Picture book on Harris will be out soon
NEW YORK — That didn’t take long: Just weeks after making history as the running mate for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris will be the subject of a new picture book.
Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing announced Wednesday that prize-winning author Nikki Grimes has written “Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice,” which features illustrations by Laura Freeman. The book comes out Aug. 25.
In June, Simon & Schuster published “Joey: The Story of Joe Biden,” a picture book written in part by his wife, Jill Biden.
Harris told her own story in “The Truths We Hold,” which came out last year.
AOC’s complaint: NBC News deleted a tweet early Wednesday about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s brief speech at the Democratic National Convention that she complained was misleading and appalling.
The network’s tweet said that “in one of the shortest speeches of the DNC, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez did not endorse Joe Biden.”
The tweet quoted Ocasio-Cortez seconding the nomination of Bernie Sanders, who amassed more than 1,000 delegates in his unsuccessful primary bid.
Ocasio-Cortez complained via Twitter that NBC’s report didn’t appear to recognize the purpose of her 90-second commentary: a “routine procedural motion” to salute Sanders’ runner-up campaign.
In deleting the tweet and sending out a replacement, NBC said that its original report “should have included more detail on the nomination process.”
That correction didn’t satisfy Ocasio-Cortez. “You waited several hours to correct your obvious and blatantly misleading tweet,” she tweeted. “It sparked an enormous amount of hatred and vitriol, & now the misinfo you created is circulating on other networks.”
Calamari comeback: There goes Rhode Island again — always finding a way to get its tiny tentacles onto the national stage.
In a made-for-memes moment sandwiched between other states’ calls to fight poverty and end racial injustice, a lawmaker and a restaurateur with a heaping plate of sauteed squid stood on a beach and proclaimed Rhode Island the “calamari comeback state” at the virtual Democratic National Convention.
The 30-second spot, aired Tuesday night during the convention’s roll call as Rhode Island’s Democrats formally nominated Joe Biden for president, was an instant social media sensation. “Rhode Island” trended for hours overnight on Twitter.
The backstory: Joseph McNamara, who chairs the state Democratic Party and appeared in the video, lobbied successfully in 2014 to make calamari Rhode Island’s official state appetizer.
McNamara's “calamari comeback” comment touched off a flurry of social media posts, but the real star of the spot was the chef who stood silently next to him — John Bordieri, executive chef at Iggy’s Boardwalk, a seafood restaurant on Narragansett Bay.
Thursday’s schedule: Featured speakers include Sen. Cory Booker, Sen. Chris Coons, 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang, presidential nominee Joe Biden.