Recently returned books are fun to browse.

“I want to see despair expressed in action that moves things forward.” Watching the protests, black Angelenos recall Rodney King.

A round-up of organizations to support that are performing "the real, meaningful, slow work of advancing justice."

↩︎ GQ 1d

“This virus has really highlighted the fact that Black frontline workers, no matter what job they have, deserve a higher living wage. Still, I haven’t seen any representation of Black front line workers in the media. I feel invisible.”

From “Essential & Black,” a series of profiles by Patrice Peck.

↩︎ Coronavirus News for Black Folks

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Examples of white people offering advice to black people on how to protest.

↩︎ The Root 1d

Nonstop reporting of black suffering takes a toll on black journalists' mental and emotional health, but they keep going.

↩︎ The New York Times 1d

No one can deny the murderous racial injustice baked into life in the United States—especially not the NFL.

↩︎ The Washington Post 1d

Of course! Private equity stands to make a fortune off the bankruptcy of businesses around the country. By firing workers and raiding their pensions, they’ll make off with the bag.

Socialist answers to variations on the question, “Should we care about looting?”

↩︎ Jacobin

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Japanese whiskey has a problem: much of it isn't made in Japan, and some of it isn't whiskey at all.

↩︎ The New York Times 1d

You can’t open a book about coffee, no matter what tone it takes, without reading a global story. Whatever else the current crisis may be teaching us, the one certain thing is that self-sufficiency is a non-solution to our suffering.

Corrective literature has come for coffee—“the first naïve emissary of internationalism.”

↩︎ The New Yorker

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Welcome to 1988 in the Hood Internet's ongoing series of year-in-one-song audiovisual mashups.

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Another way to pass the time: Contribute to a collaborative digital novel that's being created in real time.

↩︎ Boook.Land: The Speaking Machine 2d

The square patterns of plastered bullet holes from the Warsaw Uprising, photographed by Valentyn Odnoviun.

↩︎ This Isn't Happiness 2d

"Whether the data is or isn’t normalized to population size will produce really different outcomes." How maps manipulate reality.

↩︎ CityLab 2d

The topography of each state rendered as *Unknown Pleasures*-style joyplots.

↩︎ Imgur 2d

Unlike those on the mainland, people in Hong Kong have been able to vote for their own lawmakers in the legislature since 1998. Half of the 70 legislative councilors are chosen democratically, while the other half are “elected” through not-so-democratic means.

Democracy is dying in Hong Kong, and no one seems to be able to stop it.

↩︎ The Ballot

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Mount Everest's height is disputed, "specifically whether or not the official number should account for the snow atop it."

↩︎ Outside 2d

At a hotel repurposed for those sick or recovering from COVID-19 who want to self-isolate, you get no key and can't leave.

↩︎ The Washington Post 2d

Quarantine has meant fewer would-be patients, resulting in a massive experiment in what happens with less medical intervention.

↩︎ CNN 2d

I always advise sharing a favorite memory of the deceased, but if you don’t have one, it is fine to say, “I didn’t know your loved one personally, but I wanted to let you know I’m thinking about your family.”

Many are grieving right now on social media. Here’s what you should say.

↩︎ The New York Times

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The short explanation for why men are posting photos of themselves pointing guns at their crotches is that they want to troll you.

↩︎ VICE 2d