WHAT'S BREWING
HURRICANE SALLY TAKES AIM AT GULF COAST Hurricane Sally, a plodding but powerful storm with winds of 90 mph, crept toward the northern Gulf Coast, with forecasters warning of potentially deadly storm surges, flash floods spurred by up to 2 feet of rain and the possibility of tornadoes. Hurricane warnings stretched from Grand Isle, Louisiana, to Navarre, Florida, but forecasters — while stressing “significant” uncertainty — kept nudging the predicted track to the east. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared an emergency in the Panhandle’s westernmost counties. [AP]
EX-STAFFER: FACEBOOK CAN'T PROTECT OTHER COUNTRIES FROM POLITICAL MANIPULATION A data scientist reportedly wrote a damning 6,600-word memo to her colleagues at Facebook on her final day at work expressing dire concern over the way the tech giant fails to properly combat the use of fake accounts to sway politics in smaller countries. “In the three years I’ve spent at Facebook, I’ve found multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse our platform on vast scales to mislead their own citizenry, and caused international news on multiple occasions,” Sophie Zhang reportedly wrote. [HuffPost]
SOUTH DAKOTA AG SAID HE HIT A DEER. IT WAS A MAN. South Dakota’s attorney general reported hitting a deer with his car over the weekend, but state investigators said he actually killed a man whose body was not found until the next day. Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was involved in a fatal crash around 10:30 p.m. on Saturday near Highmore. The victim was identified as 55-year-old Joseph Boever, whose pickup had broken down nearby. [HuffPost]
COVID-19 PATIENTS TWICE AS LIKELY TO HAVE DINED OUT A monthlong investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that study participants who tested positive for COVID-19 were roughly twice as likely to have dined at a restaurant within two weeks of the onset of illness than those who tested negative. The report concluded that going to places that offer on-site eating or drinking may be “important risk factors for acquiring COVID-19.” [HuffPost]
TRUMP BRAGS ABOUT NONEXISTENT AWARD Amid another bizarre criticism of Biden, Trump claimed that he received a nonexistent honor. In a Sunday tweet, the president took aim at Biden’s record with Latino voters, accusing him of “relying on” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to win their support. Trump then boasted of having received “the highly honored Bay of Pigs Award” from Miami’s Cuban community. But there is no such award. Later on Sunday, Trump reiterated the award claim, touting his “unwavering devotion to our nation’s incredible Latino and Hispanic American communities.” [HuffPost]
GEORGIA DEPUTY FIRED AFTER BLACK MAN BEATEN IN TRAFFIC STOP VIDEO A Georgia deputy sheriff has been fired following an investigation into a video showing a Black man being beaten on an Atlanta street during a traffic stop on Friday. The unidentified deputy was terminated for excessive use of force during the arrest of Roderick Walker, 26. In the video, Walker is pinned down by two white deputies as one of them punches him in the head, leaving him bloody and at times unconscious. [HuffPost] | 
