Covers: Hooked on a Feeling

“Hooked on a Feeling” was written by Mark James who also wrote “Suspicious Minds”. The original version was by B. J. Thomas in 1968. There is a weird well-known cover by the Swedish group Blue Swede from 1974. It was similar to Jonathan King’s 1971 version. The Blue Swede version is the films Reservoir Dogs and Guardians of the Galaxy.

About seven-in-ten U.S. adults ages 18 to 29 often get news on a mobile device, compared with 37% of those ages 65 or older. https://t.co/13cJ21Sn0R pic.twitter.com/ZbC1SLsBWl

— Pew Research Fact Tank (@FactTank) July 17, 2018

Voting machine vendor lied about remote access software

In April, voting machine vendor ES&S (44% US election equipment) admitted in a letter to Sen. Wyden that it “installed REMOTE-ACCESS SOFTWARE on election-management systems it sold over a period of 6 years”! ES&S previously lied about this to the NYT! https://t.co/640pHcY4Pz 1/

— Jennifer Cohn (@jennycohn1) July 17, 2018

Admits after it had lied and denied. ES&S should be investigated thoroughly and banned from the election business https://t.co/2YQG1dzsTA

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) July 17, 2018

World Emoji Day: July 17

Apple is releasing new emojis later this yearhttps://t.co/I4jtgPRc4h #WorldEmojiDay pic.twitter.com/1C6QLLmmh6

— Forbes (@Forbes) July 17, 2018

A summary of today

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— Dull Pharmacy Tweets (@DullPharmacist) July 17, 2018

What better way to celebrate #WorldEmojiDay than with some 📊✨data✨📊?

These are the most used emojis on Twitter the past year:
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— Twitter Data (@TwitterData) July 17, 2018

On #WorldEmojiDay, revisit @lyzl on emojis as "the new lingua franca of the digital age." https://t.co/8a1hmHFJF9

— Literary Hub (@lithub) July 17, 2018

from Peter the Anteater, mascot of University of California, Irvine:

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🐜🍽🐜🍽 🐜🍽#WorldEmojiDay2018

— Peter The Anteater (@PeterTAnteater) July 17, 2018

“The Congressional Map Has A Record-Setting Bias Against Democrats”

This is the single most important chart of the 2018 mid-terms. https://t.co/O1kfimku6V pic.twitter.com/8rl1vGHAxU

— Lee Drutman (@leedrutman) July 17, 2018

Democratic House fundraising

Democratic House candidates dominate fundraising in the second quarter of 2018 https://t.co/8wG6jdqPS7 pic.twitter.com/UZzdUsLmr7

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 17, 2018

In Q2, Dems outraised GOP in 36 of 40 competitive (post-primary) House raceshttps://t.co/iRx9M94UUy pic.twitter.com/B5zzUGnhVe

— Carrie Dann (@CarrieNBCNews) July 17, 2018

In some toss-up House districts, Democrats have outraised GOP incumbents https://t.co/KBlnwCLg6n

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 17, 2018

An unusually large number of House Republican incumbents were outraised by their Democratic opponents in the past three months https://t.co/rKE2EcY2Q2

— POLITICO (@politico) July 17, 2018

Election concerns

PRRI asked Americans about major problems facing our elections. Most Democrats said disenfranchisement. Most Republicans said voter fraud. https://t.co/hNbFd2auiz

— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 17, 2018

One Country, Two Narratives: A new survey suggests that Americans have become radically split in their basic perceptions of reality, especially on controversial topics such as Russian interference in the 2016 election (@emmaogreen @PRRIpoll) https://t.co/cqF928Wsc0

— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) July 17, 2018

Polls on Kavanaugh

I think he’ll be confirmed.

Some time here for these #s to change, but only real hope (I think) Dems have to sink Kavanaugh is if public dislikes him (which would put pressure on Collins and takeaway pressure on red state Dems). These #s are good enough for Kavanaugh to be confirmed. https://t.co/zFFdLySQuu

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) July 17, 2018

Kavanaugh has the weakest net confirm/don't firm score since Harriet Miers, per a new Pew poll https://t.co/aX2Z0QOIRA pic.twitter.com/hrIl2xI02P

— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) July 17, 2018

We're now at 3 polls finding initial reactions to Kavanaugh:
a) closely divided
b) similar or worse than initial reactions to Gorsuch

HP/YG: https://t.co/IUMY6zRmV5
Pew: https://t.co/Waf73f2wDm
Fox: https://t.co/CwaBqPU6Oy

Let's get a chart started: pic.twitter.com/ud8nw5XzfD

— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) July 17, 2018

Not the first time Trump believed Putin

In other words: this isn’t about Trump being unwilling to tarnish his election victory. https://t.co/4H1ulMEIk8

— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) July 17, 2018

Headlines in red states on Trump’s press conference

Extremely bad headlines for Trump today in red states and swing states. One of the most striking was from the Allentown, Pa. Morning Call: pic.twitter.com/uWAoip8Oqm

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 17, 2018

Month: July 2018