What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
When it became nightmarishly clear on Tuesday night that Donald Trump was going to become our next president, a startling amount of women in my social media feeds posted a version of this phrase: “Never underestimate how much America hates women.”
Donald Trump just won and America hates women | Fusion
This.
David Duke: ‘GOD BLESS WIKILEAKS’ – The Washington Post
That pretty much says it all.
“If you vote for somebody who can’t win for president, it means that you don’t care who wins for president.”
Rachel Maddow Slams Third-Party Voters – Motto
True.
It’s not fair, and I’m so tired, and every woman I know is so tired. I cried because I don’t even know what it feels like to be taken seriously—not fully, not in that whole, unequivocal, confident way that’s native to handshakes between men. I cried because it does things to you to always come second.
Whatever your personal opinion of the Clintons, as politicians or as human beings, that dynamic is real. We, as a culture, do not take women seriously on a profound level. We do not believe women. We do not trust women. We do not like women. I understand that many men cannot see it, and plenty more do not care. I know that many men will read this and laugh, or become defensive, or call me hysterical, or worse, and that’s fine. I am used to it. It doesn’t make me wrong.
Sigh….
For diehard Democrats holding out hope that they won’t have to live through a Trump presidency, there is a last, incredibly long shot for them latch on to — a surprise twist in the Electoral
The one scenario that could still get Hillary into the White House | New York Post
Well, that and down ballot recounts.
Third party votes may have helped Trump win
Fucking self-absorbed whiners.
People were lining up to leave their “I Voted” stickers at the gravesite of the women’s suffrage activist. Elsewhere, tributes popped up on Twitter and Instagram to other icons of the movement.
At Susan B. Anthony’s Grave, Visiting Hours Extended For Election Day Crowds : The Two-Way : NPR
Two clerks fired after a disturbance at a popular Pompano Beach polling place was the first issue involving voting reported on Election Day.
Sigh…. Freaking Florida….
The group’s stated goal is to express support for Hillary Clinton, but it has also served as a forum to discuss issues raised by Donald J. Trump’s rhetoric.
…Ms. Chamberlain, 33, created Pantsuit Nation to support Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, less than three weeks ago. Since then, more than 2.5 million people have joined the group — which is invitation only — and have reported donating more than $216,000 through the Pantsuit Nation fund-raising drive. But even that growth didn’t prepare the group’s organizers for the explosive activity on Tuesday.
People, mainly women, posted photos of their daughters wearing “Future President” T-shirts or creating an “H” with their bodies. They posted images and memories of their pioneering grandmothers, like an early airplane pilot. Many thanked the group for the virtual support it provided when they went to their polling places in mostly red states. These users called themselves “blue dots.”
“There was a post from an 18-year-old who went to vote with her 91-year-old grandmother,” Ms. Chamberlain said. “It’s a montage of every sappy thing you’ve ever seen about America. Only these are real people, in their own voices, and I think it’s a picture of the real diversity in the country.”
Pantsuit Nation, a ‘Secret’ Facebook Hub, Celebrates Clinton – The New York Times
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A Nevada court judge forcefully denied a request Tuesday from Donald Trump’s campaign to direct a county registrar of voters to preserve and segregate ballots from voting machines in four early voting sites in the Las Vegas area where Latino voters showed up in record numbers.
The Trump campaign said Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria kept polling locations open two hours beyond their designated closing times.
Clark County saw its record for single-day early vote turnout shattered Friday when 57,174 people cast their ballots, according to data from the Nevada secretary of state’s office, as Hillary Clinton and Democrats sought to build up a prohibitive advantage over Trump before Tuesday in the key state.Trump’s lawyers asked for an order to have the pertinent early vote ballots — those cast after the designated polling hours Friday — not to be “co-mingled or interspersed” with other ballots.
Judge Gloria Sturman, of the District Court for Clark County Nevada, ruled from the bench, saying Gloria was already obligated by state law to maintain the records that the Trump campaign is seeking.
“I can’t obligate him to do something he is already obligated to do,” Sturman said, later adding, “This is Election Day. He has other things to be doing.”
Nevada judge denies Trump request; warns about Twitter trolls – CNNPolitics.com
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“I did a lot of freaking out about Barack Obama,” Beck said.
Glenn Beck: ‘Obama made me a better man’ | TheHill
huh
When Souad al-Shammary posted a series of tweets about the thick beards worn by Saudi clerics, she never imagined she would land in jail.
She put up images of several men with beards: An Orthodox Jew, a hipster, a communist, an Ottoman Caliph, a Sikh, and a Muslim. She wrote that having a beard was not what made a man holy or a Muslim. And she pointed out that one of Islam’s staunchest critics during the time of Prophet Muhammad had an even longer beard than him.
The frank comments are typical of this twice-divorced mother of six and graduate of Islamic law. Raised a devout girl in a large tribe where she tended sheep, al-Shammary is now a 42-year-old liberal feminist who roots her arguments in Islam, taking on Saudi Arabia’s powerful religious establishment.
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Polls open at 7 a.m. on Nov. 8 and turnout is expected to be high as voters choose who they want to be their next president. And whether you’re casting a ballot for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Alabama law has a provision that requires employers to give workers time off to vote.
Alabama law requires companies to give workers time off to vote | AL.com
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South African opposition leader Julius Malema challenges apartheid-era law and repeats calls to occupy white land.
South Africa’s Julius Malema challenges apartheid-era law – BBC News
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TBILISI – Sandra Roelofs, wife of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, rejected a deputy seat, which she obtained during October’s parliamentary elections via party lists. On Nov. 7, Roelofs filed a request with the Georgian Central Election Commission to cancel her deputy mandate, the Georgian media said.
Saakashvili’s wife rejects seat in Georgian parliament | KyivPost
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Former Georgian president blames corrupt officials and lack of political will for reforms for his resignation
Mikheil Saakashvili quits as governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region | World news | The Guardian
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Just days before his third-party bid finally faces off against her at the polls, Libertarian vice presidential nominee Bill Weld once again stuck up for Hillary Clinton.
Libertarian Bill Weld: Hillary Clinton has gotten ‘a pretty raw deal’ – CNNPolitics.com
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William Weld implies his voters should consider Hillary Clinton, as libertarianism’s tiny tent starts to tear
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Scrambling to defuse a massive scandal, South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday conceded to lawmakers the power to name her new prime minister, a move that could seriously hurt, or even destroy, her ability to govern.
South Korean President’s Concession Could Spell End of Power – The New York Times
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Rally to Restore Sanity
Election monitors and voting advocates are concerned about long lines and voter intimidation.
State officials prepare for an unusually chaotic Election Day – The Washington Post
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A record-number of Americans have already voted in the presidential election, reshaping how campaigns are waged and how voters see the race in its final days.
Spread of Early Voting Is Forging New Habits and Campaign Tactics – The New York Times
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…The data collection will also help with patent protection, a legal anxiety that has been leeching onto growers since the first cannabis plant was patented in August 2015.
Marijuana is subject to the same statutes as any other agricultural patents—simply, that the genome must be characteristically different than the naturally occurring counterpart.
Marijuana growers are worried about protecting intellectual property rights, especially from the patent techniques of seed-trade powerhouse Monsanto.
Portland Startup Maps Cannabis Genome to Protect Weed from Monsanto Patenting – Willamette Week
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Escalating their battle to stamp out an unprecedented spread of street encampments, city officials have begun seizing tiny houses from homeless people in South Los Angeles.
L.A. is seizing tiny homes from the homeless – LA Times
Sigh…
In Dixville Notch, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump 4-2. Libertarian Gary Johnson received one vote, and the 2012 Republican candidate, Mitt Romney received a surprise write-in ballot. In the slightly larger burg of Hart’s Location, Clinton won with 17 votes to Trump’s 14. Johnson got three of Hart’s Location votes, while write-ins Bernie Sanders and John Kasicheach got one vote. And in Millsfield, Trump won decisively, 16-4, with one write-in for Bernie Sanders.
…[These towns] lean conservative and tend to vote Republican. Dixville voted for the Republican in every election since 1960 — including Barry Goldwater who lost in a landslide to Lyndon Johnson — until going for Obama in 2008, and splitting the vote between Romney and Obama in 2012.
Hillary Clinton beats Donald Trump 4-2 in Dixville Notch, N.H., midnight voting
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