Less than a week after Donald Trump claimed children are “almost immune” to COVID-19, we get this sobering news: 97,000 children tested positive for the virus in the last two weeks of July. That’s not near-immunity.
Publication: Daily Kos
(From the Left): “He Still Doesn’t Get It,” Says Pandemic Task Force Source as Trump Spouts Latest Delusions
He is self-absorbed to the point of incapacity. He is a conspiracy-minded, paranoid, and possibly delusional crank, and everybody on his own staff who is not themselves a conspiracy crank knows it.
(From the Left): What Trump Is Doing in Portland Is Scary and It’s Coming to a Town Near You
Unidentified men in camouflage uniforms on are on the ground in Portland over the express orders of both the governor and the mayor. And they are taking people off the streets for simply being protesters, no crime required…Pay attention to Portland: What’s going on is a trial run for what Trump is bringing to the rest of the nation.
(From the Left): Trump Ordered Officials to Find Reason to Deny Vindman’s Promotion, But They Found Nothing
Vindman’s story is the story of Donald Trump’s America, where nothing is more important than vengeance.
(From the Left): Trump Touts Job Numbers That Are Already Out of Date
These are not new jobs. Those were people going back to jobs that they had recently lost, and could be lost again with states shutting back down.
(From the Left): We Need a National Mask Mandate
If you want to save your own life and contribute to thwarting the course of the pandemic, stay at home. If you must go out (for example to participate in socially essential protests against police violence), wear a mask. If you want to save millions, push for a mask mandate.
(From the Left): Conservative Journalist Caught Pretending to Board Up a Business for a Fraudulent Post
In an Instagram video, Fiona Moriarty-Mclaughlin, a journalist from the conservative Washington Examiner, can be seen posing with a drill pretending to board up a store window, then proceeding to run into her Mercedes-Benz…Viewers are calling it an example of “performative activism,” a form of activism in which individuals post or pretend to support a cause in order to gain a following or make themselves look better to others.
(From the Left): FBI Found No Evidence That Antifa Was Involved in Violence and Of Course Trump Ignored Them
When Donald Trump’s time in the White House is reduced to a small exhibit in the back corner of Ripley’s Believe or Not Museum, a single phrase will serve to define Trump’s every act: “I don’t take responsibility at all.” Trump may have said that in response to a question about his handling of the COVID-19 crisis, but it’s an all-purpose description of his policy on every point.
(From the Left): Trump Reaches Back to 1967 to Hurl Racist Slogan at Black Protestors
Trump was ready to do what he always does—widen divisions and increase anger…He demanded for looters to be shot, and in doing so, he called back to a phrase, “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” that comes from the darkest heart of police assaults on Blacks fighting for Civil Rights during the 1960s.
(From the Left): Intelligence Agencies Found It Impossible to Convince Trump Covid-19 Was a Serious Problem
Trump was getting daily updates from intelligence agencies warning about the increasing threat of the pandemic for months—months in which he kept on golfing, holding rallies, and saying it would all just go away. But Trump has found a scapegoat even among the intelligence community. Shockingly (in a completely unshocking way) that scapegoat is an experienced woman.