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Top of the Fold

Senate votes to advance Amy Coney Barrett nomination to Supreme Court, setting up final vote today (Washington Examiner¹) | Relentless Trump names judge to replace Barrett’s vacant seat on the Seventh Circuit (The Daily Wire²)
The deep state: General Services Administration (GSA) secretly offered FBI documents on Trump officials (The Daily Caller³)

Government & Politics

Republicans begin to close early voting gap as voting outpaces 2016 (Disrn⁴)
The big Trump rallies you don’t see (Washington Examiner⁵)
Facebook and Twitter CEOs to voluntarily testify before Senate on censorship (Fox News⁶)
FBI asks Hunter Biden’s ex-business associate Tony Bobulinski for an interview (The Post Millennial⁷)

Demo-gogues

Biden: “This is the most consequential election” due to possibility of “four more years of George” (The Daily Wire⁸)
Kamala Harris: “Yes, I do” think Trump is racist (Washington Examiner⁹)
Harris bursts out laughing when asked if she has socialist perspective (Fox News¹⁰)
“Spineless enablers”: Hillary Clinton, who thought flyover country wanted her in office, claims most Republicans secretly want Trump out of office (Washington Examiner¹¹)

The Latest on COVID-19

U.S. sets coronavirus case record (85,000+) amid new surge (The New York Times¹²)
Italy orders bars to close early, shuts gyms as cases balloon (Reuters¹³)
Spain imposes national night-time curfew to curb infections (BBC¹⁴)

National Security

China to impose sanctions on U.S. arms suppliers to Taiwan (Fox Business¹⁵)
Afghan forces reportedly kill al-Qaeda second-in-command (Disrn¹⁶)

Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate

“Confusion and error”: Cardinals and Bishops come out against papal comments on same-sex civil unions (The Daily Wire¹⁷)
Music publicist fired by email for attending a Trump rally (The Federalist¹⁸)
Netflix cancellations soar 800% after “Cuties” debacle (The Daily Wire¹⁹)

Stranger Than Fiction

Conservatives push to discredit Facebook, Twitter, and Google just days before the election, claims fake news network CNN²⁰
“We must treat the Hunter Biden leaks as if they were a foreign intelligence operation — even if they probably aren’t,” admonishes fake news network The Washington Post²¹
Chelsea Handler tells a black man what to do: “I had to remind” 50 Cent he was black, so “he can’t vote for Trump” (Disrn²²)
California middle-schooler threatened with jail time for missing 90 minutes of Zoom class (The Daily Wire²³)
Trump condemns “coyotes” on southern border; dimwitted leftists take him literally (The Daily Wire²⁴)
Cat learns new “trick” — turning on the sink — and ends up flooding owners’ home (Fox News²⁵)

On a Happier Note…

Suicide rate fell last year after a decade of steady rise (Fox News²⁶)
Poland bans abortions of babies with genetic disorders (Disrn²⁷)
Nest of “murder hornets” annihilated in Washington state to protect honeybees (USA Today²⁸)
Texas 14-year-old wins $25,000 for developing potential COVID-19 treatment (ABC 7²⁹)
Boys find and return purse stolen three years ago: “Restores my faith in humanity” (Fox News³⁰)
Trump grants clemency to man sentenced to 30 years for non-violent drug crime (Disrn³¹)
Sudan becomes third Arab state in weeks to announce ties with Israel (The Jerusalem Post³²)

Closing Arguments

Policy: Promises made, promises kept means four more years (GOP³³)
Policy: A $15 minimum wage would wreck the economic recovery (American Enterprise Institute³⁴)
Humor: Celebrities launch Adopt-a-Coyote program after Trump’s mean attacks (Genesius Times³⁵)
Related humor: Democrats propose stopping coyotes by distracting them with decoy roadrunners (The Babylon Bee³⁶)

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