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- No, Trump didn't "pivot" at last night's debate. "While Trump didn’t foam at the mouth," Alex Shephard writes for the New Republic, "his performance was still pathological."
- Mitch McConnell declined to answer his questions about his health after appearing in public this week with a visibly bruised face and bandaged, purple hands.
- A middle school student in California was threatened with arrest for missing 90 minutes of Zoom school.
- Motherboard ranked Black Mirror's dystopian plot lines by how likely they are to actually happen.
- Over at Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, a skirmish is heating up between the paper's reporters and opinion desk, whose members claim that allegations of inaccuracy are actually "cancel culture."
- A 25-year-old Republican candidate for Congress says he's not racist despite writing some shockingly racist things on a website.
- LA Times film critic Kenneth Turan on the joys of watching Tenet in an eerie, empty Montana theatre.
- A sweet Vows column about a couple who met at Dunkin' Donuts and also got married there.
- "Getting Into Knives," the newest release from the Mountain Goats, is out today and excellent.
- And finally, sometimes all we need is a helping hand.
Published Oct 23, 2020
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