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Happy Indigenous People’s Day. In his log, Christopher Columbus had this to say about the peaceful Taino people who he encountered upon “discovering” the Americas:

“They … brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks’ bells. They willingly traded everything they owned… . They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features…. They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane… . They would make fine servants…. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”

Instead of celebrating cultural amnesia and the beginning of a historic genocide, Civic Hall urges you to make a donation to the National Museum of the American Indian to promote better education and cultural appreciation of the peoples who were here first.

Debatable: On the eve of last night’s second presidential debate, more than 3.8 million votes were cast on nearly 16,000 questions submitted to the Open Debate Coalition’s PresidentialOpenQuestions.com platform. Many popular questions on substantive issues received tens of thousands of votes. However, the one used by the debate moderators, regarding Clinton’s saying that politicians needed to have both a public and private position on issues, received 13 votes. As the Coalition tweeted, “This is an unfortunate example of cherrypicking by moderators to give their own questions the veneer of representing the public.” Sad!

So now we know that Republican candidate Donald Trump has not paid federal taxes for years, per his admission in last night’s presidential debate. And that Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton isn’t disputing the latest Wikileaks dump of internal campaign emails shedding light on some of her previously unreleased speeches.

In case you need more evidence that Trump threatens core democratic values, here’s a list of other world leaders who have jailed their political opponents. Even former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, a Trump support, tweeted, “Winning candidates don’t threaten to put opponents in jail. Presidents don’t threaten prosecution of individuals. Trump is wrong on this.”

#NotOkay: In the wake of the tape of Donald Trump’s bragging about his ability to sexually assault women, Canadian author and blogger Kelly Oxford asked women to tweet her their first sexual assaults to her. She has been receiving them at the rate of one per second.

Professional athletes are taking offense at Trump’s claim that his bragging was just “locker room talk.”

Members of the racist alt-right movement are using 23andMe’s genetic testing service to “prove” their whiteness, Elspeth Reeve reports for Vice News.

This is civic tech: Here’s the schedule for Transparency Camp 2016, which is taking place this Friday and Saturday in Cleveland.

The Knight Cities Challenge, which offers a pool of $5 million for projects in 26 cities where the foundation invests, is now open (through Nov. 3).

Coming up: Two friends, Tim Wu in conversation with Douglas Rushkoff at the New York Public Library October 17 to delve into the themes of Wu’s new book, The Attention Merchants.

“Twitter is not going to change the world. It has revolutionized how we communicate and how we give and share information, but that’s just one piece.” That’s #BlackLivesMatter co-founder Alicia Garza, talking with the Black Youth Project’s Jordia Davies about what the movement needs.