National French Fry Day: July 13th

Sorry to be late posting about this important holiday.

This year National French Fry Day falls on a Pizza Friday AND Friday the 13th!https://t.co/k54eyqR0g1 #PizzaFriday #FridayThe13th #PizzaFRYday #Pizza #FrenchFryDay #FrenchFries pic.twitter.com/ceDLqDwPUH

— Pee-wee Herman (@peeweeherman) July 13, 2018

If you’re ever in Baltimore, there’s an excellent restaurant featuring French fries, The Local Fry

The photo at the top is of The Local Fry fries called The Local Fry.

The Jayhawks

The Jayhawks are a great band from Minnesota. They have just released a new album.

Minnesota twang-rockers the Jayhawks are 'having fun again' amid late-career bloom https://t.co/jGfRjpeYF3 pic.twitter.com/1NXVTyofkY

— Star Tribune Variety (@entertain_mn) July 14, 2018

Trump is getting more dishonest

I didn’t think that was possible!

I did the first detailed statistical analysis of Trump’s dishonesty. The big finding: it’s not just that he’s talking more, his words themselves are becoming less truthful over time. https://t.co/Vwp8zvyagn

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2018

Trump is ramping up his lies https://t.co/ZxlfNsQxjj

— Salon (@Salon) July 13, 2018

Trump’s lies are increasing (video interview with Daniel Dale)

Nice shout out to the Fact Checker in this excellent column by @sbg1, who deserves her own shout out for helping to create the Fact Checker over a decade ago. https://t.co/sQnW7wLK8N

— Steven Ginsberg (@stevenjay) August 3, 2018

Fact checks on Trump in Europe

AP FACT CHECK: Trump vs Trump on Europe trip: https://t.co/6goSzqZ6Fs pic.twitter.com/75sBYIEOPW

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) July 13, 2018

AP FACT CHECK: President Donald Trump took credit Thursday for a supposed new decision by NATO members to increase their military spending, though there was no evidence of that. https://t.co/BjEx8FvhQM

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) July 12, 2018

#APFactCheck: That debt Trump keeps saying NATO countries owe the US doesn't exist. https://t.co/AHYm75E8cb

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) July 11, 2018

In Brussels, @realDonaldTrump said until he came along, defense spending by other NATO nations was going down.
It was going up.
That and 7 other claims from his post-NATO news conference.https://t.co/QnHzFjP15o #NATOSummit pic.twitter.com/8aQ7JCTYow

— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) July 13, 2018

Kushner lacks clearance to see the most sensitive secrets

Why is he still there?

SCOOP: Jared Kushner lacks clearance to see US intel community's most closely guarded secrets. Me w @jdawsey1 and @AshleyRParker https://t.co/IIrSEdvn6c

— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) July 12, 2018

There are still conflict of interest issues

The Trump team grows swampier still. The fact that no congressional committee is looking into the effects of White House conflicts of interest on national and international policy is an abdication of the constitutional duty of Congress to oversee the executive branch — again. https://t.co/ER7su0SNxI

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) July 11, 2018

Climate change roundup

Trump said climate change is a Chinese hoax. Here are some examples of the truth. The public knows it’s a problem but Trump will do nothing to fix it.

As Americans Experienced the Warmest May on Record Their Acceptance of Global Warming Reaches a New High (@CLOSUP) details: https://t.co/de0efq6T5e pic.twitter.com/6EIpIbxzee

— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) July 12, 2018

Africa's all-time hottest temperature was likely set Thursdayhttps://t.co/KsSyTPoMj5

— Axios (@axios) July 7, 2018

The U.S. is vulnerable to major disasters and many Americans live in areas at risk, particularly along the coasts. https://t.co/kinQrtypMn pic.twitter.com/R4WfqsETRF

— Scientific American (@sciam) July 7, 2018

Moments ago, the temperature hit 111 in Los Angeles — the hottest summer day in city history, and the highest temperature ever recorded at UCLA. https://t.co/XFsDywaTfL

— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) July 7, 2018

By the middle of the century, the oceans may well have risen enough that salt water will destroy farmland and contaminate drinking water in many low-lying island nations, making them uninhabitable. https://t.co/Oa25kzIGW9

— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) July 5, 2018

Record temperatures and high humidity are blamed for 33 heat-related deaths in Quebec, Canada, a health official says https://t.co/62LAuYzmii pic.twitter.com/3UGQzoukq5

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) July 5, 2018

In Miami Beach, more than $6 billion worth of real estate could be wiped out by 2045 https://t.co/mtEYPKTpk4

— Salon (@Salon) July 2, 2018

National @AP climate change analysis sparks local reports. See our blog: https://t.co/778wSQOyKa

— AP CorpComm (@AP_CorpComm) June 20, 2018

Earth had its third-warmest June on record, according to NASA datahttps://t.co/NURgFQ2FNS pic.twitter.com/UskIKwbn20

— Axios (@axios) July 16, 2018

Doubtless just a coincidence, but the temp in Helsinki during the president's #TreasonSummit was almost unprecedented; records fell across Scandinaviahttps://t.co/kMre9VvuN9

— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) July 17, 2018

Extreme heat is devastating the health and livelihoods of tens of millions of people in South Asia. It is already making people poorer and sick. https://t.co/eOBXN9W3hM

— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 17, 2018

Climate change could wipe out most of Lebanon’s cedars by the end of the century. Our journalists went to the country’s mountaintop forests to see what they look like today. https://t.co/mJmmEKCSap

— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 19, 2018

Iowa, New Mexico and Texas set record highs for their minimum temperatures in June, and as of July 3, nearly 30% of the Lower 48 was experiencing drought conditions. https://t.co/l1kkhvQOrl

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) July 19, 2018

Climate change is here.
-124°F in Algeria
-111°F in Los Angeles.
-77 people killed so far in Japan's heat wave.
-80+ killed in Greek wildfires.
-Arctic circle is on fire, temps over 86°F

We must #actonclimate. New pipelines don't help.#climate #energy #StopPipelines #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/JJowtc09XW

— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) July 28, 2018

The extreme heat in #Europe is creating terrific #mosquito conditions. So West Nile Virus is spreading in Greece (3 deaths in 2018 so far) https://t.co/Fg2e363XdO
& Serbia (9 2018 deaths). https://t.co/uqdjsEgNkT
and https://t.co/PrQDs01TWN

— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) August 11, 2018

Poll on immigration policies

Say the U.S. should be a refuge for vulnerable migrants:
90% Democrats
75% Independents
54% Republicanshttps://t.co/n0lPsX5YoZ

— PRRI (@PRRIpoll) July 12, 2018

2018 House polls

Super-interesting thread. Basically @ForecasterEnten is citing a file-drawer effect. If a poll does not favor your side, you don't release it. The fact that Republican pollsters are not releasing data suggests that they don't want to talk about the results. https://t.co/KqF6tPbKjR

— Sam Wang (@SamWangPhD) July 11, 2018

Trump attacks May during his UK visit

Another move Putin will love. More chaos. I don’t think internal UK politics are Trump’s business.

President Trump tells the Sun newspaper:
– Boris Johnson Would Make A "Great Prime Minister
– London's Mayor Has "Done A Very Bad Job On Terrorism"
– Britain Is "Losing Its Culture" Because Of Immigration
– "The Washington Post is totally fake"

— David P Gelles (@gelles) July 12, 2018

Trump gives interview attacking May ahead of meeting https://t.co/QlyitQIvR7

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) July 12, 2018

“Mr Trump also said Mrs May’s nemesis Boris Johnson — who resigned over the soft Brexit blueprint on Monday — would ‘make a great Prime Minister.’” https://t.co/NrwrUf3zUE

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) July 12, 2018

Here’s the cover of The Sun that’s being released while Trump is still at a gala dinner Theresa May threw in honor of his 1st UK visit as president: pic.twitter.com/yhMLPPy4ej

— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) July 12, 2018

This may have been someone’s strategy, leading to further chaos for May, but not clear what Trump’s strategy was beyond doing something for a Murdoch paper https://t.co/9AHLgHX44H

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 12, 2018

Why would they have expected that it was the next morning? https://t.co/AbfWF5dDpk

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 12, 2018

This is such a lie it’s hilarious!

Deep in that Sun interview, Trump brags that his poll numbers with Republicans are even better than Lincoln's were. Lincoln died a decade before the telephone was invented and about eight decades before presidential approval polling began. https://t.co/9I5BOotua4

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) July 12, 2018

another Trump repeat lie:

For the fifth time, Trump lied that he "predicted Brexit" the day before the vote while in Scotland. He was not in Scotland the day before, he was there the day after. Day before, he didn't make a prediction at all; said he was pro-Brexit but hadn't been paying much attention. pic.twitter.com/NUvvAqB68u

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2018

and more bigotry like the crap he says here:

this isn’t so much a dog whistle as a screaming wolf howl https://t.co/g0TAZj5SGI

— Sophie Kleeman (@sophiekleeman) July 12, 2018

Investigate the New York FBI Office’s anti-Clinton bias

Republicans are trying to portray the FBI as pro-Clinton but the opposite is probably true. Let’s have a House hearing on this if Republicans have any interest in fairness and the truth.

Congress hasn’t held one hearing about bias in the FBI NY Office, and I’m not even aware of any newspaper or tv news outlet that thought the news of this conversation was worthy of a stand-alone story. https://t.co/EfeQ27Ufb0

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 12, 2018