His motives aren’t clear, but AG Barr directed fast-track suit against Google for anti-trust violations, which have been apparent for years…--Pelosi and Trump are separately promoting Covid relief, which seems unlikely to clear Senate due to GOP self-destruction impulses
--Thursday’s final debate will include microphone switches and time penalties for interruptions
--new poll shows Biden with comfy leads on almost all major issues
--Biden’s fundraising edge is fueled by megadonors
--33 million have already voted, as key swing states see mail delivery delays, and divided Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania to extend deadline for mail ballots
--arson is alleged in fire started in LA ballot drop box
--Trump uses Fox y Friends to signal Barr to investigate Hunter Biden
--Barr’s to busy extinguishing the rape-charge defamation suit from E. Jean Carroll
--speaking for Trump, Mark Meadows tells judge that tweets weren’t binding orders for declassification of Russiagate files
--corrupt Trump bagman Elliott Broidy pleads guilty to FARA crime
--in surprise move, US & Russia reach tentative agreement to extend nuke treaty
--Andrew Bacevich extols colleague's new book on foreign policy that defends “isolationists” and defines Biden as globalist
--at MintPress, Raul Diego reports on Israel’s arms sales to Azerbaijan, which are driving the war with Armenia
--also at MintPress, Alan Macleod reviews the biased media coverage of this week’s election in Bolivia and the 2019 US-backed coup
--Khashoggi’s fiancée and foundation sue MNS and Saudi Arabia over his assassination
--Rush Limbaugh announces that his days are numbered
--Yale Prof. Philip Atiba Goff reveals the intention of Trump’s all-cops commission on policing
--in Portland, Proud Boys suspect is denied bail
--on Netflix, The Trial of the Chicago 7 is well worth watching
--Jeffrey Toobin is quite embarrassed for onanism caught on Zoom
--our daily Covid-19 update, prepared by Linda Lewis
--Trump reverses denial of California disaster request, as wildfires rage in Colorado
--60’s rock band leader Spencer Davis dies at 81
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