#BREAKING: President Trump abruptly leaves press conference mid-sentence after an aide gets his attention. The President offers no explanation as he leaves. pic.twitter.com/DQTb69l3gb

— The Hill (@thehill) August 10, 2020

President Trump was abruptly escorted out of the White House briefing room as he was meeting with reporters. He returned soon after, saying there had been a shooting outside the White House that was now "under control." https://t.co/Nr0NtRG06Q

— The Associated Press (@AP) August 10, 2020

TRUMP: “It’s unfortunate that this is a, uh, world. But the world’s always been a dangerous place. It’s not something that’s unique. You look back over the centuries, the world has been a dangerous place—very dangerous place. And it will continue, I guess, for a period of time.” https://t.co/S8ag4NQhtV

— Vicky Ward (@VickyPJWard) August 10, 2020

“Do I seem rattled?” Trump asks.

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) August 10, 2020

Trump again promising a vaccine before the end of the year.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 10, 2020

Trump says Birx told him test results are now coming back in two days.
One of them is lying.

— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) August 10, 2020

Trump now trying to cover for Texas by talking about how their fatality rate is lower than New York.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 10, 2020

TRUMP: "I do want to say that, I think, at the end of a fairly short period of time, you're going to be in very, very good shape all over our country."

— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) August 10, 2020

“It’s China’s fault“

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 10, 2020

Trump is having a drunk uncle day. He is an incoherent mess and clearly shaken.

— Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) August 10, 2020

The President is questioned over his claim that protections for pre-existing conditions had never been done before pic.twitter.com/aoR17fQq93

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 10, 2020

President Trump: "Iran will make a deal with us in a month after the election's over if we win the election, but their greatest dream in the world is that Joe Biden wins because they will own this country." pic.twitter.com/HFd3GXDVWi

— The Hill (@thehill) August 10, 2020

Asked if he’s raised with Putin the intel assessment that Russia is interfering in the election, Trump talks about the intel assessments about China and Iran, then says “the Democrats” are the ones meddling in the election, which is, again, nonsense.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 10, 2020

Well, at least State TV is dutifully reporting the dear leader’s exact words pic.twitter.com/05sdlhHMsI

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 10, 2020

He is literally just saying whatever pops into his head. He's making it all up.

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) August 10, 2020

North Korea couldn’t cash a check in a strip mall but it’s going to own the US if Biden wins.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 10, 2020

Trump says nobody had stockpiles of ventilators at the outset, though his administration has confirmed it inherited a national stockpile of about 16,660 ventilators in working order.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 10, 2020

OAN asks Trump about Susan Rice being considered as Biden running mate, opening door for Potus to make false claims about Obama administration "spying" on his campaign and calling it "treason."

— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) August 10, 2020

I spent two hours in the dentist's chair today and it wasn't as painful as that presser. You're welcome.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 10, 2020

This is what the State Department public affairs press release says about the OIG report. The OIG report itself hasn't been released yet. It's expected to be released this evening or tomorrow https://t.co/N7kpHfXvvC

— Robbie Gramer (@RobbieGramer) August 10, 2020

Analysis: Trump keeps running roughshod over Congress.

And Republicans have largely let him. https://t.co/k814GwP96d

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 10, 2020

Trump’s Mount Rushmore fantasy is enabled by a ‘Potemkin village’ staffers build for him, @jameshohmann writes in The Daily 202. w/@marianaa_alfaro: https://t.co/vWjgGsstiy

— FrancesSteadSellers (@FrancesSSellers) August 10, 2020

"Fourscore and seven Miss Universes ago …"https://t.co/i4PSx8C2fr

— Keith Herrell (@CincinnatiKeith) August 10, 2020

Big Ten votes to cancel football season: report https://t.co/hoiMHXBuMy pic.twitter.com/ZgxFBlbXy3

— The Hill (@thehill) August 10, 2020

You and others should’ve worn you F’ing masks and we could’ve had college 🏈 in the fall. But you got your liberties with no football https://t.co/tWY5GWX6qX

— shannon sharpe (@ShannonSharpe) August 10, 2020

President Trump's order does little to stop impending eviction crisis, experts say https://t.co/Prk231KaYw

— CNBC (@CNBC) August 10, 2020

They spent the remainder of the first half of the show attacking him and The Lincoln Project pic.twitter.com/1Q2LbS9Uag

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 10, 2020

I cannot take seriously anything Sens. Rubio, Hawley, Cotton and Sasse have to say about the future of the Republican Party because they have shown that, like Trump, they are in office to serve themselves rather than the American people.@PostOpinions https://t.co/2AIJkwqTck

— Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@MaxBoot) August 10, 2020

90-100 mph winds…😳 https://t.co/w8804fcPiO

— NWS Des Moines (@NWSDesMoines) August 10, 2020

Boris Johnson visits empty school to emphasise they are safe when busy https://t.co/uG0AmnYxSg

— The New European – Think Without Borders (@TheNewEuropean) August 10, 2020

Contact tracers to be reduced by 6,000 in England https://t.co/5zwAj5Ya0e

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) August 10, 2020

Just when you thought the PPE scandal couldn’t get worse or more bizarre-Companies Linked to ‘Exclusive Brethren’ Evangelical Sect Awarded Hundreds of Millions of PPE Government Contracts – Byline Times https://t.co/3Yh2EYaSxN

— Stephen Colegrave (@StephenColegra1) August 10, 2020

Home secretary and RAF in show of force at Dover whilst, quietly, government drops outsourced world beating Test & Trace operation – another Dido Harding non-production. https://t.co/6jlBe9nNfr

— Brexitshambles (@brexit_sham) August 10, 2020

Just remember only 0.18% of the population in the UK are refugees. If they do have recourse to public funds it is £37.75 a week. That breaks down to just over £5 a day.

Priti Patel earns £1,000 an hour as an advisor to Viasat whose systems are used on Royal Navy Warships 🤔

— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) August 9, 2020

Brexit editors, knowing that being a Remainer meant a career cul-de-sac, colluded to con their readers. Already the trade issue and now migrant crisis show they lied to the country. Brexit is a disaster. Always was. What a scandal this is…..

— David Yelland (@davidyelland) August 10, 2020

I know we're all supposed to be screaming at each other (& forgetting about death tolls, Barnard Castle, PPE scandals, care homes etc) but it's objectively hilarious that Brexit is essentially going to give 'control' of our 'borders' to France.

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) August 10, 2020

Brexit: Boris Johnson’s promise of lucrative trade deals in trouble, study warns | The Independent https://t.co/sx19rkvzAm

— Rob B (@RobBfromDerby) August 10, 2020

Lebanon’s entire government, including its prime minister, has resigned amid public outrage over the Beirut explosion.

Until a new government is formed, Lebanon will be led by a “caretaker government,” which can’t propose laws or executive measures. https://t.co/Cz7kLI10Ke

— Vox (@voxdotcom) August 10, 2020

WATCH: Massive explosion rips through gas station in southwest Russia; at least 13 injured pic.twitter.com/6oA2vdYf42

— BNO News (@BNONews) August 10, 2020

Interesting stat from @PoliticoRyan on how a selection of key economies performed between Q2 2019 and Q2 2020 – no doubt, there will be questions asked by some as to how the source of #COVID19 has outperformed others: pic.twitter.com/DAcOgXmK8U

— Thomas Cole (@ThomasHCole) August 9, 2020

How Is COVID-19 Impacting Global Conflict? https://t.co/H0FQSYBaCD

— Ziya Meral (@Ziya_Meral) August 10, 2020

This is the most incredible footage of the suspended "flying" train in Wuppertal in Germany in 1902. The scenes on the journey are astonishing, as is the camera work. How can something 118 years old look futuristic? https://t.co/D5AhwPZPc7

— L R Jones (@1967lrjones) August 9, 2020

Calls are growing for an international ban on the creation of killer robots, which could pose a "grave threat to humanity" https://t.co/9Heb5JRZ6Y

— Sky News (@SkyNews) August 10, 2020

‘This is unstoppable’: America's midwest braces itself for a Covid-19 surge https://t.co/RGDTzMlWHC

— The Guardian (@guardian) August 9, 2020

America's failure so far to contain the spread of the coronavirus has been met with astonishment and alarm abroad. Much of the incredulity in Europe stems from the fact that the U.S. had the benefit of time and Europe's experience with COVID-19. https://t.co/DVQbC3Oe5x

— The Associated Press (@AP) August 9, 2020

A new CDC analysis of children hospitalized for the coronavirus finds:

• 1 in 3 was admitted to the ICU
• Black kids were 5 times as likely as white kids to be hospitalized
• Hispanic kids were about 8 times as likely as white kids to be hospitalized https://t.co/TmYKZpnS80

— NPR (@NPR) August 9, 2020

"According to @youyanggu, the best modeler of the pandemic spread, the infection fatality rate has fallen from about 1% in March to about 0.25% today. In other words, the lethality of the disease in the U.S. has fallen by about 3/4 since its peak." https://t.co/yrdrI7bv6d

— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) August 9, 2020

Trump quashed report section showing Russia is helping him win 2020 – Business Insider https://t.co/wjcDeOBlGA

— craig newmark (@craignewmark) August 9, 2020

That’s a core part of the job of NSA. I wonder what else he isn’t doing. https://t.co/aT5HmcQsQD

— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) August 9, 2020

We are all suffering from scandal fatigue, but this scandal cannot be ignored: Trump does not want the intelligence community to expose Russian attacks because he is their beneficiary.

In @PostOpinions: https://t.co/IeK0PFnJrR

— Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@MaxBoot) August 8, 2020

Opinion: Russia is actively helping Trump. Again. https://t.co/3k0uvdXaDe

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 9, 2020

tbh I did not see “Cut Medicare and Social Security” coming as Trump’s election year pivot.

— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) August 9, 2020

One day after Pres. Trump's response to Congress' impasse over additional coronavirus relief spending by signing a series of executive actions, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer described the directives as "paltry… unworkable, weak and far too narrow" https://t.co/FVdnv5Tuxr

— ABC News (@ABC) August 9, 2020

Failure wasn't an option on coronavirus aid. It was the only option.: Analysis: There was no political incentive — other than public need — for the White House and Congress to reach a deal. So they didn't. https://t.co/0tXMKALjXx

— Jeffrey Levin 🇺🇦 (@jilevin) August 8, 2020

A national poll of teachers finds overwhelming trepidation about returning to the physical classroom:

• 82% are concerned about returning to in-person teaching
• two-thirds prefer to teach primarily remote
• 77% are worried about risking their healthhttps://t.co/sJYWzmYJ4H

— NPR (@NPR) August 9, 2020

Some photos from the 6th anniversary of Michael Brown shooting and protests in Ferguson https://t.co/YiZ1vpsA0h via @stltoday pix by @ChrisKohley and @PDPJ pic.twitter.com/JNCYo7xHR5

— David Carson (@PDPJ) August 9, 2020

Kudlow claims payroll tax deferral will give employed Americans "a gigantic wage increase" https://t.co/d9daujDNN8 pic.twitter.com/bY47H2IIEw

— The Hill (@thehill) August 9, 2020

Navarro on Trump spending weekend at golf club: "This is the hardest working president in history" https://t.co/1P0O5ymHJI pic.twitter.com/XuFrYE8rO4

— The Hill (@thehill) August 9, 2020

White House asked if Trump could be added to Mount Rushmore https://t.co/6LodMRfPVx pic.twitter.com/lT0YLOImcV

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) August 9, 2020

Highest Covid death toll in Europe, worst economic hit in the G7.
No wonder they want us to focus on small numbers of desperate migrants arriving in dinghies. https://t.co/MOKR4lvo3z

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) August 9, 2020

Does he understand that it is not a staycation when one travels somewhere else?
Does he understand that he is the PM and there is still a health crisis?https://t.co/lUZxY4kfBI

— Jen🌻 (@Jennyflower) August 9, 2020

I wont be taking no vaccind nor walking around with a submission mask..I have never in all life put on a mask over the threat of passing on or receiving a common cold..

— Davidt (@Davidjt43) August 9, 2020

Two-thirds of UK’s furloughed workers continued job in Covid-19 lockdown even though the government explicitly forbids this practice. I imagine all the ⁦@ExcludedUK⁩ self-employed freelancers who received nothing will be furious at this news. I am. https://t.co/kDV9IEjN8W

— Steve Smith (@dirstevesmith) August 9, 2020

Landslide kills 43 at southern Indian tea plantation https://t.co/pCQCbaee8Q

— The Independent (@Independent) August 9, 2020

Gunmen kill six French aid workers, their driver and guide in Niger, minister says https://t.co/ANH08fLLsO pic.twitter.com/8aHMqjhOTv

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 9, 2020

Police in Belarus violently suppress protests after ‘dictator’ Lukashenko declared winnerhttps://t.co/lxQIYmQp34

— The Independent (@Independent) August 9, 2020

The city of Minsk erupted in pro-democracy protests as critics question exit polls showing a strong victory for authoritarian incumbent Aleksander Lukashenko. https://t.co/dtBckCkxww

— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) August 9, 2020

According to the official exit poll this is only 6,8% of #Belarus.

It's fair to say we just witnessed the most shameless case of electoral fraud in the modern history of #Europe pic.twitter.com/UJt8549829

— Thomas van Linge (@ThomasVLinge) August 9, 2020

Evidently, police are using disproportionate force to disperse protesters. People just stand and wait, and shout "Long Live Belarus!" Police throw explosives. pic.twitter.com/ghMN0HwWsP

— Franak Viačorka (@franakviacorka) August 9, 2020

► VIDEO: New Zealand hits 100 days without domestic transmission of Covid-19 https://t.co/qVy0zZYiRu pic.twitter.com/1gPc8cyDqq

— Irish Times Video (@irishtimesvideo) August 9, 2020

Doctors in Europe say progress in treating people with Covid-19 is helping to reduce fatalities among the sickest patients, a hopeful sign as the region grapples with sporadic flare-ups as it heads through the tourist season and into fall and winter.

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) July 31, 2020

Beirut residents mourn destruction amid transformed cityscape https://t.co/N5EU27PE02 pic.twitter.com/PTmFYod64p

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 9, 2020

Fire breaks out near Lebanese parliament amid clashes with protesters: tv https://t.co/sLoRsFjuKS pic.twitter.com/qoXxyU55i6

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 9, 2020

Rough seas are hampering response to Mauritius ship leak; oil spill reaches 1,000 tons https://t.co/J7VRD6Gkzq

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 9, 2020

Not now, ET.https://t.co/uZHnfdK8Jg

— Duke Of Havoc (@DukeOfHavoc) August 9, 2020

Google Earth in Siberia seems to show four Russian tanks guarding a crashed… something…
I don’t know what it is, but I’m sure the truth is out there! pic.twitter.com/3vJb35hxam

— Mothra P.I. (@Hardywolf359) August 9, 2020

U.S. Intelligence Says Republicans Are Working With Russia to Reelect Trump https://t.co/CvznkcopLY

— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) August 8, 2020

Russia is interfering in our elections to help Donald Trump & tear down Joe Biden. No other country is doing this. And Russia is doing so with the help of Trump’s Senate allies Ron Johnson and Lindsey Graham.
Our elections must belong to us. pic.twitter.com/7Eg7Fd1pja

— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) August 7, 2020

Sen. Blumenthal, who says he was “shocked” by what he learned in a classified briefing about election threats, says the statement issued yesterday by the top election security official “only hints at the threats…there is much more.” https://t.co/BvSPsHXvW3

— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) August 8, 2020

Russia’s interference in 2016 might be remembered as the experimental prelude that foreshadowed the attack of 2020, argues @FranklinFoer in this terrifying piece.https://t.co/aXM4NJ27XN

— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) August 8, 2020

BREAKING: the United States has surpassed 5,000,000 cases of Coronavirus, more than a quarter of the world’s total

— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) August 8, 2020

“COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism. At the height of the crisis, with more than 2,000 dying each day, Americans found themselves members of a failed state…” https://t.co/4JghO7ZR8Y

— Cahir O’Doherty (@randomirish) August 8, 2020

BREAKING: Pres. Trump signs executive orders for coronavirus relief after negotiations with Democrats in Congress reach an impasse. Democrats have promised to file a legal challenge, citing Congress' constitutional authority to determine federal spending. https://t.co/Bf0gm2YQF5

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 8, 2020

Trump may not know it while playing golf with his billionaire friends, but millions of unemployed Americans are now going hungry and facing evictions. If the GOP can provide $1 trillion in tax breaks for the rich, they can support a $600 supplement for unemployment insurance.

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) August 8, 2020

THREAD: Trump’s delusional “news conference” goes off the rails at Bedminster. Rest assured @atrupar doesn’t miss a beat. https://t.co/elyjoyJBG1

— Michael Hinkelman (@MHinkelman) August 8, 2020

“The Coronuuuuhhhhh…” He doesn’t know what it’s fucking called.

— Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) August 8, 2020

The applause and laughs highlight how inappropriate this is.

— Patti O'Brien (@OBrieninDC) August 8, 2020

So, the President is announcing largely illegal policy via executive order at his own business, with paying customers in attendance, and promising a bribe to anyone who votes for him

— it’s lawsuit time (@jesseltaylor) August 8, 2020

Trump suspending the payroll tax has nothing to do with pandemic relief and everything to do with the GOP's crusade to destroy what little social safety net exists in the US.

The payroll tax funds Social Security and Medicare. #SaveSocialSecurity #SaveMedicare https://t.co/ekOwj5e7l2

— Rita Moore 🇺🇦 😷 🌹 (@_RitaMoore) August 8, 2020

Trump says he will be "signing some bills."
The Senate didn't pass a bill. The House and Senate did not agree to a bill. There is no bill.

— Jonathan Allen (@jonallendc) August 8, 2020

Of the four documents just signed by @POTUS, only one is an executive order ("assistance to renters and homeowners"). The other three are memoranda.

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) August 8, 2020

Trump is now offering pens to the people watching. “Would anybody like a pen. Anybody?”

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 8, 2020

A reporter asks POTUS why he keeps making false statement that he passed Veterans' Choice. He ends the presser, to applause from club members.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 8, 2020

It's fairly alarming that the President has been lying for years at nearly every public event about passing a bill and this may be the first time a reporter has challenged him about it to his face. https://t.co/93YX6Svidu

— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) August 8, 2020

.@GOPChairwoman Ronna McDaniel is here too. The president leaves from Bedminster for two fundraisers in the Hamptons tonight. pic.twitter.com/8QZ1fE4055

— Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) August 8, 2020

250,000 bikers to descend on S Dakota to shun masks, wear "Screw COVID" t-shirts, and spread the deadly virus from coast to coast in the coming weeks with the blessings of GOP's @govkristinoem. https://t.co/D3E4tBplvC

— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) August 8, 2020

Britain is heading for full lockdown again by September unless Boris Johnson's government sorts out the "disaster" of test and trace: @Sir_David_King chair of @IndependentSage https://t.co/avlQnBbBxh

— Ian Fraser (@Ian_Fraser) August 8, 2020

Does anyone ever ask why Britain seems to think everything is someone else’s fault; someone else’s responsibility? UK to urge France to crack down on migrant crossings https://t.co/KbbilgA55I

— Jessica Simor KC (@JMPSimor) August 8, 2020

Ministry of Defence tells Priti Patel her Navy plans have ‘more holes than Swiss cheese’ | The New European

Priti Patel is an idiot. https://t.co/LMzIRPSWLG

— Dr Martin Opposes Gov’t Corruption (@MartinRemains) August 8, 2020

pic.twitter.com/8CNRQCiORC

— Elaine (@NotaBot1976) August 8, 2020

🚨 People smugglers have used Brexit to panic migrants by claiming trips to the UK could become more difficult https://t.co/GfSYv9ODDE

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) August 8, 2020

That French response to Priti Patel in full pic.twitter.com/0PiAasVL0I

— CJohnston (@CJohnstonNI) August 8, 2020

David Lammy calls on Britain to have more compassion for refugees and migrants fleeing horrendous situations. They deserve our compassion not our punishment. https://t.co/apDbb5AkUJ

— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) August 8, 2020

Tate & Lyle
▪️Backed Brexit
▪️Tory Party donor
▪️Only beneficiary of new post-Brexit rule change
▪️Stand to gain £73m

Welcome to Britain. The banana republic sprinkled with sugar. https://t.co/cqRCPFbH0v

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) August 8, 2020

What the fuck does Boris Johnson know about morals? pic.twitter.com/o8FByE9Eob

— Kneale Jefferis (@KnealeJ) August 8, 2020

SUNDAY TIMES: ⁦@BorisJohnson⁩ : Children suffer more by staying home #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/e8VOeODUHt

— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) August 8, 2020

Belarus president is arresting his political opponents https://t.co/7TebtO8EMf

— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) August 8, 2020

After a brief lull, hurricane season is set to roar back at breakneck pace later this month https://t.co/1zJvM4Qmc0

— Jeffrey Levin 🇺🇦 (@jilevin) August 8, 2020

BREAKING: A U.S. government intelligence report released says China is actively interfering in the 2020 election process against Pres. Trump's campaign, while Russia is spreading disinformation on Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden. https://t.co/BTRIy6ny5a

— ABC News (@ABC) August 7, 2020

America is now the object of a proxy battle between two superpowers. China and Russia:https://t.co/8S8l5f92eF

— mgemancipation.bsky.social (@MGEmancipation) August 7, 2020

Russia is once again interfering in the U.S. election, trying to covertly undermine Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, according to a U.S. intelligence assessment released on Friday.https://t.co/z6NEWXExJN

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) August 7, 2020

"It's going to disappear" — Trump is still out here falsely claiming the coronavirus will one day just vanish, and is trying to turn reality on its head by suggesting over 10 percent unemployment is good pic.twitter.com/R3XS7w1mBI

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 7, 2020

Trump says he will extend unemployment benefits until the end of the year through executive order. He doesn’t say if the $600 weekly total would be the amount, or some other number, and he doesn’t say how he can do this legally without Congress pic.twitter.com/6JJNlTHNC1

— Toluse Olorunnipa (@ToluseO) August 7, 2020

Trump absurdly claims that mail-in ballots are a bigger threat than foreign election interference pic.twitter.com/Ly0fMDmnzE

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 8, 2020

Trump says he's "pursuing" an executive order to require all health insurance companies to "cover all pre-existing conditions for all customers." Trump says, "This has never been done before." (Pre-existing-condition protections currently exist in Obamacare, a law.)

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 7, 2020

He signed an executive order to make insurance companies do what the law he’s trying to destroy requires them to do anyway?

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 8, 2020

Trump says the guests at his club don’t have to wear masks because attending his news conference is "political activity” or “peaceful protest” of the media.

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) August 8, 2020

Trump the populist, they told us; Trump the anti-elite champion of the working class… https://t.co/hScnJnbtWk

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 7, 2020

I bet the people in that dining room feel like they’re being held hostage at this point

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 8, 2020

The head of the United States Postal Service has denied claims he was sabotaging election mail on behalf of Trump https://t.co/T7Zmd4YoF0

— POLITICO (@politico) August 7, 2020

How do we get a “line of sight” on what the heck is wrong with the mail? https://t.co/74jI8jTC8r

— Slate (@Slate) August 7, 2020

BREAKING: Newly obtained documents show the EPA illegally destroyed records, deceived the National Archives and Records Administration about that destruction, and falsely blamed the coronavirus pandemic to escape accountability https://t.co/upoodwgVGa

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) August 7, 2020

Breaking via WaPo: House Democrats can sue to force Trump's former White House counsel Donald McGahn to comply with a congressional subpoena, a federal appeals court has ruled. https://t.co/I413yGYIf7

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 7, 2020

House Democrats can sue Trump over US-Mexico border wall funding, court rules https://t.co/xnI4MSFTrs pic.twitter.com/pQlDsyMbap

— The Hill (@thehill) August 7, 2020

A judge has rejected President Trump’s bid to delay a lawsuit filed against him by the writer E. Jean Carroll, who has accused him of rape. Carroll sued Trump last November for defamation after he called her a liar and said he had never met her. https://t.co/iPAZE4lH93

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 7, 2020

Day-trippers have been urged to stay away from packed beaches this weekend as record numbers of staycationers prompt concerns about social distancing.

The Met Office has also warned that people could underestimate the #heatwave.

Read more: https://t.co/0drs8qvqna pic.twitter.com/Up58lVLxTw

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) August 7, 2020

Nicola Sturgeon says the behaviour of eight Aberdeen footballers who ignored the rules to visit a bar is "completely unacceptable". Two have tested positive for Covid-19. https://t.co/fowjJwyuYr pic.twitter.com/PG9gy8dnpg

— BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews) August 7, 2020

"It’s insulting that Dominic Cummings still hasn’t apologised, and that Boris Johnson hasn’t sacked him" https://t.co/0Ppvuur9NQ

— The New European – Think Without Borders (@TheNewEuropean) August 7, 2020

Summer 2020
Ireland pic.twitter.com/qmebyODQE7

— Claire Allan / Freya Kennedy (@ClaireAllan) August 7, 2020

Ireland Finds U.S. Tourists During Pandemic May Be Trouble. But So Is Their Absence https://t.co/As5834HvPZ

— Jeffrey Levin 🇺🇦 (@jilevin) August 8, 2020

"What will happen when we get to 5 million?"

Over 1 million #Covid19 cases in Africa have been confirmed. Global health experts say the actual toll is likely to be several times higher https://t.co/TFRqlXjRnV pic.twitter.com/jqvhUiJFYM

— Bloomberg Originals (@bbgoriginals) August 7, 2020

At least 16 dead as Air India repatriation flight crashes on landing https://t.co/xFzDjHCblk pic.twitter.com/EJTQvqs6Dr

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 7, 2020

#Beirut's journalists lived through the explosion that tore through their city. Now, they're reporting on its aftermath.

CPJ's @lvzwestcott spoke to @andfinbar, @NataliaSancha, @balintszlanko, and @chehayebk about what it's like to be covering the blast.https://t.co/tsfRAO96a7

— Committee to Protect Journalists (@pressfreedom) August 7, 2020

Over 190 volunteers have been scouring the streets of blast-damaged Beirut for lost pets.

They search for animals trapped in the rubble, tend to the injured and care for those whose owners died, says Jason Mier, the executive director at Animals Lebanon. https://t.co/iDl4td2kvK

— CNN (@CNN) August 7, 2020

An American-owned cargo ship named after Donald Trump docked in a Ukrainian port has just offloaded 10,000 metric tons of the same chemical substance that nearly leveled the city of Beirut this week, according to the Liveuamap news sourcehttps://t.co/Nu8zIMPMUk

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 7, 2020

The White House coronavirus task force warned that the number of COVID-19 cases in Ohio were significantly increasing. So far, there have been more than 96,000 positive cases and nearly 3,600 coronavirus deaths in the state. https://t.co/8YX5g39xqS

— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 6, 2020

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— BlueDream (@58bugeye) August 6, 2020

Experts say the development, testing, and production of a COVID-19 vaccine for the public is still months away, and it would take a medical miracle for one to be available this year, much less before Election Day. https://t.co/xQst2oIJkh

— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 6, 2020

No one is really this stupid, right? Trump has got to be really frightened to aim this low and hope enough of his followers will believe this. https://t.co/kcnHRd4vgj

— Aidan Gallagher (@AidanRGallagher) August 6, 2020

VIRAL MOMENT: President Trump pronounces Thailand "thighland" before correcting himself." pic.twitter.com/7ZtAS6h94z

— The Hill (@thehill) August 6, 2020

We will always protect people we will always protect "Republicans"
Trump does a Freudian slip. Rolling on the floor laughing
pic.twitter.com/6r59gXI2pk 02#DontDie

— Tomthunkit™ (@TomthunkitsMind) August 6, 2020

THREAD — why Kanye and Trump are converging in Ohio and how you can help

In consecutive days, the same Ohio firm that represents Trump submitted signatures for Kanye West; and then Trump himself is back in Ohio.

Coincidence? I think not.

Read on to learn more, and help:

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— David Pepper (@DavidPepper) August 6, 2020

The NRA doesn't represent gun owners. They exist to protect gun industry profits and enrich their executives. https://t.co/shGxz6uuZu

— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) August 6, 2020

New NRA ad sums it up nicely 😂 #NRA https://t.co/sFS9rR08BS

— 𝕋𝕚𝕡𝕤𝕪_𝕋𝕖𝕩𝕒𝕟 #Bluenami2020 (@Tipsy_in_Texas) August 6, 2020

Relatedly, here's an excellent road map to all the bad scenarios that could corrupt our election.

At their core is a central recognition:

"Trump is not so much running for re-election as trying to stay in power by any means he can."

Via @nils_gilman:https://t.co/moRPSF4rac

— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) August 6, 2020

Around the country, across industries and occupations, millions of Americans thrown out of work because of the coronavirus are straining to afford the basics now that an extra $600 a week in federal unemployment benefits has expired. https://t.co/lwe3QEn21V

— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) August 6, 2020

Fox News is onto something here… he is NOT okay pic.twitter.com/PgFpVchkdR

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) August 4, 2020

An honourable MP would – given the severity of these allegations – have quit immediately and set about the job of trying to clear his name. https://t.co/fNgCFRAGpm

— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) August 6, 2020

The Prime Minister says the return of workers to offices and children to schools is crucial to the economic recovery of the UK https://t.co/0ZOzirnIyO

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) August 6, 2020

New planning laws would see Britain shift towards an American-style zoning system https://t.co/KFlKziWe7v

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) August 6, 2020

The Bank of England said although it believed Britain’s economy might take longer to recover than previously thought, its projections for 2020 were not as grim as they were in May https://t.co/U5bFTts2E7 pic.twitter.com/F9dYmS0q7P

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 6, 2020

£252 million spaffed up the wall on a corrupt government contract for PPE that doesn't work.

"The deal was brokered by a government trade adviser who also advises the board of Ayanda."

Britain – that's YOUR money they're diverting to THEIR mates.https://t.co/VAyOUaCZfc

— Chris Shaw (@The_ChrisShaw) August 6, 2020

There are no direct connections between UK & Andorra, travellers must go thru France or Spain. There is no practical way of segregating travellers to or from Andorra. Tory govt announcenent is, as usual, meaningless noise. https://t.co/2mX4hfLyh0

— John Fitzgerald #FBPE #GTTO @j_g_fitzgerald@c.im (@j_g_fitzgerald) August 6, 2020

Big Brexit news this morning!

From the day the UK and EU agreed it’s diveroxe settlement, Northern Ireland’s business community have insisted that it should not be asked to pick up the bill. /1

— Manufacturing NI (@ManufacturingNI) August 6, 2020

Herd immunity for kids it is,fk who they carry it back to,and fk the teachers,who will nearly all have elderly parents,kids with sick parents,fk ‘em
But wear a mask at the shops,5months too late!
Did I miss anything?

— mcdnick (@McdadeNicholas) August 6, 2020

French President Macron calls for a 'new political order' in Lebanon as he visits a ravaged Beirut https://t.co/Wd3fimMVpL

— TIME (@TIME) August 6, 2020

Residents of Beirut vented their fury at Lebanon’s leaders Thursday during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron, blaming them for the deadly explosion that ravaged the capital. https://t.co/CbnnNWLMys

— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) August 6, 2020

The United States should rally the international community to support the Lebanese people with urgently-needed recovery and relief following the horrific explosion in Beirut. https://t.co/xcseRjXkcJ

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 6, 2020

CCTV footage from a shop in Beirut showing the impact of the explosion in Beirut #Lebanon #Beirut pic.twitter.com/650AUKaCX3

— CNW (@ConflictsW) August 6, 2020

A former top Saudi intelligence official accused Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of sending a team of agents to Canada to kill him, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. federal court. https://t.co/yHnHVrQq1i

— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) August 6, 2020

Twitter bans Trump campaign until it deletes tweet with COVID-19 misinformation https://t.co/gpoxGzHcxt pic.twitter.com/poQL7qKKRa

— The Hill (@thehill) August 6, 2020

Twitter bans Trump from tweeting until he removes false virus info https://t.co/FKHiGyvPjr

— Ben Estes (@benestes) August 6, 2020

President Trump: "It's going away. It's going away. It's going away. It'll go away. Things go away. Absolutely. No question in my mind, it'll go away." pic.twitter.com/hfQTdgAwye

— The Hill (@thehill) August 5, 2020

One death every 80 seconds: The grim new toll of COVID-19 in America: "It will go away like things go away," President Trump claimed. Joe Biden says Trump is living in a world of delusion. https://t.co/ACXlV90w5U

— Jeffrey Levin 🇺🇦 (@jilevin) August 5, 2020

I recently asked some public-health experts how the winter might go, and what I heard was pretty bleak:https://t.co/Soc98o92Uz @TheAtlantic

— Joe Pinsker (@jpinsk) August 5, 2020

What if the coronavirus vaccine doesn’t arrive soon?

The Editorial Board weighs in: https://t.co/qGsQwv3JpU

— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) August 5, 2020

President Trump: "We want our schools open all over the country." pic.twitter.com/9xIiV9XaRj

— The Hill (@thehill) August 5, 2020

Doctors said children can in fact catch – and pass on – the coronavirus. https://t.co/GtV7Rrkc5U

— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) August 5, 2020

Trump told Fox and Friends that "children are almost – I would almost say definitely – but almost immune from this disease." They are not. https://t.co/yMNJMjyQzF

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 5, 2020

New York City will set up checkpoints at entry points to the city to find travelers from states with high coronavirus infection rates and order them to quarantine for two weeks https://t.co/fUubxa2Yet

— POLITICO (@politico) August 5, 2020

White House negotiators suggested that Congress has just 48 hours to cut a deal for a massive coronavirus stimulus package — or get nothing.https://t.co/hFF73nwd31

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) August 5, 2020

Refusing to extend eviction moratoriums while doling out $686,000,000 for F-35 fighter jets is a crime against humanity.

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 5, 2020

Children aren't immune
Virus isn't going away
Testing doesn't cause cases
Germany doesn't owe NATO
Soros doesn't pay Antifa
Trump was left ventilators
Nevada won't let every human vote
Trump didn't do a statues act
Trump didn't do #1 most for Black people https://t.co/XVagiiNS9q

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 5, 2020

President Trump on holding acceptance speech at White House: "There is no Hatch Act because it doesn't pertain to the President." pic.twitter.com/2uGy3YktFd

— The Hill (@thehill) August 5, 2020

"In the months leading up to the 2016 election, I told family and friends that Trump had a good chance of winning. Across American history, racial progress has normally been followed by its opposite."

Read @DrIbram on Trump and American racism:https://t.co/F0JAMXfkTE

— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) August 5, 2020

Do we get to see "prestigious Aberdeen virologist" Prof Pennington's 'very surprised' face now? Do we? Oh I do hope so. https://t.co/8zcLYSNvR8

— Suz Jamieson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿== (@SuzJamieson) August 5, 2020

Disturbing to see how well Johnson's blame deflection strategy on Covid-19 is working with his base. pic.twitter.com/o6ts3pMK12

— Slough for Europe 🇪🇺 💙 🇺🇦 (@SloughForEU) August 5, 2020

Imagine if you signed a massive contract in your job, having dismissed all calls from colleagues who wanted to examine it more closely. Then, nine months later, you start whining about having missed crucial stuff in the ‘fine print’.
Your feet wouldn’t touch the ground. https://t.co/lNxah75nJC

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) August 5, 2020

BREAKING: Ian Duncan Smith furious at himself for choosing to buy a green anorak, for himself. pic.twitter.com/Jml3hMcPhq

— Can we have a General Election now? (@EdBish18) August 4, 2020

"All but the most selfish among us understands the need sometimes to suppress selfish impulses in favour of duty towards others. Only a few find that concept challenging. By misfortune, Boris Johnson just happens to be one of them." Superb by @rafaelbehr https://t.co/ArjEUkTDPG

— John Harris (@johnharris1969) August 5, 2020

The Aftermath of the Beirut Explosion – 23 images of the widespread damage in Beirut, a day after the devastating blast. https://t.co/HRi3smQgjQ pic.twitter.com/XfasSQP5Jz

— The Atlantic Photo (@TheAtlPhoto) August 5, 2020

Here is a video showing the before and after of Beirut's main port after yesterday’s explosion – from drone imagery.

The crater is submerged to a diameter of 140m…pic.twitter.com/rinxhF02b9

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 5, 2020

Beirut explosion: video analysis https://t.co/2d9O8c5qBU

— Financial Times (@FT) August 5, 2020

Trump now says “he’s heard it both ways” about what happened in Beirut and then that whatever happened, it ended up essentially being a bomb.

The president should just be ignored on this subject. He’s made clear he’s just saying stuff, not talking about secret intel.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 5, 2020

A massive blaze has consumed a popular market in Ajman, UAE. pic.twitter.com/3AsGzp5erA

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 5, 2020

"OK so you have a UK economic recovery tracker, but what about all the other countries?", I hear you ask.

Well, allow me to introduce our Global Economic Recovery Tracker 🎉

Bookmark away: https://t.co/pSyWJjoPxD

Here’s a thread on the main insights at this stage:

— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) August 5, 2020

I was so busy today I almost forgot this very important anniversary. It’s six years since the Supreme Leader toured the Chonji Lube Factory, and a dictator has never been so excited. pic.twitter.com/E5qXcHfYUL

— Alistair Coleman (@alistaircoleman) August 5, 2020

John Hume funeral: In pictures – The former leader of the SDLP and Nobel laureate's funeral took place in St Eugene’s Cathedral in Derry on Wednesday

https://t.co/8qqfcllPvM

— The Irish Times (@IrishTimes) August 5, 2020

Speaking of the love shown to his father in Owen Mor care home, John Hume Jr said: "If he were here, he would urge us to look at those young carers and the incredible and heroic daily work they do as a model for future leadership"https://t.co/YjscpXQzfN

— The Irish News (@irish_news) August 5, 2020

Pete Hamill, a high school dropout who turned a gift for storytelling and a romance with tabloid newspapers into a storied career as a New York journalist and novelist died on Wednesday. He was 85. https://t.co/ZUNlvSjfn7

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 5, 2020

Dramatic video shows a massive explosion near Beirut's port that caused destruction to homes miles away. Dozens have been killed and thousands are believed to be injured, officials say. https://t.co/wOOvmOdkM4 pic.twitter.com/2QxqtTfuQz

— CNN (@CNN) August 4, 2020

At least 50 people were killed and 2,700 injured, with bodies buried in the rubble, officials said https://t.co/zcGuIseZbd

— TIME (@TIME) August 4, 2020

Reuters latest. https://t.co/DIls7L92hD

— Patricia Zengerle (@ReutersZengerle) August 4, 2020

UPDATE: The Beirut explosion that killed at least 50 and injured thousands on Tuesday, was caused by an estimated 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate left without “preventative measures” in a warehouse, Lebanon PM Diab says.https://t.co/cHQB2zNuVM

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 4, 2020

The streets of #Beirut right now.

Total destruction! pic.twitter.com/Gax35oEZkn

— Inside Naija (@Insid3Naija) August 4, 2020

And the NYT is updating a live blog here with reported facts from the ground: https://t.co/tvijppFJwF

— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) August 4, 2020

.@nytimes saying our employees in #Beirut are ok, though some may have sustained injuries. That includes the amazing @VivianHYee, a former #Albany reporter.

— Jesse McKinley (@jessemckinley) August 4, 2020

A family at a hospital is informed of death. This young woman bent over in anguish, spread her arms open to an infant child and said: “Youssef, dad is in heaven."

Lebanon’s heart has been ripped out. https://t.co/kbdqqxXSNR pic.twitter.com/36Go4oupI5

— Timour Azhari (@timourazhari) August 4, 2020

Lebanon facts.

🇱🇧had an economic/banking crisis. Lebanese pound had lost 80% of its value. Debt was 170% of GDP.
🇱🇧had a political crisis
🇱🇧had a refugee crisis (30% of population are Syrian refugees)
🇱🇧had a Covid crisis

All of this was before today even happened.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) August 4, 2020

"Attack?"

Who is saying this was an attack? https://t.co/nxIAvRfw1e

— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) August 4, 2020

Trump refers to the Beirut explosion as "an attack." There were conflicting reports on what caused the blast, but the director of the general security directorate said it was because of "high explosive materials confiscated years ago." https://t.co/ntfmELSGcG

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) August 4, 2020

Asked if he's confident this was an attack and not an accident, Trump says, "It would seem like it, based on the explosion." He says he met with some "great generals" and they "seem to feel" that it was an attack. He then adds it was a "bomb of some kind." ?

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 4, 2020

If the "generals" really told Trump that, then he just disclosed what would otherwise be highly classified information.

— Spin Doctor (@SpinDr) August 4, 2020

Trump made a point of announcing the loan to Kodak himself.

Now that the SEC is investigating the matter…

"I wasn't involved in the deal."

— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) August 4, 2020

Before it was announced that Kodak would be receiving a big government contract, the company's trading volume spiked. Did those who purchased Kodak stock have access to any secret information? I'm demanding answers——and I'm glad the SEC will investigate. https://t.co/K8wi4EF9iD

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 4, 2020

Trump is now saying that a private business needs to pay (beyond normal taxes) for his approval to buy another private business.

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) August 4, 2020

The Trump administration mismanaged ventilator negotiations with a major medical device manufacturer, overpaying by roughly $500 million for tens of thousands of breathing machines earlier this year, House Democrats said in a new report. https://t.co/OhUJgi6cVt

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) August 4, 2020

Trump, this morning, introducing his Secretary of the Interior: "He loves the Interior."

— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) August 4, 2020

Wonder if on Friday nights “Shabbat Shalom” will give way to “Yo, Semites”? https://t.co/3suPQfuFy5

— Richard N. Haass (@RichardHaass) August 4, 2020

Trump fails to understand that denial is not a river in Egypt.

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) August 4, 2020

"What? No, that's totally how its pronounced. Yo Semites! It's always been that way. It's an old Jewish Native American name. Not many people know that."
— The National Park Service, soon, probably. https://t.co/SZYd5EvJEk

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 4, 2020

Jonathan Swan reveals the magic way to expose Trump’s lies: ask him follow-up questions. https://t.co/K1YcszCQ6p

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 4, 2020

When you totally shit the bed during an actual interview and go crying to someone to give you the love Daddy never did https://t.co/Dmzzy4gQ1e

— 𝙹𝚊𝚢𝚗𝚒𝚎’𝚜 𝙶𝚘𝚝 𝚊 𝙱𝚞𝚗 (@FreeGirlNowNYC) August 4, 2020

The tree is the Trump Adminstration. pic.twitter.com/WaNGkkAoa8

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 4, 2020

Special Report: Local governments 'overwhelmed' in race to trace U.S. COVID contacts https://t.co/CMSVRCRXkf pic.twitter.com/csdN4IoZ2c

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 4, 2020

Perspective: The spread of covid-19 in the South shows the risks of anti-intellectualism https://t.co/tuZl4Kmr3v

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 4, 2020

Reporter: Why is mail-in balloting acceptable in Florida but not the rest of the country?

Trump: Florida has a great Republican governor.

Trump is explicitly saying he only trusts election administration by members of his party. The quiet part out loud.

— Miranda Yaver, PhD (@mirandayaver) August 4, 2020

NEW: Trump said Epstein was never a member of Mar-a-Lago. He was. | Miami Herald https://t.co/4VxojMEDCe

— julie k. brown (@jkbjournalist) August 4, 2020

NEW: The pick to be ambassador to Germany has attacked the country for supporting "Muslim invaders" saying Muslims want to turn it into an "Islamic state."

He has called for allowing the shooting of undocumented immigrants trying to cross at the border. https://t.co/r6rqAIYmco

— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) August 4, 2020

Neil Young sues Donald Trump campaign for using his music https://t.co/1UJTquHe5S

— Guardian news (@guardiannews) August 4, 2020

High risk workers forced back out. Food parcels withheld if you’ve got “the wrong” disability. Services for disabled children scrapped. Coronavirus has exposed Britain’s shameful treatment of disabled people. >> My col. https://t.co/26tZAF5PsA

— Frances Ryan (@DrFrancesRyan) August 4, 2020

He has to be stopped

Boris Johnson 'planning second peerages list to reward donors in autumn' https://t.co/YA9jeqCMFB

— sue#NHSLove💙💙💙#FBNHS #GeneralElectionNow (@SueSuezep) August 4, 2020

Boris Johnson's decision to make Evgeny Lebedev a Lord has gone down well in #Moscow. Here's a piece from Komsomolskya Pravda. It describes Evgeny's KGB father Alexander as a "former Soviet diplomat" and says Evgeny is "the first Russian" to become a peer https://t.co/gicS5SMa0M

— Luke Harding (@lukeharding1968) August 4, 2020

Companies bailed out with public money have paid shareholders billions of pounds in dividends while cutting tens of thousands of jobs in the UK – VICE #BorisJohnson#RishiSunak https://t.co/rmfEuNb45y

— Bernadette Meaden (@BernaMeaden) August 4, 2020

After telling people to go back to work on Monday, Boris Johnson left Downing Street to spend time in Chequers https://t.co/PhT6Y6NbqF

— The New European – Think Without Borders (@TheNewEuropean) August 4, 2020

Tropical Storm Isaias, tornado warnings batter East Coast https://t.co/mb5dfKiySw pic.twitter.com/oxFWAof2Mj

— The Hill (@thehill) August 4, 2020

#Isaias made landfall along the North Carolina coast as a hurricane on Tuesday, causing flooding and spawning multiple tornadoes that killed at least two people. #NCwx pic.twitter.com/5FZyHzyP2M

— The Weather Network (@weathernetwork) August 4, 2020

At least 4 people were killed and others remained missing after Isaias hammered the East Coast, triggering tornadoes, knocking down trees and leaving more than 2.6 million homes without power.https://t.co/gY89zaDVA3

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) August 4, 2020

Canada's top doctor is warning an eventual #Covid19 vaccine will be no "silver bullet," and the public should brace for another two to three years of health precautions https://t.co/cp5c5xWm8P

— POLITICO (@politico) August 4, 2020

My students in my Global Health Governance course study the Haj as a case study of how collective action essential to managing disease risks during global population movements. Here is a fascinating visual of how this global event has adapted further during COVID-19 pandemic. https://t.co/35YP5TrFr4

— Kelley Lee (@profplum8) August 3, 2020

Goodness me. https://t.co/wMiqhLnP1K

— Michael Moran (@TheMichaelMoran) August 4, 2020

Ford's stock has fallen nearly 40% since Jim Hackett took the top job in May 2017. The S&P 500 was up almost 40% over the same period. https://t.co/rpeEE1TqdN via @financialtimes

— Claire Bushey (@Claire_Bushey) August 4, 2020

Onlookers pay respects as John Hume's remains arrive at St Eugene’s Cathedral ahead of funeral tomorrow https://t.co/4cRJ4Af5sC pic.twitter.com/L5JIqrXeNq

— Irish Independent (@Independent_ie) August 4, 2020

Such a touching photograph of John Hume’s remains returning to the place he loved in a wicker coffin pic.twitter.com/JX7Kn0mfGm

— Allison Morris (@AllisonMorris1) August 4, 2020

It was an honour to write this for the Guardian, on John Hume, the everyday Derryman whose steely benevolence bent the moral arc of the universe toward justice.

(You'll also learn that he shouted at me when I was a teenager but I probably deserved it).https://t.co/AShJcmflQ4

— The author, Séamas O'Reilly (@shockproofbeats) August 4, 2020

“The solution will be found not on the basis of victory for either, but on the basis of agreement and a partnership between both. The real division of Ireland is not a line drawn on the map, but in the minds and hearts of its people." https://t.co/ZOJn1GTG0c

— Fergal McFerran (@FergalMcFerran) August 4, 2020

Following a request from John Hume's family, President Higgins and Sabina this evening lit a "candle for peace" at Áras an Uachtaráin. pic.twitter.com/3GPZhkfRkp

— President of Ireland (@PresidentIRL) August 4, 2020

President Trump: "We have done as well as any nation." pic.twitter.com/LD6P9HnvxR

— The Hill (@thehill) August 3, 2020

I lasted one minute watching Trump attempt to answer questions before nearly drowning in his bullshit ramblings.

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) August 3, 2020

In his briefing, Trump again claims that other countries are seeing coronavirus flare-ups in addition to the U.S.

Sure, some are — but nowhere near the scale of the U.S.'s recent surge, including when adjusted for population. https://t.co/QK6hr0V7OC

— Philip Bump (@pbump) August 3, 2020

There is something very, very wrong with a system that allows 150,000 people to die without holding a single person responsible. https://t.co/1tFrSXSAss

— The Nation (@thenation) August 3, 2020

It's getting to be pretty Soviet around here, when every day Trump announces "significant progress" against the virus, which never seems to go away. The next five-year plan is definitely going to see record grain harvests in Kazakhstan, I'm reliably told…

— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) August 3, 2020

And telehealth x 100

— Patti O'Brien (@OBrieninDC) August 3, 2020

I hate it when they teach him a new word.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 3, 2020

The President of the United States is an idiot.

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 3, 2020

RT: An extraordinary exercise in clarity: an accurate overview of the pandemic's devastating effect on the U.S. by Ed Yong for The Atlantic.https://t.co/RKRu7HoA01 https://t.co/RRJCOM3C7P pic.twitter.com/U5oJhDCO4U

— Christopher Labos (@drlabos) August 3, 2020

New Jersey governor reimposes restrictions on indoor gatherings due to "actions of a few knuckleheads" https://t.co/r4Kp42ICUs pic.twitter.com/FELs8C45r8

— The Hill (@thehill) August 3, 2020

The pastor of a Catholic church on Capitol Hill who urged people not to 'cower in fear' of the coronavirus has contracted COVID-19, prompting D.C. health officials to tell about 250 staff and parishioners to self-quarantine for two weeks. https://t.co/0iXSERzIHf

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 3, 2020

Former Trump faith adviser holding in-person event for over 2,000 people https://t.co/DsmZoKwBCC pic.twitter.com/IY5vz0KVkW

— The Hill (@thehill) August 3, 2020

Most Presidents value their credibility with the public. But Trump has squandered his & will have difficulty convincing enough Americans of this: “White House officials said that Mr. Trump would not distort the vaccine review process to help his campaign.” https://t.co/MaV6NXeDzx

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) August 3, 2020

WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING AT HHS?! https://t.co/SvEnneLqlk

— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) August 3, 2020

“In the end, Trump’s long trail of deliberate uses of the government to bolster his deceptions, agitprop and corrupt designs will itself undo any vaccine Hail Mary. Even if Trump manages to rush such an announcement,” who’ll trust him to deliver fairly?https://t.co/B8NjEROwYN

— Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ (@tribelaw) August 3, 2020

President Trump criticizes Dr. Deborah Birx for the first time after she issues coronavirus warnings https://t.co/xDQ5ZB2TBI pic.twitter.com/vhERBG4YLk

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 3, 2020

We're beyond masking and social distancing here. The current situation is the direct result of a conscious political decision that it was tolerable to let COVID spread out of control around the country. https://t.co/Eh3eVErdcj

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 3, 2020

Cardinals’ coronavirus outbreak grows to 13 positives; another series postponed https://t.co/Ts45wW2L1A

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 3, 2020

Great example of Trump strategy back-firing – by forcing Manhattan DA's office to further detail/justify reasons for their subpoena they also forced disclosure of fact that Trump & his company under a live criminal investigation. Oops.https://t.co/xBcALFBnC3

— Shanlon Wu (@shanlonwu) August 3, 2020

Prosecutor calls Trump’s new bid to shield tax returns an end-run around Supreme Court ruling https://t.co/852kS98qPM

— Shayna Jacobs (@shaynajacobs) August 3, 2020

Trump wants points on the package. https://t.co/xl4vx69UVL

— Max Steele (@maxasteele) August 3, 2020

Microsoft is in talks to acquire Chinese-owned, short-form video app TikTok. The talks come following President Trump's threat to ban the app from the U.S. by executive order. https://t.co/he1JPyQUKA pic.twitter.com/Z0dPqv22Ya

— CNBC (@CNBC) August 3, 2020

Reuters appear to have solved the mystery of where the Russian hacked trade documents came from before the 2019 UK election.

It was……… Liam Fox’s accounthttps://t.co/yoLbwNI9M1

— Mark Di Stefano (@MarkDiStef) August 3, 2020

Tory-linked PR firm granted £3m Covid-19 contract without tender https://t.co/uqHzu0n4dE

— The Guardian (@guardian) August 3, 2020

As reports continue of people waiting several days (and sometimes more than a week) for Covid test results in the US, Britain is rolling out widespread testing that gives accurate results in just 90 minutes. (And the UK already does more tests per capita). https://t.co/muI7HLpwxj

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) August 3, 2020

Boost test and trace before English schools reopen 'or risk second wave' https://t.co/HJOuKqQqe4

— The Guardian (@guardian) August 3, 2020

In December Boris Johnson told voters

“We’ve got an oven-ready deal! Ready to go!”

Today we hear this! Why is this charlatan not being held to account? https://t.co/db8hk9NviI

— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) August 3, 2020

Sky News is tracking where jobs are being lost across the UK economy as #COVID19 plunges Britain into what is expected to be the deepest recession on record.

Click below 👇 to see what sectors have been affected.

— Sky News (@SkyNews) August 3, 2020

EXC @theipaper

Britain moves one step closer to immunity passports

Sage has recommended ministers consider a scheme exempting some recovered Covid-19 patients from self-isolation rules

(still some way to go before full-blown immunity certificate though)https://t.co/34AsV52dOZ

— Hugo Gye (@HugoGye) August 3, 2020

More dubious contracts for more dubious tests to more dubious companies https://t.co/sVLycXPRqD

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) August 3, 2020

A nation mourns its Covid-19 dead. But for Boris Johnson it's a time for triumphalism

As Britain tops the table for excess deaths, the prime minister hails a ‘massive success’ and has nothing to say to the bereaved#JohnsonHasFailed #leadership https://t.co/vzr39H1htz

— BremainInSpain (@BremainInSpain) August 3, 2020

*Sung in the manner of ABBA*
"Have you seen the queue for Nandooooooooos…." 🎶 https://t.co/YDt3jY4d0q

— Stephen McGann (@StephenMcGann) August 3, 2020

If they infected each other, it'll have been worth it.

— Clay Harris 🇪🇺💉💉💉💉💉😷 (@mudlarklives) August 3, 2020

More than 16 million people in Britain have less than £100 in savings.

Meanwhile Richard Branson – who sued the NHS and demanded an enormous government bailout – has seen his personal wealth increase by £640,000,000 during the Coronavirus pandemic.

This is why I'm a socialist.

— George Aylett (@GeorgeAylett) August 3, 2020

What you need to know as Tropical Storm Isaias is set to bring dangerous storm surges to the Carolinas and New York City: https://t.co/TYrdQan5vE

— ABC News (@ABC) August 3, 2020

JUST IN: Tropical storm WATCH upgraded to Tropical Storm WARNING for DC and Balt, all areas east of Loudoun & Frederick counties. Though I95 in warning winds may top 40 mph, higher winds to 60 mph forecast near Bay and Delmarva. Heavy rains EVERYWHERE. https://t.co/ScDtJRcSeh

— Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) August 3, 2020

FirstEnergy, recently implicated in a $61 million bribery scheme by the FBI, "contributes more to the ongoing climate crisis than ExxonMobil."

Every single member of Ohio's state congress takes PAC $$ from the utility.

Fantastic reporting by @emorwee https://t.co/Y1EeZ8xHwm

— Maddie Stone (@themadstone) August 3, 2020

100,000 oil & gas workers have been laid off this year.

We can fight climate change & create jobs by employing these Americans to clean up gas wells that are leaking methane.@JoeBiden & @SpeakerPelosi support the idea – & Senate Republicans should, too. https://t.co/U2clDk6ug0

— Mike Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) August 3, 2020

This spring @dan_kammen + I warned that storms + fires worsened by climate breakdown would converge w covid.

We argued that #GreenStimulus could help frontline communities weather the disasters while attacking their causes.

None of this was inevitable.https://t.co/1ABqRxfdZy pic.twitter.com/xpXOfQLs92

— Daniel Aldana Cohen (@aldatweets) August 3, 2020

A Norwegian cruise ship line halted all trips and apologized Monday for procedural errors after an outbreak of coronavirus on one ship infected at least 5 passengers and 36 crew. https://t.co/azwFR9LaOO

— WJZ | CBS Baltimore (@wjz) August 3, 2020

LIVE UPDATES: John Hume 1937-2020 – Ian Paisley Jnr. recalls joke shared by John Hume and his father during a lunch break | ‘John Hume was a political titan’ – Tony Blair | ‘Ireland’s Martin Luther King’ – US President Bill Clinton. https://t.co/Rmm6OWgV9e

— Derry Journal (@derryjournal) August 3, 2020

John Hume has died – the greatest Irish politician of my lifetime. May he rest in peace https://t.co/a5ZRO3KZij

— Martin Doyle (@MartinDoyleIT) August 3, 2020

John Hume obituary: The leader who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland. https://t.co/nSUNu6RFWA

— BBC News NI (@BBCNewsNI) August 3, 2020

Mary Trump on her uncle's lack of empathy: "Acknowledging the victims of COVID-19 would be to associate himself with their weakness, a trait his father taught him to despise." https://t.co/kYzIzCCfrB

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 2, 2020

Two weeks ago, Trump claimed he would sign a “full and complete health-care plan” within two weeks.

There is no evidence of such a plan.@agearan @goldsteinamy + @seungminkim reporthttps://t.co/MQ1RYfJGdY

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) August 2, 2020

Coronavirus update: Average weekly death count rises in nearly half of U.S. states https://t.co/61hu8Bg9RZ

— Jeffrey Levin 🇺🇦 (@jilevin) August 2, 2020

Sigh. *Indoor* transmission is driving this epidemic. Harder to get nice pictures (especially safely), but that's what we need people to imagine when they think of COVID risk https://t.co/wC0eUJ09Mj

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) (@BrendanNyhan) August 2, 2020

Dr. Deborah Birx strongly defends her record after criticism from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that she doesn't have confidence in the White House coronavirus task force coordinator's handling of the pandemic https://t.co/9MuPNUteWZ

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) August 2, 2020

And…here we are. A Federal Reserve official is calling for the US economy to fully shut down for 4 to 6 weeks.

https://t.co/fMiDUAkSXJ

— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) August 2, 2020

Facts have never stopped Trump. Having lied for five months about the coronavirus, he’s now filling social media and the airwaves with untruths about the economy so he can dupe his way to election day.https://t.co/EEQWzqPlso

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 2, 2020

Disclosures show that Jared Kushner raked in as much as $3,000,000 from projects benefiting from Trump admin initiatives in 2019, plus up to $1,000,000 more in rent money from firms which received COVID-related small business loans from the government. https://t.co/QsT62TGq0M

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) August 2, 2020

Trump banning TikTok is a fun story to talk about. But right before he said that, his 2019 financial disclosures got released. Turns out he spends so much time at his golf courses because he made $200 million from them last year. Let's talk about that. https://t.co/fZ8zKsLZrY

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) August 2, 2020

Trump ridiculed as he plays golf for the 283rd time of his presidency https://t.co/sp9z3X6fgi

— indy100 (@indy100) August 2, 2020

“All of that is leaving it increasingly unclear what purpose Ms. McEnany is filling beyond berating the news media from the briefing room podium.” ⁦@katierogers⁩ me https://t.co/OzEDXA3GwA

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 2, 2020

On The Trail: The first signs of a post-Trump GOP https://t.co/b2kJUDHgEn pic.twitter.com/Zk7ktyRJgm

— The Hill (@thehill) August 2, 2020

A group of anti-Trump Republicans is hoping to amplify the voices of frustrated Republicans ahead of the 2020 election to sway some Trump voters to back Biden, ABC News’ @MaryKBruce reports.
The group is also targeting GOP lawmakers who back the president. https://t.co/p38bhTkQ9Y pic.twitter.com/maoNHjezsh

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) August 2, 2020

Republicans embrace Trump, tolerate racism and give up on Black voters https://t.co/zBErJKQva8

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 2, 2020

The Republican National Convention in Charlotte will be closed to the press.

Reporters will not be allowed on site as RNC delegates vote to formally nominate Trump.

The restriction is unprecedented in modern American political history.https://t.co/FWlFeJkBJi

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 2, 2020

Pennsylvania’s election count is all over this ⁦@benyt⁩ column and the ending… takes a turn https://t.co/p04fF1XGZD

— Chris Krewson (@ckrewson) August 2, 2020

The U.K. government is reviewing options to fight Covid-19 including a lockdown of London https://t.co/Ajz1e2Xt1q

— Bloomberg (@business) August 2, 2020

This is Cummings’ ‘behaviourist’ work.

Spoiling for a fight to save a tanking gvt, & getting their excuses for cracking skulls in first.

You can’t do long range forecasts for riots, like weather!
Unless you’re trying to provoke them…https://t.co/knB4VZvW94

— Dr Louise Raw (@LouiseRawAuthor) August 2, 2020

London Voted to #Remain how about making it a formal border #RejoinTheEU & maintain passporting rights to protect the "London City State" Financial Markets?

— PaulWoodcraft 🇪🇺 🇺🇦🔶🐟#FBPE #FBPPR #GTTO (@paul_woodcraft) August 2, 2020

people calling the Boris Johnson / no. 10 management of #lockdown a shitshow are being a bit unfair on shitshows

— dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 (@mrdavemacleod) July 31, 2020

With @borisjohnson as PM, we are seeing in Britain the normalisation of corruption that for decades we have condemned elsewhere. The Lords list but the latest. My piece for ⁦@TweetTheArticle⁩ https://t.co/ZjoXC6SZ2k

— ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) August 2, 2020

Boris Johnson on Brexit before he realised there was something in it for him. #Scum pic.twitter.com/HF49Kzl7mZ

— Marie-Ann Detests Tories 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 (@MarieAnnUK) August 2, 2020

More evidence that the UK’s worst enemies couldn’t have come up with a better plan to destroy our country than Brexit. https://t.co/xadc09pIVW

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) August 2, 2020

New study by @uk_tpo suggests limited gains from freeports after Brexit – FT story by @pmdfoster pic.twitter.com/RZS9HgdNCs

— Steve Peers (@StevePeers) August 2, 2020

Why we all should be concerned about the Brexit risk to the NHS https://t.co/Hlfqst5bHU

— The New European – Think Without Borders (@TheNewEuropean) August 2, 2020

Australia's Melbourne braces for closures, losses as it emerges from night-time curfew https://t.co/sy6Stmhth7 pic.twitter.com/0PbCP9wII9

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 2, 2020

The United States had 100x as many new coronavirus cases yesterday as Australia.

Australia launched emergency shutdowns. The United States is reopening schools. pic.twitter.com/XRenPHihtF

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) August 2, 2020

ICYMI, as I did: Interesting piece in @TheEconomist hypothesizing that #SARSCoV2 might not have originated in China, but rather in a neighboring country. Will we ever know where the virus that causes #Covid19 comes from? Me=not so sure.
https://t.co/wBSTlSbZg2

— Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 (@HelenBranswell) August 2, 2020

It’s not just TikTok – but WeChat will be banned in the US too, according to ⁦@SecPompeo⁩.

If so, countless Chinese people who live in the US could be cut off from their friends and families in China, where WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger is banned. https://t.co/JrzWcm6W6b

— Stuart Lau (@StuartKLau) August 2, 2020

Ten Thousand anti-Netanyahu Protesters Rally in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Across Israel

Protesters call on Netanyahu to resign at official residence in Jerusalem, private home in Caesarea; Five detained for harassing protesters, one for throwing a stone https://t.co/dPDbW0t52m

— Karol Cummins (@karolcummins) August 1, 2020

Facing political trouble, Netanyahu turns to his oldest trick — start a war https://t.co/1CFgREKy6d

— HomerB (@HomerB33) August 1, 2020

Mexico arrests 'El Marro,' gang leader at the center of a bloody cartel war https://t.co/ItCFgtbQwe

— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) August 2, 2020

Not supposed to be on social media but just found the best debut novel announcement of all time. pic.twitter.com/ivbKK83DmZ

— Anna Mazzola (@Anna_Mazz) August 1, 2020

Wilford Brimley, the actor with the walrus mustache whose down-home geniality seen in such films as 'Cocoon,' 'The Natural' and 'Absence of Malice' endeared him to moviegoers, has died. He was 85.https://t.co/k4SAMTN2h1

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) August 2, 2020

Roy Hobbs tells Pop Fisher the story of his prized bat "Wonderboy" after his impressive first batting practice with the New York Knights in the classic baseball movie, "The Natural". ~ RIP Wilford Brimley pic.twitter.com/qRsSWNc4JD

— Baseball by BSmile (@BSmile) August 2, 2020

VP Mike Pence: "We live in the greatest nation on earth." pic.twitter.com/DVdUowjH4Q

— The Hill (@thehill) August 1, 2020

🔥🔥🔥 Ok. This is very very funny. And 100% on point. https://t.co/r4hkcmPZJd

— Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 (@NickKnudsenUS) July 31, 2020

Trump’s 1. grossly negligent handling of the Coronavirus crisis was 2. reasonably likely to cause death/serious bodily injury to others & 3. was a substantial factor in bringing about the death of others (which is the legal definition of “causation”). This is not a close call. https://t.co/lkyFG3afKI

— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) August 1, 2020

Putin didn't fight corruption in Russia, he simply legalized it, abusing state power to favor his oligarch cronies & punish those who wouldn't obey. Trump's efforts to do similar in a stronger US system must be resisted.

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) August 1, 2020

Opinion: The CFPB once defended consumers. Thanks to Trump, it now helps companies prey on them instead. https://t.co/dya82IFLKO

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 1, 2020

I must confess, Trump hiring a corrupt GOP donor to destroy the US Postal Service so he could steal the 2020 election during a deadly pandemic was not on my Dystopia Bingo card. We always underestimate what this party of traitors is willing to do. pic.twitter.com/16NJoarUTh

— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) August 1, 2020

The "war on terror" has been unleashed on Americans: “It’s important to remember that the DHS and ICE were only founded in 2002, and the CBP only reorganized in 2003. These instruments of terror are entirely creations of the War on Terror.” — @indica https://t.co/5JlG17Cnoa

— Sam Haselby (@samhaselby) August 1, 2020

We've seen 151,000 deaths and a 33% decline in our economy—yet, members of the Trump Administration and their donors are continuing to profit off this corrupt response to COVID-19. It is long past time that we pass the CORE Act and #StopCOVIDCorruption.https://t.co/HoXiR5yRRS

— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) July 30, 2020

America is in SO MUCH trouble.
Only 8 States are trending now in a direction to #COVID19 control.
42 States are heading the wrong way — 36 of them have out-of-control epidemics.
As a Nation, we're losing our fight w/ #SARSCoV2 — & it's our own doing.https://t.co/48lRtWAzD4

— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) August 1, 2020

On average, coronavirus kills 930 people per day in the United States. A game of golf is 18 holes.

9 Americans die every hole.

39 every hour.

155 Americans will die by the time the president is done playing today. pic.twitter.com/SkaLKhZAME

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 1, 2020

Wrong! We have more cases because we have tested far more than any other country, 60,000,000. If we tested less, there would be less cases. How did Italy, France & Spain do? Now Europe sadly has flare ups. Most of our governors worked hard & smart. We will come back STRONG!

:: https://t.co/hhwYOrnWZn

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2020

It’s not testing that makes the U.S. “look bad.” It’s anti-science. https://t.co/tiytLlWHzQ

— Let Science Speak (@letscispeak) August 1, 2020

Among the drugs Kodak initially will focus on will be hydroxychloroquine. https://t.co/5uYtiyQ9kt

— David Wessel (@davidmwessel) August 1, 2020

Trump's Vaccine Chief Picks His Own Former Employer—Where He Still Holds Millions Worth of Stock—for $2.1 Billion Deal https://t.co/VjrIlkKcLV via @commondreams

— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) August 1, 2020

As many as 1,200 people could have to quarantine after attendees at two more Brevard County, Florida high school graduations tested positive for COVID-19, Brevard Public Schools said late Thursday.

— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) August 1, 2020

Despite those climbing numbers, the State Department announced this week that it has moved ahead to the second phase of its reopening plan — sparking anxiety and anger among a workforce comprising many unable or unwilling to return. https://t.co/Kf7ceqU4Hm

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) August 1, 2020

NO DEAL YET ON #COVID relief: @SenSchumer tells reporters negotiators will meet again on Monday. “We're not close yet. But it was a productive discussion. Now each side knows where, where they're at. And we are going to work very hard to come to an agreement”

— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) August 1, 2020

.@SenRonJohnson: "Why do our Democrat colleagues want to propose continuing $600 per week… that is preventing people, incentivizing people not to reengage in the economy so our economy can recover? It makes no sense." pic.twitter.com/VGICbVZnng

— The Hill (@thehill) August 1, 2020

Ho hum, just another day in #Florida… https://t.co/SCj6ya9yJp

— Craig Pittman (@craigtimes) August 1, 2020

Boris Johnson has asked officials to prepare a suite of possible measures that could help avoid shutting down the economy for a second time, after he said that he wanted to avoid another lockdown https://t.co/sQ8znQR1ro

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) August 1, 2020

Everything about this is bleak, but it’s a particularly grim irony that both the Tories’ female prime ministers became ‘Lady’ not because they led their country but because their husbands got honours https://t.co/f9rQozHtfP

— Jonathan Lis (@jonlis1) August 1, 2020

Steve Bannon, who's previously hailed Tommy Robinson as the “backbone” of Britain, defended Viktor Orbán and praised Marine Le Pen, has lavished praise on Dominic Cummings, calling him ”a brilliant guy” who will steer Johnson's Tories further to the right. https://t.co/P6pGhIfoQu

— Ian Fraser (@Ian_Fraser) August 1, 2020

“On a visit to London in October 2018, Mr. Biden, not yet a candidate, cast his opposition to Brexit in geopolitical terms, saying it would make Britain less valuable to the United States as a lever to influence the European Union.” https://t.co/EsABXuPVoR

— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) August 1, 2020

British trade minister to meet top U.S. officials next week, FT reports https://t.co/soz7994lVv pic.twitter.com/Yp0utz9pnz

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 1, 2020

This was the scene in Berlin, where an estimated 17,000 people defied social-distancing and mask requirements to join a protest supported by neo-Nazi groups, conspiracy theorists and others who said they were fed up with the restrictions.

Read the latest. https://t.co/QFWyHTTMb0 pic.twitter.com/h9CuxYCERg

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 1, 2020

Russia plans to roll out a Covid-19 vaccine to the general population starting in October, hoping to be the first country to start mass vaccinations against a virus that has killed more than 679,000 people world-wide https://t.co/ICXrZoVn3c

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) August 1, 2020

Americans across the country are receiving packages of mysterious seeds in the mail, mostly from China. Agricultural officials have advised anyone who receives one of these packages to avoid touching the contents and to not to plant the seeds pic.twitter.com/r59rUx66BX

— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) August 1, 2020

China and America are not about to fight each other, but points of friction and misunderstanding which can lead to conflict are rapidly accumulating https://t.co/HwVgSYfRoq

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) August 1, 2020

1. Americans should be concerned about TikTok's access to our info and its relationship with the PRC;

2. Any action against TikTok should be in compliance with applicable law; and

3. I have confidence Silicon Valley has the talent to fill any "TikTok void" in American lives.

— David French (@DavidAFrench) August 1, 2020

Donald Trump says he wants to ban TikTok because of national security concerns. But is the real reason that he wants to silence ⁦@sarahcpr⁩, who has become an Internet sensation with her mocking videos of his speeches? From ⁦@voguemagazine⁩ https://t.co/HlxLMgqKOI

— stuart emmrich (@StuartEmmrich) August 1, 2020

The TikTok-Trump drama, explained https://t.co/rtbJYBdf7s

— Jeffrey Levin 🇺🇦 (@jilevin) August 1, 2020

America banning TikTok but not guns is very us

— sam greisman (@SAMGREIS) August 1, 2020

Climate change could set off the next financial meltdown, a group of big investors warned.https://t.co/HJiGrylmUL

— NYT Climate (@nytclimate) August 1, 2020

OK, who had apocalyptic sky sounds on their 2020 Apocalypse Bingo card? Did you, @Frances_Coppola? Because I definitely didn't https://t.co/3we2cSDVa2

— Kate (@katebevan) August 1, 2020