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- Michelle Obama's speech, in which she laid out a moral case against Donald Trump's presidency, was the high point of last night's Democratic National Convention—check out the other highs and lows here.
- Here is the best thing you'll read today: Mel Magazine has an oral history of The Simpsons' iconic "steamed hams" short.
- Pete Wells writes about the confusion around whether people should or shouldn't be wearing masks in between eating/drinking while dining outdoor.
- The NY Times dissolved its copy desk in 2017, which is why the Twitter account Typos of the New York Times has become an indispensable resource.
- Beautiful headline of the day: "Why did scientists paint eyes on hundreds of cattle butts? To save lives, study says."
- A white couple on Long Island was arrested for allegedly harassing their Black neighbor by "repeatedly shooting pellets across her yard and leaving feces on her lawn."
- A nearly 1,000-page bipartisan Senate report confirmed the special counsel’s findings about the ties between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russian government officials.
- Thousands of revelers gathered in an open air water park in Wuhan for an electronic music festival, without any masks or social distancing measures in sight.
- A YouTube couple adopted a child with special needs from China, then documented the whole thing on their channel until he suddenly stopped appearing, and it came out they had gave him away: "In the kindest light, Myka, now 33, and James, 35, were painted as well-meaning but naïve parents who had gotten in over their heads; in the harshest, they were fame-hungry narcissists who’d exploited a child for clicks and profit only to discard him when caring for him proved too difficult."
- Governor Andrew Cuomo is "writing" a book about the coronavirus crisis in NY, which is not over yet, called American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.
- Barack Obama still has ridiculously great taste in music.
- And finally, this a normal way to sits:
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