You are what you tweet.
Minneapolis enters a fourth day of unrest in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. 1/20
Photos capture the stark contrast in police response to the Floyd protests and the anti-lockdown protests. 2/20
Twitter hides a tweet from President Trump—"When the looting starts, the shooting starts"—for glorifying violence. 3/20
Trump’s fight with Twitter is an attempt to retaliate against a company for not doing his bidding. It’s also part of “a long tradition upheld by aggrieved internet trolls.” 4/20
The White House says social media companies censor right-wing voices. Actually, conservative news dominates Facebook. 5/20
As we ease off lockdowns, older people remain disproportionately at risk. 6/20
See also: Portraits of older Vermonters staying inside. (Similar photos in Southern California and New York.) And a 103-year-old woman celebrates beating the coronavirus with a cold beer. 7/20
How previous pandemics ended: “a long and difficult process” of people, at different times, deciding they're done. 8/20
Sex workers in Switzerland can get back to business, though sports remain banned. 9/20
In case you're still baking your way through the pandemic, Mark Bittman offers tips for his popular no-knead recipe. 10/20
Why are stock prices currently so highly correlated? Possibly because "every stock these days feels like a vaccine stock." 11/20
Due to its trade war with the US, China now trades more with Southeast Asia. 12/20
Ai Weiwei creates a series of face masks to support human rights and relief organizations. 13/20
Archaeologists in northern Italy unearth a well-preserved mosaic floor thought to date to the third century A.D. 14/20
A new Philip Glass work emerges, having gotten “lost” at some point in the 1970s. 15/20
An essay by Naomi Gordon-Loebl on Bruce Springsteen’s ability “to speak not only to queer pain but also to queer survival.” 16/20
See also: “Connubial” by Stephen Dunn, a poem about the dangers of being seen. 17/20
An appreciation of Stephen Shores' early 1970s series "American Surfaces" finds echoes in much of today’s photography. 18/20
Some pretty book covers of note for spring and summer. 19/20
Reading outside during lockdown offers the opposite of “that sweaty topless man barreling down the pavement." 20/20
And now a brief chat with a new Sustaining Member, Carole H.
Hi, Carole. How did you come to TMN? I became aware a few years ago through John Warner's Biblioracle column in the Chicago Tribune. He wrote about the Tournament of Books. As a fan of books and brackets, I was immediately intrigued and started to follow the ToB.
What do you get out of the tournament? I enjoy learning about the books, reading the judges decisions and the commentary. I must confess that I don't read all the books, but I always find a few gems that I may have never discovered without the ToB. I am really looking forward to the upcoming summer reading and I was pleased to see I had already read one of the books on the preliminary list and I am currently reading another.
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