October 29, 2020

• US fighter jet intercepts aircraft near Trump rally, deploying signal flares
• How coronavirus is sinking Trump’s election hopes
• ‘I regret voting for him’: Ohioans hit by GM plant closure reflect on Trump
• Three dead as woman beheaded in France, gunman killed in second incident | Reuters
• Sinkhole Opens in NYC Sidewalk, Plunging Man Into Rat Pit
• Trump aide Stephen Miller preparing second-term immigration blitz | US news | The Guardian
• Donald Trump’s toughest hurdle for a 2020 election win: Few undecideds
• As election day nears, what final dirty tricks could Trump turn to? | US news | The Guardian
• Could the 2020 US election really be decided by the supreme court? | US news | The Guardian
• Watch Trump Humiliate Martha McSally at Today’s Goodyear Rally in Arizona | Phoenix New Times

October 28, 2020

• Owner of USB Stick Embedded in Seal Poop Has Been Found | PCMag
• Poland Is in Revolt Against Its New Abortion Ban
• Conservative Incoherence | Dissent Magazine
• David Brooks: US has shifted leftward
• McConnell effectively dares Senate Dems to do more than complain
• Control Of Redistricting Is Up For Grabs In 2020. Here Are The Races To Watch. | FiveThirtyEight
• ‘Ruined my life’: After going all in on Amazon, a merchant says he lost everything
• Can Trump win? Yes. But the path is narrow and difficult. | The Seattle Times
• Trump win over Biden would be ‘biggest error’ in ‘modern era of mass polling’ – MarketWatch
• Biden Campaign Warns Supporters: ‘Donald Trump Can Still Win This Race’ : NPR
• Can President Trump win an Electoral College majority in 2020?
• Worst place, worst time: Trump faces virus spike in Midwest
• The Landsort Artillery Battery
• What Happens If Democrats Win the Senate and the White House? – The Atlantic
• Opinion | Yes, the Senate is biased against Democrats. Here’s why they’re still the favorites in 2020. – The Washington Post
• In Georgia, a Senate GOP firewall is under attack by resurgent Democrats
• Alabama Senate race: Doug Jones vs. Tommy Tuberville

October 27, 2020

• NBC moves Texas to ‘toss-up’ in presidential race
• Twitter
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• Are Website Pop-ups Still a Relevant Lead Generation Tool?

October 26, 2020

• The Erasure of Mesut Özil
• What to Say When They Ask For Your Salary History
• The Russian Hackers Playing ‘Chekhov’s Gun’ With US Infrastructure
• Analysis: How President Trump’s surprise gift to ’60 Minutes’ completely backfired
• Analysis: White House admission on pandemic overshadows Trump’s last push for reelection
• Opinion | Is It Safe to Ask Whether Trump’s Days Are Numbered?
• ‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study | Society | The Guardian
• How Best Made Co. and Its Axes Were Sold to Duluth Trading – InsideHook

October 25, 2020

• The Stuka Terror – Air Force Magazine

October 23, 2020

• Good sleep, good learning, good life – supermemo.guru
• Meet the Artist Who Does Extreme Close-Ups of Utility Poles – Atlas Obscura
• What Working At Stripe Has Been Like | Kalzumeus Software
• Is Your CT Town In The Coronavirus ‘Red Zone’? Interactive Map | Across Connecticut, CT Patch

October 22, 2020

• How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
• The young have had enough – Peaceful protesters against Nigerian police violence are shot | Middle East & Africa | The Economist
• Meet the Diabolical Ironclad Beetle. It’s Almost Uncrushable. – The New York Times
• Meet Apep, the rare star system that could explode and kill us all
• Do you know an avidulous bayard from an agelastic vicambulist? | HeraldScotland

October 21, 2020

• Gardening Your Twitter: Growing Your Followers
• D.B. Cooper Skyjacking Mystery: FBI Agent Speaks
• Opinion | Trump Is Giving Up
• John E. List, 82, Killer of 5 Family Members, Dies (Published 2008)
• Ed Benguiat, a Master of Typography, Is Dead at 92 – The New York Times
• US 2020 election: Donald Trump’s grip on his white working class base is waning
• US election swing states: Can the Democrats retake Michigan from Donald Trump?

October 20, 2020

• Call to arms – Sweden embarks on its largest military build-up for decades | Europe | The Economist
• Inside Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
• Pepsi Once Owned the World’s 6th Largest Military Fleet
• The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, Two Weeks In – War on the Rocks
• Ad Tech Could Be the Next Internet Bubble

October 19, 2020

• How a Fake Rent-a-Hitman Site Became an Accidental Murder-for-Hire Sting Operation
• Column: Stephen Glass is still retracting his fabricated stories — 18 years later
• Read The Original Forbes Takedown Of Stephen Glass
• Fox News Owner Rupert Murdoch Predicts a Landslide Win for Biden
• Daily chart – Orderly transfers of power occur less often than you might think | Graphic detail | The Economist
• Standing with Samuel Paty – The beheading of a teacher will harden France’s belief in secularism | Europe | The Economist
• A Southern triptych – Democrats could win big in Georgia | United States | The Economist
• How the Trump admin devastated the CDC—and continues to cripple it | Ars Technica
• The Unmarked Graves of Paco Cemetery
• The Science Is Extremely Clear: You Need to Prioritize Sleep
• How a Minnesota Town Fell In and Out of Love With Its Ginormous Geese – Atlas Obscura

October 18, 2020

• YAN MORVAN
• Will Britain Rejoin the EU? – The Atlantic
• Covid-19 – The second wave in Britain | Britain | The Economist
• A History Of Lying Recounted As Fiction – The New York Times
• Saturday Night Fever – Wikipedia
• US town halls: Donald Trump refused to denounce QAnon as Joe Biden outlined his policies
• The rise and fall of ArsDigita
• How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time – Valley Girl Newsletter

October 17, 2020

• Modern Love: He Married a Sociopath. Me. – The New York Times

October 16, 2020

• Savannah Guthrie’s town hall with Trump was the toughest interview he had in years.
• Trump’s attacks on Obamacare could cost him in Texas and Florida
• Slamming Trump, G.O.P. Senator Warns of a ‘Republican Blood Bath’
• Americans Saw Trump Unfiltered and Recoiled in Horror
• NBC, Under Fire for Trump Event, Faces a Big Test and Bad Memories
• Adelson, evangelicals, AIPAC and J Street: What happens if Biden wins
• Trump rages at allies as potential October surprises fizzle
• How we went from $1M raised and 100k users to shut down
• Unions are not coming back

October 15, 2020

• Special report: Europe braces for monster 2nd coronavirus wave
• ‘I never saw stars before’: Gene therapy brings back 8-year-old Canadian boy’s sight
• A new weapon complicates an old war in Nagorno-Karabakh
• [Article] Prophets and losses, By Stephen Glass | Harper’s Magazine
• Harper’s issues its first retraction ever: A piece by disgraced ‘fabulist’ Stephen Glass
• Harper’s Runs Official Retraction From Stephen Glass, Nearly 18 Years Later
• Why the rise and decline of the AfD party in Germany is a parable for our times
• Kroomen: Black Slaver Hunters | History Today
• ‘Person in jetpack’ spotted flying again near LA airport
• Yokai Yashiki (Monster and Stone Museum) – Miyoshi, Japan – Atlas Obscura
• White House informally endorses letting pandemic spread unchecked | Ars Technica

October 14, 2020

• The rise of the Proud Boys in the US
• US 2020 election: Could the polls be underestimating Donald Trump?
• Trump facing devastating debt load? Experts say not so fast
• ‘They’re turned off by him’: Trump in trouble as Florida’s seniors shift towards Biden | US news | The Guardian
• Is the World Getting Safer? – Unintended Consequences
• Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Loses Bid to Dismiss Criminal Charges – WSJ
• Acellus, a Major Online Learning Platform, Was Created By a Subterranean Religious ‘Cult’ Whose Leader Has Been Accused of Violence and Abuse | OneZero
• Trump mocks virus as he launches potential superspreader sprint to win reelection – CNNPolitics
• Cockney rhyming slang history | Roman Road LDN

October 13, 2020

• Top general did not give his consent to be used in Trump political ad

October 12, 2020

• AWS makes its own Arm CPUs the default for ElastiCache in-memory data store service

October 11, 2020

• Judge Blocks Trump Campaign Attempt To Limit Use Of Drop Boxes In Pennsylvania
• Analysis: Trump’s war on Obamacare is coming back to bite him
• Election live updates: Biden leads Trump in new Post-ABC News poll; Barrett pledges in opening statement to ‘apply the law as written’
• Twitter flags, limits sharing on Trump tweet about being ‘“immune” to coronavirus – The Verge
• If Clinton Wins, Republicans Suggest Shrinking Size of Supreme Court : NPR
• The Tech CEO, the Guide, and a Case That Could Upend Everest Travel
• Marine general: Public ‘not sensitized’ to high losses of future war – Business Insider
• Hellfire R9X: the Pentagon’s weapon of choice to take out terrorist leaders in Syria – Task & Purpose
• Wig-Looking Poisonous Caterpillars Can Inflict Pain, Officials Warn – The New York Times
• He lives in a 65-year-old cruise ship idling in the California Delta. The life isn’t easy – San Francisco Chronicle
• Right-wing trolls Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman charged with felony voter intimidation | Salon.com
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• Why Joe Biden, Kamala Harris are dodging court-packing question – SFChronicle.com
• Trump’s public lands chief refuses to leave his post despite judge’s order | Environment | The Guardian
• Opinion | There Will Be No Trump Coup – The New York Times
• Ted Cruz: November election could be a ‘bloodbath’ for the GOP – Business Insider
• Art: Did local artist Miles Mendenhall subvert Bravo’s reality TV competition? – StarTribune.com
• When Donald Trump’s Mini-Me Met a Rational Grown Up | Common Dreams Views
• Biden ahead of Trump by double digits in new Washington Post-ABC News national poll. – The Washington Post
• Republicans express fears Trump will lose presidential election | US news | The Guardian
• The great crackup: Before our eyes, Trump is becoming even more unstable – New York Daily News
• New set of swing state polls shows Joe Biden growing slim lead in Pennsylvania – pennlive.com
• The shadow war between Alibaba and Tencent
• The Rise and Fall of Vanilla Ice, As Told by Vanilla Ice
• Trump’s 2020 polls prove Democrats need to start planning for a Biden White House

October 10, 2020

• Whitey Ford asks about own obituary | MLB.com
• How anti-Netanyahu unrest is pushing Israel’s coalition to the brink

October 9, 2020

• How A YouTuber’s Cult Following Became An Actual Cult
• US presidential election swing states: Can North Carolina turn blue?
• Egypt is busily building expressways
• The Red Ghost of Quartzsite
• America Is Broken
• GPT-3 Bot Posed as a Human on AskReddit for a Week
• Faith leaders back Biden in sign that evangelical support for Trump is waning
• Analysis: Mitch McConnell just admitted what we all know about Trump
• Opinion | Women are pummeling Trump as time is running out
• New study suggests handwriting engages the brain more than typing
• The Devil’s Fingerprints
• ‘Our worst nightmare’: will militias heed Trump’s call to watch the polls? | World news | The Guardian
• Trump’s Bout With COVID-19 Might Be Hurting His Reelection Chances | FiveThirtyEight
• Trump campaign can’t have poll watchers at Philly satellite election offices, judge says – pennlive.com
• Other Presidents Have Lied About Their Health. But Trump’s Cover-Up Is Immoral | Cognoscenti
• Fauci: Donald Trump’s coronavirus recovery could soon reverse – Business Insider
• Trump’s COVID Case Could Be Entering a Crucial Stage – Scientific American
• Pelosi pushes 25th Amendment bill to evaluate Trump’s health
• NPR Electoral Map: Biden Expands Lead Over Trump In Swing States : NPR
• Trump is getting increasingly desperate, sparking new fears for his health – CNNPolitics
• Why Senior Citizens Are Flipping on Trump – POLITICO
• Opinion | Trump says he feels great. My experience — as a doctor and patient — says that might not last. – The Washington Post
• Trump’s feral Fox Business Network interview with Maria Bartiromo shows he’s come undone.
• Trump Twitter meltdown: The president is sick, alone, and coming more unglued by the hour.
• Ex-Google Engineer Levandowski’s Jump to Uber Ends in Prison – Bloomberg
• The Latest: Commission won’t rethink shift to virtual debate
• AI researchers use heartbeat detection to identify deepfake videos
• Trump campaign’s training tapes for poll watchers don’t always align with Trump’s rhetoric
• Live updates: Vulnerable Republicans distance themselves from Trump’s coronavirus response
• Trump calls in for rambling and ugly post-hospital interview

October 8, 2020

• Electric shocks to the tongue can quiet chronic ringing ears
• How healthy is Trump? Years of misinformation make it difficult to know | US news | The Guardian
• Trump Appeals to ‘My Favorite People in the World—The Seniors!’ in Nonsensical Video
• Claudia Conway’s TikToks Can’t Save Democracy
• The True Story of the Antifa Invasion of Forks, Washington
• Feds say they thwarted militia plot to kidnap Whitmer
• Trump claims he is ‘cured’ in first interview since COVID hospital treatment | Daily Mail Online
• U.K.’s Boris Johnson Says His Battle With Coronavirus ‘Could Have Gone Either Way’ : Coronavirus Live Updates : NPR
• Donald Trump’s age and weight may cause Covid complications, doctors say | US news | The Guardian
• Trump Vanishes From Sight Since White House Return Despite Glowing Health Updates

October 7, 2020

• Supreme court fight likely as judges rule Trump must turn over tax records | US news | The Guardian
• Tsai defiant as Taiwan’s anti-China jet flights double
• The stop-motion effects of ‘The Rocketeer’ – befores & afters
• QAnon High Priest Was Just Trolling Away as a Citigroup Tech Executive

October 6, 2020

• Tight Senate Races Take New Turn After Trump’s Covid-19 Diagnosis
• A Poker Pro Accused of Cheating Wants $330M in Damages
• Column: How Democrats could curb a conservative SCOTUS without court-packing – Frankel
• With less than a month to election, forecasts show Democrats more likely than Republicans to control next Senate
• Why Biden would likely have a Democratic Senate if he wins
• Senate Dems ready tactics to muck up Supreme Court confirmation
• Annabel Scheme and the Adventure of the New Golden Gate
• Covid-19 complicates Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nomination
• Analysis: How Trump’s losing among seniors at a historic rate
• Trump’s Campaign Saw an Opportunity. He Undermined It. – The New York Times
• As Trump Considers Amy Coney Barrett, He Faces a Tightrope – The New York Times
• Why Arizona Is Tilting Blue: ‘The State’s Clearly in Motion’ – The New York Times
• Dow swings 600 points after Trump rejects stimulus plan – CNN
• Biden Holds Steady Lead Over Trump in Arizona, Latest Poll Finds – The New York Times
• New Herald poll shows Trump support cratering after contracting coronavirus
• QAnon Supporters Aren’t Quite Who You Think They Are | WIRED
• Loss of smell could be a ‘highly reliable indicator’ of Covid-19, research finds – CNN