Cy Twombly Fifty Days at Iliam: Like a Fire that Consumes All before It 1978 Might as well call it a social experiment. Any other name, like “coup” or “fishing expedition” or “hookers peeing on a bed” or “justice being done” would just inflame “passions” and lead away from what should be the actual topic. Whatever you call it, the fact remains that Donald Trump has been the first US president to be under continued investigation for the
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau La naissance de Vénus 1879 • The Spies Who Hijacked America (Schrage) • Memo Shows FBI May Have Misled Senate About Russia Probe (JTN) • Pelosi, Mnuchin Open Door To Narrower COVID19 Aid Through 2020 (R.) • Fed’s Evans Says Another Coronavirus Aid Package ‘Incredibly Important’ (R.) • The US Economy Is Stronger Than the Eurozone’s (Lacalle) • Hong Kong Media Tycoon, Pro-Democracy Leader Arrested In New Crackdown (JTN) • Should The Government Balance Its Budget? (DO)
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Albert Kahn Paris, Autochrome Lumière color photo 1914 • COVID19 Pandemic To ‘Bring Socialism To US’, Transform The World – Taleb (RT) • What’s In Trump’s Coronavirus Executive Orders (R.) • Russia COVID19 Vaccine Registration Expected August 12 (RT) • SARS-CoV-2 Fatality Risk In A Nationwide Seroepidemiological Study (Medrxiv) • Chuck Schumer Says Schools Must Reopen Or Economy Suffers (RT) • Trump Aides Exploring Executive Actions To Curb Voting By Mail (Pol.) • No Payment, No Problem: Bizarre New
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Alfred Palmer Annette del Sur in salvage campaign, Douglas Aircraft Co., Long Beach, CA 1942 • 55% Of COVID Patients Still Have Neurological Problems 3 Months Later (MW) • US Intel: China Opposes Trump Reelection; Russia Works Against Biden (NPR) • US Officials Now Worry About Election Logistics More Than Hacking (R.) • Trump Tees Up Executive Orders On Economy But Won’t Sign Yet (Hill) • Can An Airline Put You On A No-Fly List For Refusing To Mask
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W.H. Bartlett and J. Appleton The port of Beirut 1838 • Minimizing Economic Costs For COVID19 (NECSI) • UK Shoppers Steer Clear Of High Streets Despite Lockdown Lifting (G.) • US State Dept: Russia Pushing Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories Online (JTN) • Trump Issues Executive Orders Against Chinese Owners Of TikTok And WeChat (F.) • Tencent Stock Plummets After Trump Announces Plan To Ban WeChat (CNN) • TikTok Sparks National Security Concerns (Japan Times) • Think ‘Sanctions’ Will Trouble China?
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Laurits Andersen Ring At Breakfast 1898 • Study Finds 98 “Long-Term” COVID-19 Symptoms Including Baldness (ZH) • Yates Throws “Rogue” Comey Under The Bus Over Flynn Investigation (ZH) • Yates Says Comey Went ‘Rogue’ On Flynn (SAC) • The D.C. Circuit Did Not ‘Bungle’ The General Flynn Case (F.) • This Is My Letter to America (Michael Flynn) • Twitter’s Comms Director Is Kamala Harris’ Former Press Secretary (DH) • Biden Leads Trump By 3 Points In National Poll
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Workmen next to the screws of the RMS Titanic at Belfast shipyard, 1911 • Victoria Records Australia’s Worst Day Of COVID19- 15 Deaths, 725 New Cases (G.) • Failing the Coronavirus-Testing Test (Harvard) • Big Pharma Giants GSK, Sanofi Get $2.1 Billion to Develop COVID Vaccine (MPN) • An Effective COVID Treatment the Media Continues to Besmirch (RCP) • Authors of Pro-HCQ Study Defend Their Work From Fauci Attack(BLP) • US Jobless Claims Rise To 1.43 Million, Crisis Total
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Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, Brussels 1873 • Yale Doctor Battles CNN Anchor Over Effectiveness Of HCQ (Fox) • COVID19 Survivors Show Increased Rate Of Psychiatric Disorders (G.) • New Heart Problems Seen In Recovered COVID-19 Patients (R.) • Italy Survey Suggests Coronavirus 6x More Prevalent Than Official Data (R.) • Mutation May Have Made Virus More Vulnerable To Vaccines (R.) • Less Than Third Of Canadians Willing To Travel Without COVID19 Vaccine (CBC) • Manhattan DA Probing Trump
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W. Eugene Smith Orson Welles 1941 • Supporters Urge Joe Biden Not to Debate Trump (NW) • Kansas Should Go F— Itself (Matt Taibbi) • How Congress Maintains Endless War (Zuesse) • White House Says Not Optimistic On Near-Term Deal For COVID Relief Bill (R.) • The Fed Is Planning To Send Money Directly To Americans In Next Crisis (ZH) • Fed’s Kashkari Suggests 4-6 Week Shutdown (R.) • Tech Stock Buybacks Are Surging (ZH) • America’s Monopoly Problem
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London 1877 • It’s The Healthcare System, Stupid (Thomas Frank) • ‘Brain Fog’ To Heart Damage, COVID19’s Lingering Problems (AAAS) • The Protein Expression Profile Of ACE2 In Human Tissues (EMBO) span> • Red Sox Ace Rodríguez Out For Season With COVID-Related Heart Ailment (G.) • Obese People Are Twice As Likely To Die From COVID (ZH) • America’s Coin Shortage Is Getting Worse (ZH) • Obama Issues Private Warning About Trump Voters To Top Democratic Donors (LZ) •
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