Reading archive 2020-10-30

D.C. police and businesses prepare for possible Election Day unrest

One theory by one justice binds together Supreme Court’s contradictory election opinions

Why Jim Carrey’s Biden impersonation on SNL isn’t quite catching on

Police took a Black toddler from his family’s SUV. Then, the union used his photo as ‘propaganda,’ attorneys say.

Video surfaces showing Philadelphia police bashing SUV windows, then beating driver while child was in backseat

A top Interior official has controversial views on race. He used a white supremacist website to support them.: Jeremy Carl called Black Lives Matter a racist organization in articles written before his appointment this month. He also cited an opinion by Jared Taylor, who said Black people destroy any civilization they control.

Reading archive 2020-10-29

Hong Kong activists turned away in bid for refuge at U.S. Consulate, advocacy group says

New York Times, CNN sullied by ‘Anonymous’ charade

Jon Ossoff attacks Sen. Perdue on pandemic: ‘You’re attacking the health of the people that you represent’

A Long Island wedding and birthday party infected 56 with the coronavirus: ‘Blatant disregard for the well-being of others’

Election 2020: How sports owners hide political donations from players and fans

Hospitals being hit in coordinated, targeted ransomware attack from Russian-speaking criminals

Man shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ kills three at French church, terrorism investigation opened

‘There’s no help coming before the election’: Indiana’s RV capital faces its worst coronavirus outbreak alone

Glenn Greenwald resigns from the Intercept following dispute over Biden story: While the crusading journalist claimed censorship, his former editors accused him of trying to publish unsupported innuendo.

Republicans could suffer from Chinese company’s failure to buy Montana beef: Deal touted during Trump’s 2017 Beijing visit may affect tight U.S. Senate race

Unrest in Philadelphia after police kill a Black man roils the presidential campaign

Millions of mail ballots have not been returned as window closes for Postal Service delivery: Election officials said many may belong to those who requested them early, then decided to vote in person

What happens to Fox News if Trump loses? Rupert Murdoch is prepared.

As Election Day nears, Trump ponders becoming one thing he so despises: A loser

How Trump waged war on his own government ‘The 45th President’: One in a series looking back at the Trump presidency

A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air

Gray wolves stripped of endangered species protections by Trump administration States now drive gray wolves’ fate as Colorado votes on whether to force a state-run reintroduction

Trump strips protections for endangered gray wolves: Hunters and ranchers celebrate while conservationists say wolves will be hunted to extinction.

Reading archive 2020-10-28

The coming decade of Democratic dominance

A guard asked two sisters to put on a mask. They stabbed him 27 times instead, prosecutors say.

Trump to strip protections from Tongass National Forest, one of the biggest intact temperate rainforests

‘Stop doing that, or this interview will end’: How the smackdown took over cable news in 2020

Doug Emhoff paused his career for his wife Kamala Harris’s aspirations — and became the campaign’s ‘secret weapon’

Hundreds of Trump supporters stuck in the cold for hours when buses can’t reach Omaha rally

QAnon learns to survive — and even thrive — after Silicon Valley’s crackdown

Reading archive 2020-10-27

New voters and Trump antipathy converge to make Sun Belt competitive — maybe for real this time

Former U.S. attorneys — all Republicans — back Biden, saying Trump threatens ‘the rule of law’

GOP foreign policy defectors form an alliance with Biden — for now

Democrats say Republicans will ‘regret’ confirming Amy Coney Barrett. Will they?

Judge rejects Justice Dept. bid to short-circuit defamation case brought by woman who accused Trump of rape

Early-voting surge scrambles Election Day expectations as some states gallop toward 2016 turnout levels

Veterans have been targets of foreign manipulation. Now they’re fighting it before the election.

Josh Kramer: The structural racism that created DC government is still holding us back

DOJ faces new questions about accuracy of Flynn filings: Lawyers for Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok disputed the department's claim to have vouched for the accuracy of certain documents related to the case.

Records show Trump’s border wall is costing taxpayers billions more than initial contracts: As the presidential election nears, a review of federal spending data found modifications to contracts have increased the price of the border wall by billions, costing about five times more per mile than it did under previous administrations.

Reading archive 2020-10-26

‘A disgrace to democracy’: Dozens of ballots destroyed in suspected arson of a Boston drop box

A New York police officer said, ‘Trump 2020,’ over his patrol car speaker. He has been suspended.

FBI Sits on Report Detailing White-Supremacist Terror Threat

‘Boogaloo Boi’ charged in fire of Minneapolis police precinct during George Floyd protest: Ivan Harrison Hunter, a Texas rightwing extremist, bragged about helping to set the fire then was seen shooting 13 rounds at the building

Alleged ‘Hunter Biden sex and drug tapes’ posted on Chinese website linked to ex-top Trump adviser Steve Bannon

Kushner: Black Americans have to 'want to be successful'

Trump Wants COVID-19 Media Coverage To Be Illegal: ‘Should Be An Election Law Violation’

US Republicans are starting to look a lot like authoritarian parties in Hungary and Turkey, study finds

Jaime Harrison bets on ‘New South’ coalition in his against-the-odds bid to oust Sen. Lindsey Graham

Trump’s Carrier deal fades as economic reality intervenes: Jobs that were saved are dwarfed by others that left

Trump’s conservative imprint on the federal judiciary gives Democrats a playbook — if they win

Historically Dark Mood Clouds 2020 Election - "In sharp contrast with other presidents, Trump has positioned himself not as a unifying ambassador of hope, but as a fellow victim. He tweets conspiracy theories, laments 'hoaxes' aimed at him, devotes his inaugural address to a dystopian vision of 'American carnage,' and campaigns for reelection as a breakwater against anarchy in the streets and a nefarious plot against the suburbs."

Tumult at home, ailing alliances abroad: Why Trump’s America has been a ‘gift’ to Putin

"All it means when people say 'you're speaking from a place of privilege' is that you're likely to underestimate how bad the problem is by default because you are never personally exposed to that problem. It's not a moral judgment on how difficult your life is."

Reading archive 2020-10-25

Enlarging the Supreme Court is the only answer to the right’s judicial radicalism

Reading archive 2020-10-24

He’s a former QAnon believer. He doesn’t want to tell his story, but thinks it might help.

Spin, hyperbole and deception: How Trump claimed credit for an Obama veterans achievement: President Trump has told mistruths about the 2014 VA Choice Act more than 156 times, seeking to deny the contributions of rivals including Barack Obama and John McCain.