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| By Mike Allen ·Jul 07, 2021 |
| 🐪 Happy Wednesday! Smart Brevity™ count: 1,182 words ... 4½ minutes. Edited by Zachary Basu. ⚡ Bulletin: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated after a group of unidentified people attacked his private residence, an official said. The latest. |
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| 1 big thing: Dems' new police playbook |
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| Eric Adams speaks to supporters after voting in Brooklyn on June 22. Photo: Brendan McDermid |
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| Eric Adams, a former NYPD captain who's poised to become New York mayor after winning the Democratic primary last night, points to a new path for Democrats to navigate the police issue. - Why it matters: With homicides up across the country, and cuts to police spending in several major cities, key Democrats fear that last year's defund-the-police rhetoric could haunt them in next year's midterms. And Republicans plan to make crime a top issue.
Adams, 60, who retired as an NYPD captain after a 22-year law-enforcement career, spoke to rattled New Yorkers with a twin message of "the justice we deserve and the safety we need." - The win by Adams, currently Brooklyn borough president, "permissions every Democrat around the nation to argue for safety and justice" over defunding police, Howard Wolfson, top Democratic strategist and former deputy mayor for Mike Bloomberg, told me.
Another top Democratic operative told me: "No one thought crime (not how we police crime) would be an issue in this campaign (or in the country) a year ago." - "Eric's bio matches the voters' concerns. Voters in NYC are progressive and care about BLM [Black Lives Matter] and policing, but they also don't want to defund the PD."
The bottom line: Many voters of color don't want to defund the police, because they deal with some of the worst of the crime. The Adams model: Reform, don't defund, policing. Take both crime and police misconduct seriously. Share this story. |
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| 2. Capitol rioters deleted deleted deleted |
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| Screenshot from FBI videos |
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| On the six-month anniversary of the Capitol invasion, the FBI released 11 new videos of suspects using, as MSNBC's Rachel Maddow put it, "stop motion, slow motion, spot shadowing" to try to isolate the faces. And lots of the video was posted by the rioters themselves. - At least 49 defendants, out of 500+ who have been arrested, are accused of trying to erase incriminating photos, videos and texts from phones or social media, AP found in a review of court records.
Investigators have retrieved the digital content by requesting it from social media companies, even after accounts are shut down. |
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| 3. Hitting the vaccine ceiling |
 Reproduced from Our World in Data. Chart: Axios Visuals The U.S. appears to be hitting its ceiling on COVID vaccinations, at least among adults, Axios health care editor Tina Reed writes. - Why it matters: The more transmissible and dangerous variant Delta variant is spreading fast. Experts fear another wave of infections among the unvaccinated.
President Biden yesterday all but begged the unvaccinated to get a shot, reminding them that it's free and telling them to think about the family members they might put at risk by not getting vaccinated. - "Now we need to go ... community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, and oftentimes, door to door — literally knocking on doors," Biden said.
- But most Americans who are receptive to that message have already gotten the shot.
One key group: Young adults between the ages of 18 and 30 years old who "feel bulletproof," Cornell virologist John Moore told Axios. - They need to hear the message that "this bullet could hit you," Moore said.
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| A message from Toyota |
| How Toyota is working towards a carbon-neutral future |
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| Toyota's electrified models will comprise up to 70% of its U.S. vehicle sales. Why it's important: Toyota's hybrid vehicles sold in the U.S. have avoided putting approximately 38 million tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) into the atmosphere. |
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| 4. Pic du jour |
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| Photo: Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel via AP |
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| Above, about 250 electrical utility trucks lined up at Duke Energy's staging location in The Villages, about an hour from Orlando, yesterday as Tropical Storm Elsa threatened. - Ben Montgomery of Axios Tampa Bay was out in the storm all night, and reports that the area seemed to dodge the big threat: a storm surge timed to high tide.
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| 5. Ransom attacks go wholesale |
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| Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios |
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| This weekend's Kaseya ransomware attack was huge. But while some experts and lawmakers are calling it "the biggest ever," it's too soon to award that title, Axios' Scott Rosenberg and Ina Fried write. The attackers, identified as the Russia-connected REvil group, infected Kaseya's tools, which in turn transmitted malicious code to downstream companies, locking them out of their data and systems. - REvil started by asking for a reported $45,000 in bitcoin from each affected company. Then the gang demanded a lump-sum $70 million to provide one key that would free all the affected firms' systems. Then the hackers lowered that demand to $50 million.
- The switch to a wholesale approach, analysts suggested, showed that the attackers couldn't handle managing the sheer volume of individual cases.
What's next: The Kaseya attack has prompted new calls for the Biden administration to get tougher with Russia. - Biden said the attack "appears to have caused minimal damage to U.S. businesses, but we're still gathering information."
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| 6. America's stress-drinking |
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| Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios |
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| Americans responded to the stress of the pandemic by drinking more — in some cases, a lot more, Axios Future author Bryan Walsh writes. - Americans started drinking more as soon as the pandemic began in full last year: Nielsen data showed a 54% increase in national alcohol sales year-on-year in the week ending on March 21, 2020.
- One survey, conducted in February by The Harris Poll for the American Psychological Association, found nearly one in four Americans reported drinking more to combat pandemic-related stress.
Context: After more than a decade of declining alcohol consumption, per-capita alcohol consumption increased by 8% between 1999 and 2017. |
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| 7. Crypto milestone: New way to buy a diamond |
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| Photo: Sotheby's |
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| Sotheby's on Friday will auction an "exceptionally rare" 101.38-carat pear-shaped D Flawless diamond (above) estimated to be worth $10-15 million — and will accept cryptocurrency as payment. - "[N]o other physical object with an estimate even approaching [that] has ever been publicly offered for purchase with cryptocurrency," the 277-year-old auction house said in a release.
Increasing demand for a crypto option has come from a younger, digitally native generation, especially in Asia, Sotheby's said. |
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| 8. 🇨🇳 Big Tech crackdown continues — in China |
 Data: FactSet. Chart: Axios Visuals China, quicker to regulate than D.C., continues to crack down on data security, Big Tech, and financial markets in a sign that a new era of tech regulation has begun. Beijing regulators plan "rule changes that would allow them to block a Chinese company from listing overseas even if the unit selling shares is incorporated outside China," Bloomberg reports. - Why it matters: Closing the loophole would "threaten a lucrative line of business for Wall Street banks and add to concerns of a decoupling between China and the U.S. in sensitive areas like technology."
The China Securities Regulatory Commission "didn't immediately respond to a fax seeking comment." |
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| 9. 🔋 Tracking power: Kornblau to Softbank, Lanhee Chen running |
| NBC News veteran Mark Kornblau joins SoftBank as global head of communications, Axios Media Trends expert Sara Fischer has learned. Lanhee Chen, Ph.D., a Stanford fellow and former policy adviser for 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, is running for California controller. (Sacramento Bee) |
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| 10. 🏆 1 fun thing: Championship droughts |
 "Expected championships" are the number expected if every team in a league had an equal chance of winning each season. Reproduced from FiveThirtyEight. Table: Axios Visuals A clash of cursed sports cities kicked off last night, as the Phoenix Suns defeated the Milwaukee Bucks 118-105 in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, Axios Sports editor Kendall Baker writes. - Wild stat: The last time the Bucks won the NBA title (1971), the Cincinnati Royals, Buffalo Braves and San Diego Rockets were still in the NBA.
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| A message from Toyota |
| Here's proof that Toyota is a pioneer in electrification |
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| Toyota has been the number one manufacturer of alternative powertrains for 21 years in a row. The proof: The company's electrified portfolio has grown significantly in the past years including: - Battery electric.
- Hydrogen fuel cell electrics.
- Hybrids and plug-in hybrid electrics.
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