And another day of Wolverines, a viral video backed by dark money, hospitalizations, cancer screenings, Russian disinformation, legal waivers, DACA, secret payments, racism among white Christians, and ‘speech police’ comes to a close:
"You must never ever, ever give up or give in. You must keep the faith, and keep your eyes on the prize. We're one people. We're one family." — Rep. John Lewis
Deaths
US: 152,320 (+1576)
World: 663,465 (+6920)
Cases
US: 4,498,343 (+64,933)
World: 16,893,293 (+249,795)
Countdown: 98 days.
As coronavirus threatened invasion, a new 'Red Dawn' team tried to save America. A group of public health and national security experts who sent some of the earliest and most dire warnings to officials across the Trump administration about the gathering coronavirus crisis is now offering a searing assessment of how the federal government blundered through the critical first months of a lethal outbreak. Members of the group, whose lengthy string of emails now read like a chilling foreshadowing of the unfolding deadly pandemic, came to be known by the chain’s dark-humored subject line, “Red Dawn Rising,” a reference to the campy 1984 cold war movie about a gritty band of Americans who fend off foreign invaders. Now several have broken their silence about the early warnings in interviews with ABC News to describe their lingering distress about the missed chances to spare lives.
A viral video claiming without evidence that the coronavirus could be cured was quietly backed by dark money political organizations. A dozen doctors delivered speeches in front of the U.S. Capitol on Monday to a small crowd, claiming without evidence that the coronavirus could be cured and that widely accepted efforts to slow its spread were unnecessary and dangerous. It was the latest video to go viral from apparent experts, quietly backed by dark money political organizations, evangelizing treatments for or opinions about the coronavirus that most doctors, public health officials and epidemiologists have roundly decried as dangerous misinformation.
Twitter removes tweet highlighted by Trump falsely claiming COVID-19 'cure'. Trump also retweeted tweets defending the use of the drug hydroxychloroquine, including one that accused Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, of misleading the public by dismissing the drug...This comes as Trump has recently tried to take a more moderate approach to the COVID-19 pandemic. — That didn’t last long.
Twitter locks Donald Trump Jr.'s account for spreading COVID misinformation.
Florida sets death toll record, while trailer truck outside funeral home raises COVID-19 fears.
Coronavirus hospitalizations among children in Florida rose by more than 20 percent over a period of eight days in July as schools prepare to reopen across the state despite a sustained surge in infections.
‘More likely to die from cancer' than COVID-19: Doctors urge Americans to go to their cancer screenings. A recent survey suggests more than a third of Americans have missed scheduled cancer screenings because of COVID-19, concerning health experts who warn this could be another fatal consequence of the coronavirus pandemic.
US officials: Russia behind spread of virus disinformation. Russian intelligence services are using a trio of English-language websites to spread disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to exploit a crisis that America is struggling to contain ahead of the presidential election in November, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Should We Shield Businesses From COVID-19 Lawsuits? We've come to expect legal waivers at places like ski resorts and bungee-jumping facilities, but colleges and all sorts of typically safe businesses — from hair salons to dentists' offices — are using them to try to escape legal accountability for injuries and deaths as they reopen during the pandemic. In the age of COVID-19, every reopened institution is now a bungee-jumping facility.
Barr goes head-to-head with Jayapal over administration's handling of protesters.
Trump administration to reject new DACA applications during 'comprehensive' review. The White House's decision comes shortly after the Supreme Court ruled that Trump's efforts to end the DACA program was unconstitutional.
Complaint: Trump Making Illegal Secret Payments, Including To His Own Family. President Donald Trump’s campaign is violating federal election law by funneling close to a quarter-billion dollars to date through private companies in order to hide the ultimate recipients of the money, including the wife of one of his sons and the girlfriend of another, a watchdog group charged in a complaint filed Tuesday.
Racism among white Christians is higher than among the nonreligious. That's no coincidence. For most of American history, the light-skinned Jesus conjured up by white congregations demanded the preservation of inequality as part of the divine order. As a white Christian who was raised Southern Baptist and shaped by a denominational college and seminary, it pains me to see these patterns in the data. Even worse, these questions only hint at the magnitude of the problem...But even when controls are introduced in a statistical model for a range of demographic characteristics, such as partisanship, education levels and region, the connection between holding racist attitudes and white Christian identity remains stubbornly robust. The results point to a stark conclusion: While most white Christians think of themselves as people who hold warm feelings toward African Americans, holding racist views is nonetheless positively and independently associated with white Christian identity. Again, this troubling relationship holds not just for white evangelical Protestants, but also for white mainline Protestants and white Catholics.
A group of protesters in Portland is suing the Trump administration over the actions of federal agents in the city, including injuring peaceful protesters, making arrests without probable cause and using otherwise violent tactics.
Source: US, Oregon in talks about pulling agents in Portland.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan confirmed that federal agents have left Seattle.
Police: Richmond riots instigated by white supremacists disguised as Black Lives Matter.
'The President's Speech Police': Trump Pushes Forward With Regulating Bias Online. Right on cue last night, Trump began posting angrily about Twitter's trend recommendations, an algorithmically determined selection of popular hashtags and words tailored to each individual Twitter user's habits. This leads to individuals seeing different trends—that is, if a user sees a lot of a certain type of trending topic, it's related to both what other users are clicking on and their own previous activity on the network. None of it is determined by the individuals working at Twitter or the preferences of the company's leaders. The president either doesn't understand this or is pretending he doesn't understand.
Harley-Davidson reboots business as coronavirus hammers earnings.
U.S. gunmaker Remington files for bankruptcy again. Remington Arms Co on Monday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in two years as the U.S. gunmaker faced financial troubles partly because some retailers placed restrictions on gun sales after school shootings.
Alabama state GOP lawmaker criticized for attending celebration for former KKK leader.
'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' is the subject of an internal probe by Warner Media after reports of a toxic work environment, a source close to the production says.
CES will be fully virtual next year amid continued concerns over the coronavirus pandemic.
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