October 2020 Impact Articles
- A brief overview of the many lawsuits Trump is facing right now
- Trump is apparently going to hold a whopping 17 rallies in the next 3 days
- Thousands of ballots have apparently vanished without a trace in Pennsylvania
- Amy Coney Barrett will get her first chance to rule on LGBTQ+ rights very soon
- Breonna Taylor's boyfriend Kenneth Walker is being sued by a Louisville cop
- A second Trump term would be “game over for the climate,” experts say
- Can Rev. Raphael Warnock make good on Democrats' hopes in Georgia?
- iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro camera tips that will make your pics really pop
- 3 state ballot measures that could have big implications for voting in America
- The Trump campaign wants ex-cops to be their "eyes and ears" at "problem area" polling sites
- Facebook charged Biden a higher price than Trump for campaign ads
- Scientists are considering literally modifying the Earth’s atmosphere to save us from climate change
- This NYC man being swallowed into a sinkhole of rats is peak apocalypse
- Trump's mission to build the wall is threatening to drive people from their homes during a pandemic
- An investigation of Tucker Carlson's latest outrageous Biden conspiracy
- Meet all 21 openly trans candidates running for office this fall
- The 10 states that are most at risk for violence on Election Day
- Trump just squeezed one last environmental catastrophe into his first term
- How difficult will Trump's environmental horrors be for a Biden administration to fix?
- Karon Hylton's death during a police chase sparks protests in D.C.
- Voter registration websites are crashing, locking out would-be voters
- Republicans tried to keep Facebook from registering voters
- Trump's Nebraska rally was the ultimate metaphor
- Walter Wallace Jr.'s killing in Philadelphia opens up fresh wounds for the city
- Good news! The pandemic is over, according to the White House
- 'Super Daddy' animals with genetically modified balls could save humanity
- The USPS is struggling. Could postal banking save it?
- With Amy Coney Barrett on the bench, minority rule could strip rights from a majority of Americans
- Coronavirus-themed video games are everywhere
- The Trump administration is hiding studies that show renewable energy could help save the planet
- America doesn't have enough polling places, and it’s not just a red state problem
- Wisconsin absentee ballots need to arrive by Nov. 3 in order to be counted, SCOTUS rules
- Trump campaign events in Minnesota have been linked to 3 coronavirus outbreaks
- The world shut down for coronavirus. Why didn't it have an affect on climate change?
- Here's what it would look like if America actually prioritized voting
- Investigation finds Ford and GM knew about climate change in the 1960s
- Prisons are a public health crisis, the American Public Health Association says
- Chipotle’s new tool lets you track the environmental impact of your burrito
- How a racist algorithm kept Black patients from getting kidney transplants
- Mark Meadows, White House chief of staff: "We're not going to control the pandemic"
- What humans are really doing to our planet, in 19 jaw-dropping images
- The second presidential debate was relatively quiet. Did that help anyone?
- Amy Coney Barrett's nomination is steamrolling ahead
- Once again, the youth vote could save us all
- A new program will let food stamp recipients use Instacart for grocery deliveries
- Trump's '60 Minutes' mess should destroy the idea that he has any sort of strategy
- Drivers describe the shady ways Uber is coercing them into supporting a law that would deny them benefits
- You can now read Ghislaine Maxwell's deposition in the Jeffrey Epstein case
- A guide to 'Among Us', the video game AOC and all your friends are obsessed with
- Derek Chauvin, the former cop who killed George Floyd, has his lesser murder charge dismissed
- A new bill in Washington, D.C., may let 11-year-olds consent to vaccinations
- Biden's big plan for SCOTUS is to ask a bunch of other people what to do about it
- Police officers are desperate to hold on to their power any way they can
- The Trump administration gave police departments $400 million to juice hiring
- Michigan's AG is worried some local sheriffs won't stop voter intimidation at the polls
- Protesters are using facial recognition technology to ID police
- A new poll shows Biden and Trump running neck-and-neck in Texas
- AOC played 'Among Us' for 430,000 viewers and the internet was here for it
- Lawyers working to reunite immigrant families say they can't find parents for 545 children
- Trump has a bank account in China, his tax records show
- Why can’t I fix my own phone, toaster, or tractor?
- What is True the Vote? Behind the right-wing organization that claims to want to protect the election
- Kamala Harris's record on environmental issues is surprisingly strong
- Ice Cube and Diddy's politics include a false promise of Black homogeneity
- Ignore the polls and get out the vote
- Babies who drink from bottles consume 1.5 million microplastics per day, study says
- How the government's lawsuit against Google could change the internet forever
- Pennsylvania can keep its extension on counting mail-in ballots, Supreme Court says
- There might be tsunamis in Alaska soon, so that's great
- At Thursday's presidential debate, Trump and Biden's mics will be strategically muted
- After 16 years of planning, NASA is about to land a spacecraft on an asteroid
- 9 space games that'll help you escape this planet
- Scientists have caught a black hole turning a star into "spaghetti"
- A massive amount of people are voting early
- The internet's new favorite cat is 2,000 years old and etched into the side of a hill
- Big Oil is literally cooling the Earth so it can keep destroying it
- Coronavirus relief negotiators have until Tuesday to strike a deal, Pelosi says
- Trump's town hall temper tantrum backfired, per the viewership numbers
- In leaked audio, Ben Sasse rips into Trump's "deficient" values
- Amy Coney Barrett's record on employment cases is a mixed bag
- 5 first-time voters of color explain what's driving them to the polls
- Chicago police rejected 150 out of 155 reform recommendations
- NBC gave Trump a televised town hall, so of course he turned around and trashed them
- Trump threatened Twitter with a "big lawsuit" for locking his campaign account
- The Great Barrier Reef's corals are dying at an unprecedented rate
- Mitch McConnell's big coronavirus relief plan is to propose a bill that was already rejected
- Trump has pretty much just stopped prosecuting polluters, environmental criminals
- How to organize your Google Docs and finally get your life together
- Trump uses Barron's coronavirus diagnosis to push for schools to reopen
- Lindsey Graham lets slip during the Barrett hearings that he thinks Trump is going to lose
- Ice Cube has apparently been helping the Trump campaign with their Black voter outreach
- NBC News’s town hall lets the network threaten democracy for ratings
- Facebook is limiting the spread of the bonkers Hunter Biden story
- Amazon is making employees choose between voting and being paid
- Amy Coney Barrett has no opinion on climate change because she is "not a scientist"
- The St. Louis gun couple apparently gets so many autograph requests that they made postcards to hand out
- The youth vote will be crucial this year — and these grassroots groups know it
- Here's how experts would revive California's forests after a year of devastating fires
- Amy Coney Barrett's non-answer on transfer of power should terrify us all
- All of the new features iPhone 12 has — and 2 it got rid of
- On the Amy Coney Barrett nomination, Democrats have already lost the fight
- Facebook finally gets around to banning anti-vaccine, Holocaust denial content
- Despite Republicans’ voter suppression efforts, turnout is soaring
- Climate change is already causing a housing crisis in America
- Senator Mike Lee goes maskless during Supreme Court nomination hearing 10 days after COVID diagnosis
- Extremely sketchy unofficial ballot boxes are popping up all over California
- "Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage" protest in Portland leave toppled statues in its wake
- Congress is full of millionaires. Their wealth should be taxed to fund social programs
- The Instagramification of the protest movement
- Make It Count: A complete guide to our generation's most consequential election
- This Michigan sheriff offered a chillingly casual defense of the plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
- The number of uninsured children has jumped dramatically during the Trump administration
- Trump is going to get a live medical exam — on Fox News
- Nancy Pelosi is almost, sort of, close to ready to talk about the 25th Amendment
- GOP candidates insist on debating facts — and the moderators are letting them
- Kamala Harris knows fracking is bad. She shouldn't have to pretend otherwise
- The vice presidential debate yielded some quiet moments of insight
- There is now an 'Animal Crossing' clothing line
- Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was the target of an armed coup plot, the FBI says
- These shadowy groups are spending millions to put Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court
- Mike Lee's insistence that America isn't a democracy is a dangerous slide toward fascism
- The second presidential debate will be virtual, so Trump says he won't do it
- The vice presidential debate fly overshadowed one of the only big moments of the night
- A guide to down-ballot voting
- 27 MacBook shortcuts everyone should know
- Jaime Harrison, South Carolina Senate hopeful, is peaking at the right time
- Quinnipiac's latest poll of 3 key states is almost unrealistically good for Biden
- Nintendo's new Mario Café looks like a paradise
- Facebook banned QAnon, but only after it helped the conspiracy grow to new heights
- Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who pulled guns on protesters, have been indicted
- Derek Chauvin, the former cop who knelt on George Floyd's neck, is out of jail
- Jeff Sessions called explicitly to "take away children" from immigrants, a NYT report revealed
- Stephen Miller, architect of family separation, is the latest Trumper to get coronavirus
- Trump's coronavirus denial is endangering the whole White House staff
- Trump announces that coronavirus relief won't come until after Election Day
- Hours after leaving the hospital, Trump posted a coronavirus lie so blatant Facebook removed it
- Trump is blatantly trying to suppress the vote. Here’s how we fight back
- The August Complex fire now spans one million acres, a first in California history
- The USPS is struggling to deliver first-class mail — including ballots — on time
- Scientists take shots at Earth, say humans can do better than this ball of trash
- When zombie data costs you a home
- The Amazon is on the verge of becoming a savannah, a dire new study warns
- The Biden campaign seems pretty optimistic about some key swing states
- ICE has placed "wanted" posters for immigrants on massive billboards in Pennsylvania
- Exxon is planning to pollute way more in the coming years, leaked documents show
- The Trump administration rejected a federal mask requirement to protect transit workers
- Trump's narcissism has never been more glaringly apparent
- The Proud Boys got their hashtag stolen by adorable gay couples
- Of course the murder hornets are about to enter their 'slaughter phase'
- The Arctic hasn’t been this warm for 3 million years
- The 4 best tablets for reading
- The FBI is reportedly preparing for bedlam on Election Day
- Trump has tested positive for coronavirus, throwing the election — and the country — into uncertainty
- Audio from the Breonna Taylor grand jury proceedings has been released
- How will Trump's coronavirus diagnosis affect the election?
- The latest jobs report indicates we might be in the coronavirus recession for years
- Is there another coronavirus check in your future? Maybe!
- Trump was the single-worst source of coronavirus information, a study concluded
- The Trump administration is trying to screw over polar bears now, too
- Trump's Proud Boys comment has the White House tied up in knots
- These Black and brown Americans explain why not voting is their chosen act of resistance
- How do you control your dreams? MIT scientists think they've figured it out
- 'The Endless Doomscroller' is soothing my doomsday anxieties
- Kenosha killer Kyle Rittenhouse was the subject of some flattering internal DHS memos
