Trump Media Outsourced Jobs to Mexico Even as Trump Pushes “America First”

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump threatened businesses that send jobs south of the border, while his own company that runs the Truth Social platform outsourced coding jobs to workers in Mexico, outraging some staff members.

ProPublica

Elon Musk assures voters that Trump’s victory would deliver “temporary hardship”

This is one of the more truthful arguments that Musk has made for Trump’s election, which is to say, only half of it is false. If Trump delivers on his stated plans, Americans will indeed suffer material hardship. But such deprivation would neither be necessary for — nor conducive to — achieving a healthier or more sustainable economy.

Vox

What ‘Americans only’ really means

The only way to pass the citizenship test in Trumpland is to choose hate.

The Emancipator

Inside the Ruthless, Restless Final Days of Trump’s Campaign

“What’s discipline got to do with winning?”

The Atlantic

US citizens caught in Virginia’s voter purge aimed at noncitizens speak out

CNN obtained access to the list of Virginia voters who were removed and called over 100. We found a variety of US citizens and noncitizens, some of whom were aware they’d been purged while others, who had not yet voted, learned the news from CNN.

Noncitizens CNN spoke with said they didn’t plan to vote and some were unsure how they were even registered.

CNN

In Florida, the future of abortion might come down to men

Women’s access to abortion is a top issue, as activists rush to convince men they also have stake in the fight

The Guardian

The Use of the Term ‘Latinx’ by Democratic Politicians Is Costing Them Votes, New Study Claims

Researchers examined population surveys and determined that Latino voters with conservative views, particularly on LGBTQ issues, have been less likely to support Democratic politicians who use “Latinx,” a gender-neutral term meant to be inclusive of LGBTQ+ and gender nonconforming communities.

“We find that backlash is not driven by concerns related to respect for the Spanish language or anti-intellectual beliefs – that Latinx is a bourgeois, coastal, white imposition on working-class Latinos,” Roman said in a recent interview. “The reason why it generates backlash against some aspects of the Democratic Party is it’s a signal of inclusivity toward LBGTQ+ and gender non-conforming” members of the Latino community.

Latin Times

Breonna Taylor’s Civil Rights Were Violated by Ex-Louisville Officer, Jury Determines

Former police detective Brett Hankison was convicted on Friday, Nov. 1, for his role in the botched 2020 drug raid in Louisville that ended with Taylor dying from a gunshot wound

People

An influencer thought someone dropping off ballots was ‘suspect.’ It was the postman

Two days before Halloween, a Pennsylvania postal worker was delivering a box of mailed-in ballots to the Northampton County Courthouse. A man filming with his phone began asking questions and followed the postal worker into the building.

The man doing filming was told that the man with the box of ballots was a postal worker.

“I dunno, apparently he’s with the post office, but that looks very suspect,” said the man filming, zooming in on what he said was “an obscene amount of ballots.”

NPR

Harris maintains polling lead among young voters as both candidates ramp up appeals

A recent ABC News/Ipsos poll found Harris leading Trump by 14 points among voters under 30 years old. That lead appears to track with the newest data from the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School published this month, which shows Harris continuing to lead among the nation’s youngest voting cohort.

ABC News

Trump says migrants caused a ‘surge in crime’ in a small Wisconsin city. Its residents reject that.

“I mean this in all respect to everyone in their beliefs and where they’re at, but it’s like regular people wandering around Whitewater. It’s all very normal. And sure, there’s more people who speak Spanish, but we had people who spoke Spanish before,” said Whitewater city manager John Weidl, who stressed that his post is nonpartisan and declined to share his party affiliation.

Politico

The racist ‘one-drop rule’ lives on in how Trump talks about Black politicians and whiteness in America

Calls to “Make America Great Again” hearken back to colonialism, when whiteness — particularly white, male power — was at its peak. The period from 1500 to the 1960s was a time when white men could exercise control over people of color by racially classifying their bodies. And they protected whiteness by passing laws that declared “one drop” of Black blood as enough to declare someone Black.

The Conversation

They’re on their way to cancel their husband’s vote. Will it make a difference come Election Day?

Men have long intimidated women in an effort to ensure they vote the same, though women and men have long been split in their politics. 

The 19th

These LGBTQ+ Candidates Are Hoping To Break Florida’s Republican Supermajority

And for them, it’s personal: These candidates have said they felt inspired to run to counter Florida Gov. and former Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis’ war on queer and trans rights, abortion and all of the things he views as “woke.”

Huffpost

Angelina Cruz was a school teacher. Then a union leader. Now she’s headed to the state legislature.

Now its legislature is dominated by conservative Republicans with a margin of almost 2-1 in both chambers. Former Republican Gov. Scott Walker stripped public employees of their collective bargaining rights in 2011. Wisconsin went for Donald Trump in 2016.

That’s the political environment queer public school teacher and union president Angelina Cruz is walking into when she becomes the new Democratic state representative from Racine in January. She faces no opposition in this week’s election.

LGBTQ Nation

For the formerly incarcerated, voting for the first time is also about those who can’t

There’s an assumption that justice-involved people will tend to vote Democrat because of their experience being on the receiving end, but that may not always be the case. In an October poll from the Marshall Project<, which surveyed 54,000 people in prisons and jails, “roughly half” supported former President Donald Trump. Notably, the sample had a larger representation of white respondents compared to the overall prison population.

NPR

Compare Trump and Harris’ views on LGBTQ rights and marriage equality

Among the topics voters may consider in the 2024 presidential election are LGBTQ rights — and it’s an issue where former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have starkly different messages and backgrounds.

CBS News

Pro-EU incumbent Maia Sandu re-elected to second term as president of Moldova

Speaking at the headquarters of her Action and Solidarity party in the capital Chișinău, Sandu said her priority in the coming years would be to be a president for all Moldovans.

Euronews

Spain’s king and queen pelted with mud in flood-hit Valencia

The King and Queen of Spain have been pelted with mud and other objects by angry protesters during a visit to flood-hit Valencia.

BBC

Kemi Badenoch Becomes First Black Woman To Lead UK’s Conservative Party

Kemi Badenoch, an often controversial figure in British politics, has become the first Black woman to lead the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party after she won the party’s election against Robert Jenrich.

Black Enterprise

Takeaways from AP’s report on three hospitals in northern Gaza raided by Israeli troops

One of the most startling aspects of Israel’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza has been the destruction wreaked on the territory’s health sector. Over the past 13 months, the Israeli military has besieged and raided at least 10 hospitals, saying the attacks are a military necessity because Hamas uses the facilities as command and control bases.

AP News

Iranian-American held in Iran as tensions high following Israeli attack on country, U.S. says

An Iranian-American journalist who once worked for a U.S. government-funded broadcaster is believed to have been detained by Iran for months now, authorities said Sunday, further raising the stakes as Tehran threatens to retaliate over an Israeli attack on the country.

The imprisonment of Reza Valizadeh, acknowledged to CBS News and the Associated Press by the U.S. State Department, came as Iran marked the 45th anniversary of the American Embassy takeover and hostage crisis on Sunday. It also followed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatening both Israel and the U.S. the day before with “a crushing response” as long-range B-52 bombers reached the Middle East in an attempt to deter Tehran.

CBS News

Israeli settlers attack West Bank village, steal olive harvest

Settlers have stepped up attacks against Palestinians and their property amid the crucial olive harvesting season.

The New Arab

Over 50 children reportedly killed in Gaza as violence disrupts polio vaccination campaign

Over 50 children reportedly killed in Gaza amid Intensified violence, while the vaccination campaign for polio, recently resumed in northern Gaza, is facing disruptions due to the ongoing conflict.

Euronews

‘We have no choice’: Gazan workers find a lifeline in freelancing amid war

An English teacher by training, Algoul splits her time between a makeshift classroom in a tent, where she teaches for free, and a table in this cafe turned workspace where she translates documents from Arabic to English. Over the grainy video call, other freelancers who had been forcibly displaced to the central Gazan city could be seen working alongside her, all of them vying for the coveted internet connection.

The Guardian

Royal estates ‘receive millions from public bodies and charities’

The Royal Family has received millions of pounds of income in rent from the NHS, schools and the armed forces, a new documentary has revealed.

BBC