| Some Good News Another jobs report came out and there's some sunshine peeking through the clouds.
The U.S. economy added 4.8 million jobs in the month of June, as the unemployment dropped to 11.1%, according to data from the Department of Labor.
Another 1.4 million Americans filed for unemployment last week, and many of those 4.8 million jobs added weren't really added, but were workers who were temporarily laid off now returning to work.
Still, Americans going back to work is a good thing and those 4.8 million newly employed or re-employed people would undoubtedly agree.
That Tulsa Rally Might Not Have Been a Good Idea
The Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma last month generated a slew of embarrassing headlines for the campaign, after noticeably low attendance amid ongoing worries about transmitting the coronavirus.
It's continuing to cause troubles for the president's campaign team, with campaign manager Brad Parscale self-quarantining at home and other campaign staffers self-quarantining in hotels after cases in Tulsa spiked the week after the rally.
Coronavirus Convention Conundrums
The national political party conventions have become a fixture of presidential election years, but both parties are facing challenges in how to manage them in the age of a global pandemic.
A recent poll highlights this challenge, with the DNC planning a virtual convention but a quarter of Democrats worried that will “cost them an opportunity to generate enthusiasm and organize supporters."
Meanwhile, the RNC is moving ahead with an in-person convention in Jacksonville, Florida -- and 36 percent of Republicans think that is "reckless and dangerous."
How Do You Say "Yikes" In Portuguese?
CNN Brasil reporter Bruna Macedo was robbed at knifepoint during a live report in São Paolo on Saturday.
She was reporting on rising water levels at a nearby bridge when a man approached her, wielding a knife. He took two cell phones from her and the station cut the live feed. Macedo was shaken up but physically unharmed.
Those In Racist Glass Houses Shouldn't Throw Tweets
Caleb Hull is a DC-based GOP operative who's worked with some high-profile conservative organizations, and is well-known for being an aggressive pro-Trump brawler on social media.
That might change. He made his Twitter account private on Thursday, hours before a Mediaite report detailed another secret Twitter account he had with a long list of racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic...well, it's a long, long, very long list of people and groups he attacked, including cancer patients.
Hull's tweets included multiple uses of the n-word and other slurs, including telling several African-American gamers to go "pick cotton" or "get Ebola."
Hull posted an apology on Twitter for the "vile things" he had written. Many of the incriminating posts had been deleted, but internet archives proved to be his undoing. Remember, screenshots are forever.
Cha-ching!
The Biden campaign beat Trump in the fundraising contest last quarter, a critical accomplishment in an era where presidential campaigns are increasingly expensive.
On Wednesday night, the Trump campaign reported a $131 million haul throughout June, which brings their overall second quarter of fundraising to $266 million. But hours after the Trump campaign released their figures, the Biden campaign said they drew $141 million from June, and their second quarter is $282 million.
It's a reversal from Biden's somewhat sluggish fundraising earlier in the year, showing that Democratic donors are uniting behind their nominee.
"Republicans Will Be Hunted!"
Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, posted some completely bonkers tweets on Wednesday, predicting that if Biden is elected, Republicans would be hunted, police would stand down, and "there's a good chance you will be dead within the year."
Our increasingly divisive partisan politics have us expecting intense rhetoric in election years, but this is just plain crazy. 6.5.0 | 