Jeff Uhlmeyer’s giant pumpkin escorted to the weighing platform, Oct. 12, 2021. Credit: KIRO-7 TV, via JOLT News.

*** REGIONAL NEWS FROM THE WEEKEND ***

+ JOLT News: Local Olympia pumpkin grower achieves fame and fortune

+ Thurston Talk: Take A Day Trip to the Capitol Forest for Hiking Trails You Won’t Forget

+ The Archive: Ten years ago today, ANA of Japan launched the first Boeing 787 passenger flights

*** NATIONAL NEWS FROM THE WEEKEND ***

The New York Times Morning Report: Company documents obtained by The Times revealed the degree to which Facebook knew of extremist movements on its site that were trying to polarize American voters before and after the election, but failed or struggled to address the issues.

The Washington Post: White supremacists are returning to Charlottesville. But this time, they’re on trial.

CNBC: Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey says ‘hyperinflation’ will happen soon in the U.S. and the world

Sludge: Secretive House Caucus Is Appointing Corporate Democrats to Key Committee Seats

Edward Snowden: It is crucial to bear in mind that the industry’s problem is not data “protection,” it is data COLLECTION. Mass surveillance must be recognized as a crime, not a business model.

The Hill: Sotomayor on court’s refusal to block Texas abortion law: ‘Catastrophic’

CNBC: ‘We should be concerned’: Internal documents reveal Facebook studied and knew its QAnon push

*** TRUMP NEWS FROM THE WEEKEND ***

Daily Kos: Trump had a “Command Center” to plot his Coup and Insurrection

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow: Trump’s ‘coup lawyer’ Eastman disavows infamous memo – with an apparent change of heart by John Eastman, an attorney for Donald Trump who outlined a quasi-legal plan for overturning the 2020 election and how the January 6th attack on the Capitol could work if Mike Pence rejected Electoral College votes.