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The family of a Nicaraguan asylum-seeker who died from an undiagnosed blood clot is suing the operator of a privately run Aurora detention center that they say ignored his pleas for help following a pattern of preventable detainee deaths.
Dorling Peralta Rivera, wife of Melvin Ariel Calero Mendoza, and their two children say Mendoza languished inside the Aurora Contract Detention Facility as he tried at least three times to get treated for severe pain in his right leg.

There’s a classic solution to most of the voter fraud problem, and Democrats are fighting it tooth and nail.

Oregon election officials were screening voicemails and emails yesterday after their system was overwhelmed and shut down because of calls from people responding to a false claim that the state’s voter pamphlet doesn’t include Republican nominee Donald Trump. (Yes, there are MAGAts in Oregon.) Via the Associated Press:

Adam Gopnik: “Even many of the ex-President’s opponents haven’t grasped the scale of the man’s villainy.”

New Yorker: “The Russian opposition leader’s account of his last years and his admonition to his country and the world.”

Politico: “Trump is weighing a go-it-alone approach to presidential transition planning, which could dramatically slow his takeover of the federal government.”

Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) admitted at a candidate forum this week that he cannot vote in his re-election race because he doesn’t actually live in the district.
LaLota is running against John Avlon (D).

Franklin Foer: “In Elon Musk’s vision of human history, Donald Trump is the singularity. If Musk can propel Trump back to the White House, it will mark the moment that his own superintelligence merges with the most powerful apparatus on the planet, the American government—not to mention the business opportunity of the century.”

“U.S. officials are extremely concerned about a potentially major security breach after two alleged U.S. intelligence documents about Israel’s preparations for an attack on Iran were published by a Telegram account affiliated with Iran,” Axios reports.

“Vice President Kamala Harris’s efforts to showcase her campaign’s political embrace of Republicans has led to the endorsements of archconservatives like Liz Cheney and onetime Tea Party darlings like Adam Kinzinger,” the New York Times reports.