This morning’s question: WHY ARE WE ACTING LIKE BLOOMBERG COULD BE OKAY?
White House Memo Admits There Was No “Imminent Threat” Before Soleimani Assassination (Slate)
‘Like Europe in Medieval Times’: Virus Slows China’s Economy (NYT)
Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked (WaPo)
An area sacred to indigenous groups is being destroyed for Trump’s border wall (Vox)
So just to be evil, I guess: The EPA is about to change a rule cutting mercury pollution. The industry doesn’t want it. (WaPo)
Michael Bloomberg Defended Fingerprinting Food-Stamp Recipients in 2018 Interview (NYMag)
This will kill kids: Ohio legislators announce plans for bill that would prohibit gender affirming care for transgender youth (CNN)
Mary Washington has a sterling progressive resume. Now she wants to be Baltimore’s first out mayor. (LGBTQ Nation)
AI systems claiming to 'read' emotions pose discrimination risks (The Guardian)
Barbara Remington, Illustrator of Tolkien Book Covers, Dies at 90 (NYT)
And today’s longer reads:
Meet the Man Who Tweeted “It’s Lis,” Who Is Not Lis Smith (Slate)
A Cure Worse than Disease (History Today)
This man says he's stockpiling billions of our photos (CNN)
Céline Sciamma on “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” The Lesbian Gaze, and Queer TV That Gives Her Hope (Autostraddle)
A Book So Far Ahead of Its Time, It Took 87 Years to Find a Publisher (NYT)
xoxo, Kate