“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.” -- Will Rogers
Deaths
US: 227,409 (+1260)
World: 1,136,335 (+6815)
Cases
US: 8,584,819 (+64,512)
World: 41,484,632 (+455,210)
Countdown: 13 days.
If Trump loses, the lame duck session will be our punishment. There are nearly 70 days between the election and the next inauguration. That is a painfully long time.
Top intelligence officials held a last-minute briefing with reporters on election security Wednesday night, announcing that Iran and Russia have taken actions in an attempt to compromise the election, specifically obtaining some voter registration data.
The stunning hypocrisy of the Trump family’s attacks on Hunter Biden. If there’s any family that should sit out attacking others for alleged corruption, it’s the Trumps.
Facebook Manipulated the News You See to Appease Republicans, Insiders Say. What wasn’t publicly known until now is that Facebook actually ran experiments to see how the changes would affect publishers—and when it found that some of them would have a dramatic impact on the reach of right-wing “junk sites,” as a former employee with knowledge of the conversations puts it, the engineers were sent back to lessen those impacts. As the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, they came back in January 2018 with a second iteration that dialed up the harm to progressive-leaning news organizations instead.
Jim Obergefell and Rick Hodges, the two men whose names appeared opposite one another in the landmark 2015 Supreme Court case that led to nationwide marriage equality, have joined forces to oppose the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the high court.
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett served for nearly 3 years on the board of private Christian schools that effectively barred admission to children of same-sex parents and made it plain that gay and lesbian teachers weren’t welcome in the classroom.
No, COVID-19 Is Not the Flu. Since December 2019, COVID-19 has killed more people in the U.S. than influenza has in the last five years.
CDC changes guidance on close contacts, emphasizes importance of wearing a mask. The updated guidance changes the definition of a "close contact" of a Covid-19 case to a person who has been within 6 feet of an infected person for a total of at least 15 minutes in a day. That includes multiple, but brief, encounters, one or two minutes at a time. Previously, a close contact was defined as spending 15 consecutive minutes with a Covid-19 patient. Those changes were expected to be updated Wednesday on the CDC's website.
The Trump administration labeled its vaccine czar a “contractor” to sidestep rules against personally profiting from government positions. The man holding this position owns $10 million in stock of a company working with his team to develop a vaccine.
Congress presses DOJ to improve jail reporting system after Reuters report. Reuters documented 7,571 deaths at more than 500 jails from 2008-2019; two-thirds of those inmates – close to 5,000 – were awaiting trial and had not been convicted of the charges they faced. Many remained jailed because they could not afford bail.
Here's a long list of shady financial mysteries Trump still refuses to explain.
A USA TODAY review of 19 women's allegations of non-consensual contact by Trump — as well as more than 4,000 of Trump’s own words — show patterns in both the allegations and Trump's reactions to them.
Pope Francis calls for creation of civil union laws for same-sex couples.
OxyContin maker to plead to 3 criminal charges. Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, the powerful prescription painkiller that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion, Justice Department officials told The Associated Press.
Possible new organ in the human throat discovered by Dutch scientists. It's hard to imagine there is a part of the human body that's gone unnoticed by doctors after centuries of medical research. But that's exactly what a group of scientists from the Netherlands believe. They said they have discovered a pair of previously overlooked glands that are hidden away in our skulls where the nasal cavity and the throat meet.
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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