Not the obituary I wanted to see today... Quincy Jones, musical impresario, arranger and producer, dead at age 91
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/04/834546599/quincy-jones-pop-mastermind-thriller-producer-dies

Yes, Nate Silver’s billionaire boss is watching.

Tim Miller sat down with Ann Selzer about the polls in Iowa. https://youtu.be/P-ysKh_Gyd0

I don’t seek compromise with Republicans on voting rights because there is no middle ground between an arsonist and a firefighter.—Mark Elias, civil rights attorney

Scenes from Spring Lake this afternoon

This is not a tough choice

The New York Times just dropped a full-page editorial with one message—"Vote to End the Trump Era."

In an internment camp, all they had was baseball. Now, they’re back. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/03/us/japan-baseball-manzanar-internment.html

“Yeah bitch, we take labor law seriously here.”— California AFL-CIO president, Lorena Gonzalez

Musk’s PAC sued in California for alleged labor law violations
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/02/elon-musk-america-pac-labor-law-violations

NEW: Black canvassers Elon Musk’s America PAC were tricked, threatened, and driven in seatless U-Haul vans. They were then fired after WIRED reported on their plight—without full pay or a way back home.

https://www.wired.com/story/canvassers-elon-musk-america-pac-fired-stranded-michigan-mistreatment/

Ms. Randle speaking truth as only an elder can. “All of our children deserve a president who will inspire them to learn from history, not a tyrant who will try to erase it,” she said.
#HarrisForPresident
https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2024/11/01/tulsa-race-massacre-survivor-votes-kamala-harris-for-president/

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CardiB roasts Space Karen

The electoral college was not put in the Constitution to make sure candidates campaigned in small states. That's a lie you were taught in school. It doesn't even make sense.

The electoral college was put in the Constitution to protect slavery.

Two key demos driving the Harris lead in the Selzer poll — 28-point lead with independent women and a 35-point lead with women over 65. Iowa has a lot of women over 65.

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Lessie Benningfield Randle, one of the last known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, cast her ballot for Kamala Harris for president. She turns 110 on Nov. 10.