By BY DAVE MONTGOMERY from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2JpWeAt
Saturday 31 October 2020
A Republican lawsuit over drive-through voting in Houston could invalidate more than 120,000 votes.
By BY DAVE MONTGOMERY from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2JpWeAt
A highly respected poll of Iowa finds a surge of Trump support.
By BY GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/320NjMk
This Election Week, Revisit the Constitution, Then Soothe Your Stressed Mind
By BY KATHERINE CUSUMANO AND ADRIANA BALSAMO from NYT At Home https://ift.tt/3mGi3tY
Quotation of the Day: Tracing Now All but Impossible as Outbreaks Tear Through U.S.
By Unknown Author from NYT Today’s Paper https://ift.tt/3kZEObX
Wisconsin: The state’s older voters wield power, and many are choosing Biden.
By BY KAY NOLAN from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3mB0UBC
Don’t Give In to ‘Election Stress Disorder’
By BY KATHERINE CUSUMANO from NYT At Home https://ift.tt/35MM6Jy
Sean Connery: From Tentative Secret Agent to Suave Bond
By BY THOMAS VINCIGUERRA from NYT Movies https://ift.tt/3mzHNYK
Tap LinkedIn for Career Opportunities
By BY CHARLOTTE COWLES from NYT At Home https://ift.tt/2HPvOqX
Sean Connery: From Tentative Secret Agent to Suave Bond
By BY THOMAS VINCIGUERRA from NYT Movies https://ift.tt/3mzHNYK
Trump gets his best poll of the cycle. Here’s how to put it in perspective.
By BY NATE COHN from NYT The Upshot https://ift.tt/35L34b2
Learn the Etiquette of Virtual Weddings
By BY COURTNEY RUBIN from NYT At Home https://ift.tt/3kYrELW
Got Worries? Make Newspaper Dolls to Catch Them
By BY CHRISTY HARMON from NYT At Home https://ift.tt/3mSQFZV
Kids’ Graphic Novels That Turn the Superhero Genre on Its Head
By BY GENE LUEN YANG from NYT Books https://ift.tt/2GhcX7V
Texas: All of a sudden, a two-party election in the Lone Star State.
By BY MANNY FERNANDEZ from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2HVQrC4
‘They’re coming after our state,’ McSally warns Arizona Republicans.
By BY JENNIFER MEDINA from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/34IEQ1S
The Battlegrounds Within Battlegrounds
By BY KEITH COLLINS, TRIP GABRIEL AND STEPHANIE SAUL from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2TJBvJP
Celebrities lend Biden a hand in turning out the vote in Philadelphia.
By BY NICK CORASANITI from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3jPB3US
Stanford Study Seeks to Quantify Infections Stemming From Trump Rallies
By BY SHERYL GAY STOLBERG from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/35Pg9QV
Senator Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, facing opponents from both parties, embraces Trumpism.
By BY RICHARD FAUSSET from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3jH3O61
Police in North Carolina use a chemical spray to disperse a get-out-the-vote rally.
By BY MICHAEL LEVENSON from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/323ZGY2
Friday 30 October 2020
The U.S. breaks its record, tallying over 98,000 new cases in a day.
By BY GIULIA MCDONNELL NIETO DEL RIO, MITCH SMITH AND REBECCA HALLECK from NYT World https://ift.tt/34JQ1rc
: Harvey Weinstein accuser sues him seeking damages for alleged assault
Harvey Weinstein accuser sues him seeking damages for alleged assault
Weinstein is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence after being convicted in February of rape and assault of two women.
: 'Chappelle's Show' coming to Netflix and HBO Max in November
'Chappelle's Show' coming to Netflix and HBO Max in November
Also coming to HBO Max are “Inside Amy Schumer, “Key & Peele," and "Reno 911!"
: Phil Collins' ex-wife to vacate his Miami home by mid-January, musician's attorney says
Phil Collins' ex-wife to vacate his Miami home by mid-January, musician's attorney says
The former Genesis frontman has been fighting to take back control of his $33 million beachfront Miami mansion which his ex-wife Orianne Cevey is allegedly occupying with her new husband.
FOX NEWS: How Big Tech bias could shift 15 million votes in 2020 election
How Big Tech bias could shift 15 million votes in 2020 election
Psychologist Robert Epstein tells 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' how social media giants are interfering in the US election
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The puzzle isn’t complete. Pennsylvania is the last piece for Biden.
By BY NATE COHN from NYT The Upshot https://ift.tt/35S0yjh
What Keeps Facebook’s Election Security Chief Up at Night?
By BY CHARLIE WARZEL from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3mQljTJ
Do Dunkin’ and Arby’s Go Together? Private Equity Group Bets $11 Billion They Do
By BY LAUREN HIRSCH from NYT Business https://ift.tt/2HL6XEK
A judge orders the Postal Service to take ‘extraordinary measures’ to deliver ballots on time in 22 districts.
By BY LUKE BROADWATER AND HAILEY FUCHS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2HQCHbo
Fox News Breaking News Alert
Fox News Breaking News Alert
OFFICERS AMBUSHED: Two New Orleans cops shot at in French Quarter
10/30/20 5:30 PM
OFFICERS AMBUSHED: Two New Orleans cops shot at in French Quarter
10/30/20 5:30 PM
: Gov. Andrew Cuomo reacts to Chelsea Handler's crush on him
Gov. Andrew Cuomo reacts to Chelsea Handler's crush on him
On Thursday, Cuomo made an appearance on "The View" where he was speaking about COVID-19. Additionally, he was asked about Handler's infatuation with him.
N.E.H. Funds Restoration of Statues Toppled During Protests
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Trump, in Minnesota, lashes out at Democrats for limiting crowd sizes.
By BY ANNIE KARNI from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3mEgxIy
Nursing Homes, Racked by the Virus, Face a New Crisis: Isolation
By BY JACK HEALY, DANIELLE IVORY AND SERGE F. KOVALESKI from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2TCEnIb
Voters suing Minnesota over a mask mandate are asking the Supreme Court to intervene.
By BY JACEY FORTIN from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2JeAC9Y
Time Running Short, Trump and Biden Return to Northern Battlegrounds
By BY THOMAS KAPLAN AND ANNIE KARNI from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3eeng93
Woman Who Mailed Threat to Susan Collins Gets 30 Months in Prison
By BY JOHN ISMAY from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/31XgW0Z
¿Quién ganará Florida, Biden o Trump? Esto dicen las encuestas
By BY GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO from NYT en Español https://ift.tt/2JnWsbi
Sarah Silverman on Changing Hearts Before Minds (and Her New Podcast)
A version of this article was published in It’s Not Just You, a weekly newsletter from TIME. Subscribe here to get a weekly serving of big-hearted advice delivered to your inbox.
The two people I most wanted to hear from on the eve of this election were Pema Chodron, the iconic Buddhist nun, and Sarah Silverman, comedian, actor and most recently, podcaster.
This is not just because I think we may have gotten to a point where a nun and a comedian are our best hope of finding emotional equilibrium.
Pema is legendary for writing healing books with titles like When Things Fall Apart. So it’s no surprise that her teachings are so relevant now. I’ve got her audiobooks on repeat at least through Thanksgiving.
And I wanted to talk with Sarah because of the soul-fortifying way she answers audience questions in her new podcast. If the queries are sincere (i.e. not about her boobs), her advice to callers is wise and nuanced and unselfconsciously kind. (Almost Buddhist.) Don’t get me wrong; the brilliantly ribald Sarah appears in these sprawling episodes too. There’s lots of pube talk and scalding rants about the transgressions of powerful rich people.
The Sarah Silverman Podcast was hatched when the pandemic stopped her from touring. And she’s still iterating every week–it’s life on the learning curve. “Listen, there’s so much I do wrong and mess up, and if that can help anybody, great. Because I think living an unexamined life is kind of how we got here.” Responding to her audience with empathy was always part of the plan—perhaps even more essential now that much of what we talk about these days, losing friends to COVID, losing relatives to political divides, is not the stuff of jokes.
People are changed by feelings, not facts
To the caller thinking of cutting off contact with his Trump-loving grandpa, Silverman offered this sweet bit of universal wisdom: “Feeling judged doesn’t make people open” to change, she said; “they go toward where the love is. Find a place where you can connect. Bond over a procedural [drama]. Ask him about his life, ask about what made him laugh as a kid.” And generally, she speaks in terms of love when talking about the clash of realities we’re seeing in the U.S.: “You don’t even really change people’s minds often with facts or poll numbers or things like that. People are really only changed [by] feelings. If they’re going to be changed at all, they’ll be changed by loving you, this person who embodies everything that they’re against.”
Another caller was being upset with himself over the way he felt about his sibling becoming a trans man. Silverman’s response was a clever path to empathy: “His woke self knows how he should feel about it. But that’s not how he feels about it.” Then she pointed out that his discomfort was the mirror image of how his now-brother felt when he knew how he was supposed to feel in a body that presented as female, but he didn’t feel that way.
Sarah’s own family bonds likely inform such advice; she sees her dad every week for dinner, wears her late theater-director mom’s paint-splattered overalls, and Zooms weekly with the global Silverman United clan.
Watch a Bones
I ask if she has advice on how to manage our emotions as we head into this unholy mash-up of pandemic, cultural division and economic stress. She recalls what she told her mom during the last fraught presidential election when the news was making her distraught: “Sometimes you’ve got to change the channel. Watch a Bones.” Truly, it’s possible to be too engaged, so give yourself a few hours of apathy. “If you care about this election you want to be involved, you do have to give yourself a little distance. You have to take care of yourself,” she says. “it makes you more effective as a citizen.”
If it’s hysterical, it’s historical
Seriously, though, “It’s important to be a detective in your own life, and figure out where it is coming from. People will drive 10 different cars before they make a decision about what car they want. Put a little elbow grease into your own history and what makes you lose your sh*t … My therapist has a saying: If it’s hysterical, it’s historical. So when you go bananas over something perceivably small to others, there’s probably something that’s bringing up.”
Then she laughs. “Listen,” she says, “I’m just spitting out stuff I learned.”
Aren’t we all.
More from Sarah about politics and her podcast here
Find more good stuff from the It’s Not Just You newsletter below including the founder of Pandemic of Love on why showing up to help is self-care, some evidence of human goodness, and for this angsty election week, we’re serving up a special batch of wellness tips from TIME’s health team. Subscribe here to get a weekly serving of big-hearted advice delivered directly to your inbox.
Pema Chödrön on when things fall apart
“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”
More from the Pema Chodron Foundation.
MOMENT OF GOOD
Meet Lonnie and Clara Neely who are 101 and 102 years old. They’ve been married since Dec. 6, 1937. This year they voted absentee and were moved to sing “Sweet Low Sweet Chariot.” Give a listen here.
Why Showing Up For Others Is Self-Care 🧡
—Shelly Tygielski, Founder, Pandemic of Love
When I started Pandemic of Love back on March 14th, none of us could have imagined just how deadly and prolonged the COVID-19 crisis would become. It was a simple idea: create a mutual aid system connecting those who wanted to give their time or resources directly with those who needed help. Human to human.
Since then, Pandemic of Love has brought hundreds of thousands of the unlikeliest people together, saving families from spending nights on the street, paying for funerals of loved ones lost to COVID-19, and ensuring that both prescriptions and refrigerators were filled.
What we’ve learned is that showing up for others is actually an act of self-preservation. The hope of action is an antidote to some of the helplessness and anxiety we feel as we watch COVID cases rise and face the dawn of another dire winter.
SMALL COMFORTS 🌞
Can’t sleep? If you’re having electoral map nightmares, try this body-scan meditation audio guide from Jon Kabat-Zinn. And here’s a guide to sleep music and why it helps
Science-backed ways that help with chronic stress When your body is constantly geared up for self-protection, your systems fatigue and start to decline. But there are ways to change the way your mind and the body react to pain and stress. Find them here.
And for when the news is just. too. much. check out this guide to the most calming anxiety-free content you can stream.
A version of this article was published in the It’s Not Just You, a weekly newsletter from TIME. Subscribe here to get a weekly serving of small comforts and big-hearted advice delivered directly to your inbox.
: Kim Kardashian dresses up as Carole Baskin for Halloween, pal Jonathan Cheban goes as Joe Exotic
Kim Kardashian dresses up as Carole Baskin for Halloween, pal Jonathan Cheban goes as Joe Exotic
The social media queen in past years has been singers Selena and Cher and this year decided to be inspired by one of the Internet's latest obsessions: Tiger King.
: Carmen Electra poses in barely-there Playboy bunny Halloween costume
Carmen Electra poses in barely-there Playboy bunny Halloween costume
The model and actress has appeared on the magazine over 50 times worldwide.
Thursday 29 October 2020
Will ‘Mank’ Be Netflix’s First Best-Picture Winner?
By BY KYLE BUCHANAN from NYT Movies https://ift.tt/3e7ITb8
Clemson’s star quarterback, Trevor Lawrence, tests positive for the virus
By BY ALAN BLINDER from NYT World https://ift.tt/35K6PO9
Will ‘Mank’ Be Netflix’s First Best-Picture Winner?
By BY KYLE BUCHANAN from NYT Movies https://ift.tt/3e7ITb8
The Original Nachos Were Crunchy, Cheesy and Truly Mexican
By BY PATI JINICH from NYT Food https://ift.tt/34D7EZE
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