Yeah, but… spartacans?
The number of deaths from the coronavirus in Latin America for the first time exceeds the figure for North America. Meanwhile, a second death surge is coming for the United States. / 1/25 | Reuters, The Atlantic
Governors and mayors scramble to issue new mask orders and limit the size of gatherings. / 2/25 | The New York Times
COVID-19 vaccine trials are showing promising results, but few experts are optimistic we’ll have a vaccine by the end of the year. / 3/25 | Vox
During the 1918 pandemic, public officials railed against being made to wear masks. / 4/25 | Fast Company
“Often referred to as ‘mask slackers’ or ‘sanitary spartacans’…” Remembering San Francisco’s 1919 anti-mask league. / 5/25 | Untapped New York
Recent polling finds a clear majority of voters think President Trump is hurting rather than helping efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus. / 6/25 | Quinnipiac Poll
George Will: “Under the most frivolous person ever to hold any great nation’s highest office, this nation is in a downward spiral.” / 7/25 | The Washington Post
“I was 11 in 2008, when everybody was getting laid off.” Lockdown through the eyes of the recently unemployed. / 8/25 | The California Sunday Magazine
Pandemic feuds on Facebook allow lockdown-addled minds to vent frustration. A tale of two groups in North Carolina. / 9/25 | The Atlantic
Asheville, NC, apologizes for its role in slavery and votes to give reparations to its Black community. / 10/25 | MarketWatch
A stealth mission replaces the statue of a British slave trader with a statue of Black Lives Matter protester Jen Reid. It lasts there about a day. / 11/25 | The Guardian, CNN
A Washington Post investigation finds at least eight people who lost vision in one eye after being struck by police projectiles on the Saturday after George Floyd’s death. / 12/25 | The Morning News
From 2019, an interview with Brittney Cooper about Black women’s anger (shameful) in contrast to white men’s anger (our politics). / 13/25 | NPR
A tale of two covers at Condé Nast—Viola Davis in Vanity Fair, Simone Biles in Vogue—finds one widely praised, one widely panned. / 14/25 | The Columbia Journalism Review
Viola Davis: I betrayed myself and my people in The Help. / 15/25 | BBC News
Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman say race plays differently in every friendship, even the closest interracial relationships. / 16/25 | The Cut
What does it mean to be an artist and a mother? Touring a new retrospective on Ree Morton’s career. / 17/25 | The Morning News
Illustrations of an invented museum, by Yann Kebbi. / 18/25 | It’s Nice That
Architects explain the “micro-hood,” or how to repurpose office space in downtown high rises that’s been emptied by the pandemic. / 19/25 | The San Francisco Chronicle
Related: A hundred years of Houston’s development seen through photography. And some cleaned-up footage of Tokyo from the early 20th century. / 20/25 | Houstonia, The Morning News
After China’s crackdown on Hong Kong, President Trump issues new sanctions targeting Chinese businesses and officials, and also revokes the city’s preferential treatment. / 21/25 | Politico, The South China Morning Post
With multiple high-profile accounts compromised, Twitter experiences “the worst hack of a major social media platform yet.” / 22/25 | BBC News
See also: Senior Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway and vocal Trump critic George Conway kick their liberal daughter off social media. / 23/25 | The Cut
“I am unlikely to become a ship captain at this point in my life.” Your weekly soothe: Shipwreck YouTube. / 24/25 | Vox
This week in Camp ToB, everyone’s discussing the surprise turn in the second half of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman. / 25/25 | The Morning News
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