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In blow to 'defund police' movement, Minneapolis residents vote against replacing the city's police department

Josiah Bates
MSN
Wed, 03 Nov 2021 17:44 UTC
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© Christian Monterrosa—APA volunteer urges community members to vote yes on a ballot question offering an alternative to the city's police department outside of a polling place on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021 in Minneapolis.
Despite widespread criticism of their police department and its conduct, voters in Minneapolis have decided they do not want a new model of public safety implemented in their city.

During Tuesday's city elections, voters' ballots included a question asking them if they want to replace the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) with a new department of public safety, which would take a "public health approach" to addressing safety issues.

56% of voters (80,506 people) rejected the ballot question.

"This should be a wakeup call to politicians who want to simply abolish and defund police department. Police officers were their communities and place public safety and justice for crime victims at the forefront of their daily actions," a statement from the Minnesota Police & Peace Officers Association reads. "Let's work together for increased safety for all, instead of pursuing reckless policies which only empower criminals."
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Bad Guys

Democratic New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy narrowly wins re-election

Joseph Ax
Reuters
Thu, 04 Nov 2021 17:38 UTC
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Democratic New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy narrowly fended off an election challenge from Republican former state lawmaker Jack Ciattarelli, returns showed on Wednesday, a day after voting ended in an unexpected nail-biter for the incumbent.

Murphy, 64, became the first Democratic governor in four decades to win re-election in New Jersey, even though registered Democratic voters outnumber Republicans by more than 1 million in the densely populated northeastern coastal U.S. state.

The incumbent struck a triumphant but politically inclusive tone in a brief victory speech he delivered at an Asbury Park convention hall to supporters chanting, "Four more years!"

"If you want to be governor of all of New Jersey, you must listen to all of New Jersey. And New Jersey, I hear you," he told the crowd.
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Fire

'Squid game' challenge leaves 3 kids with horrendous sugar burns


RT
Thu, 04 Nov 2021 17:29 UTC
Dalgona candy
© Reuters / Heo RanA view shows Dalgona candy from the Korean Netflix series "Squid Game" at a Dalgona shop in Seoul, South Korea, October 1, 2021.
Three children have been treated for serious burns at a pediatric hospital in Sydney, Australia after they attempted to make the Dalgona candy as part of a challenge featured in the hit Netflix 'Squid Game' series.

In an "urgent" warning published by the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network on Monday, medical personnel asked parents to be vigilant over their kids making the South Korean honeycomb confection.

The street-food gained mass popularity from the hit series, prompting Squid Game fans to participate in the 'Dalgona Candy' challenge by concocting the melted sugar treat at home and then carving out a shape without breaking it - as characters do on the show.
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Syringe

Air Force says nearly 8,500 miss deadline for COVID-19 shots


MYNorthwest, Associated Press
Wed, 03 Nov 2021 17:25 UTC
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© AFP / Saul Leob; (R) AFP / Luis AcostaJoe Biden
Nearly 8,500 active duty members of the Air Force and Space Force have missed the deadline for getting COVID-19 vaccinations, including 800 who flatly refused and nearly 5,000 with pending requests for a religious exemption, the Air Force said Wednesday.

The Air Force said that of the 326,000 active duty members of the Air Force and Space Force, 95.9 percent are fully vaccinated and 96.9 percent have gotten at least one shot.

"A vaccinated force is a protected force, better able to deploy and to defend our interests anywhere at any time," said Ann Stefanek, an Air Force spokeswoman. "Receiving the COVID-19 vaccine is a necessary requirement to keep our people safe and healthy. This is a readiness issue."
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Light Saber

Republican Glenn Youngkin beats Terry McAuliffe to win VA governorship in shocker upset - 'one for the ages'

Samuel Chamberlain
New York Post
Wed, 03 Nov 2021 16:59 UTC
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© Associated PressRepublican Glenn Youngkin has pulled off the upset victory over Terry McAuliffe in Virginia’s gubernatorial election.
Republican Glenn Youngkin pulled off an upset for the ages Tuesday night, defeating Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia's gubernatorial election, a result that sent a political shockwave across America ahead of next year's midterm elections.

In his victory speech, delivered before a roaring crowd shortly after 1 a.m., Youngkin called his win a "defining moment" and promised to "change the trajectory of this commonwealth."

"On day one, we're going to work," Youngkin vowed. "We're going to restore excellence in our schools ... We're going to embrace our parents, not ignore them."

Comment: Not a shock to anyone who could read the mood of the Virginia citizenry: Matt Taibbi: The red-pilling of Loudoun County, Virginia

Youngkin wasn't the only Republican breakthrough in what has been considered a deep-blue state. There was a clean red sweep at the top of Virginia's government. The Post Millennial reports:
Two Republicans made history in Virginia on Tuesday after the state elected the first black woman to become Virginia's Lt. Governor and an hispanic man as Attorney General.

Virginia's Winsome Sears (R) is expected to be named the first black female Lt. Governor of Virginia after statewide elections predict a victory over Democratic nominee Hala Ayala.

"I'm telling you that what you are looking at is the American Dream," Sears said during a victory speech in Chantilly on Tuesday.

In 2001, Sears made history when she became the first female veteran, first black female Republican, and first naturalized citizen to serve in the House of Delegates, representing the state's 90th district. Sears immigrated to the US from Jamaica as a child and later went on to serve in the United States Marine Corps.

Winsome Sears, 57, ran on a bid alongside Republican Glenn Youngkin, who is projected to defeat Democrat Terry McAuliffe and be named the next Governor of Virginia.


In addition, Jason Miyares (R) defeated two-term Democrat Mark Herring for Virginia attorney general on Tuesday, thus becoming the state's first Latino to serve in the position.


Since 2016, Miyares has served in Virginia's House of Delegates, representing areas of Virginia Beach. He was also the first Cuban American elected to the General Assembly, according to Business Insider.

Miyares ran on a platform to reinstate public safety with an intended focus on supporting the police, restoring law and order, and fighting human trafficking, according to his website. The attorney general-elect heavily criticized the Democratic "Defund the Police" movement and said he was running "to keep our communities safe and secure."


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Arrow Up

Coming to their senses: Seattle elects Republican as city attorney over police abolitionist

Mike Carter
Washington Examiner
Tue, 02 Nov 2021 16:42 UTC
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Ann Davison beat Democratic opponent Nicole Thomas-Kennedy in the race for city attorney, with a final result of 58% to 41%.
Seattle has elected its first female city attorney: a Republican who supports the police.

Ann Davison beat Democratic opponent Nicole Thomas-Kennedy in the race for city attorney, with a final result of 58% to 41%. Davison's victory comes a year after the city of Seattle defunded its police and in a state historically Democratic since the 1980s, according to the Seattle Times.

Comment: Seattle has finally had enough. Hopefully Ms. Davidson is up to the task of restoring the police force and bringing a lawless mob to heel. How much of an obstacle lunatic progressive mayor Jenny Durkan will be remains to be seen.

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Bizarro Earth

Best of the Web: Patrick Lawrence: The Manufacture of Decline

Patrick Lawrence
Consortium News
Tue, 02 Nov 2021 16:27 UTC
Din and Cocktails
© ddatch54, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0“Din and Cocktails,” west side of Detroit, 2014.
"We modern civilizations have learned to recognize that we are mortal like the others. We had heard tell of whole worlds vanished, of empires foundered ... sunk to the inexplorable depths of the centuries with their gods and laws, their academies and their pure and applied sciences, their grammars, dictionaries, classics ... their critics and the critics of their critics.... We could not count them. But these wrecks, after all, were of no concern of ours."

That is Paul Valéry, the modernist poet, essayist and Academician, writing in April 1919. The Great War was but a few months over. Europe understood, if subliminally at that moment, that the world order of which it had been the center had shattered like glass. Or — better put — that Europe had shattered it.

"Everything came to Europe, and from Europe everything has come. Or almost everything," Valéry wrote. "Now, the present situation permits of this capital question: Will Europe retain its leadership in all activities? Will Europe become what she is in reality: that is, a little cape of the Asiatic continent?" [Emphasis the author's.]
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Jack Posobiec breaks down the new Kyle Rittenhouse video

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Tue, 02 Nov 2021 23:20 UTC
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On Human Events Daily, Jack Posobiec dissected the video that emerged from the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse on Tuesday, going through the footage to give an analysis of what it could mean for the self-defense case.

Posobiec tracked through the events of August 25, 2020, when Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two men, wounding a third. Rittenhouse is on trial for those deaths, and his defense is that he shot those men in self-defense. Video evidence, shot by an FBI plane that was overhead, was submitted into evidence today by the defense.

"The evening of August 25 2020, following three nights of riots and arson and terror throughout the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kyle Rittenhouse and another group of armed members of the community, members of the area decided that they had had enough and they wanted to protect the town, the village, really," Posobiec said.

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USA

NJ truck driver Ed Durr vows to be Republican 'voice' in state senate after unseating longtime Dem

Yael Halon
Fox News
Thu, 04 Nov 2021 04:05 UTC
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© Ed Durr campaignNew Jersey state Senate candidate Edward Durr.
Durr's victory would upend Democratic Party leadership in the Garden State.

Republican New Jersey state Senate candidate and truck driver Ed Durr is on the verge of defeating longtime Senate President Steve Sweeney in a sweeping victory that would upend Democratic Party leadership in the Garden State.

The 62-year-old Raymour & Flanagan truck driver holds a lead of more than 2,000 votes in a tight race for the state's Third District Senate seat.
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Airplane

Southwest launches investigation into pilot reportedly using anti-Biden phrase on flight

Pete Muntean
CNN
Mon, 01 Nov 2021 11:38 UTC
southwest airlines let's go brandon
Southwest Airlines (LUV) says it is launching an internal investigation after a report that one of its pilots used anti-Biden slang over a plane's public address system during a flight.

"Southwest does not condone Employees sharing their personal political opinions while on the job," the airline said in a Sunday statement. "Southwest is conducting an internal investigation into the recently reported event and will address the situation directly with any Employee involved while continuing to remind all Employees that public expression of personal opinions while on duty is unacceptable."

The Associated Press, which had a reporter on board the flight, first reported that a pilot of a Friday flight from Houston to Albuquerque ended his typical greeting to passengers with the phrase "Let's go Brandon," which has become right-wing code for "F**k Joe Biden." The AP report said passengers responded with audible gasps.

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