Yet another thing to fear while walking down the street, minding your own business.
george floyd
Body Cam Footage of George Floyd’s Arrest Has Been Released
THE FEED
vision 2020
Trump Says He Has ‘the Right’ to Block Any State Expansion of Mail-in Voting
vision 2020
Two People Linked to Kanye West’s Campaign Have Ties to GOP
coronavirus
How Major League Baseball Is Handling Its COVID-19 Outbreak
Some glimmers of decent news here
US daily numbers via @COVID19Tracking:
Newly reported deaths
Today: 519
Yesterday: 515
One week ago (7/27): 428*
Newly reported cases
T: 50K
Y: 49K
7/27: 55K
Newly reported tests
T: 732K
Y: 726K
7/27: 761K
Positive test rate
T: 6.8%
Y: 6.7%
7/27: 7.2%
—@NateSilver538
Newly reported deaths
Today: 519
Yesterday: 515
One week ago (7/27): 428*
Newly reported cases
T: 50K
Y: 49K
7/27: 55K
Newly reported tests
T: 732K
Y: 726K
7/27: 761K
Positive test rate
T: 6.8%
Y: 6.7%
7/27: 7.2%
politics
How Changes to the USPS Might Affect Voting by Mail
the national interest
Manhattan DA Investigating Trump’s ‘Extensive and Protracted Criminal Conduct’
back to school
Trump’s Push to Reopen Schools Is Going to Backfire
vision 2020
Kanye West Is Trying to Get on the Ballot in Wisconsin, a Crucial Swing State
supreme court
Two GOP Senators Oppose Filling Supreme Court Vacancy in 2020
Is that bad?
NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutor seeking Trump’s tax returns cites reports of ‘protracted criminal conduct’ at the Trump Organization.
—@ZekeJMiller
the national interest
A Line-by-Line Analysis of the Hilarious ‘Case for Trump’
Now if only we could get this kind of infrastructure in place around the rest of America
NEW: White House staff received an email this morning notifying them of random Covid-19 testing beginning today across the executive complex. Per the email, “Failure to report to testing will be considered a refusal to test.”
—@GabbyOrr_
coronavirus
Household-Name Companies That Have Filed for Bankruptcy Because of Coronavirus
coronavirus
Cruising Returns and a Coronavirus Outbreak Follows
2020 elections
How a Blue Wave in 2020 Could Yield Redistricting Gains for Democrats
And what about all those boat parades?
My visits last week to Texas and Frorida had massive numbers of cheering people gathered along the roads and highways, thousands and thousands, even bigger (by far) than the crowds of 2016. Saw no Biden supporters, and yet some in the Fake News said it was an equal number. Sad!
—@realDonaldTrump
Murkowski deals a blow to Mitch McConnell
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) says it would be a “double standard” to fill a Supreme Court vacancy before 2021 & “would not support it.”
—@alexanderbolton
vision 2020
Elizabeth Warren Is Still Campaigning
Facebook says another video doctored to make Nancy Pelosi appear drunk is merely “partly false”
Facebook’s fact-checkers on Sunday labeled as “partly false” a video that it said was manipulated to make it appear as if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was drunk or drugged. The video had been circulating on Facebook since Thursday and by Sunday night had been viewed more than 2 million times.
A similarly false video of Pelosi went viral on Facebook in May 2019. At the time, Pelosi blasted Facebook for not removing the video. Facebook had instead applied a fact-check label to it.
Facebook did not remove the new video on Sunday either, meaning it can still be viewed on the platform but a warning label has been placed on it. Videos marked false are also promoted less by Facebook’s algorithms, the company says. Facebook said it will also send a notification to people who shared the video to flag the fact check.
education
What Will the First Day of School Look Like?
coronavirus
The Pandemic and Natural Disasters Are Colliding Again
tiktok
What’s Going on With Trump’s TikTok Ban and the Microsoft Deal?
coronavirus
After an Early Summer Lull, COVID-19 Cases Surge in the Midwest
sometimes trump
Trump and the GOP Establishment Are Falling Out of Love
empires
Trump’s Authoritarian Theater Was Just for Show, Until It Wasn’t
the media
James Murdoch Quits News Corp Board, Citing Editorial Rift
the national interest
Trump Keeps Taking Russia’s Side, and We Don’t Know Why
crime
What We’ve Learned From the Newly Unsealed Jeffrey Epstein Documents
the top line
Coronavirus Has Changed How We Drink Coffee
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