Morning Coffee Link Roundup (4/6/21)

...Tuesday?

I guess it’s Tuesday but it already feels like it should be later in the week than that. By the way, Substack is not being receptive to making changes to make themselves less terrible, so I’m planning to move to a different service called Letterdrop. You shouldn’t have to do anything, but it may make the emails look a little different, so I’ll try to warn you the day before it happens.

This is good, but they’re still likely to override him: Arkansas governor vetoes ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors (NBC News)

Not surprising but still bad! Vladimir Putin passes law that may keep him in office until 2036 (The Guardian)

The Threat That COVID-19 Poses Now (The Atlantic)

15 million ruined vaccine doses mean Johnson & Johnson will take charge of Baltimore plant (Vox)

India Breaks Its Single-Day Case Record With More Than 100,000 New Infections (NPR)

Exclusive: Nearly 7 million uninsured Americans qualify for free health insurance (Vox)

Biden Allows Trump's Freeze On Skilled Worker And Other Visas To Expire (NPR)

These people are just evil: Trump Judges Say Professor Has Free Speech Right to Misgender Student (them.)

Royal Mummies Paraded Through Downtown Cairo In Museum Move (NPR)

Fiery 'airburst' of superheated gas slammed into Antarctica 430,000 years ago (Live Science)

And some longer reads:

The sympathy and authority of the witnesses in the Chauvin trial (Vox)

Biden Steps Up Federal Efforts to Combat Domestic Extremism (NYT)

How FacesOfCOVID documents the intimacy of loss (CJR)

Up Close With Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall Volcano (The Atlantic)

Eight Dark Novels of Love and Obsession, Against A Mediterranean Backdrop (CrimeReads)

xoxo, Katie