Covers: Magnet and Steel

“Magnet and Steel” was a hit for Walter Egan in 1978.

Matthew Sweet covered it backed by Lindsey Buckingham who had produced and sang background vocals on the original version.

Covers: Politician

Politician was on Cream‘s 1968 album Wheels of Fire. They released a live version in 1969 on Goodbye.

The cover I know best is by Los Lobos recorded live at Wolftrap in 1992.

Biden’s plan for reopening schools

The media is not giving Biden’s proposals enough attention.

Joe Biden outlines his "roadmap" for reopening schools safely amid the pandemic https://t.co/7Bfeuh16Ga pic.twitter.com/0Ftz8p7s9j
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 17, 2020

Trump’s racist comment about the suburbs

He’s being more obvious in his racism to rile up his base.

Seeking to shore up his standing in the suburbs, President Trump turned to issues of fair housing and zoning.

He attacked a rule meant to combat segregation and claimed Washington Democrats want to assume control of local zoning decisions. https://t.co/69fTv7UVkd
— CNN (@CNN) July 17, 2020

barely veiled and *very dated* racial code, too: many of the suburbs that have rejected Trump are not the overwhelmingly white, city-hating communities they might have been in the 1980shttps://t.co/DPwkaC0VK3
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) July 16, 2020

This is what every block-busting racist real estate agent said to white homeowners to encourage white flight from cities in the 60s and 70s. This is the racism that contributed to the entrenched, devastating segregation of our cities. And it is vile beyond words. https://t.co/C0FGJBzqTs
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) July 16, 2020

Trump, again speaking in barely veiled racial code, again ridiculously accuses Democrats of trying to "abolish our beautiful and successful suburbs." He says, "Your home will go down in value and crime rates will rapidly rise."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 16, 2020

Only because they're worried about the election, of course. https://t.co/0vvmTwNSWP
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) July 8, 2020

NEW: President Donald Trump is wielding America’s racial tensions as a reelection weapon, fiercely denouncing the racial justice movement on a near-daily basis with language stoking white resentment and aiming to drive his supporters to the polls https://t.co/hLomBNTHPD
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) July 8, 2020

"Master bedrooms" in our homes. "Blacklists" and "whitelists" in computing. The idiom "sold down the river" in our everyday speech.

Some of these terms are directly rooted in the nation's history with slavery. Others evoke racist ideas about Black people. https://t.co/XJDsdP17xM
— CNN (@CNN) July 6, 2020

Even Mississippi has abandoned the Confederate flag, but Trump explicitly defends it, playing to a smaller and smaller slice of the nation. ⁦@maggieNYT⁩ https://t.co/4G40iuNCBB
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 6, 2020

Trump’s disgusting plug of Goya

The head of Goya praised Trump which made many people say they would boycott Goya. Trump and his daughter Ivanka have now posed with Goya products. That’s unethical. Sad!

Ivanka Trump’s official endorsement of Goya products on social media was an apparent violation of federal ethics rules and standards of conduct.

This isn't about beans. It's about a family running the government who thinks it's above the law. https://t.co/zWVYsX7CvW
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) August 1, 2020

"What we are seeing now is a complete overturning of these ethical and legal norms": As Trump pitches commercial products from the Oval Office and makes campaign speeches in the Rose Garden, lines between politics and governing blur ⁦@michaelcrowley⁩ https://t.co/3jrl58T9NZ
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 17, 2020

New piece by me in the Washington Post discussing Ivanka Trump's violation of the standards of conduct.https://t.co/wXYTeLwyoG
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) July 16, 2020

Never thought we would have to analyze the ethics of promoting canned beans but here we are pic.twitter.com/ObESP21FhI
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) July 15, 2020

How long until Trump sells advertising space in the White House? https://t.co/uL7IHiGWX8
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) July 15, 2020

Ivanka Trump may have violated an ethics rule when she endorsed Goya black beans https://t.co/QQ6bR13EeE pic.twitter.com/pcL3GSXwgz
— CNN (@CNN) July 15, 2020

Only 30% trust what Trump is saying about the coronavirus

from the first article linked to below:

“New polling from Quinnipiac University found that only 30% of America’s registered voters say they trust the information that President Trump is providing about the coronavirus….Conversely, 67% of registered voters do not trust Trump’s Covid-19 claims. “

Since people don’t trust Trump, the media should give much less coverage to his lies and more to scientists . Trump says very little worth listening to. It’s just lies and racism.

New poll reaffirms that most Americans don't trust President Trump, but they do trust Dr. Fauci | Analysis https://t.co/0TnpbBzhso pic.twitter.com/HwkGUZxLQQ
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 16, 2020

There are signs President Trump's base is leaving him on the coronavirus | Analysis https://t.co/5RC2rPj5vh pic.twitter.com/hbQJ5ZTQTr
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 17, 2020

Republicans already think Fauci's doing a worse job with the pandemic than Trump, making the doctor a useful scapegoat. https://t.co/262SijWNKM pic.twitter.com/B13CXBEHag
— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 16, 2020

Or course, Republicans trust Trump over Fauci

Americans’ views of Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic have deteriorated significantly — 38 percent approve, 60 percent disapprove, and 52 percent “strongly” disapprove, per new WaPo-ABC poll https://t.co/SP7ACuTOCr
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) July 17, 2020

Trump’s authoritarian move in Portland

This is scary.

"Why in the hell is this not a bigger story? You’d have to be out of your mind or comatose since the Fall of 2016 not to suspect that this could be a dry run for the kind of general urban mobilization" https://t.co/NLCCQ6eJv1
— Lidia Yuknavitch (@LidiaYuknavitch) July 17, 2020

This behavior from unidentified federal officers is chilling. Without identification, there can be no accountability when something goes wrong, and there is no way for citizens to tell the difference between real and fake law enforcement. https://t.co/mzK4VmtvzN
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) July 17, 2020

I wrote a deep dive on the Portland paradox: Progressive City, Brutal Police https://t.co/I3NA1VdEsF
— Tim Dickinson (@7im) July 17, 2020

The Trump team take on what’s been happening in Portland is a decidedly fascist document, excoriating state and local officials and advancing the conceit that everyone encountered by federal law enforcement is a “violent anarchist.” https://t.co/0QClSp8a1k
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 17, 2020

This political theater from President Trump has nothing to do with public safety. The President is failing to lead this nation. Now he is deploying federal officers to patrol the streets of Portland in a blatant abuse of power by the federal government. https://t.co/PdlZkmW0mQ
— Governor Kate Brown (@OregonGovBrown) July 16, 2020

Usually when we see people in unmarked cars forcibly grab someone off the street we call it kidnapping — what is happening now in Portland should concern everyone in the US.

These actions are flat-out unconstitutional and will not go unanswered. https://t.co/1zS6u05GOK
— ACLU (@ACLU) July 17, 2020

🚨 This is not good at all. Secret police on our streets.https://t.co/7xz8SWQtwj
— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) July 17, 2020

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