by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, ELECTION DAY 2024. So obviously, if you haven’t voted already, make sure you do so – blue, up and down the ballot of course. And if you know anybody who still hasn’t voted Democratic, maybe give them a friendly nudge to get to the polls? It’s not an exaggeration to say that our democracy and futures depend on what happens today. Good luck to all of us! Oh, and NEVER forget or forgive the Glenn Youngkins of the world, who threw themselves behind fascism lock, stock and barrel (in Youngkin’s case, because he’s a right wingnut and also because he mostly cares about power for HIMSELF). Beyond disgusting.
- Returning Grazing Land to Native Forests Would Yield Big Climate Benefits (“Removing cattle from carbon-rich soils in the eastern U.S. and western Europe while intensifying production elsewhere could drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions, with little hit to global protein production, a new study shows.”)
- Scientists may have figured out why a potent greenhouse gas is rising. The answer is scary.
- Climate crisis leaves European farmers vulnerable to far right, say campaigners
- Degradation of land is threat to human life, Saudi government says (“Deputy environment minister calls for urgent action as Riyadh prepares for global summit on issue next month”)
- World watches with bated breath as US votes for Harris or Trump
- A pro-Trump influencer says a Russian agent paid him $100 to post a fake voter fraud video. It wasn’t the first time
- Russia Escalates Effort to Subvert Election and ‘Instill Fear in Voters,’ U.S. Says
- Inexperienced, poorly trained and underfed: the North Korean troops heading to Ukraine
- Whether Trump or Harris, Pessimism Reigns in Russia Over U.S. Election Winner (“Russian officials feel disrespected by the Democrats and betrayed by Donald J. Trump, who lavished praise on President Vladimir V. Putin but made decisions the Kremlin saw as benefiting Ukraine.”)
- Israeli Strikes Damage a Major Hospital in Northern Gaza, Officials Say
- North Korea fires a barrage of ballistic missiles toward the sea ahead of US election
- UK grid operator calls for 47 GW of solar by 2030, deployed at 4.6 GW per year
- Trump threatens 100 percent tariffs on Mexico, largest U.S. trade partner (That would be disastrous.)
- Trump Media Admits Outsourcing Jobs to Mexico, Despite That Whole “America First” Thing
- Some Republican-led states refuse to let Justice Department monitors into polling places
- How Trump Could Ban Abortion Without Congress
- Trump Claims “Illegal Alien” Voting Is Rampant. His Own Party Disagrees.
- Trump donor fined for pollution leads a fight to end methane emission penalties (“Detailed plans from 30 oil and gas producers come amid historic levels of potent planet-heating emissions”)
- Trump’s Followers Are Living in a Dark Fantasy (“MAGA adherents deny and dismiss what they are a part of, but they believe Trump’s lies, and will support him until the end.”)
- Americans head to polls with historic election on a knife edge
- Trump Ends Campaign by Calling Female Leader the ‘B-Word’
- Trump swerves, Harris sticks to script as campaign nears its end (I’m including this WaPo headline just to illustrate how badly the media has failed us. Trump “swerved?” THAT Is the word they chose, out of so many other possible words, to describe Trump’s appalling rhetoric and behavior? Seriously, F*** the WaPo and most of the political “mainstream media”)
- More than 78 million ballots have been cast early this year. Here are 3 takeaways from pre-election voting (“Four years ago, more than 110 million Americans voted early in person or by mail – roughly 70% of everyone who voted in that election. We won’t know the final total number of 2024 voters for weeks, until all results are fully counted, but pre-election voting is expected to make up closer to 50% of all ballots – a split in the electorate that is more similar to the 2022 midterms.”)
- Women Can Put Kamala Harris Over the Top (“Yes, the polls are excruciatingly close, but I expect women voters, motivated by Roe’s demise and Trump’s misogyny, to help elect the first female president of the United States.”)
- Harris has 4-point lead over Trump in final PBS News/NPR/Marist election poll
- Trump Stepped on a Rake Yesterday—and He Knew It
- A fixture of American politics for nearly a decade, Trump rallies are coming to an end
- Trump’s Crowds Are Dwindling as His Campaign Winds Down
- Even Losing May Not Stop Trump’s Campaign of Vengeance
- Poll: Harris has massive lead among swing state college students
- Even Trump’s Campaign Staff Are Acknowledging That He Could Lose
- MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell: Not knowing how to cover Donald Trump is still the news’ biggest problem (If our democracy is destroyed, the media will have played a HUGE part in that. Just a massive, massive failure.)
- The Trump Campaign’s Closing Message: We’ll Make Your Life Hell (“In the past few weeks, the former president’s allies have endorsed banning vaccines, ending the Affordable Care Act, removing fluoride from public water and temporarily cratering the economy.”)
- Last Stand of the Pinocchio (“It’s time to abandon the foremost symbol of journalistic impotence in the Trump era.”)
- Sabato’s Crystal Ball: Our Final 2024 Ratings
- Marriage and the shy Harris voter (“Some anti-Trumpers have a theory about the wives of Trump-loving men.”)
- These are the “canary” House races to watch on Nov. 5 (“Republicans believe a good result in Virginia’s 7th District, where Democrats are trying to hang onto the seat vacated by Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.), who is running for governor, will portend a good night for their party. Ditto for Democrats in the state’s 2nd District, where Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) is locked in a competitive race but is still seen as a slight favorite to win reelection.”)
- Joe Rogan Endorses Trump, and Trump Calls Him ‘the Biggest There Is’ (Absolutely disgusting.)
- Proud Boys claim they’ll be at polling places as Trump ups violent rhetoric and election fraud claims (What on earth are these people “proud” of exactly???)
- Tucker Carlson Says Abortions Cause Hurricanes in Election Eve Broadcast (Carlson appears to have completely lost his mind.)
- A Trump Field Director Was Fired for Being a White Nationalist
- JD Vance calls for loving fellow Americans before labeling Harris “trash”
- Harris and Trump target Pennsylvania in final pitch before Election Day
- The ‘Blue Dot’ That Could Clinch a Harris Victory (“Everything just might come down to Omaha.”)
- Editor Jon Ralston’s 2024 Nevada election predictions
- Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes can proceed, a Pennsylvania judge says
- Musk and X are epicenter of US election misinformation, experts say
- Elon Musk’s lawyer says $1M giveaway winners not randomly chosen, raising potential legal issues
- Elon Musk’s election-doubting posts are shared 9 times more than his less extreme election content (“Data compiled by the NBC News Decision Desk shows that Musk’s election conspiracy theories and doubts have vastly outperformed his other posts about the election.”)
- Georgia Judge Rejects Third Lawsuit From GOP Fulton County Election Official
- A Georgia Election Official’s Months-Long Push to Make It Easier to Challenge the 2024 Results
- Video: Sen. Mark Warner on Why Virginians Should – and Will – Overwhelmingly Reelect Sen. Tim Kaine; Says Next Few Days Could Be “as tense as anything we’ve seen in recent modern American history” (“I think particularly what is motivating folks to vote for Tim is Virginians know him.”)
- Competitive Virginia races could play a critical role in the battle for Congress
- Former President Barack Obama Records Auto Call for Missy Cotter Smasal’s Campaign (“Your vote is more important than ever” – Barack Obama)
- Speaker Johnson stumps for Anderson on the last night of the campaign (Disgusting.)
- U.S. Speaker Johnson comes to Virginia in quest to hold majority (It’s APPALLING that this extremist nutjob ever became Speaker in the first place, and in terms of passing legislation or getting anything done, he’s been a huge failure.)
- Rep. Jen Kiggans and Missy Cotter Smasal make one final push for votes ahead of Election Day (This is the media’s “safe space” – covering politics as a horse race, while failing to inform readers/viewers/listeners of what’s at stake, including how extreme the Republicans are these days.)
- November 4, 2024: ‘Jeff’s Notes’ video column: Virginia’s Election Day, when voting ends not begins
- U.S. Justice Department to monitor polling places in 27 states, including six Virginia localities
- Hanover, Henrico officials downplay federal election monitoring
- Early voting in Virginia dips below 2020 levels as parties push for final turnout surge
- Purged Virginia voters say experience has been ‘worrying’
- Editorial: Be grateful for poll workers, who ensure our elections run smoothly (“Virginia voters headed to the polls today should be grateful for the dedicated efforts of election workers, who ensure the process runs smoothly.”)
- How provisional ballot voting works in Virginia
- Judge orders Waynesboro election officials to certify Tuesday election
- Waynesboro: Judge orders Republican electoral board members to certify 2024 election
- Election 2024: Voters in Roanoke and New River valleys head to the polls Tuesday
- Election-related spam text messages deployed on election eve in Southwest Virginia
- Richmond mayoral candidates share common strategy for reducing gun violence (“Mayor Levar Stoney previously rejected the model.”)
- Arlington Voters Guide: County Board Races, Polling Places
- D.C.-area forecast: Winning Election Day weather as highs soar into the 70s
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