Top of the Fold

• September’s jobs report badly misses expectations with payrolls increasing by just 194,000 (CNBC)

• Senate votes to raise debt limit by $480 billion after 11 Republicans join Democrats to break filibuster (ABC News) | Rabble-rouser and liar Chuck Schumer thanks Democrats for solving “Republican-manufactured crisis” (National Review)

Politics

• “Look at the bigger story”: Scranton Joe dismisses unvaccinated losing their jobs (Washington Examiner)

• Gain-of-function malfeasance: Leaked grant proposal confirms Chinese and American scientists planned to create novel coronavirus (National Review)

Security

• U.S. troops have been secretly training troops in Taiwan for at least a year (AMN) | Senate Republicans applaud U.S. military presence in Taiwan (Washington Examiner)

• Army deploys Iron Dome missile defense to counter Chinese threats (Washington Times)

• CIA launches new ChiCom-focused unit (Politico)

Heartland

• Mind-boggling: Alleged school shooter in Texas released from jail on bond day after shooting multiple people (Daily Wire)

• Tesla moving headquarters from blue state of California to red state of Texas (Daily Wire)

• Terry McAuliffe lead in Virginia cut to margin of error — 49%-45% (Washington Examiner)

Notables

• Google/YouTube oligarchs to prohibit ads and monetization on climate change contrarianism (Axios)

• COVID booster shots surpassing initial vaccination doses by nearly half (NBC News)

• GOP now polling better among independents than Democrat Party (FrontPage Magazine)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: Biden’s reckless Afghan resettlement strategy (National Review)

• Policy: Why we don’t need “human infrastructure” (Daily Signal)

• Satire: Experts predict LGBTQ acronym could circle Earth three times by 2022 (Babylon Bee)

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