This is a Facebook employee.

Facebook is actively interfering in the election.

Facebook is rigging the election for Joe Biden. https://t.co/mXGi2ay8J7 pic.twitter.com/PjtZaVPQ16

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 14, 2020

After a cut fiber optic cable blocked access to Virginia’s online voter registration portal on the last day to register, a federal judge has ordered the state election commission to extend the registration deadline by 48 hours, Politico reports.

U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney, Jr. issued the order Wednesday morning, saying that irreparable harm had been done to people who tried to register yesterday after the accidental severing of the cable cut service to the registration site and other state offices.

The registration deadlines is now 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, October 15th.  No parties objected to the extension.

“We are 21 days away from the most important election of our lifetimes, and I want to make sure that every Virginian who wants to vote has the opportunity to do so,” Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring said in a statement.

“A lawsuit filed by Texas’ Republican Party to stop drive-thru balloting in Harris County has been tossed out for now. On Wednesday, the 14th Court of Appeals dismissed the lawsuit against Harris County Clerk Chris Collins, allowing for curbside and drive-thru voting to continue. The lawsuit came as the first day of early voting got underway in Texas. Harris County saw record turnout. More than 128,000 people voted in the county on Tuesday, nearly doubling the record set in 2016. Currently, Harris County has opened 10 drive-thru voting sites, including its flagship at NRG Park, where the county’s election headquarters are staged. The county cited COVID-19 concerns for setting up the drive-thru voting locations around the Houston area” – ABC13 Houston.

Politico: “The former Navy SEAL known for his role in the operation that killed Osama bin Laden is pushing back after President Donald Trump amplified conspiracy theories that the terrorist leader’s death was a hoax. Robert O’Neill, who says he killed bin Laden in the 2011 raid, has rebuffed Trump and others in several tweets for promoting the conspiracy theory that bin Laden’s body double was instead killed.”

“‘Very brave men said [goodbye] to their kids to go kill Osama bin Laden. We were given the order by President Obama. It was not a body double,’ O’Neill tweeted on Tuesday. ‘Thank you Mr. President. Happy birthday @USNavy.’ The response from the former Navy SEAL came after the president on Tuesday retweeted a QAnon-linked account that promoted a baseless conspiracy theory alleging that bin Laden is still alive and his body double was instead killed. The account has since been suspended. Trump retweeted another video on Wednesday promoting conspiracy theories about bin Laden’s death. A White House spokesperson did not immediately comment.

The word abortion does not appear in the Constitution.

— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) October 14, 2020

Other words that do not appear in the Constitution are:

• woman, yet they still have rights;
• God, yet it’s on our currency;
• Bible, yet she wants to it taught in schools;
• semi-automatic weapons, yet she thinks people have a right to own one; and
• corporation, yet she’s beholden to them.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Saudi officials have exchanged 200 Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen for two Americans held by the rebel group and the remains of a third who was killed by the terrorists.

The Journal reports two Royal Oman Air Force planes flew the militants held in Yemen to Sana’a, the Houti-occupied of Yemen.  They returned carrying the two Americans and the body of the third.

The deal was approved by the Trump Administration.

Saudi officials took the step as a show of good faith for future talks to resolve the long-running Yemeni civil war, in which the Saudi government is supporting the presidency of Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is in exile in Saudi Arabia.

Fight hard Republicans. They have been taking advantage of the system for years! https://t.co/vaToeGjrHG

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 14, 2020

Montana State University: “Montana Gov. Steve Bullock leads incumbent Sen. Steve Daines by two points in the race for the U.S. Senate with 49% from likely and active registered voters compared to 47% for Daines. Only 3% were undecided. The pre-election poll found that Bullock is the only Democrat to lead in the key races on the Montana ballot for 2020. A key statistic in the race is that of loyalty from the two voting bases, Parker said. Bullock received 97% of support from Democrats compared to Daines’ 88% from Republicans. Another 67% of independent voters also said they preferred Bullock, compared to 29% for Daines.”

Biden leads Trump overall in the poll 52 to 42, with 1% voting other and 4% undecided. Read more.

Senator David Perdue leads Dem Jon Ossoff 46 to 43 while Raphael Warnock leads the special election pack with 30% to Senator Kelly Loeffler’s 26% and Doug Collins at 20%. Read more here.

Ali Velshi: “With President Donald Trump failing to separate himself from racists, white nationalists and conspiracy theorists, the lines between a militant fantasy and reality are getting awful blurry. Trump is courting danger by playing footsie with armed paramilitary groups, potentially encouraging violence and, by doing so, openly encouraging potential illegal activity, since it is illegal for armed private citizens to try to enforce laws or enact new ones.”

“Trump’s lack of full-throated, robust responses to alleged members of a Michigan militia who, allegedly, were plotting the abduction, unlawful extradition and ‘trial’ of Whitmer, as well as to attacks on the Michigan State Capitol and a police station, has many wondering what he is signaling by avoiding criticizing those groups. And what Trump doesn’t say can be equally as dangerous; in any other era, the response of a president to news of the arrests would have been to condemn the plot and express solidarity with and support for the governor or whomever the target was. But Trump tweeted criticism of Whitmer for the same reasons the conspirators wanted to harm her: the Covid-19-related restrictions that she, like several other governors, had enacted. He sided with the literal enemy of the state and blamed its victim.”

The Independent: “YouTube has announced that it is expanding its misinformation policy to remove false claims about a potential Covid-19 vaccination. Claims that contradict local health authorities such as the NHS in the UK, or the World Health Organisation, will be removed. This includes claims that the vaccine will kill people or cause infertility, as well as conspiracy theories that microchips will be implanted in people who receive the vaccine. Both conspiracy theories have been propagated recently. According to polls, half of Fox News viewers believe that Bill Gates wants to use a coronavirus vaccine to implant microchips into Americans for global surveillance. YouTube already removes certain misinformation about the coronavirus. This includes claims that the virus does not exist, content which discourages people from seeking medical treatment, or content which disputes local health advice.”

Harold Brackman: “The link between medieval and modern antisemitic paranoia about pedophile plots was the Nazi movement. The Nazi children’s book The Poison Mushroom shows a Jewish man menacingly offering candy to blonde youngsters, Hans and Elsa.”

“Currently, at least 200,000 Germans are fervent believers in QAnon. The big difference today is that QAnon has spread beyond fringe Internet platforms to enter mainstream sites like Instagram, Twitter, and especially Facebook by using their algorithms to facilitate the bombardment of the web with the worst global antisemitic conspiracy theories. Utilizing cutting edge Internet technology, QAnon exploits ever-potent fears of victimization of the young and angry, and focuses them anew on perennial fears of Jews as child predators. And many Republicans are willfully allowing it to happen. This is why we all should be very concerned. If Donald Trump is defeated in November, QAnon might lose some tactic or official support in Washington; but it will not go away. Jews must speak out now — and speak out forcefully. Looking away is complicity.”

“Devin Freelon Jr. and two friends were playing music while walking to the parking lot in a waterfront park in Monroe County, Mich., when they saw a White man walking toward them. ‘N—–rs don’t belong on this beach,’ Lee James Mouat yelled at the boys, who are Black, on June 6, according to a criminal complaint released this week. Mouat, 42, then grabbed a bike lock and struck Freelon, 18, in the face, said several witnesses. The blow knocked out several of Freelon’s teeth and shattered his jaw. Federal prosecutors charged Mouat on Tuesday with a hate crime for ‘willfully causing bodily injury to an African-American teenager because of the teenager’s race.’ If convicted, Mouat faces up to 10 years in prison. The case is the latest hate-crime charge filed by federal prosecutors this year against White suspects accused of attacking Black people in racially charged assaults” – Washington Post.

David Frum: “The most important ballot question in 2020 is not Joe Biden versus Donald Trump, or Democrat versus Republican. The most important question is: Will Trump get away with his corruption—will his crooked and authoritarian tactics succeed?”

“If the answer is yes, be ready for more. Much more. Americans have lavished enormous powers on the presidency. They have also sought to bind those powers by law. Yet the Founders of the republic understood that law alone could never eliminate the risks inherent in the power of the presidency. They worried ceaselessly about the prospect of a truly bad man in the office—a Caesar or a Cromwell, as Alexander Hamilton fretted in ‘Federalist No. 21.’ They built restraints: a complicated system for choosing the president, a Congress to constrain him, impeachment to remove him. Their solutions worked for two and a half centuries. In our time, the system failed.”

NY Post: “Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-VP Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company, according to e-mails obtained by The Post. The never-before-revealed meeting is mentioned in a message of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma, allegedly sent Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, about a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month.”

“‘Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure,’ the e-mail reads. An earlier e-mail from May 2014 also shows Pozharskyi, reportedly Burisma’s No. 3 exec, asking Hunter for ‘advice on how you could use your influence’ on the company’s behalf. The blockbuster correspondence — which flies in the face of Joe Biden’s claim that he’s ‘never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings’ — is contained in a massive trove of data recovered from a laptop computer. The computer was dropped off at a repair shop in Biden’s home state of Delaware in April 2019, according to the store’s owner.”

“More than 35 years after a 12-year-old girl disappeared in Greeley, Colorado, a former Idaho gubernatorial candidate has been indicted in her death. Steven Pankey was indicted in the kidnapping and killing of Jonelle Matthews, who went missing in December 1984, Weld County, Colorado, District Attorney Michael Rourke said Tuesday. Jonelle Matthews was 12 when she disappeared in 1984. Pankey was arrested without incident Monday at his home in Meridian, Idaho, according to Rourke. According to court documents, Pankey was was indicted by a grand jury on October 9 on charges including two counts of first degree murder, second degree kidnapping and crime of violence charges related to Jonelle’s kidnapping and death” – CNN.

AP: “Norway’s foreign minister said Russia is behind a break-in into the Norwegian Parliament’s email system in August, calling the intrusion ‘a serious incident that affects our most important democratic institution.’ ‘It is our assessment that Russia is behind this activity,’ Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soereide said. In a Facebook post, the Russian Embassy in Oslo retorted that ‘no evidence had been presented’ and that ‘such allegations are unacceptable.’ ‘We consider what happened as a serious deliberate provocation, destructive of bilateral relations,’ the embassy said. The 169-member Storting parliament was targeted Aug. 24 by what it described as ‘a concerted cyberattack’ and ‘a small number of MPs and members of staff had their email accounts hacked,’ according to Marianne Andreassen, the assembly’s administrative head. She added ‘various quantities of data had been downloaded.'”

Kevin O’Leary, known as “Mr. Wonderful” on the television show Shark Tank and the president of O’Share’s EFT, supports the continuation of a $400 federal unemployment supplement over a one-time $1,200 payment to individuals, CNBC reports.

.@kevinolearytv on stimulus: ‘We don’t need the $1,200 checks’ — here’s what would help more: https://t.co/DJAGrsMiV5 pic.twitter.com/nDw7AlR0HK

— CNBC Make It (@CNBCMakeIt) October 13, 2020

“We don’t need the $1,200 check to everybody anymore because a lot of those people have now found work again,” he says.

“I would like to see a $400 a week support for the next 14 months [for] anybody that’s unemployed,” O’Leary says. “If you’re unemployed because of the pandemic, we’ll support you with a few hundred dollars a week until you can find a job.”