A Trump-Biden debate would be pointless

I agree with a lot of this column. I think a debate would be pointless because:

Trump would like. He lies more than in 2016 because he has over 3 years of his administration to lie about. If the moderator corrects the lie, Trump will say they are biased. If Biden corrects the lie, it cuts into his time to present his ideas.
Trump will insult Biden – “Sleepy Joe” or whatever name he is using on Biden then. Why should anyone put up with this?

My column: Biden Should Not Debate Trump Unless … https://t.co/knMAaOsGCg
— Thomas L. Friedman (@tomfriedman) July 8, 2020

Trump’s lies

Fact Checker: President Trump has made more than 20,000 false or misleading claims https://t.co/RG37j739bh
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 13, 2020

20,000.https://t.co/d7SOQFpLXo
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) July 15, 2020

It really is interesting how Trump gets viscerally enraged by the media's refusal to amplify his lies for him. We know he thinks he's entitled to this — he rages at Fox when it lapses out of its role as 24/7 propaganda outlet on his behalf, for instance. https://t.co/bDo5ySnMLn
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) July 13, 2020

Just a reminder, Trump told Hannity that the Mayor of Seattle only ended the protests there because he privately threatened to send in the military. The Mayor told us that nothing remotely like this happened. And it wasn't seen as news: https://t.co/LYL9b8k94B https://t.co/RoeHUUtBUF
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) July 13, 2020

Someone in the White House press corps needs to directly ask Trump why he keeps saying the US mortality rate for Covid-19, which is among the 10 highest in the world, is the lowest, and why he keeps saying the 1918 pandemic was in 1917. https://t.co/fAxpZUXXbo
— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) July 13, 2020

Mary Trump is releasing a book. Michael Cohen is finishing a book. Both are being restricted.

"We're clearly in the middle of a truth emergency," @BrianStelter writes. | Analysis https://t.co/VIWIIM4WVq
— CNN (@CNN) July 13, 2020

Trump says Biden wants to defund the police, pointing to his “charter” with Sanders.

Chris Wallace points out the Sanders-Biden task force doesn’t mention defunding police.

Trump, lying: “Oh, really? It says abolish, it says…” To aide: “Let’s go. Get me the charter, please.” https://t.co/WFRIDKmQxL
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 17, 2020

Fact check: President Trump makes at least 19 false or misleading claims in wild anti-Biden monologue https://t.co/WzJI9o7RjF pic.twitter.com/4rDvcEv2E8
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 17, 2020

"We didn't have ventilators," Trump says again, though his administration confirms that it inherited about 19,000 from the Obama administration, including all 16,660 that were ready to be deployed in march. https://t.co/oU7nsxY6bi
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 16, 2020

Trump tells his usual ridiculous lie, one of my faves, about how "grown men that had never cried even when they were a baby" were standing behind him crying when he signed a 2017 order on water regulations.

The event was on video and nobody behind him cried.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 15, 2020

Here's a thread on some of the many ways Trump falsely described the proposals from the Biden-Sanders unity task forces.

The task forces proposed ending for-profit immigration detention centers.

Trump claim about what they proposed: "Abolish immigration detention." 1/
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 15, 2020

No, Biden won’t abolish windows. Or suburbs.

No, a Biden-Sanders task force didn’t propose to end immigration detention.

No, Trump doesn’t have better polls on Covid than Obama-Biden did on H1N1.

So many more nos: https://t.co/I5arbkZvJv
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 15, 2020

When Trump says he asked "one of the biggest people on Wall Street" about Hunter Biden's dealings with China and that man says no, he means Stephen Schwarzman…whose spokesperson keeps telling reporters, including me, that he's never spoken to Trump about either Biden.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2020

Damage done by the coronavirus

We have underestimated COVID-19 since it first appeared. The virus can cause lung damage, blood clots, heart attacks, strokes, skin rashes and much more. One doctor explains how the virus attacks every organ: https://t.co/eM70BIYSUR pic.twitter.com/LYYeuaJJQi
— WebMD (@WebMD) July 7, 2020

There is evidence that some people develop a long-term fatigue syndrome from coronavirus infections, Dr. Anthony Fauci said https://t.co/8pqsrf17NV
— CNN (@CNN) July 10, 2020

Experts at the University College London are the latest to describe that Covid-19 could cause neurological complications including stroke, nerve damage and potentially fatal brain inflammation — even if the patients didn't show severe respiratory symptoms. https://t.co/JDf7okRDDw
— CNN (@CNN) July 12, 2020

Manipulating Biden quotes

Trump and his cult will keep distorting Biden’s words

The Trump campaign, McEnany and Pence are taking Biden comments about policing out of context. (No, Biden didn’t just declare police the enemy.) And the NowThis video of Biden’s chat with Ady Barkan was itself edited, omitting some key quotes. Fact check: https://t.co/xUnDsv1rOD
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 10, 2020

Good catch here on the whole Biden "enemy" quote. Lou Dobbs inserted a word, changing Biden's "they become the enemy" (to describe how militarized police can look) to Dobbs's "they have become the enemy." That alters the meaning entirely. https://t.co/2L2HJVg2Bx pic.twitter.com/x341Ip1o2b
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 9, 2020

Mass evictions could be coming

In more than half the country, local courts are reopening and beginning to process a backlog of eviction cases, sparking what economists and housing advocates say could be a historic surge in homelessness as millions of Americans lose their homes https://t.co/9F84BTy0IB
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 6, 2020

32% of U.S. households missed their July housing payments. (via @CNBCMakeIt) https://t.co/v3LLqDpNLy
— CNBC (@CNBC) July 9, 2020

And Trump says everything is improving… https://t.co/vxYg6pSlW4
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) July 8, 2020

“The United States is facing an eviction crisis of biblical proportions.”https://t.co/cjKlRte69d
— Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (@RevDrBarber) July 12, 2020

Millions of Americans could face eviction in July—and it could 'destabilize communities for years to come.' https://t.co/VyRTUzEkeo
— CNBC Make It (@CNBCMakeIt) July 6, 2020

20 million renters face eviction!

20 million renters face eviction!

20 million renters face eviction!

Let that sink in. https://t.co/ChlHCMDLii
— ❤️Black Rose/Rosa Negra🖤 (@BRRN_Fed) July 7, 2020

You think the riots have been bad so far? We haven't seen anything yet.

Millions fear eviction without more aid from Congress https://t.co/QGzDL8h3V2
— beth, uprising enthusiast (@bourgeoisalien) July 7, 2020

Without some kind of plan and further aid, the looming end to NYC's eviction moratorium has the potential to be a catastrophe https://t.co/w2mQuY67lc by @mrgopal pic.twitter.com/rT7hbh8tpH
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) July 8, 2020

More than 20 million people face eviction by the end of September as GOP threatens to cut aid: study https://t.co/yhjqKWtkRC
— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) July 11, 2020

As coronavirus cases surge across the US and states throttle back on economic reopenings, experts and advocacy groups warn that low-income families could face utility shutoffs as moratoriums on disconnections lift — with Black families especially at risk. https://t.co/jyQVDnKZwA
— CNN (@CNN) July 12, 2020

Coronavirus stats update 7/12/20

BREAKING: This chart. Devastating.

Do everything you can to prevent the spread.

From ⁦@nytimes⁩ who sued @cdc to get this data. pic.twitter.com/Vg9wKP2lrt
— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) July 12, 2020

the second wave is looking like a tsunami pic.twitter.com/uLPlchA1nT
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 12, 2020

Hospitalization rates are rising across the South; with higher positivity among older Americans as an epidemic that started in younger people expands into more vulnerable cohorts. Nearly 40% of Texas’ fatalities are residents of long-term care facilities. https://t.co/6q8skUPl8X pic.twitter.com/ORWvSWXFjl
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) July 12, 2020

If Florida was a country, the only countries with higher numbers of new cases would be India, Brazil, and the rest of the US. https://t.co/PILIj2xv0Z
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) July 12, 2020

The current surge in U.S. virus cases is being driven by states that were among the first to reopen their economies. Here’s a state by state look. https://t.co/nA6Jq4gYo1
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) July 11, 2020

The US had more new cases of COVID-19 yesterday than 187 countries and territories have had…since the beginning of the outbreak. Only 27 countries have had more total cases than we had on Friday.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) July 11, 2020

CDC: Covid-19 death toll is twice as high among people of color under age 65 as for white Americans https://t.co/gGIBgaPx9b
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) July 10, 2020

The @youyanggu numbers now say that about as many Americans are infected as in the March/April peak. Yes there is more testing now, but he's trying to estimate the *true* number of infections and they've now caught up (and are still rising).https://t.co/Qxu8rSPoV1 pic.twitter.com/NFIUjzDTte
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 9, 2020

Telling graph from @nytimes. If our states were countries, our #covid19 infections would still top the charts. pic.twitter.com/75jM23czbp
— Leana Wen, M.D. (@DrLeanaWen) July 9, 2020

It took 4 weeks for the U.S. to jump from 2M coronavirus infections to 3M. Most forecasters now say it will likely take even less time to surpass 4M https://t.co/qETdIMvdny
— Nolan D. McCaskill (@NolanDMcCaskill) July 9, 2020

NEW: U.S. virus case map is unnerving:
• Exactly ZERO states have significant declines.
• Most states have increases.
• Some are level.
• 9,845 cases reported in Texas on Tuesday, single-day record.https://t.co/UMzKIZtqDu
— Cliff Levy (@cliffordlevy) July 8, 2020

Seems like other countries are doing something different 🤔 https://t.co/UF80S7GXXS
— lori montgomery (@loriamontgomery) July 12, 2020

America's death toll from covid-19 skews significantly younger than that of other countries https://t.co/s1om5LfPQW
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) June 25, 2020

Covers: Ain’t That Peculiar

“Ain’t That Peculiar” was a huge hit for Marvin Gaye in 1965. Fanny recorded it in 1972. I saw them perform in Pittsburgh around then.

The great Motown bassist James Jamerson

https://youtu.be/imZUqkPlUaQ

Shutter shaming

I enjoy the random stuff you see on Twitter.

My new favourite thing is this guy’s shutter shaming hobby pic.twitter.com/BtQtWYjK27
— Connor (@Yogalnstructor) July 11, 2020

Covers: Only You Know and I Know

Dave Mason, formerly of Traffic, wrote and recorded “Only You Know and I Know” in 1970. Mason had performed with Delaney & Bonnie who released a more successful version in 1970. They recorded a live version on December 7, 1969 with Mason in the band that was on the On Tour with Eric Clapton album. Some musicians probably played on all three versions. Rita Coolidge, who recorded with both Mason and Delaney & Bonnie, covered it in 1971.

I think this was the first recorded version.

Few countries welcome American visitors

Our passports aren’t worth much because of the poor job the US has done on the pandemic.

We are being treated like the pariah state that we are and we deserve every bit of it https://t.co/UyLkI6idJV
— Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85) August 9, 2020

Most of the world is off limits for Americans pic.twitter.com/o4jSYv9nIH
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) July 30, 2020

The guy who campaigned on keeping people out ended up forcing us to stay in https://t.co/ogwBcmea3u
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 31, 2020

Now that we can't get into any countries, State Department says it's OK for Americans to travel abroad https://t.co/S35HYMRfWx
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) August 7, 2020

Yakko Warner sings the nations you can currently travel to from the US without restrictions. pic.twitter.com/3of64izHrO
— Matt Gardner (@wogoat) August 7, 2020

A US passport’s not worth much these days—it’ll get you into 20-30 countries, max.

Cambodia is one—but Americans must deposit $3K for healthcare—incl. $1,500 for funeral costs.

Karma for years of Trump falsely scapegoating migrants as disease carriers.https://t.co/hWV478Vi1k
— Gregory A. Maniatis (@gmaniatis) July 12, 2020

Trump had to re-open to make America Great Again. Look how great we are. We are persona-non-grata all over the world!https://t.co/JeF1MWBV4R
— Theophano Mitsa ☦️🇬🇷🇺🇸 (@theomitsa) July 12, 2020

Americans are too dangerous for the Bahamas. We can’t go to Canada. We can’t go to Mexico. We can’t go to England. We can’t go to any Western Democracy. Three and a half years with Trump as president and America is a pariah country. Well done, Republicans. https://t.co/XaO5r2l6sW
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) July 20, 2020

“others still welcome”
https://t.co/2iAELYNL79
— Midwin Charles (@MidwinCharles) July 20, 2020

This is so goddamn embarrassing. https://t.co/H42KJIGut8
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) July 14, 2020