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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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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: Rolling Stone and The Atlantic
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Youngkin's crowds dwarf McAuliffe's on election eve
Cliff Owen / ABC News:
Virginia's 2021 gubernatorial election results
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Carville: Blame Beltway Dems if McAuliffe loses today
Discussion: National Review, CNN, Townhall and The Hill
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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 …
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
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: 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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Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Constitutional law professor: SCOTUS “pretty blatant”, will allow abortion clinics to challenge SB 8
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 …
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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:
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: Slate and The Daily Wire
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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.
Discussion: 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” …
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 …
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
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Andrew Miller / Fox News:
Sen. Rounds' wife dead after two-year battle with cancer
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.
The Virginia Public Access Project:
Election Results … 2021 General Election
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.
Discussion: The Verge
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
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.
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 …
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.
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] …
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: It was the woke cover-up that electrified the Virginia governor's race, now on election day the mother of skirt-wearing teen who raped a female classmate in girls' bathroom says he is a troubled boy who identifies as male and just wanted sex  — A judge found the teenage boy wearing …
 
 
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Josh Hawley blocks confirmation of several State Dept. nominees
Discussion: Raw Story
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Hot new idea for Dems' reconciliation bill: A huge tax cut for the very rich; Update: “Beyond unacceptable”
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
 Earlier Items: 
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Steve Bannon admits Youngkin's ties to Trump: 'The policies he's recommending are Trump policies'
Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
Democrats ask reporters to do better job selling Build Back Better: We ‘rely on all of you’
Discussion: RedState
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Rick Santorum Continues Fall From Disgrace, Lands at Newsmax
Tim Mak / Rolling Stone:
The NRA's ‘First Lady’ Thought Donald Trump Owed Her a Favor. Here's How That Went
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Edwards / Greenwich Time:
Sen. Josh Hawley says liberals' attacks on manhood are driving men to pornography and video games
Discussion: The Hill
 

 
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