The triple cross.
The bump in government aid prompted by the coronavirus will cut poverty nearly in half this year from prepandemic levels. / The New York Times
Congressional Republicans want to move on from 2020, but Trump won't let his party shift gears. / Slate
Norman Lear is a century old and pissed as hell at racist Right-wingers. / The Washington Post
A sister of Congressman Gaetz's fiancée goes on TikTok to discuss him being "a literal pedophile." / Twitter
What it's like to be an essential worker and prom queen this season. "I was always team 'I'm not going to cry.'" / Vox
See also: Women drawn by Canadian-Korean artist Hanna Lee Joshi. / Colossal
At the Lake of the Ozarks, vaccines are shunned, masks are mocked, and long-term consequences take a back seat to partying. / Politico
Ezra Klein: What if the unvaccinated can't be persuaded? / The New York Times
A travel report from the Farallon Islands—a wildlife refuge, closed to the public, that's protected by volunteers. / The San Franciscan
Watch: A short documentary about activists who climbed into the canopy of a redwood forest and didn't come down for four years. / The Morning News
A new study suggests that only about a third of the carbon recycled beneath volcanic chains returns to the surface. / Phys.org
Yet another reason the Tokyo Olympics are dismal: they are (as predicted) the hottest, most humid Olympics ever recorded. / The Cut
A sociologist says female Black American Olympians have always carried "a triple cross." / NPR
Billionaire Elon Musk sells off his possessions and homes, preferring a prefabricated box house that he rents in Texas. / Fortune
Famous people respond to Gawker's return: "Keith McNally is unfamiliar with Gawker and will thus be passing." / Gawker
TikTok's algorithm needs only one piece of information to know what you want to see: the amount of time you spend watching videos. / Kottke
It's hard to write a positive hotel review when you're involved in rescuing someone from being eaten alive. (Here's the backstory.) / Trip Advisor, SFGate
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