The war on the imaginary threat posed by mail-in voting is now a key point of contention in getting a new relief bill signed. NPR: Funding For Postal Service, Mail-In Voting Stall Coronavirus Relief Talks. And Trump blurts out his true motive on mail-in voting. “Now they need that money in order to make the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots…But if they don’t get those two items that means you can’t have universal mail-in voting.” (Because, you know, we wouldn’t want all that voting…)

+ The New Yorker’s Bill McKibben: Trump’s Attack on the Postal Service Is a Threat to Democracy—and to Rural America.

+ Meanwhile, the Biden/Harris ticket made its public debut. Here are some outtakes.