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  • Donald Trump brought up a racist conspiracy theory about Senator Kamala Harris yesterday, suggesting she was not eligible for the ticket because her parents were immigrants. Harris was born in California, and of course is eligible.
  • NBC takes a closer look at the ridiculous, insane QAnon community, which has emerged in recent months "as a sort of centralized hub for conspiracy and alternative health communities."
  • Another distressing piece about the state of the USPS: a Postal Service spokesperson had said that they were “mov[ing] equipment around its network” to optimize processing, but internal documents call the initiative an “equipment reduction," with 15 percent of all machines taken out of service.
  • Vox spoke to some anti-mask people about why they are so stubborn and dumb: “It’s a violation of my freedom, I think, and then also I just don’t think they work,” one person said. “A lot of stuff says it does, but then some doesn’t.”
  • Politico has a longread on Joe Biden's relationship with Barack Obama, which is much more complicated below the surface of BFF social media content.
  • Are you worried about being travel shamed for going on vacation during the pandemic?
  • Vacant rental apartments in Manhattan apparently hit an all-time high in July amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  • Michael Cohen released the foreword to his upcoming Trump tell-all Disloyal, A Memoir, which mentions "a back channel to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, 'golden showers' at a Vegas sex club and lying to Trump’s wife Melania about his sexual infidelities."
  • Drake released "Laugh Now Cry Later," the incredibly catchy first single from his upcoming album Certified Lover Boy.
  • The War On Drugs remixed an unreleased Rolling Stones song, and Elvis Costello announced he's releasing new album Hey Clockface—featuring three fantastic previously released singles— this October.
  • And finally, this is excellent use of the classic Randy Newman song: