The Shocking Secret Past of One of QAnon's Most Toxic Stars  —  QAnon conspiracy theorist Tommy Gelati loves to talk.  Just not about this.  —  Trash-talking QAnon conspiracy theorist Tommy Gelati has a long list of celebrities he thinks belong in prison—or who might secretly be there already.

White Flight From Trump?  What a Decisive Biden Win Could Look Like  —  Republican structural advantages in the House, the Senate and the Electoral College would be in jeopardy.  —  Recent national polls show that Joe Biden's commanding lead has eroded longstanding demographic divisions …

All Your Most Paranoid Transfer of Power Questions, Answered  —  What happens if Donald Trump refuses to accept the results of the election?  —  Can Donald Trump continue as president even if he loses the election in November?  —  Trump's refusal to say that he would accept the results …

Counterintelligence chief issues dire warning about foreign threats to U.S. election  —  William Evanina's statement lists China first among threats, an unusual twist given Washington's fixation on Russia.  —  William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center.

Republican Party officials hid COVID-19 mask purchases by labeling them ‘building maintenance’ in federal disclosures  — The Republican National Committee in a new federal filing this week said it spent $14,000 on “building maintenance.”  In reality, it was disguising a purchase of face masks.

Fauci says he has been assigned personal security after receiving ‘serious threats’ to his family  —  Foto: Dr. Anthony Fauci at a House committee hearing on Capitol Hill on June 23, 2020.  — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious-disease expert, told CNN's “The Axe Files” …

DHS chief slams Pelosi for calling federal law enforcement ‘stormtroopers’  —  The Trump administration has faced criticism for its handling of the riots  —  Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf on Friday slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for what he called “dangerous” …

A Vaccine Reality Check  —  Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers.  Find the collection here.  —  Nearly five months into the pandemic, all hopes of extinguishing COVID-19 are riding on a still-hypothetical vaccine.

Trump's most important 2016 donor is sitting out 2020  — Robert and Rebekah Mercer ranked among President Donald Trump's most influential backers in 2016.  But they've all but abandoned the embattled president and aren't likely to help him in the home stretch for 2020, five people who know the media-averse Mercers tell Insider.

“Trump Could Not Be More on the Wrong Side”: New Poll Shows Trump's Black Lives Matter Protest Response Could Cost Him 2020  —  Exclusive polling suggests the protests changed Americans' minds so quickly, and so profoundly, that Trump planted himself even further on the wrong side of public opinion than previously understood.

Trump vs. Biden: Who's Winning the Money Race in Your ZIP Code?  —  Estimated donors by ZIP code, April through June  —  ◄ MORE TRUMP DONORS MORE BIDEN DONORS ►  —  Notes: The map shows which candidate had more individual donors in each ZIP code from April 1, 2020, to June 30, 2020.

A&E Has Lost Half Its Viewers Since Dropping ‘Live PD’  —  Network's prime-time viewership was up 4% this year before it canceled its hit police reality show, Nielsen data show  —  Ratings for A&E Network have plummeted since it canceled the hit police reality show “Live PD” on June 10 …

The Future of Nonconformity  —  Where freethinkers go to fight.  —  Like other realms, American intellectual life has been marked by a series of exclusions.  The oldest and vastest was the exclusion of people of color from the commanding institutions of our culture.

An Elite Group Of Scientists Tried To Warn Trump Against Lockdowns In March  —  John Ioannidis's controversial studies claim that the coronavirus isn't that big a threat.  Before the Stanford scientist did any of them, he wanted to take that message to the White House.  —  Copy

Portland, polarization, and the crisis of the Republican Party  —  “We are witnessing a crisis of democracy that is perfectly acceptable to a significant portion of the population — as long as it hurts their enemies.”  —  Late on Wednesday evening, Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) was tear-gassed in his own city.

Sultry Nights and Magnolia Trees: New York City Is Now Subtropical  —  Winter is warmer and summer is sweltering, with torrential afternoon downpours.  What's next, palm trees?  —  It was the fig trees that tipped him off.  Something was very unusual at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

FDA says at least 77 brands of hand sanitizers may be toxic  —  Regulators say the brands contain dangerous levels of methanol, which can lead to blindness, hospitalization and even death  —  Federal regulators have recalled dozens of hand sanitizers — many widely available through Walmart …

The Battle for Joe Biden  —  He's not listening to Twitter.  So who does have the candidate's ear?  —  For months, President Trump's re-election team has been test-driving possible lines of attack against Joe Biden: He's sleepy.  He's creepy.  He's corrupt.  He's soft on China.  He's soft in the head.

Held back  —  As parents realize how badly the U.S. botched the next school year, we're furious  —  The happiest day in my household since the pandemic started — maybe the only truly happy one — was the Wednesday in mid-March when we found out on the New York City Department of Education website …

LeBron James joins push to turn out ex-felon vote in Florida  —  TALLAHASSEE — A group founded by NBA superstar LeBron James and other Black athletes and entertainers is stepping into the fight to register Florida voters with felony records, saying it will help pay court debts and fees …

Fire damages Arizona Democratic Party headquarters in Phoenix building overnight  —  A fire caused extensive damage at the state Democratic Party headquarters early Friday morning in downtown Phoenix, and police are investigating the cause.  —  Heavy smoke and fire were billowing …

Exclusive: Leader Of Dylann Roof-Worshipping Neo-Nazi Group Exposed  —  Andrew Richard Casarez is a 27-year-old pizza delivery driver and the leading voice in a confederation of neo-Nazis, HuffPost has confirmed.  —  A prominent white supremacist who encourages acts of domestic terror …

Trump's Magical Thinking Runs Into Reality, Again  —  President Trump is making history again.  Not the kind of monumental, glorified achievements he envisions, though.  This time he's become the first president in modern history to foul up not one, but two of his own conventions.  In the same summer.

Exclusive poll: Coronavirus sinks GOP governors in hard-hit states  —  The governors in four of the states hit hardest by the coronavirus have taken a massive hit in public approval over their handling of the pandemic, according to SurveyMonkey poll data shared exclusively with Axios.

Conservatives Are Winning The Supreme Court's Most Important Fight: Suppressing The Vote  —  Enabling widespread voter suppression is shaping up to be the Roberts Court's most consequential accomplishment, because every other aspect of the Republican agenda depends on it.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Delivers a Lesson in Decency on the House Floor  —  One could be forgiven for thinking that rhetorical dynamism long ago vanished from the hallways and chambers of the United States Congress.  It has been a hundred and sixty-four years, for example, since Charles Sumner …