More than 25 million Americans have been receiving federal unemployment benefits during the pandemic. But that money stops this weekend.
Housing advocates are warning that the U.S. could see a "tsunami" of evictions if Congress doesn't act.https://t.co/garZAUVhEQ
— NPR (@NPR) July 24, 2020
20 million renters are facing eviction if Congress doesn’t act to protect them. We can’t let that happen.
I’m chatting with @JulianCastro on Instagram Live today at 6:30pm ET about my bill to help stop evictions during this health and economic crisis.https://t.co/nFVT8hbAmP
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 23, 2020
The Paycheck Protection Program Was a Flop https://t.co/OATAhr6ZwQ
— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) July 24, 2020
It's been 11 years since the last federal minimum wage hike, the longest span the baseline wage has gone without an increase since it began in 1938. https://t.co/y3S51crQSX
— WJZ | CBS Baltimore (@wjz) July 24, 2020
A third of renters in the US did not pay their their July rent or mortgage in full and may soon be facing eviction especially since Congress is not authorizing the unemployment payment bump, so yeah. Tell me more about how to retool the second home. https://t.co/1VmfKt9Lu7
— Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis (@KendraWrites) July 24, 2020
Meanwhile..
The surge in the United States is so extreme that, once adjusted for population, 10 states are recording more new cases than any country in the world. @LaurenLeatherby https://t.co/YAuicThA7F
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 24, 2020
"We could have had this virus much better controlled and we just let it slip through our fingers," Dr. William Schaffner says. "Now it's out there spreading widely under almost no control."https://t.co/ZEBvU0TBdS
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 24, 2020
“Trump used states like NY, NJ and CT, which lowered their curve with stay-at-home orders, as part of a misleading argument that much of the US was free of the virus. What he didn't say is that those states succeeded Bc they ignored his calls to reopen.” https://t.co/chwewZyl8z
— Vicky Ward (@VickyPJWard) July 24, 2020
Birx calls Florida, Texas and California "three New Yorks" as outbreaks surge https://t.co/tXGQHkZsDI pic.twitter.com/LAA1RSyDMg
— The Hill (@thehill) July 24, 2020
Not too "open a question" if one relies on statistics and science.
In Florida alone, as of a July 23 report, 285 school age children currently have Covid.
Here's Covid data on children under age 17 on the entire US. (Stats Mar. 18 to July 8.) pic.twitter.com/KEtYjnP1SK
— Cognitively There (@lightheart1) July 24, 2020
And there it is. Barron Trump's school will not re-open in the fall, meaning that while Trump is demanding everyone else's kids pack into dangerous classrooms, his own son will be safe at home.
Surprised?https://t.co/M2JCo6rshI
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) July 24, 2020
Thread..
COVID Update July 24: There’s an important ingredient we are short of in combatting Coronavirus.
The rest of the world has more of it. We need to find it to beat the virus. The ingredient is trust. 1/
— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) July 24, 2020
Any rank amateur could have predicted that unprepared troops with guns would increase tension and prolong the crisis. But although the administration’s behavior makes no sense as law enforcement, it makes perfect sense as a new kind of campaign tactic.https://t.co/3Cn2wv0w5a
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) July 23, 2020
Conservative pundits, typically no fans of an overreaching government, have thrown their full support behind federal agents in Portland who have used militarized tactics and have pulled some demonstrators into unmarked vans https://t.co/Rf9PQ42uR9
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) July 24, 2020
Hacking and disinformation operations from America’s two greatest rivals have proceeded unabated, and by some measures have accelerated https://t.co/oykJjKp1qj
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) July 24, 2020
Fmr. top postal service official talks mail-in ballot obstacles: "The least of the concerns with mail-in voting is with the postal service … they know what they're doing." https://t.co/ygP4MnL06Y
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 24, 2020
8 Big Reasons Election Day 2020 Could Be a Disaster https://t.co/FStnQac7FZ via @politico
— Jay Rouse (@JayRouseDC) July 24, 2020
And…
Here’s a great example of how @realdonaldtrump’s campaign turns campaign donations into private revenue for POTUS.
In just 3 pages from their spending report, $222K+ went to Trump’s private business, to rent ballrooms for fundraisers. pic.twitter.com/cG9WJC9SSO
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) July 24, 2020
‘Something smells’: Tax crime investigator suspects Trump campaign laundering money through Mar-A-Lago https://t.co/TPtDm2NRN2
— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 24, 2020
#Trump has been involved in so many scandals & says so many reprehensible things that our country has developed a kind of herd immunity. We have allowed Trump to fend off one scandal with . . . another scandal.
My column https://t.co/xFz5KTxq1T— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) July 23, 2020
.@jheil speaks with @NicolleDWallace on how the polling this time around is much different than what we saw 4 years ago:
"There was never a moment in 2016 where Hillary Clinton led outside the margin of error in every battleground state. Never. Not once. Ever…" pic.twitter.com/GfiTQTmAKd— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) July 24, 2020
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BORISHAMBLES BRITAIN
Coronavirus: Boris Johnson says 'we get things wrong' but worst will be over by 'middle of next year' https://t.co/d62ng7c50i
— SkyNews (@SkyNews) July 24, 2020
Boris Johnson says coronavirus could have been handled differently https://t.co/iNl17Bq4eU
— The Guardian (@guardian) July 24, 2020
Actually hilarious… "Sturgeon accuses Johnson of using Covid-19 as political weapon" https://t.co/O8bVRkPZ3A
— Iain Martin (@iainmartin1) July 24, 2020
Loses weight and changes government policy as result. Imagine how different Britain would be if our leaders had actual experience of growing up on benefits, racial discrimination, trying to get relatives mental care, social care, etc etc. https://t.co/9bsDzjj8wA
— Sathnam Sanghera (@Sathnam) July 24, 2020
Boris Johnson after one year: Britain has its first undiluted, triple-distilled post-truth prime minister. https://t.co/tWTiROc8EF
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) July 24, 2020
Meanwhile…
EU nurses have stopped coming to work in the UK because they no longer feel welcome. Brexit will bring to an end to the tradition of Irish nurses working in Britain. It also looks unlikely that EU nursing qualifications will be recognised from January. https://t.co/mHTuGmoIFi
— Nick Reeves #FBPE #RuleOfLaw (@nickreeves9876) July 24, 2020
Revealed: we have a list of the 4 sites in Kent due to be converted into post-Brexit lorry parks 1/ https://t.co/RKlcbr7ZeR pic.twitter.com/AZZG3S6XUK
— Joe Mayes (@Joe_Mayes) July 24, 2020
“But I never thought leopards would drive HGVs through *my* constituency” sobs woman who voted for the Brexit (Leopards Driving HGVs through Kent) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020. https://t.co/o86m79uAd6
— Tim O'Connor (@timoconnorbl) July 24, 2020
First shopping trip without a face mask pic.twitter.com/GTUpceJmzX
— Rosie Holt (@RosieisaHolt) July 24, 2020
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WORLDWIDE
The World Health Organization says 284,196 new coronavirus cases were reported in the past day, more than in any previous dayhttps://t.co/ijp8jQXJGz pic.twitter.com/3jUp5PNiB5
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) July 24, 2020
Perspective: A coronavirus vaccine can’t come at the expense of fighting the virus now https://t.co/0q14eScMLv
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 24, 2020
Shi Zhengli, the researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology who studies bat coronaviruses, speaks out in detail for the first time about allegations that her lab leaked a virus that sparked the pandemic. She'd like an apology from Trump. https://t.co/Clb78oeJBT pic.twitter.com/Bm54W3ZUMh
— Jon Cohen (@sciencecohen) July 24, 2020
I was on vacation when this happened, so I didn't see this. But here is the president of Latin America's largest country waving a box of hydroxychloroquine at an emu. Happy Friday! pic.twitter.com/TsSlyMe5Ni
— Terrence McCoy (@terrence_mccoy) July 24, 2020
#JulyStimulus pic.twitter.com/PHggbNEvKb
— Thomas Byrne TD – 🇮🇪🇪🇺Meath East (@ThomasByrneTD) July 24, 2020
Today is Opening Day, which means it's a great day to arrest the killers of Breonna Taylor
— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) July 24, 2020
