But Gorsuch.

Six months into the pandemic, Donald G. McNeil Jr., science and health reporter for the New York Times, tells Michael Barbaro where we’re at. 1/22

The Vice President blatantly lies to reporters about the trajectory of COVID-19 cases in Oklahoma, ahead of Saturday’s Trump rally. 2/22

The Fed begins purchasing up to $250 billion in individual corporate bonds. 3/22

One New Mexico hospital's secret coronavirus policy separates Native women from their newly born babies. 4/22

A good podcast episode records a week in the life of Dr. Timothy Sheahan, a virologist working on vaccines and treatments. 5/22

Related, from April: “Inside the High Stakes New Life of a Coronavirus Specialist” 6/22

Yesterday’s landmark Supreme Court LGBTQ rights decision, explained in five simple sentences. 7/22

See also: Michelle Goldberg, conservative wailing, and so much for “But Gorsuch.” 8/22

A thorough review of the damning reasons given by NFL teams for not signing Colin Kaepernick. 9/22

Jelani Cobb writes that George Floyd’s name has become a metaphor for the stacked inequities of the society that produced them. 10/22

“I’d have to be insane to let you quote me.” While the world is in turmoil, New York's media elite are in the Hamptons. 11/22

See also: Billionaires often freeze up while trying to give away their wealth. Twitter's Jack Dorsey offers a slightly different model. 12/22

Taipei's Songshan Airport offers a fake vacation abroad, complete with immigration control and boarding a plane. Meanwhile, Poland invaded the Czech Republic in a “minor misunderstanding.” 13/22

In Washington, a town starts issuing wooden dollars that can only be spent at local businesses. 14/22

In Kentucky, a tattoo parlor covers up hate and gang symbols for free. 15/22

What is the next act for America? Because if this moment was in a movie, we’d all be experiencing “the dark night of the soul.” 16/22

Images from Debbie Grossman's "My Pie Town," in which all-female families survive the Great Depression. 17/22

For some Latinx millennials, caring for plants is less about interior design, more about connecting to mental health and the "rasquachismo" tradition. 18/22

Wait, what if minimalism was actually a consumer trend intended to make you shop more? What if clutter is a sign of moral achievement? 19/22

People discuss which new habits they want to preserve post-quarantine. 20/22

A poem for your week, from Emily Dickinson, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes – (372).” 21/22

And! Based on new calculations, there are likely between four and 211 civilizations in the Milky Way today capable of communicating. 22/22

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