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.
— Matt O'Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) August 4, 2020
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
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
New coronavirus outbreaks
I blame Trump for our high death totals from the virus. I also blame the part of the public that is not taking this seriously. Here are new outbreaks.
Six students and three staff members at a Georgia high school that went viral earlier this week after a student shared photos of a crowded hallway have tested positive for coronavirus https://t.co/z1dRMjUJXr
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 9, 2020
At least 116 people in a Mississippi school district have been instructed to self-quarantine after students and a staff member tested positive for coronavirus less than 2 weeks after the start of school. https://t.co/OJwAbW3YXF
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 6, 2020
The largest school district in Georgia reported today that 260 employees have tested positive for the coronavirus or are in quarantine because of possible exposure as they prepare for the new school year. https://t.co/rSFpXcNBul
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) August 3, 2020
New CDC study shows 600 infected at Georgia sleep-away camp – where masks were not required. https://t.co/ulRdv7pZ3r
— Brent Staples (@BrentNYT) August 1, 2020
Coronavirus outbreak at USC's fraternity row leaves at least 40 people infected https://t.co/t4rdG2w7As
— Dr. Seema Yasmin (@DoctorYasmin) July 31, 2020
17 Florida doctors contract coronavirus after attending private party https://t.co/Etm9vmpyX1
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) July 29, 2020
Doctors should know better!
Remembering 13 nuns from single convent who died of coronavirus – CNN Video https://t.co/v8Fzr8u7o2
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 24, 2020
Thirteen nuns are dead after a coronavirus outbreak ravaged their Michigan covent. The women ranged in age from 69 to 99. https://t.co/IyJNyw4Hqz
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 22, 2020
Several attendees of massive Michigan July 4th party now have COVID-19 https://t.co/hs9SmsA6xS
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 12, 2020
Dozens of Mississippi lawmakers have coronavirus after weeks of refusing to wear masks https://t.co/4Hb1Ji8CrF pic.twitter.com/ELBSvKm3L1
— CNN (@CNN) July 10, 2020
9 people tested positive for the coronavirus after a party with up to 100 people in Rockland County, New York. But those contacted by virus tracers trying to learn who else might have been exposed won’t talk. Now they face subpoenas. https://t.co/iKl0E6C8Eg
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 2, 2020
Five people who attended a Florida Sheriffs Association meeting last week have tested positive for COVID-19, @TB_Times reports. https://t.co/O3RMScHTDI
— The Marshall Project (@MarshallProj) August 5, 2020
A bunch of teens had a big party in Middletown, NJ, the garbage place I grew up, and spread Covid around! No surprise, at 1st the parents refused to cooperate with authorities b/c they are selfish, privileged suburbanites. At least they came around.https://t.co/kk9QlO2FUR
— Mary "Abolish the Suburbs" Rizzo (@rizzo_pubhist) August 4, 2020
Trump evades Congress with appointment of Tata
He isn’t qualified. Where does Trump keep finding bigots and conspiracy theorists?
Over the weekend, President Trump once again skirted the approval of the nation’s elected lawmakers by naming Anthony Tata, a retired Army brigadier general, to a senior role at the Pentagon that did not require approval https://t.co/Vxxk9308pp
— TIME (@TIME) August 9, 2020
The White House pulled Tata's nomination to be DOD's undersecretary of defense for policy after it became clear he was unconfirmable
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) August 2, 2020
Then, the Pentagon installed him as "the official Performing the Duties of the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy" https://t.co/BmQrPLbFil
Anthony Tata called Obama a "terrorist leader," suggested that John Brennan should prepare for execution or suck "on a pistol" and said Islam is the "most oppressive violent religion I know of."
— James Hohmann (@jameshohmann) August 3, 2020
The GOP wouldn't confirm him. So Trump bypassed Senate.https://t.co/TRH9pirJKX
Trump flouts advice and consent of the Senate to install a loyalist Republicans wouldn’t confirm >>> https://t.co/J9NewzT2Q2
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 2, 2020
In his conversation with Inhofe that Inhofe put on speakerphone, so others in the restaurant where Inhofe was eating could hear it, Trump indicated he may put him into a different position that doesn’t require confirmation https://t.co/xbaHDwNUPs
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 31, 2020
Trump still supports Anthony Tata, who has come under fire for Islamophobic tweets (including one calling Obama a “terrorist leader”). Lawmakers abruptly canceled his confirmation hearing yesterday amid “serious questions” about his fitness for the job. https://t.co/GiUEzHgGbH
— POLITICO (@politico) July 31, 2020
Trump’s bigoted attack on the 2020 Census
This will undercount minorities. That means they will get less representation and federal funding. Two things going on here:
- stopping counts early
- not counted undocumented people
NEW: Sharing my @washingtonpost oped on how the Trump administration is once again trying to sabotage the census to advance its anti-immigrant agenda & silence communities of color – for partisan gain. We can’t let it. Too much is at stake. https://t.co/eMuwWwoi2P
— Vanita Gupta (@vanitaguptaCR) August 4, 2020
The Census Bureau announced that field data collection will end a full month earlier than originally planned https://t.co/xjedXcefI0
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 4, 2020
And will Rs in TX FL AZ GA, states that would be hurt overall by #census cutoff, stand up for their state or the party’s overall desire to minimize minority count? @JohnCornyn @GregAbbott_TX @dougducey @SenMcSallyAZ etc? https://t.co/RWDA4KjCpg
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 4, 2020
Same reason the post office is being starved – because the Trump administration believes it will benefit them & other Republicans by marginalizing people of color. Every possible government function is being racially weaponized-w/the consent & participation of the GOP Congress https://t.co/gYYVLJUQdg
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 4, 2020
SCOOP: @NPR has confirmed the Census Bureau is cutting #2020Census door knocking at unresponsive homes a month short, ending on Sept. 30, amid growing concerns that the White House is pressuring the bureau to stop counting soon for political gain.https://t.co/sRxXbGQXOs
— Hansi Lo Wang • 5️⃣7️⃣ DAYS (@hansilowang) July 31, 2020
Census Director Dillingham yesterday declined to join the political fight over Trump's memo on excluding undocumented residents. But his silence before Congress doesn't remove the dark political clouds hanging over the 2020 census and the agency he leads https://t.co/cIPmrwCL7m
— Jeffrey Mervis (@jeffmervis) July 30, 2020
Census director says he was unaware of Trump's memo that aims to bar undocumented immigrants from being included in the census for purposes of deciding how many members of Congress are apportioned to each state until it was public and that bureau did not provide any input > https://t.co/bz4AmMdzOC
— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) July 29, 2020
Perspective: Trump’s push to skew the census builds on a long history of politicizing the count https://t.co/qucCscgBuk
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 26, 2020
A intentional, hidden detail of Trump's (almost certainly unconstitutional) effort to keep undocumented immigrants from being used to reapportion House seats? Shifting more of those seats and more electoral votes to the GOP. https://t.co/dYno3gVSxj
— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 22, 2020
It has been an exhausting four years for civil rights lawyers, but a challenge to Trump’s latest assault on the law will be an easy victory. Constitution requires census to count “persons,” not “citizens.” https://t.co/woeEKQhEbs
— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) July 22, 2020
No question. Sec.2 of the 14th Amendment says:
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 21, 2020
“Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons . . .”
Get it, Trump? “THE WHOLE NUMBER OF PERSONS.”
Not MINUS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS! https://t.co/0YDskXRiJQ
Trump's order on apportionment could shift a few House seats from some states to others, potentially helping Republicans, but it will almost certainly wind up challenged in court. @katierogers https://t.co/XHeMotADuE
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 21, 2020
President Trump signed a memorandum today that seeks to ban immigrants in the U.S. illegally from the census and, as a result, exclude them from the process that determines how many members of Congress are allocated to each state https://t.co/ZjdrmGbsxw
— POLITICO (@politico) July 21, 2020
And just as a reminder, in 1920 Congress did not accept the apportionment numbers presented to them by the White House https://t.co/C2QVLYahJd
— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) July 21, 2020
Covers: I Shot the Sheriff
The Wailers excellent original version of “I Shot the Sheriff” was followed by Eric Clapton’s popular rock version in 1974. One good thing about Clapton’s record was that it led me and others to seek out the Wailers record and learn about reggae.
“I want to say I shot the police but the government would have made a fuss so I said ‘I shot the sheriff’ instead… but it’s the same idea: justice.” https://t.co/rNuAuPBgim
— American Songwriter (@AmerSongwriter) June 27, 2022
Israel opened schools. It did not go well.
This should be a lesson for the US…but it won’t be for Trump.
When Covid Subsided, Israel Reopened Its Schools. It Didn’t Go Well. https://t.co/pkjFfOnQix In response to heat wave, "the government exempted everyone from wearing masks for four days, and schools shut the windows [for A/C]. That decision proved disastrous, experts say."
— Linsey Marr (@linseymarr) August 4, 2020
“Israel’s advice for other countries?
— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) August 4, 2020
“They definitely should not do what we have done. It was a major failure.”
* Tip: Read what they did, then comment*
When Covid Subsided, Israel Reopened Its Schools. It Didn’t Go Well. – The New York Times https://t.co/qQULXqTxWi
One of the defining features of the US Covid debacle has been refusal to learn from other countries. Now, as much of the country prepares to open schools, we should — but won't — look at what happened in Israel pic.twitter.com/aOqbr8Pi5E
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 1, 2020
Israel reopened schools, while managing the virus poorly. Then the infections started in them. Schools became overrun with sickness. They closed again. Now, the government says that schools became the super spreaders, and set off an explosion of COVID../1 https://t.co/WjP9WT5B0t
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) July 10, 2020
No touching, sharing or borrowing pencils. In Israel, families wonder if back to school means back to normal. https://t.co/6FHAibpPru
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 4, 2020
Trump/Trump Organization is being investigated for fraud
This would be a much bigger story if we weren’t overwhelmed by the pandemic.
On Manhattan’s district attorney seeking Pres. Trump’s tax returns, @neal_katyal says, “There’s a reason why Trump is pushing back on it so much and I don’t think it’s because the documents show that he’s innocent.”https://t.co/LztqolWJNU
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 4, 2020
The President can yell "hoax, witch hunt, Mueller" all he wants, but this is different — different prosecutor, different jurisdiction, different crimes, different proof.
— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) August 4, 2020
A bad day for Trump — my latest #CrossExam for @CNN:
https://t.co/MFC5XmNSgJ
Hey Donald, you have a lot bigger problems than cable news ratings. https://t.co/0A5LUyHm7c
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) August 3, 2020
This has been plainly obvious for a while, because the Manhattan DA has argued that granting extensions on subpoenas could effectively immunize Trump.
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) August 3, 2020
But coming right out and saying that they are investigating Trump's company is significant. https://t.co/WSDm7ikG9D
BREAKING: New York prosecutors say their Trump investigation goes beyond hush-money payments and ask judge to dismiss lawsuit challenging subpoena https://t.co/PsiwA6ndYC pic.twitter.com/DQhzqyYcJX
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 3, 2020
Hogan overrules local governments on schools
I go with the experts, not Hogan.
Between insisting on an in-person election despite public health experts’ unanimous opposition and now preventing jurisdictions from closing schools to protect teachers and students, @GovLarryHogan seems *determined* to kill Marylanders. https://t.co/qGKr2NTxe1
— (((Evan Serpick))) (@Serps) August 3, 2020
Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan has overruled an order prohibiting some private schools in the state from conducting on-campus learning for the start of the academic year, including the school attended by President Trump's youngest son https://t.co/4nBQM9ZQjC
— CNN (@CNN) August 4, 2020
Translation: Breaking a pandemic requires collective action by ALL citizens — every cohort sharing sacrifice — but the affluent wish once again to opt out of shared responsibility. Our governor has heard their singular whine, because the GOP never fails to follow the money. https://t.co/OplgQGGRcM
— David Simon (@AoDespair) August 3, 2020
