Pleased to be in conversation today with my colleague, judith butler, discussing the new book the forc of nonviolence. Judith butler is a fundamental voice in our understanding of gender, sexuality, politics, theory and of the author of 13 books including like i said the force of nonviolence. Judiths a professor in the department of compative literature and prossor in the program and critical theory at uc berkeley. So, welcome, judith. Im pleed to be here and speang with you. Im excited to talk with you about your new book. I thought we might begin our conversati helping readers understand that intervenon of the book the sort of conceptual basis in your argumen for reimagining the conception for nonviolence. The book sort of encourages an understanding of nonviolence thats left rooted in a kind of individual morality and a more than concerted politic practice. I thought we would sort of bin by taking a minute to explain why thehift away from kindf indidual morality as you put it someti
Biden if he picks up, nevada. Its over affective lee provided all the states that the 8 associate press is called already hold as is the other states its getting really interesting is down here in georgia now while nevada is going to release a voting numbers tomorrow morning, georgia says theyll be doing so tonight, they say theyre going to work as long and as hard as it takes they brought in fresh bodies this evening and there are 16 electoral votes at stake. In georgia. And you see right now. This lead that donald trump has is shrinking hes below 50 of the vote for the first time. And heres the real key. 40,000 votes at the top of the 5 oclock hour. Trumps lead was 65,000. It is down to 40,098 of the vote has been counted can donald trump hold on. In georgia that is what this has come to. Pam and ken as we make our way through the certainly georgia and nevada are 2 states that are going to be at the top of everyones mind to the bottom line is joe biden needs one of those 4 states and
Lead. He leads 51 of the vote. You see donald trump here with 47 of the how many votes have been counted that is a key of course right here, 84 as i get turned around, but you still have quite a few votes to count in arizona and those 11 Electoral College votes at stake. That is the state that the Trump Campaign is hopeful that it can flip essentially from what the a p called as a biden state to make it a trump state and then if they can get arizona and they can turn these from pink to red meaning there trump states theres a path team trump is still hopeful, obviously the pennsylvania ends up in its favor been a lot of votes that are still outstanding mail in ballots in pennsylvania and georgia that have yet to be counted again getting some votes tonight some vote updates in arizona and georgia so that should go a long way towards determining what the outcome of this could be but with 264 electoral votes, joe biden if he just got nevada and the 6 Electoral College votes nevada has that
Despite. President trump prematurely claimed victory of the great lakes state on twitter the other key state biden flipped to earn a lector ul votes, wisconsin. The president s campaign has requested a recount there and that leaves nevada and pennsylvania looming large tonight grant thats right want to take a look at the results and where things stand here on our trusty electoral map. Again the Associated Press, calling the states in dark blue and dark red, its the race to 2. 70 right joe biden much closer hes up to 2. 64 President Trump currently standing at 2. 14. And when you do the math. What do you need to get to 2. 70 if youre at to 64 6 and nevada here happens to have 6 electoral votes at stake and where do things stand right now joe biden currently leading President Trump. By about 8,000 votes to see. Biden there with 588,000 in change donald trump with just over 580,000. So that is close to 75 of the vote here has been counted so still a quarter of the votes yet to be counted
For winds, this is one of the signs of change just around the corner that robin and i were just talking about that big cool down just around the corner. So we are seeing calm conditions. This morning come conditions into the afternoon too but look at what happens into the start of the evening tonight, see how much those winds pick up not necessarily resulting in heightened risk of fire danger but a sign of that cooler air thats really sweeping in swiftly across the bay area going to be cooling us off into tomorrow and resulting in those muchneeded chances of rainfall that weve been talking about the past couple of days as for temperatures today will be in the 50s and 40s for the start of your day so get out there this morning with the jacket in hand youll definitely be wanting it, especially if youre outside for more than just a minute or 2 Petaluma Santa Rosa dublin among are areas in the 40s right now. Well, oakland conquered berkeley and San Francisco sharing a range of 50s later to