Politics

• Democrats abandon “free” community college as White House warns reconciliation bill that costs $0 will shrink below $2 trillion (NBC News)

• Democrats pare back Orwellian IRS bank reporting proposal (Politico)

• January 6 committee recommends holding Steve Bannon in contempt (National Review)

Security

• Thanks to open borders, illegal immigration arrests hit 35-year high (National Review)

• Facebook acknowledges that it allows messages on human smuggling (Washington Examiner)

• FBI raids DC home of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska (Washington Examiner)

• “Rachel” Levine, openly “transgender” health official, sworn in as four-star admiral (Washington Post)

Health

• Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas tests positive for COVID (Yahoo)

• White House rolls out unnecessary plan to vaccinate hardly-at-risk kids against COVID (NBC News)

• San Francisco temporarily closes In-N-Out for not enforcing vaccine mandate. Restaurant fires back: “We refuse to become the vaccination police for any government.” (Daily Wire)

• Chicago FOP president estimates more than 3,000 officers defying vaccine mandate (PJ Media)

• New York City to require COVID vaccinations for all public employees (WSJ)

• Southwest drops plan to put unvaccinated staff on unpaid leave starting in December (CNBC)

“Social Justice”

• Parents fight segregation in Boston-area public schools (Boston Globe)

• Netflix “transgender” employees walking out to protest Dave Chappelle special (PJ Media)

• Climate scientist quits Berkeley over canceled speaker (PJ Media)

Heartland

• Record-breaking 100 ships anchored and waiting at Los Angeles and Long Beach ports (Breitbart)

• Undermanned Portland police resort to traffic barrels to stop drive-bys as murders soar (Washington Examiner)

• Significant decline in school enrollment for all age groups (Census.gov)

Notables

• CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching one million viewers (Fox News)

• Terry McAuliffe shuts down interview and chides reporter for not asking “better questions” (Washington Examiner)

• Long chain of failures left sailors unprepared to fight USS Bonhomme Richard fire, investigation finds (USNI)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: Is the spike in federal revenue permanent? (AEI)

• Policy: Ten reasons to cut debt (National Review)

• Satire: Support for climate change skyrockets after computer models show it will flood California (Babylon Bee)

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