Perhaps not as big as "seniors meeting for coffee," here are a couple of news stories that I found interesting in my travels around the Web.

Mexico is paying for the wall (that's Trump's story, and he's sticking with it.)

From yesterday’s Trump rally:

President Trump: "Mexico is paying for the wall." pic.twitter.com/cn3cZAQmgk

— The Hill (@thehill) August 29, 2020

My understanding is that they’ve finished 5 miles with no Mexican support. Does that matter to Trump supporters?

A screen shot taken from the Facebook page of Barry Moore, Republican candidate in Alabama's 2nd Congressional District

Kyle Whitmer, a columnist for the Alabama Media Group, was the first to call-out this posting on Barry Moore's Facebook page. Moore is the Republican candidate in Alabama's 2nd Congressional District and, according to Whitmer, the likely winner.

Some up-to-date Covid comparisons

(Klass is a professor and Washington Post columnist.)

If you want to see it visually, here's a graph of the 7 day rolling average of deaths per million people (which irons out any weird daily spikes) comparing the US to peer countries: pic.twitter.com/MHn3OUzZK1

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) August 29, 2020