Tick. Tock.
China formally adopts a controversial security law, giving it new powers over Hong Kong. In anticipation, the US begins eliminating Hong Kong’s special status.
1/25 | BBC News, CNBC
The CDC says the coronavirus is spreading too rapidly and broadly for the US to get it under control.
2/25 | CNBC
Looking back on January and February, seasoned disease experts wasted precious weeks with "magical thinking."
3/25 | STAT
Photos from many burials of COVID-19 victims across Latin America over the past few weeks.
4/25 | The Atlantic
A Silicon Valley investor pays workers to repackage non-medical KN95 masks so he can sell them to Texas emergency workers.
5/25 | ProPublica
It feels a little weird to note this, but any ID cards issued by the "Freedom to Breathe Agency" are fraudulent.
6/25 | NPR
Why are some Americans so emotional about masks? "It creates incentives and inclinations for non-conformity."
7/25 | Bloomberg
Costco quietly stops selling half-sheet cakes to discourage graduation and birthday parties.
8/25 | CNN
An interview with Chase Strangio, the ACLU’s deputy director for trans justice and a recent victor in the Supreme Court.
9/25 | GQ
The Supreme Court strikes down a Lousiana law restricting abortion access with a 5-4 decision.
10/25 | The Cut
Related: “Roberts didn’t save abortion rights, he told future litigants how to bury them.”
11/25 | Vox
Unrelated/related: Sun Tzu's Art of War is a foundational war text. It's also so old the language and context are nearly untranslatable.
12/25 | The Strategy Bridge
Russian bounties placed on US troops likely resulted in the deaths of several service members.
13/25 | The Washington Post
Officials now say Trump was briefed about it back in February, or as early as last year.
14/25 | The Guardian, The Associated Press
In hundreds of classified calls, Trump has been “consistently unprepared for discussion of serious issues” and “outplayed” by foreign leaders such as Putin and Erdogan.
15/25 | CNN
Reddit bans r/The_Donald for violating new content policies. Trump gets banned by Twitch, and white supremacists get kicked off YouTube.
16/25 | The Verge, WIRED, Tech Crunch
Meanwhile, Trump retweets that video of gun-swingers in St. Louis as panic sets in around the White House over his self-defeatism.
17/25 | The Hill, Axios
A poem for your week: Ashanti Anderson’s ”Self-Portrait as Kendrick Lamar, Laughing to the Bank.”
18/25 | The Morning News
When your body is made up of the reasons why we should strip “the Southern cause” of its statues.
19/25 | The New York Times
"Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death," a video collage juxtaposing Black excellence and injustice, is now streamable.
20/25 | Hirshhorn Museum
See also: "Gymnasium," new paintings by Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi.
21/25 | Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi
“It all becomes a game, and people are drawn in because it feels participatory.” PizzaGate finds new life on TikTok. Also, QAnon is running rampant, thanks to the virus.
22/25 | The New York Times, HuffPost
Newsrooms reward reporters who are in good with local police departments because sexy stories.
23/25 | Popula
Corruption, cronyism, "preferred pool assignments," and other controversies among New York City lifeguards.
24/25 | Intelligencer
A literary supercut of old novels that use the word "ejaculate" to mean "to utter suddenly."
25/25 | Electric Lit
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