Two days before he died @RepJohnLewis penned an op-ed for the @NYTimes that he asked them to run the day of his funeral. His dying wish and final message to America was for us to "redeem the soul of our nation." Please read! https://t.co/CTIstDcCEI #JohnLewis #JohnLewisMemorial
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) July 30, 2020
"A day of soaring tributes for a giant… Today at the funeral for John Lewis a crowd gathered in his memory. Among them three living presidents… gathered together despite political differences… to celebrate a man whose legacy transcends politics" – @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/xUlFW49C0h
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) July 30, 2020
Watch key moments from John Lewis’ funeral, where former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, along with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, paid tribute to a civil rights icon who knew “that the march is not over” https://t.co/ZSzge4mIZX pic.twitter.com/Ey45hFy7xm
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 30, 2020
Barack Obama politicized John Lewis’ death. Good. https://t.co/82oKZZ5qUu
— Slate (@Slate) July 30, 2020
And, as if to deliberately create a contrast in what people might think of as “presidential…”
Donald Trump doesn’t have the authority to do this—but that doesn’t make what he’s doing any less dangerous. It’s clear he will stop at nothing to spread misinformation and sow division to distract from the mess he’s created. This is what we’re up against.https://t.co/VhJzKc3YTb
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) July 30, 2020
Brutal front page of the New York Daily News pic.twitter.com/nMo3HXjvFu
— Nick Bryant (@NickBryantNY) July 30, 2020
Top Republicans, including Senators Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz, rejected President Trump’s suggestion to delay the November election https://t.co/cG4IiqQQe9 pic.twitter.com/2vgNGvHGNR
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 30, 2020
Opinion | Trump’s suggestion to delay the election is the most anti-democratic thing any president ever said. https://t.co/wr0Ufx11cW
— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) July 30, 2020
“@NicholsUprising: A scared Trump is a dangerous Trump.
And, right now, Trump is very, very scared.
https://t.co/zIxLLRoS17”— John Cusack (@johncusack) July 30, 2020
It is better for election results to be accurate than quick. Especially true because results may shift as more people vote by mail (and shift from Trump to Biden as Trump discourages Rs from voting by mail). See our report, Fair Elections During a Crisis: https://t.co/qGlWCxgGRs https://t.co/VQfIbzDgPq
— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) July 30, 2020
Read this: https://t.co/CDTNVms8sG
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) July 30, 2020
"his proposal appeared as impotent as it was predictable — less a stunning assertion of his authority than yet another lament that his political prospects have dimmed amid a global public-health crisis." @alexburnsNYT on Trump's tweet https://t.co/AYsrUmxC9i
— Connor Ennis (@EnnisNYT) July 30, 2020
"we’ve not only lost the public-health war, we’ve lost the war for truth. Misinformation and lies have captured the castle." Scary but true from @Sulliview
Perspective | This was the week America lost the war on misinformation https://t.co/ephQOfyQD1— Tom Jackman (@TomJackmanWP) July 30, 2020
This is a thread about Trump's "delay" tweet, democratic backsliding, and the importance of believing your own eyes & ears. It begins on Sunday, January 22, 2017, the first weekend of the Trump presidency. (1/14)
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 30, 2020
Meanwhile…
The news of the worst quarter in recorded history is what Mr. Trump is asking us to overlook today. https://t.co/c43AGPw68w
— Timothy Snyder (@TimothyDSnyder) July 30, 2020
Today's economic news:
The U.S. GDP collapsed and the four Big Tech companies reported blowout earnings.
It's rare that the story tells itself this well.
— Jack Nicas (@jacknicas) July 30, 2020
Economy in reverse: Initial jobless claims soar for second week, GDP falls by record 33 percent: It's the biggest economic contraction on record, dating to 1947. https://t.co/UzHjpIRuA8
— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) July 30, 2020
Forty lobbyists with ties to Trump helped clients secure a least $10,500,000,000 in federal coronavirus aid.
We cannot trust this corrupt administration to give out relief dollars to the people who truly need it. We must #StopCOVIDCorruption.https://t.co/F8j0pnc5uw
— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) July 30, 2020
Jaw-dropping and sickening: According to @KatherineEban @VanityFair, the White House DID actually come up with a decent national testing plan — until it was killed for political reasons, among them that the virus was then ravaging blue states https://t.co/8SRBa07HYZ
— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) July 30, 2020
This awful revelation is the one I’ve seen most distributed on Twitter. But every paragraph of this piece is equally damning. https://t.co/uiSDQCyLQw pic.twitter.com/9JZhqfyPjQ
— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) July 30, 2020
well, of course…
U.S. government to launch 'overwhelming' COVID-19 vaccine campaign by November https://t.co/7aevUy6plJ pic.twitter.com/Cx6dd4mNsj
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 30, 2020
It's official: every single district from Northern Virginia up I-95 through Maryland to the Pennsylvania state line is now starting the year fully remote. Well over one million schoolchildren. A remarkable shift from just a few weeks ago, when many districts were planning hybrid. https://t.co/4FUHO1W7to
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) July 30, 2020
And finally… well…
Trump youth group begins deleting tweets mocking COVID-19 after co-founder dies from the virus https://t.co/McknODooAk
— Daily Kos (@dailykos) July 30, 2020
Herman Cain, a former Republican presidential candidate and supporter of President Trump, who refused to wear a mask during the coronavirus pandemic, has died after contracting COVID-19 https://t.co/dZpDj6ePT0 pic.twitter.com/yAUF8uuJCQ
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 30, 2020
The President says Herman Cain passed away “from a thing called the China virus” pic.twitter.com/hdDkeicNHm
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) July 30, 2020
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BORISHAMBLES BRITAIN
BREAKING: Health Secretary Matt Hancock says members of separate households are banned from meeting each other indoors in Manchester, parts of Lancashire and parts of West Yorkshire from midnight tonight.
Read more: https://t.co/5redhm6WN8 pic.twitter.com/FyuTbbVnyL
— SkyNews (@SkyNews) July 30, 2020
Confusion and exasperation as people across Greater Manchester react to new lockdown restrictions… there are so many unanswered questions https://t.co/9GtVUedGwz
— Manchester News MEN (@MENnewsdesk) July 30, 2020
You can meet at your family at the Schrodinger's Arms https://t.co/pmC8rpvPlr
— Michael Deacon (@MichaelPDeacon) July 30, 2020
Mosques – subject to the known restrictions including social distancing – are not affected by the lockdown measures announced. This has been confirmed by the Director of Public Health in Manchester and Number 10.
Eid prayers are therefore still permitted. https://t.co/XOAVWCWcEI
— MCB (@MuslimCouncil) July 30, 2020
The UK's largest independent provider of social care says it no longer has access to regular testing for staff and residents because of an issue with a supplier used by the government https://t.co/oTleJfEeZF
— SkyNews (@SkyNews) July 30, 2020
INDEPENDENT DIGITAL: is this really ‘massive success’ @BorisJohnson ? #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/xD2Qk04CCM
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) July 30, 2020
Johnson trying to give peerages to his ultra-rich mates who have poured money into the Tory party+leave organisations,except the Lords wouldn't let him🧐. We now await spiteful revenge of the narcissist who doesn't like people stopping him! 🧐 @telegraph https://t.co/0zJn90czt2
— mike roberts-millar 🇪🇺 (@wisheart12) July 30, 2020
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WORLDWIDE
125.78 degrees at Kuwait International Airport, a planetary record
this is just 7° F less than the temperature in which the WHO recommends we cook food to destroy the cornonavirus
we are in a #ClimateEmergency https://t.co/gDfNGfrSGe
— Dr. Genevieve Guenther (@DoctorVive) July 30, 2020
A quarter of Bangladesh is now underwater
The average American produces 33x more carbon emissions than the average Bangladeshi.
Climate justice demands we act now https://t.co/iFDar4iPWv
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) July 30, 2020
The four types of climate denier, and why you should ignore them all
– The shill, the grifter, the egomaniac and the ideological fool are all irrelevant to the serious global debate
Opinion piece by me#climatecrisishttps://t.co/m1R3kYKwtP
— Damian Carrington (@dpcarrington) July 30, 2020
Pentagon task force to release new report on UFO encounters @tomforemancnn reports https://t.co/ba1RhA2vx7 pic.twitter.com/7TTPDxAJTt
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) July 30, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the United States closed the Chinese consulate in Houston because it was a ‘den of spies’ https://t.co/cZ705HmNtm pic.twitter.com/iofdiTB8U0
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 30, 2020
Hong Kong police signaled their intent to enforce new Chinese national security law strictly, arresting four youths on suspicion of inciting secession through social media posts. https://t.co/nMOPtkcodX
— ABC News (@ABC) July 31, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: A tearful Amanda Staveley blames rival clubs and Premier League delays for Newcastle takeover withdrawal. She tells The Times she is "heartbroken". Interview and story with @Lawton_Times https://t.co/9Qu2ELAwK6
— Martyn Ziegler (@martynziegler) July 30, 2020
Sources close to the Saudis say Ashley tried to 'significantly renegotiate' the £300m deal at the last minute.
One of the reasons why they have pulled out today, as well as losing patience with the Premier League. #nufc
— David Coverdale (@dpcoverdale) July 30, 2020
Apple now has enough cash on hand to buy an Olive Garden Spaghetti dinner for every single person born since 1900
— Christopher Mims (@mims) July 30, 2020
Finally…
Herd not seen: 15,000 cattle vanishhttps://t.co/b8nunsaP6u pic.twitter.com/cIWIVl7g3t
— Belfast Telegraph (@BelTel) July 30, 2020
The Overnight Note 