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Police were responding to an active shooting near a polling place in Azusa Tuesday afternoon, with officials saying at least four people were shot. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Capt. Jeff Scroggin said police were dealing with at least one suspect who was heavily armed. Few details were released about the shooting, which occurred sometime after…
Today, America will decide whether it wants to preserve the semblance of a democracy we live in or burn the whole thing to the ground. And Trump’s loudest supporters have been making some rookie mistakes. Trump’s internet army has spent this election gleefully propping up a woefully unprepared demagogue—some earnestly, most as a long-running joke….
Image by Jim Cooke Like many major news organizations, the New York Times has a policy that forbids its writers and editors from publicly endorsing any candidate. Ancient journalism folklore states that ideally one shouldn’t have opinions—doing so would anger our one true god, Objectivity—but given that this isn’t possible, it’s instead advised that one simply…
In the first presidential election in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act, African-American and Latino voters may be on the verge of propelling the first woman to the presidency of the United States, according to real-time analysis of cellphone data of Election Day voter turnout in 13 key battleground states….
Image via Getty. The state of New York has been blue in the last seven presidential elections and 2016 will (more than likely) go the same way. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, a former U.S. senator for New York, is projected to win the state in a landslide. It’s an easy election for a progressive…
Donald Trump has filed a suit in Nevada alleging that the Clark County registrar kept polls open for “two hours beyond closing time” on the last night of early voting, according to CNN correspondent Jim Sciutto. Aside from being a very obvious play to cut out Latinxs in a swing state, it is literally the…
Image by Bobby Finger. It’s election day, which means our long national nightmare of a Trump campaign is over. But what of all those things Trump promised he’d get done by today? Do you mean to tell me he was full of hot air the whole time? Let’s look at the evidence. Here are a…
Whatcha looking at, Eric? (Image: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty) Today is Election Day, which means millions of people—including the spawn of the candidates themselves—will be casting their ballots. Eric Trump, for example, proudly submitted his ballot this morning. In fact, he was so proud that he decided to share it with everyone on Twitter! In…
Image via AP. Following the lead of our esteemed colleagues at Deadspin, we felt it was important for the staff of Jezebel to go on record with our voting preferences. Emma Carmichael Hillary Clinton. Kate Dries Hillary Clinton. Julianne Escobedo Shepherd Hillary Clinton. Joanna Rothkopf Hillary Clinton. Kelly Stout Hillary Clinton. Gabrielle Bluestone Hillary Clinton….
Clinton Versus Trump The Script of a Real-Life Tragedy Trump versus Clinton will go down in American history as the dirtiest campaign of all time. It seemed at times as though script writers had let their imaginations run wild. But the consequences for democracy in the United States will be long lasting. By SPIEGEL Staff…