News Tuesday June 30, 2020
For Lesbians, TikTok Is ‘the Next Tinder’
Young women feeling alienated by dating apps and bar culture are finding love on their For You pages.
Paycheck Protection Program nears end with $130 billion left unused, and lawmakers eye next steps
Rubio plan would offer new programs for small businesses as they try to reopen
Even the ‘Innocent’ Story of Trump’s Response to the Russian Bounty Is Damning
June 30
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/trump-russian-bounties-afghanistan-putin-briefed.html
The Washington Post reported three years ago that the officials who deliver Trump’s intelligence summaries have learned to dance carefully around anything that casts a dark light on Putin. “Russia-related intelligence that might draw Trump’s ire is in some cases included only in the written assessment and not raised orally,” it found, noting that briefers have learned that Russian-related intelligence tends to send the briefing “off the rails.”
https://twitter.com/natemcdermott/status/1277811096666157061 I didn't know Betsy Rothstein and only read her occasionally, and I am sad that she passed away, but there's clearly a divide in values political journalists hold when (almost) everybody mourning her online is a white reporter who covers DC.
Three Words. 70 Cases. The Tragic History of ‘I Can’t Breathe.’
The deaths of Eric Garner in New York and George Floyd in Minnesota created national outrage over the use of deadly police restraints. There were many others you didn’t hear about.
“Please. I can’t breathe. I can’t relax. You gotta take this mask off, dude. Please.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/28/us/i-cant-breathe-police-arrest.html
The bike did not have a light on it, so officers flipped on their siren and shouted for him to stop. Mr. Williams fled through a vacant lot and over a wall before complying with orders to drop face down in the dirt, where officers used their hands and knees to pin him down. “I can’t breathe,” he gasped. He repeated it 17 times before he later lapsed into unconsciousness and died.
Among those who died after declaring “I can’t breathe” were a chemical engineer in Mississippi, a former real estate agent in California, a meat salesman in Florida and a drummer at a church in Washington State. One was an active-duty soldier who had survived two tours in Iraq. One was a registered nurse. One was a doctor.
In nearly half of the cases The Times reviewed, the people who died after being restrained, including Mr. Williams, were already at risk as a result of drug intoxication. Others were having a mental health episode or medical issues such as pneumonia or heart failure. Some of them presented a significant challenge to officers, fleeing or fighting.
Stop Hate for Profit
Campaign to stop advertisers from supporting hate online
https://www.stophateforprofit.org/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/29/how-hate-speech-campaigners-found-facebooks-weak-spot
In recent years, Facebook has made strides in that area. In the third quarter of 2017, according to its community standards report, Facebook found just under a quarter of hate speech by itself; the other three-quarters was only removed after the site’s users manually flagged it to moderators, who then took action.
By this spring, the proportions had reversed: 88% of hate speech removed from the site was found by Facebook’s own tools, allowing it to remove or restrict almost four times as much hate speech as it had two years earlier.
The "Stop Hate For Profit" Movement Isn't Going to Stop Anything
https://gizmodo.com/the-stop-hate-for-profit-movement-isnt-going-to-stop-1844147197
Social Media Drops the Hammer on Team Trump
Reddit and Twitch are the latest companies to take action against the president and his supporters, as platforms reevaluate and reinforce hate-speech policies.
https://www.wired.com/story/twitch-reddit-hammer-team-trump-social-media/
Also on Monday morning, Reddit revealed that it had deactivated the biggest pro-Trump subreddit on its site, “The_Donald,” with nearly 800,000 members. Reddit’s chief executive, Steve Huffman, told reporters that the group had broken the site’s rules against allowing targeted harassment and hate speech. It was part of a larger purge of some 2,000 communities of various persuasions, most of them inactive. Reddit also said it was banning a group devoted to the left-wing podcast Chapo Trap House. (Advance Publications, which owns WIRED’s publisher, Condé Nast, is a Reddit shareholder.)
This Pollster Got the 2016 Election Right. Here’s What He Sees in 2020
Anew Wisconsin poll shows President Donald Trump with a small lead over Democratic challenger Joe Biden in the crucial battleground state. The poll is by Trafalgar Group, a pollster that correctly predicted Trump would win the Electoral College in 2016. Trafalgar Group had the only polls showing Trump winning the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Michigan in the last election. The group also correctly predicted that Trump would win North Carolina and Florida in 2016. Most other pollsters got 2016 wrong.
Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health
Thousands of judges violated oaths, broke the law but kept their jobs
Over the past dozen years, nine out of 10 U.S. judges who violated their oaths or broke the law returned to the bench – including an Alabama judge who unlawfully jailed hundreds of poor people, many of them Black, over traffic fines.
Seattle mayor slams protesters for showing no 'regard for' her 'safety' as demonstrators circle her home
They may have doxxed her home address because there is a claim it was secret and she is in a protection program.
Facebook to remove anti-government 'Boogaloo' groups
The social media giant said it removed 220 Boogaloo Facebook groups and 95 Instagram accounts that violated its policies against organized violence.
The Boogaloo is a heavily armed, mostly conservative libertarian militia movement with extreme anti-government views that advocates for a violent uprising targeting mostly law enforcement. The movement, which has strong ties to current and former military members, grew to tens of thousands of followers since January, mostly in Facebook groups.
Public’s Mood Turns Grim; Trump Trails Biden on Most Personal Traits, Major Issues
Just 17% say they are ‘proud’ when thinking about state of the U.S.
Donald Trump is the king of cancel culture
No other politician has spent more time trying to cancel those who offend him.
Talk of “cancel culture” — defined as the “popular practice of withdrawing support for (canceling) public figures and companies after they have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive” — is everywhere these days. “Social justice warriors are waging a dangerous 'Cancel Cultural Revolution,’” screams the headline in the New York Post. “Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, who’s next on the statue cancellation tour?” demands Fox’s Greg Gutfeld. Democrats are being “driven by this radical 'cancel culture’ left,” insists Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).
Trump Campaign Has Spent $325,000 on Facebook Ads Featuring Brad Parscale’s Page
Until this week, Mr. Parscale, the president’s campaign manager, was one of only three people whose Facebook and Instagram pages had been used by the campaign to display ads. The others were Donald Trump and Mike Pence.
Kentucky U.S. Senate Primary Election Results
Anti-Anti-Trumpism: Book Review Edition
Sanctimonious Scully whitewashes a Never Trump grudge.
The book being reviewed was It Was All a Lie, a forthcoming (in August) re-examination of a life spent working in Republican politics and the malign influence of racism on the party, written by Stuart Stevens. Here are some disclosures for you, dear reader: Stevens is someone I know and admire. He has written for The Bulwark. The reviewer is Matthew Scully, who is a former colleague of mine (and Stevens’s) and has been a speechwriter par excellence for Republican presidential contenders from George W. Bush to Donald J. Trump.
The Missouri Gun-Toting Lawyers Are Screwed
The Bio of the Lawyer Representing Two Gun-Toting St. Louis Attorneys Will Leave You Speechless
'They basically swallowed hard': Trumpy Census Bureau hires revive fears of political meddling
The White House installed two political appointees in the studiously nonpartisan agency responsible for the 2020 census, and officials there aren't happy.
The White House and Commerce Department forced the Census Bureau to take two new political appointees last week whose unexpected arrival has deepened fears at the agency that the 2020 census will be politicized, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Last Monday, Commerce deputy secretary Karen Dunn Kelley informed Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham and his career deputy, Ron Jarmin, that the two new appointees, Commerce aides Nathaniel T. Cogley and Adam Korzeniewski, had been installed in senior roles at the Census Bureau — a move that blindsided both of them, according to a Census Bureau official.
“The decision to create two new senior positions at the Census Bureau and fill them with political operatives is yet another unprecedented attempt by the Trump administration to politicize the 2020 Census,” Maloney said in a statement.
Why Alabamians Turned on Jeff Sessions
Republican voters seem to favor a carpetbagging football coach over a native son. What happened?
The Fall of Jeff Sessions, and What Came After
The former attorney general is fighting for his political life in Alabama’s Senate race, in the shadow of a president who still despises him.
A Dire Warning From COVID-19 Test Providers
The American testing supply chain is stretched to the limit, and the ongoing outbreak in the South and West could overwhelm it, according to epidemiologists and testing-company executives. While the country’s laboratories have added tremendous capacity in the past few months—the U.S. now tests about 550,000 people each day, a fivefold increase from early April—demand for viral tests is again outpacing supply.
“This is very bad,” Michael Mina, an epidemiology professor at Harvard, told us. Rapid test-turnaround times are the only way to control the coronavirus without forcing every potentially contagious person—everyone who’s had contact with someone diagnosed with COVID-19—into quarantine, he said: “Our modeling efforts more or less show that if you don’t get results back in a day or so, outbreaks really can’t be stopped without isolating and quarantining all contacts preemptively.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/technology/facebook-ban-boogaloo.html
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-instagram-profit-boogaloo-ads?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/30/tech/facebook-boogaloo-ban/
https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-boogaloo-ban/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/facebook-bans-hundreds-accounts-tied-violent-boogaloos-200630204015560.html
Exclusive: Facebook changes algorithm to boost original reporting
Advertiser Exodus Snowballs as Facebook Struggles to Ease Concerns
These GOP Lawmakers Tried to Make It Harder to Vote-By-Mail. Then 80% of Them Mailed Ballots in April.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/29/trump-mail-in-voting-coronavirus-pandemic
John Hickenlooper wins Colorado’s Democratic Senate primary
Coronavirus: Fauci warns of 100,000 US cases per day
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53237824
Scoop: Kushner changes top Trump campaign staff
Fox News Q2 2020 Ratings: Tucker Carlson Averaged 4.33 Million Viewers at 8 p.m., the Largest Audience in Cable News History
Matt Gaetz Is Living in Donald Trump’s America
And that’s why Trump is losing.
Journalists are reexamining their reliance on a longtime source: The police
CDC says U.S. has ‘way too much virus’ to control pandemic as cases surge across country
The coronavirus is spreading too rapidly and too broadly for the U.S. to get it under control as some other countries have, Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Monday.
“This is really the beginning,” Schuchat said of the U.S.’s recent surge in new cases.
Fauci warns U.S. could see 100,000 new coronavirus cases per day
Reference back to June 25
CDC estimates 10 times as many U.S. coronavirus cases than have been reported
The U.S. is testing about 500,000 patients per day. On a per capita basis, the U.S. rate falls behind several other countries, including Spain, Australia, Russia and Iceland, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.
A National Mask Mandate Could Save The U.S. Economy $1 Trillion, Goldman Sachs Says
TOPLINE As mask-wearing becomes a political flashpoint—despite coronavirus cases spiking to record levels across the country—new research from Goldman Sachs suggests a national mask mandate would slow the growth rate of new coronavirus infections and prevent a 5% GDP loss caused by additional lockdown measures.
“If a face mask mandate meaningfully lowers coronavirus infections, it could be valuable not only from a public health perspective but also from an economic perspective because it could substitute for renewed lockdowns that would otherwise hit GDP,” the researchers wrote.
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