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AP’s Today in History for November 1st

The Stamp Act takes effect; The U.S. explodes the first hydrogen bomb; Sistine Chapel paintings first shown to the public; Algerian nationalists begin rebellion against French rule; NFL’s Walter Payton dies.

Breakfast Tune “Cripple Creek” performed by Rhiannon Giddens, Banjo l Met Music

Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below

• March to Alamance polls ends with police using pepper-spray on protesters, children
  ZACHERY EANES AND CARLI BROSSEAU

• Five Supreme Court rulings that signal what to expect next
  Patrick Howell O’Neil

• What Would A Democratic Presidency Really Change?
  MoA

• A Dem Presidency means The Return of the Blob
  Pepe Escobar

• Democratic Socialists Lost, but Their Ideas Have Won
  DARREN LOUCAIDES

• Exclusive: Rashida Tlaib and AOC have a proposal for a fairer, greener financial system — public banking
  Emily Stewart

• Biden Aides See Warning Signs in Black, Latino Turnout So Far
  Tyler Pager

• It Looks Like AOC’s Squad Will Double After Election Day
  Geoff Dembicki

• These 6 skills cannot be replicated by artificial intelligence
  Hiroshi Tasaka

• Capitalism is Double-Billing Us: We Pay From Our Wallets Only to be Robbed of Our Future
  JONATHAN COOK

Something to think about over coffee prozac

 
How Election Night Could Unfold
The Onion

Election night, Nov. 3, is being scrutinized as uncertainties with voting, a pandemic, and the rhetoric of President Donald Trump have led to speculation that there might not be a firm resolution. The Onion looks at the most likely ways that election night could unfold.

-Early stories of chaos at polling places give way to later stories of chaos at polling places.

-CNN crew brings signature pep to covering democracy on brink of collapse.

-Early reports indicate uneasy feeling in pit of stomach to continue for few more weeks.

-Michigan resident Kathy Peluso breaks 17 years of sobriety.

-Joe Biden wins in a landslide, instantly resulting in millions of Americans disengaging with politics for the rest of their lives.

-Donald Trump erroneously declares victory before enough mail-in ballots have been destroyed.

-One last sweep of nation’s voting booths to remove undecided voters frozen in place.

-Fossil fuel executives, pharmaceutical lobbyists, and police everywhere celebrate victorious candidate.

-Something burning.

-For the 59th time, American populace decides they should definitely fix nation’s faulty voting system before the next election.