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U(D54G1D)y+?!;!.!$!z OAKLAND, Calif. — A Twitter hacking scheme that targeted po- litical, corporate and cultural elites this week began with a teas- ing message between two hackers late Tuesday on the online mes- saging platform Discord. “yoo bro,” wrote a user named “Kirk,” according to a screenshot of the conversation shared with The New York Times. “i work at twitter / don’t show this to anyone / seriously.” He then demonstrated that he could take control of valuable Twitter accounts — the sort of thing that would require insider access to the company’s computer network. The hacker who received the message, using the screen name “lol,” decided over the next 24 hours that Kirk did not actually work for Twitter because he was too willing to damage the com- pany. But Kirk did have access to Twitter’s most sensitive tools, which allowed him to take control of almost any Twitter account, in- cluding those of former President Barack Obama, Joseph R. Biden Jr., Elon Musk and many other ce- lebrities. Despite global attention on the intrusion, which has shaken confi- dence in Twitter and the security provided by other technology companies, the basic details of who were responsible, and how they did it, have been a mystery. Inside Story of the Twitter Attack, as Told by 4 Young Hackers By NATHANIEL POPPER and KATE CONGER Screen Names Like ‘lol’ and ‘ever so anxious’ Continued on Page A19 PORTLAND, Ore. — Federal agents dressed in camouflage and tactical gear have taken to the streets of Portland, unleashing tear gas, bloodying protesters and pulling some people into un- marked vans in what Gov. Kate Brown of Oregon has called “a bla- tant abuse of power.” The extraordinary use of fed- eral force in recent days, billed as an attempt to tamp down persist- ent unrest and protect govern- ment property, has infuriated lo- cal leaders who say the agents have stoked tensions. “This is an attack on our democ- racy,” Mayor Ted Wheeler of Port- land said. The strife in Portland, which has had 50 consecutive days of protests, reflects the growing fault lines in law enforcement as President Trump threatens an as- sertive federal role in how cities manage a wave of national unrest after George Floyd was killed by the Minneapolis police. One Portland demonstrator, Mark Pettibone, 29, said he had been part of the protests before four people in camouflage jumped out of an unmarked van around 2 a.m. Wednesday. They had no ob- vious markings or identification, he said, and he had no idea who they were. “One of the officers said, ‘It’s OK, it’s OK,’ and just grabbed me and threw me into the van,” Mr. Pettibone said. “Another officer pulled my beanie down so I could- n’t see.” Mr. Pettibone said that he was terrified — protesters in the city have in the past clashed with far- right militia groups also wearing camouflage and tactical gear — and that at no point was he told why he was arrested or detained, or what agency the officers were with. He said he was held for about two hours before being re- leased. “It felt like I was being hunted for no reason,” Mr. Pettibone said. “It feels like fascism.” In a statement issued on Friday, Customs and Border Protection said agents who made the arrest TO CITY’S ALARM, FEDERAL OFFICERS POLICE PORTLAND ‘IT FEELS LIKE FASCISM’ Accusations of Exceeding Their Authority and Violating Rights This article is by Sergio Olmos, Mike Baker and Zolan Kanno- Youngs. Portland, Ore., has had 50 consecutive days of protests. JOHN RUDOFF/SIPA, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS Continued on Page A15 KEVIN D. LILES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES A champion of nonviolence, he was a field general for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Page B10. C. T. VIVIAN, 1924-2020 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the most prominent member of the Supreme Court’s liberal mi- nority, said Friday that she has had a recurrence of cancer, caus- ing a wave of anxiety among Dem- ocrats that was not completely as- suaged by her assurance that she was undergoing chemotherapy, with “positive results,” and would remain on the Supreme Court. At 87, Justice Ginsburg is the court’s oldest justice and, as “No- torious R.B.G.,” its most celebrat- ed. Her health has been the sub- ject of intense interest to both par- ties since the election of President Trump, but particularly to Demo- crats. They fear that if she died or had to resign, Mr. Trump and his Republican allies in the Senate, led by Mitch McConnell of Ken- tucky, the majority leader, would quickly try to install a conserva- tive successor even as the Novem- ber election is imminent. For Democrats increasingly op- timistic about defeating Mr. Trump and possibly retaking the Senate, that would be an even more painful version of what Mr. McConnell and Senate Republi- cans were able to accomplish in 2016. That year they prevented Presi- dent Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick B. Ginsburg Says Cancer Is Back, But She’s ‘Fully Able’ to Work This article is by Adam Liptak, Denise Grady and Carl Hulse. Continued on Page A14 THE NEW YORK TIMES Where People Are Most Likely to Wear Face Masks 80% 60% 40% 20% Chances that all five people are wearing masks in five random encounters Source: New York Times estimates based on about 250,000 interviews conducted by Dynata from July 2 to July 14. Respondents were asked how often they wear a mask when they expect to be within six feet of another person in public. The patterns in mask use reflect partisanship, peer pressure and the footprint of the coronavirus itself. Page A8. MINN. IOWA WIS. MICH. N.D. MONT. IDAHO ORE. WASH. NEV. UTAH ARIZ. WYO. CALIF. ALASKA HAWAII S.D. NEB. COLO. N.M. OKLA. KAN. MO. ARK. ALA. MISS. GA. FLA. S.C. N.C. TENN. KY. LA. ILL. IND. OHIO W.VA. PA. N.Y. VA. VT. N.H. MAINE TEXAS The old job of custodians was ti- dying up. The new one is protect- ing against a killer through disin- fection. As the coronavirus continues to rage and businesses and work- places weigh the risks of reopen- ing, janitors have a warning about the current state of cleaning in the United States. Many say they have not been given enough re- sources to fight the pathogen, or, in a few cases, even hot water to wash their hands. They are often not told if someone has tested pos- itive where they are working, many said in interviews, making it difficult to protect themselves and others. Cleaners have recently fallen ill across the country, from the Uni- versity of Texas at Austin, to a Fox Entertainment lot in Los Angeles, to casinos in Mississippi. Workers in office buildings and supermar- kets say they lack the time and training to do the job right. And though airlines have tried to win back customers by raising sanita- tion standards, pilots, flight at- tendants and cabin cleaners re- port that the efforts are still inade- quate, with reused rags, unwiped tray tables and bathrooms that aren’t disinfected between flights. Interviews with dozens of work- ers, employers, cleaning company executives and union officials, as well as a review of records from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, reveal other glaring problems. At a Mi- ami office tower, Martha Lorena Cortez Estrada resorted to bring- ing in her own Clorox and making her own masks. “Our brooms were worn out; we were mopping with just water and no disinfec- tant,” said Ms. Cortez, 58, who makes $8.56 an hour. As the coun- try navigates whether and how to report to work, shop, eat out, trav- el and educate children, it is often impossible to tell how frequently or thoroughly anything is cleaned. In War on Coronavirus, Janitors Feel Unarmed By JODI KANTOR Many Lack Resources. Some Bring Their Own Supplies. Continued on Page A7 When Democrats awarded their 2020 convention to Milwau- kee, plans called for a crowd of more than 50,000 delegates, jour- nalists, party officials and V.I.P.s. But as the coronavirus spread this spring and the convention was pushed back to August, the num- ber dwindled. First to 5,000 attendees. Then, a mere 1,000. Now, one month before the party is set to gather at a conven- tion site smaller than the one orig- inally selected, officials are ex- pecting the quadrennial event to include as few as 300 people — a number that includes not only at- tendees but members of the news media, security personnel, medi- cal consultants and party work- ers. Every aspect of the four-day Democratic National Convention, scheduled to begin Aug. 17, has been scaled back from the ambi- tions set when Milwaukee was named the host city in March 2019. A program of five to six hours of daily speeches, engineered to en- tertain delegates in the arena and draw heavy television coverage and headlines for Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his vice-presidential nomi- nee, will be cut down closer to three hours each night. Much of the program is likely to be pre- For Democrats, A Convention In Miniature By REID J. EPSTEIN and LISA LERER Continued on Page A13 After a little-known candidate named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stunned a powerful Queens con- gressman in a 2018 primary, Dem- ocratic Party leaders were deter- mined to never be surprised the same way again, vowing to pro- tect incumbents and clashing with Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and other up- starts for pushing for more pro- gressive candidates. On Friday, it became clear that those efforts had failed, as an- other unlikely challenger, Jamaal Bowman, shocked the Democratic establishment by defeating Rep- resentative Eliot L. Engel, over- coming the attempts of old-guard party elite like Hillary Clinton, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to save a 16-term incumbent. Mr. Bowman, 44, did so by run- ning against Republicans in Washington and the caution of centrist Democrats everywhere, capitalizing on seven-figure spending by progressive groups to help him win the primary in a district that straddles the Bronx and Westchester County. “It means this country is ready, it’s yearning, it’s excited for pro- gressive change,” Mr. Bowman, a middle school principal from Yon- kers, said on Friday. “And it’s ex- cited to finally hold elected offi- cials accountable.” Unlike Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s vic- tory, Mr. Bowman’s looks more like an indicator than an anomaly: He is one of three younger, insur- gent Democrats in New York who seem poised to tilt the state’s, and the party’s, congressional delega- tion further to the left. The other two, Mondaire Jones and Ritchie Torres, are candidates for open seats in two neighboring districts. If elected, they would be the first openly gay Black men in Congress. On Tuesday, Mr. Jones was declared the winner of the pri- mary in a district that covers parts of Westchester and Rock- land counties; Mr. Torres holds a healthy lead in his Bronx district’s race. Another veteran Democrat, Representative Carolyn Maloney, is fighting for her political life in the district that includes Manhat- tan’s East Side. Ms. Maloney holds a slim lead over another left- wing challenger, Suraj Patel. The contest, like the one Mr. Bowman won and many others in New York, has dragged on as election officials grapple with the deluge of absentee ballots that were cast by mail because of the coronavirus pandemic. The crush of absentee ballots — more than 50 percent of the total cast in some races — has over- whelmed election officials who are accustomed to handling far Bowman Beats Top Democrat In House Race Power of the Left Seen in Victory Over Engel By JESSE McKINLEY Continued on Page A13 THIS WEEKEND The World Surf League canceled a 2020 season that had never gotten started because of the pandemic. PAGE B9 SPORTSSATURDAY B8-9 Them’s the Breaks Queen Elizabeth came out of seclusion to honor Tom Moore, 100, a war veteran and charitable fund-raiser. PAGE A9 INTERNATIONAL A9-11 Queen Knights Captain Tom Imanbek Zeikenov, 19, was working at a train station in Kazakhstan when he stumbled onto a Saint Jhn song ripe for a dancey remix. The result lifted both artists to a new level. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-7 Fast Track to a Global Pop Hit Nearly a century after a white mob massacred Black residents of Tulsa, Okla., the city broke ground this week in a search for mass graves. PAGE A16 NATIONAL A12-19, 22 Uncovering the Past The director Christopher Nolan had hoped to aid theater owners with the summer release of “Tenet,” but his oft-delayed sci-fi film may be prolong- ing their pain in a pandemic. PAGE C1 Is It Safe for a Blockbuster? Women who have counseled the league on workplace culture aren’t surprised by new harassment claims. PAGE B8 N.F.L.’s Struggles With Women A tech entrepreneur’s ex-assistant was accused of killing and dismembering him in his Manhattan condo. PAGE A19 Charges in Grisly Murder Assa Traoré is leading France’s fight against discriminatory police violence. The Saturday Profile. PAGE A10 Égalité for All French Citizens Bret Stephens PAGE A21 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21 A Times reporter and photographer followed PG&E in its efforts to improve the utility’s maligned system. PAGE B1 BUSINESS B1-7 On Front Line Against Fire Late Edition VOL. CLXIX .... 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OAKLAND, Calif. — A Twitterhacking scheme that targeted po-litical, corporate and culturalelites this week began with a teas-ing message between two hackerslate Tuesday on the online mes-saging platform Discord.
“yoo bro,” wrote a user named“Kirk,” according to a screenshot
of the conversation shared withThe New York Times. “i work attwitter / don’t show this to anyone/ seriously.”
He then demonstrated that hecould take control of valuableTwitter accounts — the sort ofthing that would require insideraccess to the company’s computernetwork.
The hacker who received themessage, using the screen name“lol,” decided over the next 24
hours that Kirk did not actuallywork for Twitter because he wastoo willing to damage the com-pany. But Kirk did have access toTwitter’s most sensitive tools,which allowed him to take control
of almost any Twitter account, in-cluding those of former PresidentBarack Obama, Joseph R. BidenJr., Elon Musk and many other ce-lebrities.
Despite global attention on theintrusion, which has shaken confi-dence in Twitter and the securityprovided by other technologycompanies, the basic details ofwho were responsible, and howthey did it, have been a mystery.
Inside Story of the Twitter Attack, as Told by 4 Young HackersBy NATHANIEL POPPER
and KATE CONGERScreen Names Like ‘lol’
and ‘ever so anxious’
Continued on Page A19
PORTLAND, Ore. — Federalagents dressed in camouflage andtactical gear have taken to thestreets of Portland, unleashingtear gas, bloodying protesters andpulling some people into un-marked vans in what Gov. KateBrown of Oregon has called “a bla-tant abuse of power.”
The extraordinary use of fed-eral force in recent days, billed asan attempt to tamp down persist-ent unrest and protect govern-ment property, has infuriated lo-cal leaders who say the agentshave stoked tensions.
“This is an attack on our democ-racy,” Mayor Ted Wheeler of Port-land said.
The strife in Portland, whichhas had 50 consecutive days ofprotests, reflects the growingfault lines in law enforcement asPresident Trump threatens an as-
sertive federal role in how citiesmanage a wave of national unrestafter George Floyd was killed bythe Minneapolis police.
One Portland demonstrator,Mark Pettibone, 29, said he hadbeen part of the protests beforefour people in camouflage jumpedout of an unmarked van around 2a.m. Wednesday. They had no ob-vious markings or identification,he said, and he had no idea whothey were.
“One of the officers said, ‘It’sOK, it’s OK,’ and just grabbed meand threw me into the van,” Mr.Pettibone said. “Another officerpulled my beanie down so I could-n’t see.”
Mr. Pettibone said that he wasterrified — protesters in the cityhave in the past clashed with far-right militia groups also wearingcamouflage and tactical gear —and that at no point was he toldwhy he was arrested or detained,or what agency the officers werewith. He said he was held forabout two hours before being re-leased.
“It felt like I was being huntedfor no reason,” Mr. Pettibone said.“It feels like fascism.”
In a statement issued on Friday,Customs and Border Protectionsaid agents who made the arrest
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Accusations of ExceedingTheir Authority and
Violating Rights
This article is by Sergio Olmos,Mike Baker and Zolan Kanno-Youngs.
Portland, Ore., has had 50consecutive days of protests.
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KEVIN D. LILES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
A champion of nonviolence, he was a field general for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Page B10.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,the most prominent member ofthe Supreme Court’s liberal mi-nority, said Friday that she hashad a recurrence of cancer, caus-ing a wave of anxiety among Dem-ocrats that was not completely as-suaged by her assurance that shewas undergoing chemotherapy,with “positive results,” and wouldremain on the Supreme Court.
At 87, Justice Ginsburg is thecourt’s oldest justice and, as “No-torious R.B.G.,” its most celebrat-ed. Her health has been the sub-ject of intense interest to both par-ties since the election of PresidentTrump, but particularly to Demo-
crats. They fear that if she died orhad to resign, Mr. Trump and hisRepublican allies in the Senate,led by Mitch McConnell of Ken-tucky, the majority leader, wouldquickly try to install a conserva-tive successor even as the Novem-ber election is imminent.
For Democrats increasingly op-timistic about defeating Mr.Trump and possibly retaking theSenate, that would be an evenmore painful version of what Mr.McConnell and Senate Republi-cans were able to accomplish in2016.
That year they prevented Presi-dent Barack Obama’s SupremeCourt nominee, Judge Merrick B.
Ginsburg Says Cancer Is Back, But She’s ‘Fully Able’ to Work
This article is by Adam Liptak,Denise Grady and Carl Hulse.
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The old job of custodians was ti-dying up. The new one is protect-ing against a killer through disin-fection.
As the coronavirus continues torage and businesses and work-places weigh the risks of reopen-ing, janitors have a warning aboutthe current state of cleaning in theUnited States. Many say theyhave not been given enough re-sources to fight the pathogen, or,in a few cases, even hot water towash their hands. They are oftennot told if someone has tested pos-itive where they are working,many said in interviews, makingit difficult to protect themselvesand others.
Cleaners have recently fallen ill
across the country, from the Uni-versity of Texas at Austin, to a FoxEntertainment lot in Los Angeles,to casinos in Mississippi. Workersin office buildings and supermar-kets say they lack the time andtraining to do the job right. Andthough airlines have tried to winback customers by raising sanita-tion standards, pilots, flight at-tendants and cabin cleaners re-port that the efforts are still inade-quate, with reused rags, unwipedtray tables and bathrooms that
aren’t disinfected between flights.Interviews with dozens of work-
ers, employers, cleaning companyexecutives and union officials, aswell as a review of records fromthe federal Occupational Safetyand Health Administration, revealother glaring problems. At a Mi-ami office tower, Martha LorenaCortez Estrada resorted to bring-ing in her own Clorox and makingher own masks. “Our broomswere worn out; we were moppingwith just water and no disinfec-tant,” said Ms. Cortez, 58, whomakes $8.56 an hour. As the coun-try navigates whether and how toreport to work, shop, eat out, trav-el and educate children, it is oftenimpossible to tell how frequentlyor thoroughly anything is cleaned.
In War on Coronavirus, Janitors Feel UnarmedBy JODI KANTOR Many Lack Resources.
Some Bring TheirOwn Supplies.
Continued on Page A7
When Democrats awardedtheir 2020 convention to Milwau-kee, plans called for a crowd ofmore than 50,000 delegates, jour-nalists, party officials and V.I.P.s.But as the coronavirus spread thisspring and the convention waspushed back to August, the num-ber dwindled.
First to 5,000 attendees. Then, amere 1,000.
Now, one month before theparty is set to gather at a conven-tion site smaller than the one orig-inally selected, officials are ex-pecting the quadrennial event toinclude as few as 300 people — anumber that includes not only at-tendees but members of the newsmedia, security personnel, medi-cal consultants and party work-ers.
Every aspect of the four-dayDemocratic National Convention,scheduled to begin Aug. 17, hasbeen scaled back from the ambi-tions set when Milwaukee wasnamed the host city in March 2019.A program of five to six hours ofdaily speeches, engineered to en-tertain delegates in the arena anddraw heavy television coverageand headlines for Joseph R. BidenJr. and his vice-presidential nomi-nee, will be cut down closer tothree hours each night. Much ofthe program is likely to be pre-
For Democrats,A Convention
In MiniatureBy REID J. EPSTEIN
and LISA LERER
Continued on Page A13
After a little-known candidatenamed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezstunned a powerful Queens con-gressman in a 2018 primary, Dem-ocratic Party leaders were deter-mined to never be surprised thesame way again, vowing to pro-tect incumbents and clashing withMs. Ocasio-Cortez and other up-starts for pushing for more pro-gressive candidates.
On Friday, it became clear thatthose efforts had failed, as an-other unlikely challenger, JamaalBowman, shocked the Democraticestablishment by defeating Rep-resentative Eliot L. Engel, over-coming the attempts of old-guardparty elite like Hillary Clinton,House Speaker Nancy Pelosi andGov. Andrew M. Cuomo to save a16-term incumbent.
Mr. Bowman, 44, did so by run-ning against Republicans inWashington and the caution ofcentrist Democrats everywhere,capitalizing on seven-figurespending by progressive groupsto help him win the primary in adistrict that straddles the Bronxand Westchester County.
“It means this country is ready,it’s yearning, it’s excited for pro-gressive change,” Mr. Bowman, amiddle school principal from Yon-kers, said on Friday. “And it’s ex-cited to finally hold elected offi-cials accountable.”
Unlike Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s vic-tory, Mr. Bowman’s looks morelike an indicator than an anomaly:He is one of three younger, insur-gent Democrats in New York whoseem poised to tilt the state’s, andthe party’s, congressional delega-tion further to the left.
The other two, Mondaire Jonesand Ritchie Torres, are candidatesfor open seats in two neighboringdistricts. If elected, they would bethe first openly gay Black men inCongress. On Tuesday, Mr. Joneswas declared the winner of the pri-mary in a district that coversparts of Westchester and Rock-land counties; Mr. Torres holds ahealthy lead in his Bronx district’srace.
Another veteran Democrat,Representative Carolyn Maloney,is fighting for her political life inthe district that includes Manhat-tan’s East Side. Ms. Maloneyholds a slim lead over another left-wing challenger, Suraj Patel. Thecontest, like the one Mr. Bowmanwon and many others in NewYork, has dragged on as electionofficials grapple with the deluge ofabsentee ballots that were cast bymail because of the coronaviruspandemic.
The crush of absentee ballots —more than 50 percent of the totalcast in some races — has over-whelmed election officials whoare accustomed to handling far
Bowman BeatsTop DemocratIn House Race
Power of the Left Seenin Victory Over Engel
By JESSE McKINLEY
Continued on Page A13
THIS WEEKEND
The World Surf League canceled a 2020season that had never gotten startedbecause of the pandemic. PAGE B9
SPORTSSATURDAY B8-9
Them’s the BreaksQueen Elizabeth came out of seclusionto honor Tom Moore, 100, a war veteranand charitable fund-raiser. PAGE A9
INTERNATIONAL A9-11
Queen Knights Captain Tom
Imanbek Zeikenov, 19, was working at atrain station in Kazakhstan when hestumbled onto a Saint Jhn song ripe fora dancey remix. The result lifted bothartists to a new level. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-7
Fast Track to a Global Pop HitNearly a century after a white mobmassacred Black residents of Tulsa,Okla., the city broke ground this weekin a search for mass graves. PAGE A16
NATIONAL A12-19, 22
Uncovering the Past
The director Christopher Nolan hadhoped to aid theater owners with thesummer release of “Tenet,” but hisoft-delayed sci-fi film may be prolong-ing their pain in a pandemic. PAGE C1
Is It Safe for a Blockbuster?
Women who have counseled the leagueon workplace culture aren’t surprisedby new harassment claims. PAGE B8
N.F.L.’s Struggles With Women
A tech entrepreneur’s ex-assistant wasaccused of killing and dismemberinghim in his Manhattan condo. PAGE A19
Charges in Grisly Murder
Assa Traoré is leading France’s fightagainst discriminatory police violence.The Saturday Profile. PAGE A10
Égalité for All French Citizens
Bret Stephens PAGE A21
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21A Times reporter and photographerfollowed PG&E in its efforts to improvethe utility’s maligned system. PAGE B1
BUSINESS B1-7
On Front Line Against Fire
Late Edition
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