While the world waits on pins and needles to find out who will win the grand prize in the U.S. elections, there are notable queer campaigns that link to the same themes and could be significant in the big picture, such as the marriage equality Proposition 3 in California, and the Sen. Tammy Baldwin reelection campaign in the all-important state of Wisconsin. The specter of the conservative manifesto Project 2025 creates even more pressure. Psychologists S. Lee Tepper and Dr. Jonathan Mattias Lassiter help people handle the election anxiety.

And in NewsWrap: Tel Aviv is taken off the list of potential hosts for a future ILGA World Conference, a second Japanese High Court has ruled that the federal government’s resistance to marriage equality is unconstitutional, more than one in 10 Australian teenagers identify as queer in a University of Sydney survey, Dr. Hector Granados is the second gender-affirming healthcare physician taken to court by rabidly anti-queer Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, ACLU’s AIDS/HIV project co-director Chase Strangio will be the first out transgender attorney to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, and more international LGBTQ news reported  by Michael LeBeau and John Dyer V (produced by Brian DeShazor). 

All this on the November 4, 2024 edition of This Way Out!

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Dealing with Queer U.S. Election Jitters

การนับคะแนนเลือกตั้งสหรัฐฯ เริ่มต้นขึ้นแล้ว โดยล่าสุดชี้ว่า โดนัลด์ ทรัมป์ อดีตประธานาธิบดีสหรัฐฯ ตัวแทนจากพรรครีพับลิกันคว้าชัยในรัฐสมรภูมิไปแล้ว 2 รัฐ และกำลังขยับเข้าใกล้ชัยชนะมากขึ้นเรื่อยๆ

หน้าต่างโลก 2024 : จับตาผลเลือกตั้งผู้นำสหรัฐฯ

	คามาลา แฮร์ริส รองประธานาธิบดีสหรัฐฯ ประกาศยอมรับความพ่ายแพ้ หลังโดนัลด์ ทรัมป์ อดีตประธานาธิบดี ตัวแทนจากรีพับลิกัน กวาดเสียงจากคณะผู้เลือกตั้งไปแล้วมากกว่า 290 เสียง	เปิดเหตุผลทำไมชาวอเมริกันให้โอกาสโดนัลด์ ทรัมป์ เป็นครั้งที่สอง

หน้าต่างโลก 2024 : "ทรัมป์" เตรียมนั่งเก้าอี้ประธานาธิบดีสหรัฐฯ สมัยที่ 2

	ชวนเปิดสาเหตุที่คามาลา แฮร์ริส รองประธานาธิบดีสหรัฐฯ ตัวแทนจากเดโมแครต แพ้การเลือกตั้งแบบหลุดลุ่ย สวนทางผลสำรวจความคิดเห็นก่อนหน้าการเลือกตั้งที่ชี้ว่าเธอกับโดนัลด์ ทรัมป์ ตัวแทนจากรีพับลิกัน มีคะแนนสูสีกันอย่างมาก	วิธีรับมือคนใกล้ตัวเมื่อทราบข่าวป่วยโรคมะเร็ง

หน้าต่างโลก 2024 : เปิดสาเหตุ "แฮร์ริส" แพ้เลือกตั้งหลุดลุ่ย

จับตาว่าที่ผู้นำสหรัฐฯ เสนอชื่อเจ้าหน้าที่ในรัฐบาลทรัมป์ 2.0 โดยเฉพาะนโยบายคุมเข้มพรมแดนใต้ ใครจะก้าวขึ้นมากุมบังเหียน และปัญหาผู้อพยพในสหรัฐฯ รุนแรงแค่ไหน

หน้าต่างโลก 2024 : เปิดโผตัวเต็ง "เจ้าหน้าที่ระดับสูงสายเหยี่ยว" ในรัฐบาล "ทรัมป์ 2.0"

	ผู้เชี่ยวชาญแนะ 5 วิธีช้อปปิ้งอย่างประหยัดช่วงเทศกาลส่งท้ายปี	โจ ไบเดน ประธานาธิบดีสหรัฐฯ พลิกลิ้นออกคำสั่งอภัยโทษฮันเตอร์ ไบเดน บุตรชาย หลังเคยให้คำมั่นจะไม่ใช้อำนาจช่วยเหลือบุตรชายทางคดีโดยเด็ดขาด

หน้าต่างโลก 2024 : ผู้นำสหรัฐฯ พลิกลิ้นอภัยโทษลูกชายก่อนหมดวาระ

	โจ ไบเดน เรียกเสียงวิจารณ์ระลอกใหม่ก่อนอำลาตำแหน่งผู้นำสหรัฐฯ ในเดือนหน้าด้วยการลงนามในคำสั่งอภัยโทษให้กับบุตรชายของตัวเอง แม้จะเคยให้คำมั่นว่า จะไม่ใช้อำนาจช่วยบุตรชายทางคดีโดยเด็ดขาด

หน้าต่างโลก 2024 : ไบเดนใช้อำนาจช่วยลูกชายสะเทือนต่อมจริยธรรม?

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss democratic messaging and policy in the age of Trump, before turning to President Donald Trump's shifting stance on the war in Ukraine and its implications for global politics.

02:11—Democrats losing the plot on messaging and policy

20:28—Trump and Ukraine

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Are Democrats Actually in Disarray?

The Judas Tree

[Verse 1]
I remember when I used to climb,
The Judas Tree stood tall and wide.
With open arms bathed in the golden light,
A place where truth and freedom thrived.
But the leaves have fallen, the roots run dry,
Now it only whispers bitter lies.

[Chorus]
Oh, the Judas Tree, you wither so,
Once a haven, in the know.
Your twisted branches now reach for the sky,
All your poison runs so deep,
There’s nothing left for you to keep,
Blinded by your closed and vengeful eyes.

[Verse 2]
Virtue signals paved the way,
For the mob to rule and minds to stray.
They turned from reason, now embrace the fear,
Silenced voices, lost their way.
A house once strong now cracks and sways,
Freedom’s the word they no longer hear.

[Chorus]
Oh, the Judas Tree, you wither so,
Once a haven, in the know.
Your twisted branches now reach for the sky,
All your poison runs so deep,
There’s nothing left for you to keep,
Blinded by your closed and vengeful eyes.

[Bridge]
They spoke of justice, they spoke of peace,
Then labeled half as the enemy.
No due process, no fair fight,
Just burn the books and dim the lights.

[Instrumental Verse]

[Coda – Chorus Variation]
Oh, the Judas Tree, will you revive?
Or will you crumble beneath your lies?
It’s quite clear you aren’t very wise.
An aging donkey, worn and gray,
All the good you have betrayed,
Without reflection, you will not survive.

The Judas Tree

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