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Signs for Hope in Record Early Turnout - The Friday AM Quickie 11/1/24

By Corey Pein —

This is the last newsletter you'll get from me before Election Day, though I plan to pitch in and help Jacob round up what results are available come Tuesday. I'll be meditating on a couple of quotations in these stressful days. The first came from the late, great Joe Strummer, in 1982: "the future is unwritten." The second came from Hakeem Jeffries, yesterday: "calm is an intentional decision." - Corey

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THE BIG NEWS

Future of Democracy Watch: Indian Villagers in Harris's Ancestral Home Pray Daily for Her Victory

  • The Power of Pop: Harris Turns to Celebs Like J-Lo to Bring Out the Vote in The Final Days Progressives and leftists, meanwhile, are focusing on two priorities in a Harris administration: ending the bloodshed in Gaza and saving Lina Khan's job at the Federal Trade Commission. via the Washington Post, the Associated Press, and NBC News.
  • Harris Maintains Stunning Early Vote Lead as Trump Underperforms With Pennsylvania Seniors First-time voters, including Zoomers who are just learning about Trump's Access Hollywood tape thanks to TikTok, "could be decisive, since the number of votes cast by new 2024 voters already exceeds the margin in many of the closest states in 2020." via the Washington Post, Politico, and NBC News.
  • It's Like They Expect to Lose: Trump and Vance Double Down on Flagrant Lies About Voter Fraud "They all said, don't come. I said, why? 'You can't win New Mexico.' I said, look, your votes are rigged," Trump told a crowd in Albuquerque yesterday by way of explaining why he "waste[d] a whole damn half a day" in another state Democrats are favored to win. via the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press.
  • 'There Could Actually Be Violence': Lunatic MAGA General Mike Flynn Delivers Thinly Veiled Threat to Ballot Counters "Flynn's associate Ivan Raiklin, a former Green Beret, and retired Army Reserve lieutenant colonel, said last Monday that [fascist] Americans should be 'planning to descend on states and counties where they do not finish the election count by midnight Nov. 5 in order to document, audit and livestream every movement and breath of every single poll worker, election official, to ensure'" Trump takes power. via USA Today, Rolling Stone, the Guardian, and Politico.
  • New Law Allows Dueling Presidential Transition Operations If One Candidate Doesn't Concede "But Trump himself has so far yet to sign an ethics pledge and agreements on transition fundraising disclosures and limits — both of which are requirements for any candidate to be able to gain access to agencies, secure computer equipment, government email systems and about $7 million in funding, and to participate in the formal process run by the General Services Administration." via the Washington Post and the Associated Press.
  • Trump's Dictatorship Plans: A Corrupted DOJ, A Gutted State Department, Wholesale Bribery, Concentration Camps for Migrants, and RFK Jr. in Charge of Food and Drug Safety and 'Women's Health' There's a lot of reasons to get up and go out to vote for Harris, despite any misgivings you may have, in case you haven't heard. via NBC News, the Washington Post, Common Dreams, the Guardian, and the Associated Press.
  • Elon Musk Skips Philly Court Hearing Over His Vote-Buying Scheme; Judge Places Case on Hold The white supremacist billionaire "'is a very busy man who can't just materialize on 12 hours' notice,' his attorney, Matt Haverstick, said during the brief proceeding." via the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Guardian, and the New York Times.
  • Charlie Kirk Risks Swing-State Churches' Tax Status with GOP Get-Out-the-Vote Events When conservative church leaders questioned the wisdom of hosting "Super Chase" political events, Turning Point representatives reassured them that the IRS doesn't enforce the law barring tax-exempt organizations from partisan activity, adding, "we're long past the point where church and politics are separate." via NBC News.

US Implores China to Lean on North Korea to Withdraw Troops Aiding Russia

In an intense United Nations Security Council session yesterday, the deputy US ambassador to the United Nations, Robert Wood, pressed his Russian counterpart, Anna Evstigneeva, whether her country still maintains that there are no North Korean troops in Russia? She shook her head, declining to respond, per the Associated Press. But Wood disclosed yesterday that 8,000 North Korean troops – the majority of the total believed to be in Russia – have massed near Ukraine's border in the Kursk region and are preparing to join the fight. Secretary of State Antony Blinken later said "we've not yet seen these troops deploy into combat against Ukrainian forces but we would expect that to happen in the coming days." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned on South Korean television yesterday that if the international reaction continues to be "zero, then the number of North Korean troops on our border will be increased." US diplomats are urging China, an ally of both North Korea and Russia that has been urging "peace talks and political settlement of the Ukraine crisis," to pressure North Korea to "prevent escalation." Meanwhile in the Ukrainian city of Kherson, Russian drones have been "killing and maiming scores of people in what locals have described as a 'human safari,'" a UN investigator said Russia's use of torture is a crime against humanity, and Ukrainian soldiers and civilians alike are anxious about the outcome of the US presidential election.

Deadly Spanish Floods Are a Taste of Climate Disasters to Come

The death toll from flash floods in eastern Spain reached at least 158 people yesterday. Many areas are still inaccessible to rescuers, and, per the Guardian, the authorities will not say how many people are still missing. Survivors say warnings from regional officials, led by the conservative Popular Party, came too late for them to evacuate. "It was like an apocalypse," Diego Hernandez, who was carried away by floodwaters in Valencia on the way to his mother's funeral, tells the New York Times. A "rapid but partial" new scientific analysis says human-caused climate change made the rain in Spain 12 percent heavier and doubled the likelihood of an intense storm like the one that preceded the flash floods. "I've heard people saying that this is the new normal," Clair Barnes of World Weather Attribution tells the Associated Press. "Given that we are currently on track for 2.6 degrees of warming, or thereabouts, within this century, we are only halfway to the new normal."

QUICKEST QUICKIES

  • Iranian Leaders Vow 'Fierce' Response to Israeli Attack as US Seeks Ceasefire in Lebanon The Israeli military over the past month has flattened nearly half of all building in some areas of southern Lebanon; in addition to bombings, at least nine religious sites have been damaged or destroyed by controlled demolitions. via the New York Times, the Guardian, and the Washington Post.
  • Soaring Housing Costs Overshadow Jobs Growth in Pre-Election Economic Reports "'There is this long-standing assumption that Republicans have the advantage on the economy over Democrats,' said Margie Omero, a Democratic pollster at the firm GBAO. 'But the specifics of Harris's economic message — specifically caregiving and tax fairness — are resonating, which has helped close the gap.'" via the Washington Post, NBC News, and the Associated Press.
  • House Democrats Decline to Weigh in on Whether Andrew Cuomo Perjured Himself in Testimony on Covid Deaths Republicans on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic this week requested the Justice Department bring criminal charges against the former New York governor for saying he "do[es] not recall" key aspects of his Covid response. via the New York Times and Politico.
  • Boeing Makes a Better Contract Offer to Striking Machinists – But Still No Pension "It is time for our members to lock in these gains and confidently declare victory," leaders of two chapters of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers urged members ahead of the Monday vote. via the Seattle Times and the New York Times.

SOME NUMBER

$20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

That sum, which can also be written as $20 decillion, is how much a Russian court has fined Google for blocking 17 Russian television channels and media outlets from YouTube in line with US sanctions. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov calls the figure symbolic – of what, he did not explain. As NBC News reports, the fine is "far larger than the size of the entire global economy," which is a mere $110 trillion. As the New York Times reports, American right-wingers – some, like Tim Pool and Benny Johnson, covertly funded by the Russian government – are still free to spread misinformation across YouTube, with videos containing lies about the election racking up tens of millions of views.

DON'T MISS MR CLIPS‌

Trump Struggles Explaining He's Not a Nazi

They want nothing more than to stop pretending.

THE POLLS WILL DRIVE YOU CRAZY

Turns out that's by design.

PARTING WORDS

"It is not plausible that, even with possible improved typing speeds or an increase in chimpanzee populations, these orders of magnitude can be spanned to the point that monkey labour will ever be a viable tool for developing written works of anything beyond the trivial. As such, we reject the conclusions from the Infinite Monkeys Theorem as potentially misleading within our finite universe."

-- Australian mathematicians Stephen Woodcock and Jay Falletta, concluding in a new study that the adage that an infinite number of monkeys banging randomly on keyboards will eventually reproduce the works of William Shakespeare "is correct, but misleading." They found that even with the entire global population of chimpanzees enlisted in typing, the heat death of the universe would take place well before the primates produced even a full paragraph of Shakespeare. I'm grateful to have one less thing I have to worry about, as a writer!

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