Another Fake Trump ad

Projection is strong https://t.co/cIRcFKEYjS
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 5, 2020

The Trump campaign ran an anti-Biden ad culminating in an image of Biden bent over.
The ad intones: "Joe Biden sits in his basement, alone, hiding, diminished"

Except this is an image of Biden praying in the Bethel AME church.
God's candidate? pic.twitter.com/rAue0UTmMb
— Pitt Griffin (@pittgriffin) August 5, 2020

Yesterday: Trump releases attack ad that uses photo of Biden praying in church to try to make him look pitiful

Today: Trump says Biden is anti-God pic.twitter.com/fGxRXju9VB
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 6, 2020

i’ve covered many frivolous, dishonest political attacks

but this combination – a politician who appears non-religious distorting a picture of his religious opponent ACTUALLY PRAYING IN CHURCH, then claiming the opponent opposes religion – may be the most deranged i’ve ever seen https://t.co/Reb0zDem8B
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 6, 2020

How to clean surfaces during the coronavirus outbreak

It's vital to clean surfaces you touch everyday amid the #coronavirus outbreak—here's how to clean the right way. https://t.co/6TuCMWckrD pic.twitter.com/bRKzcI3tjn
— Reviewed (@reviewed) August 5, 2020

22 Riskiest Places for Catching Coronavirus

https://t.co/11FDOX2DWM
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) August 5, 2020

Only 42% would get a coronavirus vaccine

I’m concerned that Trump will rush a vaccine to help his election chances. If it doesn’t work or has bad side effects, that will make it much harder to get people to take a vaccine when there is a better one.

Barely half the country is now willing to take a Coronavirus vaccine. The attack on science has consequences.

CNN POLL:

Would Try To Get a Coronavirus Vaccine

Now 56%
May 66%
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 19, 2020

NEW: @YahooNews / @YouGov coronavirus poll: Number of Americans who plan to get vaccinated falls to 42% — a new low https://t.co/vSI7YbxqsD pic.twitter.com/58URUYhmQG
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) August 4, 2020

Looks like we won't be vaccinating our way out of this #COVID19 crisis any time soon:
"Only 14% of voters said they wld be more likely to take a #coronavirus #vaccine if Pres Donald #Trump recommended it, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll."https://t.co/bhPNlLUkco
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) August 5, 2020

Thoughts?

CBS survey on a Coronavirus vaccine: "The poll found that more than two third of Americans, 70%, would either wait to see what happens when others got the shot or would never get one. Fewer than one in three would get the vaccine right away." https://t.co/gk9kNPbcbn
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) July 29, 2020

Fewer than half of people plan to get a coronavirus vaccine in the first year it’s available, and an even smaller group — fewer than a third — say they’ll get it in the first 90 days, a new WebMD reader poll finds. https://t.co/ZB0Z4yJXqr pic.twitter.com/QHaGdyjeu3
— WebMD (@WebMD) August 5, 2020

Wait, What? Poll Weirdly Asks If You'd More Likely Take Covid Vaccine if Recommended By… Oprah, LeBron, or Tom Brady? https://t.co/0wufhbAt4m
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) August 5, 2020

Poll: One in three Americans say they would not get coronavirus vaccine https://t.co/Mh8Sz2Mmdn pic.twitter.com/iInKidycrU
— The Hill (@thehill) August 7, 2020

35% of Americans say they would refuse a coronavirus vaccine, even if it was free, approved by the Food and Drug Administration and available immediately, according to a Gallup poll released Friday.https://t.co/zeFMpPzD59
— Axios (@axios) August 8, 2020

Things to buy in case there is a storm during the pandemic

14 things to buy

Additional unemployment money doesn’t stop people from working

Lack of jobs stops people from working.

Listening to @KatyTurNBC press Sen. Mike Braun on the $600, I am glad to have written this yesterday debunking the talking point that the UI plus-up keeps folks on their couches https://t.co/Ii6CwS5Ihc
— Phil Elliott (@Philip_Elliott) August 4, 2020

In the richest country in the world, no one should ever have to make a choice between food and medication they need to survive.

Time is of the essence. We must extend the $600 weekly unemployment benefit right away. https://t.co/J8LLBCxKPM
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) August 4, 2020

Jared Bernstein, fmr. economic policy adviser to Joe Biden, on $600 unemployment benefits expiring:

“You’re talking about a bunch of politicians who have perfectly cushy jobs are just delaying vital help to people who desperately need it.”https://t.co/swrW01shCE
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 4, 2020

So according to Mnuchin a few hundred bucks in unemployment benefits makes American workers lazy, but billions in bailouts for Wall St. and corporations is good for the economy? https://t.co/psexsBWqu4
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 2, 2020

As a laid off retail worker in Texas told me:

"The best scenario for me would be to find a job," said Olga Kaufman, 57. "Unemployment is never a sure thing. You can’t go to bed at night and say, 'ok, I’m on unemployment.' That is temporary." https://t.co/wosvi9dvbi
— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) July 31, 2020

The unemployment situation is really, really badhttps://t.co/TPSNucBzyi
— Axios (@axios) July 24, 2020

School district reopening plans

I know I ask this several times a year, but seriously: What would we do without @educationweek? https://t.co/iQkLOb3yJI
— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) August 4, 2020

Trump lies update 8/4/20

Endless

The president made at least 20 false claims in today's Fox & Friends interview. https://t.co/XVagiiNS9q
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 5, 2020

Trump made at least 19 false claims in his HBO interview with Jonathan Swan. (This is a preliminary count, will likely rise.) My fact check here: https://t.co/K1YcszCQ6p
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 4, 2020

Fact check: Another Trump briefing, more Trump falsehoods on coronavirus and mail-in voting https://t.co/cdBJjyKDCi pic.twitter.com/RAZX6Fpgso
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 4, 2020

Trump cited the slow count of mail votes in NY primaries as evidence of voter fraud, saying there were "fraudulent ballots, I guess." There has been no evidence of voter fraud, much less widespread fraud; rather, administrative and planning problems. https://t.co/aGRNyYsBva pic.twitter.com/QlXNJMB2Yf
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 3, 2020

Donald, thanks for lying about Morning Joe’s ratings. It gives me the chance to congratulate the entire MJ team for some of our highest ratings in history. Regarding Fox and Friends, Friday’s prelims show that both MJ & F&F had 1.3 million viewers per hour. So that’s a lie, too. https://t.co/d8sXPERhRY
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) August 3, 2020

That’s not true as your top health officials have conceded many times, but either way how do you explain that with less than 5% of the world’s population the US has per official numbers more than 20% of the world’s COVID-19 deaths? https://t.co/iK14vb3tf3
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 31, 2020

America is not only losing the public-health battle but also our grasp on the truth. And yes, we should be terrified by that. … My column https://t.co/gOmJPEtgXN
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) July 30, 2020

As Covid toll rises, US leaders still spreading misinformation | Analysis https://t.co/MD7G7rlLe1 pic.twitter.com/GpPrVtqA7w
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 30, 2020

Trump’s smallest falsehoods reveal some of his biggest problems.

The fact that he keeps saying the 1918 flu pandemic happened in 1917 shows us that his staff isn’t able to correct him on even the tiniest of details. They can’t tell him the emperor has no clothes about ANYTHING. https://t.co/G8XtwOsQ26
— Matt O'Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) August 4, 2020

Trump keeps picking bigots and conspiracy theory supporters

And pro-Russia supporters

Still, in more comments on Russia Today, Macgregor supported Russian separatism in Ukraine saying eastern Ukraine and Crimea were "clearly Russian" and should be allowed to join Russia. https://t.co/r6rqAIYmco pic.twitter.com/o4T6uIJN0E
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) August 4, 2020

There is what the Trump administration does and what it wants to do. The gap is closing between the two. https://t.co/dDf9USpmOn
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) August 4, 2020

The next U.S. ambassador to Germany is a Tucker Carlson regular who has claimed that Democrats are trying to replace whites with Latinos to "transform the United States " and pushed George Soros conspiracy theories. https://t.co/mPOVPhASsx https://t.co/CfgQIeJrWJ
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) July 27, 2020

Trump's nominee to be director of the Office of Personnel Management spread the conspiracies about Democrats taking part in Satanic rituals, called Dems the party of 'Islam' and 'gender-bending,' & defended a banned alt-right & ant-Semitic Twitter user.https://t.co/QWc5hSf8YJ
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) July 22, 2020

NEW: The White House is pushing Pentagon to hire a conspiracy theorist for a top job who among other things said impeachment witness Alex Vindman was "spy," that BLM was a Marxist agent of China, and that Obama, Comey, Brennan, and Clapper were communistshttps://t.co/FP1LFaAnZY
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) July 20, 2020

Trump’s pick for ambassador involved in racist smear against black politician https://t.co/gEBM4UiPRv
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 2, 2020