WCHS8 West Virginia: “A Williamson woman who made headlines after she traveled to New York to help treat COVID-19 patients has been charged after court records said she shot another woman. Amy Jolene Thorn, 39, of Williamson is charged with malicious or unlawful assault, according to a criminal complaint from Mingo County Magistrate Court. The complaint said Thorn shot another woman on Thursday, Oct. 8, near the 800 block of Vinson Street in Williamson. Police Chief Grady Dotson said Thorn shot the woman in the abdomen and claims the shooting was self-defense. Police confirmed that Thorn, who also goes by the name Amy Ford, is a nurse who traveled to New York to help COVID patients. Thorn also was invited to attend the Republican National Convention. Dotson said the victim is doing well and has non-life-threatening injuries.”

Also Biden 52 – Trump 46 in both Nevada and Michigan. Read more here.

Axios: “The White House refused to allow Anthony Fauci or any medical experts on its coronavirus task force to appear on ABC’s ‘This Week,’ host Jon Karl said Sunday. President Trump has previously faced criticism for silencing Fauci, and White House officials have refused to answer basic questions about President Trump’s positive test, as it scrambles to respond to an outbreak within its own ranks. Fauci acknowledged in an interview with CBS Radio on Friday that there was ‘a superspreader event at the White House,’ referring to the Rose Garden ceremony to introduce Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.”

“Boris Johnson’s government has told ministers to forge ties with the Joe Biden campaign, sensing that Donald Trump is likely to lose the US election, according to The Sunday Times. ‘They’re writing off Trump in No 10 (the prime minister’s official residency) now,’ a senior Conservative Party aide told the newspaper. The paper said that Johnson and his team viewed a series of private polls indicating that Biden had a 70% chance of winning on November 3. With 23 days to go, most public polls suggest that Biden does have a lead over Trump. As a result, UK’s top officials have in recent weeks moved to win over Biden allies, the Sunday Times said” – Business Insider.

AP: “The NFL has postponed the Denver-New England game indefinitely due to another positive coronavirus test with the Patriots. That game, originally scheduled for Sunday, had been moved to Monday night. A person familiar with the situation says the Patriots have closed their facility again after the positive test result, while the Tennessee Titans announced they closed their facility Sunday morning after a staff member tested positive. The latest result also endangers the Titans’ game with Buffalo (4-0) set for Tuesday night after it was moved from Sunday. Six games have been moved already as the league is in its fifth week of the schedule.”

CBS46: “Gwinnett County firefighters and CSX officials are working to cleanup a train derailment in Lilburn Sunday morning. According to Gwinnett County fire officials, units responded to the train derailment around 2 a.m. The scene stretched from Main Street to Harmony Grove Road, according to a firefighter spokesperson. When firefighters arrived, there was a fire along with several rail cars off the train track. After arriving at the scene, firefighters decided to evacuate residents who lived north of the incident due to concerns for hazardous materials being transported in the rail cars. The evacuated residents have since been allowed back into their homes. Firefighters reported two operators on the train did not suffer any significant injuries.”

Axios: “South Carolina Senate candidate Jaime Harrison’s campaign announced Sunday it raised $57 million in the third quarter of 2020, shattering the quarterly fundraising record for a Senate race set by Beto O’Rourke in 2018 by almost $20 million. Harrison’s massive fundraising hauls have fueled his run to unseat Sen. Lindsay Graham, a close ally of President Trump who is now facing the most competitive re-election race of his career. The outcome of the South Carolina contest could be pivotal in determining control of the Senate.”

“The evidence all points in one direction: Americans born after 1996, known as Generation Z, could doom not only Trumpism but conservatism as the country currently knows it. Members of Generation Z who are of voting age — 18- to 23-year-olds — want more government solutions. They rank climate change, racism and economic inequality consistently in their top issues, according to polls, and they participated in greater numbers during their first midterm (in 2018) than previous generations did theirs.”

“As Republicans espouse ‘family values’ and ‘religious liberty,’ data finds that Generation Z, also known as Zoomers, are less likely than older Americans to be a member of a religious group — 4 in 10 don’t affiliate — and appear to care more about systemic racism and an equitable future than upholding traditional nuclear family structures, based on polling of their policy priorities. To members of Generation Z, who have come of voting age in the past five years, President Donald Trump and Republicanism are one and the same. And most pollsters and experts on voting behavior agree that patterns are developed early — how a person votes in their early years, and the impressions they form from high school into young adulthood, stick with them in one form or another for decades” – Politico.

ABC News: “The presidential race stands at 53%-41%, Biden-Trump, among registered voters, and a similar 54%-42% among likely voters, with minimal support (in the low single digits) for the Libertarian and Green Party candidates. Biden’s advantage rests on his support among women, racial and ethnic minorities, independents and an unusually wide lead among moderates.”

• Hunter Biden was the Chairman of the Board of the World Food Program’s United States branch (WFPUSA) for a few years in the mid-2010s (can’t track down for how long exactly however). So while it’s a stretch to say he was on the team that won a Nobel Peace Prize, you definitely could say he’s a lot closer to it than Trump will ever be [1].

• People want Chuck Todd fired – more than usual. This time it’s apparently because he invited Washington Post diversity hire and conservative twatwaffle Hugh Hewitt on his show Sunday. Todd’s already been demoted since MSNBC pulled his weekday show [EDIT: apparently that’s incorrect, it was moved to an earlier timeslot – though this article indicates that Todd was losing viewers] and gave two hours to Nicole Wallace, so I guess it’s probably going to happen at some point, maybe after the election [2].

• DayQuil really does cause hallucinations. Last night after chugging it before bed (yeah I should’ve bought NyQuil but I don’t think it’d be any different) I was half awake staring at my alarm clock and wondering why the bomb I had to defuse that was planted in the kitchen of a Wendy’s was going so slowly and adding more time. When I asked the fry cook why it was that way he just told me only employees are allowed to be in that area [3].

Dr. Sean Conley, the president’s personal physician, released a statement saying that President Trump is no longer a danger for spreading the coronavirus, but did not say that Trump is clear of the virus, reports ABC News.

Under a statement noted that it was being released with the permission of Trump, Conley claims Trump has improved in the impact of all symptoms.

“This evening I am happy to report that in addition to the President meeting CDC criteria for the safe discontinuation of isolation, this morning’s COVID PCR sample demonstrates, by currently recognized standards, he is no longer a transmission risk to others,” Conley wrote. “Now at day 10 from symptom onset, fever-free for well over 24 hours and all symptoms improved, the assortment of advanced diagnostic tests obtained reveal there is no longer evidence of actively replicating virus.”

In a new ad, titled “Carefully,” Donald Trump tries to swing the massive American infections and fatalities due to the coronavirus, saying, “President Trump is recovering from the coronavirus, and so is America.”

The ad declares, “President Trump tackled the virus head on, as leaders should.” In fact, Trump has not implemented any federal domestic policies to address the spread of the coronavirus.  He claims he “shut down the country,” but the governors implemented safety guidelines.

Violence erupted at a “BLM-Antifa Soup drive” in Denver, Colorado on Saturday when a person who appears to have been a white supremacist was shot dead during a confrontation.

“A man participating in what was billed as a ‘Patriot Rally’ sprayed mace at a left-wing demonstrator, and the left-wing demonstrator shot him with a handgun. Ambulances responded to the scene. The condition of the gunshot victim is unknown” reported right-wing Twitter user @9MMsDancing. Video of the immediate aftermath of the incident can be viewed here.

President Trump wanted to pull off a Wonka-esque stunt upon his discharge from Walter Reed hospital for coronavirus:  feebly walking out the door only to stand tall and rip open his shirt to unveil a Superman logo as he strode to his motorcade, the New York Times reports.

https://youtu.be/sz9jc5blzRM?t=22

In several phone calls with the White House, Trump pushed for some type of “Superman” stunt to show that he was stronger than the virus and promote the idea that his superior genes protected him. 

Hundreds of golf carts wound through the paths of The Villages, a large planned community in Sumter County, Florida of 50,000 people popular with retirees, all with one theme:  cheering on Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.

As reported by the Associated Press, Trump faces an uncharacteristic uphill battle with seniors in this key swing state.  He took Sumter County with 69% of the vote in 2016, but his support has been waning in Sumter Country and throughout Florida, with most polls showing the state leaning toward Biden this year.

The latest coronavirus relief bill proposed by the White House has met with opposition from both Democrats and republicans, dimming the hopes of any aid to families and businesses impacted by the pandemic before Election Day, Reuters reports.

President Trump has been flip-flopping on any relief, at first proposing a limited $1.5 trillion package, then calling off all negotiations, then demanding a “clean bill” for $1,200 relief checks for families, then saying he’d approve airline bail outs.  Just yesterday, while doing a two hour stint on Rush Limbaugh’s radio program, Trump called for a relief bill bigger than either Democrats or republicans were proposing.

BuzzFeed: “As the country nears an election set to be in part a referendum on the Trump administration’s handling of a pandemic that has killed over 212,000 Americans, millions of grieving people — the loved ones left behind by the victims — will also be a voting bloc. People who followed all the rules of social distancing only to still have their spouses die have had to watch as the president and his allies shamelessly flout them.”

“Worsening their grief is the haunting feeling that their partners’ deaths may have been preventable, that with stronger government action, with shutdown orders and mask mandates and travel bans being put in place sooner, their loved ones might still be alive.”