08-20

Thursday, August 20

Aug 20: Stephen Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, is arrested and charged with fraud. Prosecutors in New York accused Bannon and three other suspects of participating in a “scheme” to defraud people who donated to a “We Build the Wall” effort to raise money for the construction of barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border. New jobless claims rose above 1 million again this week.

National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien denies that systemic racism exists in the police forces, May 31, 2020. Schulkin, Danielle. “White Supremacist Infiltration of US Police Forces: Fact-Checking National Security Advisor O’Brien.” Just Security, June 1, 2020. https://www.justsecurity.org/70507/white-supremacist-infiltration-of-us-police-forces-fact-checking-national-security-advisor-obrien/.

Kamala Harris DNC Speech: ‘There Is No Vaccine for Racism,’ 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQzwDrwOXW8.

President Barack Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, NBC News, August 19, 2020, https://youtu.be/bps3m4eFTuE

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Domonoske, Camila. “Building Ventilation, Fresh Air And Reducing COVID-19 Risks Indoors.” NPR, August 20, 2020. https://www.npr.org/2020/08/20/903553988/as-we-return-to-work-and-school-during-the-pandemic-can-the-air-inside-be-kept-s.

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Cox, Kate. “Cops in Miami, NYC Arrest Protesters from Facial Recognition Matches.” Ars Technica, August 19, 2020. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/cops-in-miami-nyc-arrest-protesters-from-facial-recognition-matches/.

Lee, Timothy B. “Detroit Police Chief Cops to 96-Percent Facial Recognition Error Rate.” Ars Technica, June 30, 2020. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/detroit-police-chief-admits-facial-recognition-is-wrong-96-of-the-time/.

Rivera, Eddie. “One Officer’s Camera Off During Shooting, Other Officer’s Footage to Be Released Today; Demonstrations Continue.” PasadenaNow.com, August 19, 2020. https://www.pasadenanow.com/main/protests-ramp-up-in-pasadena-over-fatal-police-shooting/.

Berman, Russell. “Barack Obama Is Scared.” The Atlantic, August 20, 2020. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/obama-trump-biden-dnc/615436/.

Kilgore, Ed. “The Origins of the ‘Police Riot.’” Intelligencer, June 9, 2020. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/remembering-the-walker-report-and-the-first-police-riot.html.

Tzu-Chun Wu, Judy. “The U.S. 1968: Third-Worldism, Feminisms, and Liberalism.” The American Historical Review 123, no. 3 (June 1, 2018): 710–16. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/123.3.710.

Flaherty, Colleen. “Women’s Journal Submission Rates Continue to Fall.” Inside Higher Ed, August 20, 2020. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/08/20/womens-journal-submission-rates-continue-fall.

Grim, Ryan. “The Trump Administration Is Giving Political Appointees Power Over Apportioning Federal Funds.” The Intercept, August 20, 2020. https://theintercept.com/2020/08/20/federal-funds-omb-apportionment-trump/.

Bekiempis, Victoria. “Steve Bannon Pleads Not Guilty to Fraud after Arrest on Luxury Yacht.” The Guardian, August 20, 2020, sec. US news. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/20/steve-bannon-arrested-charged-fraud-we-build-the-wall.

Mobster POTUS approaches in his limo with Goodyear tires😂 #UnfitForOffice #SaveThePostOffice pic.twitter.com/plWhBmMZxT
— Laura Brown (@socalaura) August 20, 2020

Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, in a previous interview, disclosed Trump heavily endorsed Bannon's 'We Build The Wall' fraud scheme, and said, “I want the media to know this project has my blessing”. #OpDeathEaters pic.twitter.com/hWCjDxwntS
— Anonymous (@OpDeathEaters) August 20, 2020

If this conduct is true, it’s outrageous that @USPS management would attempt to deceive the people of San Antonio about the condition of postal operations. I expect an explanation from USPS leadership and an immediate reversal of these delays: deliver the people’s mail now. https://t.co/qUf4ddrjBX
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) August 20, 2020

The 👏USPS 👏Police 👏
is the agency
that
arrested
Steve Bannon
today!

Does it get any better than this? #grimreaper arrested by the #USPIS 🔥🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/QoOcGN3a3m
— Daeja🍀🌊 (@Bl0ndieMIA) August 20, 2020

Where Shakespeare is credited in writing “Much To Do About Nothing, the Senate may have achieved credit for writing “nothing about much.” It is remarkable about how comparably little can be said in 1000 pages. …https://t.co/TY6iMdptTg
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) August 19, 2020

Hunter Biden, Who Still Holds 10% Stake In Chinese Private Equity Firm, To Speak On Final Night Of DNC https://t.co/xLmWdhwL5f
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 20, 2020

Four MAFFS continue to provide valuable aerial firefighting support to a number of California #wildfires. They have completed 123 retardant drops including several on the #LakeFire north of LA and the #LNULightningComplex in Northern CA. https://t.co/4V8cOJQzmU #FireYear2020 pic.twitter.com/rgMkape4kz
— National Interagency Fire Center (@NIFC_Fire) August 20, 2020

Beech, Hannah, and Adam Dean. “No One Knows What Thailand Is Doing Right, but So Far, It’s Working.” The New York Times, August 20, 2020, sec. World. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/world/asia/coronavirus-thailand-photos.html.
Frazier, L., and Deborah Cohen, eds. Gender and Sexuality in 1968: Transformative Politics in the Cultural Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2009. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230618718
Hilton, Adam. “Searching for a New Politics: The New Politics Movement and the Struggle to Democratize the Democratic Party, 1968–1978.” New Political Science 38, no. 2 (April 2, 2016): 141–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2016.1153186.
Stevens, Matt. “Joe Biden Accepts Presidential Nomination: Full Transcript.” The New York Times, August 20, 2020, sec. U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/politics/biden-presidential-nomination-dnc.html.

Tuccille, J.D. “Americans Dislike Both Biden and Trump.” Reason.com (blog), August 19, 2020. https://reason.com/2020/08/19/americans-dislike-both-biden-and-trump/.

This Day in American History. “Today, 1968 – Democratic Convention Besieged by Protesters,” August 20, 2020. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=648845132489290.

* Timeline summaries at the top of the page come from a variety of sources:, including The American Journal of Managed Care COVID-19 Timeline (https://www.ajmc.com/view/a-timeline-of-covid19-developments-in-2020), the Just Security Group at the NYU School of Law (https://www.justsecurity.org/69650/timeline-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-and-u-s-response/), the “10 Things,” daily entries from The Week (theweek.com), as well as a variety of newspapers and television programs.

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