1. As the election results unfolded last night, the Canadian immigration site CRASHED. (Full Story)
2. Canada’s official Twitter account posted a very pointed tweet last night, quote, “In Canada, immigrants are encouraged to bring their cultural traditions with them and share them with their fellow citizens.” (Full Story)
3. “America’s Toughest Sheriff” Joe Arpaio lost the Maricopa County sheriff’s race in Arizona. He’s held the position since 1993, but he was charged with contempt of court two weeks ago for violating an order to stop immigration raids. (Full Story)
4. A 34-year-old woman named Ilhan Omar won her House of Representatives race in Minnesota yesterday, making her the first Somali-American member of Congress ever. She escaped from the Somali civil war when she was eight. (Full Story)
5. And Catherine Cortez Masto became the first female Hispanic senator in history when she was elected in Nevada. (Full Story)
6. Yesterday was big for WEED. California, Nevada, Massachusetts, and Maine legalized recreational marijuana . . . and Florida and North Dakota legalized medical marijuana.
7. Arizona was the only state to vote down marijuana . . . the people there voted no on a ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana. (Full Story)
8. The global markets did NOT react well to the surprising result of the election. The Dow Jones average went down almost 700 points in futures trading last night, which is close to the all-time record. (Full Story)
9. Hundreds of people showed up at Susan B. Anthony’s grave in New York yesterday, and put their “I Voted” stickers on her tombstone. She fought to give women the right to vote, and got arrested in 1872 for trying to vote in New York. (Full Story)
10. A 71-year-old guy collapsed at a polling station in Virginia, and refused to let an ambulance take him to the hospital before he voted. (Full Story)
11. A woman in Colorado went in to LABOR, and still stopped to vote on her way to the hospital. She was an early voter though, and it happened last Friday. (Full Story)
12. Hillary supporters all over the country wore pantsuits to the polls yesterday, and posted photos on Twitter. (Full Story)
13. Two women in Manhattan got arrested for protesting TOPLESS at the same polling station where Trump voted later in the day. (Full Story)
14. A woman who was handing out Trump flyers got into it with a guy outside a polling station in Florida, and ended up pepper-spraying him. (Full Story)
15. A woman in Louisville, Kentucky was planning to use her van to drive people to the polls . . . but found a DEAD BODY in it yesterday morning. (Full Story)
16. A bunch of people on Twitter claimed they voted for Harambe yesterday . . . the gorilla that got killed at the Cincinnati Zoo back in May. (Full Story)
