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  • The Times reports that 200,000 more people have died in the U.S. since March than would be expected in a normal year, and that this number—about 60,000 higher than the deaths officially attributed to the coronavirus—may be the true toll of the pandemic so far.
  • Steiner Studios has signed a deal to build a second multimillion-dollar film and television production facility in Brooklyn.
  • The Post reports that the NYPD used an hour-old video of cops running away from "a bottle-hurling mob, and toward the scene where a teenage girl would later be thrashed in the street while dozens of officers looked on," to justify not stepping in to help the girl.
  • Vulture has a great interview with Mike Schur about the end of The Good Place, how Brooklyn Nine-Nine is changing, the conversation around disappearing sitcom episodes, and living ethical lives.
  • Vanity Fair has an article about how Stephen Miller and Katie Waldman are truly made for each other: "Stephen, 34, and Katie, 28, had fallen in love—as young people do—while figuring out how to separate children from their parents at the border."
  • AMC Theatres, the largest movie theater chain in the U.S., will reopen on August 20th with retro ticket prices of 15 cents per movie.
  • Trump is hurling insults at Kamala Harris, calling her "a mad woman," and the "angriest" of all "radical left angry people.”
  • Comedians Mike Birbiglia and John Mulaney will perform a drive-in show in New Jersey later this month.
  • Check out the trailer for Netflix's upcoming film The Devil All The Time, which stars Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson.
  • Listen to "Video Games," a new synthpop single from Sufjan Stevens.
  • And finally, here is a very soothing ASMR video: