THE HARROD REPORT: Fifteen Things That Caught My Eye This Week – By Brian Harrod

Brian Harrod post a round up of news items that have caught news publisher Brian Harrod’s eye.

Trump Wanted His Inauguration to Look Like North Korea

A new report from Politico delved into Stephanie Winston Wolkoff’s forthcoming book, Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady, and some of its most interesting revelations. In particular, the piece claimed that Donald Trump wanted his 2017 inauguration to “look like North Korea”….

Kenosha Militia Facebook Event Was Reported 455 Times

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the reason the militia page and an associated event remained online after a shooting that killed two people was due to “an operational mistake…

Milwaukee Sports Teams ‘Floored’ Blake Family with Support

As Jacob Blake Sr. remembers it, barely any time had passed from the time the Milwaukee Bucks decided not to play their game Wednesday in protest of the shooting of his son by the police to when his phone rang and the Bucks were on the line. “Five minutes after they walked off the court, they were on the phone with me,” Blake Sr. told ESPN on Saturday. “It touched me so deeply that I shed tears over the phone.”….

Chadwick Boseman’s Public Service Ad Urging Young People to Vote

Actor Chadwick Boseman, who was most famous for his iconic Marvel role as Black Panther, died Friday of colon cancer. His last tweet was a photograph of himself with Sen. Kamala Harris at a Freedom for Immigrants event in California…

Michael Moore: Trump Is on Course to Repeat 2016 Win

Film-maker says enthusiasm for president in swing states is off the charts’ and urges everyone to commit to getting 100 people to vote….

A Dictator on Downers

Lucian K. Truscott IV: Were you watching the last night of the Republican National Convention on Thursday night? It looked like a Nuremberg rally on Nembutal. Whatever they gave him before he took the stage overlooking the back lawn of the White House, they managed to get max-automaton out of him. Holding onto the podium like he was on the deck of a pitching ship at sea, Trump droned through 70 minutes of his acceptance speech like a seventh-grader giving a book report on “Great Expectations” in English class…..

Government Workers are Selectively Punished for Violating The Hatch Act

Earlier this year, Gregory Davis, a police officer with the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, forwarded an email that was perceived to have political leanings. He is now being investigated under the rules of the Hatch Act….

Florida Department of Health Claims Number of COVID-19 Cases in Schools is Confidential

The Duval County Health Department told Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) officials Tuesday they needed to get permission from the state level in order to tell parents and the community how many cases are in its schools. On Friday, after multiple requests for answers, the Florida Department of Health said the information about the number of COVID-19 cases in schools was “confidential….

Arkansas County Sheriff Resigns after Racist Comments Recorded

Arkansas County Sheriff Todd Wright has resigned after he was allegedly recorded using racial slurs against black people…..

University of Alabama Reports 1,052 COVID-19 Cases

The University of Alabama on Friday reported an additional 485 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among students, faculty and staff since in-person classes resumed on Aug. 19, bringing the total number cases up to 1,052, according to the university’s coronavirus dashboard…..

What Did the Senate Intelligence Committee Find?

Looks like Lawfareblog is getting close to finishing their analysis of the fifth and final Senate Intelligence Committe report. Lawfare has a list of the conclusions broken into categories which are updated as findings are released….

Don’t Let Eviction Become a Superspreader

Matthew Desmond, the author of “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City:”A deadly pandemic is no time to turn families out of their homes….

Recording: Trump’s Sister Says Eric’s a Moron, Ivanka’s a Mini-Donald

President Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, released more secretly recorded conversations with the president’s sister Friday, in which Maryanne Trump Barry can be heard criticizing Ivanka Trump and branding her a “mini-Donald”…..

The RNC Weaponized Exhaustion

The sheer volume of lies and illegal behavior from Trump and the Republicans is what allowed them to get away with it….

Trump Events Sickens Dozens of Secret Service Agents

Dozens of Secret Service agents who protect President Trump and Vice President Pence have either contracted the coronavirus or were benched after coming in contact with people infected with COVID-19, according to a new report from The Washington….