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Secretary of State Pompeo says the US may follow India and ban TikTok for security concerns. The FBI says it’s opening a new China-related counterintelligence case “approximately every ten hours.” / 1/24 | CNBC, Axios
Canada’s Trudeau turns down a White House invitation to visit. Were he to travel to the US, he’d need to quarantine upon return. / 2/24 | The Associated Press
Sonora, the Mexican state bordering Arizona, sets up additional checkpoints to catch Americans traveling with COVID-19. / 3/24 | CNN
Ed Yong: “The Pandemic Experts Are Not Okay.” / 4/24 | The Atlantic
Texas keeps over 4,000 people in solitary confinement, more than the rest of the country’s prisons combined. / 5/24 | Dissent
How to sustain momentum for anti-racism? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wants to see a public method for measuring social justice reform. After all, anti-racism requires so much more than “checking your privilege.” / 6/24 | The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian
Helen DeWitt: Data visualization, or “dataviz,” is a functional art and sometimes a life-or-death matter. / 7/24 | Frieze
A widget shows just how much of their budgets the United States’ 300 biggest cities spend on police. E.g., New York City: 8%. Los Angeles: 52%. / 8/24 | Cost of Police
Excellent reporting after a protest in Ohio—one that turned violent thanks to anti-protesters—exposes years of overt and covert racism. / 9/24 | BuzzFeed News
See more stories like this in the Editors’ Longreads Picks. / 10/24 | The Morning News
Winters are warming faster than summers now, part of the reason the Arctic is losing sea ice at its fastest rate in 1,500 years. / 11/24 | Vox
“Gleaning” means gathering anything left after a harvest. During the pandemic, gleaners are trying to fight rampant hunger. (Meanwhile, other people are microwaving their library books.) / 12/24 | The New York Times, Kirkus
For an Indian woman working to love her culture in a world that has stolen it, “food gets very personal.” / 13/24 | Eater
When it comes to business, what’s true of “wellness” is often true of “wokeness”—a capitalist game playing to consumers’ narcissism. / 14/24 | Tablet
Over a hundred prominent intellectuals sign a somewhat trolly letter decrying cancel culture, and immediately get trolled. / 15/24 | The New York Times
“It was amazing how much energy I’d spent trying to keep chardonnay in my life.” How to live decadently without alcohol. / 16/24 | Texas Monthly
The ghost kitchen concept, seen as a threat to restaurants pre-pandemic, now appears to be their future. / 17/24 | The New Yorker
A perfect art heist, where the art is never even stolen, told in illustrations. / 18/24 | Bloomberg
See also: Recent work by Los Angeles painter Lanise Howard. / 19/24 | Lanise Howard
In Los Angeles, an orgasm trainer, “The O-Man,” reportedly helps women reach pleasure dozens of times in a single session using postural assessment. / 20/24 | MEL Magazine
Sports are the new arena for discriminating against trans people. How the recent Supreme Court ruling will play a role is pending. / 21/24 | Sports Illustrated
With Grand Slams approaching and top players out partying—with others testing positive—can men be trusted to play tennis safely? / 22/24 | RACQUET
An African grey parrot goes against 21 Harvard students in a test of visual memory. The parrot wins. / 23/24 | The Harvard Gazette
A sad comic about losing a cat, by Jillian Tamaki. / 24/24 | VQR
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