rock’s Studio 8H, with Justin Bieber as the musical guest, including the cold open spoofing the October 14th presidential town halls.
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Ben Sasse warns his constituents: “We are staring down the barrel of a blue tsunami”
Should Trump lose, people are going to be asking: “What the heck were any of us thinking, that selling a TV-obsessed, narcissistic individual to the American people was a good idea?” the Nebraska Republican said in a telephone town hall.
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Maya Rudolph and Beck Bennett spoof vice presidential debate in SNL’s second episode cold open
Watch highlights from the second episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by Bill Burr at 30 Rock’s Studio 8H, with Jack White as the musical guest, including the cold open parodying the vice presidential debate.
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Right wing terrorists who plotted to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer arrested, FBI announces
A group of militant right wing extremists who were plotting to harm Governor Gretchen Whitmer have been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the federal government announced today.
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SNL returns to 30 Rock — at last! — with Jim Carrey as Joe Biden
Saturday Night Live is back! The show taped its forty-sixth premiere last night in front of a studio audience who, unlike the Trump entourage, were wearing masks. Watch SNL’s brilliant spoof of Tuesday’s farce of a debate, Chris Rock’s monologue, and more.
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The New York Times has Donald Trump’s tax returns. Here’s what’s in them.
Unsurprise: The paper’s reporters write that based on what the data shows, Trump “has been more successful playing a business mogul than being one in real life.”
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“I feel sorry for Americans”: A baffled world watches the U.S.
The New York Times reports on the concern and consternation many people feel around the world as the 2020 presidential election enters its final weeks.
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Federal intelligence sent to Oregon and Portland indicates right-wing extremists pose biggest lethal threat
Via The Oregonian, confirmation of what we already knew: “Racially motivated extremists and ad-hoc citizen militias appear to present the most pronounced threat of violence to human life, according to a Joint Intelligence Bulletin circulated to law enforcement in June by the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and National Counterterrorism Center.”
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Slate columnist: Chuck Schumer is a lefty now
A Slate columnist says that Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is taking an increasing number of progressive positions, aligning himself with Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey, and Ron Wyden, and going further than Joe Biden has in embracing policy directions we need.
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Words to remember the legendary Ruth Bader Ginsburg by
This artwork highlights many of the key words that national and regional leaders thought of when they reflected on the passing of one of the sharpest and most principled jurists in American history.
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This is the proposed new flag of Mississippi
Take a look at the Magnolia State’s proposed new flag, which doesn’t contain any Confederate symbolism, but does contain the words “In God We Trust”, in possible violation of the country’s historic separation of church and state.
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A harbinger of what’s to come? Several boats sink at pro-Trump parade on Lake Travis in Texas
No one was injured in the sinkings, which occurred on a lake that can be tricky to navigate due to large wakes. Is this a foreshadowing of what’s about to happen to the already wretched Trump regime?
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Why experts are overwhelmingly skeptical of online voting
Ars Technica’s Timothy B. Lee has put together an incredibly good article that reiterates what security researchers and election integrity advocates have known for a long time: online voting is a terrible idea and should not be used for any elections for public office.
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