I refuse to watch cable news, don’t have regular tv, and not a fan of visual media for news anyways. I would love something like a Lemmy/reddit mega thread where I can refresh and get up to the minute updates, but from professional news/journalists. But without the faux drama reality tv stuff that the cable news networks always do. I also love podcasts so if there’s a listening medium that isn’t overly dramatic that works too. Any suggestions?
Just drink alcohol in the basement alone and check the internet in a week.
fetal position in the bathtub, lights off, noize cancelling headphones playing static
Glad to see that other people are doing the same thing as me
don’t forget the bottle of cheap booze
Pink noise sounds soothing.
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Stay offline entirely, and read the result in a printed newspaper the next day
It’ll be more than a day. Expect a week and be pleasantly surprised by 5 days.
The Associated Press seems to have a decent results presentation ready to go:
https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/I wouldn’t bother watching minute-by-minute. There is a decent chance that some swing state will be close enough to trigger a recount, and/or one side files lawsuits challenging the results. This circus is far from over.
It took about a week for Biden to be declared the winner last time IIRC.
What I’m really dreading is another Bush v. Gore, which would almost certainly result the same as it did the first time around.
I’m 99.997% certain we’re going to see Trump V. Harris.
In that case there’s 100% chance Trump would be the president.
That depends entirely how this all plays out. Its too soon to say. If his only defense is “just look at them” then I don’t think the SC would go for it, especially if Harris wins decisively or even in a landslide (highly improbable).
Do the dems win the senate and house? Are immediate impeachments on the table?
If there’s any ambiguity though (think hanging chads), then yeah Trump 100%. I just think the SCOTUS is filled with cowards who want a veneer of a lie to hide under.
You just have so much more faith in the Integrity of the Supreme Court than I do. I have no faith whatsoever. I’ve been following their movements the last few years way too closely to have any respect at all for their discretion or good judgment. They’ve shown time and time again that they have no sense of reality no sense of consistency and no sense of justice. Evidence is made up and ignored at will. Precedent is enforced or ignored by their whims. The narrative history of our entire nation is up to how Samuel Alito feels on that particular day. There’s no doubt in my mind that if in any way whatsoever the Supreme Court gets a hold of this thing they will find in favor of Trump no matter the circumstances or evidence.
Open your neobroker app, if Trump won, the market will crash before it made the news.
Jane Street Capital lost like $100m 8 years ago assuming this would happen and it didn’t.
Depending on which bit of the market you look at I suspect it could also go up.
Unless I take the extreme measure of touching grass, social media will keep me apprised unbidden.
un-biden
all of our media is controlled by capitalists so i plan on going with organizations that have had a reliable history within the last decade or so; like democracynow or npr.
Is it bad that I get most of my non-local news from foreign sources? I do look at the AP and NPR but I usually go to the BBC or Reuters first and I almost always check the CSM for international stories I want more information on.
The BBC and Reuters have both gone way, way downhill in recent years, but the concept is reasonably valid. AP and NPR are still good. Aljazeera is actually pretty decent for US news, though I’m not sure if that’s true for US news related to the middle east.
I think Al Jazeera is good for news related to the middle east - Al Jazeera has an Arab bias, the same way US news has a US/Israel bias. When there’s a conflict between US/Israel and the Arabs, I tend to be more sympathetic to the Arabs, so I prefer their news. Somebody with politics different from mine would disagree.
Plus they sometimes put out absolute fire like this: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/11/debate-in-nuclear-armed-former-colony-fails-to-reassure-global-community
i don’t think that they’re much different, if at all.
I think the US news sites are going to post their live updates to their websites too, that is at least how it was the last few presidential elections (I think I mostly used CNN). That is the same data they use for their news coverage, so you could use that; but watching live television will give you a clue when important updates have happened on them.
Of course you could just follow election-related hashtags on Mastodon to get a wide variety of people shouting all kinds of things about the election.
Most of the major newspapers (this is from a UK perspective but I’d imagine they’re accessible in other places) have a live news page for big developing news stories - the BBC site is probably a good unbiased-ish one
Hasan Poker ain’t for everyone but he’s super knowledgeable and provides great context for ongoing issues. I mainly watch on YouTube so the clips are edited down and even more context (charts, sources, etc) are added.
Maybe good ol newspapers or eventually check if the federal government has an official result page
The federal government doesn’t run the elections so you’d have to check the 51 Secretary of State (or equivalent) sites to actually get live results.
If you do end up in front of a TV, I recommend PBS.
Local news usually have a webpage or a YouTube channel keeping track of stuff too.
For just the results. Decision Desk HQ gets updated quickly, as they provide data to media outlets and others. I don’t think they require a subscription just for results. The AP does the same and generally “calls” states anyway. (As in, the networks will call the results when the AP does, though some have extra requirements like their own data team agreeing.)
