Documents and interviews show how senior officials sought to play down the risks of sending children back to the classroom, alarming public health experts.
A top Pence aide “said she was repeatedly asked by Marc Short, the vice president’s chief of staff, to get the C.D.C. to produce more reports and charts showing a decline in coronavirus cases among young people.” https://t.co/k2i3xmjzY0
A ton of attention is paid to a small number of Democrats who won primaries in safe blue districts and have a lot of Twitter followers, but some of the party's most talented up-and-coming politicians are the ones who flipped historically red ones. Media coverage has to catch up. https://t.co/cZ9zGLCpnh
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale hospitalized after he was armed and threatening to harm himself, Fort Lauderdale police say https://t.co/1lp0iQRrkV
Finally. The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.
The housing & climate crisis are real. Southern Oregon, already dealing w a shortage of more than 5,000 affordable housing units lost 2,700 homes in the recent wildfires - the vast majority of which were mobile homes housing low-income residents. We need change. https://t.co/vw95IYjGtD
This essay is not by Wallace-Wells, he is merely recommending reading it, as are many others.
“I lived through the end of a civil war. Do you know what it was like for me? Quite normal. I went to work, I went out, I dated. This is what Americans don’t understand. They’re waiting to get personally punched in the face while ash falls from the sky.” https://t.co/EcYLldVhJX
Mexico’s militarised crackdown on organised crime has left nearly 39,000 unidentified bodies in the country’s morgues, which are often unable to handle the volume of corpses brought in for autopsies.
More firearms are finding their way on to Britain’s streets with devastating consequences, the head of the body representing rank-and-file police officers has warned.
"Powell, Kudlow and Cuban are all Republicans ... yet, right now ... they are all talking about wealth redistribution on a drastic scale. As I said back in June, maybe @AndrewYang wasn’t so crazy after all."- @MartinTillierhttps://t.co/AYtu3nzxHw
I think Gawande's simply the best analyst of medical systems there is
Over the last 6 mos, 70,000 colleagues at @MassGenBrigham showed how we could work through the worst of the pandemic in MA without a single major outbreak. https://t.co/1apTzIw2tK
Schmidt, a former top Republican strategist, and his colleagues at the Lincoln Project are doing their best to make sure Trump arrives onstage off-balance. For months the group has been getting under Trump’s skin with digital and TV ads. It will be ramping up the mind games before Tuesday night’s debate in Cleveland. “We hear from people in the Trump campaign and in the White House all the time now. The leaks are endless. And these people tell us what he reacts to,” says Rick Wilson, another of the Lincoln Project’s cofounders. “The thing that he’s really mad about right now is that the campaign is broke. We’ll be talking about that. We’ll be talking about the fact that he’s losing in the swing states. Legally, we can’t speak to the Biden campaign directly. But we will be speaking very directly to Donald Trump in the coming days.”
