In bizarre pre-election announcement, Trump’s puppet DNI says Russia and Iran are sending threats, disinformation to voters using widely-available data…--John Ratcliffe delivers murky statement, saying Iran is helping Trump to win, and that data from “dark web” being used—when it’s widely available
--Pelosi keeps Dems focused on Russia as the bad actor
--federal judge accepts White House claim that Trump’s tweets aren’t official orders
--Trump moves to dismantle civil service for federal workers
--Senate Republicans blast Mnuchin in squeeze play over Covid relief
--Deep State action: Defense Secretary on loan from Raytheon changes Trump order to cut US troops in Germany, deploying them to Russian border states
--Trump isn’t winning the Jewish vote, so he threatens to label human rights organizations as anti-Semites for criticizing Israel
--US is feverishly trying to block approval of nuclear weapons ban treaty
--SecState Pompeo signs anti-abortion declaration supported by repressive nations
--boycotted by Dems, Senate Judiciary approves Barrett nomination 12-0 as NY Times courtwatcher Linda Greenhouse looks at fate of abortion rights
--will the second and last prez debate be different? Trump is averaging 50 lies a day
--breaking agreement with CBS, Trump releases video of 60 Minutes interview he cut short, with damaging statements about killing Obamacare
--Trump campaign cash crunch leads to blame game
--late in the contest, Obama surfaces to slam Trump and encourage blacks to voted for Biden
--Trump has widely abused laws and rules about campaigning at White House, but GOP demands investigation into Biden’s Amtrak charter for whistlestop tour
--Supreme Court intervenes to block drive-up voting in Alabama, and has injected confusion into mail balloting in South Carolina
--in $200 million ballot campaign to change labor laws in California, Uber/Lyft annoy their drivers and use nonprofit postal rates
--Covid quarantine rules prevent DOJ lawyer from arguing for federal takeover of rape/defamation case against Trump
--Jeffrey Epstein’s pimp, Ghislaine Maxwell, loses legal argument as deposition is released
--Colorado wildfires go wilder, jumping the Continental Divide above the tree line
--10 years after release of Iraq War Logs, Kevin Gosztola examines the impact
--our daily Covid-19 update, prepared by Linda Lewis
--from the scene, GrayZone Project releases video report on Bolivian election
--the latest judge at Gitmo assigned to 9/11 case may be forced out
--after 2 years, Facebook appeal panel gets up and running
--Googlers object to secret contract for Google Cloud to support virtual border wall
--ICE is rounding up Africans at risk of death in home countries, and deporting some
--worldwide protest briefs: Nigeria and Thailand
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