With Trump heading back to #Tulsa this weekend, here’s a throwback from covering his rally there in 2016. All the press passes were misspelled “Tusla” pic.twitter.com/xlzX0OjwYV
— Tom George (@TheTomGeorge) June 19, 2020
Wait a minute. The Secret Service asked the mayor of Tulsa to put a curfew in place for the next two nights. The mayor complies. And the president* demands the city call it off?
1) The mayor should’ve told the president* to stuff it.
2) He wants a riot. He’s begging for one.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) June 19, 2020
“If Trump felt comfortable having it here, then I’m comfortable," said one supporter of the president. Another said, of the coronavirus risk: "If today is the day I die, today is the day I die." https://t.co/UCvJSHqEPi
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) June 19, 2020
There are people who are alive in Oklahoma right now who won’t be in a few weeks because Donald Trump needs people to clap for him.
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) June 19, 2020
Over +30k new cases across the US today, for the first time since May 1. And in many states, the percentage of positive tests noticeably rising, not falling.
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) June 19, 2020
"I don't want him in my city. I sure as hell don't want him in Greenwood. It's a slap in the face," City Council Vice-Chair Vanessa Hall-Harper said. "We don't have a very good track record when communities collide … I do not think much has changed." https://t.co/TTvirHefvX
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 19, 2020
President Trump's campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday violates virtually every one of the guiding principles for gatherings issued by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, putting it in the "highest risk" category. https://t.co/jIirJt1eoC
— CNN (@CNN) June 19, 2020
NBC News Exclusive: Top members of the coronavirus task force advised against Trump's Tulsa rally.
Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx were among those warning about the health risks for those attending indoor rallies as virus' spread continues. https://t.co/p0lvUR8TSz
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 19, 2020
Pence prioritizes loyalty to Trump over lives of Americans. He is just as responsible as Trump for unnecessary deaths. https://t.co/PLGMZIrq6o
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) June 19, 2020
We’re up in Tulsa! In a bitter twist of irony the billboard is being paid for from sales of our mask series. https://t.co/eDztaxfX3a pic.twitter.com/tWsANVhZDG
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) June 19, 2020
As New York Reaches a Coronavirus Landmark, Parts of Red America Are Facing a Potential Disaster https://t.co/fggac9R5xH via @NewYorker
— John Cassidy (@JohnCassidy) June 19, 2020
“It really does feel like the U.S. has given up.” -European scientist.https://t.co/A910VQq7mX pic.twitter.com/xl8BuqqJ2n
— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 19, 2020
Elsewhere…
Image on the right: original redacted version
Image on the left: whole thing unredacted
Congrats @JasonLeopold !
Here it is in clear terms: the president's campaign was told in advance, before any public word, about the planned release of material that Russian intel had stolen https://t.co/M48IXW6fxO
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 19, 2020
More of the Mueller Report is released by DOJ under court order.
Trump knowingly lied to Mueller or has a very bad memory.Mueller raised possibility Trump lied to him, newly unsealed report reveals – CNNPolitics https://t.co/83D0aTJUib
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) June 19, 2020
Senior State Dept. official resigns in response to Trump's handling of protests https://t.co/Fptl1Idl9j pic.twitter.com/E2AADwUqSx
— The Hill (@thehill) June 19, 2020
Treasury, SBA cave to demands for bailout transparency https://t.co/qz8VpVelg6 via @politico
— Gary Fineout (@fineout) June 19, 2020
And of course…
Slavery is America’s original sin. Emancipation remains America’s greatest cause.
I can think of no better way to acknowledge our past while recommitting to the work that defines our country – building a more perfect union – than to make #JuneteenthDay a national holiday.
— Tom Malinowski (@Malinowski) June 19, 2020
"I'm not sitting here rocking until the Lord calls me home; He really is going to have to catch me." – 93-year-old Opal Lee, the woman leading the charge to make Juneteenth a national holiday. pic.twitter.com/3lJiJEosol
— Max Weiss (@maxthegirl) June 19, 2020
National Archives unearths original handwritten Juneteenth order – CNN https://t.co/IMV9bncFFX
— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) June 19, 2020
#Juneteenth is being celebrated a bit differently this year.
Along with parades and parties, thousands are taking to the streets to fight for racial justice and honor those killed by police violence. pic.twitter.com/iNmFMMSfvr
— AJ+ (@ajplus) June 19, 2020
41st and 6th right now. #junteenth #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/jGgjGMjDpa
— Bill Weir (@BillWeirCNN) June 19, 2020
Some great maps in this piece, overlapping poverty rates with lack of Medicaid expansion and voter suppression laws: A virtual moral march on Washington: "What America is going to see is herself," @RevDrBarber tells @CapehartJ https://t.co/JPdyv4nBQe Via @PostOpinions
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) June 19, 2020
***
BORISHAMBLES BRITAIN
Britain reduced its Covid-19 alert level, paving the way for easing of social-distancing measures even as the virus remains “in general circulation” https://t.co/0bm2qKcms3
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 19, 2020
"It's a very strange decision to make at this point in time".
Former Chief Scientific Adviser to the government Sir David King responds to the decision to lower the UK's Covid-19 alert level from 4 to 3 – saying "the number of cases per day is still very high". pic.twitter.com/7Skz0FvMpp
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) June 19, 2020
After 10 weeks of clapping for the NHS, the Tories have quietly announced they are terminating student nurse contracts out of the blue, after paying them for only one month of Covid-19 work, leaving them without income. Why is no one talking about this?
— Hasan Patel 🌹 (@CorbynistaTeen) June 18, 2020
This ain’t great for Johnson: every piece I read about him these days reads like an obituary. https://t.co/1405UYeijC
— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) June 19, 2020
No he hasn’t. He only works part time and disappears when there is a crisis. That’s a new experience completely for the great British public.
— Tom Brown #FBPE #BlackLivesMatter (@Tomsy53) June 19, 2020
The Sick Man: Boris Johnson, Britain and the virus
If you were wondering why Britain has been so poorly-led and hit so hard by coronavirus…
Listen to the @tortoise Slow News podcast _ @MatthewdAncona on the "noisy, amateurish chaos" inside No10https://t.co/82dVg62KVT
— David Taylor (@Geordiedav) June 18, 2020
***
WORLDWIDE
The coronavirus pandemic reached a new one-day high yesterday with 150,000 new confirmed cases, according to the World Health Organization. https://t.co/Wv2oDFw3XK
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) June 19, 2020
When the global economy finally gets beyond the pandemic, expect it to be less globalized than before https://t.co/21EvKneAcA
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) June 19, 2020
"A North Korean escalation, perhaps an “October Surprise” for Trump in the form of an ICBM test, could bring back his threats of 'fire and fury.'" via @TheHillOpinion https://t.co/UYBa626raV
— The Hill (@thehill) June 19, 2020
Welcome to the wild world of warrior cop training. https://t.co/WawOMOTifG
— Slate (@Slate) June 19, 2020
Hundreds of professional rodeos around the U.S. have been canceled — hard blows to tradition and economics. In many small towns in the West, the rodeo is the biggest event on the annual calendar. https://t.co/WSngCymcF9
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 19, 2020
Robot sloth used to save the world's most endangered species https://t.co/3UTR2zEXbW
— The Independent (@Independent) June 19, 2020