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

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

QAnon update 07/12/20

Bizarre new conspiracy theory about Wayfair

Pizzagate/QAnon people have Wayfair trending today. They falsely claim price glitches on storage boxes prove that the company is trafficking children.

This took off because of a post on Reddit's r/conspiracy subreddit yesterday, which is a clearinghouse for anonymous paranoia.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) July 10, 2020

Wayfair debunks Pizzagate-esque conspiracy theory that it trafficked children in furniture https://t.co/iTd25Jb3Xa
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 11, 2020

I can’t believe I have to do this, but here’s a thorough debunk of the QAnon Wayfair conspiracy theory, since it’s pervasive on civilian parts of the internet.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) July 11, 2020

QAnon is the conspiracy theory that a government official who goes by “Q” is leaving clues about Trump’s plan to dismantle Washington elites engaged in everything from pedophilia to child sex trafficking. And it's believers unequivocally support Trump. https://t.co/2Rir6MXiU7
— POLITICO (@politico) July 12, 2020

Most of these nutjobs are gonna get beat, but hey, ya never know, some might win — and then we'll be dealing with the batshit reality of a QAnon Caucus. https://t.co/fosaawiLpN
— John Heilemann (@jheil) July 12, 2020

QAnon galaxy brain logic right here: QAnon is a false flag to Make QAnon look bad. But there is something there so QAnon needs to look into it.

If we find nothing = false flag
If we find something = were right

QAnon is not about truth, it's about faith in the movements beliefs pic.twitter.com/DKEzEb6rX3
— Marc-André Argentino (@4ngl3rf1sh) July 11, 2020

“At least 11 Republican congressional nominees have publicly supported or defended the QAnon conspiracy theory movement or some of its tenets — and more aligned with the movement may still find a way onto ballots this year.“ https://t.co/UXSNRDYlWV
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 12, 2020

I have admittedly struggled in my writing to succinctly describe QAnon. It'd be hard to do better than "a convoluted pro-Trump conspiracy theory about a 'deep state' of child-molesting Satanist traitors plotting against the president." https://t.co/ATZDPz6F26
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) July 14, 2020

Trump lies about Obama and golf

Trump has gone golfing much more than Obama did. Liar!

Not even close to true that Obama played more golf than Trump.

As of late May, Trump had spent all or part of 248 days at a golf course, per @markknoller data; Obama had played 98 rounds at the same point of his presidency. https://t.co/UqtdTb03JT pic.twitter.com/QZAUvaQ5oT
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2020

For what it’s worth, Trump has played far, far more golf than Obama had at the same point in his first term.

The main reason anyone cares is that Trump repeatedly attacked Obama for playing so much golf.
— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 12, 2020

Trump is golfing today. He attacked Obama for golfing when there were just two Ebola cases in the US —among the many other times. A round up: pic.twitter.com/yGpbN7qLWs https://t.co/ehoxafD88j
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) June 27, 2020

Trump tried to deflect criticism by doing more Obama-bashing: “Barack was always playing golf.”

Trump — who’d promised he‘d work too hard as president to golf — has spent way more time at golf clubs than Obama had at the same point. Some numbers:https://t.co/JWy1FAqFva
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 25, 2020

Remember when Trump used to criticize President Obama for golfing?

So far his golf trips have cost taxpayers more than $134,000,000 — 335 years of presidential salary.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) May 24, 2020

It's not just that Trump went golfing today, it's that at the height of a pandemic, he's at his other job: making promotional appearances at his struggling business empire. https://t.co/ANxplTv2qH
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) May 23, 2020

A pathological narcissist acts only in what he believes to be his own interests, so he’s incapable of perceiving any conflict at all. https://t.co/g45x7Q0xZs
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) May 10, 2020

According to @TrumpGolfCount, as of this weekend, Trump has played golf 258 times.

It has cost the American taxpayer $136,000,000.00
— Jill Wine-Banks (@JillWineBanks) July 12, 2020

Update on schools 7/12/20

Trump will ignore warnings about reopening schools. He has politicized the discussion on schools.

Always polarizing on schools, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos brushes off coronavirus risks | Analysis https://t.co/ntrfWJBEra pic.twitter.com/xrheYSUaK0
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 12, 2020

What’s really unfortunate is it seems any hope for a reasonable debate on school reopening suffered a major setback this past week, after state/district leaders spent months drafting plans and engaging and building trust in their communities to make these super tough decisions.
— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) July 12, 2020

“Right now there are places around the country where the virus is spreading explosively and it would be difficult if not impossible to operate schools safely until the virus is under better control.” https://t.co/BOxTSBmZy8
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) July 12, 2020

One answer that struck me was DeVos conceding: “I can't, as a nonphysician or a nonmedical expert, tell you precisely what to do in the case of one child in a classroom or five children in a classroom….” [transmitting virus].

The experts who can have been sidelined/undermined. https://t.co/LI4j6UHEJo
— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) July 12, 2020

DeVos praised this charter network during a televised press conference during which she trashed Fairfax Co. schools for offering families the option of all remote/ in-person instruction two days a week. https://t.co/2cN8AXv1Ij
— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) July 12, 2020

.@BetsyDeVosED you have no plan. Teachers, kids and parents are fearing for their lives. You point to a private sector that has put profits over people and claimed the lives of thousands of essential workers. I wouldn’t trust you to care for a house plant let alone my child. https://t.co/Qs0Z7gCnMo
— Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) July 12, 2020

NYT: No nation has tried to send children back to school with the virus raging at levels like America’s, and the scientific research about transmission in classrooms is limited.https://t.co/OxuXKSXS15
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 12, 2020

BASH: "Yes or no: Can you assure students, teachers and parents that they will not get coronavirus because they’re going back to school?"

DEVOS: "Well, the key is that kids have to get back to school."#CNNSOTU
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) July 12, 2020

Perspective: To DeVos, the virus is an excuse to strip public money from public schools https://t.co/QrHatjqyGO
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 11, 2020

1. Teachers are organizing into a national movement to demand schools stay closed until strict safety measures are in place or the virus is under control.

They say they do not feel safe or listened to. And Trump’s intervention has deepened their anger. https://t.co/yXz7T16psD
— Dana Goldstein (@DanaGoldstein) July 11, 2020