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About 45 million Americans have lost their jobs during the pandemic. At the same time, US billionaires made $584 billion.


1/22  |  ABC News


Seattle clears the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.

2/22  |  The Seattle Times


Russia votes to enable Putin to rule until 2036.

3/22  |  Reuters


Polls show a high level of enthusiasm for voting this year. Unfortunately, new voter registrations have fallen off a cliff.


4/22  |  FiveThirtyEight


A thought experiment by James Fallows: What if the United States' coronavirus response had been handled by aviation experts?

5/22  |  The Atlantic


More US testing is the first step towards suppressing, not just mitigating, the coronavirus.

6/22  |  NPR


“It’s about what we are not seeing.” Lessons learned thus far from coronavirus autopsies.

7/22  |  The Washington Post


Ross Douthat argues that focusing on Elihu Yale’s slave-trading ignores how much we currently rely on China’s slave labor.

8/22  |  The New York Times


Your weekly white paper: “Exposure to a three‐year federal grant for school police is associated with a 2.5 percent decrease in high school graduation rates and a 4 percent decrease in college enrollment rates.”

9/22  |  Journal of Policy Analysis and Management


Police often break rules about rubber bullets, resulting in broken noses, fractured facial bones, traumatic brain injuries.

10/22  |  LAist


In Bel Air, a negative response backfires on those who don’t want a Black Lives Matter protest.

11/22  |  Curbed


During two weeks of protests in LA, calls for police assistance declined nearly by half.

12/22  |  The Los Angeles Times


As long as we've had markets, we've had upscale markets—and now fancy restaurants are becoming CSAs for the urban wealthy.

13/22  |  Eater


A Paris café uses large teddy bears to encourage social distancing.

14/22  |  Reddit


See also: One benefit to dining behind plexiglass shells is actually smelling your food.

15/22  |  The Wall Street Journal


In Austin, where nearly all concerts are canceled, Vanilla Ice is scheduled to perform.

16/22  |  The Austin Chronicle


Mark Hamill, Condoleezza Rice, and others pick the Mozart that moves them. See also: “Reunited Apart” pays tribute to the late, great John Hughes.

17/22  |  The New York Times, YouTube


"A smattering of smashed auction records" during an online art sale by Sotheby's.

18/22  |  Artsy


Related: Lessons from a master auctioneer.

19/22  |  Texas Monthly


Virginia Heffernan calls the internet “both an extension of nature and a map of it.”

20/22  |  1843


A 10-year timelapse video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which has been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade.

21/22  |  The Morning News


The story of a semi-professional burglar brought down by stolen Super Bowl rings.

22/22  |  Bloomberg

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