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  • Here are the highlights from night three of the DNC, but Barack Obama's powerful, emotional speech was probably the biggest one, and included this indictment of Trump: "For close to four years now, he's shown no interest in putting in the work; no interest in finding common ground; no interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends; no interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the attention he craves. Donald Trump hasn't grown into the job because he can't."
  • Trump had nothing but nice things to say about the insane QAnon conspiracy theory and its followers: he asked, "Is that supposed to be a bad thing?" and claimed he didn't know much about the cult, "other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate."
  • The 9/11 Memorial Museum will reopen just for victims’ families on the 19th anniversary of the attack, then reopen to the general public on September 12th.
  • The NYC Ferry is reportedly expanding the Astoria line so it also goes straight to 90th Street on the Upper East Side.
  • The Times did a survey of whether New Yorkers are wearing face masks in various parts of the city, and found that men are twice as likely to be not wearing them than women. And they talked to a disturbing amount of people who either think the virus is a hoax, an anti-Trump move, or over.
  • The Ringer tries to determine who is the best dog in pop culture history.
  • A major donor to Bill de Blasio’s very brief presidential campaign—whose company also received a $119 million contract for masks and ventilators which was later mostly cancelled when the gear never arrived—has gotten a seat on the board of the New York City Economic Development Corporation.
  • The Criterion Collection is one of the greatest collections of films for cinephiles—but why doesn't it have more Black directors?
  • After Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said he was suspending cost-cutting measures and policy change, NBC received photos showing high-volume mail sorting machines out of service and dismantled.
  • Comedy Central has cancelled Drunk History after six seasons.
  • Tom Petty's estate is finally releasing the deluxe Wildflowers reissue, which includes tons of unreleased songs.
  • And finally, this dog is trying everything he can think of to get the cat to play with him to no avail: