Gab, the Twitter-like social network for racists and anti-Semites, is back online after getting dumped by its former web host. Allegra Kirkland has the story.
In related news, President Trump comments on his latest ad.
Or maybe not. Ben Smith and I were on a panel a couple weeks ago at a conference about content moderation, the press, the 1st amendment, yada yada. The conference was organized by TPM alum and now law professor big shot Kate Klonick. The panel was moderated by Jack Balkin of Yale Law School. Video of the panel after the jump …
I’ve been trying to hit various polls, late shifting races and more here in the Ed Blog. But I think the best wrap is this podcast episode Cameron Joseph and I just did. We work our way through all the latest trends, what to make of the polls, possible big surprises and the heavy weight of uncertainty. You can listen here or subscribe on iTunes.
CNN, NBC, FB and now even Fox News have either refused to run or dropped the President’s closing ad for being too racist.
This is really, really important. We’ve talked about the various ways Republicans have tilted the electoral playing field to lock in disproportionate electoral power for Republicans, particularly older and whiter populations outside the big cities. This is another example of that played out in the attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. Read our report.
Your emails and photos from Election Day are one of the best parts of working at TPM. Keep ’em coming!
Today is a better day than most to remember that the GOP’s forever war to tilt the election playing field in its favor by denying the franchise to minority urban voters while maximizing the franchise for white rural voters remains a defining feature of American politics.
The next big GOP power grab on this front is already in the works. Tierney Sneed has more in this Prime piece.
The initial polls closing on the East Coast can feel a little anticlimactic, with a dribble of returns signifying very little and many hours of tabulating still to come. However, we may start to get a feel for where the night is going as some of those early East Coast returns in key races signal whether the day’s paradigm is a maximal Dem gain or a maximal GOP hold, or merely somewhere in between. Cameron Joseph highlights a few of those canary in the coal mine races that may tell us early which way things are headed.