The Patriot Post® · Thursday Executive Summary
Top of the Fold
U.S. GDP booms at better-than-expected 33.1% rate in third quarter (CNBC)
Supreme Court bafflingly allows North Carolina to extend deadline for receiving absentee ballots to nine days after election (Fox News)
Leftmedia
Senate interrogates Big Tech CEOs over bias (Washington Examiner)
Mark Zuckerberg “not aware” that Facebook election integrity official worked for Biden (Fox Business)
Jack Dorsey: “We haven’t censored the U.S. president.” Report says Twitter has censored Trump 64 times. (The Daily Wire)
Zuckerberg and Dorsey struggle to name a single liberal who has been censored on their platforms (Fox News)
Meanwhile, Twitter suspends border chief for celebrating wall’s protection from illegal aliens (The Federalist)
Politics
Senate committee successfully verifies all Tony Bobulinski materials reviewed to date (The Daily Caller)
Joe Biden stays silent on Bobulinski claims about family’s business ventures (Fox News)
Tucker Carlson reveals damning Hunter Biden documents have suddenly vanished (The Post Millennial)
Former DHS Chief of Staff Miles Taylor reveals he is “Anonymous” Trump critic (White House Dossier)
Disgruntled Russian in Cyprus was behind key parts of discredited dossier on Trump (The Wall Street Journal)
“They want to help Biden”: Project Veritas exposes massive voter fraud effort (The Post Millennial)
Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate
Philadelphia police “discover van loaded with explosives, suspicious equipment” (The Daily Wire)
1,000 looters turn Philly retail zone into “total loss” (Police Magazine)
Expensify CEO tells 10 million customers to vote for Biden or face possible “civil war” (The Daily Wire)
Southern Poverty Law Center releases guide for managing “white fragility” (The Washington Free Beacon)
Around the Nation
Hurricane Zeta sweeps through South with damaging winds and flooding rains on path to Northeast (Fox News)
Kenosha, Wisconsin, auto dealer says insurer won’t cover riot damage (The Daily Signal)
On second thought… Portland delays vote on $18 million in police cuts (Fox News)
Harvard creates committee to weigh removal of “historical figures” (The Daily Caller)
Around the World
Attacker screaming “Allahu Akbar” decapitates one, kills two others at French church (The Daily Caller)
Germany and France prepare new lockdowns as COVID sweeps Europe (Reuters)
Stranger Than Fiction
2020 election to cost $14 billion, blowing away spending records (OpenSecrets.org)
Girl Scouts deletes social media congratulations to ACB on Supreme Court seat after angry backlash (CNBC)
Democrats like Cuba more than Israel, new poll shows (The Washington Free Beacon)
Closing Arguments
Policy: Four big takeaways from Senate hearing on tech bias (The Daily Signal)
Policy: The West is surprisingly well equipped for gray-zone deterrence (Defense One)
Humor: Two birds with one stone: Man protests racial injustice, completes Christmas shopping in one trip (The Babylon Bee)
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