Beg your pardon.
Trump has commuted the prison sentence for Roger Stone, who had reportedly been “praying” for Trump to do so. / 1/21 | POLITICO, The Hill
After months of decline, America’s death rate from coronavirus has risen sharply, with death tolls increasing by more than 100% in Texas, Arizona, and South Carolina. / 2/21 | The Washington Post
Scientists say plasma injections from COVID-19 survivors could help inoculate people at risk—but feds and Big Pharma won’t act. / 3/21 | Los Angeles Times
Yankee Stadium can hold 11% of its capacity safely during the pandemic—not the 20% the team owner wants. / 4/21 | NJ.com
The pandemic has left people dying alone—without those nearby who need to hear their final words. / 5/21 | The Atlantic
Just over 420 COVID-19 tests per 100,000 people have been performed in Africa—raising fears of a silent epidemic. / 6/21 | Reuters
Related: Over the past three months, African countries have lost nearly $55 billion in travel and tourism due to the pandemic. / 7/21 | Reuters
See also: Responding to outrage over police murders in the US, Ghana tells Black Americans: “Build a life in Ghana. You do not have to stay where you are not wanted forever.” / 8/21 | The Washington Post
“I’m also suspicious of the way that Not Being Racist is a project that people seem to be approaching like boot camp.” An interview with Jia Tolentino about, among other things, the protests and white America’s reckoning with racial inequality. / 9/21 | Interview
Fascism has been in the US as long as anywhere else—ask anyone who’s Black in America. / 10/21 | The New York Review of Books
Budget cutbacks have resulted in not printing green cards—disconcerting given Trump’s immigration stance. / 11/21 | The Washington Post
The top writer for Tucker Carlson’s show has resigned after a CNN investigation found he’d been posting bigoted comments for years under a pseudonym on a forum. / 12/21 | CNN
Nandini Jammi of Sleeping Giants says her white male co-founder gaslighted her out of the movement they built. / 13/21 | Medium
To stop Trump from playing their music at rallies, artists may have to sue—as the Rolling Stones are now threatening to do. / 14/21 | Pitchfork
“I was always happy to recommend that customers shop the city’s local independent bookstores for titles we didn’t have on hand.” David Gutowski on working at an Amazon bookstore. / 15/21 | Longreads
Christo’s first posthumous project—wrapping the Arc de Triomphe—is now set for 2021, and his team is ready to carry out more of his work. / 16/21 | The New York Times
In an analysis of 2019’s YouTube trending videos, cooking channels were among the most popular. / 17/21 | Ammar Alyousfi
Listen: Act 1 of the Hamilton soundtrack if it had been performed by the Muppets. Kudos to Animal for the rendition of “You’ll Be Back” at 19:01. / 18/21 | The Morning News
Oceans rise, empires fall: A map of the roads of the Roman Empire ca. 125 AD in the style of the London Underground, by Sasha Trubetskoy. / 19/21 | Boing Boing
Serene collages on paper of waterfalls, by Thomas Danthony. / 20/21 | This Isn’t Happiness
Link correction to yesterday’s newsletter: Jessa Crispin explains why she doesn’t have children. / 21/21 | The Guardian
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