The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Executive Summary
Top of the Fold
DNI John Ratcliffe declassifies John Brennan notes, CIA memo on Hillary Clinton “stirring up” Trump-Russia scandal (Fox News)
Trump finally authorizes total declassification of documents related to Russia investigation and Clinton emails (Washington Examiner)
Texas grand jury indicts Netflix for “lewd visual material” after “Cuties" controversy (The Daily Wire)
Government & Politics
Trump halts deadlocked COVID relief negotiations until after the election (National Review)
"Immediate action is needed”: Trump administration unveils sweeping changes to controversial H-1B guest worker program (Fox News)
House investigation faults Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google for engaging in anti-competitive monopoly tactics (The Washington Post)
Trump announces his intent to debate Biden October 15 (Disrn)
For the Record
James Comey and Robert Mueller have massive Clinton Foundation problems (American Thinker)
Amy Coney Barrett’s family is more diverse than top liberal institutions (The Washington Free Beacon)
Leftmedia
NBC News’s “undecided” voters previously featured as Biden supporters on MSNBC (The Washington Free Beacon)
Facebook censors conservative host Mark Levin for “repeated distribution of false news” (Disrn)
Facebook bans QAnon — a nutty but harmless conspiracy theory — across its platforms (NBC News)
Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate
Triggered Democrat Party media guy pulls a knife on “Oregon Women for Trump” convoy (PJ Media)
Hate hoax? Police find no evidence after Madison, Wisconsin, woman claims she was set on fire by white supremacists (The Post Millennial)
THREE-PEAT! NBA Finals Game 3 beats out Game 2 as least-watched Finals game of all-time — after Game 2 beat Game 1 for the title (Not the Bee)
Around the Nation
Mark and Patricia McCloskey are indicted; grand jury adds charges of tampering with evidence (KMOV4)
Virginia school district wants teachers to enforce “woke” revolution, or else (The Daily Signal)
The Latest on COVID-19
FDA releases long-awaited vaccine guidance (NPR)
More than 3,500 health experts sound the alarm on lockdown policies, urge “focused protection” (The Federalist)
Do masks really work? Here’s what the charts tell us (PJ Media)
Business & Economy
World’s richest people are now $813 billion wealthier despite the pandemic (Time)
U.S. goods trade deficit in August hits record high of $83.9 billion (Politico)
Swiss city of Geneva votes for world-record $25 hourly minimum wage (Foundation for Economic Education)
Dumb and Dumber
Oregon State “women, gender and sexuality studies” professor blames devastating Western wildfires on white Christians (PJ Media)
California governor’s office tells diners to wear masks “in between bites” (CBS News)
Oklahoma detention officers charged with cruelty for torturing prisoners by cranking “Baby Shark” on repeat (Not the Bee)
A bike company offers black customers reparations in the form of a discount (Yahoo! Finance)
Oprah Winfrey says America’s racial “caste system” was “the template for Nazi Germany” (Disrn)
Mood Boosters
Georgia pastor raises $12,000 for Waffle House waitress after learning her unborn child has same name as his late son (Disrn)
Black-and-white film of a snowball fight in France in 1896 is colorized and speed-adjusted to look stunningly modern (Daily Mail)
Closing Arguments
Policy: Biden’s virtue signaling against Saudi Arabia will backfire (Washington Examiner)
Policy: Problems with theories on the black-white wealth gap (Mises Institute)
Satire: Pelosi calls for a national day of mourning after Trump recovers from COVID (Genesius Times)
Related satire: Hollywood mental hospitals overrun after Trump doesn’t die from COVID (Genesius Times)
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