Two killed, one wounded by gunfire in Kenosha, Wis., during third night of protests over police shooting of Jacob Blake Jr. https://t.co/SvAPAPzGML

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 26, 2020

BREAKING: Kenosha Police: 3 people shot, 2 fatally, during protests in Wisconsin over a Black man shot in the back by an officer. https://t.co/9yZm2dAWc8

— The Associated Press (@AP) August 26, 2020

No suspect IDd in fatal shooting but sheriff told @nytimes: 'This is why you don’t deputize citizens with guns to protect Kenosha' https://t.co/yWeBwqOha4

— Dan Mihalopoulos (@dmihalopoulos) August 26, 2020

“At one point, shots rang out along a street near a gas station; Sheriff David Beth of Kenosha County said that three people had been shot, and one was killed.” https://t.co/IqxaQR9hIC

— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) August 26, 2020

Extended footage of the shooting in Kenosha. pic.twitter.com/oBG6UgT0Fs

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 26, 2020

Three people were shot, one fatally, in #Kenosha tonight. Law enforcement is investigating whether the shooting stemmed from a conflict between self-styled militias guarding a gas station and demonstrators. https://t.co/ZnVoSrVWjn

— Julie Bosman (@juliebosman) August 26, 2020

Jacob Blake's family said for years they have watched as police shot & killed Black people on video and now they are living part of that nightmare. That's at the heart of being Black in America — living with that terrible anticipation of death. That's the trauma in our bones.

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) August 25, 2020

“They shot my son seven times, seven times. Like he didn’t matter, but my son matters,” Jacob Blake’s father says. Blake’s attorney confirmed that Blake is paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by Kenosha police. https://t.co/rpOW888B4T pic.twitter.com/DSJg8kt7y3

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) August 25, 2020

Julia Jackson, mother of Jacob Blake: “I am really asking and encouraging everyone in Wisconsin and abroad to take a moment and examine your heart … do Jacob justice on this level and examine your heart. We need healing.” pic.twitter.com/UsreixTwtS

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 25, 2020

"You don't realize how inadequate our laws are in this arena until you have to explain them to someone's parents, especially to someone's mom. I'm in awe of his mother… I can only pray that the public is moved by her words" – David Henderson w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/IjmuXny3tf

— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) August 25, 2020

Family lawyer says it would take a 'miracle' for Jacob Blake to walk again after being shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin https://t.co/ncKwi7Kw21

— The Associated Press (@AP) August 25, 2020

I am so tired of this damn ritual of black grief in public. I am so fu*king tired of this.

— Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (@esglaude) August 25, 2020

The crisis in American law enforcement is headed into a very perilous new iteration. https://t.co/AYhGPFRBlM

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 25, 2020

The Wisconsin Department of Corrections building was set on fire during the second night of unrest in Kenosha. Reduced to rubble and ashes. This video was recorded before bulldozers were brought in. @cbschicago pic.twitter.com/x0voJ2xF4I

— Vi Nguyen (@ViNguyen) August 25, 2020

The owners of this car dealership in Kenosha say they have sustained hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage in the last 2 nights of protests & that insurers say they don’t cover this type of destruction. “But if it actually gets justice, sure burn it 20 times” they tell me pic.twitter.com/1M7spwpTWm

— Aleem Maqbool (@AleemMaqbool) August 25, 2020

State of Emergency curfew just announced in #Kenosha pic.twitter.com/d40WzaQ5rX

— Drew Hernandez (@livesmattershow) August 25, 2020

Republican Convention: 4 things to watch for on Night 2: So what is Trump's message to voters who aren't kept up at night by fears of crime, immigrants and socialism? The question looms large over the convention's second night. https://t.co/yOVTcBzywM

— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) August 25, 2020

RNC night two, featuring:

FLOTUS live from the Rose Garden

& Pompeo on tape from Israel during an official mission that has now sparked an ethics probe

& two Trump kids, including one at the center of a tax fraud investigation.https://t.co/k0tQaIFHp9

— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) August 25, 2020

.@NicolleDWallace says the sentiments of anger expressed at the RNC have “no rationale.”

“He’s in charge. So, whatever the indictment is of life in America today, this is Donald Trump’s America.”https://t.co/kQ8DmTRaCh

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 25, 2020

The Republican party didn't publish a 2020 platform. But of course it has one. Here it is, in 13 points. https://t.co/NAgDd0ll5v

— David Frum (@davidfrum) August 25, 2020

Melania Trump is about to give her biggest speech in four years. The Trump campaign hopes she can be its secret weapon. https://t.co/4nznzkjE9Z

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 25, 2020

Pompeo — the most partisan and arguably worst Secretary of State in modern period — speaks to RNC. Just another day at office. https://t.co/JUV4iB7I1V

— Aaron David Miller (@aarondmiller2) August 25, 2020

Secretary Pompeo to violate the Hatch Act from the Western Wall. @TimesofIsrael quotes @RWPUSA …

Is Pompeo’s Middle East trip diplomacy or a show for US voters? https://t.co/uauPKPPhvv via @timesofisrael

— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) August 25, 2020

Mark and Patricia McCloskey are facing felony charges for threatening racial justice protesters with guns.

They’re not at the RNC in spite of that. They’re there BECAUSE of it. #TrumpChaos https://t.co/fabHfjeZTh

— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) August 25, 2020

Nick Sandmann, RNC speaker and Covington Catholic video star, explained https://t.co/tjvVolbA4A

— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) August 25, 2020

"Hours before she was set to speak at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night, Mary Ann Mendoza took to Twitter and urged her followers to investigate a supposed Jewish plot to enslave the world." https://t.co/G0L3dBAuw2

— Ben Pershing (@benpershing) August 25, 2020

Rewriting the headline:

The Trump campaign invited QAnon supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene to Trump acceptance speech at White House, an inappropriate venue for a campaign event. https://t.co/P5XDbLB6VS

— Bethany Albertson (@AlbertsonB2) August 25, 2020

This breach of norms will send a message to the world that the U.S. is not serious about government ethics, to the federal workforce that their leaders are free to use the government to influence elections, and to the people that the chief public servant is now public-served.

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) August 25, 2020

Trump Has Now Moved $2.3 Million Of Campaign-Donor Money Into His Private Business https://t.co/GApuQvySzA

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 25, 2020

UPDATE: Liberty University's board of trustees accepts resignation of President Jerry Falwell Jr., following a daylong back-and-forth over the fate of the longtime evangelical Christian leader who spent 13 turbulent years at the school's helm. https://t.co/mkb734u0Z4

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 25, 2020

The Food and Drug Administration dismissed accusations that it authorized antibody-rich blood plasma for treating Covid-19 under White House pressure, after the president linked the pace of testing therapeutics to his re-election https://t.co/PWmqLQsAnA

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) August 25, 2020

566 coronavirus cases reported at Univ. of Alabama in less than a week since classes started. https://t.co/QE28wi6r4I

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 25, 2020

Officials connect Sturgis Motorcycle Rally to coronavirus cases in eight states https://t.co/Eii4HobGq4 pic.twitter.com/bh9LmByazN

— The Hill (@thehill) August 25, 2020

‘We demand all political prisoners freed. We demand to stop the violence and intimidation by the authorities’: Self-exiled Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said in a video link with the European Parliament https://t.co/LKsPKMCQhd pic.twitter.com/Yhsj3mqinm

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 25, 2020

#Minsk, #Belarus, earlier tonight: thousands keep on protesting, on a week night pic.twitter.com/CohtK4WwOH

— Alex Kokcharov (@AlexKokcharov) August 25, 2020

UN Security Council rejects US demand to snap back Iran sanctions https://t.co/zRHAknpJ1j pic.twitter.com/FvOouD3xWG

— The Hill (@thehill) August 25, 2020

Polio has been declared eradicated from Africa, the World Health Organization says. https://t.co/YAHSiE23sv

— CNN (@CNN) August 25, 2020

Canada has effectively moved to block China's Huawei from 5G, but can't say so https://t.co/TWm5PwX9vP pic.twitter.com/l3lF5eE5pz

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 25, 2020

The idea that our prospects today are better than they were in January is bananas. This suggests some combination of:
1. Stocks were too low in January
2. Stock are too high now
3. The stock market over-represents those sectors of the economy (big tech) that gain from Covid https://t.co/3Jq6OBs8Np

— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) August 25, 2020

"Nut prices have fallen to multiyear lows as fears over pandemic and lockdown measures crunch big buyers such as airlines, hotels and pubs”@EmikoTerazono
COVID crisis exposes yet another set of connections that are obvious but of which one was not aware. https://t.co/qQJs3IkXPJ pic.twitter.com/XDOLzphNuz

— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) August 25, 2020

Oil producers cut 84% of U.S. Gulf of Mexico output: U.S. regulator https://t.co/VYdWFCAbbr pic.twitter.com/IqLcHGQawr

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 25, 2020

Lionel Messi’s desire to leave Barca is clear – what happens next is anything but @MiguelDelaney breaks down what could be the biggest transfer in football historyhttps://t.co/M9SGw2M0I6

— Indy Football (@IndyFootball) August 25, 2020

Manchester United captain Harry Maguire given suspended sentence of 21 months and 10 days in prison after trial on Greek island of Syroshttps://t.co/2JQJCcUn0M

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) August 25, 2020

The Messi news has really overshadowed the fact that Harry Maguire's lawyers, in court, under oath, took to the stand and told the judge and the world that he went to Greece with a thirst for knowledge.

— Mikel Keshani (@MichaelKeshani) August 25, 2020

EXCLUSIVE: Former Oz PM Tony Abbott to be Britain’s new joint President of the Board of Trade in major revamp. Forthright Aussie to “bang the drum for Brexit Britain around the world” in shock signing: https://t.co/AKZDzKca3o

— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) August 25, 2020

Four months away from the UK voluntarily collapsing its main trade partnership, and this is the strategy.

A silly title for a man who was kicked out of office on the other side of the world… because he is addicted to silly titles.

Pythonesque. https://t.co/pYLtLhTJRt

— Matthew O'Toole (@MatthewOToole2) August 25, 2020

And who is so popular in his home country that people stop him in the street to call him a “dickhead”.

That guy?

Great hire.

— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) August 25, 2020

The risk of a no-deal Brexit is rising, and that’s no bad thing https://t.co/KLOtpgpkim

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) August 24, 2020

The government says every Covid-19 death is a tragedy. If that's the case, why won't it meet with bereaved families and commit to learning lessons and saving lives?#CovidInquiryNowhttps://t.co/MHrtKxbDgI

— Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK (@CovidJusticeUk) August 25, 2020

Hans Sloane bust hasn’t been ‘removed’, it’s been taken off pedestal & put into a cabinet surrounded by artefacts which explore his wealth & collecting in context of the human exploitation which enabled it. Modern enlightenment at @britishmuseum https://t.co/TvSLY6rdtq

— John Wilson (@JohnWilson14) August 25, 2020

The Rule, Britannia non-row culture war "row":

— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) August 25, 2020

Number of BLM activists I know who care about the lyrics to Rule Britannia: 0

Number of news reports/opinion pieces on it so far: five gazillion

— Sathnam Sanghera (@Sathnam) August 25, 2020

"I've got a brand new combine harvester." 🎼#RuleBritannia https://t.co/RHBe40M9LR

— Dylan Thomas (@themachineowl) August 25, 2020