A single-day record The coronavirus case increase set a new U.S. record, rising by over 77K in one day, NBC News’ Wilson Wong reported. That number tops the previous one-day record high from July. Mark Jacob gave it some context, “Trump at the final debate: ‘We’re rounding the turn. We’re rounding the corner. It’s going away.’ New COVID cases in the U.S. that same day: 77,640, a single-day record, according to NBC News.” The cost of politicizing mask use in one handy chart  Washington Post’s Christopher Ingraham used real-time pandemic data from Carnegie Mellon's CovidCast to show why you should wear a mask. Karrie Jacobs deemed it: “The cost of politicizing mask use in one handy chart.”
For some good news, we turn to the New York Times where Apoorva Mandavilli reported that Scientists Now Say Schoolchildren Seem Unlikely to Fuel the Coronavirus Surges. “Schools do not seem to be stoking community transmission of the coronavirus, according to data emerging from random testing in the United States and Britain. Elementary schools especially seem to seed remarkably few infections,” she wrote. Spencer Reiss is “not holding [his] breath for rueful apologies from Team Panic” however. 'Do I still have ovaries?'  In a bombshell story, 19 women are alleging medical abuse in a Georgia immigration detention center, including forced sterilization by Dr. Mahendra Amin, Molly O'Toole reported at the Los Angeles Times. “Amanda awoke from surgery, chained to a hospital bed. The 28-year-old immediately asked a nurse: ‘Do I still have ovaries? Can I still have kids?’” O’Toole tweeted from her story.
At the Washington Post, Lena Sun and Nick Miroff wrote that the Trump administration is still pressuring the CDC to back the detention of migrant children in border hotels even amid coronavirus. “SCOOP -- the Trump administration has been pressuring the CDC to endorse the use of border hotels to temporarily detain migrant children and teens, but no scientist or health expert wants to sign off on it,” Miroff said. The second, and final, debate  Last night, a team of New York Times journalists Fact-Checked the Final Presidential Debate.
Damien Willis shared a couple of them on Twitter: 1. 'We are rounding the turn.’ — Pres. Trump @NYTimes: False. 2. 'I had something that they gave me, a therapeutic... — some people would say it is a cure — I was in for a short period of time and I got better very fast, or I would not be here tonight.’ — Trump @NYTimes: This lacks evidence. Should the outcome of the election go in Biden’s favor, Bloomberg News’ David Yaffe-Bellany laid out The Legal Threats Trump Will Face If He Loses the Election. And “it's quite a list,” according to Jess Shankleman. The case for strong passwords  A Dutch Ethical Hacker Logged into Trump’s Twitter Account, according to Volkskrant (Netherlands). But the story gets a bit sillier from there. David Gilbert explained: “This report claims a Dutch hacker was able to gain access to Trump’s Twitter account last week, using the password: Maga2020!” Harry Siegel said it’s “Past parody: Trump's Twitter password was ‘maga2020!’ and he doesn't have two-step verification set up.” Upon hearing the news, Alex Hern simply reacted with: “AAAHHHHHHHHH.”
Crustacean of choice  In the New York Times, Jonathan Martin filed his story Susan Collins Hasn’t Changed Much, but Maine Has from Bangor, Maine. J. P. Gownder said, “PLEASE let the fake moderate Susan Collins lose. Come on, Maine, Sara Gideon is amazing and Collins is execrable.” [Ed. note - Word of the day: execrable.] Stowe Boyd tweeted, “Susan Collins is the only remaining Republican member of Congress from New England. And likely to be the last.” Jacques Poitras had one more question for the reporter, “‘Now Ms. Collins is no more likely to outrun Mr. Trump by 20 points, as she did John McCain in 2008, than Maine is to embrace crab over lobster as its crustacean of choice.’ But where did you eat in Bangor, @jmartNYT?”
Elsewhere in the New York Times, Maggie Haberman, Matt Flegenheimer, Julian Barnes, and Nicole Perlroth wrote In Restrained Debate, Trump and Biden Spar on Virus and Taxes. Their 2020 Election Live Update blog includes news that Madison Cawthorn, a Republican candidate for the House from North Carolina, created an attack website accusing a journalist of leaving a job in academia “to work for non-white males, like Cory Booker, who aims to ruin white males running for office.” Chris Megerian added, “I don’t think syntax is really the problem here.” Also, Bernie Sanders is making a play for Biden’s Labor secretary, Politico reported via Alice Ollstein, Megan Cassella, and Holly Otterbein. “Bernie Sanders has expressed interest in becoming Labor Secretary if Biden wins in November,” Ollstein said on Twitter. This feels strategic  While early voting is opening up around the country and Americans head to the polls, a piece in Vice News by Cameron Joseph tells us that the U.S. Eliminated Nearly 21,000 Election Day Polling Locations for 2020. Joseph added, “That's a 20% drop from 2016.” Michael Learmonth explained, “On Election Day, voters across the US will have nearly 21,000 or 20% fewer polling places than 2016. Longer lines, longer drives, more exposure to COVID as a result. Story and data from @cam_joseph and @No_Little_Plans.” And Jami Ganz said, “This feels strategic. Not happy Jersey’s on here.”
Speaking of voter suppression, Miami Herald’s Sarah Blaskey explained How the Trump campaign used big data to deter Miami-Dade’s Black communities from voting. Blaskey tweeted that “Miami voters – especially Black women – [were targeted] for a media blitz intended to dissuade them from voting in 2016. There’s evidence it worked. And might be happening again.” Her story was part of a partnership with Channel 4 News. “‘The laser-like focus on suppressing Black turnout is clear,’ said @electionsmith. ‘It’s very striking.’ Can't wait to dive into this bombshell story,” Samantha Gross wrote. And at the New York Times, Danny Hakim, Nick Corasaniti, and Michael Roman say that the Trump Campaign is Drawing Rebuke for Surveilling Philadelphia Voters. “President Trump’s campaign has been videotaping voters at ballot drop boxes in Philadelphia, a tactic that could amount to illegal voter intimidation, Pennsylvania’s attorney general says,” Nick Corasaniti tweeted. Shady shady  Citizens for Ethics tweeted, “A close informal advisor to President Trump who has been deeply involved in all three of his Supreme Court nomination battles is the sole trustee of a mysterious group that brought in more than $80 million in 2018.” You can read all about Leonard Leo, the advisor in question, in their story: $80 million dark money group tied to Trump Supreme Court advisor. Robert Maguire added that this dark money group with “no website, no employees, and no apparent offices” still “brought in $80 million in its first year of operation.” The group's sole trustee is Leonard Leo, the Trump judicial advisor who's tied to millions spent on judicial nominations.
In another bombshell story, the Dallas Morning News revealed that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervened in donor’s legal affairs multiple times this year. In the story by Lauren McGaughy, Allie Morris, Tom Benning, and Jared Weber, seven top staff have accused Texas AG Ken Paxton of serious crimes. Sowing chaos around the election  “Russia’s hackers appeared to be preparing to sow chaos amid any uncertainty around election results,” Marlon Weems tweeted after reading that Russia Poses Greater Election Threat Than Iran, Many U.S. Officials Say in the New York Times. The story is written by Julian Barnes, Nicole Perlroth, and David Sanger. “‘It is concerning to me that the administration is willing to talk about what the Iranians are doing — supposedly to hurt Trump — than what the Russians are likely doing to help him,’ said Jeh Johnson,” Barnes tweeted. Jon Passantino highlighted another quote from the story: "Officials did not make clear what Russia planned to do, but they said its operations would be intended to help President Trump.”
Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins when Inside the campaign to 'pizzagate' Hunter Biden at NBC News. “Some of the same people who pushed a false conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton that first emerged in 2016 are now targeting Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's son, with similar falsehoods. Their online posts are garnering astronomical numbers of shares on social media. The fantastical rumors, which NBC News is declining to repeat verbatim, echo specific plot points central to ‘pizzagate,’ a viral disinformation campaign that predates QAnon but also falsely alleges a vast conspiracy of child abuse,” they explained. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal published a piece saying that Hunter Biden’s Ex-Business Partner Alleges Father Knew About Venture, written by Andrew M. Duehren and James Areddy. Newley Purnell wrote, “Just out: An ex-business partner of Hunter Biden said he consulted his father about a planned venture with a Chinese oil company. Joe Biden denied any involvement in the venture and corporate records reviewed by The Journal show no role for him.” Anthony De Rosa added, “Corporate records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show no role for Joe Biden.” People like this are out there The man arrested in Kannapolis, NC with van full of guns and explosives had researched killing Joe Biden, according to WBTB’s Nick Ochsner. “Agents say they found electronic records showing he had researched Joe Biden's address and considered carrying out a mass shooting,” Ochsner added. Oliver Willis made an interesting connection: “Like I said, last night Sean Hannity and Fox News trained a camera on Joe Biden's house, knowing people like this are out there.” The Washington Post named Alexander Hillel Treisman as the 19-year-old who feds allege plotted to assassinate Biden in Timothy Bella’s story. Should you think that this level of violent extremism is unique to the U.S., here’s a story from The Independent to show otherwise. There, Lizzie Dearden wrote about the man accused of a far-right terror plot to kill a solicitor at a law firm that represented migrants. “An alleged far-right extremist has been charged with attempting to launch a terror attack on a solicitors' firm in London. Cavan Medlock, 28, is accused of planning to kill a lawyer from Duncan Lewis because of their work representing migrants,” Dearden tweeted. The Old Bailey heard that he arrived at the firm’s offices in Harrow on 7 September armed with a knife, handcuffs, a Nazi flag, and a U.S. Confederate flag. Working, and not working, in America Today the New York Times released Out of Work in America, a significant project that looks at the joblessness that’s been exacerbated by the pandemic. “As you go to work today realize that millions of Americans would do anything to be in your shoes. We teamed up with news organizations across America to capture joblessness in 2020. Please take a few minutes to read,” Marc Lacey wrote. And for Vice News, Edward Ongweso Jr. wrote Gig Workers' Only Chance to Pee Is Apparently an App. “For ten years, gig companies have had free reign to exploit workers as they please & convince us it’s okay. One example: there’s such a minimal interest in their dignity that they literally have nowhere to pee. Instead of a policy solution, there’s an app,” he said. “No jokes or puns—just the logical extension of an economy and technologies that seek maximum extraction of workers’ labor and maximum convenience for those being served,” Chris Gilliard added. Friday headlines | 
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On Friday, we asked: In the Before Times, we used to go to the mall. And sometimes we’d get lost in the maze of the mall’s layout and end up wandering around and buying things we’d never intended. Turns out, there’s a name for this phenomenon. What is it?
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