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Governors issue new restrictions in Iowa, North Dakota, West Virginia, and other states as the coronavirus surges. / The New York Times
Despite having no federal mandates to follow, more US airlines and airports are offering preflight coronavirus testing. / The Washington Post
New Zealand's Chatham Islands are experiencing overtourism from New Zealanders eager to travel. / CNN
Stores report that customers are hoarding toilet paper again. / The Daily Beast
Pizza is booming in the United States. Booming in a bad way: the $15 salad industry. / Marker
A pair of friends pass the pandemic by writing haikus. / The Atlantic
Emmanuel Macron accuses the American media of legitimizing violence. / The New York Times
See also: How the FBI (and a willing Los Angeles Times) set out to “neutralize” French actress Jean Seberg. / The Los Angeles Times
The White House is moving quickly to auction off drilling rights in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before Biden assumes office. / The Washington Post
The man who craves attention above all is beginning to confront the public’s growing indifference. / POLITICO Magazine
Related: On the political dimensions of wailing—an expression of grief that’s impossible to ignore. / Guernica
A woman who sat on the Breonna Taylor grand jury says prosecutors wanted to give police “a slap on the wrist and close it up.” / The Associated Press
Representative Cori Bush wore a Breonna Taylor mask to her first day in Congress. Republican colleagues called her Breonna, assuming that was her name. / Instagram
More than 18,000 stateless people in Kenya lack official identity documents. One woman recently became the first to go to college. / UNHCR USA
In Venezuela, where digital money and dollars have replaced the bolívar, signs read Aceptamos Zelle (we accept Zelle). / Bloomberg
People upload more than 4.3 million gigabytes of data to Google products every day. How does that actually work? / Ask Metafilter
Twitter users share pictures of "especially ugly" buildings near them. / Twitter
Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg face Congress again. Also, a new show about deepfakes finds Zuckerberg to be the dialysis king of Wyoming. / TechCrunch, The Morning News
Beth Harmon isn't real, but if you enjoyed The Queen's Gambit, you might like the story of Vera Menchik. / Chess.com
If you ever had a problem with Nabokov, but loved him anyway, Patricia Lockwood is here for it. / The London Review of Books
The world’s oldest and largest art police unit stores thousands of artworks seized every year in a secure vault in Rome. / Atlas Obscura
And now a brief chat with a new Sustaining Member, Jessica A.!
Jessica, you found us through the Tournament of Books, is that right? I found the Tournament of Books in March 2012 via the book blogosphere. As a lifelong avid reader, I was fascinated by this book adaptation of March Madness. This was a "sport" I could get behind! I have been an avid ToB follower since then, reading the majority of the books in the tourney each year.
That's a lot of reading! The Tournament has brought me so much joy—and many lovely internet friends. I even got to dive deep into the 2020 contenders with Jenny on the Reading Envy podcast. I look forward to the Tournament all year long and having the Super Rooster this year was a major bright spot in an otherwise bleak 2020.
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